Happy Easter!

Happy Easter Dear Friends!

image via Jeanne Winters Blog

Easter is the most important holiday for us :)

It's definitely not about the Easter Bunny!

It's when Jesus died for our sins, and resureccted to give us life :)

It's so amazing that He has done that for you and I.

I cannot fully comprehend His love for us!

So many times I hurt Him in so many ways! 

Yet He still calls me His child.

I feel honored, and so blessed, to be loved and cared for by the God of the Universe.

This film is so amazing in capturing the glimpse of what had happened.

What does Easter mean to you?

Happy Easter :)

May the resurrected Jesus, resurrect in your heart :)

xoxo

Chair Re-DO

First off, I want to apalojize to all my readers about my inconsistency.

This whole blogging thing is really hard!

I seriously don't know how ya'll do it!

Anyway.

We had a few chairs that my sonny decided to poke through with a fork after dinner.

It took me a while to start the project, so they were like this for a few weeks..

I unscrewed the cushion and ripped off the vinyl.

Got this Vinyl at Wal-Mart. Just enough to cover 2 chairs.

 Hubby did all the work :)

He used a blow dryer to help with the stretching.

I have never seen anyone do that before. I guess it helped with stretching?

 After we were done stapling, we cut off the excess vinyl.

With the finished product looking like this.

 I will try my best to post more.

I am really working on time management around here.

It has been very challaging.

I'm always everywhere, thrifting, shopping, play-dates, meetings, at a friends, at sisters...oh the list goes on.

What helped you manage your time?

Hope your week is off to a great start!

xoxo

Top of a Piano III

Update on the piano.

I have no mirror now :(

*tear*

My little nephew threw a ball and it happen to hit the mirror. 

It fell, scratched my floors, and broke a few little mirrors. :(

I wonder if I could find little replacement mirrors that are about 1" in diameter?

I did add a few little details to the top

A cute little star fish and a little bird cage that I got at a thrift shop for $1.29

(I'm planing on spray painting it white and distressing it a little)

But I don't know if I'll ever be able to replace the mirror

I fell in love with it

Now I'm so heartbroken!

Now the picture frame looks like it doesn't belong there...

I guess it's a never-ending journey ;)

I like it.

xoxo

My New Topiary Trees :)

Some of you already know about my love for Topiary Trees :)

You can read my inspirational post here.

I was really looking forward to buying real trees.

They are spendy, and I'm afraid of loosing them :(

One day I was at Marshals, and bought a pair of these beauties :)

The pots are beautiful, but I think they blend in with the back splash a little too much.

Maybe some white paint, and a little distress will do the trick?

What do you think?

Lovely and Creative Jen, over at Scissors & Spatulas had an amazing tutorial on Topiary Trees!

I wish I had found the items she used! I guess I'll find them when I at least expect them! lol

But for now, I'll enjoy my great find at Marshall's for only $12.99 each! :)

There is not a chance that they will die on me!

Just in case you were wondering, the plaque above was given to me by a dear friend on my Birthday :)

Christ is the head of this home,

the unseen Guest of every meal.

:)

It will always be cherished.

And so will His presence :)

xoxo

A Little Bit of Spring!

March 20th is the official first day of Spring.

I cannot wait till we see change in weather!

I'm looking forward to long weeks of sunshine and streets filled with tree blossoms!

I hear it's already happening is some places.

Unfortunately not here in the Northwest!

It's rainy and gloomy :(

Although we do get a little bit of sunshine here and there.

Which I am very thankful for :)

Since we don't have any budding trees around here just yet.

I had to have something that reminds me of Spring, of the coming Spring!!!

(Sorry for the bad quality of the pic, I just noticed! U could tell that I'm an amateur!) lol

Have a great day!

xoxo

Top of Piano {Before and After}

What was the point of my Top of Piano Post?

Ah....to show you how it was and how it is now.

I cannot believe I forgot to show you a before!

Silly Me!

 

The before is how it looked like for the past 2 years! :O 

Sorry about the poor quality pictures!

The before shot was taken with a point and shoot, and the after was taken by a Cannon SLR.

Yes, you got that right.

You can now see how "good" I am with a camera.

lol

Now that I look at it, there is not much of a difference.

Maybe I should repaint the piano?

lol

I dare not to ask my husband!

he he:)

Hope Ya'll had a fabulous weekend!

xoxo

Top of a Piano II

Hello Everyone!

Happy Spring!

I'm sorry I haven't been posting regularly lately!

I'm still getting used to my hubbies work schedule and juggling everything from kids to dinner.

Y'all mom's know what I'm talking about ;)

Well....aside from working on my spirituality and trying to organize my life a bit, I was working on my piano display.

Working....that sounds like so much work. lol

It wasn't.

It's a matter of the right accessories.

So here it is :)

If you remember from the inspirational post, this is the piano that I refinished.

I don't know what I was thinking.

Seriously.

It's totally out of tune now

After reading and researching AFTER i refinished it, I found out that pianos are suppose to be sanded down by hand ONLY.

By using the electric sander, I guess I messed up all the chords inside :(

No wonder musical pieces sound so much different now.

lol

At least it looks ok. 

It wasn't much lighter though.

I wanted it to match the floors.

WHAT??

Yea.....I was pretty "matchy-matchy" type of gal.

Here are the close ups :)

 

 

My Favorite :)

What do you think? 

Did I nail it? 

Missed it?

I was hoping to find a lamp, but didn't find anything that wowed me.

Maybe on my next thrifty outing :)

Hope you had a wonderful Women's Day ;)

Back in Ukraine, it's one of the most celebrated holidays!

xoxo