Birthday Festivities!

We... Well I like to celebrate birthdays everyday of the month up until the actual day. Drew isn't so much in love with planning that many activities, so I took the reins this year. Drew promised any activity I asked for we could do. And Drewpy being the guy he is has pulled off some fun car ride adventures.


My activities have been craft oriented. I have... Apparently... The bottomless silver spray paint can, so anything that stands still long enough here gets a quick coat. Here is my redd chalk board, redone.


My gold mirror is now silver. I have wanted to hang stuff on the walls, I have just not had the vision for what I want. Hopefully it all comes together.


So I had an idea for some cheap artwork. I love this photo, and I was playing around with an iPhone app called sketch me. And created this...


Well I decided for one birthday request I would make Drew drive me all over town to pick up a cheap canvas, paints and brushes. We came home and hooked up my phone to our projector, and I did a quick sketch of the outlines.


And here is my 18X24 art to hang on my wall! I love it! I won't point out all of my major flaws. We'll just consider them artistic inspiration! Haha it was a super fun project to work on with Drewpy! Happy birth month to me!!!

Drew and Dave Do Tile

So there we were... Wondering what we should do for our Saturday. We decided to go to the dump, neighbor Dave had never been to the dump. And oh do I wish I would have taken pictures of his excitement. Kid at a candy shop kind of love. We even let him throw in the glass light bulb. Everyone knows throwing glass into the dump is the best part. Seriously, Dave could have watched the dump tractor for the rest of the day! Too funny. So on our way home we stopped at Lowe's too look at some vanities. And of course one thing leads to another, and Dave and Drew have started another project.


Why not retile a bathroom today? I can't think of a reason not to!


Yes when they work, they always stand this close!


Look how awesome! I love this tile. And this is pre-grout! It will look so beautiful!


So awesome! How productive was your Saturday?

Another One Bites the Dust!

We lost another wall today!


It was quite the surprise to come home to! Even more amazing was how well all of the debri was cleaned up! A Christmas Miracle!


We went from two walls to no walls! Drew wants to keep it open, besides putting a wall on the living room side under the stairs. Me.... Not loving the idea if staring into my laundry room. Yes... Eventually it will be a beautiful laundry room... But still... I like a little separation! As can be seen, I finally was motivated to prime the cabinets!!! Huge step for me, by no means comparable to knocking a wall down... Baby steps! Right now I'm hooked on marmoleum! I think I have finally hooked Drew. I think striped, zig zagged, or checked floor would be SO fun for a laundry room.

















Yup! Love it! I also have some stairs I love! What our stairs will soon look like!


Love the blue of these walls.


The paneling on the right side of the stairs is what I want.


And if we decide to put that wall back up... Which again, I really want to. We'll continue the wainscot from the hallway all the way up.


I want to do coffered ceilings like this in our living room, with a light light light blue inside the panels. Might sound crazy, but I LOVE IT! Now if I could just kick this sore throat and sleep. I'd about have it all!

For My Cousins!

What a small world! My friend was posting pictures of her sister-in-law on facebook, and there was my cute cousin!








Cute Sister Lulu! Haha she probably doesn't go by that anymore! Thought you might enjoy these Alli, Liz and Emily! You may have seen them already!

Swatches!

So much to paint... So little motivation for sanding and priming!

Here is our door right now, I thought I had found a great color green. So I recklessly sprayed it with spray paint! Boy was I wrong on the color. Now it just looks like someone paintballed our door! Oh well, current stain was awful. I wanted to sand the door down and lightly stain it with blue or green. But I know how much I hate to sand so I decided to just slap on some Gripper primer and pick a paint. What I really want my sweet Drew to do is cut out the top 5 or 8 squares at the top of the door and we'll put glass in them. Pipe dreams...

Here is my rough coat of primer. Ugh, I hate priming! And the swatches. Still undecided. I want to see the swatches throughout the day to see how they look in different light.

Here is our galley kitchen. A good throwback to living in the Chi-O house! Great times, at least in this kitchen I don't have my name on a calendar and have to clean up after 18 other girls. (But I'd do it again in a heart beat!). Anyway... As you can see I took of a few cupboard doors, and started sanding them down, got bored of that so I started priming some other cupboards!

Here are my swatches I picked. Cream/light beige for the wall. And a light sage green for the cupboards. Hopefully our kitchen will be transforming shortly. We bought a tiny brand new stove off ksl, and I'm looking for a 9.9 cu fridge (just in case a reader happens to have one they are looking to get rid of!). And knocking down a wall under the stairs to open up the room a lot more.

My last and least important project is painting our dresser and bed. These swatches that you can't see very well are a dark gray/blue. Whew! Who know when this will all take place. As one of our neighbors said, "Nothing like have 80 projects started, 80% done!".

Our Neighborhood

Could not be anymore spectacular! To say that Drew and I are in love with our neighbors is a huge understatement.

Stan (wearing the jeans in this picture) has done sprinkler systems for over 50 years. He is our next door neighbor. We got a quote for a new sprinkler system for $5000. Stan came over mapped out our entire yard, took the measurements and had a sprinkler system mapped out. Then he ordered all of our materials through his account so we could get them wholesale. Then he spent countless hours at our house whether we were there or not hooking up the system. We got a brand new amazing system for a mere fraction of the original price. We had neighbors show up at our house with shovels, picks, sledgehammers and drinks. Our neighbors shoveled our rock filled shovel for hours!

Pretty safe to say that was the last sprinkler system Drew will do. In out opinions the companies that charge $5000 earn every penny!

Our other neighbors Dave and Holly have had fun projects at their house that Drew has loved working on! Here is the before of their house.

And while I was at Youth Conference and Holly was away for the weekend these guys were up until 2 a.m. both weekend nights to finish the project before Holly got home.

The finished deck complete with French doors!

A much more glamorous project then sprinklers! We love the projects around our neighborhood, almost as much as we love our neighbors!

The Life I Signed Up For...

Apparently my life/home will always be covered in a fine layer of Sheetrock dust. Drew and Dave knocked down the wall that leads to our basement a week ago.

What inspired this demolition... I'm not sure, but it was done. And our house looked again, like a testing ground for missiles.

Then I spent a good portion of my week cleaning up the debry, Drew decided we needed to tear out another wall. For the first time, I can't really picture where he is going with this project. All I know is it will be amazing.

Caesar wanting to take a wack at demo.

I truly love my life!