. . . What I think of the Tooth Fairy . . .

WARNING: If you love the tooth fairy and met her on a regular basis for happy hour or coffee, you may want to skip reading this post. 

Poor little Biscuit has really had a rough week (hence the break I have taken from blogging here lately).  Not only is she battling yet another ear infection and fever, but the "Tooth Fairy" showed up.

I know that it is the general understanding of the public that the Tooth Fairy shows up only to collect teeth.  I actually have a new theory.  I think she hangs around when they are coming in too.  Just watching.  Not being helpful.  Not leaving money or presents.  She just hangs around to make sure that there are no teeth to snatch up.  B$&%H. 

Still just the 2 bottom teeth . . . and a little drool.  =)

I feel terrible for Biscuit.  She has these big tears roll down her cheeks and gnaws on her chubby little hands, hoping that somehow that will help.

For the love of front teeth and Biscuit's sanity, come on teeth!!  We are ready for you to get here already.

Oh . . . and beat it, Tooth Fairy. 

Biscuit learning to accessorize and think out loud . . . "How do I look??  Is this hat me???"

Art for Biscuit's Playroom

Lately, I'm all about following up, huh?  =)


Remember when we set up a playroom for Biscuit??? Well, I wanted to get some Art in there . . . and so I did!  A little bit of DIY art . . . [excuse my pictures . . . a little blurry . . . taken with my BlackBerry]


This is what a box of crayons, an extra picture frame laying around the house, some construction paper and a glue gun will get you . . . [note: I saw this online . . . I'm a good copycat . . .and I'm proud of how it turned out!!]

And some more art . . .

And finally . . . here they are hanging up in her playroom!!  More to come . . . waiting to get some more inspiration . . .

ORBing the Hizzy

ORBing (short for Oil-Rubbed-Bronze) the Hizzy . . . that's right.  This past weekend was GORGEOUS out - sunny, mid 60s and sunny in JANUARY!!  AWESOMENESS times 2!!! 

For those of you who know me, I FREAKING LOVE spray paint.  Don't judge.  I know everyone has their thing . . . this just happens to be one of mine.

Anyways . . . I follow a blog about home improvements and saw a post where Sherry and John had transformed some gaudy gold door fixtures into modern, ORB fixtures.  I am OBSESSED with the ORB finish.  It just looks so sleek and classy . . . and I feel as though this trend is here to stay for awhile. 
Since I had already read this post, I thought ahead and already had the materials I needed on hand: steel wool and spray paint.  Here is the spray paint I used:

So, armed with my screwdriver, I set out unscrewing the door from their hinges and taking off door knobs. 

After unscrewing all of the gaudy goldiness, I went outside and roughed up all of the hinges and the doorknobs with my steel wool.  Word to the wise . . . the steel wool is rough and kind of breaks apart when roughing up the fixtures.  I would wear kitchen gloves or garden gloves or something . . . I didn't and my hands had little tiny pieces of steel wool in them . . . not the best feeling in the world, but maybe you are tougher than me!  =)

After I roughed the fixtures and hinges up, I laid them on the ground outside at the base of my deck steps.  I started the painting process . . . the key to spray painting is multiple, thin layers.  This is serious.  Take your time.  Thin layers.  Multiple layers.  If you follow this formula, you are golden  ORB'd [ . . .or whatever color you choose - see how cleaver that was =) . . .]

If you follow this formula, you go from this . . . (BEFORE)

To this . . . (AFTER)

And a close-up [just because this was a decent amount of work and I owe it to the prettiness of my "new" doorknobs]

I was BEYOND ecstatic!!!  Buying all new hardware is definitely one way to go but can add up QUICKLY.

Anyone else ever done something like this??