inspiration for dining room makeover

dining room inspiration by lilibethsgarden on Polyvore.com

This is my first polyvore, so don't laugh. My dining room walls are about that colour, and we're in the process of doing DIY recessed paneling. That's what the "thing" is behind the dresser, in case you were wondering. I already have a grey'ish dresser in there too. I'd want wicker chairs that are a leeetle more subtle in colour, but I do like the punch of happy green. The thing that scares me the most is securing a decent sized area rug that isn't hundreds of dollars, let alone ONE hundred dollars. I have a table I need to paint black, and I'll need to track down 4 chairs as I no longer like the ones that came with the table.

It's fun to create a vision for what I want to accomplish, even though it'll be a slow process.

gallery walls

I adore this wall done by sfgirlbyday.

I'm going to do this behind my couch in the living room, though I'm sure it'll take some time to collect enough framed art to start something. Time to start scrounging, thrifting, and painting.

retro record album holder finally has a place

We've had this piece of furniture for a couple of years now. It was in Jon's parent's family room when I first met him. It must have been an old piece back then. It's never found a place of it own other than being put into a spare room. I dragged it out of the den the other night and plunked it down in the front entry. Voila! It makes this space feel like it's a room all on it's own.

Now I need to thrift/buy something cool to sit on it besides the lamp and a few shells.

a happy wedding ~ serving no. 3

Here are a few more wedding pics:

a happy wedding ~ serving no. 2, the flowers

The flowers that were arranged for my mom and Lawrence's wedding were a disappointment. My sister to the rescue! She's done flowers for weddings before, so this was no trouble for her. The flowers came from the Superstore, where variety and price made her job easy.

a happy wedding ~ serving no. 1

My mom and her fantastic man Lawrence were married this past weekend. We trekked across a province or two to be there. It was a short visit, that's my only regret. I'm also missing the hot humid weather. I'm missing my family most of all.

Here are a few random pics. I'll be posting more, especially of our 3 hour stop in Quebec City. I could have stayed all day taking pictures and walking around the beautiful historic city.

click on the photo to see the look on her face, and his obvious big smile. I love it!
my nieces!
a gang of cousins
the weather was sheer perfection
yes this was the food served, I was impressed!

isn't it lovely!

This is a quick post. We recently returned from my homeland (Ontario, Canada) where we thoroughly enjoyed my mom and her man Lawrence's wedding (I'll post pics soon). It was a very fun visit, but a very short one, sniff sniff.

Here are a few pics of my sister's magazine article worthy place where we stayed. Next time we're staying longer than 2 1/2 days!