Girl with the Pink Toolbelt

I hope everyone is having a nice, relaxing Memorial Day weekend.  We were supposed to have rain all weekend, but it held out yesterday until just after dinnertime and today looks like it's going to be gorgeous.  Which makes this post even better!  Because I built more outdoor seating, bitches!! About 4-5 years ago- I purchased end of the season clearance outdoor cushions.  I got 6 seat cushions and 6 pillows.  They were super cheap- probably around $6-7 each so more than 50% off whatever the original price was.  They went into my garage.... where they've collected saw dust until yesterday. I had found plans on Ana White's website for an outdoor sectional (again 4-5 years ago) and have had them printed out and filed in my "to-do pile" in the laundry room.  It consisted of individual pieces put together to make a sectional so I could make any arrangement of them since they weren't attached to each other.  If I wanted 2 on one side and 4 on the other, I could

Guys.  I have a problem.  I can't redo a room and LEAVE IT ALONE. I mean, I get that tastes change.  I get that sometimes I don't do what I want to do originally.  I also get that maybe at the time, I think I'm going to like the room, but eventually am going to change my mind.  Whatever the reason, I seem to spend a lot of time, money, energy on re-doing rooms that I've already re-done.  For example- my now green/gray spare room and my master bathroom. Well now it's time to re-do my already re-done upstairs living room. First it started out with "French Gray Linen" which was NOT gray at all and more of a light sage green.  My upstairs hallway walls and the living room were painted this color when I first moved in.  I loved the color on the swatch.  I even sat on the color for months while my house was being built.  I contemplated this color for a long time, looking at others, but always coming back to it.  It was pretty. These pics were p

A few weeks back, I decided that I wanted to finish the other closet that in my master bedroom.  I have two closets in my master bedroom- one that I re-did a few years back and one that I basically used to store all of the pillows and decor that I no longer use or haven't used yet.  Since I don't have a lot of space for overflow- ie. a basement or extra closets for storage, I used this closet to hide all of the clutter.  It was also where I stored all of my tools when I couldn't be bothered to bring them back downstairs to the garage after a project.  Especially knowing that I would eventually need them again for another soon. Last summer I cleaned out the closet, ripped up the carpet, put down the same flooring that was in my closet and painted the same color as my closet.  That's how it stayed.  Two wire shelves.  Nothing else since. {before} {after} Well I got it in my head that I needed better shelves, better storage, better function.  So out cam