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lady walker

We have a walker at our house! I didn't expect my little Z to walk so soon (10 months!) but she's up and moving! Another bonus to having a little walker is all the cute dresses and skirts that have been on hiatus because of crawling can come back into rotation! And I think this one fits that bill! It's from gap.com and oh so shimmery and cute! 

{image via gap}

{image via gap}

{image via gap}

weekend warrior {just kidding, i spray painted some chairs}

Q and I tackled the garage the other day. When we moved into our current home I was 7 months pregnant. So with a moving company and lots of help, we put the house together. But the garage didn't see much love.

With the garage looking so good, I couldn't avoid these rusty folding chairs any longer. 

We have had these folding chairs that we bought on an auction  for years. But they were looking pretty tough so I picked up a can of spray paint and gave the chairs a quick spray. 

the BEFORE picture

I used a steel brush to smooth out the rusty areas.

mid process

final product! I used the seat again because the seats were in very good shape and I hate to create unnecessary waste. :)  

There are tons of cute redo ideas for folding chairs on Pinterest. We mainly use these chairs in the garage. Specifically Q uses them for his {insert robot/computer voice} fantasy football league draft. So I love theses next two ideas but, I don't think that Q and his buddies would be that impressed! A couple of cute examples: here  & here.

What is your latest DIY?

happy halloween!

The day after! Z is still recovering! {must be nice to be a baby with her own king sized bed :0)}

Z had a great 1st Halloween! She was a monkey! {see exhibit A}

Can you guess my costume? 

Earlier in the week we carved pumpkins. 

And on Halloween we took Z trick or treating with friends, aka around the block. Z loved it!

I just loved her costume. It's from Chasing Fireflies available here.

zip it

so happy

check it out

Anthropologie is having a sale! {enough said} 25% off sale with the code EXTRAEXTRA! Sadly, I wasn't able to combine it with my birthday coupon, but I did pick up a few things including this top I have been coveting since I saw it in July! 

{image via anthropologie}