Pintrest

I have no idea what pintrest is, do you? Apparently it's a website but I'm not sure I get it (course I should probably look at it longer than a few minutes).

I did find this on one of the blogs that I follow, Thrifty Decor Chick.

This is ingenious.

An open snack container. I have a habit of buying fresh produce, throwing it in a drawer and forgetting about it and a few weeks later, throwing it away. This is my goal to do prior to the beginning of the school year.  It would be great for me during the day and then after school when the boys get home. I can do one in the fridge and one in the cupboard (once I get those, lol).

I also love this idea.

The boys like to 'use' all their bubbles (read dump them) and what a great way for them to be easily refilled. I have a cute plastic drink container like this that will work perfectly. Maybe I'll dig it out tomorrow and fill it with a bubble mixture (putting it up out of the boys reach of course).

Have you ever found anything you'd try on pintrest?  I'm going over there right now to find some interesting things. Who knows maybe I'll get addicted and join and submit my own things.

Updates

So how is the kitchen coming? Slow, lol. Seriously, it is very slow. Here we are about 2 1/2 months since we demoed it all and we still don't have cupboards, let alone walls. We do have studs. Matter of fact, we have three walls of studs which is a huge improvement.

Next week, we'll hopefully have drywall on the walls. After drywall comes priming, then painting.  After that is cupboards and floors and countertops.  Yay!!! I can see the light at the end of the tunnel.

I never made it to the second hand stores last week. It had been a very hot, very humid week and I didn't care to go anywhere.  Even the pool was warm.

We did get to have a campfire and light sparklers though. The boys enjoyed that.

At the end of the week, we made it to our local, free admission amusement park.

Although it was a hot and humid week, we did enjoy our days as a family.

Dreaming...

Tomorrow at 4 PM, I start vacation. I cannot wait. Although it won't be much of a vacation for us. We need to work on our kitchen desperately and make some decisions, such as flooring, paint color, definite on cabinets, etc.

I am hoping to take one day without kids and go second hand shopping. It's something I don't get to do much of anymore but I love doing. I love to see what I can find cheap and use or re-purpose.

I'm also hoping to hit up a few yard sales too this weekend. Ya never know what I may find :-)

Facing your fears

Several weeks ago my husband was mowing in front our house when I heard the mower stop. I didn't really think much of it since the mower had a habit of stalling out anyway, especially in higher grass. Something made me go outside though, so I went out and he says I mowed over a snake. WHAT?????

I'm not a fan of snakes, unless they are those cute boa constrictors that zoos and animal places have that they let you pet. Those I can handle. The slithering kinds in my yard, not so much, even if they're not poisonous.

My front flower bed needed to be weeded bad. I had all kinds of weeds growing in it and it was looking really bad but I was so afraid I'd come across a snake that I kept putting it off.

I faced that fear last night and weeded my flower bed and found my poor rose that had been buried under the bind weed. I must say once I got going on the weeding, it seemed like I had no fear anymore.

Now I have a flower bed mostly freed of weeds (is it possible to get all of them?) and my fear has disappeared. Maybe next time I will actually mow too.

Here are a few photos I took last night.

Yes, that is my flower bed that needed weeded and above is one of the beautiful flowers that is in it.

Flowers

Last month, I took advantage of some free photo book offers to create some photo books. One of which was one of all my flower photos that I've taken over the years. Many of which were flowers from our first house. Flowers that I didn't realize just how much I missed until I was looking through them. 

It reminded me how much I love to take photos of my flowers and reminded me how much I love to garden. My goal is to refurbish a few of our flower beds next year and purchase some plants that I loved so much.

Here are a few photos of some current flowers that I have.

Kitchen remodel

Ugh, why did I think we'd be able to get this kitchen done in a reasonable amount of time? I must have been delusional, lol.

Two months ago we started out with a kitchen that looked like this

After some demo it looked like this

Today it has studs along two of the walls and the electric is going in as I type. Next week D and I are both on vacation and plan on working on this kitchen as much as we can. We would like to get it done some time before Christmas.