School is Just Around the Corner...

And I am looking forward to a new group of students!!! This is such a fun time of year...a fresh, new start. Last year I scored an old metal desk on Craigslist for $25 and redid it in a fun zebra stripe/polka dot combo. I love it and my students all thought "it rocked"! lol!

This summer at one of the garage sales I went to, I saw two of these beauties...

I looked at them for a minute...walked around the sale and kept thinking I would probably be buying those two old student desks. When I walked back over to where they were sitting the lady having the sale said, "I will sale you both of those desk for 5 dollars."....what???$5 bucks for the pair...SOLD!!!!!

I brought them home and they sat in my {hubby's} garage until yesterday...since I report for inservice a week from Monday, I decided I better get these lil guys ready for their first day of fourth grade! I scrubbed them down with hot soapy water...lightly sanded them...and then completely had a ball painting them. I used Krylon's Blue Ocean Breeze to replicate that old, vintage school desk feeling. Then I decided that the seats and back slats needed to pop a little more, so I used my FREE Glidden paint sample in Candy Apple Red on one of the desks, and decided to spray paint the other in Krylon's Ivy Leaf green....I used this color on my desk last summer too! Then I chalkboarded the tops...they will be writing stations so how much fun will it be to write ON the desks and not get in trouble?!?!?! Then I decided the needed something else...so I added my two favorite words...grow and learn...still needed something else....

Then it hit me....NUMBERS!!!! 4 on the learn and 2 on the grow desk.... "2 grow you must learn 4 ever"....yea!!!! I am super excited with how they turned out!!!!!!!!

I heart naptime w/chocolate sundaes

Hooo Are You Tuesday....

1. Do you prefer sweet or salty foods? Oh I am a sucker for sweets, but really like to mix salty and sweet foods together....

2. Name your 3 BEST personality traits! 1. I am an encourager 2. I tend to always see the good in a situation 3. I am compassionate

3. Name your 3 worst personality traits! 1. I can be a pushover/doormat...working on that one 2. I don't always believe in myself or my abilities. 3. I am a procrastinator.

4. Do you collect anything? I am an avid craft supply collector, I also really like magazines and have a hard time parting with them ;)

5. What is your favorite season of the year? Fall is my favorite season....I love the colors, the smells, the pumpkins and corn husks, and the beginning of college football. I enjoy decorating my home during this time of year. I only want it to be winter on Christmas and then I am ready for Spring...which is my 2nd favorite season! I like summer but I hate being hot and sweaty!!!

My Gotta Have It.....Really, Really, Really Want It LIst :)

Ok...I know it is still a few more months until my birthday or Christmas, but I thought I would make it easy on Mr. Luckee and anyone else who may have drawn my name on the 4th of July for Christmas this year and give a visual listing of all of my little wants and desires...hehehe...

I love these sweet little ruffled all white towels from target! I want...no I NEED new towels considering we've been married for 11 years and have yet to buy more than 4 or 5 towels since our plethora of wedding showers...I did go through a red phase and wanted all red towels, so my little sister helped feed that addiction for a few Christmases.... but now I really want solid white towels...they don't all have to have ruffles either...just want them to be white:)

How cute is this "towel tower" from {once again} target. I want one of these beauties for my newly {almost} organized craft room.... it would look so pretty with my green walls and white trim work!!!
I also really, really, really want one of these babies!!!! The spray paint gun...imagine not having to be limited to the colors that are already in a spray paint can, but being able to have your heart's desire of colors in spray form....awe...love!!!!
Of course the above will most definitely require one of these lil beauties as well..... I have always wanted one of these too...so many fun attachments can be added...like a nail gun....yep! I'd be able to do all kinds of diy with one of these bad boys!!!!
My wants seem to be growing up....hehehe.... towels and tools. What a combination!!!

Paintin' Fool!

For the past 5 days I have been a paintin' fool!!! That's right...I have spent the past 5 days painting walls, ceilings, and trim...oh my!!!

Our house is a 4 bedroom home. I say 4 bedroom loosely, but there is a closet in each room so that means it is a bedroom right?!?! Anyhow, when we moved in almost 3 years ago, we let the kids decide which rooms they wanted. Chloe automatically chose the smallest room, right next to the Master bedroom and Seth took the largest of the 3 rooms...go figure! So that left the front room open. I believe it was (poorly) designed to be an office, but maybe on the houseplans it was suppose to be a dining room...anyhow....long story short. ... . The front room became my craft room....we rocked along and then I got the wild hair to switch Chloe and my craft room out! This is why I have been painting like a mad woman for the last almost week!!!! But I am finished painting! Woot! Woot! Such an accomplished feeling:) I will post pictures soon.

Hooooo Am I...

1. Do you have any siblings?

Yes.. I have two younger sisters...7 & 9 years younger :)

2. Do you have any children?

I have two children... Chloe is 10, and Seth is 8.... They are two of the best kiddos anyone could ever ask for;)


3. Are you a morning or night person?

I am definitely a night person by nature, but during the school year (I am a 4th grade teacher) I have to practice my morning person persona. lol!

4.Are you organized or spontaneous?

I am definitely a spur of the moment kind of gal...I do love some organization though, but it is hard to maintain!

5. What is your typical 4th of July like? Laid back at home? Community celebrations? etc...?

Generally the fourth is spent at my uncle's home...it is laid back. We cook out, eat watermelon and homemade icecream, and shoot the fireworks off after dark... this year we are celebrating at my grandma's home...and my immediate family will draw names for this Christmas....Christmas in July yea! I can get a jump start on my gifting;)

Holy "Want To Do"List Batman!!!

There are so many ideas floating around the blogaspehere and in my head...

I am sooo visual, and I need a list that I can go back to (time and time again...)

So here are a few things that I want to try...either exactly like I see them or add my own spin to them...

1. Cabinet redo @ Creating Balance

2. Burlap Valances @ Tatertots and Jello

3. Replicate some {BLUE} Mason Jars @ Bridal Buzz

4. Terra Cotta Coasters @ Sweet Charli

Woot Woot!

Red Letter Week!!!!

I was featured for the first and second and third time this week with my painted garden pavers!!! Man, that makes me want to stay up 24/7 and craft it up!!! I love seeing all the great ideas out there, and it never fails that my silly crafting "adhd" kicks in when I visit one of the bajillion blogs I follow...is it possible to be addicted to blog digging???

One more week of school....then I can focus (yeah right) on M-A-J-O-R projects that I want to get completed...

List

1. Swap out my craft room with Chloe's bedroom...she will finally get a BIGGER closet and more room for all the things she likes to create... PAINTING IS IN MY FUTURE>>>she really wants a purple bedroom...which makes me remember my own childhood bedroom.

2. Paint my bedroom...and secretly re-paint my bathroom (eeks...just painted it over Christmas break, but changed my mind on the color scheme I want to go with...)

3. Try my hand at this adorable bed skirt idea from Shanty2Chic...

4. I am going to make one of these adorable planters for my from door area from Positively Splendid...so stinkin' cute

5. Add much more after a shower, some sleep, and COFFEE!!!

xoxo,

LaKeta

Ready to Get My Scrap On

Our house is actually a four bedroom home...and being the wonderful guy that he is, my hubby agreed to the fourth room being a craft/scrap/sewing room! So last summer I painted it a very chic neopolatian stripe...I like it, BUT I do not "LUV" it. The craft room is actually one of the bigger of the three spare rooms...Seth picked out the biggest room as his sister had her eye on the smallest...go figure! So over Spring Break, I will be taking the built in counter top out and repainting the room (if I feel really motivated) and then when school is out for the summer Chloe and I will be changing rooms....she will get a much larger bedroom and a much much bigger closet out of the deal. I will get a chance to create my perfect room AGAIN....yippee! Live for change:)