Coming right along!

I hinted at my efforts to spiff up my living room a little bit a few posts ago. When I came home from doing some shopping on Saturday, I found Casey putting the cut-off legs back on my repurposed coffee table--what a guy :) A few months ago, this is as far as I'd gotten with the living room:

Here's what I have now!

And, a view without the kid stuff in the corner, haha:

This little table was given to us when we first got married and was our dining table when we lived in Georgia, where I painted it in our living room (while Casey was in Iraq), while watching The Princess Diaries over and over :) Now that we have a family it seems sooooo tiny to be a dining table!! Anyway, I'm so glad we kept it, since with shorter legs, it makes a perfect, super-sturdy coffee table. Next I'm going to try to make that kids' corner more attractive. I saw some really cute bins at Hobby Lobby, so I'm waiting for those to go on sale. I'm working on some fun artwork too--I would really like to get some vintage book covers scanned and then frame them. Like this one:

Any ideas on how to do that and how much it might cost??? Someday maybe that kids corner will be a reading corner or something, but for now, it's full of toys and that's okay by me--I have little kids, so why would I try to make my house look like I don't, huh?????

Cheers :)