the Decorating Chica

Pin It What do you do with a an old bowling ball that some nice old man gave your husband who doesn't hardly ever bowl? I mean like really, maybe once a year do we go bowling. But on one of our "once a year" trips up walks this nice senior gentleman who handed my husband his very own cherished, and somewhat used, bowling ball. So did my husband just have the look of a man that was really wanting his very own, used bowling ball?  What did he do? Why, he was as polite as can be and thanked him.  This is how the bowling ball project began. That was about four years ago and since that momentous occasion, where has said bowling ball been? Why, in the basement. Stuck in the back of the laundry room collecting dust. Because how weird would it be that not long after this bowling ball came into our lives I read about a seriously cool project with an old bowling ball and broken pieces of tile? Really weird if you ask me. It was however, one of those projects on a lon...

Pin It Summer is in full swing and so is our Graduation Open House prep. Whew, this is a whole new road I'm travelling trying to pull off a classy graduation open house on a budget. Lucky for me, I have two more graduations following this one so the others will be a piece of cake. Rock and a clearance statue make a nice grouping Needless to say, we are frantically working around the house to spruce it up and get it ready to 'present' to our friends and family next week. This is no small feat for me as I tend to be a bit anal and when we are hosting events like this I am wanting to replace and tweak everything! This lovely was stashed in an upper attic area of our former church. It was given to me in payment for painting and designing the children's theatre stage sets First and foremost we have been focusing outside as this is where we will host the celebration. Basic clean up was started mid-May by opening the pool, power washing the patio/pool ar...