I would say "I Do" all over again!

You see my knight is sweeping me off my feet!!!!!!!

Well friends today April 14, 2012 is my 6th wedding Anniversary

I dedicate this post to my loving DIY lifelong partner who is my Knight in shining armor.  My hunky hubby and I have been together for 10 years now.  We decided to keep our wedding simple and have it outdoors in the spring inviting close friends and family.  

It was really OH So perfect.

I have a funny story to tell. You see we were married on Good Friday in 2006.  As you know good Friday does not fall on the same day each year. 

Coming up on our 1st anniversary when good friday came around my dear hubby proudly said Happy Anniversary baby.......I laughed so hard explaining that our special day was April 14th a week away. 

You see he thought he would always be able to keep up easily with our wedding date because of being married on Good Friday.  

It was a good laugh.

This was my Knight or should I say cowboy 10 years ago when we met at a photo-shoot in Texas.

He was originally from Utah living in Lubbock Texas at the time and I a Southern girl from NC.  I was in Lubbock on a modeling job when I met this handsome hunk.

These were some of our first pictures together 10 years ago, what great memories we have made over the years.

My cowboy/knight decided to up and move to NC to court me after our meeting in Texas. We dated exclusively for 4 years before we said I DO on April 14th 2006.

This is our beautiful wedding cake, simple and elegant!

Awe......... lookie he has captured me!

No words needed here, just bliss

well here I am, testing the good ole' mic with sound out at our outdoor wedding........

I had a special song planned to sing to my husband during the wedding ceremony....


this picture is a reminder that 6 years has put on 20 extra pounds (bah), who's counting? (me)! that's just depressing....I tell my hubby their is just more of me to Love!  ..........right ladies

My daddy and Me

                                     This is one of my favorite pictures with my 3 sons!!!

Here we are posing for the camera

Look at all my handsome men holding me up...this was not easy to do..... as you can tell my facial expression is less than glamorous...hehehe, it was fun! 

 Taking the cake! or so it looks


hey!!!!! thats where that extra 20lbs. came from

   The traditional cake cutting......

I feel so blessed by God to have been given such an amazing man.

I thank God often for his blessings.

And they lived Happily Ever After.........



Until next time,

A Star is Born......Pallet Coffee Table

Prop Your feet up....... Relax!

That is what my pallet coffee table in my outdoor space says to me everyday. It is an invitation to kick-back and relax.

You may think talking coffee tables, how bizarre.

Who loves FREE furniture?  Well that is what I got when Hubby and I created this oh so sweet coffee table from a wood pallet.

Daily, I drive past a set of condos and it seems like more often than not they are throwing out peoples unwanted furniture. Who knows, do people just abandon their unwanted items when they move out?

I am always on the look out for a treasure and low and behold one day I saw these.

They were legs to a big poster bed.  You should have seen me......It was dark, I pulled into the parking lot looking around to see if anyone was watching....like really! did it matter, this was just someones trash, it's not like I'm stealing anything......

............this may have been someones trash but I knew I would one day find a use for them in a project.

Now keep in mind the pallet coffee table had not yet been conceived and I had no clue what I was going to do with these huge poster bed legs.

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I had been mulling over creating an outdoor room on my raised deck....... while contemplating what to put their I knew I wanted a coffee table.

That is when it I thought to myself, self I bet Mr. CIS will help you build a coffe table out of those pallets in the back yard.

Then I remembered those glorious legs.  Score! they would be the legs to my table....I knew they were much to long for a coffee table besides I  had only picked up two being I could not get the other two unbolted from the bed.  :)

So I had hubby, Mr. DIY to cut the legs in half for me, this meant that all four legs would not match but that was OK by me. It would be fashionably eclectic.

I did some sanding with my new sander that hubby bought me for my projects. Oh so sweet, it makes the sanding so much easier.

Really, I think he felt bad for me seeing me always sanding by hand......he said baby.... there is a better way!

 

My awesome DIY partner proceeded to pull the pallet apart so I could nail the boards back together with out the gaps.

I took my sander to the pallet and took off the roughness.......

We came up with a game plan of how to attach those beautiful legs by screwing them on. I was so excited to see what it was going to look like that we put it together and set in up.

It was love at first site!  Isn't it just so warm and cozy...... I even love the rustic look it had going on before I took the paint brush to it.

I just let it set their for a few days while I propped my feet up and contemplated the colors.

I had an idea of what I wanted it to look like, that always means multiple colors and coats of paint to get the end result.  Heck, sometimes I change the color altogether if I dont like it. That is the beauty of PAINT.

As you can see below the legs did not end up this color I started with.

Well after a few hours OK maybe days I finished the top the way I wanted it.

Two blues and a green layered together and we have a table top.

Then I sanded and primed the legs since they were very shiny, I did not want my paint to start peeling off.  I finished the legs off with a two coats of white spray paint to give it a clean airy look.

I love the distressed look of furniture and with the rustic top it was a must have. So I took some sandpaper to the legs and gave them a good ole' light rub down where you wold normally see wear.

I chose to stain the sides of the table to warm it up a bit.

So there you have my free pallet coffee table. Thanks and hugs go out to my hunk-el barry for helping me complete this fun project.


Dont you just love creating something fun!  What do you think?  Have you created any coffe tables for your spaces?

Check out these 15+ BEAUTIFUL CHEAP DIY COFFEE TABLE IDEAS ON HOMESTHETICS WEBSITE 

Until next time, 

Linking up to: Miss Mustard Seed.com, My 1929 Charmer, DIY Show Off, romantic home.blogspot.com

We Foiled Our Attic

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Have you been up in your attic lately? 

Hubby and I have had it with our electric bills every summer. Dread sets in as the days start to heat up because the electric bill starts rising, rising and then by August it is as unbearable as the heat. 

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So we knew we needed to do something to cut the cost of the dreaded bill.

I have lived in my little house and I mean little.... a whopping 1,150 glorious sq ft for 28 years and the attic needed some serious insulation.

I mean really, the insulation just disappeared, it is like maybe 4 inches of smashed down nothing.

Does anyone else have disappearing insulation?

Well I guess after 28 years it just disintegrates. 

So hubby and I discussed our DIY options for the attic issue hoping to cut our electric bill.  

After Mr DIY did much research he told me..... baby we are going to FOIL our attic!!

I was like OK...... if you say so.

Do I need to bring the turkey and potatoes with?  (thinking to myself)

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Attic foil is commonly referred to as reflective foil because it looks reflective similar to any aluminum foil. 

Yea people We foiled our attic. :) It is all so shiny.

This is not Mr DIY nor is this my attic, that looks just to easy, uh you cant stand in my attic.

Honestly, I felt so bad for my sweet hubby he is a tall guy and he had to squeeze himself in all those tiny spaces to staple the foil to the rafters.

He finished the last of the strips today so now we wait and see if our bill drops in the summer months.

People are saying it makes the attic anywhere from 10 to 20 degrees cooler with the attic foil installed.

The attic foil is not near as expensive as the blown insulation so that was a plus.  

I think we may still add some blown insulation to help out, but hubs needs to recoup from this first.

We ordered our foil online for less than half the cost of what Lowe's wanted for the same stuff.

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So have any of you foiled your attic?

If so what were your results?

Until next time,