A product that I have decided I can’t live without!

 

Meet Semper

Semper is our 100+lb Mastiff.  Have you ever seen the movie Turner and Hooch?  Well Semper is the same dog as in that movie.

Our sweet Semper thinks he owns this house ha!

Semper has the typical symptoms of a Mastiff.  He has terrible allergies and constant ear infections and yeast infections in his ears.  I was spending a fortune on allergy shots and meds and he was miserable ALL the time.  Then I came across this all natural product that I put in his ears once a week.  NO SHAKING of his head constantly!!!!  Our sweet baby is happy again

It is called cloud nine herbal ear wash and I swear by it!

It allows Semper to go back to what he does best

Back to owning the place.

I’m linking up with Aly at Analyze This.  Go check her out she is so funny and loves to keep it real.

 

 

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Kristin

Love is in the air

            Valentines Day

Who doesn’t love a good love story!  Even though guys won’t admit it they love those silly chick flicks and Lifetime movies too.  It’s kind of hard not to get all caught up in “day of love” even though a lot of people complain it is just a commercialized day to help the flower and card company’s make money.  I just love watching all the little kids in school with their little Valentine cards that they made and signed for each one of their friends….it’s soooo cute!  How could you not love that!

Anyway, every year around here I do a big Valentine’s dinner and yummy desserts.  Even the grown boys of my house love it (anything to get a gift right?) I try to just do light decorating since we just went thru Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas etc.  So by this time I just can’t bring myself to decorate anymore ha! Lazy much!

Just some simple stuff in the entry way.  LOVE the big heart on the mirror and I will get the tutorial posted for it.  It’s hard to see in this picture but it has little rhinestones…EEEKKK….love!!!

Then in my office I just printed a little subway art here and placed it in one of the frames that we sell in our shop.  Now I can’t wait to get the table set! Here are some pics of last years celebration

 

See! Everybody in my house loves Valentine’s Day!!

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Kristin

Feeling Blue

My mom had this great old dresser for a really long time so when I went off to college she gave it to me for my first apartment.  I finally decided to give it a little makeover. So I sanded it down

Then painted it with Valspars Exotic Sea

It was a little bright for my taste so I glazed it with Valspar Antiquing Glaze
 
My daughter loves how it looks in her room that we just painted. I will get a post up about her room redo as soon as it is complete.  We are putting the final touches on it.

Kristin 
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Kristin’s Favorite Product Link Up

Can I just say how much I HATE carpet!!!!!  I only have carpet in the bedroom and I am hoping one day that carpet will be gone.  But until then I have come across this awesome little product (my mom’s housekeeper gave up her secret)

Seriously people this is the best stuff!!  I have gotten out nail polish, grease from the garage, wine, paint, make up.  You name it, it comes out.  I pick mine up at Lowes.  I used to find it at Walmart but mine doesn’t carry it anymore.  Don’t walk people….RUN! (they should give me a free bottle for loving them so much ha! but I’m pretty sure they don’t even know who I am)
I’m linking up with Aly and Tiffanie so head over and check their cute blogs, you are going to love both of them.

Curtains

We moved into our house  in 2005 and curtains were the last thing on my mind.   I just wasn’t sure what I wanted and plus they can be really expensive.

I decided right after Christmas, that I was going to get some curtains and finish my living room up.  I have thought about making some, but I’m  not really good with the sewing machine.  I finally found some that I liked, and ordered them.   I was wanting  color and a pattern, since there really is not much color in the living room.

Well they came in and I LOVED them, but only one thing.  They were over a foot too short.   What was I thinking!  I knew I needed the 96 inches, but for some Stupid reason I ordered the 84 inch ones.  Ok so No biggie, I will send them back and get the correct ones, well guess what 84 is as long as they have.  Now I'm feeling really dumb because I had been talking about the 96 inch curtains with my husband, and Krisitn, and even looking online at the sites that sell LONG CURTAINS.  But NO I go and order 84.  So I have 2 choices.  1. Send them back and find something else or 2. Add to them. HMMMM  well I can’t sew, but Kristin assures me that I don’t have to sew them, I can iron bond them.  So I head to the fabric store to find some fabric,  knowing that I wouldn’t find the same fabric as my curtains.  The lady at Hobby Lobby helped me find a neutral fabric that would match my curtains.   And it was time to get busy!

   

  I had to measure the curtains and then determine how much to add, plus a hem.  Before I ironed them on for good, I pinned them all first.  I wanted to make sure they were the right length.  Then I took them all down AGAIN and ironed them together.  Then re hung them babies!

Please only look at the curtains in these pictures, not the mess every where else.  The mantle is one of my next projects.

I really love how my curtains turned out!

As I was taking pictures around the living room, I spotted a frog in my plant.  haha  I was thinking what the heck is that.   This little boy looks pretty suspicious. 

And this shall be my next project.

Camie

Linking up here!

Big Pimpin 2012

Alright everybody in 2012 Camie and I will be PIMPING our houses!  Camie already made her list of what she is doing at her house (don’t tell her husband but I bet that list will grow ha!) My list is much bigger!! And I will be pimping two houses (his and her houses) Let me start with the her house
Her House (seriously where do I begin)
1. DONE! New chandelier in the entry you can read about the first one here
2. Laundry room will have the guts ripped out of it and redone. It will include new cabinets (since there are none) paint, chandelier, window treatment and some great accessories.
3. My master closet is seriously going to be soooo awesome there are no words to describe.  My closet is huge and already has a refrigerator in it (yes you read that right). But I have REALLY big visions for this space.
4. New front door ASAP!
5. New floors and countertops in the kitchen (fingers crossed)
6. Closet makeover in daughters bedroom
7. Bedroom makeover for my daughter Hannah
8. New curtains and accessories in the TV room
9. Garage is getting stripped and painted and pimped!!!!!
10. New bedding in master with new accessories and a new DIY headboard
11. New patio (it’s done and will get a post soon) will be getting new furniture and bling.
12. painting the interior doors black. Already started and you can read about it here.
13. fireplace redo (fingers crossed)
14. Painting the kids bathroom cabinets and getting a new mirror, countertop and faucets.
15. Couple of window sills need to be replaced (thanks to our Mastiff Semper) his big fat head and slobber destroys everything YUCK!
16. New fence
His House
1. Master bedroom redo. Will include new bedding, paint, curtains and accessories.
2. Our son Derreck’s room at this house will be getting pimped.  All new furniture, paint and accessories
3. pool deck will be resurfaced (this is a BIG DIY project people! so excited)
4. new furniture around the pool and accessories
5. master bath is getting new paint and light fixtures and the old mirror will come out and be replaced.
6. Living room will get new furniture (maybe, we will see) but it will for sure get new curtains, paint and accessories and we will be coming up with a cool idea to cover a big built in tv hole…. gawww why do builders do that!
I must love torture!  Because I am going to try to do all of this (yes these are all DIY projects) while working full time, having two in drivers ed, getting ready for our oldest sons graduation and 18th birthday, planning birthdays for the two turning 16, buying cars for those 16yr olds and then sending Cole off to college after graduation, and working on Twist of Dazzle.  WHEW!!!!! OMG!! HA!! Pretty sure there might be a few posts about drinking lots of wine while doing these projects.

Kristin

Product of the Week

 

My friend Aly at  Analyze This is starting a Product of the week Linky party with Tiffanie.  How fun!  So I thought I would join in.  My product of the week is Prime Time foundation primer from Bare Minerals. 

I have never used a primer on my face before, only on my furniture. haha (I know I'm so funny)  But the lady at Ulta talked me into it when I decided to give Bare Minerals powder a try too.  At first I was thinking, NO way will I pay 20 something dollars for a small bottle of primer, but I have changed my mind.  I LOVE IT.  I use it every morning before I put on my make up.   My face in now flawless. 

 

Camie