Weekend blunder... no bueno!

So I had great intentions of finishing up the craft room, but NOPE. I don't even think I went into that room at all this weekend. OH Well. I have vowed to do at least 30 mins each night this week in that room and I will document it in a small series. I think it will get done faster and who knows, maybe I will be in there for more than 30 minutes without knowing??

On to what we did do this weekend.

So Friday night after church and getting the green machine (hubby's car) fixed up, we came home and were eating our take out when all of the sudden the kitchen light went out. hmmm? Wonder what happened. So Hubby gets up from the table to flip the switch on and off and nothing. So we come to the conclusion that the bulbs need to be replaced. So Saturday afternoon we head out to Home Depot to pick up two new light bulbs (and some yummy black paint for a little project I have up my sleeve - more on that later this week). We get home and hubby jumps up on a chair to put those suckers in and .... wait for it... NOTHING. That was not the problem. What could it be??? So we call up our pastor and he says he could come over Sunday after church. He comes over and finds out that the actual fixture is bad :( and so it needs to be replaced... bummer. Well not totally. Remember back in the day I had bought a light fixture at a garage sale that I painted from white to a brownish beige to match our cabinets?? Well I have been waiting (patiently) to get it installed. I have NO idea if it works, but we will find out TONIGHT!!! woohoo... during Monday night Football, our Pastor will be over to help out with hanging the light.

Here are some pics to show what we got accomplished last night (in finding out that the original light fixture is a bust.)

This is the ugly but functional (oh who am I kidding,this thing was sooo dim, I am kind of glad it bit the dust!) Here it is after checking it to see what is wrong with it (all the guts hanging out)
Here are all the pieces to it to make it look not so ugly.

Here is the new light fixture in all it's glory! Love how it looks more substantial and bigger and just all around prettier!
Oh and just for giggles, here is what we have been using the illuminate our kitchen for the past 2 days! Mostly at night or in the morning (during the day, I just open the blinds a bit to let the sun peek in)

Now.. something that was fabulous that happened this weekend. We had this light fixture hanging in the entry way when you walk through the front door. Looks at it's brassy goodness... yuk. (I don't know why the next couple of pictures look yellow?? - could be the brass! ha!)

WOW
Just in case you didn't get enough of the brassy goodness....

Oh.. LOVE (not the sarcasm) the seashell top... just glamorous!
Now here is where the fabulousness comes in! My new light fixture - it cost me $3 at a garage sale and I am beyond excited as it was already pretty late in the day (about 12:30) when we rolled up to this garage sale and bam... right there in all it's beauty was this gleaming light fixture. I was worried that it didn't work but when Pastor hooked it up... Oh just check it out below:

TADA!!!!!!!

It is SUPER BRIGHT because the hubbs got some bright energy star or what I like to call squiggly light bulbs and so we need to get a softer wattage. But YAY for a $3 light fixture!!! woohoo!!!! Score for me!

Stay tuned for my "get the craftroom up to par" series coming up this week! It starts tonight!!

Hasta!

Adri.