Furniture Update

First before I write about the furniture, I just want to say some of Erica and Nate's wedding pictures are up on their facebooks and they are worth a few minutes to look at!!!! Love you guys.
(p.s. it was windy and my dress kept creeping up... it was not my intention to look like a hooch at my sister's wedding!)

Now to the furniture. Here's a quick peek at what we've been doing lately:

These were the day we first started the laundry basket dressers 

This is the finished product... well after this was taken another coat of paint was added
and three laundry baskets will be inserted into them. It is being debated whether it needs a gloss finish.. 

I am personally very proud of this coat rack because it was the first project I did by myself. Jake
put the legs on it but I did all the cuts, pocket hole drilling, gluing, and wood filling for the tree branches

This will be painted black this weekend and future ones will be stained.

One chair down, one to go! I think these pieces are awesome considering
we have never made anything like this before!

They will also see a stain and polyurethane finish!

This is just a side note picture. We did not make these but I did reupholster them and paint them.
This is transformation #2.

I love it.

Last but certainly not least.... The children's willow chair!!!
A co worker of mine owns the chair on the left and we made the one on the right!

It is perfect!!! :)
Well... not perfect... so it's going to Kyler next week. haha.

Bistro Table #1

So we're sticking to making at least one piece a week until we actually get accepted to the Farmer's Market so here is our Bistro Set Table. Chairs will come next week! 

The chairs will be closer to where Jake is sitting. I just grabbed a stool for the picture. And it's a pretty sturdy table... I sat on it just to make sure! I can't say the same for the collapsible ones I saw at TJMaxx the other day that they were selling for $100.00 though. So hopefully I can sell mine for around the same :)

Prepping for the Market

I'm sending those positive vibes out into the universe again by telling myself we WILL get accepted to sell at the Farmer's Market! We found a great deal on a 10x10 canopy which is required for all sellers. At Big 5 they usually sell for $129.99 but they were on sale last week and I had a $10 off coupon, so we purchased our canopy for $60.00. I thought it was a pretty sweet deal... and apparently the sales clerk did too because when I asked him where they were located in the store he asked me how many I wanted. This is what it looks like: This is not my picture.. I stole the image from Google.

We'll find out if we made the cut May 31st.... cross your fingers!

It's the Final Fourth...

Four blogs today- but this is the last one. Yesterday Jake and I got started on making some furniture for the Farmer's Market. We're hoping to sell some pieces during the summer months of the market, but we still have to have our application accepted. Anyways, yesterday we tackled a Laundry Basket Dresser.We still need to add a backing, paint, and buy laundry baskets, but I think they will be cool when they are done!

We started the projects outside since the garage is being remodeled, but it was so windy we had to stand inside.
Here I am sanding down the side pieces.

This holds three baskets..

I can't wait til they are done... They will look really good with some paint on them

Snowboarding

Spring is here, which means it's time to go SNOWBOARDING! That's right, Kelly Canyon is just around 10 miles from Blaine and Shari's house and it is closed for the season, which means free snowboarding! It was 60 degrees here the other day (extremely windy, but we take what we can get!), but up the mountain there is still snow. I've only attempted snowboarding once when I was 18, so Jake and I grabbed some boards and hit the slopes! Jake has been snowboarding for years so he's a pretty good teacher. I'm no pro, but maybe I would've learned a little faster if I wasn't exhausted from hiking up the hill!! Now I believe a lift ticket is worth every penny!

Here is the slope at Kelly Canyon we hiked. 

Jake made up there before me... surprise surprise....

  

He makes it look so easy.. and there is absolutely no snow on the other side of that mountain.

Now it's my turn to try

I'm trying to figure it out.

It's such a workout!

<3

I wish most of my day was spent like this...

But really it looked like this!

 

We had a good time.

 I'm a little sore from falling and pulling myself back up, but I finally got to use my snowpants outside of walking in Jake's backyard.

Willows

I like willows because they are a pretty red color. Moose like to eat them, but we like to create things with them. Jake has been helping his Aunt Karen remodel her house over the last couple weeks, so she has been donating materials to our craft supply. Among other things, she gave us two boxes of tiles that we can make quote tiles out of. Many people put quote stickers on tiles to put up around their house. We have a couple we got as wedding gifts, and I think they are a fun way to decorate. So with the tiles- we need tile stands... would we want to buy a hundred stands? NO WAY! so Jake came up with this....

He walked outside, found the closest willow bush, added a little string and.... 

...there you have it.
A tile stand.

Jake made this for his mom, and yes it is still sitting beside her TV in the living room! Maybe someday we'll replace the paper with a quote... and don't judge this too harshly-it was a rough draft. He made it within a matter of minutes...

Weekend with the Bells

On March 26th, Jake and I rode down to Utah with Shaunie and Garren. (Jake's sister and brother in law). They had awesome tickets to the Jazz game, so we spent the weekend in Salt Lake and then drove over to Park City for some shopping! The pictures will explain the rest.

Utah Jazz vs. Dallas Mavericks

 

Jake got silly stringed by the Jazz Bear.

Olympic Bobsled Training Course

The Museum

Jake is an Olympic Skier... and goofball.

Holding the torch.

One of the props used for the opening ceremony in SLC.

The Metals... personally I think they look really cheap.

Olympic Ski Hill

Jake's hat might be a little too small... his forehead say Flexifit.