Joey and Gracie's reclaimed kitchen table:

Ann is so sweet. She knew that we were looking for a kitchen table and found one for us in the dumpster of her apartment complex. It had white legs and a light wood top. Joey and I cleaned it with lots of bleach then painted it black and left the white tile in the center. Joey's mom happened to be getting rid of her black kitchen chairs and we snagged them. The place mats are sample material from my friend Alison who used to work at an upholstery factory (and I have tons more in different colors and patterns too). The total cost: 13 dollars for painting supplies!

We also found a solution for our lack of counter space and lack of dinero to buy an island or butcher block ( the least expensive ones we could find were still over a hundred dollars).

We bought two ikea coffee tables and stacked them, not bad for 40 bucks!:

And as for our old "kitchen" card table, I now having a sewing table:

Microscope feature

Joey and I went on a walk with our cameras yesterday evening. Here is what we found:

Rainy Day

It was so rainy today! I love the way the rain makes nature's colors vibrant. I snapped some pictures with my new Pentax 90:

Pentax W90

I just got my Pentax W90 underwater camera today. I was messing around with it at work today and here's the pictures (I can't wait to go swimming with it this summer!):

Simrin!

Look, Meghan, It automatically takes your picture when you smile!

coloring

Sevilla

Sofie

Justin

Roman

Day dreamers

Best friends

Simrin and Sevilla

Grumpy Leah

Sarah Blanch, our southern bell

Simirn

And the video:

Party Time!

I have a lot of celebrating to do this weekend!

Friday = My Commencement Ceremony

Saturday = Joey's 24th Birthday

Sunday = Mother's Day

Let the Wild Rumpus Start!

Love, Gracie

Inspiration

Since I am going to have more time on my hands after I graduate, I thought it would be fun to blog more often.

here goes nothin'

Joey and I made an herb garden and we put it on our window ledge in the kitchen. I love the way it looks and I am excited to cook meals in the summer with our chives, rosemary, oregano and basil. But I think the thing I look forward to the most is our lavender plant and all the fun smell-goodie things I can make.

I saw these on a blog and I think It would be a fun and creative way to mark our herb garden:

Love, Gracie

Dates and stuff

Joey and I went on a date last night. We walked to the Thai restaurant by our new apartment. Delicious, the food was great, we ordered a bottle of wine since we walked and it was so nice to go somewhere together, just me and him. He makes me so happy, I can't even explain :)