New project

We purchased this great "old" looking new piece of furniture from Home Goods-score for $150. 

This puppy is going into the 1/2 bathroom downstairs with a copper vessel sink on top-similar to this look (I am using a decorative bowl for the demonstration)

So sure-the project could stop right there, but that wouldn't be a Hammond project now would it?  We thought about possibly painting the back wall with a suede paint look and then repainting the remaining walls a blue color, but I wasn't sold on it.  I really wanted something different (wait for it!)
Option one-nahhhh-Just wasn't doing it for me. 

I had seen these great tiles at Lowe's and just knew that either one would look awesome on that back wall (with surrounding walls painted that pretty blue color)  So now I am trying to decide which tiles I like better.  I am leaning towards one, but which would you pick?

A little bit of this and that

Hammond and I took Friday off together and started off the weekend early.  We thought we'd take the boat out with the dogs so that it wouldn't be the typical crazyiness on the water.  Mother Nature had another idea for us.  Can you say small craft advisory. 

So plan B was I cleaned the upstairs while Chad cut the grass-watch out excitement!  We took the dogs for a walk in this great park not too far from our house.  See this tree-who do you think climbed it?  And I'll give you a hint-it walks on four legs and is quite the sassy dog.

Yep, this doggie climbed up that tree and without a lot of coaxing from Chad. She trusts waaaaay too much.  All he did was say "squirrel" point up the tree and away she went.

Hmmm...I might be up higher than I should..

But Daddy did say there was a squirrel

Stupid Daddy-no squirrel in this tree...

After a walk in the woods, we went over to Home Goods in Mt. P and found the perfect piece for our downstairs 1/2 bath.  And now a new project begins.  It started out just being a new furniture piece with a vessel sink and now it has become a complete bathroom re-do with tile and paint.  Sigh.....why are we so difficult??!!!  So more to come on that later this week.

We went and say Harry Potter in IMAX 3D.  That was my first 3D movie and after I got used to it, I really enjoyed it. 

Saturday I helped a good girlfriend organize her place and then we went out and got new curtains and accessories.  It looked so good by the time we were done.  Should have took pictures, but we were too busy.

Now I am just waiting on this evening.  A group of friends are meeting to say goodbye to our buddy Chris who is venturing out to the Domincan Republic.   I'm excited, because that means I have a new awesome resort to get a discount at. :)



Random things I am loving....

I just got the recent issue of Viva Terra, a really great magazine dedicated to green living. Right away the cover caught me. I don't know what it is about roosters, but I heart them. A lot. In fact I have one in my kitchen on top of my cabinets. And I heart him too. He's so darn cute. And there really isn't anything country about my house, but just looking at the rooster makes me want to move out to the country and own an old farmhouse.


Ok, back to the magazine. Here's the adorable rooster from the cover:

And the proceeds go to a great cause too!

I am loving this mirror too, although I am not sure where I would put it. Maybe it would look good in my guest bathroom upstairs.  I also love the dining console too, although it might be a little too rustic for my dining room.  But I still think it is really nice....

How about this backyard?  Could you not just picture yourself here sipping on a nice Firefly cocktail?  Only thing missing is a pool.  Then it would be perfect!



My husband is a saint

No really-Chad is.  There are many reasons I love him and many times I have thought-"Why is he with me??"  But here's just one example how great he is:

He  makes me dinner every night.  Yep, that's right-EVERY. SINGLE. NIGHT.  And in this case-a freakin' torrential downpour:

I think the idea that night was that I was to help him bring the food off the grill (in the rain) but I was too busy laughing at how ridiculous it was outside and taking pictures of him getting soaked.    I said it already, but I mean it-He's a saint.

Here was our dinner off the grill one night when it wasn't a downpour-YUM:

Now, have I cooked dinner before, yes, I even blogged on it.  But I just don't enjoy it like he does.  So who am I to take away his joy.  Ha ha...Plus when I cook it usually involves my friend Vino:

Love you Chad-you really are good to me.  :)

Dreaming of shutters

I've been wanting to put shutters on our house FOR-EVER, but somehow that "lil" project keeps getting postponed.  I thought maybe if I show Hammond how great they'd look, he'd hop on it this fall.  (It is too hot out for me to not be able to park in the garage.  The garage would be where we'd end up painting, etc and well I'm too used to a nice cool car in the mornings!)

So here is a shot of the house from last month:

And what it would look like with shutters.  Whatcha think?  A good fall project for C. Hammond?  (Excuse the faux shutters-I used Microsoft Paint and I don't have a steady hand)

Sunday decorating

This weekend went by really quickly.  We both had back to back turns at two of our three houses-so Saturday was spent on the island.  Saturday evening we had friends over for a little cook out and I will NEVER AGAIN EAT ANOTHER BURGER FOR AS LONG AS I LIVE.  There I put it out there in blog space.  I have never been so violently ill after eating as I was Saturday night.  (I'll spare you the details-but it wasn't purdy at all)

Sunday I wasn't feeling 100% so I took the morning slowly and then finally worked up enough energy to leave the house.  Chad's brother had our boat (which was good b/c I was in no mood to be in the heat) so we went shopping.  I had been wanting to put up some random pictures that I have take over the years, so we made a quick trip up to Michael's.  I snagged a bunch of frames at 50% off and came home to start printing pictures. 

Here's our stairway landing before:

Pretty lame huh?  So we added a series of pictures to help liven it up:

I really love how it all turned out.  Next up is adding pictures on either side of my mirror and above my dresser in my master bedroom.  (It's pretty vanilla in my bedroom-why do I fix up all the other rooms except my own??-weird)

Yeah, that's right.  My bed is totally unmade.  I told you I didn't feel well!!  So three pictures are going to be on either side of the mirror.  I haven't figured out what configuration, but I have printed some cute pics of me and Hammond.

Brought to you by the Letter "H"

I may or may not have dropped a pretty big hint a while back to Dirt Diva (who by the way has amazing stuff on her site-you should check it out.  ) about a cool moss letter.  (Hint found HERE)  I honestly (and yes I mean honestly) did not expect her to make me one, but being that she's as sweet as they get, she made me one!  WOO to the HOO people!!  (Check out her blog on it Mossy "H")

I was like a kid on Christmas waiting for Santa the mailman to drop it off on our front porch.  The day it did arrive, I didn't get home from work until late, so I had to wait until the next day to open it.  Silly me waited until AFTER I had cleaned the house and proceeded to watch Chad open it in the kitchen.  Yep, had to run the sweeper again-super clean kitchen after getting cleaned 2X.

Dirt Diva did such an awesome job making this and even enlisted her man to help with the packaging!  Now that's a team if I do say so myself!  The box even came with instructions!

However, my favorite part of the box was this:

Told ya she was sweet!

Dirt Diva had an incredible bow on the H but for whatever reason Chad & I couldn't figure out how to make it work on the door.  (I lack total creativity)  So we sniped the bow (Sorry Dirt Diva) and hung it on the front door.  We love it way more than the flower we originally had and all of my neighbors are super jealous of it.  Score one for the Hammonds!!! 

Thanks girl!  You really made my week.  I'm not creative but I have awesome hookups at a pretty cool resort, so if I can ever create an unbelievable vacation for you, you call me. 
Ps-seriously ya'll need to check out her site-she even hand makes greeting cards-now how cool is that????