Halloween past and present

I wanted to do a post remembering all of Super Cutie's Halloween costumes. It is actually fitting that this will be the post to introduce you to her, since Halloween is her favorite holiday. (Other than Christmas of course!) Super Cutie is my gorgeous, intelligent, caring, funny, and dramatic 6 year old love of my life.

For her first Halloween she was a dalmatian, and also had a cute onesie.

She was almost 7 months old.

Halloween 2004, she was a ballerina kitty.

Isn't she amazing. That is pretty much the word for her!

Just like her mama, she loves chocolate! Once she figured out she was getting candy everytime she walked up to a door, it was on!

The next year she was Daphne from Scooby Doo. To this day she still loves Scooby Doo. In fact her 6th Birthday Party was a Scooby Doo Theme.

She was 2 1/2 at this point.

When she was 3 1/2 (Halloween 2006) she actually had two costumes. She went to a local school carnival as...
Lava Girl!

Halloween night she was DeeDee Doodle

Super Cutie's favorite person in the universe is my sister, better known as the babysitter. When she is in town, Super Cutie only wants to play with her! Babysitter comes almost every Halloween to trick or treat with us. This particular year I got the crazy idea to dress my mom, sister and myself up in matching shirts!

This is my sister, dad, me and my mom Halloween 2006.

DeeDee and Babysitter.

In 2007, Super Cutie dressed up as Rapunzel

She makes a cute blonde!

My little wacko!

Halloween 2008 Super Cutie was Queen Susan of Narnia. I surprised her with this costume on Halloween day. All she wanted to be was Susan, but of course she knew that I could not find one in the stores. I found this one on ebay. She was sooo excited!

I think this pictures gives you an idea of the drama I live with daily!

This year my child wanted to be Hermione Granger from Harry Potter. She has seen the movies, and knows that I am obsessed with the books. (I bought my tickets a month in advance for the midnight showing.) She made a beautiful Hermione! I crimped her hair, and she loved it!

Here she is in action!

Me and my super beauty!

My husband said my beanie was my costume! I think its too cute! We had a great Halloween. I hope you did too!

Super Cutie's Room

I just started blogging and I already took a hiatus to plan Super Cutie's first Halloween party. She has always loved to dress up, so Halloween comes in a close second to Christmas as far as holidays go at our house. So as a filler post until I get the pictures together from her party I was going to show you a few pictures of Super Cutie's room.
P.S. The party was a hit! This comes directly from my two favorite boys in the universe. They belong to Girly Stuff , but I'd take them in a heartbeat.

Super Cutie's bedding and bed came from Bombay Kids. I am so sad they are out of business. All their bedding was so cute!

The glitter M above the headboard was a Canton Trade Days find, as were the lampshades. My husband and I painted the room when we moved into this house 5 years ago. We had done the same faux "treatment" in our first house in her nursery. One of my favorite things in the room is this book chest that sits at the foot of her bed.

I borrowed the idea from KooKoo Bear Kids.

The chest was purchased at Michael's unfinshed. I primed it, then painted all the white parts. I added the stripes by taping it off, then painting all the purple. I just glued the letters and stars on the top after I painted them.

My latest project in her room was a new chandelier! They are my newest addiction. The chandelier came from Lowe's. It was originally "antique white", but did not look it. However for $39, I took it anyway! I spray painted it white, then spent 4 months making the amazing lamp shades. In my defense I was not working on them for that long. I did not buy enough flowers. So I spent 3 months searching every Hobby Lobby in south Texas for more!

I bought the lamp shades and flower bunches from Hobby Lobby. I pulled them off the stems and hot glued them to the shades. Here is a close up. I think it looks so pretty!

I would like to say I work on decorating one room in our house at a time, finish it then move on...but that is not what happens. I plan a get together at our home and then frantically try to complete some projects that I always have on the back burner.

The curtains in Super Cutie's room are my next update. I have purchased some, but they need a little something. I'll keep you posted!

This is what a few margaritas will make you do!

I am in the process of redecorating my office. I am going from a grown-up pretty office to a cute, sassy and fun office. If you know me, you know I am not one for change. So letting go of my beautiful leafy green wall covering took a huge shove from Girly Stuff! The area I am currently working on is the reception area.

Here is a sneak peek into the redo!

One of the things that I wanted to add to the reception area was an armoire to serve our coffee and cookies. I was inspired by this redo by life in grace. I was able to find an armoire I could work with on Craig's List. (It is amazing the stuff people will sell on that site! It is a post on its own!)

The shape and size were perfect. Unfortunately, the finish on it was as highly varnished as you could get! After consultation with my DDS, (that is Doctor of Decorating Services, aka Girly Stuff!) we decided to prime the surface, paint, and then distress the armoire. I purchased the paint at Lowes. The color is Deep Turquoise from the Laura Ashley collection in a satin finish. This is the painted, pre-distressed work in progress.

I am lazy, I admit it. The bottom cabinet doors will remain closed so I did not paint the inside. Next step was the distressing. My first thought was to sand it, however, when I started too I could get through the primer in some areas but it was not even and some of the primer showed through. So I decided to glaze it. I used some dark brown paint from the office, and added glaze from Sherwin Williams to it. I brushed it on and then wiped it off with a rag. It really was not difficult to do. The hard part was that I wanted it to look old and naturally distressed, but my old and naturally distressed had to be perfect!

The finished product was moved into the office last week.

This photo was taken before the armoire left my really clean garage! HA!

I must admit I had a bit of a meltdown when I first saw it. (Remember I have issues with change, especially drastic ones!) The back of the armoire is tin I purchased at Home Depot. It comes in sheets that you just overlap. There are different patterns and finishes to choose from. It is a pretty neat product!

Because I am an honest person I will tell you I PFIY 'd the tin part. Paid for it myself. I will also tell you the armoire is growing on me. I may still go back and paint the inside of the cabinet, and possibly add a little more "distressing" to it. There are a few missing accessories that are needed to tie everything together, but the reception area is definitely on its way! Stay tuned for some home projects, and a spooky Halloween Party I am throwing later this month.

Me and parties...that is a whole other post!

So...here I go!

I have been reading (aka lurking) blogs for a little over a year, ever since my BFF girly stuff started her blog. It is amazing the creativeness that is out there! I finally decided to jump in for several reasons. First, I always have some sort of project going on. I am the infamous M&M from Girly Stuff's blog so you might have already read about some of them through her blog. So instead of her having to help me decide what I am going to do, do it for me, let me take all the credit for it, and then have to blog about it for me, I thought I'd try a hand at it myself. Secondly, and most importantly I want to tell anyone that will listen (read) about my amazing Super Cutie! She is 6yrs old, going on 18, and trust me is always having interesting adventures! So this is my first post...I'll try linking photos and telling you about an office project that was inspired by life in grace next time!