VEGAS!!!

Had a little get-away last week to Las Vegas.  Dave was out there for work for the week, and I flew in and joined him for the weekend.  One of my oldest and dearest friends also lives in Vegas and we got to hook up with her over my stay. 

 

The stars did not align themselves to allow us to bring home more money then we left with, but it was a good time non-the-less!  

How can you really go wrong when you have...

• Your husband
• A good friend
• Warmer weather than you left at home
• Lots of lights and glitz and bling all around
• Good food (that I didn't have to cook - or clean up after)
• Getting your picture taken with an Elvis Impersonator, an Elvis Big Head, and a walking Fabulous Las Vegas Sign
• A great hotel room
• A little gambling (a few wins, but unfortunately we ended up donating it back to the local economy!)
• The kids home safe and sound with Grandma and Grandpa C
• Lots and lots of People Watching (one of my favorite sports)

 And the highlight of the trip was the Cirque Du Soleil - Mystère show we saw.  If you have never seen it and get the chance I highly recommend it.  We even had front row seats... AWESOME!!!  You can check out a You Tube trailer for the show here. 

Sale at My Etsy Store

I am having a sale at my Etsy Store!  All of my "sweetheart saying" ACEO cards are buy one get one free!

Get your Valentine's Day Shopping done now!  Hurry - sale ends January 31!

And the Winner is...

Thanks to everyone who entered my giveaway.  And a special welcome to my 3 new followers!

 

True Random Number Generator Min: 1 Max: 13 Result: 3 Powered by RANDOM.ORG

 

Evelyn of one of my favorite reads... Use the Loot.  I will get your shipping info and send your package out asap!  I hope you enjoy. 

Last Day to Enter Giveaway!

Today is the last day to enter my giveaway!  For detail check out this post.  Post a comment, become a follower and let your friends know!!!

Bathroom Re Do

I wanted to share the progress on my main floor bath re-do.  This was suppose to be one of those quick and easy projects that I would have done in less than a week.  Well a week later, it is not done but I will show you the progress anyway...

This is what the bathroom looked like last week.  I re-did it shortly after we moved in 13+ years ago.

Well, here is what I have complete so far...

I finished painting and distressing the vanity and the medicine cabinet, and got all the wall paper stripped.  We were using DIF to strip the paper, which works great!  However we were afraid that the DIF might mess up my newly painted cabinets so DH put some painters tape around the edges where the cabinets butted up to the wall paper.

All was good until I took the tape off yesterday afternoon (he only put the tape up yesterday morning, so its not like it was there for days and got "too stuck"), and no only did the black paint I just did come off, but so did the primer below that, and the white paint below that, and the original primer I put on before painting the cabinets white (13+ years ago), leaving the original 40+ year old yellow/gold paint along the edges of the medicine cabinet...

There was only one small spot where the tape took paint off the sink cabinet, but pretty much took all the paint off where it was put on the medicine cabinet!

So now I can't decide whether I can just reprime and paint the areas where the paint has come off, or if I need to do the whole thing all over again... I am thinking I am going to try to just do the 2 areas... what do you think?

I've decided to take a break from this project today - a little too frustrated right now.  Plus, DH has to move the light location and patch the hole where the existing light will be so I will wait till he finishes that before I go back in and work on the medicine cabinet!

To see, more creative DIY projects, visit A Soft Place to Land's DIY Day...

In honor of taking a break from this project, I decided to have a giveaway...  You can win this...

 

The post about the giveaway is here... please take a minute to enter!  You can get up to 3 entries - good luck!