Outdoor Chairs

I found four of these quite a while ago. The owners were just throwing them out. And I thought maybe there was a chance I could use them. (Aaron thought I was a little nuts)

I brought them home and brainstormed what I could do to make them functional again. I haven't had any experience with things like this so it took some thinking to decide what would work best.

I bought some outdoor canvas (I really like the green and brown stripes), which I used to make "sleeves" to slide over the back and seat of the chairs. It was a long time in the making but really wasn't too difficult. I am excited to have outdoor seating for adults now. Hopefully we will have a summer full of fun times outside.

Butterflies and such

I've been working on some things for Lena's new room. I am trying to get it ready so that I can move her a little before the baby comes. I don't want her to think the baby is stealing her room, so I want to give her about a month in her new room before Thayne comes. But the room is not quite ready and I am not quite ready for my little BabyNa to be in a big girl room. Anyway, here are a few of the things I've been doing. I will show pictures of the whole room when I get it done (or done enough).

Painted a hand-me-down bookcase pink and painted butterflies on the side of it

Box for on the bookcase (you can see it in the pic of the bookcase too)

Hairbow hangers (Lena is getting quite the collection of hair clips)

Painted butterflies on one wall

Butterfly mobile

We love FREE

We have been very lucky and only ever bought a very few pieces of furniture. We are not very picky and we are pretty patient, so when an opportunity for free furniture comes up we love it. We have been looking for a desk since we moved in (actually I wanted one before that), but we just weren't willing to pay much. So, when Aaron's dad said that his office was moving locations, getting rid of furniture, and were we interested- oh yeah! We got a desk, office chair and bookcase. Sweet! They are old and used, but hey - free is free! They are great pieces and work really well in our house. Here is a pic of the desk - it is really big (which I love).

But since we have it in our bedroom I wanted to paint it. What do you think? I also want to re-cover the chair, but have no idea how to do that or how difficult it would be, so we will see.

And I have also been wanting a big bookcase since we moved here. However, I thought that was going to be a while, so I hadn't been actively searching for one. So when this fell into our hands I was so happy!

I also pulled out the flowers from our wedding. They were just chillin' in boxes in a cupboard. And I revamped some of them to make the arrangement on top of the bookcase. I'm still not sure if I love the arrangement. I want one up there, I'm just not sure if I am happy with how it turned out. What do you think?

Thanks again, Twitchells for helping us get this furniture. We love them!

coloring

Landon likes drawing on our furniture...

...almost as much as I do.