Finished Planter...

DIY Planter

Please ignore the bad photos. The lighting in my home stinks at night. I'll Post more later.

Because Bachelor Parties Make Me Bored...

So Jake had a bachelor party for his cousin Ryan yesterday. He's getting married on Friday and we are so excited for him and Danica, in fact, I'm so excited that me and Danica said forget cousins-in-law. Let's be sisters! So it is what it is. Anyways, so I knew I would be bored without Jake to keep me entertained. So.. I remembered this...

The cutest indoor planter ever, but I decided that I wanted to put a twist on it.So, I searched KSL months ago and found this baby... It was 10 bucks for this and 1 other table that would be perfect for Jakes room. so $5 bucks.

Well, last night I decided to transform this little piece of magic. First, I cut the top out with a jig saw. I left a little more a margin in the front because it had very supportive wood that I didn't want to cut through.

Then I wanted to sand it, but, I couldn't find the sandpaper so I went ahead and spray painted it anyways, bad idea. The top was super rough and I ended up having to sand through my new paint job when Jake got home to find me the sander. Darn my impatience. 

Anyways, it had this little nob that was rather ugly, but I painted it gold and now it's ugly in a quirky way.

The bottom the of the legs had some gold metal right on the very bottom, I figured I would just repaint them gold and went ahead and covered them up with the spray paint and got painting them gold... Another bad idea.

Ugly, I didn't like the way it looked. But luckily I had some "Ooops" I removed the ugly gold paint, the black spray paint and got me back to my original shiny gold. 

This is how it turned out so far... 

And this is my vision for where it goes, and a crappy photoshop job of some plants.

Anyways, that's what I did last night.

Porcupine Mirror.

So I have a healthy obsession with quirky unusual decor. I am always in for getting something funky! So when I saw this porcupine mirror I knew I HAD to have it!

Well, since i'm not made of mucho bucks, I decided I was going to make one myself. 

I saw this tutorial on Pinky Brown blog

http://pinkybrowninc.blogspot.com/2010/10/diy-porcupine-quill-mirror.html

And that was all the inspiration I needed.

So, with a foam wreath, bamboo sticks a mirror and some paint, I came up with this lovely, all for about $30... :)

DIY Porcupine Mirror

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DIY Porcupine Mirror

C.Oldham

Hello you Old Ham...

When I first met Jake and saw his name I pronounced it "Oldam" and didn't think too much of it. But after going through the drive through one too many times with Jake and hearing him pronounce it "Old-ham" to the man behind the window so that the spelling would be right I realized what I was getting myself into...

I have always made it appoint to pronounce it correctly and spell it out if someone needs it. Seriously, even if I have to spell it 5 times. O-L-D-H-A-M. So one day I go to the pharmacy and they ask me my last name. Oldham O-l-d-h-a-m. The old guy types it in slowly and then said... "Oooh, Old-ham". Dang, my strategy had failed me. But I'm not much of a quitter.

So then at school we put our first initial last name on assignments, not thinking about it the very first time I wrote Oldham instead of Ellison, I wrote coldham. My teacher didn't know my new last name and obviously didn't recognize it.as he was looking through our assignments, he paused and then asked the class. "Alright, who put their name as cold-ham?" I guess it inevitable, I can't escape it, but I will fight it. ;)

Wedding Photos!

One of the most important things to me next to who I married, what who photographed it. I searched far and wide for someone with just the right style. And I found him. Jesse Erasmus Photography. Well, I finally got the pictures back and I figured I would share a few that encapsulate why I love him as a photographer.

I loved my wedding and I am so grateful that I have these beautiful photos to show for it.