Dining Room Part 2

With the recent "surprise" project of our broken pipes we have had to put some of our design projects on hold.  I wanted to wrap up a few indoor to-do's before we get too far into Spring and all of our extra time and energy is spent on outdoor to-do's.  I thought the dining room chairs would be quick fix and they did not disappoint!  After so many things going wrong lately it was nice to have a project turn out as I was hoping it would.  When I first starting thinking about the dining room face lift the color scheme of yellow, black and grey came to mind as something I would like to explore.  I was also mindful that the set is from the 60's and I wanted to be true to that era/style.  When I went to the fabric store I found this great stripe fabric that was the perfect mix of those things.  

Before

Afters

Now on to wall color and window treatments...

Beat the Blues with Purple

A certain someone had a case of too much inside because of bad weather blues.  So I took out a book, a large piece of paper and a purple crayon...

Sorry for the cliffhanger, no picture of the final artwork...but he was happy for the afternoon!

Just Because...

Because it was going to snow Eric decided to work from home...
Because he was home he scheduled an appointment with a sub-pump company...
Because we had someone coming to work in the basement I went to the back corner (which I try to avoid at all costs) to move some things...
Because I was in the back corner early in the morning, the sunlight drew my attention to the water dripping...
Because I noticed the water dripping Eric looked in the hole...
Because Eric looked in the hole he saw the wet insulation, walls and supports...
Because he saw all the mess he turned off the water and called a plumber...
Because the plumber came he cut a hole in the wall behind the downstairs bathroom (which happens the be the kids playroom) and found a leaking pipe...
Because the hole was found while still leaking, the pipe didn't break and flood the first floor.

For once this winter, I am glad it snowed.

Seusstastic Day!

As the kids are getting older it is fun to see their interests starting to develop and come out.  As parents, we try to foster those interests in healthy and supportive ways.  That is easy to do when your children love to read!  We celebrated Dr Seuss's birthday with 2 more of his books (believe it or not we did not have a copy of The Cat in the Hat!), 2 new soft friends and some "green eggs and ham" (idea from Pinterest of course).

Pin me down!

I finally did it, I joined Pinterest.  I have been holding out because everyone talks about how it sucks you in and you spend so much time on it or in some cases, makes you feel bad about all the great ideas you never had.  It was partially because of the dining room re-do (which will get an updated post soon) and partially because I am trying to do more things myself since I am not teaching.  We are celebrating my SIL Karen's birthday this weekend and I said I would bring a dessert.  I started looking on Pinterest for some inspiration when low and behold I stumbled upon Karen's page.  Sure enough, she had a board for desserts so I thought I should make something from there since it is her party!  I went with the "brookies" and chocolate dipped peanut butter pretzels and both came out great.  The brookies were made even easier by the fact that Nestle now makes pre-made dough in mini cookie sizes that fit right into my mini-muffin pan.  

Sharing the love...

We had a nice and tasty family breakfast to start our Valentine's Day.  Enjoy the highlights!

Sundae on Wednesday

The kids were having a rough start to their day so I thought I would make breakfast a bit more exciting with a yogurt sundae.  I layered grape nuts, vanilla yogurt and some fruit in a sundae cup and they worked like a charm!  They ate them up and were in much better moods.  It really is about the little things...