Saturday, February 6, 2010
Monday, January 18, 2010
Kitchen Before and After
Cabinet doors with original hardware from 1962!
View of empty cabinets and countertop
Over stovetop-the range was our last original appliance!
Vintage rub-on that was on cabinet wall beside stove-:)
Cabinet doors as they were sanded and puttied-notice the lovely shades of gold on the far doors-I did that a year and a half ago-thinking I would paint them a warm gold-so glad I waited---
Russell made the frame for this and I made the message board section-a very easy $20 project!
We opened the cabinet over the oven, painted the inside,built a shelf for the microwave, and I of course added some jars for a touch of color!
(Got the oven @ Habitat about a year ago for $40!)
What a find! Brand new Kenmore Elite Range Hood that retails foraround $400-got for $142 @ Sears!
(Got the stove top @ Habitat about a year ago for $20)
Window over sink with new pendant light!(Can't see the dishwasher, but I get it off of Craigslist about a year and a half ago for $75)
Art Glass pendant light-Kit and shade $30 @ Lowes
My baking corner! The pic is of Russell's Great, Great, Great Grandmother!She is my cooking inspiration-love this pic!
This is the formerly forgotten about cabinet above our refridgerator! I never remember what was up there, it all went unused!
So we opened up, and now my depression glass has a beautiful spot!
Some Notes:
Some Notes:
Let me start by saying how much I love my house! We are so blessed to have our house, for it to have so much room for us, to be able to afford-it is wonderful. Just like any house, there have been things in the 6 1/2 years we have lived in it that we have longed to change. Some were easy to do along the way-pull up bushes, add flowers, add color to rooms, take up carpet, refinish floors, replace light fixtures, and on and on. Others have been more daunting like windows, bathrooms, the kitchen, the basement. We tackled the windows and it was so worth it-we still have 2 rooms to do on the back of the house, but still, so worth it.
In the meantime I have longed for a cozy kitchen. A kitchen I could enjoy spending time in, that was up-to-date, where everything worked and maybe even went together :)
So, bit by bit, things have been accomplished-the floor was replace, several appliances were replaced out of necessity, and there remained the cabinets-a mind boggling task to undertake, one that we put off FOREVER!~
In the meantime I have longed for a cozy kitchen. A kitchen I could enjoy spending time in, that was up-to-date, where everything worked and maybe even went together :)
So, bit by bit, things have been accomplished-the floor was replace, several appliances were replaced out of necessity, and there remained the cabinets-a mind boggling task to undertake, one that we put off FOREVER!~
Being the bargain shopper that I am, I begin to look for cabinet hardware on EBAY
So I bought these:
28 pewter cabinet pulls- $35.00 (including shipping)
28 sets cabinet hinges- $38.00 (including shipping)
So I bought these:
28 pewter cabinet pulls- $35.00 (including shipping)
28 sets cabinet hinges- $38.00 (including shipping)
And then got a giftcard for Christmas to use for this:
1 Gallon Valspar Paint- $25.49
1 top of the line brush- $13.99
And this:
1 pendant light kit-$15.99
1 Art Glass Shade-$14.99
1 Gallon Valspar Paint- $25.49
1 top of the line brush- $13.99
And this:
1 pendant light kit-$15.99
1 Art Glass Shade-$14.99
Of course there were other insignificant things along the way that added up, but I have to say we really worked hard to keep this as in-expensive as possible-and I LOVE the results!
The only thing left to do is paint the legs of the butcher block table I use as an island-still working on finding feet to add to make it about 6-inches higher!
I got lots of gasps when I told that I was painting the cabinets black-but I am tickled with the results and would do it again in a heartbeat!
So thankful for my dear hubby and our dear friend Tommy for the job they did, I wasn't allowed to touch a paintbrush, for reasons that can be seen throughout the house!
Monday, January 4, 2010
Save the Date!
What's Old is New Again
A Household Swap Meet
January 23, 2010
4:00 pm
@ the home of
Dawn Greene
Bring things you are tired of looking at in your home and find something new and exciting from someone else!
Bring things you are tired of looking at in your home and find something new and exciting from someone else!
What you need to do to participate:
2. Choose 5-10 things from your home that you are "over". (if you have more than that GREAT!)Example-a lamp you can't use anymore, a bolt of fabric from a redo, curtains, nick-nacks,small-medium furniture items, picture frames, mirrors, pillows, plates. . . .
I could go on and on!!!(The picture on the wall that you can't look at anymore, or the pillows that don't match your new colors)---I keep thinking of other things!
(No clothes, toys, etc-this is a strictly household swap!)
3. Choose a yummy finger food to bring and share.
I could go on and on!!!(The picture on the wall that you can't look at anymore, or the pillows that don't match your new colors)---I keep thinking of other things!
(No clothes, toys, etc-this is a strictly household swap!)
3. Choose a yummy finger food to bring and share.
4. Feel free to invite friends, but they will need to email me, or have you let me know so that I can have them on the list!!!
What you need to know:
1. I would love to have your stuff before 1/23, if at all possible! You can bring it by, I will meet you, or if you see me you can give it to me!
2. Once everyone arrives the day of the Swap Meet, we will draw numbers and take turns "shopping". I will give further instructions the day of!
3.Please know that if you bring 10,20 or even 30 things, we are not going to make you shop until you find that many to take with you!
You may just find a few things, or you may just come to enjoy the fun!
What you need to know:
1. I would love to have your stuff before 1/23, if at all possible! You can bring it by, I will meet you, or if you see me you can give it to me!
2. Once everyone arrives the day of the Swap Meet, we will draw numbers and take turns "shopping". I will give further instructions the day of!
3.Please know that if you bring 10,20 or even 30 things, we are not going to make you shop until you find that many to take with you!
You may just find a few things, or you may just come to enjoy the fun!
Note: This a free, for fun event with no strings attached! Just a great way to be out with the old and in with new at no cost to you!
If you have any questions, let me know!
Looking forward to some great fun with you all!!!
Dawn
If you have any questions, let me know!
Looking forward to some great fun with you all!!!
Dawn
Friday, January 1, 2010
Saturday, December 26, 2009
It's a Swap Meet!
Ever since The Nester blogged about her really cool swap meet with friends and fellow bloggers I have been longing to join the ranks! September, October, and November, were a blurr of wedding fun for my family and I, as my best friend from college and then my sweet cousin who is like a sister both got married! (I find my self wanting to go on and on about both these events, since I never blogged about them, but I digress)
SO-----Now the holidays are over, and it is time to un-decorate, and begin to make your home sing once again!
As you do that, what better time to weed out what you are sick of looking at!
The current plan is to hold a swap meet the middle-end of January. I was originally thinking of holding it in my home, but the location could change to our church, if we have a good response!
What you need to do to participate:
1. Email me @ dawnman139@aol.com or leave a comment on this post to "register".
I need to keep track of who is coming! I need your email address too :)
2. Choose 5 things from your home that you are "over".
Example-a lamp you can't use anymore, a bolt of fabric from a redo, curtains, nick-nacks,
small-medium furniture items, picture frames, mirrors, bases, pillows, plates, I
could go on and on!!!
3. Choose a yummy finger food to bring and share.
4. Feel free to invite friends, but they will need to email/comment so that I can have them on the list!!! THIS IS SUPER IMPORTANT!!
What you need to know:
1. I will give between 1-2 weeks for people to register before choosing a date/location.
2. Invitations will be emailed with an RSVP to get a final count
3. You will leave the swapmeet with the number of things you bring-only different and better things that are new to you!
4. Further instructions and details will be emailed once plans are finalized!
SO-----Now the holidays are over, and it is time to un-decorate, and begin to make your home sing once again!
As you do that, what better time to weed out what you are sick of looking at!
The current plan is to hold a swap meet the middle-end of January. I was originally thinking of holding it in my home, but the location could change to our church, if we have a good response!
What's Old is New Again
A Swap and Shop Meet
Bring things you are tired of looking at in your home and find something new and exciting from someone else!
What you need to do to participate:
1. Email me @ dawnman139@aol.com or leave a comment on this post to "register".
I need to keep track of who is coming! I need your email address too :)
2. Choose 5 things from your home that you are "over".
Example-a lamp you can't use anymore, a bolt of fabric from a redo, curtains, nick-nacks,
small-medium furniture items, picture frames, mirrors, bases, pillows, plates, I
could go on and on!!!
3. Choose a yummy finger food to bring and share.
4. Feel free to invite friends, but they will need to email/comment so that I can have them on the list!!! THIS IS SUPER IMPORTANT!!
What you need to know:
1. I will give between 1-2 weeks for people to register before choosing a date/location.
2. Invitations will be emailed with an RSVP to get a final count
3. You will leave the swapmeet with the number of things you bring-only different and better things that are new to you!
4. Further instructions and details will be emailed once plans are finalized!
Friday, December 18, 2009
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Saturday, November 28, 2009
This side of the miracle……
In talking to a dear friend this week she shared something with me her husband had said, as they too struggle to get pregnant and it really got my mind rolling. So I did something I’ve missed, something I haven’t done in way too long-I just sat down at my computer and wrote and wrote.
Maybe the miracle already happened; maybe this was the miracle….
Excited, elated, scared, nervous-the emotions at the time we found that we were expecting ran the gamete! I stopped taking birth control and we were waiting for my body to start a new cycle and it never happened. I kept track of the days and finally on day 58, before beginning a new medicine for IBS, I took a pregnancy test. Russell was at a track meet out of town. As I was peeing on the stick, the phone was ringing-I swear my mom has a 6th sense!!!! The line came up on the stick as soon as the pee hit-I did another one, same thing. My mom said, and I quote “We can’t get excited yet, you have to go to the doctor”. My doc later told me that there is more likely hood of a false negative than a false positive.
And that was that. I ate, and ate, and ate. Got toxemia, put on bed rest, then admitted to the hospital. We prayed for my health, for Isaac’s health, they induced, it didn’t work-then rushed a c-section after a day of labor. He was a miracle in so many ways-
Isaac was sick a gillion times, but we still wanted to grow as a family so we begin trying again.
I knew Isaac was a miracle for many reasons, I viewed him as a gift, but never till now considered that the true miracle might have been in his conception.
Getting pregnant is a miracle, an amazing gift from God. But sometimes it’s an even bigger miracle, it was never suppose to happen in the first place for some people-according to conventional doctors and, yet it happens anyway.
We didn’t struggle to conceive Isaac-never even really had to try-and now on the other side of it all, and 5 years since his birth-I see that that was the miracle-the lack of struggle, the ease, it just was. It wasn’t debated, discussed, picked apart, or timed to the minute-it just was.
And now we live in a world of wondering if my poor ovaries will ever make eggs, and what we can do to them to make them work. And I live in a body that is bucking nature-not ovulating, not producing the right hormones-a body that is in turmoil, with no easy fix-that is rearing its ugly head in soo many ways on the outside and don’t forget the muffin top I not so proudly sport these days.
And in the wake of this infertility battle are dozens of negative pregnancy tests, hormone pills, hormone creams, fertility drugs, bad moods, disappointed attempts, and sad outlooks.
If only we would just look back and see the miracle we already have right here with us.
Struggling with secondary infertility will never be something that I completely come to terms with. I certainly have my moments that I handle it better than others. I long for contentment with our situation-for it to be or not to be and then just be OVER with it ALL!! And so some days I block it out, and I can bump right on along-and then the inevitable happens: someone asks the dreaded “When are you going to have another child” question or better yet, my body begins to play tricks on my and I begin to wonder “could I be pregnant, what If I am this time” and so I take a pregnancy test and am disappointed once again.
I know how blessed I am to have had a child at all, to not have had a struggle, for us both to lived through the awful pregnancy, and to still have him to watch him grow and love one him. I need to look at it like the miracle it really is-
There is a miracle right in front of us and we are so dead set on the miracle we are praying for that we miss the one we have already received.
For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.
Maybe the miracle already happened; maybe this was the miracle….
Excited, elated, scared, nervous-the emotions at the time we found that we were expecting ran the gamete! I stopped taking birth control and we were waiting for my body to start a new cycle and it never happened. I kept track of the days and finally on day 58, before beginning a new medicine for IBS, I took a pregnancy test. Russell was at a track meet out of town. As I was peeing on the stick, the phone was ringing-I swear my mom has a 6th sense!!!! The line came up on the stick as soon as the pee hit-I did another one, same thing. My mom said, and I quote “We can’t get excited yet, you have to go to the doctor”. My doc later told me that there is more likely hood of a false negative than a false positive.
And that was that. I ate, and ate, and ate. Got toxemia, put on bed rest, then admitted to the hospital. We prayed for my health, for Isaac’s health, they induced, it didn’t work-then rushed a c-section after a day of labor. He was a miracle in so many ways-
Isaac was sick a gillion times, but we still wanted to grow as a family so we begin trying again.
I knew Isaac was a miracle for many reasons, I viewed him as a gift, but never till now considered that the true miracle might have been in his conception.
Getting pregnant is a miracle, an amazing gift from God. But sometimes it’s an even bigger miracle, it was never suppose to happen in the first place for some people-according to conventional doctors and, yet it happens anyway.
We didn’t struggle to conceive Isaac-never even really had to try-and now on the other side of it all, and 5 years since his birth-I see that that was the miracle-the lack of struggle, the ease, it just was. It wasn’t debated, discussed, picked apart, or timed to the minute-it just was.
And now we live in a world of wondering if my poor ovaries will ever make eggs, and what we can do to them to make them work. And I live in a body that is bucking nature-not ovulating, not producing the right hormones-a body that is in turmoil, with no easy fix-that is rearing its ugly head in soo many ways on the outside and don’t forget the muffin top I not so proudly sport these days.
And in the wake of this infertility battle are dozens of negative pregnancy tests, hormone pills, hormone creams, fertility drugs, bad moods, disappointed attempts, and sad outlooks.
If only we would just look back and see the miracle we already have right here with us.
Struggling with secondary infertility will never be something that I completely come to terms with. I certainly have my moments that I handle it better than others. I long for contentment with our situation-for it to be or not to be and then just be OVER with it ALL!! And so some days I block it out, and I can bump right on along-and then the inevitable happens: someone asks the dreaded “When are you going to have another child” question or better yet, my body begins to play tricks on my and I begin to wonder “could I be pregnant, what If I am this time” and so I take a pregnancy test and am disappointed once again.
I know how blessed I am to have had a child at all, to not have had a struggle, for us both to lived through the awful pregnancy, and to still have him to watch him grow and love one him. I need to look at it like the miracle it really is-
There is a miracle right in front of us and we are so dead set on the miracle we are praying for that we miss the one we have already received.
For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.
Monday, November 23, 2009
Happy Birthday Isaac!
Dear Isaac,
I can't believe that you are 5!! My how the time has flown, but what fun we have had!
You are:
-Loving school
-Learning to read
-Speaking in the Christmas play @ Church
-Making new friends
-Going to sleep by yourself.
-Sleeping in your own bed!
-Becoming more and more a Daddy's boy!
-Learning to ride your bike with no training wheels!
-Playing well by yourself
-Using your imagination all the time!
Happy Birthday!
Sunday, September 27, 2009
Living with Confidence in a Chaotic World by Dr. David Jeremiah
In a world that is constantly changing in the blink of an eye, what does one do to maintain that calm cool outlook on life that once was so easy to attain? In David Jeremiah’s Living With Confidence in a Chaotic World, the chaos of the world is examined as David gives the readers biblical, sound advice and guidance, on living in the chaos we are now surrounded by.
It’s fairly easy to see and know that chaos is everywhere these days. All it takes is a flip of the channels on TV, or to pick up a newspaper, or even scan the internet. Wars are raged daily, marriages are failing, people are losing their lives, homes, and everything they have known. And sometimes it seems it would be easier to be an ostrich and stick our heads in the sand, however that is not our call from God. Jeremiah breaks down these instructions and their biblical base in a long list of things we should do to live with confidence. It’s all about staying calm; compassionate. . .the list goes on. I finished this book feeling empowered and uplifted. It was a great reminder of God’s will for our lives and His instructions for us during these challenging and chaotic times. Whether you are searching for answers or struggling with your own chaos like me, this is a great read at any point in your life.
It’s fairly easy to see and know that chaos is everywhere these days. All it takes is a flip of the channels on TV, or to pick up a newspaper, or even scan the internet. Wars are raged daily, marriages are failing, people are losing their lives, homes, and everything they have known. And sometimes it seems it would be easier to be an ostrich and stick our heads in the sand, however that is not our call from God. Jeremiah breaks down these instructions and their biblical base in a long list of things we should do to live with confidence. It’s all about staying calm; compassionate. . .the list goes on. I finished this book feeling empowered and uplifted. It was a great reminder of God’s will for our lives and His instructions for us during these challenging and chaotic times. Whether you are searching for answers or struggling with your own chaos like me, this is a great read at any point in your life.
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