Godspeed

We had the honor of attending a Deployment Ceremony

for our good friend Cory last month.

Afterwords we came back to our house and

had a little departing party for him.

The next morning he flew out to Camp Atterbury in Indiana,

where he'll be until June when he leaves for a

one-year deployment to Afghanistan.


In addition to many other things Cory is a musician

who writes & performs music;

without fail the guitars come out whenever this

group of our friends get together.

I'd like to share with you one song that Cory sang for us that night.



We will miss you!

Here's to a safe journey & safe return for you

and all the men in the 1st Squadron, 221st Cavalry.

Thank you for your service!












Can't wait to have your Welcome Home party!

Lenka

I had a BLAST in Hawaii, one day I will live there,
it may be 30 years from now, but I will live there someday.
Anyway, I'm busy trying to get my studio finished
but next week I'll have a few new posts for you,
one will include some Hawaii pics.

I discovered this music while browsing the web the other day.
It's great and know a lot of you will like it too so I thought I'd share!
Enjoy!

If you go here you can watch the video for The Show,
it's a fun video, I couldn't add it to my blog, sorry.

~♥~Love this Life~♥~

Domestic Construction

Went to the bookstore the other day, was browsing mags and stopped as soon as I saw this.....


...how cool are these!!! Yes, these are tea & coffee cups that are made into a chandelier with a bowl to cover the electrical in the ceiling!!! I just love altered & re-purposed stuff!!!

I didn't want to buy the mag so I put the website in my
long term memory storage container that seems to have a leak now days
so when I got home I couldn't remember it...
...then just a few minutes ago it just popped into my head!

I sat down and went to their website, they have the most incredible video right on their homepage, you have to watch it!

But wait!!!

They also have an Etsy store where you can buy these little beauties, this one will run you a cool grand, but they have singles for about $60!

If you click on the Surface & Space tab on their website they have a bunch of cool photos of their various designs....I don't know which one I like best...too many cool things! I also LOVE their "bubble" dresses. I'm going to have to watch for a vintage pattern and make myself one!

Third Time's A Charm

....I hope.

I have my entire upstairs completely torn apart right now. I always forget to take before pics,arrrgh!@!%$!@! But thought you'd enjoy seeing the mess I've got myself into anyway!

I decided yet again to move the room that will end up being my "Studio"!

I've decided to make the room most of you know as
"The Beach Room" into my Studio.
I know, I know....but I'm not getting rid of
the beach room, it's just moving is all.

The next two pictures are of most of the major furniture from the beach room in my hallway. A big mess!!!

This cubby hole of a closet was my first work station, you can still see my Pretty Little Things shelves in there......now Troy gets the closet for a while. As you can see my entire upstairs is a wreck, it's slowing leaking into every nook and cranny! When finished this room will be Troy's computer room/music recording studio/guest room/exercise room!

This room was my second attempt at creating a studio but I just had way too much furniture, it was cramped, dark and I just couldn't get my muse. Now it's totally torn apart, getting packed for the move down the hall! This room will become The New Beach Room.

Yes it is, third time is a charm! This beautiful open, light, airy room will be my new Studio! Yea! It was a beautiful beach room but will be an even more beautiful Studio. I will post more pics as I get stuff done. My Studio won't be done for well over a month, we are leaving in a week for a two week vacation to Hawaii! Yea! Perhaps I'll come back with some new additions for "The New Beach Room"!

I'm having so much fun, this room is going to be great, I'm so excited!!! Yea!

Unconditional Love

This is truly an awesome story!!! Thanks for sharing Steph!

If you want to see more of this story tune into Animal Planet, Thursday, April 9, 7PM and watch A Lion Called Christian.

There is also a book for all you book lovers.

I LOVE ART & MUSIC!

I LOVE ART!!!

I LOVE MUSIC!!!

This is one of the coolest things

that I've seen in a long, long time.

A combination of two of my favorite things....enjoy!

Too Long

I know it's been forever since my last post, I read this quote a couple days ago and thought it very fitting!

"Only good girls keep diaries. Bad girls don't have time."

-Tallulah Bankhead

Soon, I'll get a post on here soon!

My Studio

I am so excited, I finally moved the bed out of "My Studio"/Guest Room and so now I can actually call it My Studio with out the quotation marks and back slash! I will be working on getting it set up in between all the projects I have going on and I thought I'd share the process with you start to finish!

STORAGE

Right after AU last year Jackie sent me a picture of a ribbon storage idea she found on the web. It was a mannequin and they had tied the a ribbon around the waist to make it look like a skirt, I think it was less than a week later Gabrielle was born! She is one of my favorite things in my studio. I tie and untie ribbons, lace and fabric scraps as I buy and use them so her "outfit" is constantly changing. Thanks for the idea Jackie!

I added more shelving to the closet.

I always forget to take before pictures so here is a

midway pic and after pic of the front of the closet.

And a before and after pic of the end of the closet.

And yes, I did all of this all by myself,well,
with help from my trusty nail gun and jig saw,
my husband states it best....
"you are the girliest Tom Boy I have ever met."

LIGHTING
Again, forgot the before pic, so I took a pic of the box. I got this chandelier at a Lowe's clearance sale about two years ago for around $25, original price $250. But I didn't want a black one so I took it completely apart and painted it. The wiring that ran through it was black too, all the metal covered it up except where it went through the chain from the top to the ceiling. So I made a little tube out of some silk fabric and wa la a cream chandelier. I love it and all the crystals are genuine Swarovski so it's bling is BlingGirl approved!

This was a salvage yard find. It reminded me of a crown and me being the Queen that I am I could not resist, and heck it was only $10! I had to rewire it as it had just been cut out of the ceiling from where ever it came from. Instead of making it a chandelier I made it a lamp. I found the crystals at Carole's, The Ribbon Lady's store. They are crystals that came from a chandelier from one of the imploded casinos here in Vegas. I think I've had the crystals hanging on there 12 different ways already and am still not sure that this is what I will settle on.

Next up is going to be a new work table, I've got a couple ideas, but I think I want it to be at standing height, I usually end up working standing up or sitting on the floor, so I think counter height....and painting, I'll be painting the whole room, inside the closet and probably the Jack&Jill bathroom that is connected to it, I'm thinking....pink...no...green...no pink...will post more pics as I get stuff done!

New Favorite Tee

I got a new T-Shirt and loved the saying so much I made a digi image with it. I used my new pen mouse thingy to write Love, Mwah and draw the peace sign heart.

Enjoy!

If you want to buy one for yourself,

go here.