Entertainment Center Made Kitchen (Play Kitchen)

Play Kitchen from Entertainment Center

Here is the entertainment center before and after. As you can see in the pic my dd had already started putting things in there from me telling her to clean her room. Do the rest of you have the problem of kids putting things anywhere so it appears their room is clean?? lol

What I have been up to...

Hi guys!!! I have missed you all!!! I knew it had felt like forever since I have talked you y'all, yet I see it has been about 6 weeks. Yes, that is a long time, but not as long as it felt!!! So what have I been up to... Well as I told y'all the last post, I now am a meme of 6, the twins (identical boys) were born May 28th. I had some other,unexpected, things come up and I have been working my hiney off getting a lot of my furniture finished as well as things around the house that needed to be fixed to sell. The one I loved the most was my china/buffet cabinet

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My Grandsons were born!!! Yes, I said sonssssss... Twins And a recipe for Citronella Oil

I am sorry after telling you all that I would add more to my porch post the next day that it has been several. That isn't a very good way to start is it??? I do believe I have a decent excuse though. The boys had to be taken by c-section at 34 weeks but all is well!!! :) They were 6 lbs 2 oz and 5 lbs 8 oz, pretty decent size for twins that was 6 weeks early. I would hate to have been my daughter if they they had of been full term!!!

Well I have almost finished painting my swing, filled the pool, built a little porch by the pool for the kids to get in and out on (hoping to keep the grass down), weeded the front garden and added dirt and some plants, and.... ummm I know there was something else... oh yea, I put the color coat on top of the black on my glass cabinet in for the kitchen. This was done today so I am really tired, I hope to get pics and how to's posted tomorrow.

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An entertainment center purchased for $19.99 with an additional 70% off, yes, only $6.00.
Then  re-purposed into a great real looking play kitchen for
less than $60.00 TOTAL!!!

Thing one and Thing two baby shower, along with how to's on the fondant, cake, signs, etc...

How to make a fondant tiara from begging to end, leaving nothing out!!!

Finding curb appeal for the cost of some spay paint and a few things around the house.
Along with all of the how to's

How to make fondant that taste good and decorations that
look like you got them from the Cake Boss!!!
End cakes look and taste great!!!

My dd's bedroom transformation, along with the how to's.
For a cost  you won't believe!!!

• Great shower gifts that you do yourself for less.
• Home decor that looks like a million bucks, yet cost less than $10
• A two seat swing salvaged that looks brand new
• Recovering a winged chair
• And many, many more!!!!

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How to NOT get bitten/eaten alive by mosquitoes...

I live in central Alabama and we have mosquitoes the size of Manhattan!!! Knowing I was going to be working in the yard a lot I researched all of the 'green', 'organic', inexpensive ways to not get bitten. And here is what I tried and how it worked:
1.) Garlic: I had two large bunches of garlic (are the individual pieces of garlic called cloves or the whole bunch?) So I cut them up all around my deck yesterday. Today I went on top of it with a full thing of garlic powder. I still had one land on me around noon. I knew if they are landing on me already, I will be eaten alive by dusk!!! So onto the next thing...

My new (to me) home ended up being the one I saw in the Summer 2012 issue of do it Yourself magazine, and I didn't know it at the time :)

Prior to moving into this rental house (I know, I wish I owned again... Yet, these are the times. Just look for the silver lining :) I was living in a place that I wanted out of before I ever moved in. While looking at a Do It Yourself magazine I saw my perfect deck. It was me and I knew I would have it one day...

About lil' ol me

I am a 43 years young divorced female with two young children living at home (son 8 3/4's lol and my daughter 6 1/2), as well as two grown daughters with children of their own (yes, I am a meme).

Six months after my divorce my teen daughter became pregnant and started going into preterm labor from 21 weeks until she had a wonderful son at 33 weeks. When he was born even though he was in great shape to be seven weeks early he had to stay in NICU until he reached term. Well needless to say I couldn't leave my young scared daughter in the hospital by herself (she pretty much stayed in the hospital until having her son), so I was there with her. All of that time off of work, work wasn't waiting on me when all was done. So there I was with three of my children, two very young at this time, and a grandchild without an income. Savings and 401K only goes so far and I couldn't find a job paying more than $10 an hour for the next three years.... So I thought this must be time to go back to college. My daughter found a wonderful guy and was married a little over a year ago. Fast forward three more years and here I am.

Since I lost my job I found I had to do things for nothing or almost nothing and that is what this blog is all about. It doesn't matter how much money we have, if we can decorate our homes and throw parties for free or almost this is the time to do it!!


I have taken the summer off from school and I am thinking of taking off the next year as well to spend time with my children, they don't stay this age for long. While I have been out I have been busy doing a baby shower for my daughter whom is due with twins the first of July (I do not believe she will make it past the middle of June, we will see) and getting started on some of the many things I wanted to redo, make, and build. When doing my daughters shower I felt like I needed to start a blog giving information I couldn't find in one place so others could. Now that I am working on my yard and my youngest daughters kitchen I still not have been able to find all of the answers I was looking for in one place, So now is the time to share the answers and the problems I have found so the rest of you will not have to hunt and then make the mistakes I did because of not finding the correct answers. I will also let you know how the answers I found turned out... Some things I have found is GREAT advise, some not so good, and others I am wondering if I might have done something wrong... The name of my blog "Be you, Be YoUnique", came from the feeling I have always had about being yourself and true to that person. Please contact me with any questions, if I don't know the answer I will do my best to find them. I'm sure I will need it or someone else will as well!!! Please also make comments on anything that you have a thought about, a correction to, a better way of doing things, etc. along the way!!!


And NEVER FORGET!!! Be you!! Be YoUnique!!!