Procrastinated Photo Frames

I have had these picture frames in our bedroom for over 2 1/2 years. They've been hanging empty. Sad right? I almost worked up the ambition to fill the picture frames over a year ago. Back then I was planning on using all wedding pictures {see here}. But now that we've been married for almost three years {dun dun dun!} We have other memories I'd like to hang on the wall. And since we just got a huge wedding picture for our second anniversary, I thought our house is already Wedding-Fantastic enough.

So today I got brave and ordered three prints. Memorial weekend sales helped give me the boost. We narrowed the five options I had to these three that I photoshoped into the frames. We sure are cute, right?

I killed them

I didn't use to be a plant killer. In fact, I used to be the plant whisperer. But ever since I married Chris I lost my edge for it. And now I'm lucky just to keep my plants alive. My potted plants from last year can not be counted along with the lucky ones. Well maybe except for one...

I think this plant should bring some pretty purple flowers, if it truly is a surviving plant from last year. The rest of the little green sprouts are forget me nots seeds that I planted. I've been enjoying watching them come up, but my pots still looked a little too sad for spring.

Those dead looking sticks are actually green on the inside, so I didn't pull them out with the rest of the dead plants. But after weeks of watering them and seeing nothing but dead looking sticks I was ready to see them go. I got a coupon in the mail for free flowers from a local nursery. So I thought I'd go take a look. I came back with 2 free flowers, and 3 flowers that I bought. I've decided I love nurseries. 

First I had to take out the dead looking sticks, but if you look close you can see that a couple forget me nots came with them. Since I've turned into such a plant killer, I can't hardly stand purposefully ruining the chances of a little plant, so I carefully relocated many forget me nots.

 

I hope I can keep all of these alive through the Summer!

Office {Snail Pace Style}

Things move a little slow around here. I just got to painting the crown molding in the office. The trim has been up for, oh, about a year. I had to get lots lots of trim up quick since our hallway looked like this:

But I didn't get around to finishing out the crown in the office till just the other day. {The bedroom crown is yet to be finished}. Even though the office progression has been slow, it has come a long way.

Since then we've put in:

• A shelf above the Closet
• A photo wall
• Board and Batten
• Trim around the window
• A new fan
• and of course the crown molding

I got the crown molding for a super good deal off of craigslist. {see what else I got here}

 

Here I am painting. I don't use tape, because, even though it takes longer, doing it free hand really does a better job. Tape never seems to really leave a straight edge. And, oh yeah, those are my pajama jeans. Just FYI. They're pretty bomb.

I like our photo wall, even though not every picture/painting is perfect. But it's fun to have things up that we've made, and things that are important to us.

I still can't get over how much I love my Aslan.

You know, something I learned with this project? I love Durham Rock Hard Putty. No joke, I'm never going back to normal putty again.

Fun stuff. I'm really relieved the crown is finally finished in here. Now I just have the bedroom.... dun dun dun!