Welcome to our house of many projects! Sorry I have been absent for so long! May was a crazy busy month for us. I am working on quite a few projects around our house right now and I thought I would share with you some of them!

I had mentioned in the past about the patio door we have leaning against the wall in our kitchen and how we will eventually get it installed....well it finally happened! 

  Please ignore the fact that the wall to the right is still not done :) 

I am thinking about painting this door black/gray to match the other door in our kitchen that opens to the breezeway. We will also we building a cabinet to put above our refrigerator once the wall gets done and then build a beadboard surround around our fridge. Right now we are dealing with our old almond-ivory colored fridge in the middle of the room....

Pretty, isn't it? We don't usually have our cereal and other grocery items on our countertop but I can't get to the cabinet directly behind the fridge so I just leave them out for the time being. Also, please disregard my flip-flops and our dogs tiny tennis ball toy!

Of course in true Mrs. Inspired fashion, I almost never finish one project before jumping to the next so here is what I have starting in our living room:

Again, I know those items on that table don't mesh well and they are not supposed to. I had set somethings on that table to get them out of the way and I just took the picture with everyone on it. Anyway, the project I have started in our living room is well painting the walls (notice the color above the MDF board and beginning to add a board & batten treatment to the largest wall in our living room that will continue down our hallway to our bedrooms & bathroom.

Before we moved into our home 3 years ago, I had painted each room and well I think I have painted each room again. I love picking out paint colors and just when I think I found the prefect color I start to paint and regret my decision. This is the case with the color below the board in the picture here. If that is what the color actually looked like in this picture, I would keep it but it doesn't. I thought it was a light tan/camel color but it ending up with too much green in it. I love green but it didn't look right. I just lived with it for a while and I have finally got down to business with changing the color!

Well these our the projects I am currently working on and I hope to share with you the final results soon! Fingers crossed!

Do you have projects you are currently working on or do you have projects that you hope to start soon?

Thanks for stopping by!

Jessica

Spring is near!

Hello everyone!

I wanted to give you a sneak peek of all the projects I have been working on around our home! 

Sorry for the bad pictures! I took them with my phone! 

I will hoping be finishing these projects up middle-to-the-end of next week!

Mini Boxwood Wreath

 Hello Everyone!

I love the look of boxwood wreaths and garland but I don't want to spend a lot and I would rather have something fake but realistic looking that I can use year after year. I had a boxwood topiary that I hadn't used for quite a while and I wanted to make a cute little wreath to put above our kitchen sink. Here is what I did (which you could do with any fake plant):

I had a mini grapevine wreath that I bought a year ago that would be perfect for this project. I picked off my boxwood pieces from the "retired" topiary and started to glue in around the wreath.

I then attached a jute ribbon to the back of the wreath after I finished attaching the desired amount of boxwood pieces.

I hung it above my kitchen sink and added a glitter letter 'G' that I bought yesterday. I think it turned out pretty cute!

Thanks for stopping by!

Jessica

Dining Table Switcharoo

Hello Everyone!
When we moved into our home we had inherited my parents round oak pedestal table which I thought WOULD not work for the envision I had for our dining area in our kitchen. Well after buying a "bar height" square table and three years later the original table that my parents had given us was back! My husband told me a few days ago he likes the idea of using the old round table because he never like the bar height table because he didn't like being elevated off the ground while eating?.....yeah I don't get it either. Anyway the cute round table is back and being the crazy person I am I decided that it must come out of the basement last night at around 8 pm at once and since my husband wasn't going to be home until 9:30 pm I was going to do it myself (note to readers, please wait to get help it was heavy!)

So I figured out how to take it apart and piece by piece I carried or lugged it up the stairs. Here it is in pieces.....just ignore the messy kitchen since I had shoved everything to one side and currently had to kitchen tables in the way.

So as I was taking apart our square table my husband came home to find me sitting on the floor with a drill and I think he isn't too surprised anymore when he comes home me in the middle of project :).

I was able to talk my husband in to helping me lift the top of the new/old table back on the pedestal and the switcharoo was done!

We have this long blank wall on the side of kitchen where we will finally put the french door in that will open to the deck (right now it is sitting in the corner of our kitchen)

So I have decided once I get the kitchen back to normal I will tear it apart again by installing some board & batten treatment along that wall and I CANNOT wait!!! Here is what I hope for it to look like:

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I got a lovely surprise today from my younger sister! She was in Des Moines a month ago or so at a antique store and bought these fishing/boating tea towels for me! I LOVE THEM! Everyone knows my husband is obsessed with fishing and I am not talkign about laid back, enjoy the afternoon/weather fishing. He is very competivite about it but I am happy that he has a great hobbby that keeps busy on a Saturday so I can get some DIY projects done around the house. Anywho it's not that I don't mind fishing or the outdoors but I don't care for the stuffed fish/animals lodging decor that comes with it so I try to deocorate our home with things we boht like! Here are the towels and I haven't decided what I am goingn to do with them yet since I will not be using them as a towel.

Thanks again Lil' Seester for the awesome gift! :)

Thanks for stopping by!

Jessica