Kitchen Furniture

 I have been busy working on a few projects in our dining room and today I want to share one of those projects with you.  I gave our traditional chandelier a little beach-house inspired makeover and I think it turned out pretty darn cute. I never really liked this chandelier before now because it felt too traditional for my taste.  This is how the chandelier looked when we first bought our home back in 2013. So right away I gave the chandelier a quick makeover.  I replaced all of the dark shades with some simple glass ones.  I also added some crystals to it to give it a little added sparkle. These simple changes were enough to make it some-what more my style and I've been okay living with it these past few years. I always figured eventually I'd just replace the chandelier with something more my style.  I've had my eye on THIS pretty wood bead one for quite awhile, but I'm really not one to just go out and buy something new. Instead, I try to use what I have and make it

Happy May! My boys get out of school at the end of the month and I'm blown away because that is just weeks away!  Where does the time go?  My boys are pretty excited to get started on their summer vacation but they are also a bit sad to have to say goodbye to their teachers. They both have such wonderful teachers and so I have come up with a sweet little gift that they can give to them on the last day of school.  (This post was previously shared on  City Farmhouse )  I typed up a few sayings, printed them out and glued them to decorative paper.  I will share the printables at the end of this post so that you can use them too. I came up with the idea of using rulers as plant marker, which I thought was so appropriate for a teacher.  I hot glued a clothespin to the ruler so that it could hold the card.   I bought the ceramic pots at the dollar store.  They had lots of different colors to choose from but I thought these turquoise ones were pretty.  I then went to a local nursery and