Decorating the living room!

For a couple years now, I've wanted a primitive Patriotic look in the living room. Other than a few little whimsicals here & there, I hadn't attained that. We purchased some things to get the living room where we wanted it. Including the supplies to make a huge wooden flag.

Here are some of the whimsicals I had to begin with:

Cute little patriotic bears

Basket with a pretty burgundy stripe

My Mum bought this flag set for Hubba last CHRISTmas

Framed art & a wooden banner

Close up of one of the framed pieces

A long prim-look wooden flag banner & a couple little trinkets (birdhouse & a mail holder type thing)

Here is a mirror that I painted, along with some stars I bought, some I revamped (the wire looking ones, I painted & glued little metal stars on), and a whimsical I had before:



Here are a couple before pics of one wall (before). Notice the tacky thermostat?!?!

And here is the after- after I put up the huge stars (covering the therm *winkwinknudge*) & my flag. I'm quite chuffed with myself & that flag!!!

And here is a close up of said flag. It really looks better in person *sigh*



Here are a couple of my favourite things. My Simplify wall. It was the first wall I put stuff up on & always will be. It is my fave part of the room. You see this as you come in the front door!!!


And a BEAUTIFUL angel one of my bestest online friends made for me. She came with a special home blessing from my friend.


For the flag here's what I used & did:

9 cedar planks (3-3.5"X5')
nails
wood glue
craft paint

I cut one of the planks to be the size of the other 8 together. I ran some glue down those cut planks & then nailed the full planks to it. After that I just started painting. I cut a stencil from an index card for the star. As I stenciled & painted the star I just rotated it here & there so they wouldn't look the same. Quite easy & only a few hours work. Best of all, I am so happy with it & Hubba REALLY likes it, LOL.

Next picture post will be of the mudding & sanding I'm doing. Hard work, but a LOT of fun. Yes, I'm loving it!

Have a very blessed day!

I'm still here!!!

What a ride it's been! We're finally getting a routine down. YAY!!! We had our second snow of the year last night. For my Georgia boys, they are wowed!! LOL... Hubba bought a new-to-him truck. It's a 97 blazer. He loves it, my little redneck man *grin*.

I've also picked up somewhat of a job. I watch a little girl now. Let me just tell you how strange it is to have a little girl in the house. There is PRINCESS stuff here now!!! SQUEEE!!! The first time she pottied, I had the darndest time trying to figure out how to wipe her. I mean I've got the front to back down pat, but I'm not accustomed to anything more than a boy's bum. It was a bit of finagling, but I did it & she's not scarred for life or anything now, LOL.

We also have one less dog. The 2 were more than we bargained for & they seemed to be doing really poorly. Since we've split them up, they are doing splendidly!!! We also got a new cat. She's about 1 year old, a siamese-calico mix & has hearing problems. She's a sweet sweet kitty, though, and we're so blessed to have gotten her.

Last week, my computer died. Just kaput- no warning, really. Hubba & I went to Casper & got a new one on Monday & man is it QUICK!!! I still have some programs to load, like my camera software & my PSP software. For those reasons, this will be a picture-less post, which saddnes me. I'm such a picture nut!!! I will be back SOON though with pics!!!!!

Hm, that's some of it in a nutshell for now. Just for fun, I leave you with an interesting site: How Many Of Me?. Here are my results:

• There are 12,219 people in the U.S. with the first name Michaela.
• Statistically the 1684th most popular first name.
• More than 99.9 percent of people with the first name Michaela are female.

• There are 8,248 people in the U.S. with the last name Leeper.
• Statistically the 4480th most popular last name.

WOW!!! There are a lot of me out there. Think you can handle that many of me? BAH!!!

Have a blessed evening, til next time.....