We are off to the happiest place on Earth!!!! Disney World in Florida.  We have been going as a family to Disney the past couple of years.  My daughter Jen, son in law Tim, my granddaughter Abby and my other daughter Kimmie and the hubby and myself.   It is my granddaughter's 3rd birthday on Saturday when we leave.  We told Abby for her special birthday we would be going on a plane to see Mickey and Minnie.  Abby is so excited.  So I will be off from "Blog World" to go to "Disney World" for the next 10 days!!

See you when I get back.
Kris
:)

Just wanted to share with you this cute little purchase I made at one of my fav shops Room 363.  I was meeting my daughter in downtown Naperville to have lunch and then babysit my granddaughter Abby for the afternoon and of course I had to stop in to see Mark at his great shop.  I have to admit I never walk out of there without something!!!! He always has too many cute things. Well I came across these cute cows and wanted to share them with you.  They are too adorable.  I have been having fun moving them around my house to see where they will fit best.

Look at the front of Mark's shop tooo cute and it draws you in.  Look at that cute chandy just hanging being adorable.  Of course love his cute bike in the back ground.  You know me and bikes in the garden!!!!! If you live in the Chicago land area suburbs you must check out Mark's shop and his blog. http://www.room363.net/

Here are my cute sweet little cows I purchased today.

They are candle sticks aren't they adorable.

I love all the detail and how sweet they are.

I have not decided where they will end up yet.  They are on the mooove!!!!!
Hope your week is going great.
Kris
:)

Hope you had a great week end and a wonderful Mother's Day.  I have a couple of things to share with you.  I did my first Miss Mustard Seed's Milk Paint Project this week end.  It was fun and easy and very unpredictable!!! I was at Tattered Tiques and they sell the Milk Paint so I thought I would give it a try in my guest room redo.

Here are the projects I did with the Milk Paint and a few pictures of the reveal of the new guest room.

I thought I would start small and work my way up to a bigger project.  I mixed Ironstone and French enamel to get a lighter beach blue.

I learned something interesting about Milk Paint if the surface does not have a finish on it already then it will not chip.  This old piece was just natural wood so it did not chip at all.  Good to know for the next item I moved onto.

Old vintage white dresser.  Did the same thing mixed French Enamel which is a darker blue and added the white ironstone to lighten it. You just mix the powdered milk paint with warm water and you have yourself some paint.  You can just mix what you need and store the rest.  If you have any paint left over that is already mixed it will keep in an air tight container for about a week.  It does not take much paint.  I mixed 3 tablespoons of milk paint to 6 tablespoons of water and it painted the whole dresser.

This dresser chipped!!!! Yeah!!!! I would have liked it to chip a little more but for a first project I thought it came out beach/lake weathered.

This is the only problem I could see with Milk Paint is you just never know how much it will or will not chip.  I wanted a weathered look to the dresser so I am pretty happy with it. A little more chipping and I would have been super Happy but I liked the way it came out.

Here is a closer look.  It kind of just chips where it wants. You put the milk paint on and then let it dry and it will begin to chip.  You use a spackle scraper to help remove any flakes or chips.  Then you vacuum the piece for any dust and then wax it and you are done.
Pretty Easy to do.

While  we (the hubby and me)  were working on the Lake Guest Room  my husband had to run to Home Depot and when he came back he had these beautiful white roses for me for Mother's day.  He said I needed a little pretty vase of flowers for the reveal!!! He is the sweetest. He also helped with painting the dresser and scraping of the dresser. Milk paint was a new one for him too.

I then moved the roses out to the living room by my angel. So pretty how the flowers and the angel caught the sunlight coming in the window today.

I hung some old chippy shutters for a head board.  I got these  at Tattered Tiques .  Of course I brought home only 3 of the 4 and then realized if I wanted them for a headboard I would need the 4th so back to Tattered Tiques to get the 4th one!!!! They were perfect and chippy to give that lake weathered look.   I polyurathene them so they would not be chipping anymore and it made them a little darker than I would have liked.  I will fix that with some white wash paint. Plus I feel they need something either around them or on them.  I guess I will have to figure that out. I do like the weathered look they give the room.  I imagine shutters like these on a cute little beach cottage.

Originally I had thought about making the old door into a headboard but I liked the shutter look better.  So my hubby just re hung the old door back up for me and we added some more old knobs to the door for my guests to hang things.

There's Little Midge getting into the pictures.  She is always "monkeying around".  She likes her new digs.  Now her bikini and hat match the room!!! 

My old chippy farmhouse mail box.  Love that old chippy piece. Such character!!!

Beach this way sign it is pointing toward the actual direction of the lake and beach in our town.

 Over my window I have a vintage street sign that says Sunset Dr.  I love that this window faces West and we get the sunsets in that window.  So the sign was perfect for over this window.

Had one more of the ladders in the shed like I put in my living room so I thought it would be good in the guest room for hanging my throws on. 

I added blue to this room for a lake theme.  My sheets are blue and white stripes and I have a duvet that is a retired Rachel Ashwell's British Blue Roses design.  I had that from awhile ago and thought I would use it when I redid this room.   So happy I held on to some of that bedding.  I also found the blue and white stripped country curtains in the same box that I had the bedding stored so I basically redid this room and did not have to buy anything new.  Just used what I already had.

Of Course my beautiful Angel that watches over my guest is still hanging on the door to greet my guests as they enter.  I love that beautiful sweet angel.

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Happy Mother's Day to all of you sweet mom's out there.  Have a beautiful week end and celebrate the beautiful loving person you are.  Mom's are the most special people and deserve more than one day per year but since we have this one day just for us please take advantage enjoy, relax and celebrate what a wonderful mom you are and what a difference you make in your kids (furry or human) lives.

My daughter Jen and her precious daughter Abby,  my granddaughter, the best gift anyone could ever get on Mother's Day.

My daughter Kimmie that is so beautiful inside and out. Kimmie is following in my foot steps and is a wonderful caring nurse.  I could not be more proud of her.  Her caring heart makes a difference in her patients lives.

My sweet little grand baby Abby. I can't get enough of this sweet face.

My sweet family that makes being a mom so fulfilling.  My daughter Jen and her hubby Tim and my little granddaughter Abby.  Me and the hubby on our wedding day 32 years ago and my daughter Kimmie.  My family is the most beautiful decorations I could ever have in my home!!!!
Happy Mother's Day.
Kris
:)

Happy Middle of the Week Wednesday!!!! It is another beautiful day 78 degrees and somewhat sunny.  My backyard is coming along.  Thought I would share a few new pictures.  I was trying to shoot pictures when the sun was out but it keep disappearing behind the clouds.

My husband hung a chandelier that I found in the shed now I am looking for some cute shades to dress it up.  It is romantic lighting to sit outside on a beautiful evening.

I plan on planting myself on this chair quite a bit this summer.

The Chandelier is so plain that I am going to try and find some crystals and some flowers and do something cute with some shades.

My vintage tea cart ready for action.  Can't wait to have a party on the deck and load that cart up with fun  summer drinks.

My little cottage garden gate motif is coming together.  A little more do here but almost done.

I added a bird cage to the mix.  I am thinking about putting a small plant up inside the bird cage.

Love that sweet garden gate.  The flowers already seem to love growing around it.

I love petunia's they are so hardy and sun lovers so they do well on my south exposure deck all summer.

My little watering can water feature.  I love the trickle of the water it is so relaxing to listen too. The birds love to drink from there too!

One of my old chippy ladders needed a plant.  I need to find a cute pot or bucket or something fun and unique for the geranium.  I am on the hunt.

Pretty soon that little rose bush area will be blooming and all the flowers in the beds filling in and popping with color.

It is hard to see but I love this old painted "stop and smell the roses" bed frame that I love to have in the garden.

All the old vintage watering cans that I have collected and my pink garden boots.

Not sure what I am going to do with this bench.  Any suggestions? I was thinking of doing some kind of fabric covered seat cushion but then I was trying to think "outside of the box" and come up with something more whimsy and creative for the seat of this bench.  Since is gets a lot of weather I was trying to think of something to cover the seat to hold up in rain and the sun. I thought maybe finding some kind of old pickets and fitting them onto the seat. Not sure I am open to suggestions.

Well it was another lovely day outside working in the garden.  Loving this weather.  It is suppose to rain tomorrow so I was trying to get more planting done today.  Have a great rest of the week.
Kris
:)

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