Updated Children's Art Gallery

I rearranged some of the girls art and added some from this school year.  I rehung it at the top of the stairs and up the wall in the stairwell.   I actually had most of the wall done like a week ago, but some of the thrift store frames still had price tags on them and had to be painted black.

Hey, I've been distracted with the bathroom.  :)

Meanwhile in the bathroom:  the floor is being prepped for slate tile!

and my dining room looks like this...........seriously.

well the sink and top are gone now, but I have to refinish the vanity....
maybe I'll start that tonight!  maybe.


-Make your life beautiful!

SUNDAY:

The Girl Creative , The DIY Showoff, Sisters of the Wild West,  The Tattered Tag, Flamingo Toes, Under the Table and Dreaming, I Heart Nap Time

 MONDAY:

Skip To My Lou, Thrifty Decor Chick, C.R.A.F.T., Sew Can Do, Dittle Dattle, Between Naps On the Porch, Homemaker on a Dime, Making the World Cuter

TUESDAY:

Tip Junkie, Type A, A Bowl Full of Lemons, Today's Creative Blog, Funky Polkadot Giraffe,  Strictly Homemade, A Diamond in the Stuff, All Thingz Related, 

Handmade Tuesday

WEDNESDAY:

Blue Cricket Design, Not Just A Housewife, Someday Crafts, Handy Man, Crafty Woman, Sew Much Ado, Organize Your Stuff Now, Seven Thirty Three,
Sugar and Dots, The Mommy Club  

THURSDAY:

My Repurposed Life, Paisley Passions, House of Hepworths, Beyond The Picket Fence, Inspired by Charm, The Shabby Chic Cottage,  Somewhat Simple 

FRIDAY:

Whipperberry, Fingerprints on the Fridge, Miss Mustard Seed Remodelaholic, Chic on a Shoestring Shabby Nest Tidy Mom Little Lucy Lu My Simple HomeLife

SATURDAY:

Funky Junk Interiors, Be Different Act Normal,  Tatertots and Jello, Young and Crafty 

Master Bathroom: Part 1 Demo

I have been working like a mad woman trying to get stuff done when Audrey is sleeping during a nap and when the girls all go to bed.  Her nap is usually around 2 hours and the girls go to bed at 8:30.  Yes, I make my children go to bed before 9 in the summer....it's good for them and it gives Mr. TSL and I some quiet time before we go to bed!!

Anywho, we have a few major projects for this summer.  We are putting down wood flooring in the living and dining room and redoing our Master Bathroom.  Which was straight out of the 80's.  Linoleum floor, golden oak vanity, frame-less builder grade mirror....boring!!

Here is a shot before we moved in:

Now time for some demo:

The best part of this is that the bathroom will be so fantastic when we're done....the worst part, waddling my 6 1/2 month pregnant butt up to the front bathroom to tinkle in the middle of the night!

I didn't get all of the art moved from the dining room yet, I have to paint a bunch of frames and I'll be finishing that up this week too!

I'll keep you updated!!

-Make your life beautiful!!

Gettin' to it!

Today is the first day of summer for me!!  I am done babysitting for the summer!  Which means I can get after some projects I have been planning!

Today, I will move the kids art gallery wall up to the top of the stairs.  hopefully, I can get all this done before Audrey goes down for a nap this afternoon....so I'll show you later.

Here is what the wall looked like in the dining room:

Our dining room is extremely narrow, so the pictures get bumped a lot!  Good thing they are movin'!

And up the stairs before:

However, the girls brought in a whole slew of new artwork!  So, we have outgrown the space!



-Make your life beautiful!!

No Ikea, No PB, No West Elm......

All of these and more.  We have no Homegoods, no Ikea, no Pottery Barn, no West Elm..... these things make me sad.  Especially the Ikea one!  They don't always ship the stuff I want and I don't want to drive to another state to pick it up!  It would be different if it were just a few hours, but it's not!!  Stupid Wichita!


HOW AM I SUPPOSE TO GET BY WITH OUT THESE STORES!?!?!?!

You see sometimes I am an impulse buyer.  I have tried to deter this habit.  I now will pick things up, put them in my cart and then put them back later....I want to impulse buy from these stores though and it's so much easier to swipe your debit card than it is to type in the number, the expiration date....by then I have canceled it and the impulse is gone.  boo.

Still working on the living room.....and getting ready to do the back bathroom!

The Sunset Lane's Living Room Board

Today for some reason Pinterest won't let me waist my time....so I found Polyvore!  Suck it Pinterest....I take that back, please don't be mad at me Pinterest.  I'm sorry.  

I did make this today though!  No I don't plan to spend that much on my living room, but I am going to try to find more affordable versions of everything on there!!

The Sunset Lane's Living Room Board by thesunsetlane on polyvore.com

white deer head

I have been lusting after faux deer heads/antlers since Mr. TSL drilled a huge deer with my Durango.  The best part was that he was lecturing me on watching for deer during rutting season and bam!  He KO'd that Mother H!

Anywho, I am all about the cabin look, but the real deer heads and the one's painted to look real totally give me the creeps!  Then I saw the nursery the Katie Bower designed and was in love!!

She bought hers off ebay and sprayed that booger white!!!  LOVE!


So, I bought mine from ebay and he looked like this in the ad!

I sprayed mine with primer and white semi gloss spray paint and hung him over the piano.  Not sure if that's where he'll stay, but I like him a whole lot!  My mom says it's creepy :)

I love the deer head, but I think it needs to stand out a little more.  Once I get the entryway done, some of those decorations will go live there and also to the bookshelf in the corner when it gets done.

I am thinking of something like this on top of the piano:

When the new flooring goes down (maybe I'll learn to take better pictures) it will be much nicer than the crappy carpet.  I still hate the golden oak piano....which I'm not sure what to do about it.  I don't want to paint it...mainly because I'm not excited to have to paint it.  Maybe, I'll suck it up and just do it!



-Make your life beautiful!

SUNDAY:

The Girl Creative , The DIY Showoff, Sisters of the Wild West,  The Tattered Tag, Flamingo Toes, Under the Table and Dreaming, I Heart Nap Time

 MONDAY:

Skip To My Lou, Thrifty Decor Chick, C.R.A.F.T., Sew Can Do, Dittle Dattle, Between Naps On the Porch, Homemaker on a Dime, Making the World Cuter

TUESDAY:

Tip Junkie, Type A, A Bowl Full of Lemons, Today's Creative Blog, Funky Polkadot Giraffe,  Strictly Homemade, A Diamond in the Stuff, All Thingz Related, 

Handmade Tuesday

WEDNESDAY:

Blue Cricket Design, Not Just A Housewife, Someday Crafts, Handy Man, Crafty Woman, Sew Much Ado, Organize Your Stuff Now, Seven Thirty Three,
Sugar and Dots, The Mommy Club  

THURSDAY:

My Repurposed Life, Paisley Passions, House of Hepworths, Beyond The Picket Fence, Inspired by Charm, The Shabby Chic Cottage,  Somewhat Simple 

FRIDAY:

Whipperberry, Fingerprints on the Fridge, Miss Mustard Seed Remodelaholic, Chic on a Shoestring Shabby Nest Tidy Mom Little Lucy Lu My Simple HomeLife

SATURDAY:

Funky Junk Interiors, Be Different Act Normal,  Tatertots and Jello, Young and Crafty 

I'd like to thank the academy!

My fabulous IRL{in-real-life} friend and fellow blogger, Jessica over at It's Jess presented me with a Beautiful Blogger Award!

I might be a little big-headed about this...hey, I had baby shit smeared up my arm earlier....give me a break!  At least I didn't jump up and break the light fixture in the living room like a total douche bag...like I did when I got on Crafting with the Stars!!  Read about that here.



The Beautiful Blogger Award is for those blogs that are creative, original, and add to the blogging community. You are supposed to bestow it on seven people.

The rules:
Link to the creative, beautiful genius that bestowed it upon you.
List seven random things about yourself.
Send said award to seven (or however many you want) other creative beautiful geniuses.
Tell those lucky people that you've done this and give them the rules.

Seven random things about me........


1.  I think the most random things are freakin' hilarious....like pee my pants funny.  I love watching America's Funniest Home Videos....it's totally my jam!  Plus, my laugh is obnoxiously loud. I was literally crying from this:

and also from this:

2.  My favorite movie is Uncle Buck and almost every weekend I make "He's cooking our garbage" for breakfast.  Macaulay Culkin walks down to the kitchen looks at John Candy and whispers to his sister "He's cooking our garbage."   It's basically cubed hashbrowns with onions, topped with sausage or bacon, eggs, and cheese.  The kids and I put ketchup on ours and Mr. TSL rocks his with some salsa.  Yes, my children eat this!

favorite lines from the movie:
"I don't want to stay with them, their dog's a ball sniffer."
"Honey, don't say balls."
"What's another word for balls?.....Nuts!"


"Here's a quarter, go downtown and have a rat gnaw that thing off your face."


3.  I know all the words to the songs in Seven Brides for Seven Brothers......"bless your beautiful hide, wherever you may be.  We ain't met yet, but I'm a willin' to bet, you're the gal for me....."  and I sing all of them while the movie is playing.

4.  I still want to use to want to be a country music singer.


5.   I believe with my whole heart and soul that actions speak louder than words. 


6.  I can touch my tongue to my nose...I know you're jealous!


7.  I am obsessed with plucking my eyebrows.... like my mom took my tweezers away from me at cheerleading camp and then convinced all my girlfriends not to give me theirs....I must say I am glad she did this, they grew back and were better looking, but I needed them to be groomed a little more than they were!!  I still, to this day, pluck my eyebrows everyday!


Thanks again, Jessica!!!  As soon as summer starts, Jess and I are going on a play date to some thrift stores and hopefully lunch and a movie!!  :)


-Make your life beautiful!!