Right now, I'm knee deep...

...into decorating our home.  And like most people I'm doing it on a budget...like a visittheclearancesectionineverystore budget.  So the other day when we were out running errands I begged pleaded encouraged my husband to stop into Kirkland's to see what the clearance section beheld.  I was sooo excited to see this

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with an additional 25% off!!!  So each lamp ended up being $26.23!!!  And no they DIDN'T come with the lovely

green FrogTape on them...I just have the paint addiction.  This is how it looks with one coat of paint:

Now I'm sure it would have been easier to just spray paint them but we had a Home Depot going out of business and I got a gallon of Behr Hi Gloss Enamel for $14...so I plan to use it 'til the wheels fall off!  I plan to change up the finials and shades but I guess I'll wait until the sleet clears up outside.  OH! I also picked up a few of these

for a little over $5 each.  Strangely, there is no description on the boxes so I thought they were Christmas stocking holders until I removed the packaging and found this

Doesn't matter though...I love animals so they'll still come in handy.  I'll share what I did to them after the weather clears up.

I can't believe....

...that it's been TWO YEARS since I last blogged.  I've sat here for the last hour in denial (NAH...NOT TWO YEARS!!!)  But I guess the fact that I had to spend twenty minutes recovering my password is proof that it's been a minute.  Life has just been so crazy for us...in so many good AND bad ways.  But the most important and exciting is that, after looking

and looking and praying and

 

signing our grandchildren away about a hundred legal documents...with a little help from our financial advisor...

...we were finally able to relax

 

and to praise HIM for our new future:

 

We've been in our home for six months and I've been working on making it our home every day.  Even though it's been EXHAUSTING at times it's soo much fun because look at what I've had to work with:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A COMPLETELY BLANK SLATE!!!!

 

And I hope that you join me on my journey to make it kompletely ours!

 

KEANDRA