Wee Bit Wednesday

{one} what’s the #1 most played song on your iPod (or whatever you use)?"Good Life" One Republic, I'm not sure what it is about this song, but its so addicting for my ears! {two} what’s your favorite type of exercise?currently walking, in the country of course.  I'd love to get back into running some but I'm in terrible need of a jogging stroller cause I'm never sans baby.


{three} what’s your least favorite mode of transportation?the bus,so glad that I don't have to depend on public transportation every day.


{four} if you could choose to stay a certain age forever, what would it be?I'm 5 days away from saying good-bye to 28, I'd like to stop getting older NOW :)


{five} when you have 30 minutes of free time, what do you use it to do?blogging, facebooking, reading


{six} what do you miss the most about being a kid?The lack of responsibility, and the innocence of youth. 


{seven} when was the last time you were nervous?Probably when I was in labor, not knowing quite what to expect.


{eight} what was the first thing you bough with your own money when you were young?who knows?  probably a toy or candy for sure though!


{nine} what is your favorite month of the year?July, My birthday, summer, sunshine, swimming, camping, my favorite flowers are in bloom, the 4th of July, Parades, Fireworks...what's not to love?  Don't you dare say the heat!  Cause, damn it, it could be February, -10 and snowing instead.


{ten} what are 3 songs from the soundtrack of your life?This is far to deep for what I am prepared to do so let's see, real quick on the spot:Bitch - Meredith BrooksThe house that built me - Miranda LambertQuiet Your Mind - Zac Brown Band

Salvaged Garage Sale Freebie

A few months back I mentioned that I found a nice sized free frame at a garage sale.  Me being me forgot to take a before picture but lets just say it was an ugly gold (like the normal old frame color) with this gem of a photo inside:

A true gem I tell you.  But the wonderful thing was the freeness of it all.  I had big plans for this one, I was going to make it the focal point of my new collage wall in my dining room.  Unfortunately, its been a slow moving process, my time is consumed with obsessing over Addison's first birthday party planning (rightfully so).  But I finished it a few weeks ago (just this particular frame, not the collage wall) and haven't had the chance to share yet.  

On to the project!  I started by wiping down the frame with some rubbing alcohol both to clean the dust off and any grease that may have been hiding in that shiny gold.  I then applied a nice coat of primer before turning the whole thing a pretty Valspar Cool Jade (teal).  I just love this Valspar spray paint, I'm now hooked.

(I got excited and forgot to take a picture before it started getting dark outside.)

I love the color but decided I wanted a distressed look and to tone it down a little bit.  Being the impatient person that I am I grabbed the first bottle of whatever I could find to use to distress it.  What I found was about a 50 year old bottle of walnut stain, left in the house I'm sure from my great grandfather when he lived here!  I also found a sanding pad and sanded the edges and roughed up a couple of places before I liberally applied the stain.  I let it sit for about 2 minutes before I started trying to wipe it off.  Well, let me just say, 50 year old stain that has been exposed to heat and cold is incredibly sticky and all it was doing is leaving behind fibers and finger prints.hmmm.  So I decided just to set it out in the sun and let the stain dry to the frame.  Lucky for me, it worked like I had planned to do it that way all along and I was left with a frame that looked like this:

OMG, Love.  So happy with how it turned out, could do without the little fibers stuck to it but when not in macro on the camera they can't be seen.

Meanwhile I made a run to Jo-Ann's and with the help of my best friend we picked out a fabric that goes perfectly with the teal of the frame and the brown of my wall.  I covered up that hotness of a picture that came in the frame with 2 layers of quit batting and then covered it with my chosen fabric, I just used my handy hot glue gun to keep it all in place.  Next I took my re purposed chicken wire from my friends old rabbit hutch and stapled it the back on the inside of my frame, then attached the fabric covered photo back in its home. Now we have a awesome collage frame that I can clip whatever I want in place and easily change out/move things.

What am I using as clips?  Well while I was at Jo-Ann's I found the mini clothes pins that I quickly sprayed with my Valspar to match the frames to use to hold my photos, invites, etc in place.  Easy project, not sure why it took over a month! :)  I am in love with it and I can't wait to get some more inspiration for items to put in the frames that I want to surround this frame with.

Begging for Votes!!

Hey all, if you could help us, We (I) entered one of my photos of Addison into a Contest on Fox 47 (local news) facebook page "snap into summer"  The person with the most votes (there are different places)  win tickets to Cedar Point & Michigan's Adventure.  Help a sister out!?!? :)  All you have to do is Like Fox 47 & then find my picture of Addison in the Snap into summer final week folder in their photos and like it. That's all, would you do it for the adorable child? :)

Facebook Vote "Like" Fox 47, then "like" this photo of Addison