Sick

I think I've been sick since December. I got the stomach flu... Twice... And have an awesome cold that has stuck around for two weeks... Blah!

This is how I feel...

These faces sure are cute...

But those little noses sure can hold a lot of germs. That lovingly get passed with boogery kisses, and well placed sneezes into unsuspecting eyes and mouths. Love these two. School has started and took my first test. I was in such a head cold haze I had to read every true and false question 4 or 5 times. Awesome.

Loved waking up to a heart attacked door from the Young Women.

The upside about quarantining myself inside is that Drew and I started Greys Anatomy. Nothing like trashy hospital drama to make you feel better. I think Drew and I are equally in love with Dr. McDreamy.

I get personally offended whenever Drew makes fun of Meredith. I heart her... He says she looks like a platypus. Jerk.

We bought the dog fence and have yet to set it up. (All that set up requires is to plug it in.) What's the point? It's been freezing cold, and the dogs want to be outside as little as we do. Drama queens...

And this one (as seen above) got knocked up, and is here while her husband lives on the coast guard ship until baby is born. I love it, we are about to start hypno birth classes. I'm the stand in for husband. I'll probably make her take some awesome prego pictures, she'll regret it if she doesn't.

We just need to find the perfect tree branch.

This ones a little tricky because Wes isnt here to lurk in the background.

This one has both elegance and fun.

When Wes is here this will be the first thing we do, head straight to Olan Mills and take this classy, yet informative picture. Brilliant. Maybe is shouldn't blog while sick. That should be on the warning label right next to, "do not operate heavy machinery".

Better Office Pictures...

My awesome sister in law took pictures of the office for us. The blurry ones just weren't doing it justice! There are, as always, minor tweaks we are going to make. I am picking out new chairs, that second armoire is being returned and I'm picking out a new couch. It will look awesome, when we're done!

At least now you can see all of the details.

Thanks Katie for the pictures!

...Random...

I'm looking for curtains for the kitchen. I don't know whether I want to buy fabric and sew some. Buy some plain ones and paint them. Or just use some plain ones. I love these patterns.

I found some cute cheap plain ones at ikea.

Hmm.... These are only $14. I might just buy them and experiment with them, paint a pattern etc. Because the windows down stairs are so small I would only need a portion of a curtain for each window.

As always I love Caitlin Creers choices!

I used to think it was weird when people displayed their own art work in their own house. I'm thinking about doing it just because I can't find art I like that is big enough for a good price. I need a LARGE painting of lemons for my kitchen wall.

I think yellow would be a perfect accent to the silver green/blue in the kitchen.

I'll have Drew build a frame for it out of 5" crown moulding. The size I want I just can't find a good price.

So I'm thinking about a good DIY project. We'll see how it turns out. I want to try it in oil pastels.

I also might try making some fun prints in Photoshop with yellow themes.

These fonts are a little too comic sans for me. But the general idea I think is fun.

I scored big time at Anthropologie. After I posted on my wishlist on pinterest, the latte bowls from Anthro, my friend told me the bowls were on sale for $1.95!

I made out with 16 bowls for $30. Why did I buy 16? For a few reasons, my sister wouldn't let me go to the bathroom before we went in the store. All my rational thinking went into not wetting my pants. Second, when I was loading my bag, I had visions of bowls crashing on tile, so why not buy more then you need, they didn't have the yellow when I went to buy them when my Anthro angel set four yellow bowls down on the counter next to me. Wahoo! They're so cute they could be little candy dishes! Very versatile! So clearly I had no choice! I had to buy 16!!

I will eventually need this ping pong door for my house.

Just look at the pure joy on their faces. Not staged... Brilliant.

Finally scored a wireless dog fence from ksl! This may save us! No more standing out on our porch in robes and having dogs run wild in the streets.

And finally, my dream bathroom. For when we add our addition to the top of our house. That will give us an incredible view of the city. This will be my master suite. I'm willing it into my life. Isn't that ceiling gorgeous? The chandelier to die for? The colors?? Amazing. Someday!

The Dream Team!

***i don't know why these pictures are so bad??
Why did I not take before pictures??? Well probably because it was just supposed to be a simple paint job. Knowing my dad I should have known better. My dad needed an office overhaul and he let me design it and Drew create it. Our first job as the dream team.




This picture is a during shot. We had painted the walls from a nasty creme to a silver green. And the trim from red to white. So already it was better then before. And then we really started thinking... We needed more lights a different wall color and a different theme to the room all around. So drew started removing the ceiling panels and we were sold on the industrial look.


I love restoration hardware lighting. Just not prices.


These lights are perfect but the size we needed runs $499 a piece and we needed 6!


This is my ikea look-a-like that's $29. Awesome.


These lights are also $499. And we needed 4. That would have run us $5000, for all of the lighting.


Ikea version $20. Our total for lights was a little over $400. And that included 3 art lights, and bulbs.


We finally convinced my dad the nasty brown ultra plush/shag carpet had to go. He brought in some wood samples and I ok'ed the mahogany brown with a silver hue. It's perfect.


Drew installed the flooring. It was neat to watch how you can glue hardwood right onto concrete. Below is our exposed ceiling with the industrial lantern lights on.


And this is with the circle lights on. The lights look so incredible. I was nervous about choosing two different light fixtures, but I'm glad I went with my instinct. They look so amazing and add great detail to the room.


Finally below is our close to final picture. (We still have paint touch ups, etc.) Drew and I stayed up until 4 am installing moulding, creating the magnet board, building the frame and putting the room back together.


It turned out perfect. The trim brought such an awesome dimension to the room. And brought out the detail of the ceiling. And added much needed light to the room.


The magnetic board is my favorite. I dreamed it up
In my mind and Drew created it. The frame is a 5 inch poplar crown moulding. I am still deciding on a stain color. I want it light like the actual color of the poplar. I may end up just clear coating it. Such a fun/functional accent piece.


The whole board is four feet high by eight+ feet wide. This project was our first project start to finish that we did for someone else where all of the decisions were completely up to us. It was scary and incredible all rolled up. Love spending all those hours with my Drew.

How Pinteresting!

I've got an obsession! It started with adding subscriptions to my google reader. I was excited to wake up and read it like the morning paper. People do and teach amazing things. And the more engulfed I became the more awesome starred blogs I had saved. The only problem was that it was a huge process to go back to the picture you liked. Or the article you saved. And then I was turned onto this little beauty!

Pinterest.com has become... What would you call it... For some reason I'm only pulling up the Harry Potter term pensieve... Where Dumbledore stores all of his memories... Nerd alert! Ha! I guess what you non wizarding folks would call a journal. But it would take a ton of ink to print out all the wonders I've found on the Internet.

What pinterest does, is when you find a picture you want to save you click on your "pin it" butting saved to your address bar and it let's you save you picture to your page, or more specifically your board. And then when you want to go back to the original site you found the picture on you just click on the photo and it pulls up the site. Now no more wondering where you found something. Or typing random descriptive words into google to try and find something.

I have finally loaded it with all of my starred google reader entries and have added some wish-list accessories and ideas to be used on further dates. So if you want to dip your toes in my brain head on over to pinterest.com/lindsayredd. And if you want to start your own pinterest page let me know. Right now they are by invites or a wait list. Be sure to check out just pintrest.com people have found some pretty awesome things. Happy Pinning!

Lights!

Lights have made all of the difference in out little kitchen. Especially since we are in our basement apartment. In our true fashion we like to accomplish 3 tasks and then redo at least one of them. We had "finished" the lights and rehung the Sheetrock, but it was just not enough light.

And I really really really wanted art lights to accent our tile. So my dear husband with "little" hesitation ripped out some Sheetrock to put in one more recessed light, and three art lights. And it has made all the difference.

This is a progress shot, but you can see two of the art lights on the left tile wall. They look so good! We didn't put art lights in because of price. At Home Depot they really aren't too expensive but they are twelve to nineteen dollars a light. I just didn't want to spend almost $60 on art lights. And then I stumbled upon these beauties!

From ikea! They are the blixt lights, and they are 3 for $19.99. And they are awesome. They are about the same installation as remodel can recessed lights, where once they are wired they just pop into the ceiling.

We also found a great light for our laundry nook. Super flat and puts odd good light once it warms up.

We got this from ikea as well. $9! Steal! Drew hooked up all the electrical. I am so impressed. He can do it all! We bought some lights for under the cabinets that we haven't installed yet. Our cabinets are being rebuilt. Yes Drew made them once and they were just what I wanted. But then I realized if they were just a touch bigger we could reuse some old cupboard doors. So Drew rebuilt them. What a champ!

Happy New Year!

I'm not sure when exactly it was that Drew and I became so... Well boring. New Years Eve we celebrated with painting our cabinets.

Now all they need is a finish coat to keep them nice and white. We also sanded and sealed our countertop. I'm crazy about them! The tile on the ground, by the stove, was the tile we were looking at. I found some on ksl for $0.99 a sq/ft so we'll probably go with that. Sorry our pictures are always taken at night and kind of have a weird yellow tinge to them. I'll work on law of attracting a nice camera into our lives. How else are we going to showcase our work and lives?