spring fling

As you may have noticed, I made a few changes to the blog. (No more Southern Classy)We are now Living a DIY Life, I felt that the title of the blog didn't give off the best description of what my posts were and will show. With that being said I hope y'all like the change, because there is a lot of change to be shown in todays post.

On Wednesday, February 19, 2014 big changed in this house. Travis started his big project at work. The first day for his company and the crew was a success. And I accepted an offer at a pharmacy for the position of Sales Marketing and Contracting Assistant. This day we have spent countless nights praying for and when it came a huge weight was taking off our shoulders. I have been working as a server at a restaurant for the past seven months waiting for the next opportunity to get back in a full time job. With the great money being a server there wasn't any rush or reason to find a job immediately. Now that I am officially a full-time employee I have decided to continue to work at the restaurant on weekends in hopes that bigger dreams can come true for our future. With the good news on Wednesday, I decided to do some splurge shopping and came home with this....

In our house we. love. change.

Yes, that would be another addition to the sitting room, the warmth of this room and my ideas continue to grow bigger and bigger. 

With a few TJ Maxx clearance frames and diy projects I have a complete console table.

Another change in our home would be this beautiful wreath I made, since spring is near and we have had a few sunny and 65 degree weather I decided it was time to pull out the flowers.

Michael's had an amazing President's Day Sale where I was able to get a great deal on my wreath items.

In the picture, there is a set of Hydrangeas, Peonies, and little bush Roses.

I decided to add a personal touch and put our house number on the wreath.

DIY Projects on the Console table:

DIY FRAME

I got the plain wooden frame and the scrap booking paper from Micheal's

I traced the outline of the frame onto the back of the paper then cut it

 Then I used mod podge gloss to use as glue for the paper to stick, paint it on with a paint brush, lay the paper on top. 

 Scrape out all air bubbles, then gloss the top with the mod podge as well.

 Put the picture in the frame and you will have a complete DIY frame.

DIY WOOD PRINT

I had some scrap wood from previous projects a few months ago that has been sitting around, with the urge to craft I decided I would make it a print.

Paint the wood 

 Take a paint pen, that way you can control your writing better, and write the quote, verse, caption you would like on the wood.

Isaiah 40:8

saw dust and love is in the air

Happy late Valentines everyone 

I got this little handy mail holder from TjMaxx and its been sitting around waiting to be hung up, sadly it sat around a lot longer than it should have. 

It wasn't made to hang so I used a pinterest inspired craft to make it hang.

 I got a little screw and screwed it into the mail holder, then I took the opener to a can drink and put it on the back of the screw. Then put your nail in the wall and put the other part of the top on it and you will have something hung.

Our sitting room complete, or atleast for now.

The process of the pie safe

First we took the metal plates knobs off, then we sanded it.

Then we stained it....

 I wasn't impressed with the stain so I figured to add another stain couldn't make it worse and if I didn't like it I would just have to start over.

Surprisingly, the stain looked great after I added another color to it. 

So we glossed it with polyurethane then added the plexy glass and the knobs.

Then I realized the shelf showed in the bottom windows and I did not like it, so I took four nails and raised the shelf to line up.

Much better right?

Our valentines day...

Travis hates the idea of Valentines day, I personally like it. Its a day that I have an excuse to be all ooey gooey emotional.

So, Friday morning I got up to Chic-fil-A breakfast, flowers, and Kit Kats. He started off the day GREAT! Then we headed to Atlanta for a day of adventures. We started of with the infamous Varsity drive-in. I loved it :)

Then we went to the Georgia Aquarium.... It was Travis first time, we had a blast! We talked about a future trip scuba diving there!

Then we went to a local mall in Atlanta, called Phipps Plaza where we enjoyed dinner and a movie. Since every restaurant in the premises was booked with reservations we ate Johnny Rockets. Which I was okay with since I got to have a chocolate milkshake.

Then we finished off the night with the movie Lone Survivor

it is a heart wrenching action war movie. I was happy, nervous, scared, and sad all during the movie. I HIGHLY recommend it. I've never felt so connected to a movie in my life.

(P.S. those are electric leather seats in the theatre, that recline and lift.)

Playing some catch up, and a very easy DIY valentines day gift for procrastinators like me

Down here in Georgia we have had quite the snow storm, granted in other places a few inches isn't much but to us it is a big deal. With that being said Travis and I have been "snowed in" for the past three days. When I say snowed in, I mean we have been told by officials to stay inside however that is the exact opposite of what we have done.

 On Day 1 we went about our day as usual, we made the decision to go cut firewood so that when the storm hit we could stay warm. Travis and his cousins took that to the next level and decided to cut down an entire tree and then split the wood. That was a five hour ordeal. Which is pretty impressive!

Day 2 the snow and sleet finally came. We woke up to about two inches and icey roads which were not safe to drive on, at least those without four wheel drive. When we got outside to leave Travis realized he had left his sunroof open the night before. His truck was filled with sleet and ice. Thirty minutes and a lot of scooping, scrapping, and vacuuming later the truck was as good as new.

We decided instead of staying cooped up inside the house we wanted to go ride the four wheeler at his grandparents farm. I quickly decided that being on a four wheeler and sleet hitting my face was not how I wanted to spend my day, so inside I went. Later that night on our way home we saw some young girls ( when I say young I mean probably around my age) that were stuck on the side of the road. Travis being the gentlemen that he is, he decided to pull them out and drag them to the nearest gas station. 

Day 3 (Today) consisted of driving around and some last minute shopping and snow cream, which was my first time ever making it. I was pretty impressed.

 But most importantly my DIY valentines day gift.

I wrote something simple and cute "I won the lottery when I met you" and bought a few scratch offs,

 and on this one I wrote are you lucky in love and gave him a few options of what I think would be lucky, then you take a crayon over the options and put paint on top of that. Once this dries it will make it a scratch off.

and there you have it

And a little up date of our sitting room

Can you believe that ugly black stain turned into this beautiful color after a different stain on top. With the glass and knobs to top it off i would say that this thing turned out pretty darn good! 

 just waiting on the other chair to arrive and the room will be somewhat complete for now :)

One of Travis DIY projects was to update his old gun, the wood was scratched up so he sanded it and re stained it. This is the process of him restaining it. It turned out amazing! 

Can you feel the love? 

When the cats away, the mice will play

What I have the joy of blogging to right now, my precious pup laying in my lap snoring. Nothing could make me happier. I love her to pieces!

Yesterday flew by, I don't know how it went by so fast. One minute i'm up and making coffee next thing I know its time for work!

Travis had a very big day yesterday, he owns his own company. It is a insurance restoration company. They do roofing, siding, gutters but they can do interior work as well. He is working on growing his company into general construction. 

Anyways, Travis had a meeting in Atlanta to sign a contract on doing a very big project. This house is very excited and proud of him being able to do this job. 

This is Travis dressed up all nice in his office preparing to leave for his meeting. We were gleaming :)

So, I've written about how I am a relationship widow... Travis took his little brother and sister hunting this weekend for a youth duck hunt.This is the first time he has left my side since we moved in our new home. I'm hoping I can get all of our projects done before he returns to surprise hime with a complete sitting room. Maybe not complete, but somewhat close to it.

After Travis left for his meeting, I went window shopping. It's relaxing for me to look around at what the stores have to offer and what I could see in my home. (That's all I look for now days, interior decor) Yesterday I decided to leave the money behind and just look. I found a few things that I liked and decided I would go back today and get them that way I could weigh out whether I really wanted it or not. Thankfully I live two minutes from a shopping center that has tjmaxx, belk, target, michaels, petsmart, kirklands, and a home depot! What more could a girl want?!?! (I could go for a tjmaxx home goods, but I won't be greedy)

Today, I went back to those stores and made some purchases.

I got this pretty little chair, soon it will have a twin next to it. That one is being shipped thursday :)

And this awesome rug from overstock!

My room is starting to come together and I cannot wait! More to pictures coming soon:)