Cost Plus Worldmarket wows...

I am fortunate enough to live about 10 minutes from our local World Market and I certainly take advantage :)  They have some awesome things right now that could fit into any home and at a much more affordable cost than their competitors.  We have a sofa from them and I love how its holding up (especially with Meg who tends to drool a lot, brings in endless mud and pinecones, and loves to lay on it). :)   Here are some of my favorite finds lately:

Also, I may have to pick up this little beauty just 'cause:

weekend in pictures...

Hello all, happy Wednesday!  I hope you had a nice Easter weekend.  I stole the kiddos away for the weekend so daddy could have some peace and quiet, and so that we could visit my brother and their family.  It is about a 5-hour drive so we buckled down with some movies  (and me with a audio book, 'Divergent'.  Soooo good) and we were on our way!  Some of our highlights included:

• Making animal pancakes (can you guess what they are?)
• Hitting up my favorite park (Lithia Park in Ashland)
• Going to ScienceWorks museum
• Camel ride on Calvin at the "safari" on the way home
• Shopping at my favorite store ever!  "Prize" in Ashland.  You.Must.Go.There.
• Swimming and going down a 2-story waterslide!! 
• Visited a stream where we threw rocks and sticks
• Fed some bunnies (Luna and Luigi)...after all, it was Easter ;)
• And we got the call mid-weekend that Maddux won the local Albertsons coloring contest and he replied "this is the best weekend ever!"

Cabinet, anyone?...

 

So, I definitely have the "builder-bug" after the headboard so now I am moving onto a large project that is probably WAY over my head.  I work at a molding, mill work, and door company which supplies anything you could really need to remodel your existing home or build a new one!  Now that I am more comfortable in my role, I have a little more time to learn about all the products that we offer.  I didn't really know what was all available (all the doors, mill work and molding types, railing, shelving, mdf...).  The world of this stuff is endless!  I built the headboard from all products I got at work, and with a nice little employee discount available it makes it a little easier to take on new projects.  

So,  when I saw a few interior doors in the trash pile at work my wheels starting turning.  I snagged them up before I even had a plan, and then got 4 more :/  I know, I am a little nuts.  So, in our garage right now I have a half-finished kitchen table and 6 doors.  Yikes!  

My plan is to make a few cabinets (3 sets of doors and each set is unique=3 totally different cabinets!!!)...I am sure one of them will fall over, and one will lean, so hopefully by the third one we will have a winner!  They all need major prep work and obviously a bunch of materials, but I think they will be some good summer projects.   Here is some more inspiration I gathered up:

Any advise on this?  Have you ever worked on anything like this before?  Email me at: ladybirdandfellow@yahoo.com.  Thanks!!

kitchen table (before)...

I stumbled on this table for $25 at the local Union Gospel Mission store and snagged it up quick.  I thought the legs were awesome but it was in some need of major work.  Silly me, I put our old kitchen table on Craigslist and it sold within 12 hours so as of now we have no table in the kitchen so we've been having a lot of meals at the dining room table or alfresco.  :)

I already have it sanded and primed, but I thought I would share these awful before pics.  I won't be able to finish for a few more weekends, but I am excited to move it into the kitchen. 

Have a great weekend!