Letters!

I love wooden letters! They are very easy to decorate with and make such a statement!

What you need 

The letters of your choosing. Could be your initials, full name, or a saying like "Love"

Clear Industrial strength glue such as E6000 or Multi purpose cement- be sure to read the back of your product carefully. Different glues do not work well with plastics or rubber.

Ribbon- you will need double the hanging length and it needs to be sturdy enough to support the weight of your letter

 and Just a few idea extras:

Silk flowers, metal clippings, buttons

Mod podge glue if you decide to decoupage with papers

Stencils and paint

You can add picture hangers to the back to make displaying easier and less demanding on your hanging ribbon. 

This one I made for Vanessa's baby shower using the cement to attach the moon and star. I kept it simple so the mommy to be could add any colors she decides to decorate with.

This one was made for a Dear friends Birthday!

The "family" was brad nailed on thanks to my wonderful hubby!

I used some metal jewelry accents and iron on flowers- glued on though! 

These two are huge- they are actually cardboard and not wood but I loved the size. Here I used stencils and paint so that the boys could help and pick out what they wanted.

We topped them off with a messy hand print!

All of the letters shown are from JoAnn's fabric store. I hope you have fun with this one! There are so many ways to decorate them! 

Hope you have a great weekend! 

Christine, Alex and Luke

P.s. We have had over 1000 Visits! Thank you all so much! 

Burr it's cold outside!

Its January and we have so much planned for this month!

Friends coming for a weekend, skiing, and a trip to Dallas all to be topped off with my husbands brother being back from Iraq! The Lord really has blessed us already this year. 

(this was our 2010 trip- looking through all the old pictures is making me so excited to be going again!)

To wrap up the last year we finally finished up the Office/Guest room for our first over-night guests! The yellow is a bit more butter than cream like I had envisioned but it still adds the warmth we were looking for.

Made a Few extra white throw pillows

 Really pretty rose pattern and a satin sash

A little bit of blue and a few cute accents! 

And of course some fun baskets to fill up the bookshelves!

Well we hope you have a warm and wonderful week and be sure to have some hot cocoa!

With Love, The Reeds

Never Say Never

You know that saying "Never say Never"? Well it has come around to show me just how true it is.  There are two things I always said I'd "never" do. 

The first was painting a wall in our home a really bright color. The thought scared me about how bold it might be. Let me interject that my husband and I have a really hard time agreeing on color. I would say green he would say BLAH, I would say blue he would say nursery! The only color he wanted was red. I was so reluctant to buy it that when I was in the store I asked different sales people what they thought! Well after losing the vote 8 yes to 2 no I ended up buying a gallon of "Wild Rose". Three coats later and I think I like it! I know this sounds funny but it looks bright and warm at the same time! With it being on just one wall it really gave our tiny living room that pop that everyone talks about. Now just to put the living room back together! 

My second has to deal with salesmen.. I really don't mind when your in a store and someone tries to sell you something, after all that is their job but it's when they come to your home and bother your children's nap that I start to get my feathers ruffled. (Yes I love Schwans and that's different. I schedule for that! My Schwans lady has her timing down so perfect I never have to worry about the boys)

This morning we all had an apt with the dentist at 8 so we had an early start. Once we got home we had lunch and soon after I put the boys down for their nap. 30 minutes later a young guy Probably late 20's is knocking at my door offering me a "free" pack of Lysol wipes. I asked "whats the catch are they poisoned?!" He runs off laughing and returns with his foreign friend who starts telling me all about this wonderful vacuum. He ask me to bring out mine and begins to vacuum a small portion of the floor. Oh Did I mention that I was in the middle of painting? So my living was all pushed to the front so he had literally 2 ft to work with!  Then he puts mine aside and uses his with the little side dirt catcher. Needless to say to picked up a bunch of sand and hair... all the while I'm thinking yea tell a women how dirty her house is and wake up her kids .. that'll make her want to buy something! The boys come in and he continues on with his demonstration and begins to pour baking soda all over rubbing it in well and giving my boys all sorts of wonderful ideas on how to destroy mommies house. He once again uses the vacuum and shows us how it pulls the soda "all" back up all the while swapping out the little circles and leaving nice little piles. I could see the look on Luke's face just waiting for no one look so he can grab it!  On he went with all the attachments and then he  pulls out a folder with pictures of dust mites to gross you out- as if the dirt and hair weren't enough. Goes on to the sales pitch and I tell him I need to talk to my husband first and he packs up all of his stuff. His partner who has been sitting on the couch this whole time quiet beings to say that they have to get up to Canadian next and starts in on a bunch of Canada jokes about bacon and health care. I just look at him and say yea I've heard that one before but you might not want to mention it to any of them. After laying the boys back down I show them to the door. I walk back into the living room to find those dirty little circles still laying in the floor but all the dirt that was on them... gone.... Wonder who could have done that... ;)   

So I wont say that I will "never" let another salesman in but I shall "try not to" let another vacuum sales person in my home again!

Happy Halloween! 

This year our boys are going to be "thing one" and "thing two" from Dr. Seuss's Cat in the hat. We bought red footed pj's and made the emblem out of felt! The only thing left is some blue hair... 

Progress in the laundry room! This is the new wall border I put up. It is just on one wall so that it wasn't to overwhelming. 

Our project for the day...
With just some simple L brackets

 an old board...

and a little bit of black paint

you get a custom shelf! So simple but it worked out wonderfully!

This was Evan's latest project. I was so happy to finally have a place to display my grandmothers sewing machine. All the rest is pretty much just stuff!

Here are those metal panels I was talking about earlier from Coyote Candle. They are really pretty I just have to find some where else for them to go! Maybe the back of a shadow box?

CHRISTMAS!!!

I'm getting really excited about Christmas this year! For the first time we are having my family here at our home! So that means I get to cook the ham and put up a HUGE tree!! Decorate!!! It has put me into a tizzy too! lately I have had a creative bug. I can not seem to stop painting and sewing! Im sure that its almost to the point of driving my family bonkers but at least all the little projects are getting finished! 

Painted a bench..  

still need to finish the feet! 

 Made some curtains!

Before 

New rod (unpainted)

The material I ordered!  

All finished!

So happy with how they turned out! Just long enough to brush the ground but not puddle to much! they are super wide too.. I probably could have cut one panel in half and made two more curtains but I'm starting to like how they bunch at the top!  

Now I'm working on a new shelf in the laundry room and putting all the finishing touches on our kitchen! I will post more pictures soon!

Busy little bees

Work Work Work.....

Oh what all have we been up to!
Our "temporary house until we can find a bigger one" has turned into a home. After three years of living here I'm pretty well settled! We finally put the go ahead to start making it ours this past January. We started with the living room. Painted the paneling (which to most is a huge "no no") but I couldn't help myself. I was living in a world of brown. From the walls to the carpet- our couches are even a dark leather. Needless to say it was way to much. So the first color I picked was a light blue- one of my favorites. Turns out its not such a great wall color! Once on the wall it turned our living room into a nursery! So now WE are sorting through swatches and chips and have moved on to the kitchen. The old cabinets are now an antique black, and we painted the walls a mid grey. Really gave the kitchen have a "country" feel.

Before

After

Above the fridge

Evan knocked out an old key cabinet and built me a new pantry. You can now pull out the shelves too! 

 hand painted my canisters. Just Love polka dots!

My Inspiration for our kitchen 
  

  

The panels I made.... no need for a large window covering when you have a beautiful view!

New faucet and white scroll detail Evan added- so pretty!

We put up an antique light and now are moving our way to the counter tops and back splash. We know for sure we want a tin look but we still can not decide between real or faux. I found some real tin panels at Coyote candle in Lubbock Texas but Evan wasn't totally sold so we just bought one and brought it home. Good thing he spoke up too. Found the raised punches to be a bit to much but it will some make for some great art work in the office!