Time to paint!!!

So I have been wanting to redo our fireplace wall since we moved in almost 5 years ago. When we moved in we painted the rest of the room but not the fireplace wall. I really didn't know what to do with it and I didn't think we could afford to completely remodel it. But then while reading the Lettered Cottage blog about a month ago I came across her Mantel Mania posts and I found a great idea. This wall was very similiar before to our house.
I have been ready ever since to redo our fireplace wall!!!

Tonight Joe was talking about an upcoming side job he has and I "reminded" him that I wanted him to do our dining room before he started that job. So he said he would start tomorrow!!
Here is the before picture

(I have way too much stuff up there)

And about an hour later I had almost everything but the mirror gone and ready for him!! Can you tell I'm excited?!?!?

The door to the garage is also going to be repainted


We are eventually going to paint the ceiling too but don't think we will have enough time before Daniel's party. I am going to try and spray paint this horrid ceiling fan!! I hope I can save it!!


I am so excited to see the transformation!!! Everyone tells us that this room has a cabin feel to it. Well I am ready to get rid of the cabin look!!! And it should cost us nothing because we have all the paint leftover from other projects and from when we painted the house. The only thing I bought so far is a can of spray paint!! Check back to see the after pictures!!!

I saw this on The Thifty Home

FREE Full Page Photo Book from HotPrints
Hot Prints has a new full-page layout photo book and they are offering them at ONE FREE per month! Shipping is FREE!


They can do this because each book comes with advertisements that are on removable pages. The adds pay for the price of the books.

I just got my first Photo Book in the mail and am very pleased. I am making a second one for a fun little gift! Be sure to check it out!

April Scrap Our Stash Challenge

Hope you had a wonderful Easter!

Just posting real quick to share my April lo for the Scrap Our Stash Challenge. The challenge was to scraplift or use a sketch. This was easy for me because I love using sketches! I use a lot of the ones from the Page Maps monthly newsletter. I have them printed out in a notebook.

This is a sketch from the April 09 newsletter.



Besides using a sketch as you can probably tell I used a lot of my old stash! This paper is all so old. I was holding onto it for just the right page I guess! I love it though!


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