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HOW TO CREATE A TRANSITIONAL WINTER TO SPRING MANTEL

Wednesday, February 27, 2013 by Andrea @ PersonallyAndrea



It’s that time of year when Mother Nature and the Calendar are at odds with each
other in our part of the globe.  Yesterday there was the slightest hint of
Spring.  Sun, birds singing, and slightest of mild breezes.  But mild breeze
gathered strength and brought with it a System as the meteorologists call it. 
Not at all descriptive of the inches upon inches of slush that are accumulating
today. 


The Calendar declares that Easter is imminent.  With winter urns frozen solidly
into place but the home otherwise long since de-Christmased, what’s a stylish
girl to do?


Well, she looks to the seasonal display at the local Big Grocery Store for some
inspiration.  Sponge Bob Square Pants chocolates and Dora baskets didn’t really
do it for me.  But this little white ceramic rabbit was calling my name.  I set
him on the mantel beside the then-empty lantern for a few days to see if he felt
at home. 




Eventually some lime green accents starting keeping him company.  Decorative
vine balls, mums, a wreath.



Now we’re getting somewhere.  A Transitional mantel.  Still the lantern and
candles from Winter but a touch of green and my little White Rabbit for Spring
optimism.  Are you watching, Mother Nature?




An ironic thing happened when I went to the bookcase to find some colour-themed
books to add to the display.  I love the juxtaposition of The Tale of Peter
Rabbit with the volume of Frost poetry.  Sorry for the pun on your name Robert. 
But doesn’t this just say it all?


I leave you with a little bit of Robert Frost verse:




See that Mother Nature?  We can make our own optimism and inspiration.


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TEA AND COLOURING


Friday, February 22, 2013 by Andrea @ PersonallyAndrea



In our household we have this happy coincidence of supply and demand.  Maybe you
have something like it too.  We have Youngest Son who likes to do his
Work…homework, colouring, crafts…wherever someone else is also around.  And so
his little supplies need to be quickly and easily portable, and not take up too
much space.  Good requirements for all children and their stuff, actually.


Enter coincidence.  Teenaged Daughter loves her cuppa tea.  Sustenance and
stress-relief through our long dark winters.  Hot tea transitions seamlessly
into iced tea for the summer months.  There is a steady stream of these cute
little containers becoming empty.



And so we use them to corral crayons. Mini markers and pencil crayons. Scissors
and glue sticks. Erasers and those little IKEA pencils that keep turning up
around here.  Supplies easily tidied up mid-project and moved off the kitchen
table before dinner.


Craftier moms or children would decorate the containers with colourful paper and
embellishments.  Beautiful idea! 



Live creatively whenever you can.  And enjoy a good cuppa tea.


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DIY CHALKBOARD TABLETOP


Tuesday, February 19, 2013 by Andrea @ PersonallyAndrea



So, I have this little vignette in the front room of our home.  The room is
alternately referred to as our living room and our music room.  The music part
you would understand if I showed a photo facing left.  More instruments than
family members, years worth of music books and sheets per instrument, and
teaching paraphernalia.  And truthfully, since we are not formal people, this
space rarely gets used as a formal living room.  And the music part quickly
migrates across.  Nevertheless I work with what I’ve got.


This is what I’ve got:   a child sized table and chairs which doubles as a music
teaching/music homework spot and a pseudo coffee table.  It has sentimental
value since it came from Husband’s childhood home.  It has the name of one of
his Siblings childishly markered on the underside.  Hmmm.  Hope you didn’t want
it back Annie H.


This is what the table looked like before…



…quite unacceptable as a pseudo coffee table.  I have debated for too long what
to do about it.  Restain?  Paint?  Replace?It needed to be tidied up at the very
least. 


You can see in the first photo that the chair situation has already been
addressed.  So while there was a lull in the basement renovation (can you see
the flesh-coloured linoleum flooring?  Oh man I can’t wait to reveal the After
of this space!)  I lugged the child-sized table…it weighs a tonne…they don’t
make them like they used to…downstairs.



This is what I found in our storage room to use for my little makeover.



The primer seemed like it would be perfect.  Since there were marker stains,
even burn marks, to cover.  And it worked great.  But turned out I wrecked the
paintbrush.  Oops.  So don’t use this kind unless your paintbrush is disposable!


The chalkboard paint I had bought a while ago for another project that I never
did.  Oops.  But see, I’m using it now.  Read the instructions carefully because
you have to wait many hours and then cover the surface with chalk and then brush
it off, and not wash it for many days after that.  Here’s the finished product. 
Perfectly acceptable (and practical) for a not formal living room doubling as a
music room. 



I mentioned that the chairs had already been fixed up.  When the Personally
Teens were in Junior High they did them as an art project at school. 



Personally Teen’s project was done as a Bateman.  Miss Personally’s as a Monet. 
And mine as a Chalkboard.  Tidied up quite nicely.




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FAMILY VALENTINE’S DAY: TABLE DECOR


Wednesday, February 13, 2013 by Andrea @ PersonallyAndrea




What a fun occasion to celebrate as a family.  Ever since we have all been able
to sit at the table in a civilized manner…wait…actually maybe we’re not quite
there yet.  Ever since I have hoped we could all sit at the table in a civilized
manner, we have been celebrating Valentine’s Day with a festive family dinner. 
Decorations, dessert, the works.  Not fancy necessarily.  Just festive.  A theme
is usually helpful to simplify things but still have it pulled together.  My
usual…red.


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SNOW DAY


Monday, February 11, 2013 by Andrea @ PersonallyAndrea



OK friends.  It’s time to get back to my little project of documenting some
iconic winter moments. 


This weekend Mother Nature sent us the most enormous snowfall of the season so
far.  In fact the most enormous in a couple of years.  Thanks so much.  By the
end of two days there was a thirty centimetre plus accumulation.  No school
buses.  No school.  So with all Family Members dispatched to begin the
monumental task of clearing snow I headed out with my camera in hand.
 
Here we are in the backyard at about mid-snowstorm.  I was hoping to get a
beautiful photograph of individual pretty snowflakes.  I even googled to get
some tips and ideas.  I should have started out by building a little hut for
myself a la ice-fishing.   It seemed  it was going to take the same amount of
patience.  And frostbite.  After a foggy lens, frozen fingertips and no success
I move to Plan B.

Inside.




This is the way to enjoy a snowstorm.  From inside.  Looking out through the
window.  Now I’m not convinced there really were any very pretty snowflakes
anyway.  But this was cool how they clumped together in these shapes against the
windowpane.



Here they are piling up from below…



…and piling down from above.
A lotta snow.  Out there.




 



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PINK LIPSTICK


Thursday, February 7, 2013 by Andrea @ PersonallyAndrea



Well, girlfriends.  Doesn’t this look glam?  I agree.  And I have been feeling
very glam carrying this around in my makeup bag for the past several weeks. 
Full disclosure…I got this for Christmas.  From Little Sister who is the
ultimate put-together fit working-mom-on-the-go.  But pink!  I don’t even know
if I own a pink article of clothing.  There’s certainly nothing pink in the home
decor around here.  And me, I’m a tinted chapstick, sheer lipgloss kind of girl.
So this was a bit out there for me. Well.  Little Sister informs me that I need
to start sporting a bold lip.  From halfway across the country may I add, so not
like she’s here to help me. 
 
So I pop the glam little tube into my make-up bag and carry it around for weeks,
all the while sporting my tinted chapstick sheer lipgloss look.  Well the day
finally came when there had been one too many flu bugs, too little sunshine, one
too many late nights studying with the Teenagers for exams.  Out came the little
tube.  Desperate times call for desperate measures.
Miraculous!  It erased a whole season of sickness, lack of sunshine, high school
in a single swipe.  Maybe all of you are already believers.  But I am hereby a
convert to pink lipstick.  Little Sister is a genius and I thank her for
broadening my horizons.  Look out world, I am sporting a bold lip.

Now you will notice there is second tube.  Oh yeah.  And guess what.  It’s not
pink.  No.  Berry.  Berry!

 I feel very glam carrying it around in my make-up bag.



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