I’ve been working on blog designs for my clients and also designing new templates to add to the shop. We already put up some new WordPress themes. The Blogger templates for these designs will be available soon!

Also I want your opinion on what you’re looking for when you’re purchasing a blog template. If you could take the time to just spend 2 minutes or so to fill out the survey that would be great! It will really help me understand more of what you want so I can make better pre-made templates for you all!

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WordPress Theme: Out of Chevron {available in other colors}

WordPress Theme: Pattern Me Crazy

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It’s been a while since I updated about Cheerio. Isn’t he so cute!? I can’t get enough of him, seriously. I love it when he greets me at the door when I get home from work. Sometimes he’s not at the door when I come in but he’s always running down the hall to the door with his ears flapping up and down.

We keep spoiling him with new toys & treats. We’re learning what treats he does and does not like. So far we have found some good “healthy” treats that he likes. I usually give him a treat before I leave for work to distract him from giving me the sad face when I leave.

When we’re not home he has access to half of the house. We don’t trust him with the front of the house where the foosball table & living room is. When he was being potty trained, he would poop on the carpet. Now he has not gone potty in the house for a while anyways. We always leave all the bedroom doors closed when we’re gone too. Also the laundry room is blocked with a gate because of the cat litter box.

I’m glad Tyler is usually able to come home for lunch so he can play with Cheerio and let him out to go potty. We make sure we give him lots of love when we’re home to make up for it.

However…he’s not exactly innocent as he seems to be. He chews on the edge of the carpet in the family room. Ugh! There are a few bald spots from him doing that. It’s driving me crazy! I wish we had a lot of money to just rip out all of the carpet and tile to put in hardwood floors. This is the first thing I’d do if I won the lottery.

BUT again…how can I be mad at this adorable poochie?! His ears are so soft that I want to nibble on them!

So I have always dreamed of having a farm table and would occasionally look online for the perfect dining table even craigslist. I also found this awesome tutorial from Ana White. But it seemed like too much work and we didn’t really have that much room to build one.

So last week I was talking to Missa Lee about it at work. She immediately looked on craigslist and the first post she found was a woman who was selling a farm table that she made. It was perfectly priced and just the table we wanted! She and her husband made a similar table to the one from Restoration Hardware for $2,245.

I immediately emailed her and learned that she and her husband were building tables to raise money for their adoption in Congo. I really loved the table and it was a nice touch to it knowing where our money was going towards. We made plans to pick it up with my dad’s car. Really…my dad is amazing for helping us with getting the table. Thanks, dad!

We didn’t waste time once we got it into the house. The table was already sanded so all we had to do was stain it. But I kind of didn’t want to stain it. Tyler on the other hand wanted to. He convinced me to stain it…. more specifically the color, dark walnut.

I was nervous since I didn’t want it to be too dark. You know how it is…the longer you leave the stain on without wiping it, the darker the wood will get. We decided to start staining the bottom of the table so we had some room for error. I didn’t wait too long before wiping it off and it turns out it was too light and I didn’t like it. So we left the stain on for about 20 minutes or so.

Don’t let this picture convince you that Tyler did all of the staining. I did pretty much 85% of the work. I know his little game of being slow and watching football at the same time on TV. He knows I’m fast and focused so I ended up doing most of it.

Yikes! Look at how dark it looks with the stain on for a long time.

Wiping off the stain was Tyler’s job. :) The next morning we put fast-drying polyurethane (semi gloss) on the table. We did about 3 coats and that was it!

Now look at this beauty! Notice something else too?

The new rectangle hanging capiz that I got for Christmas!

Here’s what it looks like with the light off.

I just looove it! After my dad and Tyler got the pendant up, we realized that it was too high so they’re going to fix it later this week and add more rods that came with the package so it’ll be lower.

Seriously this is the best multi-purpose table! For eating, holding cards while playing card games, beer pong and ping pong! Want to come over now?

This is what it looked like before. That table has been moved to the formal dining room for a little hang out spot next to the foosball table.

And this is what it looks like now! The table was $265 and we only spent $35 on supplies (stain, brushes & tarp cover). Total cost of the project: $300!!