Love, kids and horses

You know your husband loves you when he calls you while driving from one job site to the next and saw  a yard sale with your favorite things for sale!  Yippee!!!  Apparently the people were moving and everything must be sold.   My darlin' found this beautiful birdbath, these three beautiful urns with stands and this ADORABLE gnome!!!  And I just LOVE that he has a little basket he's holding for flowers!! 

I have been working on a perennial bed in the circle in the front of the house.  My friends mom gave me a TON of her perennials that she had divided! There are roses and irises in the back round!

He even got to keep the plants they had in them, LOL!

How cute is he????? :)

The last few weeks have been filled with lots of busy-ness!  Horse shows,my mom's 70th birthday party,  baseball games, swim meets, baby animal days and sooooo many other things!  Here are a few pictures of our adventures :)


Noah and I competed at the Saratoga Horse show (same as Madi below) and got champion in our division!  So exciting!  I was so proud of Noah!   Here are a couple of pics of us. :)

Madi on Top Honors (aka Tipper!) at the Saratoga Horse Show!

In front of the judge......

Posing with Linda and Tipper!

Loving her ribbon and horse she won :)

Johnny on Daisy

They had a GREAT day!

Kris on Ruby!

They also had a great day!

Smiles all around!

My handsome boys!

Happy Birthday Mommy, we love you!!!

Some of the yummy food in my sisters kitchen!

  

This was a very small party with just family, except for my mom's two good friends that she has known since Kindergarten!  She has lunch with them every month.  How blessed they are. :)

My mom through the years :)

Outside getting Gelato with all the toppings waiting for fireworks!

Madi sitting on Aunt Mary's (her great aunt) lap not so sure she likes them, lol!

Happy Birthday Mommy!  I love you more than you will ever know! :)

We go see the baby animals every year at a local farm and the magic never wears off :)

They sell the babies after and my older two were begging for goats, sheep and chicks!

It's been a very exciting month!  Stay tuned for garden pictures!  We have been working hard!

XOXO

chalk paint heaven...........

Yup, I can finally agree.... this stuff ROCKS!!!!!

Once upon a time, Mr Gypsy thought he was doing me a favor and started priming the wrong iron bed................

See the lovely gray primer?

 And it's been in our garage ever since........

Until Annie Sloan came to the rescue!   I decided to use the gray primer as my "base" coat and let it show through.  I waxed it with the clear wax. And I promise once it's in my house, I'll take better pictures, pinky swear! 

These were my first project and I just realized the "afters" are not on this camera card..... afters to come!! :)

 And my sweet girl paints while mama paints! 

Here is a shadow box  (from goodwill) I have had in the basement for years (literally).  It started out an orangy-golden oak color.  Another issue of mine, I get VERY excited and forget to take "before" pictures (like this frame...), sorry, I'll try to do better!   I used emperor's silk with graphite over it.  LOVED how it came out.  These are clay model art my boys did and I wanted to display them.



I read up online a bit before "distressing" and there is a bit of opinion about distressing before or after wax.  I did it before but could see why people would like to do it after and I'm sure I will try that too!

My two little artists work! 

Love them!

And I'm pausing the home tour a bit,  the playroom and mudroom are left downstairs.  Let's just say after horse showing all week, they aren't real "camera ready"  catch my drift? LOL!

I'll be back soon after Friday with more projects!  My last day of showing!

XOXO

It's arrived........

Of course this is why there is a delay in the Home Tour (again!!!). I have watched everyone play with this magical stuff for a year now. I didn't want to order it before or right after we moved because I knew I had a million other things to do. But I finally ordered and I got to play with this stuff for myself! Let's just say I have another million projects in my mind now!!!! I just did some frames and will share them soon, promise!

Stay tuned for the mudroom and playroom, the last two rooms downstairs (although don't get too excited, they aren't exactly done, lol!)

I keep getting "error" messages, hope this finally posts!

XOXO

Easter Blessings

From our family to yours!

Have a blessed Easter!

I have no idea why this is just now posting......  I hit send hours ago!  Better late than never right?! ;)

Home Tour Part 6&7~ Kitchen and Keeping room

 Here is our kitchen and keeping room!!!  Finally!

I tried to get pictures from all different places of the kitchen to give you a good idea of how it "lives" so to speak.    The cabinets are "divinity" with a mocha glaze on them.  I agonized FOR-EVA on glaze, no glaze......    Glaze it is!   The island is black and distressed.    The stools were my mothers.  They were cherry, but became black to go with the island. 

This shot is from standing in the keeping room into the kitchen

Standing behind the kitchen table

Eating area

Wall display in the eating area.  It's funny, it took me literally THREE months before I hung stuff on the walls when we moved in.  The flow was so different from my old house, I just couldn't decide right away.  Then my cousin came to visit and we were hangin' fools!

The sink wall.  I have a love/hate relationship with my farm sink.  That is a post for another day.  I LOVE my baskets and use them for bread, fruit and veggies!

Range wall

Opposite side

Fridge, wall oven, micro and desk wall

From the other side of the island looking at range wall

Another shot of the opposite wall

My cute little desk, I love my bookshelf for all my junk and cookbooks!

Close-up

This little vignette is above the refrigerator.  I LOVE vintage kitchen items.  I have been collecting it bit by bit for awhile.

My copper pots and a little jelly cabinet I got years ago and gave it a makeover!  remember it here?

another shot of the sink wall

I originally was going to go with a black or orb faucet.  I am SO HAPPY neither where available and I ended up on whim getting the copper and I LOVE IT!!!

Island shot, walking in from where the family room is.

More island details

I really loved the look of burlap.  However I LOVE color (did you notice?) and knew I wouldn't be entirely happy with JUST burlap.  So I explained this to my friend Kathleen and while she looked at me like I had two heads at first, then she got it!

over the sink

eating area

The keeping room

aka- a very cozy extension of the kitchen!

Another room full of my bargain finds!  The chair (which is normally in the opposite corner, but I'm having a party tomorrow!) is from Sally's boutique, $12.99.   The chair is Henredon and I paid $8 with down cushion included.  Of course it needed to be recovered.  But I'm willing to bet this chair was around $2k new (Henredon has ridiculous prices, but wonderful furniture). 

 A shot of how the rooms merge together

I got this basket at Sally's for $4, but when I found the Pottery Barn check liner at a garage sale for 50 cents, I was OVER the moon!! :)  We have pillows and blankets in here overflowing usually. :)

My mom picked up this lamp for me years ago for $2 at city mission.  It was in the kitchen of my old house.  It's in our gene's to go junkin!  The table I found on ebay and it goes with the sofa table in the family room that I got at a garage sale!

Fireplace wall, I got the copper tub (can't remember the real name for it) at my favorite consignment shop.  I love going there because I always have "credit" from what I bring to sell. So when I shop, it's almost always "free"!

Other side of the keeping room.  Armoire we had in our old house.  I found it on ebay.  The card table with folding chairs were supposed to be temporary.  Well it's been over a year and we LOVE it in this room.  We use it all the time for games, puzzles, coloring, school work or whatever we want.  We can leave whatever we are doing and go eat at the kitchen table.  Very convenient for parties too!

Looking back toward the Family room from the keeping room through the kitchen.

I splurged on this sign from Ballard (with a coupon of course!) and love it on this wall!

Here is a shot from the keeping room fireplace into the kitchen, to give you a good idea of the view!

I really hope you enjoyed the tour, blogger is being a PAIN tonight!!!  Just uploading the pictures took an hour!  And I thought I lost them all TWICE!  I'm exhausted!! LOL! 


I'm linking up to these parties!  Come join the fun!

Wow us Wednesdays at Savvy Southern Style

What's it Wednesdays at Ivy and Elephants

Feathered Nest Friday's at French Country Cottage

Nifty Thrifty Tuesday's at Coastal Charm

XOXO

A shot of how the rooms merge together