making changes

We've been decorating and making some changes around our house. I don't know what it is, but all of the sudden decorating is fun to me. It's never been a strong desire of mine, but it's slowly working it's way up my list of priorities. So I decorated the kitchen and Kaiya's bedroom and now we're working on the rest of the house. I have more pictures I need to take but for now these will work.
Here is our table that Chad's parent's helped a lot with. We didn't know how to finish it and what equipment we would need, so they came and helped us get the stuff and finish it. Thanks to them, in large part, we have a lovely black stained table now. Thanks guys!

our models (that's for you Koren) =)

I love how you can still see the wood through stain,much better than paint in my opinion.

this table folds up on both sides and gets nice and tiny, just the way chad likes things. Now it's out of the way when we're not using it, but it gets big enough to actually use--unlike our other table we had.

Also we have bamboo on our wall. I don't know what happened it just sprouted one night, behind our bed. Just kidding, I do know what happened, I put it there. It's a faux, really cheap headboard. I started making it last week one shoot at a time, then I decided to just finish it today (while kaiya was gone for three hours--thats another story in itself). I was going to make short skinny bamboo, but I took Chad's insight into consideration and this is what we came up with. They're not too special and I'm not even sure if I like it yet, but that doesn't diminish the pride that comes from the creative process of making things yourself. At least not for me... It would have to pretty ugly for that.

I chose to do bamboo cause our room is done in an Asian style so, it fits.


today I looked at this online store and saw this:


They win, but their's costs $125.00 and they didn't make it by hand (I bet) and they're professionals. Mine was five dollars for a roll of contact paper (plus a lot of drawing and cutting).

$125.00
- $5.00
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$120.00 dollars that I saved!

So now whose the winner?

Actually I changed the leaves on mine after I saw theirs, their leaves were much cuter/better/less child-like looking, so I ripped mine off the wall and put new leaves on. Theirs still look better though. I really wish I would have seen theirs first, then I could copy it EXACTLY so that I would like mine more. But...oh well, remember how much money I saved?