Just Beachy!

Lately, I can not get my mind off of the beach. Chris and I have been planning our vacation to Myrtle Beach, and I am so excited. We went last summer and had such a good time.

I recently found this wall art on Ballard Design’s web site. I fell in love with it right away and I knew I wanted it. Of course I wasn’t ready to pay two hundred dollars for it, so I had an idea..

 

I remembered this huge picture that I had bought at Goodwill. I had tried painting it several times, but I never liked the way it turned out.

(This isn’t the correct date)

Here is my version of the Ballard’s painting. I am not an artist and I know it isn’t perfect, but I am happy with it.

 

I used scrapbook stickers for the letters and masking tape for the arrow.

 

I think I’ll touch up the bottom a little. It looks too streaky for me.

Janna

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Random Things

I forgot I told you I would show you what my parents got me for my birthday. When Chris and I went up to my parents, my mom hadn’t had a chance to get my present yet, so she took me to a new antique shop in town. We spent about an hour in the shop, and they have a lot of nice stuff. The lady running the shop even let us have a look in the back. I found this urn as soon as we went in and new I wanted it.

 

They had 9.50 on this, but they took eight dollars for it. I didn’t know it was an urn, I thought it was a trophy of some kind. I love it though. If any of you know what it is, let me know.

I like to buy things that need to be fixed up or painted, but I like the old chippy feel of this. I do think I will put a clear coat of polyurethane on it to protect it. I also got a huge fork and spoon set to hang on the wall and some homemade ornaments, but I don’t have any pics yet.

I got this little guy at Hobby Lobby for 80% off. I think it was 6.00 before, and I got it for 2.00. Right now I like the color of it, but I might paint it white later on.

I got these at H.L. too and they were 80% off. I think they were like 6.00 a piece.

 

 

Janna

Birthday Party

This past weekend Chris and I went to his brother Cameron’s house for his nephew Braxton’s birthday party. Cameron and Elisa have three kids, Brax, Devon, and Brea, and they’re all red headed. I took a lot of pictures, but for some reason most of them came out blurry.

 

Braxton got a lot of nice gifts and he was very patient and read all of the cards first.

This is Brea right after she woke up, so I couldn’t get her to smile for the camera.

I hope Elissa doesn’t mind, but I had to show you some pics of their house… It’s beautiful.

These two pictures are when you walk through the front door.

I thought this little thing was so cute. I believe she said she got it at wal-mart a while back.

We got Braxton a small remote controlled helicopter for his birthday. This picture is what happened when he was playing with it and Aunt Kim wasn’t paying attention and it landed near her head and got tangled in her hair.

Brea loves Minnie Mouse and Snow White and Cinderella. She spent a good part of the party playing with her little dolls.

I think we all had a turn playing dolls with her that day. Here is Uncle Charlie taking his turn. I guess she thought he needed to wear Chris’ hat.

We all had our turn with the tiara too!

This one is blurry, but I didn’t get a lot of pictures of Devon.

 

Janna