Friday!

Happy Friday!

What are your weekend plans?  We don't have too much.  Baseball practice for Connor, Farmers Market (grand opening!) soooo excited for that!

Probably a barbecue either at our house or my parents.  Haven't really decided yet.  Hopefully a bon-fire and smores too!  I am praying that the weather hold out.  It is crazy cold here right now (40's!!!) but by sunday it is supposed to be in the 70's.  Fingers and toes are crossed.  We have also had crazy rain as well.  And it is supposed to linger through, scattered this weekend.  Hoping they are wrong on that one!

This week my friend from Chicago was home visiting!  I got to see Frankie- her babe!

He is so cute!

Connor did not want to get too close to the baby.  Weird.  He stayed his distance. 

He is only 8 months old!  Big baby!

Well I have a lot to do before tomorrow, so I gotta bust my butt!  I really want to take Connor to see Kung Fu Panda 2 tonight too!  He is getting to that age now where he wants to bring a friend.  Boo. 

Oh well.

Have a great weekend and travel safe whatever you do!

Buckle up!!

xoxo

Deanna

Monday Favorites....

Hello!

Happy Monday!

What a beautiful weeekend we had in Michigan!  They were calling for rain and we only saw about 10 minutes of it on sunday, even while the sun was still shining!  I got almost all my flowers planted for our front porch...still need my hanging ferns and one potted fern for the corner....I will show pics soon!  It is dark and cloudy here today so not good for pictures...

For today I thought I would share some of my favorite rooms circling the web lately.  Some I am sure you have seen before!

LOVE this settee at the end of the bed!  To- die -for!!  And the framed pics behind the bed!  Loveit!

Two things I am loving here.  One the gallery wall of prints.  I want to do this so badly in our house!  I am having issues finding frames I like though that are not 15-20 bucks a piece and with that many..it is not an investment I want to make!  Secondly, I LOVE the slipcovered chairs.  Love.

I know this is a fallish picture, but I am in love with that zebra bench.  I love benches at dining room tables. 

A white kitchen.  What's not to love about this one?  I love the pops of green.  It makes it so fresh and not stale looking.  And the big island..I want on of those too!

What do you think about the light fixture?  I am honestly not crazy about it.  I like it, but not what I would have chosen. 

So what are your plans for the week?  MY friend is up with her baby in town this weekend, staying with her parents!  This weekend is the first farmers market in town and I am so excited!  They have a great market there in such a tiny little town!  It brings in sooo many people.  I love it.  I just hope the weather stays nice...they are calling for rain.  Big surprise.

Have a great day!

xoxo

Hello!

Whew...it's been awhile 'eh!  Things have been hectic around here. Family was here for a few days with my cousins funeral and just busy busy.  Situations like this really make you think about life and how fast everything can be taken away.  I can't imagine what my Aunt is going through.  Scott was only 20 years old...hit by a truck on a dirt bike.  Crazy freak accident.  

I truly believe though, that when it is your time, it is your time.  No matter where you are at the moment..what you are doing.  When God is ready to take you, he will.  It helps to think this way (for me).  It makes it easier to accept things.  When you trust and believe in God, you know you will see that person again.

So today, take a little extra time with the ones you love.  Don't take anything for granted.

Hug a little bit longer.

Make sure you tell them you love them.

I literally had to hold him down for this picture.  He was being goofy.

I hope you have a great day!

xoxo

Deanna

PS_ I am pretty sure that the sun has died.  We have not seen a glimpse all week!  Just rain, rain and more rain.  And lots of clouds. 

Here's to wishing for a weekend full of sunshine and warmer temps!! :)

Please Send Prayers....

Just a quick drop in to please add my Aunt to your prayers....her son was killed in an accdident yesterday, on Mothers Day.  So sad.  She needs your prayers...she is having a very hard time.

Thank you!!

xoxo

My Kitchen

Good Morning!

It is chilly and wet here (again!)..although we can't complain too much since the past two days have been quite nice!  I am looking forward to a nice relaxing weekend for Mothers Day.  I know it won't come tonight though, since Connor is having a friend over for the night!!

Anywho.... this past saturday I woke up bright eyed and bushey tailed, ready to tackle the kitchen!  I will say, the cabinets are not finished painted yet....hopefully I will have that completed in the next few weeks! And you will just be getting a sneak peek of of it...I am waiting to show it all until the cabinets are finished! (hopefully not 6 months from now!)  One thing at a time,  my friend, one thing at a time!! :)

So anyways, I went an picked out paint... me no likey.

It was too light...didn't look right to me...

So off to the store to pick up more paint...a darker grey.  Didn't like that either.  Too dark!

You can see before, it was a light green.  This was painted during my shabby chic phase, right after we bought the house.  I painted rooms light yellows, sage greens, baby blues..all pretty colors, but I grew sick of them fast.  Loved them at the time, but they became hard for me to decorate for some reason.  I felt too glued to one look.

I also think that this is the only room in our house that hasn't been painted at least 3 times!  The kitchen is in the back of our house and it was totally out of place, color-wise.  The new paint was a welcome change!

Well since it was too dark, and the other too light..what did I do?  I mixed the two colors together!  And out came the perfect greyish brown color that is perfect!  To be honest..I wanted an all white kitchen.  And I still kinda do, but I am really liking this color. The white just felt too stale to me in there.  And the paint I got for the cupboards is antique white, so there is going to still be a lot of white in there!

So here it is.....

TA_DA!!

There's the old dough bowl from my MIL..It is so big and not too sure where it is going..but for now it is just leaned up against the wall there!  That door leads into a little 1/2 bath...and a storage room since there are NO closets downstairs!  It is a VERY long bathroom..that whole wall!  We were told it was part of a covered porch they enclosed.  It is cold in the winter in there.  The joys of owning an old home!

I love this old book page I got off Etsy with the bugs! And my two cute twin nieces!  Adorable!

I do not have the paint color name since it was mixed by myself!  Hopefully I don't ever need to re-paint a whole wall because there is not enough paint to do it! Yikes!

Hopefully I have time to paint the cabinets soon!  Once they are done, I will be sure to show you all!

Have a great Mothers Day weekend!!  We are keeping it simple with a barbecue at my Grandmas with some aunts and uncles and my Mom of course!!

xoxo

New Bling and New Pillows

Somebody is feeling pretty fancy today...he got a new collar in the mail and he looks so snappy and cute in it!

I got it from a new Etsy shop...so reasonable too!!

http://www.etsy.com/shop/beckybrumley?ref=seller_info

Check her shop up above!

Here he is lounging on the back cushion of the couch. Isn't that awesome the way he smashes it down?  I am constantly re-fluffing the down inside of there!!

Doing what he does best. Bark.  Such a good watch dog!

Who's there???

"I love my new collar Mom!"

I got this fabric too which I L.O.V.E.  I was going to sell them in the shop, but decided to keep them!  I just ordered more to make a cover for a long lumbar pillow I have coming too!

So pretty!  Love them!

Come back tomorrow and I will show you what I painted!!

xoxo