Anniversary Date Night

  So, I know this is a little late, but better late than never, right?  So, Layton and I made it... One year down.  Though it has been a hard year of trials we have praised God for the fact that we got to go through it all together.
  So to celebrate one wonderful year Layton bought tickets to Bass Hall to see Sister Act.  He had never been to a live performance, much less a musical. :)  I was thankful that he was willing to try something new.  And what do you know... He really liked it.

  At Bass Hall.

After the show we went to P.F. Chang's to eat dinner and then Layton took me to go do a little shopping.  This was when we were getting ready to head home, on top of the parking garage.

  Individual pictures... I had to get a picture of him all dressed up for me. ;)

  One year down, hopefully many, many more to go. :)  Thankful, thankful, thankful!

Study Makeover--Part 3

  Okay, third and last part of our study makeover. :)  It has been done for a while, I just haven't made time to take pictures.
  So, now.... I made curtains, got our bookshelves put together, and hung some things on the walls. :) I'm sure we will do some moving around, but for now I am enjoying a beautiful, tidy study.

  The curtains!  I so enjoyed getting to make them with my sweet mother. :) And I love how they look in the study with my yellow desk. Now Layton wants to paint his desk grey. Hehe...

 My desk with decor in/on it. And the clock That I love!  I originally had this yellow desk in mind For crafting projects, but it has soon become my favorite place in the mornings, with my Bible, journal and iced coffee.  It is a place to put the rest of the world at rest for a few moments.

  Our bookshelves... I finally got them all put together again. I absolutely love our bookshelves.  A family we go to church with was getting rid if them and gave them to us for free. All we had to do was stain them!

  As you can see we don't have a lot of books yet, so they are mostly filled with picture frames. :)  When I was putting the books up this time I decided to try something a little different... I organized our religious books by color instead of author.  I really like how it turned out.  I think it ended up looking a little better since we don't have very many books.

 

  And lastly, the rest of our wall decor that is in the study for now. Both wedding presents... The painting on the right was done by a friend of ours. It has all the meanings of Layton and my's names combined To make the painting. We love it!
  So there you have it. Our study!  The one completed/updated room in our house. :)

~ Have a blessed day!

Study Makeover--Part 2

  Okay... So this next project we did was a really fun one.  I had been looking forward to it ever since we decided to work on the study first.
  Before we get into the beautiful pictures let me give some background.
Last spring, mom, Tori, Rhiannon, Norah and I went up to Kansas to see family. My great-great aunt was getting rid of some furniture and asked if I wanted her desk. This desk had originally been my grandmothers and so I was pretty excited about owning something that had been handed down.
  So we put it in the truck and brought it back to TX with us.
  It was pretty old and needed some help. It was really wobbly. So Layton put a few screws in it and covered a few holes. Then began the days and days of working on it...

  

This is the before picture. We had already started on it so there is no old hardware in this picture. It was falling apart needless to say. ;)

  I know this doesn't seem like it would be important, but it is, trust me. Here is the before picture of the inside.

 This is the after picture. Yellow is of my new favorite accent colors. It turned out really good and looks great with the wall color, don't you think?  We also got some new knobs.  It took for coats of paint/primer to cover this desk... I thought it would never be finished. Haha...

And the after picture of the inside. I love the grey on the yellow and the tile will make for easy craft clean up. :)  And hopefully the yellow will make for many crafty ideas.
  Now I finally have my own space to work instead of the floor or the kitchen table. Hopefully now the kitchen table will stay clean and cleared off.  I have already started to fill the desk with my things and hopefully soon I will have pictures of the study as a whole for you. :)
  ~ Have a blessed day and go do something crafty!

Study Makeover--Part 1

  Okay, so we are in our new house!! It has been absolutely wonderful so far. :) We love it all and we are greatly enjoying being able to be hands on and make this house our own.
  We decided to concur the study first. We already had paint for it (I will explain this later) and it was probably going to be the easiest room in the house.  At least that's what we thought at the time. ;)
  We painted first. I have been wanting to paint since we got married, but our apartment wouldn't let us, so it was a joy to my heart top be able to have some color on the walls.

  

This is the before color. It is all over the house. It's a darker khaki. It is really not a bad color except we hadabout five different shades of khaki all over our apartment before, so w are both a little tired of browns. ;)

  Thus is the after color. It is more blue than the picture shows. I really like how it turned out... Finally some color on the walls. :)

  Next we attempted to switch the ceiling fan... Thus was a little harder changed than we thought. The new fan is up and beautiful, but for some reason the lights won't work, so we are still in the process of trying to figure that out.

  The before fan.... Pretty sure it was original. It definitely needed some replacing. = P

  Our new fan!!! It is so much better and doesn't wobble. I like how it turned out as well. Hopefully soon we will get the lights working. :)

  And last, but definitely not last, we put more shelving in the closet.  It wad just this one shelf and now....

  We have five shelves. It is so much better and going to be a lot easier to store things. 
  That is all for now... We are about to start isbnon one last thing for the study, but it will be a surprise. Hopefully I will be praying about it fairly soon, but it is kind of a big one. :)
  Hope you are all having good Mondays and getting lots done!  I am trying to get out if boxes. ;)