My Husband Does my Pinterest Projects

I can't remember where I stumbled upon mason jar lights first. These two are from Pottery Barn.

Then as I clicked on pictures in the google images search, I found this blog, showed Ed, discussed and decided that there had to be an easier way, and then we took a trip to Lowe's.

We picked out this light fixture from the portfolio line, and two individual pendants. Resources

We already had some mason jars that my grandma gave me.

Edward drilled a couple holes, removed the old fixture, adjusted the wire lengths, while I washed the jars.

And now we have this perfect light fixture!

It was pretty easy, especially for me because I didn't do any of the hard parts. I love it. I love that three of the jars (the big center one, and the two smallest) belonged to my grandma.

It cost

$54 for the main fixture

$40 for the two pendants

$8 for the drill bit hole saw thingy

It's Been...

Months since I posted over here. There's really no excuse.
Since I last blogged we've (well, mostly Eddie)
1. Picked out a wall color that we didn't actually end up liking
2. Painted and added trim to Andrew's room
3. Replaced all the interior doors
4. Started building the dining room booth
5. Built, but not completed an entry way bench/foot locker/storage thing
6. Hung the flat screen on the wall
7. Demoed part of the main bathroom
8. Built shelves for the garage
9. Decorated for Christmas
10. Replaced the back door with new French doors
11. Had a break in
12. Started using Pinterest
13. Dug up the entire yard (it wasn't much of a yard, just dirt and weeds)
14. Got a new slip cover for the couch
15. Hung some stuff on the walls
and I'm sure there is some other stuff that I can't remember

I Feel Pretty Good About Myself

I went to the Ferguson showroom today to look at bathroom vanities, and all the other fun stuff that they have there. And I noticed something pretty awesome. In their newly remodeled working display kitchen...



So I'm feeling pretty good about my granite choice, since their designer and I picked out the same one!

I Had Help Picking Out Trim

No Slammy Slammy

Last night my wonderful husband installed one of the best kitchen inventions ever.

It only took about 45 minutes to do the whole kitchen. Now the whole room has soft close.

Happy Mother's Day to Me!

Yesterday I got an awesome Mother's Day gift. Four men came over and installed my kitchen counter.
My kitchen went from this


To this



The stone is really beautiful.



I'm so happy. It's almost complete.

House Warming, or Cooling

My wonderful parents bought us two of these sweet babies. They're in the kids bedrooms, we are going to get two more for the living room and master bedroom.
From Fanco