Nine Is So Fine

Ian and I celebrated our ninth wedding anniversary on June19.  The day started with a delicious breakfast at The Big Biscuit.  With our bellies full, we headed to Paint, Glaze, and Fire Ceramics and Coffeehouse in Leawood, Kansas.  The traditional wedding anniversary gift for nine years is pottery.  We had reserved a table at Paint, Glaze, and Fire and came with a design in mind.  We sat amongst the mothers, grandmothers, babysitters, and young children and got right to work.

Ian applying the first base coat.

Ian carefully sketching.

Getting ready to write n-i-n-e in cursive.

The sketching was the easy part.  When it came to tracing over our sketch with the paint, that's when the project got tricky.  It took us three tries to get it just right.

Happy Ninth Anniversary

After our pottery adventure, we grabbed a bite to eat at Houlihan's.  Our meal was on the house since it took them over 20 minutes to bring us our food.  It actually took them 20 min and 58 sec.  We weren't going to be too picky, but the waitress came right up with our food and said it was on them!

Later in the evening, we headed to The Independence Square and sat on the terrace at Cafe Verona and enjoyed a delicious dinner, half-price wine, and a complimentary dessert.  It was a wonderful day!

Cheers to nine years!

Casa de Carle Craftsmanship

A while back, Ian and I were perusing the aisles of Target and stumbled upon this entryway table.

The size was perfect for our entryway, put the price was not perfect for our budget.  Ian made a few measurements and took a few pictures and voila!

Over Spring Break, I gave it a few coats of paint and we purchased the knobs at Anthropologie.

The best part, we saved about a hundred dollars with this DIY project!

For the past two years, I have enjoyed decorating our fireplace mantle for the holidays.  I think that it looks its best at Christmastime. 

I love how the white window stands out against the dark bricks.  Thankfully, we had another old window up in the attic.  I painted the trim white on this window, and then painted a tree onto the window.  The finishing touches were two love birds.

 

I found this cute little saying on Pinterest, and Ian turned a king and queen chess piece for the trifecta!

Any Home Can Be A Castle When the King and Queen Are in Love

Finally, over the Easter weekend, we added three new pieces of furniture to our front living room.  It sat empty for the first two years.  We just weren't sure how we were going to decorate the room.  Then, we found this while shopping for a lamp at World Market.

Ian had the great idea to put a drafting table in front of the bay window.  It is a perfect fit.  It fills the space without blocking too much light or the air vent.  We saw some industrial-looking shelves that we really liked, but decided to sleep on it.  We thought that Ian would be able to recreate the shelves at a fraction of the cost.  However, when we woke up the next morning, we decided that the metalwork on the shelves would be hard to duplicate and made this purchase.

We finally have a vision for this room.  Our design style is industrial.  We hope to add some leather club chairs in front of the fireplace sometime in the future.  This room also needs some lighting options.  Until then, we'll continue to watch HGTV for ideas and inspiration.  We have enjoyed scouring the vintage stores downtown for industrial finds.  We found these two items earlier this summer.