Has A Place

So I decided I would try and soften the view...


 It helps, its not perfect. Those are palms. I usually cant keep them alive for very long. I am going to try really hard this time. And when its time for them to come in, I already have a spot.

I put them in special drainage pots, special miracle grow soil and EVERYTHING!! If they die I will be so mad >:(

But see, no neighbors anymore!!!

Hi all, so I was playing around with a bunch of "stuff" i had laying around from past projects. I realized I have so much and instead of stuffing placing them in other parts of the house why not pull them together. I said lets see what I can come up with, spending NO money at all I mean zero, zip nada. After all it is a "spare" bedroom why should it cost alot, or anything for that matter!  As I had piled and PILED and PILED.
I'm like ok you have to stop shopping Alyssa its getting out of control!!  But as I was looking around I thought wow I really have an eye for things. Because I could see this pile coming together and working well together.
I didn't have to paint, alter or change a thing, I just whipped it right up. I love when that happens.

So here is the before picture, partial pile showing in the bottom right hand corner. There is more behind me, I was just trying to spare myself the embarrassment of the pile...

Before:

This really doesn't have anything to do with decorating butttt... I wanted to share it anyway, for Mothers Day I bought my mom flying lessons. She said she has always wanted to do it and would love to try it out. I thought to myself no way, plane is to tiny and I would be scared out of my mind. She still wanted to do it. :) So I said good for you. So a few weekends ago she did it, it was great. They really let you do everything, its crazy! I was actually quite surprised and have a new found respect for pilots. Also, you have to have alot of strength, which was surprising. Also you steer the plane with your feet not your hands. The handle looking thing is for up and down, not side to side. Weird right. That was kind of hard for her to get used to. so when she wanted to turn she had to use her feet, to take off and land was both feet and hands. Here are some pics and a video of her taking off.  I have to say I was pretty proud of her!!!!

Well hello there, been a while. Summer really takes a toll on my life. I never realized how much time I actually spend outside and out at different festivals and parties.
We live in an area where we get about 3 good months of "good" weather. So ALL of the weddings, showers, barbecues, happen during this short time. It seems every weekend we are at another "thing". I don't mind at all, I love socializing and being with friends. But it doesn't leave much time for anything else. As you can see this bathroom project took forever and a day to finish. I couldn't be happier with the end result. It has transformed and is truly a masterpiece. blah blah blah... just kidding it came out great!

In this room we changed out the floor (my beautiful tile job if i do say so myself!), light, toilet, mirror and vanity.  Its hard to believe where it was before I got my hands on it. It was a LONG time coming.