Photo of the Day (8.9.11)

Today's photo: This was lunch we made today, all from scratch.  One of our neighbors works at a local avocado farm and occasionally brings over a bag of avocados.  Those avocados make the most delicious guacamole.  I haven't always been huge on guacamole or avocados in general, but I think I have changed my mind.  I am now a fan of guacamole, especially the homemade, farm-fresh avocado variety.

And don't tell me that's not a balanced meal.

Photo of the Day (8.8.11)

Today's photo: Monty and I were watching a documentary on insects today.  And he was really watching, his head was darting from side to side as the bugs moved across the screen.  It was super cute.

Photo of the Day (8.5.11)

Today's photo: Common Merganser in the river in Big Sur.

We're planning on working on the craft room a bit this weekend.  I'm super excited.  I can't wait until I have a place to craft and sew, and get back to showing some fun projects here on the blog.

Photo of the Day (8.4.11)

Today's photo: Monty helping me build my Ikea furniture for the craft room.  He is just so helpful.  You should have seen him earlier reading the instructions, unfortunately I didn't get a photo of that.

It seems that I somehow forgot to blog yesterday, but Wedding Wednesday will resume next week.  And hopefully there will be more excitement soon, as we work on this craft room.

Photo of the Day (8.2.11)

Today's photo: Manzanita berries with the ocean in the background from our hike up to Buzzard's Roost while we were camping in Big Sur.

I think I better go out and take some more photos before everyone gets tired of all of my Big Sur pictures.

Tiny Drawers

One weekend back, Graham and I went to a few yard sales.  The only thing I bought was this tiny set of metal drawers.  You can tell that it was originally an army green sort of color, but was then painted a horrible wash of white with pastel blue and purple.

I think the picture makes them look better than they did, the paint was a flat paint that was rough with brush strokes.  I had some yellow spray paint on hand from another project so I sprayed on what seemed like a million thin coats of paint to cover the previous paint job.  It immediately looked better, but it was just all yellow and I decided it needed some contrast in the label holders.  So I worked on the label holders to get them back into their shapes for holding labels and scraped out anything left over, that had previously been painted over.  I accidentally chipped off some of the yellow paint in the process, but I decided with its imperfect silhouette, it also needed an imperfect paint job.  So I chipped off some paint on the corners and such for a more worn look.  Then to finish the unit, I made some labels by spray painting some pieces of card stock with chalk board paint to create chalk board labels.  I thought the black labels offered a nice contrast to the yellow drawers.  And now I can label and re-label what is inside the drawers.  The unit itself is only about 18 inches tall and I think its going to look very cute in my future craft room.

Speaking of my future craft room, this weekend we went down south to visit my family.  While we were down that way we took a trip to not one, but two Ikeas.  We also dropped of the twin bed that was in our office/guest room/craft room to its new owners making room for a craft desk and all that comes with it.  So we are a few steps closer to creating my craft room/Graham's office and I am so excited.  I will be sure to share all of the progress here as we get to work.

Photo of the Day (8.1.11)

Today's photo: Leaf floating in the water on the bank of the Big Sur River.