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Screaming Meme is having a slipcover giveaway!!

By The Style Sisters - Friday, April 29, 2011

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Craftsman style house.....almost ready!

By The Style Sisters - Thursday, April 21, 2011

Here is our new home almost done!

We love the craftsman style of this home with all the architectural treatments of an older cottage home but everything about it is new. I always wanted a beach house or a lake house and guess what!! There is s a small lake in the neighborhood where you can use pedal boats or kayaks all surrounded by walking/bike paths...plus

there are a zillion parks every 1/4 mile with fun jungle gyms, basketball courts, volleyball courts and pools.... perfect for my grand kids!

These photos were taken about 3 weeks ago...but now there is a driveway poured and they are getting ready to landscape and most of the inside is completed. It has been an adventure living out of a suitcase since December 15th! and traveling around staying with oh so supportive family members as we have been waiting for our house to be finished. I haven't seen it for a couple of weeks as I am still traveling around visiting family but we should be moving in by the middle of May.

I can't wait to show you the inside! Picture this.... light bright airy colors...soft warm yellow painted walls throughout with some rooms painted turquoise blue. We didn't get to pick the cabinet colors but we are painting them out white. We did get to choose the wood floors..... hand scraped dark wood floors with white trim!
BUT some of the best things I can't wait to show you are the projects my amazing sweet talented husband has been working on! (My back has gone out...from sleeping on so many sofa beds and blow up mattresses so I have been down for the count!)
We have found furniture at thrift stores and consignment stores and he has been working like a dog re - doing them. Sanding, painting, more sanding etc.. oh my gosh they look amazing!! Picture this....large round table with six chairs...that were a wood finish are all now painted white with a weathered finish...so beach/cottage looking!!!
I can't stand it at how good they turned out.
I am so excited and can't wait to finally be in our house.

I just hope I am still not walking like a grandma because of my dumb back!

Stay tuned for more updates and pictures!!

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Believe to Prevail against Cancer

By The Style Sisters - Wednesday, April 06, 2011

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frame maps

Fun things in my sisters house

By The Style Sisters - Tuesday, February 22, 2011

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Shelving Re-Do

Wal-mart Bookcase with leg addition.

By The Style Sisters - Tuesday, February 15, 2011

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Tablescape

VALENTINE TABLESCAPE

By The Style Sisters - Monday, February 14, 2011

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Entry way

Make your entry way feel bigger than life with shutters

By The Style Sisters - Monday, February 14, 2011

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I'M BACK!!!! BUT....

By The Style Sisters - Friday, February 11, 2011

Yes I am back!! BUT...no home yet

we are hoping to be in it by the middle of March!!

My hubby and I have been traveling gypsies!!

Zigging and zagging all over the western united states!

After we packed up the house and the moving trucks left. I say truck(s) because the moving company did not bring a big enough truck and had to come back a

second time to finish the job!) ..

We then packed or rather stuffed the car with all our luggage (winter clothes for 2 months or more) our dog (large chocolate lab that has bad breath) and our youngest daughter (who cameand helped her old mom and dad pack up the house)

and left the great state of Texas and headed to Colorado

to stay at my sister's house (1 dog, 5 kids one of which is a brand new baby!)

right before Christmas!!

(Aren't we nice)

We always love staying with Tiff and her hubby and all our nephews and niece.

Then..... a few days before Christmas we re-packed the car and headed to our oldest daughter and son-in-laws apartment (2 bedroom, 2 kids, 4 adults and the dog!) in Salt Lake City

to be with our grandkiddies for Christmas morning! Oh and at this point and time....we had not been able to get any Christmas shopping done...so we crammed everyone into the car and trekked over to the mall (along with everyone else in Utah!) CRAZY!!

Bazillions of people, long lines, traffic beyond belief...after two days of that we finished it all.

Christmas morning with the grandkids was AWESOME!!!

The day after Christmas we re- packed the car again with the bad breath dog and our youngest daughter and headed to Southern Utah to my mom's house where there was tons of snow!

Mom had yummy food and chocolates for us everyday!!

We celebrated New Years Eve with tons of family and friends.

We played hysterical games and ate more amazing food and more chocolates!!

On New Years Day we drove (without the dog) to the Las Vegas airport and hopped on a plane and headed to San Francisco to go and visit my husband's parents and his siblings and meet our new niece Ava

and nephew Kyle

before my hubby flew to Asia for 3 weeks!

(while we were gone my bad breath dog was out by the hen house at my moms and got a hold of one of her chickens ....Poor mom was trying everything..screaming, kicking and yelling at our dog to get her to stop...she finally grabbed a bucket and hit the bad breath dog on the head to get her to let go...which she finally did.... but the chicken bit the dust..feathers were everywhere...so sad)

Poor mom yelled so much that she completely lost her voice for a few days!

Are any of you still reading this crazy travel log? There is much more....

After San Fran.....I flew back to Las Vegas... and then drove back to mom's house to stay with her while my hubby was gone. My cute mom continued to fill me with her chocolates everyday!! I have noticed for some reason my pants are a little tight around the waist.

(On a scary note: the day after I came home my husband's youngest brother had a heart attack at the age of 43. They had to shock his heart 30 times!! It was touch and go for over 2 hours! He came through it and is home now but it scared us to death!...My poor hubby was over on the other side of the world worried sick but all is well now)

A few days before my hubby returned from Asia (21 different cities)...I drove back to Salt Lake (with bad breath dog and youngest daughter) to stay at our other daughters

apartment again (2 bedroom, 2 kids, 4 adults and bad breath dog) Crazy!! My sweet

daughter and amazing son-in-law are sooo precious to let us come and stay!

It is always fun to be with them! My daughter and husband decided we needed to celebrate Chinese New Year. It is the year of the rabbit..Mike brought the kids back a Panda bear dressed as a rabbit from China.

They cooked us some delicious Chinese food and Madeline set a gorgeous table.

My tired hubby returns from Asia..only to hit the ground running... it is time to find a house!

For days and days we looked and looked and looked at houses...(drove our realtor nuts) we finally put an offer on one (short sale) but someone put in a bigger offer and bumped us out. Soooo we were back out looking again...we found another one and we are hoping it all goes well.

In between house hunting... my hubby, daughters, grandkids and I went to tons of amazing thrift stores, consignment shops, Ikea, and other great places and found some amazing things!

I can't wait to show them to you and put them in the new house!

So since we are in the wait mode we decided to go back Colorado to my sisters

(5 kids, 4 adults and 2 dogs) and mooch off of her for another week :)

We have been having a fabulous time scouring thrift stores in her area too

(can't wait to show you the deals)!

Next week we plan to go back to Southern Utah...then back to Salt Lake and then a quick trip to Arizona to visit my dad and his wife and then finally back to Salt Lake to hopefully move in to our new home!!

In the coming days and weeks I will be sharing with you some amazing transformations from my mom and sisters homes. All do it yourself ideas!

Centerpiece Wednesday will start up again later in the spring so be thinking Easter ideas!

Ta Ta For Now

Karin :)

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