Random fun things!

Sofia and Kajsa decided to play beauty salon and tried out some kid make-up which included a sparkle lip gloss.  Of course, being little girls means the more sparkles the better so they smeared their arms, chests and faces with generous amounts of sticky sparkly lip gloss!   Ta da, don't they look bright and shiny?!  :-)

 For her birthday Sofia had asked for a desk in her room so she could do homework there since she is now in 1st grade.  I found a cute little wood desk at a yard sale for $5 and spruced it up with $40 of paint from Sherwin Williams!  Since the cost of this little desk was beginning to tip the scales the wrong way I had to economize on the knobs and instead of regular ones made Monkey's fists out of purple rope.  Turned out super awesome and Sofia loves her new desk.  I also moved everything around in her room and updated it a bit.  Sofia's favorite part of the mini-makeover was the doll house that Mormor and Morfar made, which was already in her room pre-makeover!!!

 Labor day weekend was officially labeled home improvement weekend!  Saturday I made over Sofia's room, Sunday we painted the ceiling in the dining room, put in the new custom shelf in the office (that our neighbor built), and Monday we painted the walls and trim in the dining room!  The dining room was previously a chocolate milk tan (walls and ceiling), so this paint project really made an impact.

 Our patio got an update with new outdoor pillows that I found on sale at Home Depot for $2 each!  Here our table is all set for a yummy taco dinner with placemats and napkins from Mexico courtesy of Carl and Raina :-)

Ryan was gone for work for a week and the girls were pretty excited for him to come home.  They decorated the courtyard with chalk drawings and sprinkled "love" aka rose petals :-)