Life with the Richardsons: February 2011

Friday, February 18, 2011

Valentines Day

Pretty roses Jake gave me for Valentines Day!

Cards! We feel so loved!

Valentine cookies!

Last but not least...on Valentines Day I decided to start my first wood refurnish project! I sanded my end tables and painted them a dark brown to match the entertainment center. Jake coached me on how to sand and paint, cuz I know nothing! After the paint dried, Jake painted on the polyurethane which gives the table protection from scratches etc. Well, we(meaning Jake) ran into a little problem with the polyurethane. So Jake is fixing the problem and once he is done I will post the finished project!We went out to dinner the Sat. before because I was going to be at work on V-day night. But Jake stayed home on V-day cuz he wasn't feeling too good so we went out for lunch. So it was a nice day spending time with him (even if he wasn't feeling his best). We got the girls some little gifts(candy, V-day socks) they got lots of candy and cards from school! Hope everyone had a nice V-day!

Thursday, February 3, 2011

Decor changes

I've made a few decor changes in our house. We painted the front room back in Nov, to be exact Thanksgiving day! We wanted it painted before we had my mom come over for Thanksgiving dinner so nothing like waiting to the last minute! Then last month I bought this dark brown scarf curtain, I've never had to hang a curtain like this before so it took some time to figure out how to keep it from falling down because the material is sooo slippery! After stressing about it for a while, I got the idea to pin it in place, easy! As you can see I got an early start on my Valentine decor!

Back in Nov I think we bought this tv stand, we tried and tried to find something on craigslist for real cheap that we liked but we couldn't find anything. So we broke down and bought this at Walmart. We love the dark color and plan on changing the rest of our family room furniture to match. Oh and we just recently painted the family room the same color as the front room.

Last month I put up some objects above our cabinets.

Thats a pillow in the right corner, one that Jake's grandma made years ago. For the longest time I didn't know what to do with it because it didn't go with anything. So I just held onto it for sentimental reasons all these years. I recently became interested in vintage/old decor so I thought this was kinda vintage looking. I don't know maybe it looks weird up there. What do you think?

Just the other day I told Kayla and Samantha to bring down every single Valentine stuffed animal they had to decorate the front room! So this is want they came down with, 9 animals! Is it too much?! *I just noticed that that picture looks really small on that wall, hmmm need to fix that!