Productivity

comes in spurts. I think it's the weather really. I get sick of this cold weather and I guess in order to speed seasons up a bit I start performing spring cleaning/project-like activities. Not that it makes spring come any faster, but it's the idea I suppose.

Ok. So I decided about a week ago that it was time to refinish our kitchen table. And I'm a bad blogger, I don't have a true "before picture" but I think my description will be enough. We bought this table 9 years ago, at a garage sale, for VERY cheap. And somehow, it has lastest us all this time. The chair legs on 4 of the 6 chairs were shot, like broken in half from kids standing on them and just being old and worn. So after MUCH debate, instead of buying a nice new dining set, we decided to just buy 6 new chairs (got a good deal at Garden Ridge) and then I refinished the top (stained it a darker "mahogany"stain--in quotes because I don't think it's very mahogany-ish, but I like it nonetheless) and painted the table legs black to match. It used to be one of those light colored farmhouse pine tables with white legs. Note to self (and others)...it takes quite a few coats of black to cover white paint! But not nearly as many coats as it did to cover the light blue wall in my kitchen when we painted it red (was it 6?!)...I digress. Here's my "after." Yay, it's done and we can eat on it.

Also on the agenda for hmmm....like 2 years, was to make a couple of pillows to match Justin's cowboy room. That took all of a half hour (I can't believe it put THAT off so long!) so here's those that are finally done (and yay for J not peeing in his bed so I could actually have his bed made to take a picture! He's been dry 4 times in the past two weeks, baby steps I guess, yay. He hadn't been dry even once for an entire year. I'm hoping we're turning a corner. A really annoying corner that makes me a grumpy mom a lot of days! Baby steps though. Whew.). Here's his little room, or at least part of it!