Few More Thrift Items Added

A few months ago I found this bench at a thrift store

It was so blended in with everything else around it

No one bothered to look at the price tag

It used to look like this

Surrounded by many old pillows

And priced at $20

When I took it home and took faded pink fabric off

There was this really bright mustard color fabric underneath

I suspect it was once a Spanish Hacienda style bench

I painted the wood with antique white paint

And covered the seat with bargain fabric ($5.99/yard)

And while I was at it

I painted another old chair in same paint
And covered the seat with left over fabric to match the bench
So that they can both be in our breakfast area

It has been wonderfully warm and sunny here in LA

Did you have a nice New Year's Day?
Have a wonderful weekend!

Keep On Keeping On

Do you have a dream?

Susan Boyle showed us something this year

That little insecurity in all of us

That dream that we never really forgot

And the importance of chasing it

What is your dream

That you will be chasing?

Happy New Year

May 2010 be your best year yet!

Merry Christmas!!

We are finishing up the last presents for our kids

We had all those left over wrapping paper

So we are making something really quick for girls

Our girls don't get enough time with us individually

So we made some tickets for girls to use

And put them in glass jars

So we can have fun all year long doing fun stuff

It is 1:30am now

So we are finally going to sleep...

But before I go

Merry Christmas!!

I am hoping you a wonderful day with many cheers :)

Christmas Tote Bags

I finished making matching tote bags for my girls last night

And I am going out to buy chocolates, cookies and other sweets to stuff in them for Friday

I did stuff their stockings with sweets last year

And I didn't know I needed SO MUCH sweets to fill them

....I think I made them high from so much suger

....Because they were SO HAPPY

....And kind of crazy

So

I made matching tote bags with left over fabrics this year

Just for little bit of sweets

So far

Me and girls are being good

And avoiding sweets and hot cocoa this holidays
So we can be really bad on Christmas day :)

Happy Wednesday

Are you done with Christmas shopping?

How To Watch TV During The Holidays

The right way to watch TV during the holidays

According to my kiddies

Is like this

You might already know

That no girl likes to lose

So if someone dare to steal one of those

She will chase you

And let you know how important those things are

To watch TV

With a karate chop

Instead of using those things inside wrapping papers as swords to beat each other
Which they have done in the past


It is this in 2009


I will put names on each of those tonight
So I don't need to see any more karate chops coming out of my girls
....Who ever said girls are easy?

Lost Treasure

Do you remember your stuffed animal or a toy you loved when you were a child?

Or a music that brings out a lot of memories?

I found pictures of my girls few years back that brought out a lot of memories

I took them during a trip to Japan

The trip had a special meaning for me

Because one of our children didn't come out of my tummy

She came out of my sister's tummy

And with all the twist and turns

She became our baby

And came to the US as a year old

But the baby had difficult time adjusting

So she had terrible one

And terrible two

And terrible three

And terrible four

And I started questioning myself as a mother

And a person

Part of me knew

She was longing to go back

But I knew

She has no family to go back to anymore

So I couldn't visit my family for a long time

And finally, we did a few years ago

I met her as a day old newborn

And by then she had lost her mother already

So she had to go through many caretakers

Until she joined our family

She didn't come out of my tummy

But I did go through very difficult labor for her

Which took me several years

To become her mother

So I am thankful

To just be

A mom

What are you thankful for?

Happy Wednesday and stay warm!

Slowly...

I have finally started to put Christmas decorations (besides Christmas tree that is)

This year I was too lazy to bring out all the boxes of decorations

So I used antique silver items I have been collecting

With left over Christmas decorations

(Above our old piano)
(Lauren's pine corns from a park in antique silver bowl along with Chloe's old books)


I am planning to put more out...but it will require a little more time...
Just a quick sharing with you...


Happy Monday
and
Stay warm :)