Category Archives: Wonderful

Before and After: 1940’s Patio Chairs

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When we moved into our house Milt and Judy (the previous owners) left enough crap to fill a landfill. Not a joke. The garage was full, the yard was full, and there was still stuff in the house. I guess they thought we would want their towels that were hanging on the rack. They were wrong. We did not want most of the stuff. Scratch that, we didn’t want any of it. Luckily our amazing real estate agent had their agent take care of the majority of the stuff, but there was still a lot of things in the yard. Including two 1940’s style patio metal chairs and two tables that matched. I decided this was the perfect project for spray paint.

Here are the before and after photos.

I used the hose on high pressure to wash off any dust, dirt, and spider webs. The tables had been painted before, and I scraped as much paint as I could off of them, but in the end, decided it wasn’t that big of deal to paint over it. I wouldn’t recommend that tactic since you can see where the paint was before. I lightly sanded everything with steel wool, then went to town. It took one can of yellow for each table and two cans of blue for each chair.

xx

-h

More Pendant Decisions

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Remember how I was trying to decide on lights for our dining room?

I saw this today on Joss & Main and I think I might pull the trigger. Hopefully it’s not brownish and is more greyish like they say.

Not a member of Joss & Main, click here to get on board!

What do you guys think? Should I do it?

xx

-h

Tuesday Shoesday: Frye Flats

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Last week I was dinking around downtown waiting for a friend to get off work before we heading to the stadium for a ballgame. I popped into Nordstrom to peruse for 20 minutes or so. After a pass through the shoe department, I decided to try on a pair of $59.95 bp. flats. The kind sales person brought back a pair of $149.95 Frye Carson flats, explaining that they didn’t have my size in the shoe I originally requested. I know we have all been there, the sales person brings out a shoe more than twice your budget and you cringe, try it on and politely say that it doesn’t fit (aka: I can’t afford these).

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Lucky for the sales person, this tactic typically works on me and this time they got me again. They were comfortable, cute, versatile and are Frye, so they will last (see me justifying…). If you are in the market for some expensive, but very well made, leather flats – these are the ones. I went for the “silver multi”, but they come in black, cognac, violet, green, orange, white and bronze leather.

xoxo

-s

Monday 4th of July Inspiration

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It’s a little hard to concentrate on the Monday of a work week that has a big holiday smack dab in the middle. Here’s a little inspiration to get you through to Wednesday from Glassy Baby.

Glassy Baby donates part of the proceeds from their sales to charities. Each one is hand blown and when a candle is lit, the colors change according to the tint and reflection of the light.

Happy short work week!

xx

-h

Pendant Lights for the Dining Room

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You guys, our dining room needs a new light situation bad. There is a chandelier fixture spot ready to have something wired in to it and I’ve been looking around for the perfect addition to the room. I found it. However, there is a slight budget conflict. A girl can dream about $350 light fixtures right?

Sigh. It’s from Ballard Designs and it looks awesome.

Inspired by this via Young House Love:

I also found these options that a little more budget friendly. What do you guys think?

Here is a photo of our dining room.

What do you think? Have you seen any other cool fixtures that you think would look good?

xx

-h

DIY or DIE: Chair Mission Accomplished

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Remember the chair project that I was going to finish back in April? Let me refresh your memory.

Well guess what?! I finished it! The Nana came down this weekend and helped me complete the project – sewing the cushion. She calmly explained how to put the zipper in, reminded me to leave extra seam allowance, and suggested I press before sewing. The Nana is a sewing master.

Wooooo! Will show you a pic of it in my house once my dad brings it over at the end of this week.

xx

-h

Tuesday Shoesday: TOMS Bimini

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I know I already professed my love for boat shoes, but I’m back to profess it again to the new style of Toms. Called the Nautical Bimini, these babies have a non-slip sole, cute eyelets laced with a piece of rope, and are made of ripstop canvas. We all know it rains around here, and the classic Tom isn’t exactly meant for wet weather, but with the rubber sole on these, you won’t have to worry about soaking through the bottom.

I can’t help but love the striped interior as well. I think my favorite is the orange, simply because I have nothing like it in my closet.

Another win from Toms. If you don’t know their mantra, find out more here.

One for One.

xx – h

America!

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America things remind me of my birthday – because I was born on 7/3 and for the first years of my life, I’m pretty sure I thought that the fireworks were for me.

What they weren’t?

Anyways, lately, I’ve been drawn to red, white, and blue things. Here are a few of my favorites.

Grain sack table runner from Jennifer Lyon’s Etsy Shop. The dining table we picked up from Craigslist has a water ring right in the middle on one end that I’ve been covering up with whatever textiles I have around the house, but this one would match these napkins I picked up from Kohl’s when we were in Montana a couple weeks ago.

They are on super sale right now for only $2.99 each.

Love this headband for days at the lake.

And this scarf, also from ThreeBirdNest’s Etsy Shop since our weather here in the PNW can be a little temperamental.

I’m picturing my dining table with a vase full of sunflowers. Some delicious grilled chicken and a strawberry-rhubarb crisp to ring in the big 2-5.

xx,

h

Pretzel Pups

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Sometimes you have to use a little incentive to get things done. In this case, it was a nostalgic favorite for R, the pretzel dog. I used Joy the Baker’s Mini Pretzel Dog Recipe, and they came out amazing. Not quite as picture perfect as Joy’s but the flavor was great and the recipe was very easy to follow. Dip ’em in ketchup, mustard, a little srirancha (sriracha/ranch), or whatever you desire.

I would recommend this recipe a million times over – well I’d recommend any of Joy’s recipes really.

Enjoy.

-h