The last month, or so...

I know once I had said a blogger never sleeps,

but

they do need to organize, clean, rearrange and take care of family first...

so while it has been a while...

I do have some pics to fill you in on what I HAVE been doing this last month...

It all started when the bathrooms were upon completion and I realized our house was a chaotic mess and seriously disorganized...

being a teacher and the school year looming around the corner this sent me into a down whirl spiral of list's to do's and a crazy, mad dash to organize every last closet in my house...

In addition to organizing our homestead, I also had three to four children to get ready for "school" (if your counting my husband, which I do in this process!)....he's a teacher...

I also have been doing a lot of work in early intervention, which I LOVE.....

so fast forward a few weeks and here we are...almost organized and a full week of school under our belts...

a big sigh of relief...everyone survived!!!!

What you really want to see are pictures, I know....

here are our bathrooms....ALL DONE and functioning so well....

But before I show you the after, here is the before....

The Kids...

and NOW.....

The Kids....

and

Ours Before...

Ours...

After.....

the cubbies finally made it on the "LIST".... thanks to a very patient husband who in the midst of what could have been a disaster...went out and bought a paint sprayer...and if that's not good enough.....read the directions to his wife who clearly did not, and tried to use the sprayer with out them...obviously that did not work well....

I hope everyone is recovering well from the crazy storms that have devastated our region...and take comfort in their family and friends and the memories that they have...

and remember...

                         “The best things in life, aren’t things…”



French curves....

Classy, leggy, curvy. and unique....

of course I'm talking about the new "old" table I just finished....

who wouldn't love her????

I love the cottage grey color ...

the distressing and natural crackling...

I even made frenchy inspired knobs to complete the look...

let me know if you need a side table

or

a bedside table

or

an accent table...

she is for sale....

Here is the Before...

I made the knobs with a little bit of this....

and I did it like this...



hope everyone is staying cool...

Hello Turquoise...

Well I thought I would share the bamboo mirror that I painted...

I don't believe that the pictures do it justice, but I will share anyway...

I delivered it today and finished up a little side table for a little girls room...

So this is the before of the mirror, great shape and texture NOT the right color, that's where I come in...

I taped, and taped and taped (you get the idea, A LOT of tape!) and then primed....

and painted...

and distressed...

and hand painted three layers of color to get the final look....

I have a perfect spot in my house for this, but it already has a home....

I will try and go take pics of it up in it's new home and share with you...

NOW

the little girls table...

here is the before...

and this is what it look like now...

up next, pics of our bathrooms that we are redoing....I'll keep ya posted...

It's a Butterfly.....table...

I want to start out by saying how excited I am that people read my blog....

I know it sounds funny,  but it inspires me,

you,

reading right now,  inspires me...

so thanks.....

It kind of makes me laugh because I always loved writing, in high school I thought I was a pretty good writer...

then came college...

freshman year, writing 101....

I was very excited and I thought it was going to be a breeze...

reality check...

My professor said  "I don't know where you learned to write, but you can't"

Not that blogging is very technical, still very ironic...

ANYWAY...

 I finished that beautiful dropleaf table, it's called a butterfly table, Walt told me (he's our 80 year old neighbor that we adore)

so I thought I would share....

I think Walt is proud,

Here is the table before, very cute but needed a little lovin...

and a lot of power sanding...

what do you think????

Next  I am onto a few little tables...

I love this one, anyone need a bedside table or little entry table...

Have a fantastic day....

A pretty little black desk...

So the past few days I have been focusing on a few custom pieces for some customers....

it is sooo much fun breathing new life into a piece that you already own, not to mention very green...

this is the desk before....

and this is the desk now....(staged in my home, still sooo pretty)

pretty little black desk...

Some of the pieces I am going to work on next are...

Don't forget that I have some furniture at La Moda Lisa's so feel free to stop in and check it out...

PS

If you ever see any furniture on my blog please contact me for a price...

Have a great Monday...