I'm Getting Paid!

I'm back!  A week long vacation with the fam was exactly what I needed.  We biked, we hiked, we beached, we hung out with farm animals, we boated, we shopped, we ate and we wrapped up the week with a drive-in movie...SO FUN!  But now it is time to get back to work on all the projects I left hanging and the first one to talk about is one I am getting paid to do.  Wait...paid...you betcha!

Can you believe it, someone is actually paying me to do this stuff!  One of my Personal Training clients is also an MD reader.  And after seeing the two headboards I made (here and here) she asked if I would be interested in making a couple for her.  And I said No.  Ha, just kidding, I said Heck Yeah!  (I'm so professional).

So Barbara (that's my client) and I have been putting our heads together and we have come up with a plan.  I must say she has been so fun to work with.  In addition to being a friend, she actually thinks my ideas are great, imagine that!  In her very own words "I welcome your ideas.  I'm sick of my own."

My work includes an upholstered headboard for her master bedroom.  I'm not going to give away all the details but I will tell you I used one of these fabulous shapes...

  

and there is a chance this fabric is involved

And as I said above, Barbara loved the re-purposed headboard I made for my master so her new guest room headboard will be very similar with a few new features of course.



So as soon as I complete these two projects I will officially be a professional.  Ha!  That is funny.  I am so not a professional, but it is nice to have someone appreciate what I love to do.

Back To School

Back to school time is here.  And in my case it is Start School time.  Yes...my daughter is starting school this Fall.  She will be at preschool two mornings a week and all she can talk about is the school bus (which she actually wont be riding to school but once in a while on field trips).  We recently went on a tour of the district school bus facility and she was over the moon!

We got to go through the "bus bath" twice.  It was awesome!

So for all of you sending kids back to school or just starting out like us, here is an adorably fun idea brought to us by How Does She.  




Follow this link and join How Does She and you will find free printables for every year, Pre-K through 12th, to help you create that perfect first day of school pic.

What fun back to school traditions do you love?  Share them in the comments below!