I am extremely excited to announce the launch of the brand new website and blog at  www.rebeccasehn.com.   If you subscribe, be sure to update your feed!

I will no longer be posting on this page, so I shall see you all on the flip side.  :)

New Website:  http://www.rebeccasehn.com

New Blog:  http://www.rebeccasehnblog.com

New Facebook Page:  http://www.facebook.com/rebeccasehn

Although my new office is incredibly tiny (I prefer to call it ‘cozy’…) I still need to furnish it in some way, shape, or form.  And because I’m not quite sure how free a rein Adam will give me when it comes to decorating our future home, I have decided to take all my decorating dreams into the office instead.  Therefore, it will be decorated with my favourite shade of green, a few eclectic pieces, and some vintage flair.

The problem with antiques is that they usually come attached to a monster price tag – the pieces I love the most always seem to be in the thousands!  So my solution for one such piece was:

1) Purchase an incredibly inexpensive second hand nine drawer dresser.  It was originally purchased at Woodwards in the 1940’s.  I forgot to take a ‘before’ picture, but it was a dark walnut finish – you know the kind.

2) Sand it (well, Adam actually did most of the sanding….)

3) Paint it  2-3 coats (with lots of help from Adam and my mother…)

4) Sand the edges and bash it up a little.  I used a sanding sponge block -worked perfectly, a hammer to give it some nicks and dents, and then I took a chain to it and basically just beat it up.  (Yes, it was totally fun.)

This is what the edges look like now:

And these are the original handles, which I re-affixed to 6 of the 9 drawers.  I’m thinking about distressing it a little further with some tinted paint – especially right around the high contact areas like handles.

The dresser was missing a handle, so I bought three new ones for the centre three drawers.  They’re a little too yellow, so I’m going to paint them with the same paint I used on the office walls (like the colour on the right.)

I was too lazy to go get my wide angle, so this is the best I could do in my garage:

If you’re thinking of taking on a project like this and want to do it properly (aka spend more time on it than I did), I found a really great step-by-step article here.  She seems to really know what she’s talking about.

What do you think?   Love it?  Hate it?

:P

I have a number of very good reasons for my little hiatus, a few exciting ones being:

#1.  I may or may not be opening my very own little office in White Rock this summer.

#2.  I may or may not be able to see the ocean from said office.  (!!!)

#3.  I may or may not be working on a complete re-branding of my business, and taking it in an entirely new direction in 2011.

#4.  (This one is definitely true) I’ve been working on getting my wedding invitations ready to mail out – as my wedding is commencing in approximately 81 days.  EIGHTY ONE!!!   Crazy.   (Yes, I will post pictures of them when they’re ready.)

“Why, Rebecca (you ask) did you decide to tackle all of these crazy endeavors in one summer?”

My response?  Well – I do not know.  But it’s all happening and it’s pretty darn exciting.   In the meantime though, please excuse my erratic blogging as I have a ton of painting and planning and designing and general organizing and decision-making to do.  :)

In the hopes that you will excuse my lack of pretty pictures lately, here are some super cute ones of Jennifer’s adorable little girl Kenna.   We had quite the time getting this little girl to sleep for the camera, but we still managed to capture quite a few that I just love:

The crochet blanket she is wrapped in was mom’s baby blanket too.  :)

It’s a toss up between the one above and the one below for my fave.  So peaceful.
Alright, back to work for me!  I hope you’re all having a wonderful Tuesday, and planning on having a wonderful week.  :)

I hope you’re all having a stellar Thursday – it’s pretty sunny here in Langley so I’m automatically in a pretty good mood.  I love days like that.

The session may have started out a tad stressfully with someone locking their keys in their car (cough ALANA cough)  :D   but Warren and a coat hanger came to the rescue.

Sidenote to make Alana feel better – I once locked my keys in my car too.

In the States.

While it was running.

It was pretty epic.   :)

…on to the pictures.  Once Warren saved the car situation, we started shooting at the Vancouver Art Gallery:

And then made our way over to Kits Beach.  It wasn’t easy getting up in this tree!  Worth it?  I think so. Alana and Warren were a breeze to shoot.  Usually I have to direct a lot more – but they were so natural!

Instead of an engagement ring, Alana has an engagement pearl necklace and earrings.  I think that’s brilliant – why have two rings (engagement ring and wedding band) when you can have one ring + something else?  I’m thinking maybe I should have asked Adam for an engagement car.  (My little pontiac sunfire has seen better days.)  :P

The gorgeous pearls: Oh Vancouver.  You are so pretty. So cute. Aaaaand the sun goes down.

Thanks so much Alana and Warren; I had a blast hanging out with you, and I’m so excited about your wedding.

I hope you’re all having a super Monday!