and there you have it...
making this the first item on what is yet-to-become our gallery wall...
#2 = it doesn't get any easier than adding pictures to the inside of lockers with magnets...
#3 = this was a leftover piece of wood from a previous project -> which we covered in leftover fabric + pieces of crown molding cut into a frame and painted white...
ok, so this one still needs pictures, but you get the idea...
So what does Danielle do while Matt is whittling away at the brick in the dining room?
Simply put, she embraces “project mode”—no weekly cleaning, workouts, cooking, etc…
I let the dust gather, get out my “special project list” and go for it…
starting with completing our last vacation project…
which involved manipulating 1 ball of twine, 1 beach ball, & 2 bottles of modge podge
it started out as an ooey gooey mess, but became our new light fixture in the laundry room...
:)
so much better than the before…
and remember all those oyster shells I gathered up on our last trip to Coronado?
well here was the not-so-fantastic result…
not exactly what I was going for, but I’m thinking it will work outside on our front porch
there were lots of things spray painted…
like these fish that were given to me a while back that were previously collecting dust in my décor bin... a coat of paint later and they now have a new life…
There are still a few more things still in the works, hoping to cross them off the list soon… And I can’t wait to show you Matt’s progress in the dining room :)
on vacation one of my favorite things to do each afternoon was walk along the sand with the love of my life and comb the beach for driftwood…
at the end of our week we had quite the loot…
which we toted home…
wanna see what became of all that driftwood?
there you have it…
driftwood chains…
currently strung over the lockers in the entry…
:)
another “project” (perhaps this is actually considered “crafting”… or maybe “art”…)
involved imprinting our favorite shells into the sand + plaster…
we’d never worked with plaster before…
and we lost two complete boxes because they set before we could get them out of the bucket…
third time was a charm…
this was our result…
a happy vacation memento!
:)
we did start one last ooey-gooey creation on vacation…
its currently sitting in the garage uncompleted…
more on that soon…
well... hopefully it will be soon…
TUES.
my mom is my best friend…
she’s the greatest friend I’ve ever had…
my very best, best-friend…
today we strolled the streets of Coronado…
meandered around the Hotel Del…
lunched on the patio belonging to Costa Azul…
planted our chairs beachside and enjoyed a nice long lounge near the water’s edge…
then treated ourselves to 2 scoops at Maggie Moo’s…
totally luvin this coastal summer weather; the warmth of the sunshine offset by those cool sea breezes J
WED.
I cannot express how sweet it was to have mom in Bible studies with me this week…
and to discuss His words together on our morning walks…
Ps 63: 1-3 “O God, You are my God; I shall seek You earnestly; My soul thirsts for You, my flesh yearns for You. In a dry and weary land where there is no water. Thus I have seen You in the sanctuary, To see Your power and Your glory. Because Your lovingkindess is better than life, my lips will praise You.”
THURS.
of course we did a lil project-ing together…
mom has a talent for making things beautiful…
and a supernatural gift of serving others…
today was actually day two of a four day project…
clearly we did not know what we were signing ourselves up for…
in one word -> circles…
circles, circles and more circles…
till we ran out of circles and were forced to make a quick run to the store to purchase more supplies so we could make… can you guess?
yep, even more circles…
but we did have fun J
FRI.
ok so funny thing about our circle project…
we finished making our zillion circles, then strung em together and crafted the strands into three DIY capiz chandeliers…
tonight my best hubby ever attached them to the ceiling for us…
and we stood back…
♥…
but the middle one wasn’t quite right…
Matt said it needed a “haircut”…
so we chopped off about five hundred circles…
500 circles being the equivalent to approximately two hours of my life… :/
and so we stood back for the second time…
um…
who gave me scissors?
resolved to get it right, we set about gathering the cut circles off the floor and strategically re-attaching said circles…
(this was not the only thing mom fixed while she was in town… she was also busy nixing the “bellbottoms” off the office curtains that I “butchered”)
and so, after mom’s final touches, we stood back a third time…
luv ♥ ♥ ♥
total cost = $15
♥
SAT.
girls day!
you know the age old saying, “shop till you drop”
that was us
SUN
day four of our lil project…
remember those extra 400 circles…
we couldn’t let em go to waste…
so we impulsively decided to make a fourth chandelier for the master bath…
this one had lots of hiccups…
but it felt so good to finally put that sewing machine away…
MON.
getting ready to spend some time in Marina Del Rey with mom AND dad J
