Home Decorating Projects

So I am having a lot of fun with some decorating projects around the house.  Yesterday I took on the piano bench.  I havent ever reupholstered anything before but this didnt look too difficult.  I basically just took apart the old cover and then used those pieces of fabric as templates to cut out my new fabric and then I just sewed them back together the same as I took them apart.  Of course it always sounds easier than it is.  It did still take several hours.  But it was really fun and I love how it turned out.  It ties in with my new drapes that I made and co ordinating pillow. 

One thing that I am terrible about is taking "before" pictures.  I just forget to do that before I get started.  So I found this one picture from our old house when we first were gifted the piano in February.  You cant really tell from the pictures but its a deep blue purple velvet.  If you scroll down to Emmitts birthday pictures you can see it in the background of the pinata pictures. Im sure in the right room it would've worked but it just wasnt working for me. 

BEFORE

AFTER:

And here are the pillows I sewed to co ordinate with:

 And here are the drapes I made for both the dining room and the piano room. 

Happy Birthday Emmitt!

Emmitt is 4!  We had a great time celebrating this big day in his life.

His choice for his birthday breakfast was donuts, sausage, and apple juice.  Then he opened his presents.  He got a variety of very boyish toys including a sword he had been eyeing at Target for some time now. 


As a humorous sidenote, later that day when inevitabley Emmitt was directing his sword toward Dallas  I told him that if he uses it to hurt the dog or anyone else then we will take it away, to which he replied "then why did you get this for me?"  (Clearly this kid is smarter than his parents ;)

For dinner, he chose to go to Culvers- no suprise there.


Then on Saturday we had his party.  I had one of my bigger mom mess ups that day.  About 10 minutes after the party was supposed to start, there still were no guests so I sent out a few texts and discovered that I had put the wrong date on the invitation.  OOOPS!!!  Luckily, I had only invited four kids (2 of whom were twin brothers) and the twins mom had fortunately misread the invitation and was on her way anyways.  Then one of the other boys was able to come last minute as well.  So for such a big mistake we lucked out with 3 of our 4 guests being able to make it.  Plus one of Braydens friends came to to hang out so we can say he had 4 guests after all.
Fewf...  I cant believe I did that. 

Anyways, the party was a hit, we played a few games, beat down a pinata, and ate cake.  I think a good time was had by all.

 yes- the train cake is back- for the third year in a row :)

Happy Happy Birthday Emmitt!!! I cant believe you are 4.  Where did my snuggly little baby go?  Love you much!

Kitchen Update

So our cabinets are finally done and I love how it turned out.  I wasnt going to post this yet because I still want to buy hardware and change out the pendant lights but that could take me forever to decide on so I'll post where we are at and keep you posted as I finish it all up.

Again- I am terrible at before pictures.  I had this one on my phone that doesnt even show the whole room.  Why oh why dont I ever remember to do good before pictures!