Finishing off some projects....A room for 2 Dukes....A room for Amy

I have had some projects that needed to be finished....just have been too busy to wrap them up....so it felt good to move these to the completed list!  (I am nothing without a list to complete)

Remember my Windsor chair that I found for $2.50?  It had such great bones but needed a little TLC....well, maybe a lot of TLC....

 

Well, here he is (chairs are male, right?) all sanded and painted and in it's new proper place!

A good neighbor and friend who runs a Salvaged Design business for old sporting equipment found this old hand made ski which looked just like a old surfboard we have a picture of.  I bought it on the spot from her, Steve rubbed it up with lemon oil and we mounted it over the window in Adam's old bedroom (aka The Room of Two Dukes - Steve has stuff from Duke the old surf legend and The Duke - John Wayne in here).

 And those props that found each other last week....

....are now a beautiful matching set.....I have yet to determine where to put these little jewels...it will come to me one night  during my insomnia I am sure....

Kristen got Dylan a great shirt with a 'd' embellishment....and darn him...he grew out of it!  So I picked up a new shirt, cut the applique off the old one...he is good to go for  until another growth spurt luckily Hanes makes up to XXXXL!

Kristen mentioned something about whipping up 30 Jedi robes for the boys upcoming birthdays....hmmmmm....this prototype took me 3 hours....30 x 3 = 90 hours....think we need to come up with Plan B on this one.... 

I had a fun day out with my bestie Annette....we hit up Sephora as we are ALWAYS looking for eyeliner that does not run....the nice ladies at Sephora gave us extra gifts so we really scored or maybe they gave us more stuff so we would leave and quit trying all the products!

Then we went to see our friend Janice with some coffee (and I did not even spill it!)  From there we went to the Thrift Store and I scored these fun treasurers....all for under $12.00!

Love this 1950's hat with the flowers and the netting over the face....random, I know, but from time to time I get invited to teas and vintage events and now I have a new hat to wear!  I am so low maintenance!

I also found this real treasure...a 1930's vintage music box that works and is in perfect condition...It plays 'I love you Truly' and I love it......truly

For about 90 cents each these great wooden Pilgrims....you can never have enough Pilgrims!

Over the weekend Kristen and Brian headed to Palm Springs and I was missing Adam so the next best thing to my own kids is my grandkids!  We had so much fun, playing club house, phones out of string and cups....watching Chicken Run over and over and over :)

 What's this....No girlsl aload?  Dylan - you realize GiGi is a girl - right?

We used the weekend to switch out two rooms....the downstairs room for Amy who we are delighted to say is going to stay with us for a bit.....relocating toys for boys to The Room of Two Dukes....It was a full family effort but truth be told Brody and I did the heavy lifting... 

 Brody making one of a hundred trips taking toys upstairs.....

Toys and Toys in.....Treadmill out....

 And after many many trips.....here is the final product....The Room of Two Dukes which will now be the room of four Dukes....Duke (Surfer), The Duke, Dylan, Brody....the picture on the wall on the right with the surfboard is the one where the surfboard looks just like the one now over the window!

 Toys in their place and a place for everything (and they will not be in their place for long!)

And a fresh room for Amy......loads and loads of storage for a special girl....

And a special vanity for her to see her pretty face in.....

Adam always loved to play with masks....Brody loves them too....I miss my Addie so so much

 And on Saturday my littlest Duke scored 5 goals!  So proud of you!!!