..::Reminisce with me::..

Oh The Joys Of Christmas!

We Hope everyone had a Wonderful Christmas!

Us Bascoms sure did,

Woke up at the crack of dawn and saw that sure enough..

Santa came!

Christmas Morning pictures are NOT the most flattering but just reminisce with me for a moment

2010 1st Christmas Together (apartment) aka (the Cave)

Note: lack of decor

And

2011

       2nd Christmas Together 1st In our home 

Additions: Tucker and Ca Ca glasses

Now you all get to see what we wake up to every morning.. We so Preeetttyyy 

Please ignore:

My Grinch pants

Greasy hair

and

Jakes puffy hair on the left

We Already have an addition for our 2012!

Now.. Before I find out from somebody that I'm pregnant let me assure you I'm not.

Our 2012 addition if you haven't noticed yet is seen on the left hand side of the blog

....

Lets just say I got a RE GIFT this year!

For our family name drawings this year, my little brother Jamison drew my name

Now, its always exciting to see what he gives people for gifts, last year Jake was the lucky one and for his gift received...

!!a Journal made out of toilet paper!!

It was so thoughtful Jake loved it

Well

This year Jamison (mom) gave me a way cute sweater, I'm actually currently wearing

after I opened it

Jamison looked at me and said

 "that's not all"

he went into the laundry room and out walked...

Aspen Dressed as Santa

Aspen was my Christmas Surprise back in 2002

....Yes, way back when...

When Jake and I got married my parents offered to keep her until we found a home

and well.. we found our home and now Aspen is ours

We love her just as much as booger

Just pray we don't go crazy with both of them

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Continuing the Christmas Traditions

EVERY YEAR

as I'm sure is the same with many of you

Grandma gets us Christmas Pajamas

Here's to

 Christmas 2010

And of course...

2011

2011

 

Excited to see what 2012 Brings us!!

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Ever sense Jake and I moved into our home he has literally been

BEGGING

for me to let him set up his drums

and just like any other normal, sane wife I

Refused

I couldn't bring myself to let him

Well after the begging continued I figured..

well we have two spare bedrooms why not make one a "music room" for Jake

and that it became

Drums Set up and a New Guitar

Merry Christmas Babe!

The "Music Room" still needs a lot of work

But we'll get there

Notice last weeks project has found its placement

I haven't yet decided what colors to paint the room yet

Any thoughts?

HELP!

Continuing on the Christmas Tradition

Our Families Went Shooting

It was so nice to get up out of the smog

!It was a Great Christmas for 2011 full of Traditions and Family Cant wait to see what 2012 brings us!

What are your plans for new years?!

Shanty vs. Chic

As promised Everyone

!!!Project is goin up!!

Supplies for this project are simple

1 foam brush

small can of wood stain

4 cut squares of particle board

2 printed 4x8 pictures

8 screws

Drill gun

and your choice of spray paint

Step 1:

Evenly Spray paint the piece of particle board that people will most likely be seeing

(please ignore my man hands)

Step 2:

After letting the particle board dry  from the spray paint

Sand each edge of the board giving it a round smooth feel to it

should look something like this..

look close

Its okay to have the spray paint come off, its what your shooting for

Step 3

Is where these babies come in

Your wood stain can be any color, just make sure you don't have it too light or you wont be able to see it

Take your Foam brush and go around each sanded edge of your particle board

lightly stroke each side, If it goes over the edge a little bit more than others its okay

it will give it more character

..::As you can see, mine is the farthest thing from perfect::..

After letting each edge sit for a few 20 seconds Wipe off the excess stain with a paper towel

After doing this step to each side

Your particle board should look like the following:

Notice the edges,

The Stain and sanded edges give the board that antique feel and look to it

Step 4:

Get your 4x8 picture and place it in the desired spot of your particle board

For this step i highly recommend making a hole in your picture before just screwing it on

otherwise you'll risk ripping your picture

Drill each corner of your picture to the particle board

note: make sure you don't screw it on to tight or your picture will

crinkle or rip...

 yes I learned that from experience

eh we live and we learn right?

After each step is completed

enjoy your finished project :

Confession

When it came to all the Christmas wrapping and things I needed to get finished before the end of the day

I was probably the most impatient person with this project

It still turned out great but when your following the steps

the drying of the spray paint was where i just lost it...

tic toc tic toc!

Time was something i just didn't have so..

I used a blow dryer to help me speed up the drying process

But DO NOT do that!! Its worth Waiting!

Hope you all Enjoy!

Have a Merry Christmas!!

JB

A Loosing Battle

Alright, Lets Begin...

Anyone recognize THIS?

No?

Then you probably didn't procrastinate your Christmas Shopping until 4 days before Christmas

THAT would be my gas gage..

And yes that is what it has looked like for the past week..

Yes,

 I have filled up on gas... all the way up,.. no.. 5 maybe 10 bucks worth, yeah!

Please tell me I'm not alone!

Us Bascoms apparently didn't realize it was Christmas

until about a week ago.

and gas has been the last thing on my mind

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For those of you who didn't receive a Christmas Card from the Bascoms

this includes: Family

Friends, and fellow Bloggers

Its either because, I haven't seen you sense last Saturday or you didn't give me your address

So to save ourselves from a number of complaints

Here is YOUR card,

 just pretend it has that envelope you were planning on throwing away anyway with a stamp in the right hand corner 

Merry Christmas!!!

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Just a little Christmas Decor, Money Pinching, Idea

I purchased 5 place mats from All A Dollar totaling .. well $5

got some ribbon from previous projects,

Cut a hole in each end of the place mats and tied each one together

And you've got yourself a....

!Table Runner!

Give your table a little bit more character!

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Looking for a puppy Model?!

I've got your dog!

presenting.....

Tucker Booger Bascom

This dog performs his tricks better with a camera in your hand vs. a treat

I have yet to get him to smile,

You can tell we're beginners,

 this past week

he has had the biggest biting problem

Jakes reasoning was because he hates me

I was convinced ...until...

These suckers came out

Teething puppy!? who woulda thought!?

Yes, Puppy fairy came

No.. Neither one has died yet. But by the looks of it, our tree is loosing the battle

give it a few more days..

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I'm Only posting this because Jake said not to..

Why?

well... he said you guys would all be able to notice, so lets see if you do......

look close...

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Anything?

Let me help you out...

Notice it now?

Didn't think so..

If you get a magnified glass out and look verrrrry close

you'll notice two of our Christmas lights are out

Will they be fixed by Christmas..? Probably not!

I'm okay with that.

Fact: with all the Christmas buying and house updates we are going crazy

Proof:

The Lack of project postes will come to an end!! Eventually

Its a long weekend! I'll manage to finish at least one!

Until then

Have a Very Merry Christmas!

love:

  The Bascoms

And Presenting...

We hope everyone had a wonderful weekend!

I don't know about you, but I swear there aren't enough Weekends in December!

Every weekend has been

Party Party Party!

Now.. I'm not complaining, but It gets exhausting!

all I'm sayin is

...You know you've almost reached your limit when you forget what time your own party is..

Jake and I Hosted our annual

Ugly sweater party

this year for our "family" Friends

and Yes, we forgot what time we had told everyone

Okay so here is where the problem was

We had the "Hale" party last night along with the "ugly sweater" party at our house

What time either one started was beyond me!

In my planner and my mind I had

Hale party 5:30

Ugly Sweater party 7:00

No..

Wrong..

Actual Times:

Hale party 5:00

Ugly sweater party 6:30

Well, that didn't stop us.

...Meanwhile ..

Hale party played Minuet to Win it

Game: You had to shake all the ornaments out of the box tied around your waist..

a lot harder than it looks

Contestants:

Left to Right

Cub, Me, Katie, And Whit

Amazingly and not surprising to any of us

Cub came in first

Little did we know, meanwhile shaking our booties

We had a group of friends waiting for us in our driveway

Sorry Guys!

Presenting

Yes we were late to our own party

How embarrassing!

At least we came in with "style"

I not only got to where that flattering outfit to the party but also go to

"Strut my stuff"

at Smiths!

not only were we late to our own party, but we forgot to get supplies for our ginger bread house

I swear we're great Hosts!

SEE!!?

A great finish to the weekend!?

Check your mail people

The greeting cards have been sent!!

Happy Holidays!!

We've got a new project in the making! Stay Tuned!!

In the Meantime..

Just to tie you over until.. Sunday
ENJOY!

I've been meaning to post about this particular project for the longest time

I haven't really gotten around to it until now because well,

.......

I don't have a good reason

BUT

When you see the project I'm more than 80% sure that some, if not most of you will look at it

Scoff, and mumble to yourself

"She got that from Pintrest"

Because well.... I did! 
I do try and follow through with my "re pins"
We'll refer to this one as my

Pintrest challenge

So with the pintrest recognition lets begin!

It all started with

non other

the DI

As do most of my projects

Out in the "yard" I came across 2 sets of white shutters
$20

Took em home..

They collected dust for a good 2 weeks
I'd occasionally sit and stare at them and wonder to myself how I was going to manage to Take on this Pintrest Challenge

Well a warm Saturday in July will show you how:

Pintrest Challenge = Headboard

You'll need:
A few 1x4s

Screws and a screw gun
and of course
Shutters

I don't have step by step pictures so bare with me and let your imagination take you with this one

Step 1: Lay shutters face down on the ground and get exact measurements for each joint

Step 2: Screw a piece of your measured 1x4 in place of each joint seam, enabling the joints to move
roughly shown below

Each arrow indicates each placement we screwed the joints together.

Step 3: Measure the Height you want for your your head board,
Note: its good to measure the height of your bed before

Step 4: for the "feet" of the head board its nothin fancy.. just a pair of 1x4's

They Will Not show.. don't worry

 By this step in the process you're basically finished
It should look a little like:
ThiS!

Minus the Homely looking girl and you've got yourself a beautiful Headboard

Step 5: (optional) Take a hammer n nail and distress the shutters.

and Walla!

We try to look professional but we're the farthest thing from it.

FINISHED PROJECT

!!!Have a Good Weekend!!!

Dear Santa, I can Explain!

Well, Its that time of year again!

Great Deals

Shopping Fights

Colds

Christmas music

Middle Fingers

Lights

and

Christmas Trees

.. wait That time of year started a month ago..

Okay, so we're a little behind the 8 ball, Its okay!

Better Late than Never!

No I haven't done ANY Christmas Shopping.. and Christmas is in how many days?

That, I don't even know.

The good news is, Jake and I finally got our Christmas Tree!

It was Quite the experience 

We'll begin Here:

Dressed Warm and Excited to Go find a Tree!

I told Jake to look excited... That was the best he could do.

anyway, moving on....

We both decided to go to the same tree lot we bought our tree last year, Thinking it could become a "tradition" and go there every year.

Well

Turns out each tree was 9 bones a foot.

Lets do some math here...

I'm 5'4 a tree my height... which isn't tall at all

is $50 dollars, We were hoping for at least 7 feet. which would be around 70 bucks

I was NOT about to spend 70 dollars on something I could have picked up off the side of the road no less than a week ago! ...

So a little upset, I told Jake to hurry and take my picture of

how I felt about there prices

I figured, I sounded like a boy (cold), looked like a boy (jakes jacket) I figured I should pretend to... well...

Now.. You may be wondering why I'm pretending to do this in front of that man in the background,

who just happened to be the owner of the lot ..

well, its because my sweet sweet husband didn't tell me!!!!

As I was standing there pretending to "do my business" the owner slowly walked around the corner and witnessed the whole thing.

Jake thought it was to funny to tell me and snapped the picture

I don't think we'll be returning to that lot anytime soon.

After laughing and zooming in and out at the mans face in the picture

cause we all know we do

we found ourselves at the local Smiths,

The trees Were Beautiful and no more than 30 bucks!!!

Jackpot!

We found this pretty tree, and called it ours.

Jake did Bring a Jacket... Its just on me.. Don't judge

Before The Decorating......

I couldn't help myself..I made tucker take a few pictures.

What a good little model he was.

Onto the Decorating!

I went for the Gold and Red This year,

no particular reason other than the fact that all a dollar had the cutest ornaments so I got them.

Please Notice:

Tucker Under the tree,

 and ornament on the ground

 Its going to be a long two weeks.

No matter how many toilets are available or how much water is in his doggy dish

Tuck insists on drinking out of the water provided for the tree...

Jake and I have placed bets on who is going to die first

Tuck.. Or.. The Tree

I'm sure you all know who my bet was placed on

I really do love him

Meanwhile,

Jake Whipped up some Brinner!

Breakfast/ Dinner

We dubbed this our new tradition

To make Brinner every year of the night we decorate the tree

It was DELISH!

Flash Back!

Heres to our 2010 Tree

We went for the Skinny tall tree last year

With Green and Brown Ornaments

And Drum Roll Please!!

2011!

We went for the Bigger and Fatter

With Red and Gold

HAPPY CHRISTMAS!!

What Traditions do you have?

What color schemes did you use this year?