happy place.

I have found a new happy place. Just walking in and looking around makes me smile. I don't love the name of the store ("On the Pot")... but everything else about it makes me happy. =) 

Meagan had brought me here once before and I had made a super cute red and white polka dot utensil crock for our new kitchen. Maren and Magda have been here lots of times, Sophie was here once for Maren's birthday, but this was Lawson's first time. 

You choose want you want to paint from the shelves and shelves of choices... then choose your paint colors and go to town.

I chose a cute little soap pump for our main floor bathroom...

Sophie's cute plate... (you can see the stamp she used for the crown in the picture above, and the little spouncer {love that word!} she used for the the polka dots.

I used a stamp for my flowers and then used one of the writers (the little squeeze bottle) for filling them in...

Lawson's little purple penguin (he named it Ceclor, in honor of YOU, Aunt Kristin!) =)

I can't seem to remember to take pictures of the finished objects, so just imagine the plate, penguin and soap pump all shiny and bright now! Lawson's penguin is a bright K-State purple and mine is a bright lime green. There is a big difference between the unfired and fired pieces. 

Meagan and I were so curious... do you suppose these letters are acronyms for something?? (These are finished projects, waiting to be picked up...)

Some of the samples in the store windows...

They have some SUPER CUTE teacher ones! (Meagan made a container for her husband the first time we were there. She had all his students secretly do yellow thumbprints, then she painted them all into little Despicable Me minions (it was their class theme). It turned out awesome!!

I LOVE that daisy bowl on the left. It might be my next project. =)

It was a perfect morning spent with friends! Even if it did include having to rush Magda past the dead pigeon... 

While Lawson tried to shield her from having to look at it.  =)

Lunch at a sweet little cupcake bakery...

Thin Mint cupcake...

Cherry Limeade cupcake...

And, finally... the creepiest store mannequin ever...

museum.

Pretty much.
There is stuff everywhere in our house.
Boxes and bags and piles all over and random pieces of furniture missing because they have already been taken out to the farm.
It was lovely today when our landlord called and said there was someone on our front porch who wanted to see our house.
She was very nice, but I was pretty embarrassed.
This museum needs a new cleaning lady.

farmhouse: this week.

We are down to a matter of DAYS before we get to move in here! So excited! 

(Except for that whole packing and unpacking boxes part. Blah.)

All our bathroom sinks were installed with these stickers. It made me smile...

My built-in bench/window seat in the breakfast nook...

Pretty sure all three kids could hide in here...

I am most excited about some of the silliest things... like our silverware drawer. I was trying to force all our forks into our little plastic divided tray tonight and couldn't help but think of this lovely drawer.

Super excited about this pantry, too... 

Wood floors are done and countertops are in. They are both lovely. We probably won't leave the pieces of cardboard down, although our floors would stay much cleaner. =)

Our garage has been a bit of a disaster area...

The kids are getting lots of good out of the fun sand toys I bought at IKEA...

Checking out the frogs that Daddy rescued from the window wells...

They were all fascinated by the sinks...

But oh. my. goodness... they went crazy over the carpet in the basement.

It's a really big room and these three have never lived in a house with carpet. Especially not this much carpet. They run laps, do cartwheels, roll around on the floor and basically act like rowdy little nuts. (Hoping they won't be too disappointed when we put some furniture in there!)

The votes were pretty much 50/50 for the door, but we went with red. We've done so much green throughout the rest of the house, I really wanted something a little different. Red accents always make me smile.

And it looks really happy in the turquoise mudroom...

{We were hoping to move quite a bit of stuff into the basement this weekend. Except for one light in the kids' bathroom... the basement is DONE! But we have had crazy amounts of rain in the last week. Like nearby rivers are flooding kind of rain. And it is currently pouring. Not good for moving. Boo.

So... if you're reading this on Saturday... say some prayers for sunshine! And a dry enough driveway that we can back a trailer into it without getting stuck!}

spray paint.

Corey and I headed out the farm a couple weekends ago with a truck full of ho-hum furniture. 

The bed and dresser were my Grandma Ruby's (the one who passed away a few months ago.) Sophie is *thrilled* to be getting a full size bed! =)

The dresser was nothing fabulous, but we thought we could make it something fun for Gretchen.

The barstools were nice, but just not quite my style... 

Our tools...

Lots of primer...

Corey has some serious spray painting skills...

The finished dresser... (So cute!) Totally got the idea from here. I really wanted to do the glass knobs, but the cheapest ones I found were $4 each. (I almost bought these at IKEA, but couldn't remember how many I needed. Guess I need to make another visit!) =)

She kind of likes it... 

And... the finished barstools. I LOVE them! So bright and happy. (The one on the far right is bright, pretty yellow. It looks like the natural wood color in this picture, but it's much happier.)

Countertops were installed last week and these look perfect in the kitchen! (Even though they are living in the basement storage room right now.)

They make me think of my sweet friend, Danielle, because I know she would say that I made them all "Amy Jonesey." =)