Our New Baby

This is Bolt. We actually found him at a yard sale! He is a Malte-poo. And we love him! Gabriel is so cute with him. They chase each other around and it's adorable! We only had him for a few days and he ran under my sister's feet and she stepped on him. Totally an accident! But we took him to the vet and he has a broken leg! He was down for a couple of days but he is back to running around, just on 3 legs! We have to keep him confined to his kennel most of the time, and he HATES it.

Here is the picture of the headboard in my room, as promised. I'm still working on the bedroom but I love my bed! The antique windows were a Mother's Day present from my awesome mom!

Before and After- for Brandy

I refinished this for my sister. Now looking at it I should have antiqued it, but she already took it home. I'll post another picture when I do that.

Took these before church on Sunday. Gabriel just looked so dang cute!! Do you see that ugly brown table in the back? Well I picked that bad boy up at a yard sale for 10 bucks! Now I have a work table! No more squatting on the floor! Yes, I know the garage needs to be cleaned! I'm getting to that too. Now that James has graduated(So proud of you babe!) I have a ton of projects that he "gets" to help with!

Before and After-Dresser

Before
After

I hated the knobs that came with the dresser so I bought new ones. The dresser took 3 coats of white paint.

The Headboard

This is my first build from scratch! Thanks to Ana White. Just measured my bed, its a king, to decide how big I wanted it. My bed is also on risers so make sure you double check the height you want. Just before I started this project my husband bought me a jigsaw!! I LOVE IT! First I screwed wood horizontally to the back of the vertical pieces to keep all the wood together. Then I drew the shape I wanted on a piece of cardboard, cut it out and then traced it onto the wood. This is where I got to play with my new jigsaw! I sanded all the edges to make it smooth and a little rounded. After that I stained it, you are supposed to wait a little while before you seal it but I didn't. This took some of the stain off so that you could see the wood stain better. I let it dry over night and took it upstairs, that was fun because I have an L-shaped staircase! I know it's not perfect, but I'm really happy with how it turned out! I'm still working on my bedroom so I will post a finished bed picture soon!

I have always liked to do projects. (My husband cringes ever time I say I have an idea!) Well one year ago my husband and I, along with the handsomest little boy you have ever seen, Gabriel moved into our first place! No it wasn't the grand home with lots of outdoor space that I had been dreaming of but a townhouse. Don't feel sorry for me though! I'm not sad! It's 2000 wonderful square feet and we have the best neighbors in the world! I'd say my one complaint is that it is very "cookie cutter"! Not my style! So the second we moved in, I went WILD! EVERYTHING was the same color! Wall, baseboards, ceiling, door, even the handrail on the staircase! And not a great color, very blah. So thus, the painting began. I have now painted my entryway 2 times (HINT DO NOT mix colors that cannot be matched again!) Painted the kitchen 3 times (HINT Do not just pick a color from the swatches. Spend the couple extra dollars and bring a couple sample jars home!) And I have painted my bedroom 3 times also. (My HINT here is to go for a more neutral color so you can change your bedding easier!) I have already decided to repaint my sons room( I just decided way too fast on this one!

Your house is like you life...always a work in progress!!

I love being a stay-at-home mom and whoever said that that was boring had NO imagination!!!

So I have started this blog to share with you wonderful people out there that being a homemaker is the best job in the world! I want to share the ups and downs of Diaper and Drill Duty. I'm so thankful that there are so many wonderful bloggers out there that have so inspired me! I now have so many favorites that I cannot keep up! My grandfather and father were wonderful craftsmen and I hope that some has rubbed off on me! I sure have the "bug". Thanks to thrifty decor chick and many others I have put up 2 different kinds of molding in my house, just built my first headboard :) (thanks Ana White) and have many other projects on my to do list. I hope whoever reads this may find the inspiration to know that they can do it too!