November GOALS!

Since I JUST posted about my late September and October goals I figured I should set some goals for November.   Here are some things I hope to accomplish...


1.  Paint the kitchen!  This is a HUGE job that will take some mullah for paint and supplies... SO, if I cant finagle it this month then I will scale down my goal and paint the downstairs bath instead!


2.  Continue collecting plates for my plate wall.  I have 7 now... need about 7 or 8 more  before they can go up.


3.  Make a picture wall in my family room... I'm thinking something like these...  just not sure if I should go with all 1 color frame like black or white OR if I should mix it up and use black, white, silver, gold... what do you all think? 

Source: Nuestra Vida Dulce

Source: Young House Love

That's it!  I think November is going to be a uber busy month with family and shopping and cooking so I am keeping my goals to a minimum. 

What are your goals for November? 

Carolyn

Goal Update!

First of all-- HAPPY HALLOWEEN everyone!

K..now that the formalities are out of the way lets get to business.  Time to figure out if I was successful in meeting my September/October goals or if I fell flat on my face and failed miserably.  Lets take a look shall we?

Here were the goals that I set on September 20th... i.e. 6 weeks ago. 

1. Find a table to go between these living room chairs... 

2. Fall up my front stoop

3. Revive my coffee table that looked like this...

4.  Maintain my weight loss

5.  Make some art- a la Young House Love.

Here is the low down on how I did...

1.  GOAL: Find a table to go between my living room chairs. How did I do?  Well I will tell you... I FAILED miserably.  Lets be real though people, if the thrift store doesn't have anything then I am out of luck.  Still on the search.

2.  GOAL:  Fall up my front stoop.  Well you all know that I was successful here!  Look at my pretty after:  

3.  GOAL:  Revive my coffee table.  MAJOR success!  Take a look at the before pic above and at the after below...  I am a smitten kitten. 

4.  GOAL: Maintain weight loss.  Not sure after this Halloween weekend but as of a few days ago I had maintained!

5.  GOAL: Make some art like Young House Love did.  Massive Fail.  I promise it wasn't based on my effort... I tried to follow the directions but I could never get the cute little cut out "T" large enough to fill more than a 3x5 frame.  For some reason me and directions do not mix at all! 

So basically out of 5 goals I was successful in 3 of them and I failed miserably at two of them..

BUT to look at the much brighter side here are ALL the other things I accomplished during those 6 weeks...

1.  Updated a dresser

2.  Made a new little jewelry holder from a $2.00 thrift store find

3.  Painted my front door!

4.  Updated my Mantel for Halloween

5.  Made some art

Hope you all had a BUSY and productive month!

Carolyn

time to get serious

I decided to mirror some of my favorite bloggers and post some upcoming goals for the month.  Since September is just about kaput I decided these are my goals for September and October.   Maybe if I write them down I will accomplish them... we will see:)


September and October Goals:


1.  Find a table to go between my living room chairs. I'm thinking I could find the perfect glass and metal tiered table from a thrift store. The search is on!

2.  Fall-up my front stoop!  Add some mums and I am deciding between the ribbon pumpkins or the house number pumpkins. If I go with the ribbon pumpkins I would go with large pumpkins and if I go with house numbers I have 5 to carve.  What do you think? 

3.  Attempt to save my coffee table.  This is the story... we bought a coffee table exactly 14 months ago and it is the cheapest hunk of junk I have ever owned.  Unfortunately the store has a NO return policy (note to self.. run the opposite direction when a store doesn't back their products) so we are stuck with it.  About 3 months after getting the table we started noticing that the cheap veneer top coat was chipping off.  Now this is what we have...


We have tried purchasing the wood markers but this isn't wood-- it's fake veneer so I am going to get crafty and try to sand and paint and if that doesn't work I may attempt to decoupage fabric on the top of it like Nicole at Parlour did (see pic below!! P.S. I would link to her site but my link feature is not working.  You can find her on my favorite blogs list!). It's already ruined so I am OK with experimenting.  Let me know if you have any other neat ideas for me to try.

What I am currently dealing with:)

Example of decoupaging from Parlour! 

4. Maintain weight loss.  This is in no way a "diet blog" but I have lost about 45-50 pounds and I have every intention of keeping it off.  Maintaining my weight in September and October is a pretty big goal.

Here is a before and after picture:)  They are almost exactly 1 year apart.

July 2009 Beach Trip

September 2010 Beach Trip
P.S. I am NOT pregnant.. my pants happen to be
REALLY high and they make me look a little lumpy :(

5.  Make some art!  I love this "letter" art work that was made by some of my favorite bloggers at Young House Love (again, I cant link but you can click on their blog located under my favorite blogs list.  This project is posted under Most Popular Projects under the Projects tab at the top of the page).

This is their finished product!

This is how they did it!
They found a large letter from a magazine
article and cut out the surrounding
letters/words and blew it up by 300%!

That's it!  Here's to making some things happen in September and October!  What are YOUR goals??

Carolyn