my mom and brother drove out to stl last wednesday to visit us for the week. we had a great time going to a baseball game, the art museum, doing some shopping, and eating a lot of good food! i love the restaurant choices in stl! they left this morning and we miss them already. mom and ad - hope you enjoyed your visit!

so on to the project part - for some reason my family always wants to work on some "project" when they come visit. i guess we're not entertaining enough on our own :-) i had a couple of smaller projects that i've been wanting to work on, so we headed out to homegoods to see what we could come up with. well, one trip to homegoods resulted in a few projects... and also half a day of going to thrift stores. the bad news is that now our house is a mess again because we started working on several different things and nothing is really finished. the good news is that now i have something to blog about!

here's the before of the first project:

this room + a few clearance picture frames + a can of spray paint

i still need to take an after photo, so i'll leave you with that for now.