renovation mamma

bathroom redo: new shelves for some new space..

TA DA!!!!complete with a cute green knob.. my favorite home decor color ..... AND, only $6 .. amazing.. i love thrift stores..

...the process of painting,on our wood floor, in boxer shorts and a pony tail.. NO, i did not get paint in my hair this time.. but there might be a stitch on the floor.. oops

jonathan sanding the cupboard doors.. we painted them white for under the sink and bought some knobs as there were none.. now our kitchen flows better..

she is all worn out from moms and pops home expo in the middle of the living room and getting yelled at.. DONT get in the paint, DONT jump on the cabinets.. DONT DONT DONT.. ;)

Well as you can see.. it was a HOME improvement weekend.. we painted cupboards, put on knobs, installed two new shelves in our bathroom, took a little plant stand I found at the thrift store and painted it white.. (*complete with a cute knob necessity from Anthropologie of course. ).. it was all about making more storage and updating our little apartment as much as we can.. *(cause we might be there longer than we think.. siiiiiiiiiigh)

It was quite fun actually, though I must say it was sunny outside which made me a little antsy.. BUT, it was worth it now that our kitchen looks more seamless, and our bathroom has more shelves to put MORE STUFF on ..:)

*( the shelves are behind the door above the radiator )..

So, heres to updates!!! ;)

a find

the ugly, yet somehow beautiful free pitcher as promised..

...very art deco style.. will go with my Jadite collection

it truly is summer

josie and crow

olives and more olives

thinking about the fall days when we use to be travelling partners.. ill try not to get jealous of all your foreign markets with chandeliers and old rickety things that i like so much.. instead ill remember that i was at an old world italian market once upon a time as well..
what an experience that we were able to do together! I am so glad years later that we got over stupid insecurities and said:"you know what, lets just do Italy together.." it turned from something that would have probably been miserable,into one of the best experiences of my life..
and costa
and korea following right afterwards..
wish i could be in Buenos Aires, this time i am really wishing i could come visit, that city calls to me for some reason..
not to worry.. i might get there yet.. some day..
when Jonathan and i make millions :)

hurray..
heres to picking OLIVES in italy..CHECK that off the life list ! ;)

Jos

I am sending along a few choice pictures that I thought you would enjoy....for one reason or another :)

what can I say..she's a beaut! I look like a Dr. Seuss character...not to mention, how chubby can my face get?

Need I say more.....REALLY.....
(oh, I should give props to Kip. Only great husbands take pictures of their wives with sexy symbols!)

Believe me....I've got my eyes pealed for anything Eva at the moment!

summer sunburns

Well here is Milan in all its glory.. their house, the gardens bursting into bloom,claire blowing bubbles, the garden utensils etc.. it was so stinking humid the whole time we were there I thought I was going to pass out, or at the least wring my shirt out with ounces of sweat. We set up an outside kiddie pool which was eventually taken over by the adults!!
Since all these pics were taken on June 21, I can officially say they were taken on the FIRST day of summer, and the longest day of summer.. the ole eqinox. fry and egg on the pavement and all that stuff.. though i cant say we did that, we did: play croquet, read the end of Twilight series, sat on the porch in granny rockers watching a thunderstorm roll in, went to a 'local' auction, ate food fresh from the garden, celebrated a pricess birthday and grilled out!!! yumm.. are you feeling jealous over there in the Fall season miss argentina?
will post some more pics from the weekend perhaps later.. busy as all get out..

ohhh summer.. how i love thee..

Hope you enjoy some of the garden delights!

Josie

come home lady , come home

Come home so we can make sweets and get sick off of eating too many strawberries BEFORE puttin them in the pie..

work it.. !!! strike a pose

Ok so seriously this is ALOT of pictures of Jordash.. BUT, .. the other day i suggested to him that i would like to take a couple of pics for his record.. and he was like.. ahh , yeah, we can try it out.. so we had a day of FUNNN!
we just went on a friday afternoon and tooled around St Paul, just like you and i would do.. just finding random walls, and backgrounds and textures.. IT WAS SOO MUCH FUN.. we both were laughing and had a bunch of weird things happen to us. (*this one place we stopped at was a craxy old antique store with crazy men who were like : " work it.. strike a pose, ah huh" and there was junk all over and we were like, what the heck.. this is too much fun.
totally reminded me of you and i, except that he and i were able to go places i wouldnt feel safe going with just you and i .. (*or you and i and a ball gown.. )
either way, we took like 20 or so good pics.. ill show you more if you like.. but i already think this is too many..
tell me which ones you like!

Hurray for photo shoots..

(*wish i was as good as you are with a camera!)

H

brunette, ??

well noelle, i got bored, and now i am a brunette..

chandelier charades

Well its true..the hunt was on, and I found yet another find.. and THIS is why I need my own shop.. I did some successful haggling at a garage sale this weekend and bought a chandelier for 5 whopping dollars..

all I had to do was some healthy pulling apart and cleaning it, and WALLLAH.. a brand new chandelier.. !!!
The thing is though, J. still hates chandeliers with a vengeance as he is male and thinks they are wayyyy too feminine.. so .. I perhaps will be selling it on craigslist if I cannot convince him otherwise, .. (*but wouldn’t it be cute somewhere in a new house  wink)
either way, if I sell it or if I keep it .. it was worth a little elbow grease to make it shineeeeeeeeee .. !!

**the other chandelier from bethel thant fell out of the wall and FELL ON MY HEAD is still at my mothers house as i am still not over the cold veggies on my forehead :)

mossy love

i am feeling like i have a green thumb! and i want to go crazy planting things.. Yesterday jonathan DID make a windowbox that is not a hazard for the people below us.. i will have to take a picture of it for you.. so now the cat wont die, and we have some green things to cultivate.. (*if they dont die while we are on vacation next week)..

we are back in the saddle again.. planting away..
we are growing GRASS too, because it is simple and has fast results :)

heeh

GREEN THUMB here i come

Our Fall Favorites!

These are just a few of the things that I dream of for this coming fall-winter...whenever we get back. I hope my 'fun' budget can handle running around to Cub for ingrediants, Unique for a new wool sweater (or sequened dress), and random book stores along the way!

not quite this daring

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ell, i had a blusher veil, but would not have been quite this daring :) i like that dress too.. hmm.. i wonder if you can find that at savers :)hehehe

greenhouse effect

So this weekend , Jonathan and I were walking around our neighborhood, and this lady was throwing out some of her plants because she had too many, so we hauled them back home and trans-potted them (*in our dining room, which had dirt EVERYWHERE.. ) .. so now we have living plants again for our little green house. (*last time we tried they all died when we went on vacation..).

SO.. jonathan decided to try to make a window box where he proceeded to try to secure them on our windowsill, but we gave up the idea when we decided we didn’t want a lawsuit if it fell, planter and all, onto a Carbones’ Customer’s head  ..

Even still, now we have some plant life to brighten up our little world. The cat has desperately tried to get at them to eat the leaves.. we are worried she will get sick if we leave any out.. crazy cat once again ;)