Refurbished

One of my projects I had this year was to fix up the kitchen set that my dad had made for Jennifer and I when we were young. It has been in need of a new make over. So I spent the months scraping and sanding off old paint were needed.
Here are my results of months of working on the three pieces. I painted the insides of all three sets as well which was not easy to do...Everything has been sprayed to protect the paint and plus I love how it gives it a glossy shine. Now she has a completed kitchen set to play with her dolls again, other than she will need a few shelves that have come up missing over the years, but that won't be hard to replace... especially now that daddy is home to do it...lol

Most of it was painted with stencil and rub ons and a few wall stickers. Very little of it was drawn by me. All of it still using the original fixtures as my dad had used when he built it so many years ago.

I do need work on my creativity... but it's enough for Lexie to love and enjoy!!!
The refrigerator. . . .

The sink. . . .

The stove
(I forgot to put the knobs and hooks back on before taking the picture.)
Painting the burners on was the hardest part, I made a pattern by using actual burners from my stove and traced and colored it in with chalk to use as a rub on, on the stove and then painted it in.... LOL I couldn't think of another way to do it, I couldn't just draw it on....!

Water Country 2010

This year we decided to go to Water Country. Everyone had a lot of fun. We are already talking about getting season passes for next year if we are still here. Here are just a few pictures of the fun in the sun.....


What I really liked was all of the beautiful flowers and plants they had around the park, of course I took lots of pictures of those as well. I am going to post them when I am done messing with them.

Campout 2010

Here is our campout this year, I took tons of pictures, over 400 that I last saw when sorting through all the pictures to put on the blog. There are many here...so be ready.....lol






Though it was suppose to be a relaxing week at the campgrounds, sometimes it was a battle of the wills between us and the spiders or the raccoons at night, and one time with a snake in the girls bathroom. . . . not the way you want to wake up in the morning! ..but overall it was nice being in the middle of nature, waking up with the birds and the deer sauntering by. I am just amazed at how close the deer will let you get to them before they take off. They are not even scared of vehicles driving by, they only tend to get nervous when you stop the vehicle and try to take pictures. LOL

I know, not the most attractive background, the bathroom... but for me it was a rare glimpse at a buck. Most of the time we only saw female deer, rarely did we see any males.

This one decided I was too close.

The first three days it was extremely hot and we did retreat to our air conditioned home a couple of times to escape the 90 degree plus temperatures, with heat indexes in the hundreds.

We passed the time playing football, badminton, playing cards and board games.

The kids and John enjoyed a little two on two football, once they could get Lexie to run in the right direction with the ball. . .
I don't do football...

The kids enjoyed a paddle boat ride, though Lexie decided she could have done without. I worked on my picture taking skills while they were out.

Tuesday we escaped the heat by going to the beach and enjoying a couple of hours in the ocean.









Wednesday, John took the kids bowling for a couple of hours, which gave me a chance to enjoy the camp without the complaints of the kids,(game withdrawals), and doing what I wanted to do... just sit and marvel at nature's beauty.

By Thursday the temperature started to improve and we could start enjoying our campout without feeling we were dying of heat exhaustion.

We did at least go on a nature walk through one of the many trails here at the park. The kids, of course, aren't into it much, but John and I really enjoy it.

I just loved taking pictures of the trees around us everywhere, it even rained on Thursday and we barely felt any of it, the trees make great umbrellas!

It's also fun to find all the interesting things that nature has in it...These are just some of the things I found.








AND of course every evening was spent after supper roasting marshmallows and making s'mores.