what do you see?

...Update: After studying this little "beauty" in my house for a couple days, I've decided it needs to be recovered.  I can work with orange, but I can't work with the torn arms...

I figure I'm out nothing if it's a huge disaster except the 10 yards or so of fabric...

 

wish me luck! I've never reupholstered furniture before but I think this could turn out really really cool if it works!

Just look at this transformation this lady did!!! 

hide-a-bed (West Omaha)

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Date: 2010-07-21, 10:51AM CDT
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69" x 34" 70's orange beauty built solid! just come get it! 402-xxx-xxxx
comes with a olive green slip cover.

I see potential!!! and this...

...oh and an annoyed hubby and brother in law for having to move this beast into my living room. :) Thanks again guys!

check out this little gem

This little table has a funny story behind it. One Saturday morning the girls and I were playing in the family room and out of the corner of my eye through the window I saw some furniture sitting at the end of the neighbors driveway. On further inspection there was a "FREE" sign on it. Score.  There was a little brown sad looking table just waiting for someone to rescue it. Me!  My husband, however, did not agree nor share my enthusiasm.  Go figure. It took about an hour of begging and convincing him that "it's the perfect size and exactly what I've been looking for!" and threats to "just go buy the one hundred dollar one at NFM that I've been wanting" to FINALLY get him to take the walk of shame and rescue the free table.  He must have had himself all tense (I can't imagine why) because as he picked up the table and turned to walk home, out went his back.  Like, bad.  That night he was seriously in agony. Did I feel bad, yes, of course, but a couple trips to the Chiro later he's just fine....and so is this little gem of a table!  It needed some major TLC, wood glue and paint but I think it's perfect! Sorry dear.

Before (yes I got a little excited and forgot to take a picture before I started painting!)

After

just for fun my pretty in pink hydrangea!:)

"crop"

More on the blue paint if I ever finish that project...
In the meantime exciting news! Despite the fact that it's completely overgrown with weeds with no hope to rescue, some things are still growing.
Viola!

Isn't it pretty!?
It was yummy too


well one out of two thought so

out of the weeds

My garden is completely out of control...so to distract myself from the inevitable drudgery of having to weed it - I started painting....here's a hint...:)

busy

I've been really busy lately and not creating much. :)  My poor garden has been neglected and is quite "weedy."  Despite this it is still growing along! The tomatoes especially are doing great and there are a few baby greens on two of the plants.  The green peppers are plugging along too and a saw a couple tiny strawberries last night. Oh and the cauliflower looks REAL healthy, although I'm not really sure how to harvest that? ha. I NEED to get out an weed again, but I've learned and this is where the "virgin harvester" part comes in, that you can never keep up with the weeds! One day it's clear and the next day they are everywhere again! Very frustrating and I fear no real way around it!!!!  The girls are loving to watch the garden grow even though they are a bit annoyed that can't play in it as they like!  I'll try to update with some pictures soon.

the day the cucumbers died

We have our first casualty. I'm not sure why or how, but the cucumber plant is gone. Just gone, not wilted up and brown and dead, but missing!? It's still early enough to try again, so I'll replace it but isn't that strange? I guess it died and blew away, but still.  I'm a little concerned about my little garden as I watered it last night while I took the dog on a walk, came back and it was pretty drenched (standing water). I figured it'd dry out today in the sun. Yah not so much it's been raining all morning and doesn't look like its stopping any time soon. So we may end up with a marsh. Whoopsy as Klaire would say:)

our garden!

Well the garden is in.  I recruited the rest of the family to "help," we shopped and planted the whole thing in one morning!  Honestly, we ended up going to Menards and grabbing a bunch of the burpee plants that were on sale...so not as thought out as I imagined, but planted nonetheless.





We bought 5 kinds of tomatos because we weren't sure which ones are good, including roma and cherry, so we'll see!

The girls had a blast helping and I think it will be fun to watch it grow...assuming it grows.



Here's what we ended up with:
5 kinds of tomatoes (ha ha)
cucumbers
green peppers
red peppers
onions
some garlic onions, which I thought was garlic, oh well:)
2 kinds of hot peppers
cauliflower
green beans
strawberries
we forgot carrots, but I think I have room so might stick them in too