{ Minnesota Getaway }

                     

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This past weekend my husband and I took off on a mini 4-day trip to the middle of Minnesota. It was a much needed time of relaxing and doing nothing... I even shut off my phone! Our agenda consisted of drinking cocoa, sitting in front of the stone fireplace, trying to eat half of all the food I brought, and taking drives along the countryside looking for cute cabins and farms. We also found a cute carriage to take rides in. It was perfect. Except as usual, we got excited to come home and start a new project thanks to HGTV. We were thisclose to tearing into the house when we got back. Here are a few shots from my iPhone. Edited with Afterglow.

What are your favorite getaways? 

-Bethy

{Farmhouse Pantry & Tax Day}

 Happy Tax Day! Okay, so it's not happy. But I am glad my taxes are finally filed as of last night. I am now broke (anyone else self-employed?) BUT here is a link that might help make us feel a little better. See if your city has more freebies for you than mine does. I qualify for one. Thank you Arby's.

 

 My mom redid her whole pantry out at the farm and I thought it turned out amazing! We collected jars from Ikea and Target and a lot of them she already had. We found a few at goodwill for $2 too. She bought labels at Home Depot and tied them onto each jar with a string- cute writing too, huh? She said baking is so much fun now that she is able to see every ingredient!

-Bethy

{my sofa got a paint job}

I thought I'd share my latest weekend project. I painted my $75 Craigslist couch!

Bethy's sofa on Friday: Creamish with light pink flowers and stains.

Bethy's sofa on Saturday: Green.

There are tutorials online that are more in depth than mine, so be sure to google this for yourself before trying the fast version I made up. It was 2am and I just wanted to be done!

Here is what I used:

Latex Semi-gloss paint
Fabric/Textile Medium
Scented paint additive (Glade French Vanilla)
Paint brush


I bought the scented additive because first of all, paint smells bad. Second, I bought my couch on Craigslist!

I drove all over town and used up a ton of my cell minutes trying to find enough fabric medium. A lot of time and it's not very cheap, but do not skip this step or your sofa will be crunchy. The medium keeps the fabric soft. Each brand has different directions and mine required two 8 oz. bottles per quart of paint.

{winter wonderland}

 This morning I really could've used a model. I LOVE FOG. Not driving in it, of course. But it's soooo pretty for photos.

 This morning was also a perfect opportunity to find out that my CF card corrupted. Of course I'm glad it didn't happen on a real shoot and that I didn't lose valuable wedding photos, etc etc... but of COURSE I'm going to say that I lost my best pictures of the pretty snow and I'm bummed:(


    Canon 5D MkII, TSE 45mm 2.8

  ~Bethy