Concan....Not Cancun and the Frio River....

So, I know I know...its been wayyyy to long since my last post....WHAT gives...I've actually been busy!!! So so so so busy with my tanning business! I love it, but no time to breathe :) So, Im up right now at about 7am. Got Preston off to school, Payton is still sleeping and I have a moment before the madness of this day is about to start. Im having a "Tan Day" at my house today. I'll be airbrushing all the live long day today b/c everybody has GOT to have a tan you know before Memorial Day weekend.

Anways, tomorrow we are leaving on vacation. A small one, but it will be a lot of fun. We are renting an rv for the first time and driving with my family down do Concan (not to be confused with Cancun...i wish! ) It's on the Frio river about 1.5 hrs from San Antonio. We are going to just relax, swim, float, fish and relax so more! I cant wait. I think Im more excited about driving the rv down there. Im a little redneck I think..ha! :) We are going to take our motorcycles down there and cruise also. Should be a great time. Ill post some pictures when we get back. Im looking forward to have nothing to do. I think I deserve it, I've been tannin' away the past few months and been crazy busy!

ps...i have sooo many pictures to post since I havent posted for a longgg time...so ill just post some random ones.

My decorating stint...

Here goes some more before/after pictures. I've found some great "junk" at goodwill latley and have just been painting my little heart out(spray painting that is)!! Things are starting to come together...that doesnt mean I'm near done though :) I've just rearranged (thanks to my moms help) tweaked and repainted mostly things I already had in my house. Im trying to change out the colors/style in my house which hasent been done for years. I love more of the greens, yellows, and blue's right now....especially green, and I think it shows..HA! Silly as it may sounds, I take my Pottery Barn magazines with me to goodwill and fabric stores to try to find similar things. I have to say we do have some pretty darn good ones here and I have been able to find some cool stuff that I have just painted and duplicated. LOVE IT!! I'm on a roll..watch out :)

LIVING ROOM BEFORE

LIVING ROOM AFTER

Painted mirror and candle sticks and found that cute lantern that was exactly like one in Pottery Barn for $60! Mine was $2.99!



These trays are so cute and popular when paired with some cute accessories. This tray was light wood and I painted it and put the hardware back on. Candle sticks gotta go though, back to goodwill :)

The whole wall, compliments of Goodwill. :)

ENTRY/BEFORE

ENTRY/AFTER
added console table/mirror and moved bookcase to entry from dining room

bookcase in entry now

console in entry

KITCHEN/BEFORE

KITCHEN/AFTER

Ive had my eye out for some shutters and just found these today...both for $10, cant beat that!

DINING ROOM/BEFORE

DINING ROOM/ AFTER

Bought both chairs for $5 @...well, you can guess where. Painted the bottoms black and then reupholstered them. See picture below.

25 Random Things About Me.....

I was "tagged" with this on facebook...but I love reading these about other people and some of my "blog friends" arent on facebook yet...(hint hint sarah :) so Im going to tag them and put mine on my blog.

1. When I was 13 I took my own braces off. I had already had them on for almost 3 years and was sick of them. So I went in the garage and got some pliers and snapped those babies off!
2. I love "dipped chocolate" cones from dairy queen, but I have to hurry and eat all the chocolate off before it dries. Wierd!
3. I can play the guitar
4. I started and Airbrush Tanning Business called Bronzed Envy. www.bronzedenvy.com :)
5. I overdo it every time I exercise. I like to feel the pain or I dont feel like Im doing any good.
6. Had a National Commercial on tv.
7. I want a motorcycle and a boat...I love outdoor toys!
8. I look at the middle of the toilet paper roll before I pick it up to put it on the holder. When I was young, we were visiting my grandma andI picked up a new roll without looking and a roach ran out. Ive been forever tramatized!
9. I wont eat ONE part of any peice of chicken b/c there is always that gross grisely vein on the edge of every peice!
10. I love the smell of the inside of new shoes...and shoe stores.??
11. I might eventually go back to school to be a dental hygienest
12. I want a horse again...I bought my very own horse that I had saved up my own money for finally when I was 13 and paid for her food and keep all on my own until I went to college and then I had to sell her:( I want another horse...I love them and I made Craig promise me that he would buy me one if I said yes to marry him. Haha!...Im still waiting. I think Im going to have to buy it myself again!
13. I want to live on a ranch...(that is close to the city too) $$$$ I want horses and cows and dirt bikes. Im still a tomboy at heart!
14. I love the beach
15. When I get an idea or goal in my head, there is NO stopping me...I WILL make it happen!
16. I love that I can contribute financially to our family. It makes me feel empowered! Dont get me wrong, I love being a stay at home mom, but there is something about the control of running your own business that is invigorating to me....it's motivating!
17. I have a bad habbit of laughing when people get hurt..not BAD hurt, but like stubbed toes or tripping or something. A guy beside me at the gym tripped on the treamill and fell and I almost fell off because I was laughing so hard...it made him feel better though, Im not one to pretend like I dont see something...I WILL laugh!
18. I want to do a fitness competition sometime this year.
19. I tend to take on to many goals/projects and then get overwhelmed but I do it anyways.
20. Procrastination motivates me. does that make any sense???....I've come to realize I think I like the challenge of waiting until the last minute to get something done and then morphing into superwoman and getting it done in record time. It makes me feel good. Hey...doesnt Dr. Phil say, "whats your pay off?"
21. When I am tired, I pick the mascara off my eyelashes. Its drives Craig nuts.
22. My husband can make me laugh so hard I cry.
23. I believe in the Law of Attraction!! It has worked so many times in my life.
24. I believe in Karma.
25. I believe there are no such thing as coincidences.

Just A Few of My Favorite Things.....Part 1

So lately I'm a little bit obsessed with finding good deals at goodwill! I think I have been to every one now in about a 20 mile radius of our house.

I-love-this-stuff!

Anything that means I get to perform "surgery" on me, my kids or hubby...I love! ha! You gotta know me for this one!




This lip plumper is from Victoria Secret for $18. Let me just tell you...it works! I used to buy a $40 plumper from Macy's until I found this. I buy the clear b/c it naturally turns your lips a rosey, shiney color.

If you've never played it, you should! Its fun and a little addictive.

I love my new watch! Craig knew I have been wanting a white face/band watch. He came home the other day and out of the blue surprized me with it. Love you babe! Be on the look out for this style, its becoming very popular and looks so dang cute on!

Might be "TMI" ...but I've wanted Laser hair removal for years and got it for Christmas! It's the coolest thing ever invented...well...almost :)

Wasabi?!?!?

Preston is in scouts and they have the "pinewood derby" coming up this weekend. So, my dad is king of making 1st place derby cars so wanted to come and get Preston this weekend to go to their house to get started on his car. Payton wanted to go to, of course, and I had a full day of tans so Craig took off Saturday morning with the kids to meet "namma and grampa" half way.

I have some clients that are huge sushi fans and keep telling me I have to try this place called "Tomo." I am leary of sushi and have a hard time disassociating what I am eating with the word "raw"......yuck. But, I wanted to branch out and was told that if I have never eaten sushi that THIS is the place to go for fabulous, authentic sushi.

So I went home and proceeded to convince Craig. It worked and off to Tomo we went! It was a very small, quaint place and we were seated right along the sushi wall. I was feeling a little timid and overwhelmed by the menu and wasn't sure about admitting we had NEVER had sushi before. I was sent prepared though...thanks to my client Tamara, she sent me with a list of what to order and when. Ha! Love it! Anyways, after we were seated the guy from behind the sushi bar reached over and placed this big square of green stuff (later to learn this is wasabi) on our plates. We both looked at it and talked about it for a few minutes. I am much more reserved about trying new things that I don't know what they are and what the ingredients are, but I guess Craig was feeling a little adventurous that night because at the exact same moment the little Japanese waitress came by to fill our water, I asked what the "green blob" was on our plate and if we could eat it...I looked over to see Craig putting the whole dang thing in his mouth and chewing. The waitress said NOOOOOOO.....and at that point there were about 4 "staff" around looking and gasping. I was still a little lost as to what was going on, but just said, "Craig, NO, your not supposed to eat that." All he was doing was holding his head in his hands, had sweat beading up on his face and breathing in and out harshly! Ohhh myyyyy!!! Then all the waitstaff (in their little Japanese accents) were telling him "SPIT OUT" "SPIT OUT" "DRINK WATAH" "DRINK WHATAH" hhhhhhhaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!

By the time he cooled down and his face turned back to a normal color we learned that what he had eaten was Wasabi. Only the most spicy of spicy fiery-hot flavors. Apparently it is the root and VERY potent and is only supposed to be added to soy sauce in small portions.

Poor Craig! Although it wasn't funny at the time, I had the giggles all night seeing it play over and over in my mind again and again! I would just bust out laughing randomly all night. ha! He said to me, "honey, you don't understand...I thought my head was going to blow up. I felt like I had been gassed." All that did was make me crack up uncontrollably again and again!

I'm just glad I didn't pop that whole thing in my mouth too....I don't think I would have handled myself the same way craig did. I would have been crying my eyes out making a scene!

As for our first sushi experience........

sushi good, wasabi BAD!!!

My Chic little bathroom :)

So today I worked on putting all my little "projects" up on the wall. Its so much fun..this whole redecorating thing. I think I'm finding a new addiction! I'm not done yet, but here is my little re-vamp so far. Im going to get new lighting and take down the big mirror and replace it with 2 single mirrors above each sink and then finish with hardware on the cabinet drawers.

Bathroom Before

Bathroom After

My cute little signs..arent they adorable??

Project "Craftiness"

So have been having the itch lately to "tweak/re-do" ok....redecorate my house. So I have been looking through magazines and decorating sites to try to find the exact style Im trying to go for. I love the shabby chic/boutique style without being too flowery (if thats a word) that sometimes shabby chic can be. I found a website that I love. This lady is so crafty and after staying up way too late looking, I went to bed with thoughts of decorating mania going on in my head! So, yesterday, project "craftiness" began. The juices are flowing and my days have been filled with cans of black spray paint and sand paper! Love it...so, here are a couple great "finds" and transformations...more to come...Im on a roll :)

Kids HAD to help

These things were goodwill finds and all started out that ugly brassy color. Yuck!


Thift store finds of the day.

Got all this for under $20 at Hobby Lobby's 90% off sale! Luvv itttt!

Look for this mirror in the "after "pict of my mantle.

These were also brassy. I primed them and sprayed them black. They are also on the "new" mantle.

Old Mantle...ugly

New mantle...cute :) For about $25!

Before (had already sprayed/faux finished the frame and decoration)

After

Laundry basket Before

Laundry Basket After (not done yet..but better)

I started out with raw wood and spray painted in "satin black" and then picked out a piece of cute scrapbook paper to glue on top of the plaque. Then I sanded down the wood b/c I like the "rustic" look! Turned out very cute!

Before

After