dining room

Guys, FINALLY got rid of my burgundy walls in the dining room. Honestly, I was obsessed with the color scheme the previous owner chose when we moved in. It was a lot of tans and burgundy/maroon, which was great for primitive décor and I even painted my upstairs to match. Overtime, I absolutely came to despise the burgundy dinning room and now my hideous upstairs hallway. I picked "useful gray" by the HGTV line, not too dark & not too light. So today was the day and let me tell you, it was a very long and exhausting one. How do you paint an entire dinning room with two toddlers to watch? Do you take them to grandma's house for the day? Nope. Do you bribe a friend to watch them in exchange for Starbucks? Nope. Do you build a small barricade to try and keep them out? Yes, but that too will fail. This is what you do...  You arm them with mini-roller's, drag out every retired sheet in the house to line the floors, you pray that God has a sense of humor and you brace yourself. You also laugh, A LOT and not because all the things they do are funny. You laugh because you are trying to prevent yourself from crying every time their sweet little greasy fingers leave not so sweet, but equally as greasy marks all over your wet paint. You laugh again because what should be a completed wall is a mural of poorly illustrated Mickey Mouse heads and monster trucks. Then when its all said and done and they're FINALLY sleeping, you smile. You smile because although the walls are painted one solid color now, their little handprints and your poor attempt at cartoon characters is still under there somewhere. Then you may cry, because you realize you're overly tired and getting emotional, lol. ANYWAYS, I wish I would've taken a picture in the day light, but said toddlers prevented any extra time being spent in there. I will also post a picture when all my stuff is put back and touch ups are done. Here's the general idea, excuse the floor and again I'm no photographer. I will be spending the rest of my night catching up on The Bachelor and watching The Hills reruns ...

diy mason jar sign

Back again! So far, so good, right? Today was a little less productive than I anticipated. I did choose a gray paint color for the dining room, Useful Gray by HGTV. I think it goes well with our pallet accent wall, don't worry I will be posting a complete picture at some point. I also found time in between vacuuming up Cheeto crumbs and cooking chicken nuggets (healthy, I know) to do a small DIY project. We will call this project "TRUE LIFE: I have a minor addition to Ball mason jars"... okay it's a large problem and my house is busting at the seams. In my defense, my family officially supports this problem and they were the culprits in this situation. My brother dropped  off a big heapin' box of antique medicine bottles, soda bottles and you guessed it... mason jars! When I have had more junk in my bath tub than people, I can say it was a successful weekend. For this project, I used some scrap wood we had laying around, black acrylic paint, white Martha Stewart chalk paint and my personal design from my Silhouette Cameo. I may go back and add a few more details, but this is the result as of now! I love it. Excuse the fact that I am lacking in the picture taking department.