Don't Hate me because I'm .. UGLY..

Beautiful isn't it....

This lovely little stand came to our house via Grandma.  I really wasn't sure what I was going to use it for.  Mom thought maybe I could use it as a small buffet near the table to hold the overflow of drinks and food etc.  Some nights with 6 of us at the table, space is at a premium! So we took off the doors...

Nope, doesn't get much better....

Turns out it was just too far and too un-handy to use by the table. And it felt to me like it cluttered up the space.  If you know me, you know I'd happily live in an empty box..so what to do with it?

 I didn't know. 

 But I did know if it was going to stay in my house, it had a paint job in it's future!  I'm happy to say, without doors and with paint, this little ugly cupboard ain't half bad. It recently found itself a home in Blade's room, holding all the stuffies in the WORLD! :) 

Aww it's that time again..already!

Okay technically this was last week already, but hey, at least you get to see 'em!

First day of School 2010

Storm Grade 3

Blade Grade 1

Hunter Grade 4

Whew Time Flies!!

Sitting Room Wall Art

For the longest time, on the wall in our sitting room, has been a couple of 11x14's of family pictures that we had taken about 5 years ago. 

For 2 years I've had shells sitting in my basement in a storage bin awaiting some shadow boxes to display them. 

Finally, after this last vacation (in which I came home with more shells!) I decided to actually get on it and put them in a frame. 

After reviewing my photos that I had taken on vacation, I really fell in love with a couple of them.  My favorite being this one; a picture of a heart rock we found while beachcombing on Cape Breton Island.

(ignore the window and door in the picture!!)

our sitting room is bright!

Isn't it the best?!  I decided to take down the family photos and re-use the frames for my vacation pictures instead. On the right hand side is a picture of the coast line at Peggy's Cove, NS.

While shopping for frames for other pictures we had taken, I happened to go into Michael's where they just happened to have a "Buy One, Get One Free" sale on ALL frames in the store!  I picked up a couple of shadow boxes for the shells. 

  

So happy with the way it turned out.  Next on the list of things to get was a buffet for under these pictures.  Mom and I went to check out the local swapshops/antique stores and look what we found.....

  

Sure it's ugly as all heck, and broken... BUT, it's all wood, it's the right size, the right configuration of doors and shelves AND it was only 45 bucks.  With a little stripping, painting, new hardware and some door fixing by the FIL, we'll have a nice little buffet on the cheap! Stay tuned for pics.