I'm dreaming

...of being somewhere else today.

Ah...Summer Nights

Baby got a new guitar.

It's a dobro actually.

This is great news for me because I've already enjoyed hours of that sweet, twangy bluegrass perfection. A few candles and a cold beer on the deck. Yep it's summer.


I'm in love. And amazingly content these days.

A new spray painting craft :)

I thought I would share a fun before/after of yet another craft today.



Here is the before picture that is the sad situation of Milo's food and water dishes-constantly spilled all over. (I considered making it black and white and giving it bad posture in true "before pic" style).



I came across this lovely country Christmas serving tray while perusing my favorite ARC down the road. Kind of reminds me of Kandy Grimes decor circa 1988? I almost hated to paint over it...almost.





What a lovely dining spot for a lovely puppy!



On a totally unrelated note: check out this fabulous fruit bowl centerpieces mom, Jana, Aunt Lisa and I created for my cousin Shanity's wedding.

Memorial Day

Last Monday was Memorial Day and my first official day of summer. It truly did a lot for my attitude and has helped me survive the past week at my desk :)

First the girls got together at 7:30am for some coffee and garage "sailing". We had a rough start...Seriously clean up your old signs folks-Huge Sale TODAY is extremely misleading. No worries we just headed to the Goodwill for some 50% fun. That's where I found the chair. I'll post more pictures once it's fixed up but let's just say I'm smitten. It's green leather and it started out at $15 but has a broken leg. Since it was half off day I got pumped about a $7.50 chair...but it gets better. She marked it down AGAIN and I paid $3.25!!! What?! SO excited :) We finally found a sweet yard sale where Bekah got an amazing bike and Blaze found a blackboard:



Next we headed back to the pool for some food, margs and SUN! Such an amazing summer day with awesome friends. Apples to Apples was fun, of course, and what better ending than good old Mexican food (& yes more margs). My favorite pictures of the day:





Awesome.