Work With What You Have

Michael's parents came up this past weekend and I spend (no joke) the entire day prepping and cleaning the house. This, of course, meant (only in my world) lots of tweaks and last minute projects. When someone comes to visit that doesn't come often it means things have to look their best, even if I pass out from exhaustion making that happen.

Well the downstairs bathroom (AKA guest bathroom) is no exception. Since we don't have the budget currently to redo this space I decided to work with what I had, sea foam green and all. Using things I already had, I prettied up the space as best as I could. Here are the results:

I put "Holdit", a tacky putty, underneath each of the vases pictured above so they wouldn't fall off the non-level toilet tank. Oh the silly things to combat!

Contentment

Lately I've felt convicted of my discontentment. This can be true in any area of life, including wanting to have things and evaluating my motives for that.

Hebrews 13:5 speaks to that: "Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said, "Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.""

But, mostly I'm referring to the struggle I've had off and on since moving here with comparing it to Austin. I am here for a reason. God has led me to amazing people here that are an encouragement to my faith walk and for that I am so grateful. To keep in a positive mindset, I whipped this up and hope to put it up somewhere in the house:

Kitchen Cabinets - Done, Mostly

I shared a while back (here) that Michael was painting our kitchen cabinets. Well it's about time that I showed you the end result...

And, just to compare, let's go down memory lane to what we first started with...

That was after we moved in. How about the actual original?

Oh my! Now the best part...compare them!

Ah, that feels good. Much better.

New Look and a Free Chair

You can see I've changed things up around here. The old look was feeling predictable, so I've revamped my little corner of web with a little "fresh paint" (haha - lame).

Aside from that I've been rather busy in the house as well. Most recently I've been plugging away at art projects, which I'll share soon. But one of my favorite ventures lately was scoring a free chair. Sorry if my post title set you up for false hope that you'd have the chance to score a free chair yourself. Maybe if I ever make money at this I can do that for you, but until then I'll just tell you about my find.

Michael and I were taking a walk around the neighborhood. I spotted this neat chair on someone's front patio and they just so happened to just be getting home. Just as they were shutting the door behind them, I wrapped on their door and asked them where they got it.

Turns out they were going to put it out in a yard sale soon anyway. Score! We were on a street just behind ours and the lot behind ours backs up onto it, so Michael just tossed it over our fence...ha!

It's pretty retro, but in perfect condition. It's a Sunflower Chair made by L'Industrie Provinciale, produced in the 70's. It's a plastic injected molded seat with bent metal rod base. I guess they sell for $200-$240 now since they're considered vintage.

 Best part? It goes PERFECTLY with our family room downstairs!

We fit so well in it!

Paisley 5 Months

Our baby girl is 5 months old! Check out photos here.