6 months!!!!

Has it really been 6 months since I posted.  Between colds, allergies, work, therapy, camera and computer problems,etc, etc, etc  the year has just flown by at warp speed.

I'm hoping I'm back and going to post more often.

Aaron's room is finished and I'll be posting pictures of the completed room in a day or two.  I've painted a pantry cupboard and added it to the dining room, those pictures are coming.

I'm heading to Florida next Tuesday for the CTMH convention and you will be overloaded with those pictures.

My lia Sophia business has been growing every month and I'm very pleased with that.

Mr Aaron is finishing Kindergarten on Thursday so I'll share some pictures of his school year on the weekend.

Hopefully this is just the start of things to come.

Diningroom reveal

For those of you who have been following, you may remember the before picture of my dining room

I found this picture of a diningroom I loved.

Earlier in the summer I started striping the table and chairs and then stained them black.  This is a picture of the chairs when they were finished

Then I recovered the chair seats.

Then I decided that the white microwave hutch looked awful in the corner so I researched painting laminante furniture on Pintrest and this is what I did.

Two coats of Zinsser Cover Stain Primer

And 2 coats of black Eggshell paint

Here is the whole room.  You can also see my new curtains and a few Fall decorations.  I also had a Pantry Cupboard in the corner you can't see, that is going in the basement until I can replace it with something new.





In Progress



Here are some pictures of my diningroom progress.  You can see some of the table under all that mess.  I decided in the end to stain it all black, with the scratches and marks on the top it was too hard to get the brown to look good so I gave up on that idea.  You can also see my new curtains, though they need to be ironed.  The other two pictures show my progress on the microwave cart, it's been primed twice and sanded I just need to pick up some black paint to finish it.

I'm planning to replace the pantry cupbard soon and will eventually put some beadbaord on the lower half of the walls, maybe in the spring.



Not much happening

The last day or so have been pretty boring around here.  I've been working on my diningroom table, I hope to have a picture tomorrow.

I will be taking part in the Cross Canada Blog Hop with some of my fellow Canadian CTMH Consultants, it starts tomorrow so hop over to my Treasured Heart Blog then.

Aaron missed two days of school thanks to Leslie but was back yesterday and today.  Mrs. Oliver, his teacher and Mrs. Tucker, his assistant both say he's doing great.  Mrs Tucker told me today he was trying to answer all the questions verbally, which is great since he only started trying to talk in March.

Hopefully tomorrow I'll have some pictures for you.

Lots of things to say

Well it's been a very busy couple of days here and I'll try to recap as breifly as possible.

First up my diningroom make over.  Here are a couple of pictures of my chairs.  My mom and sister were here until after 1 am Friday night helping me to recover the tops of them .

Next up is a few pictures of my CTMH Customer Appreciation Day that was held this afternoon.  I had 10 wonderful scrapbooking ladies here.  I had planned to take some pictures of them but I started talking and answering questions and sharing ideas so I forgot to get my camera out.



Finally this weekend is the start of Targa Newfoundland  which is a big supporter of Autism in Newfoundland so we went to the car show.  Last week I happened to see a post of Facebook asking if anyone would like their child's name on a car so I asked for Aaron's to be put on it.  

Here's a picture of Aaron in front of the car, doing some dance moves.

 and his name on the roof

And finally Aaron and his dad in front of the Racing for Autism car.



So my fantasy has become a reality

I've always dreamed of restoring, refinishing and redecorating my house.  We moved in to our townhouse just before Aaron was born and it has been full of hand me down and mismatched furniture for the last 5 years.  Needless to say I've had less than a shoe string budget for fixing it up but I finally go fed up and decided to tackle something. I decided to work on the dining room first since that is the first room you see in the house.

This is what the room looked like when we moved in:

About a year later I painted it Salsa:

But I wanted to do something with my dining set, which wasn't actually a set but they work together.  The table belonged to my Great-Grandmother on my Mom's side and the chairs belonged to my Grandmother on my Dad's side.  I really like black furniture so I started searching the internet.

And then I found my dream diningroom

Tomorrow I will show you my progress so far.