summer has been good so far! not amazingly peaceful by any means, but certainly not the whine-fest i had been dreading. we gave into the pool membership pressure (you have to go about 17 times to make it a ‘good deal’ money wise), so we’ve been to the WG pool a lot. we’ve done a few things on the summer to-do list with moderate to high degrees of success. we’ve had VBS this week, tons of therapy (speech & occupational) for julia, lots of dinners with friends… and i was worried we would get bored!

see that faint pattern? i think it’s called a Greek Key pattern. anyway, i’m planning to color that part in dark blue- similar to the color on our dining room walls. actually, not just similar- i’m going to use the same paint since i have almost 1 gallon leftover. pictures of this project to come as well… hopefully successful pictures, not sad ‘look at the rug i ruined’ pictures. : )

we’ve also been hitting some garage sales! julia (and matt, of course) scored big with all the Cars characters for $5- she loves lining them all up and then taking a few select cars to bed with her.
i hit it particularly big with an estate sale find of 8 older mason jars for $1-$2 each! even the large ones- all but 1 with the original glass fitted lid. and some ironstone, some glass plates, and a funky old shelf that i’m going to repaint & put in our family room. pictures of that project later!
this was less fun… i was blending up some slow roasted tomatoes for a soup & i exploded them all over my kitchen. this picture doesn’t do it justice- it was in every crevice of the window trim, and our tiered fruit/veggie basket was completely covered. and i scalded my hand. huge bummer, but the soup turned out really well!
last but certainly not least- my free adirondack chairs! i found these beauties (yes, there are 2 of them) while out running on sunday morning! they fold up nicely, are very sturdy and are such a unique style- i LOVE them! i had 2 offers to buy them from me, but i’m just not parting with them, ladies. now, if you want to rummage in my basement for random decor & furniture items to buy… well, that’s a whole other story. and probably another ‘home goods swap party’ in the near future!