Hello everyone! I hope that the past week has been good to you!
Last week I mentioned that I had hurt my back, and I wanted to thank everyone for all of their well wishes. I am back to normal thank goodness! I had hurt it trying to get Wyatt to the basement during a tornado warning, and since then his PT and I have been working on different ideas on how to make this more efficient and also less painful for me since apparently the Midwest has gone crazy with the weather this year.
This past weekend was Wyatt’s last baseball game of the season. He had so much fun playing and I loved seeing his joy. If you read my Books, Screens, and In-Betweens post, I mentioned how a grandma there told me that she loves watching the little wheelchair boy because he is so happy. And honestly, he is. He has the biggest grin on his face while out there. I was happy to learn that there is fall ball, because I will be signing Wyatt up. He might miss some games though, because fall is usually so busy around here. We are also planning a trip to Louisville in September, which I am super excited about.
After the game, it rained all weekend. I had a project I wanted to work on anyway, so Billy and I started it. Our art cabinet. Ugh. It was just so uggo and a mess and just sad looking. Not the way an art (and homeschool) cabinet should look! I picked out a paint color, bought some neat contact paper, and we got to work! Also, by the end of the school year, things are just all out of order around here anyway. I had to straighten that whole area, put stuff away, etc. so it was the perfect time to spruce this up.
Billy sanded it all down, then it was my turn to paint. I of course had little furry helpers.
After it was all dry, it was back to Billy again to paper the back.
And then after two days of sorting through all of our materials, deciding what I could store in our basement art overflow area, and then organizing everything, I was done.
I am in love with it, and the best part is that the whole thing cost $30! It was a quart of Dutch Boy Deep Peppermint, and then this adorable contact paper with flowers and cats and chipmunks and birds.
Billy has until mid-August to paint the room, or I am doing it with my friend Kelly. I have literally asked him for five years to paint it. LOL. I am so tired of the lavender! I think he will now though because he also loves our new cabinet and a lighter color paint on the walls will make it pop.
Speaking of Kelly, we celebrated her daughter on Sunday at her graduation party! They had her party at a restaurant on the water, and the room was beautiful. I felt like I was on a boat, honestly, because we had a downpour that morning that was heavy and crazy, and apparently the room floods! Kelly and her family were in the room busily squeeging the floor, using a leaf blower to blow the water out, mopping, anything they could to get the water out of the room before the party. They succeeded, leaving only a few puddles here and there, which I thought added to the on the water atmosphere. It was a beautiful party though, with great food. I am so proud of her daughter too, she worked so hard and is a great kid!
And that is about it for now! We have a recital tonight for J & T, Wyatt’s little cousins, and then coffee tomorrow morning with friends before heading into Father’s Day weekend.
And now just some random snaps!
How is your June so far?
I hope that whatever you do today, you do something that makes you smile!
I love that paint colour!
Thank you!!
That’s quite a project and wow – you guys did a great job on the art cabinet. It doesn’t look like the same piece of furnature. Love the little kitty helpers you have there.
Love the good times you share with us. It brings a smile to my face.
Right? It looks so different! And better! LOL.
Thank you Tina. 🙂
The Dutch boy paint is very nice!
I have never used that one before and I really liked the coverage!
I love your art cabinet! 💖
Thank you so much!!
The art cabinet looks amazing now! What a transformation. That graduation party space looks wonderful. We had a grad party this past weekend too. Luckily we had gorgeous weather and just had it on our back patio.
Thank you so much Joanne!
Your deck is amazing! It is the perfect spot for a party. (And to sit and quietly read. ) Congrats to the graduate!
Wow!! The transformation is amazing! I love that wallpaper, too! I would love to do that to our hutch. Maybe just the wallpaper on the inside would be enough to liven it up! I’m so glad Wyatt will be able to play baseball this fall. That’s one sport I actually understand!
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Thank you so much Marsha! I was like, I’m going for it! I wasn’t worried about messing up anything important; we bought that one off of Facebook Marketplace a few years ago for not much money. However, it did have sentimental value to the seller, he emailed me and shared his stories of his family using it growing up. I feel like it has new life now. And there are so many pretty papers online to choose from!
I am excited about fall ball too. I had no idea that was even a thing. Lol. But, I do have to admit, I am so clueless about sports that for weeks I kept calling his uniform his “outfit”. Lol.
Oh no, so sad you hurt your back trying to protect Wyatt from the tornado.
Glad you are feeling better.
This cabinet is gorgeous, congratulations!
Thank you!! I am so happy about it!
I adore what you’ve done to your art cabinet. The colour is beautiful and the paper is absolutely divine.
Thank you so much!!! I am so happy with it!!
Beautiful art cabinet!
Thanks Deb!!
I love your cat duo, claiming the cabinet! It’s really beautiful and you did an amazing job with it. I like the idea of an art cabinet! (Hasn’t the weather been grim? At least today is nice!)
They are such goofballs! I love them. Lol. Thank you!
Ugh this weather. At least the past few days the weather has been perfect!
The art cabinet is lovely. Looks like you guys are making the most of this early summer.
Amalia
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Thank you Amalia! We are having fun with our slow summer!
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That cabinet is so so so good! 😀 I love it. And now I need to find an excuse to buy and use that paper …
The cabinet is so pretty! I love it! Looks like the cats enjoyed the shelves for a bit too, lol. Yeah, we are having so much stormy weather this year! In the past I never cared, just laid in my bed and listened to the weather announcers now that I don’t have a basement. But for some reason this year I keep going ahead and pulling the laundry baskets out of the closet for a place for me and the dogs to go, but my dogs don’t like it in there, and really, the one wall probably isn’t that far from the outside of the house, so not sure it really is that much safer. Hope your back is still feeling better!
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Lol thank you!!! And they did. They were so funny. I ended up having to put them in my office while I was painting, they couldn’t stay away and I didn’t want them to get paint all over them.
That is the plan I am going to go with actually too. If we have a warning and Billy is not home, Wyatt and I are squishing into the closet. I am hoping it an ok place too!
We are having a HEAT WAVE here, a proper one, 90 degrees plus in your counting system. Fortunately we have fans and the back of the house is cool, plus the extra fan on my side at night is giving me white noise that sends me to sleep instantly!
That is horrendous. We are having that heat here as well but we do have AC. I am glad that your fans are helping!! I hope it cools off soon.