Entryway

Welcome to my house and here is my new bench. My house is a working progress and therefore I like to change things around every so often until it feels just right.  Now that I have this new bench at the entry I feel like we need to change our floors ASAP.  I have hate it these tiles but I know it's not in our budget yet to change the floors :/
There are so many other things around the house that I can add or change that I keep my self occupied anyways.

 

Now that I finish this project, off to the next one.☺

 

 

Fabric Options

I went to Jo-Anns and I walked though all the fabric aisles not knowing exactly what was I looking for.  I don't know why but I decided to look at the pre-order section and that was a big mistake. Why?? One because I need ONLY one yard of fabric, two because I was not willing to wait weeks for fabric to arrived and three because I knew, I just knew, I was going to see something I was going to like but could not have. Sure enough, I saw the perfect fabric but I couldn't have it. It was hard to stay away from thinking of that perfect fabric. I had to refocus and look for something that would give me the same feeling. These were my options.

 

 

All these fabrics are from HGTV collection.

 

1. The black and white chevron was my first choice but I wanted to add some color.

2. These is the pre order fabric and my favorite, but had to step away from it. (for now, I will be back for you)

3. Love the colors and shapes.

4.This fabric has the same colors as #3 but in a bit more modern way and the green pops up more.

 

 

 

 







No. 4 is the winner!!! I'm planning to finish it today. Yay! Next post I will have the pictures of the end product.

Happy Weekend.

DIY

Yesterday, I went to my mom's house and found this old bench outside in her patio, and I loved the legs but not so much the fabric. I mean, come on! That fabric has seen better days. So my mind started turning with ideas on what to do with the bench. I wasted no time and started pulling staples from the back and sanding the wood. I first thought of painting the legs a flat black, but I hold my self back because I have not yet seen fabric options. So today I will be going to Jo-Ann to look for fabric options. This is a work in progress and I'm super excited for the possibilities.   

Fun Day!

This weekend Matteo and I had fun playing with water colors and left over wood blocks. My dad gave me left over pieces of wood from some work he had
at his house and I have been using them for crafts and projects with Matteo.  We had fun and created new home art hehe.

 

Appy Burdai to youu!

I was able to recorded this audio of Matteo singing Happy birthday. We were in bed one day before his birthday and he started signing. My first instinct was to grab my phone to record him. Since we were in bed and the light was off, you can't see anything but I'm happy that I can clearly hear his voice.

Here are pictures of some of the things that we worked on for Matteo's birthday party.  I say we worked because some of these things were done by my brother (the robots).  I hope you like them.

Los Tres Amigos!

 This was a robot head. Kids had fun putting it on and pretending they were robots.  Matteo was a bit scared but ended up using it at the party haha.

 Goodie bags that I made for the kids. Theses took way to long to make, but it was fun for me.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Matteo's Birthday was so much fun and even though he was tired, he enjoyed having his friends over to play.
El cumpleaños de Matteo fue muy divertido y aunque el estaba muy cansado, estaba muy contento porque tenia muchos amigos con quien jugar.