October

Hi friends,
October has been filled with work trips and pleasure trips (one interrupted by Hurricane Matthew) for me hence things have been quiet on the blog. I wanted to pop in today and catch you up.

Despite my hardly being home in October I did sneak in two furniture make-overs last weekend.

This beauty was for a sweet returning client that bought a small dresser from me a while ago for her young daughter and was wanting a larger dresser for her master bedroom. She requested blue and since the wood was so beautiful on this gorgeous dresser I decided to only partially paint it:

 

 

I used the same Napoleonic Blue chalk paint by Annie Sloan (from the dresser) to make over this trim work desk which I additionally white waxed. My intention was to sell it by while working on it I had the brainstorm that if I kept it, I could free up all of the kitchen counter space by making this new piece of our technology charging zone. Brilliant! Since we are making over our kitchen currently (new backsplash and newly chalk painted cabinets)- I'm super excited about clutter free countertops!

 

 



Back to Hurricane Matthew. As many of you know, my kids (5th grader and 3rd grader) attend a neighborhood school that is on the year round schedule, meaning their summer break is very short and they have breaks throughout the school year. We were on an intended week long break at the beach in South Caroline when Hurricane Matthew decided to appear so the mandatory evacuation sent us home. My daughter and I came back to the same beach this week as it's her last week of fall break to survey the damage and resume our fun in the sun time.

 

Most of the beach home walk ways were destroyed, luckily not where we are:

 

 

Lots of flooding in the area and tons of trees and branches down. We weren't able to go very far on our favorite bike path through the woods:

 





Back to our mini-vacation which includes lots of bike riding, walking on the beach, eating yummy seafood, card playing, puzzle making, coloring, and riding in the hammock.

Happy October Y'all!
I'll be back to some more furniture make-overs and Thanksgiving decorating in November.
Megan