A Nugget and a Doodle

I absolutely adore this fabric.  I'm pretty sure it's my all time favorite fabric ever woven on this planet.  Too much buildup?  :) It's lovely on the doodle!  Special thanks to grandma for crafting this beautiful dress!  Can you believe how big she's gotten since I first started blogging? But it's also the perfect new cover for the office lamp shades!  I bought 2 sweet little mercury glass lamps at TJ Maxx.  They were the perfect size, and came with the shade!  $20 a piece... booyah! The shade was just a little serious for the room and I was looking for ways to incorporate more pattern and texture and the lamp shade was the perfect opportunity.  I haven't covered a lampshade before, but there are oodles of online tutorials with all different methods. This lampshade was particularly easy v. other tutorials I've seen because it's the same diameter on the top and the bo...

I have to tell you... I wrote my first blog this weekend to share the massive makeover the gold beast armoire got.  It was my first post in a while, and I use page views to gauge interest.  The number of readers has always amazed me but that particular post only got about 25% of the usual viewers.  Where have you all gone?  *taps mic... this thing on?? So I'm giving it another shot with this post, though it's not office-makeover-related, there is a peek at an office project. The nugget started pre-K a few weeks ago, and he's taken an interest in hanging his artistic masterpieces on the wall.  He came home one day, looked up at an entirely bare navy blue wall in his bedroom, and said "Mama, I'd like to put pretty art on the wall."  It was like a choir of angels singing heavenly music for my little man to be speaking my language suddenly.  :) When I was planning his room I'd fully intended to create some giant art for the big empty wall, but everyt...

Sorry I haven't posted in a while.  We've been keeping very busy, mostly outdoors, and mostly with the purchase of the vacant lot next to us!  I'll be sure to post pictures of those projects once they're complete.  Early in July, I warned you that the peacock office was going to be no more.  And it is no more, though I'm sorry it's taken me so long to share all the progress.  On the other hand, it's been nice to work without racing against an imaginary timer this time around!  I'm almost ready to share the whole office makeover with you, but there are a few final touches I'm waiting on. In the meantime, I thought you might like to see the major transformation the gold mafia boss armoire has undergone.  It was a painful process, actually, because if you remember, I had a heavy coat of metallic wax to give the gold finish the patina I wanted.  Note to self:  If there's any chance at all I'll ever refinish a piece in the future, don't use ...