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Ocean Style: Vintage Locker Turned Shoe Storage

May 18, 2012 By 1 Comment

For those of you that have been reading my blog know that I have limited space in my house, & that means major storage dilemmas.

I bought this locker a few years ago @ the flea market with no place to really put it. I knew I had to have it but unfortunately it ended up in my garage for a year & a 1/2.

When we moved into this house I quickly realized I didn’t have a coat closet. I had notta, nothing, zilch to store anything of anything in.

After a little brainstorming I came up with the idea of having M drag the lockers into the house.

Me: M, I need you to go into the garage & get those lockers because I’m gonna use them to store our shoes, & the kids back packs in.

M: No Rac, those lockers are a piece of crap. They’re rusted & nasty looking. I don’t want them in the house, they’re junk.

Me: I’m gonna make them look awesome, I promise. Trust me, babe.

My style isn’t for everyone, but maybe you’ll get a spark of inspiration for your own storage dilemmas. Heck, maybe you’re a lucky one & don’t have any storage dilemmas.

In the picture below you can see what color the locker is underneath (where the paper is ripped, thanks to my son who was bored & just started tearing it off). It’s gun metal & I loved it, but it was so badly ruined that I had to do something else with it.

I had bought some Ralph Lauren wrapping paper a bazillion years ago @ Marshall’s, & decided to see what I could do with it. I love the prints of old letters. I didn’t have enough wrapping paper to do the whole project with, so I used my trusty old hymnal book pages to finish off the sides & edges.

I decoupaged the whole thing with watered down Elmer’s glue. I was ready to do the project right then, & didn’t want to have to go buy supplies, so Elmer’s glue it was.

I then stained the whole thing with Walnut stain & Viola’ I was finished!

M ended up liking it & I was able to keep it in the house.

I once again passed the test!

That’s what I do!

 

Tomorrow I’ll be finishing up a big design job that I’ve been working on. I can’t wait to show you the reveal.

Have a happy weekend!

 

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The Current: Summer, Bring It On!

May 17, 2012 By 2 Comments

Yay, I found my new summer color today. I’ve been searching the stores looking for this color. All sold out.

Silly me, why didn’t I just think to look online in the 1st place.

Oh, & guess what the color is called?

Mermaid Tears 

Do you have a new favorite color for summer?

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Inspire Some Summer Fun Chart

May 17, 2012 By 1 Comment

Are ya’ll ready for summer time?

To be honest, I have mixed emotions about summer. I do love the amount of sleep I get, but towards the end of summer the kids are clearly ready for school to start & @ that point I am too. It will be a very low key summer for us, so that means doing lots of cheap, but fun things. It’s about making memories & that’s what’s most important.

To get my kids ready for summer I made our “Inspire Some Summer Fun” chart for this year. I change the big paper with the activities each year. The “Inspire Some Summer Fun” part I leave.

 

Here’s my same mixed up letters header.

My Washi tape that I use for everything.

We check the boxes off as we do the activities.

 

 

We’ll be swimming in our pool almost every day.

Do you like this idea? I think it’s a great idea because by the end of summer we can look & see that we did have some fun after all. The charts our proof, & the kids can’t complain that we didn’t do anything. You know how kids get by constantly saying, ” I’m borrrreeeddd, Mom.”

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The Current: Summer Sandals

May 15, 2012 By 1 Comment

The summer is fast approaching.

I’m in the process of planning out our summer. I like to use a big poster board, or whatever looks cute to me @ the moment to write all of our fun plans on. I’m gonna make one using scrapbooking materials this year. If its up in my house all summer, it has to be cute of course. :)  I’ll share that with you tomorrow, but for now here’s some sandals I’ve bought so far for the spring/summer.

I usually don’t spend a ton of $ on sandals, except for maybe one pair. I wear them so much that they’re pretty much worn out by the end of the summer.

Okay, here’s my one pair that I did spend a bit of $ on. These are my going out with the hubby sandals. These are a bit dressy, & not like a flip-flop. Me love them.

Verra Wang: Kohl’s- On sale for $15.00

I’ve even worn these to church before. Patent-leather adds a dressy touch.

You can tell by my foot impressions that I wear these quite a bit.

Target: I think $12.99

Target: $13.00

I love these for a couple of reasons:

They have a bit of a heal, & they have black bottoms, so when there’s scuff marks it’s not that noticeable.

These are cute with my swimsuits.

Now show me what you’ve bought.

 

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Mother’s Day & Snippets

May 14, 2012 By 1 Comment

I hope everyone had a great Mother’s Day. I wanted to share a cute idea & my special little Mother’s Day gifts from my hubby & kiddos.

If your anything like me you like having a place to hang notes, chore charts, to do lists, messages & such for your kids. I came up with these cute boards for each of my kids. I made small ones for M & I.

I used to have individual chalk boards but I was ready to change em’ up a bit & do something different. I’m gonna hang these on little vintage pins & put a hook under each clipboard.

I took ripped up book pages & taped them to the boards with Washi tape. Each flash card is the beginning letter of the kiddos names.

I used a jute bow, & clipped them to the boards with clothes pins. You could also sepia tone some photos of each child & tape those to the boards.

I made this one for myself. We all know I’m “Queen Raquel.” :)

MoTher’S dAY GiFtIeS…

Don’t you just love how my little munchkins made my cards & the cute little doll in brown? They know me so well.

M knows me well too. Anything LV I’m on board with. A little note book for my little thoughts. I’m always needing to jot something down so I won’t forget.

I was able to sleep in, but then again I pretty much get that chance anytime since my children are older. I took a nap after church, & M made me dinner & dessert. My choice was Hoagie Veg subs & lime sherbet for dessert.

I hope you had a great weekend. What did you do for Mom’s day?

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