My Mix of 6

That title pretty much sums up this post.   Adding in the furniture.   Let me recap with what I started with.   Before:   As most of you know (my close friends and family who seem to be the ones that read this blog)   We lost a huge asset to our family earlier this month. My hubby’s beloved Grandmother.   M y babies beloved Great-Grandmother.   In her guest room she has a mahogany bedroom set.    My wonderful Mother-in-Law was so sweet to think of Hotrod and give him the bed from the set.   W e actually took the entire set, to keep it together, but the other pieces didn’t work for Hotrod’s room.   So, the NIGHT that Hotrod was on his way home from Disneyland we rushed over, took the bed apart, loaded it up in the suburban, and drove home, polished it, and reassembled it.    These girls deserve the SISTER-OF-THE-YEAR Award!    Seriously!  They not only helped clean t...

I love surprises!   I especially LOVE to give surprises!   Whether it’s a birthday party, a Disneyland trip for the kids, or redoing my teenage son’s room while he is gone on a backpacking trip with the Boy Scouts.   I had 4 days…4 days people…to redo my son’s room.     When we moved into our home 8 years ago, we I allowed the kids to picked out their own paint colors and decorate their own rooms.   So needless to say Hotrod’s room was long overdue for a redo. He picked out the border and then picked out the two colors based off two of the cars in the border.   Not bad for an 8 year old, if I say so myself.  The red, because it was like Daddy's Chevelle and the blue...well, I think he just liked the blue. I wanted to spruce up his room.   Brighten it up a little bit.   Here are my thoughts for his room. **Notice, I just want to do subtle stripes on the wall, similar to the ones in the upper left hand corner, not th...