Welcome to Day 5 and have we got a show for you!! We thought we'd mix it up a bit and perhaps scare you away from our blog…forever… Friday we'll be sharing the how-to's but today, you're just getting a little sneak peek of the ornaments we made with some random Monica & Jess thrown in. Moments of Awkwardness Not to Miss
Can you see Monica or just a Heavenly glow?? (note to self, fix lighting next time)
How many times can two girls say"balls" before it's really awkward (especially with their moms reading!)
Did you know Monica's a magician?? Can you see her invisible ornaments?? (Darn lighting)
Can you count how many times we slap our legs? How about Jess randomly clapping? And yes, Monica fidgeted 13947622 times.
Martha Stewart came and decorated Monica's banister. Can't you tell?? It's REALLY fancy!
Do your friends typically salute you?
Monica really is tan, but it's overshadowed by the Heavenly glow.
We hope you can follow along, we know we're all over the place, but you're getting to see the REAL Monica & Jess. Would you want to be our friends? (please say yes or don't answer) Wow, don't we look super excited in this freeze frame??
Hey, It's Monica…Wow! What an amazing, incredible, awesome, expereince it was… did I mention it was amazing? We'll definitely do a full post with oodles of fun pics and behind the scenes info (yes, Nate really is adorable in real life and incredibly easy to be around too!) but for today, we're keeping it short and sweet. We're completely exhausted from an 18 hour day and we both have crazy, busy days today (Jess is back in NYC for the US Open and I'm driving 7 hours to pick our new puppy out of a litter!) Anyhow… here's a little peek of the awesomeness… Sneak Peek of our time on The Nate Show (AKA… 2 girls playing with a camera before going on the set) This is how I prepare for my national TV d ebut … I take cheesy self-pics in the green room.
We're complete dorks! Nate, did you know what you were getting yourself into?
I LOVE this picture. We heart Nate! (by the way, Jess' make up looked amazing didn't it?)
Here we are as soon as we finished up the taping! We made it, it went so smoothly, and we want to do it again! LOL… I know we're not showing much in the way of real-deal, behind the scenes pics, but we will, once we're allowed to! I'll give you one little inside tidbit. I had an insanely awkward moment with Nate Berkus… We all know he's a side-cheek kisser right? Well, I've been preparing myself for that, because I'm not much of a kisser or a hugger. I knew it was coming at some point… so we're finishing the third segment, we're taping in front of tons of people, and he comes at me with his hands low, for like a low hand squeeze?? Palms up?? I went with it and then he goes in for the side kiss… He goes left and I go LEFT. Ugh… quickly he goes right, I go… who knows which direction (I'm being told it looks like I went for lips) and eventually we ended with what is now being referred to as the Nate Berkus Nuzzle. Epic FAIL! We asked one of the producers at the end if they'd cut that part out, and she laughed and said,"Sometimes they like to keep the awkward stuff"… Oh, Lucky me. Well, at least I can say that I got a Nate Berkus Nuzzle. Can you? haha!
And here we are heading out to see the sights of NYC after a hard day's work.
We do a lot of projects… perhaps more than my wonderful husband would like to do… Some times I feel like this is my life…
Ok, don't judge me here, but I'm going to show you what state my garage was in about a week ago…
Two small tables about to be made into one BIG table, a million dining room chairs, exercise equipment for bootcamp, a buffet that is being refinished, and oodles of kid junk… Please tell me your"work areas" look like this from time to time!! If you remember, I posted about refinishing 14 chairs… well they seem to be EVERYWHERE! Perhaps they're multiplying??
Here's the progess… I picked a charcoal grey that I am thrilled with. Initially I was thinking black, but after painting one chair, I just wasn't feeling it. Picasso had a blue period, so I can have a grey period.
Also, my"Chemist by Day, and DIY Assistant by Night" husband is making a farmhouse dining room table. I mentioned our dining room troubles last month and he's now on the home stretch of the project. Here's a mini update… I want to save the big reveal until after it's all stained and amazing!
Seiously, who needs a pickup truck when you have a minivan??
So here's the deal… we came across two identical 5 foot tables and good old Grandpop Bunney (yes, that's really his name) reminded us that 5 + 5 = 10 So, we're using both of the tables, adding support boards, and then building the new tabletop right over it! Now for a little more math… 4 + 4 = 8 Yeah, the table will have 8 legs, but it isn't all that noticeable, and it's a little quirky… just like us!
When the table reveal is done we'll give a better step-by-step, but really it's just wooden support beams cut to size, and then loooong planks going on top. See how easy I make it sound, since I'm NOT the one doing the project. Hehe.
I'm really proud of the finished product (coming really soon!) and all of the hubs' hard work. He puts up with a lot of my crazy ideas and projects that turn into"our" projects, which sometimes turn into"his" projects. So, this is my life as a DIYer and a wife… I wonder if E knew what he was getting himself into…
