Another Project Completed!

Since my one great amoire find this summer at a neighbors garage sale, I have kind of been obsessed with finding inexpensive furniture and refinishing it. Most recently I realized that Grant's book collection was starting to take over the house and I needed a place to store all these books....so I scoured craigslist and finally found two book cases that are both about 3 feet tall and 2 feet wide. I couldn't pass them up considering that they were only $15 for both of them! Here is what they looked like when I brought them home:

They were painted a blue color and pretty beat up. I sanded them a little, cleaned them with some TSP and went to town painting. Lucky for me we had a few nice days and I was able to do quite a bit of it out in the driveway. And of course with my respirator on (yes, mothers I was wearing it at all times)!!! Now I am only finished with one of them, but it turned out really cute and looks great in Grant's playroom and most importantly it holds LOTS of book. Here is what the one I have completed looks like:

The red in the picture is actually not really this bright. With some distressing and cute new knobs from Anthropologies it is a fun, inexpensive addition to the playroom. Below are the other pieces that I have refinished!

The armoire, which was a cream color and two pine colored nightstands!

A Landmark Day!

Ok, so most of you who will be reading this blog know that we are expecting a little Baby K in late August! Today marks the end of my first trimester….I am so happy to get to this point. Tomorrow we have an ultrasound and I am sure I will be able to rest at ease even more when we see that little one wiggling around in there. I find it hard to believe that the baby is now the size of a lime with lots of working parts. Aside from being super sick with colds and an ear infection, I am feeling great. I consider my lack of morning sickness my trade off for it always taking so long for me to get pregnant….

Grant is getting super excited to be a big brother. He thinks that he has a baby sister in his belly and that it is good for her when he eats cereal. He also thinks that my baby will come out of my nose. OUCH! I am sure as my belly starts getting bigger he will begin to wonder more and more about the sibling that will be coming into his life soon.

Speaking of belly getting bigger….today I pulled out my maternity clothes from when I had Grant. Aside from being mostly out of style, they are the wrong season. Grant was a December baby (burr….) and this next one is an August baby (sizzle…) I have winter maternity clothes that are huge on me now and super small summer maternity clothes that I can’t imagine fitting me late in pregnancy. So looks like I will be heading out to work on my maternity wardrobe soon. Twist my arm!