Bunk bed

the girls got a bunk bed this week and it amazes me how much fun they can generate with it! they LOVE climbing the ladder to get to the top bunk and Skye has filled her bed with all kinds of necessities: notebook and pen, toys, string... i'm going to have to give her a box of some kind to keep everything together!

we are slowly moving furniture around, trying to make space for this new baby and the bunk bed was just another step in that process. who knew having kids required so much furniture?? :)

Before/After 2

so my dining room is finally finished!! what a relief! here are the before and after pics. i have to say, i LOVE the new purple! and Phil, who was extremely skeptical about the whole purple thing, says he is "eating humble pie." my new buffet is in now and i'll start to hang pictures on the wall this week - i'm waiting for the paint to cure.

Claire's 3rd birthday

Claire was very confused about the whole birthday celebration thing. i tried to explain that her party was a couple of weeks after her actual birthday, but that was just too far away. when we were eating dinner on her birthday, she asked, where are all my friends? but after her birthday passed and we have now sent out invites to her friends, i think she is now understanding that the party is happening separately from the actual day. you can actually hear her asking about her friends in the movie! :)

she asked for apple upside down cake, so that's what i made for her!

here are some photos of her birthday:

Claire helping me with the cake

Claire's 3rd birthday from slkim on Vimeo.

Before/After 1

i finished painting the buffet for our dining room - the first project on my list of to-dos. after debating for a long time about what colour to paint it, i decided to go with white. but i did paint an undercoat of greyish-brown and i may sand down the buffet in places to give it a "distressed" look, but i haven't decided yet. i'll wait another day to give the paint more time to dry and see. so, here are the official before and after photos. :)

Before


After



and while i was busy painting the buffet, Claire was busy with her own paint project. :) she painted this old step ladder all by herself.

Redecorating, reupholstering - signs of nesting

after months and months of silence, i'm back! for most of you, you are aware that i'm now well into my pregnancy (week 17, to be precise) and with the HORRIBLE first trimester over (i'd have to say, out of all my pregnancies, this one was the worst), my nesting instinct is kicking in. i've had several home projects that needed my attention that i'd been putting off, but all of a sudden, they just screamed for attention. so here they are and i'd actually REALLY love input from everyone - all ideas would be welcome.

my first project that's been sitting around are my two chairs in my living room. i'd gotten them years ago from a thrift store for barely anything and when i called around about reupholstering them, the cost was staggering. so, much as i hated the colour of them, they sat in our living room. now, i'm going to tackle them. new fabric, new paint on the frames? i've actually ordered the fabric, but i'm not sure if i should paint the frames. anyone reupholstered chairs like these before?




i have loved my red dining room (btw, i painted it while i was pregnant with Claire - painting seems to be a recurring activity in all my pregnancies) but i think i'm ready to try a new colour. i'm thinking purple - not the pastel kind, but the deep aubergine kind. :) any thoughts?

finally, another great find at a thrift store. a buffet for my dining room. this was a recent purchase and definitely needs a paint job. i've been thinking of painting it white. but the sides are not doing so well. i'm thinking of peeling off the thin paneling that's on top of the wood and hoping the paint will hide it. otherwise, maybe gluing some wallpaper on the sides??