Family Motto + Old Ironing Board = ?

Ok so I've been wanting to do a family motto.  So that when someone in the family isn't behaving we can say, "What's our motto?!?!"  And so that we can feel like we have a purpose in our family.  Something that we strive for.  So we made the motto all together one (actually it took a few nights) evening and then I made this to display it-  

I found the ironing board at a thrift store a long time ago- like at least 5 years ago-  It started out a light brown.  So I stained it dark -

Obviously I outlined the wave... (note about waves- I really like them because they mean two things to me at least.  First they are constant.  I love the fact that they are constant.  Sometimes big sometimes small but always rolling against the shore.  That is a goal of mine to be constant.  Next they are beautiful and a gift from God.  The waves say to me, "Beautiful things don't just happen, they are made."



Then I painted the wave and using my friends Cruicit.  I cut out all these little letters and mod lodged them on.  IT turned out like this...



 Do you have a family motto??

My Cute Chair

I was surfing craigslist and found this fabulous chair.  For only $25.00 It was such a deal I couldn't afford not to buy it.  SO I did.  In the middle of a blizzard I drove out to the middle of nowhere- strangely enough that is only a 30 minute drive on sunny days.  But that day it took me an hour and a half.  Then I put that cutish thing in my hubbies truck and drove off with my two little girls.  It took us another 2 hours to get home (the storm had worsened) and we missed 3/4 of my daughters ballet class.  Sorry sweets.  But dang just look!!  I really like how it turned out.  

 

 
See that petal my daughter smudged.  Yea I can't get that stain out.  Dang it.

Therese's Living Room Tour!!

Here is our first home tour...Therese's living room.  I just love how open and airy her Front living room is.  The story of this house is cool.  It was built sometime in the 1960's and when they bought their home, it looked pretty badly run down :( So they completely gutted and rebuilt a ton.  The ceiling of this room was low and cave like, they tore up into the attic and raised the roof -well no not the roof, just the ceiling -  Sadly during the renovation the window was badly cracked, so when they redo all the drafty original windows this living room window is the first on the list. Also above their fireplace they just took their family photos so they are framing a large picture of their large family to place there-therese is way excited about that :) Oaky enough chat... So here is the view from the front door... You can see the hallway up to their sons room...

Their piano (which was Jeremy's family forever and that heavy too!) with a peek into the dining room...

Their ficus tree that the green thumbed Therese saved from our black thumbed mother...

The beautiful couches that we have had in our family since I can remember.  (Awful note...when they were in the process of gutting the house an army of mice infested their garage and made a home in the couches...don't worry the mice are gone ...thanks to Natalie's cat and lots of poison... and the couches saved, sanitized and repaired from grossness from a professional furniture guy)

And therese always has the funnest  selection of coffee table books out too browse through.

Notes on the last sentence-  the word "funnest"-(that is considered a word in our family)

and coffee table- (is it still considered a coffee table if no coffee is served in the house???)

That beautiful mosaic was made by my grandmother, i think it's inspiring and amazing to look at, but don't touch- you will bleed...or wait this is a blog, no touching possible :)


     

I hope you enjoyed the tour despite all my camera phone pictures!!!