birthday bash photos

Jason @ Drumm Studios Photography and Design, 

Thank you so much for beautifully documenting such a fun evening! 

Mike @ CARAVAN, your food rocks! Your hummus is incomparable and chicken kebabs are amazing! Thanks for the wonderful dinner!

United Bakery,  I really have no need to ever make a chocolate cake again :) Your 3-layer chocolate cake  is just too good and your prices are awesome! 

This birthday was very much enjoyed!

Cj

come on sarah!

                                                                             

before

after :)

Chad and I love the Canadian designer Sarah Richardson of "Sarah's House" the HGTV show. But we always crack up at her budgets that are so ridiculous! 15, 20, 25 thousand dollars!! For decorating. Just for decorating! She can be decorating anything from an entryway to a bedroom, and that is a normal budget !?! Ok Sarah, cool rooms but....come on :)! What normal person can spend that?

Here's my "Come on Sarah!" project I (with my cute handyman) took on this week. We gave our entry way a quick make over for.... are you ready?..... under $10.00 :)

The new pieces are:

$4.00 Chandelier (toluca lake garage sale score, from a fab house:)

$2.99 11x14 photo print from Costco

$0.00 Fresh roses from the yard

The rest of the room is repurposed items from other rooms. Re-purposing items I already have and moving them around is a weekly event here :) I moved a mirror out and simplified the counter spaces, having less little items . I love the new space, simple and a better blend of pieces!

I know it's not quite Sarah standards, but neither is the price!

Enjoy! Cj

Easter...

We had a great morning at church, rejoicing in the resurrection of our perfect Savior. Knowing that we are hopeless left to ourselves, we are so thankful for the hope and forgiveness we have in Jesus Christ. We are so thankful for His great mercy and the life we can have in Him if we repent of our sins and turn to Him. I made some little cards with scripture on them to put around the house, and liked this verse...

"But these things are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in His name."
I Corinthians 15:17

After church we came home and hosted my family for a late lunch. We had a great time enjoying our day together. Here are some pic's...

"Dear Genevieve" Pots

Chad and I both love the show "Dear Genevieve" (..yes we BOTH watch it and get fun ideas for our house:) I think she's fabulous and creates awesome spaces. Last week we were watching an episode and I just happened to see some cool moss pots in the background. It got me thinking about some pots I had in the yard that were needing some love. Off to Lowes we went the next morning to grab a can of my new favorite thing... RustOleum spray paint! I have been giving many random things in our house new lives :) with spray paint recently. Next a quick stop at Michaels for some floral foam, glue sticks for the glue gun and moss. Once we got home Chad spray painted the pots. I then stuffed the dry pot with floral foam and prepped the shape. Then I glued layers of moss. After several burns from the glue gun ;) our project was complete! You really could do these with any container, box, tea cup...anything! You could make great simple center pieces in place of fresh flowers for super cheap, and they can be reused!  Enjoy! cj

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