Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes...

SOOOOO my daughter is now telling me that she is not sure about the green and pink. Jeez. Good thing all I have been able to do so far was a freaking box. lol. I think since I am going all shabby chic I will go that route in her room too. YAY! I think it will be beautiful. Stay tuned for a new mood board for her room. :) woot woot!

omg omg omg omg omg!!! I have completely changed my whole idea on how I want my house to look. I have seen so many beautiful rooms that look well loved and comfortable, and just HOME-Y! I am completely in love with Shabby Chic! I mean look at this beautiful sofa!

Could anything look comfier than that!? This sofa is of a price that I could never ever afford over at cottagechicstore.com. I know with my kids it may be impossible to go white.. so I may try an off white or linen or something like that... I dont know. I am just dying to cozy up with a book on a sofa like that! Gina at The Shabby Chic Cottage found this one at rooms to go, but for some reason I can not seem to find it on the website! grrrrr. I will be patiently waiting for lovely miss Gina to kindly tell me the name so i can harrass my local rooms to go about it..

Oh and if you take the time to check out the loveliness at cottage chic store, you will see why if I EVER EVER EVER can afford to... I will have them come redecorate my home for me. I am pretty sure that I could never in a million years come up with anything so absolutely lovely as what they have to offer on their website. I just love them. ::sigh:: ( daydreaming about all the lovely things I want...)

Sit back and relax

I just finished reupholstering this beautiful Ethan Allen Wingback chair. I used a shantung in "Spa Blue". After I put all the fabric on I put on nailhead trim. I think it looks beautiful. I am now going to sell it. :) I would keep it but it would only be mistreated by my kids. I would be so upset if anything got on it!

Before

After :)

I have decided

I have been in search of a sofa set for my living room. My current set is in DIRE need of replacement. Between the kids and the dog... well the poor things are set to be put out to pasture. Not to mention we bought these when we were in an apartment and they just do not fit in the current space. SO, we will be purchasing new ones.

I am absolutely in love with the Classic English Roll Arm from Restoration Hardware. BUT I am not in love with the price. Nor can I find anything close enough to it with a small enough price tag.

I love the color though, and am opting for this lovely sofa that is much more in my price range. If I wanted the whole set I could get it for less than the price of just the one sofa. I am mostly interested in the sofa and love seat. These are located at Star Furniture here in Houston. The name is Walden Khaki. I love em. Can NOT wait to get them in my house. OH and did I mention we are tearing out a LOAD BEARING wall in the living room? Lets hope the house doesnt come crashing down around us.. We HAVE hired professionals, so it should go smoothly. Now I just need to find a rug, a nice floor lamp or two.. and maybe a few other things... :)

I wish I wish...

I wish I actually had some readers right about now. Then I could ask for opinions about what to do to my table. I love love love my pedestal table, and am planning on painting it white. .BUT I keep seeing the white bottom with the top being either stained wood or painted dark... I cant decide! I am literally losing sleep over it! I really want to get started on it. oh blogland gods please help me!

Cakety Cake

Soooooo.... I thought I would show off some of my cake baking and decorating skills and post a few cakes I have made in the past. Let me know what you think!

I made this one for my daughter Adriannas 2nd bday, hence the big 2 at the top.

This one is for my daughter Evelyns 8th bday. She is completely obsessed with Twilight. She watches the movies, she reads the books, and she has all the merch. She is def team Jacob btw. Now before anyone judges me, my daughter is highly intelligent and mature for an 8 year old. I get told all the time she is like an adult in an 8 yr olds body. I am trying to embrace this instead of going crazy. So keep any negative comments to yourself. Thanks!

Isn't she just a cutie? Now tell me why my 8 yr old says things like perhaps, and apparently.... I don't know other 8 year olds that talk with that kind of vocabulary. She is currently reading The Lightning Thief. That book is big.

This cake was made for a friends mom. It's so cute!

My baby girl Adri's very 1st Birthday cake! her party was cupcake themed. I made all the decorations myself. I will find the pictures I promise!

Evelyns 7th bday cake. It was luaua themed, so the pig with the apple was too perfect to pass up! Yummy yummy yum!

That's all the pics I could find for now, but I will find and post more here and there!

Now before I entered blog land I had already done a few furniture makeovers. I thought I would post those for your viewing enjoyment. Forgive me for not taking alot of pictures. I was not yet familiar with blog land and all. There are not before pics, as I was not yet into doing the before/after visuals.

I painted this for my daughters room. It came out so darling! I used Krylon Spray Paint in Watermelon. LOVE this color! I had to sand it really well. I used a palm sander and a few loose sheets of sand paper to get into the nooks n crannies. I didn't even prime!

Darn! I can't find the other pics right now. But I will. then you can see my pretty redo's!

Stay tuned for visuals of a few cakes I have made throughout the years!!!!

Finally - I think...

Yay! I finally figured out how to fix the photo upload problem I as having! Now to play a little catch up! So I didn't get a whole lot done while I was away... but I have been working on one of those wingback chairs and as soon as I am done will post all the pics, before during and after! Yay!

In the meantime I will leave you with this cute little chalkboard I did for my little Eve. I got the idea to diy my own chalkboard over at Design Sponge. You can view it here. (fyi- mine isnt magnetic.)

So here is the during picture... (forgot to take a before.. oops)

and here is the after. :D (sorry the pic isnt so great, I promise I will take better pictures oneday when I have a better camera!) dying for a Nikon!

name change

not sure if this is the name I will stick with... but it works for now. I just did not feel good about having the same blog name as someone else!

grrrrr

two things.

1. I Still cant upload pics. WTH!!!!
and
2. Here I was, thinking I was being all original with my name... and someon has Making It Lovely. :(  I am lovely on all my networking sites. so it was natural that I wanted lovely in my blog name. Now what do I do?

::sigh::