Readers Digest Catch Up!

We are thrilled beyond thrilled to be featured on designsponge.com today.... I can check that one off my bucket list! Seriously so amazing... I thought I would do a quick recap for any new comers to tell you what we are all about!

We are living in a basement apartment while we rent out the upstairs... We are fixing it up in between jobs... Here is a look of the kitchen before... Not fun! The best part is this picture is taken while standing in the bathroom... A little too close for comfort!
The kitchen was tiny, huge fridge and stove, washer and dryer were in there as well... Along with about a foot of the bathtub jetted into the room, creating and awkward jut into the kitchen. Little storage, little countertop space... With a lot of wasted space behind the stove and fridge...

We gutted the whole place, and did countertop to ceiling glass mosaic tile back splash. With tile we found at Home Depot on sale for $2.00 a square foot. Bought a farm sink from online classifieds, repainted the existing cabinets, and built a few more... Trimmed out the window and voila! New kitchen!

We bought the tiny stove from classifieds, and the smaller fridge from a second hand appliance store, and got the butcher block countertops from ikea.

And now everything about it makes me happy!

The awful washer and dryer got replaced with some trade work Drew did... And the were moved to the wasted space under the stairs. Previously blocked by giant fridge and stove...

Still a work in progress!

In the kitchen staring into the bathroom... Not awesome... We closed off that door, and completely re arranged the bathroom... By taking a closet from another bedroom, we now have so much more room... Win win!

We went tile crazy and stenciled the walls!

We did a curved ceiling in the bath, with herringbone accents...

We found this green tile in classifieds, for $60, it adds so much spunk to the room.

Along with the interior we have been working on the exterior. We removed the massive pine trees, ripped out the fence, added new trim and paint...

The yellow is a little more buttery in person... Less orange then the picture, it makes me happy!

Thanks for visiting! We love comments and followers...Any questions? I hope to be able to answer right away!
Thanks, Lindsay and Drew

Birth Month! Get Excited!

How cute is Drewpy? He set an alarm with a cute little message to wake me up!

I went out opened my iPad to find another little note...

Baby Johnny got in on the action and sent his own message... Yes he wrote it... Savant!

Then Drewpy called me with the best surprise at all! The cabin was open! Another birthday miracle... More to come!

My Birthday Gift... Complete with Good Karma...

Drew bought me this beautiful vase for my birthday from the artist co-op The Old Flamingo... The woman selling it was able to tell us where the vase came from, which was a little added bonus to the vase...

She told us, her mother in law, back in her prime was once noted as Utah's number one florist... And this vase came from one of her very favorite arrangements she had put together for a very prestigious party. She gave it to her daughter in law, and told her to find a good home for it... And now this beauty is ours, sitting in the corner radiating good karma for us!
Happy Birthday to me!

Waterfall...

Drew was out of town (boo!) for a friends wedding (yay!)... So the dogs and I took a lovely Sunday hike up to Stewart Falls... Hasn't it been far too long without mention of my favorite place on earth!?

Provo seriously has some of the prettiest mountains.... Fact!

Start off the week with some lovelies!

Week, Brought to you by Instagram!

El Cheapo! Drew was out of town and I still managed a visit to the Home (away from home) Depot!

Picking up food for the littlest pooch, I discovered that Fisher Price makes puppy toys! I totally get that!

While Drew was gone the pooches and I took a cruise up to Sundance for a hike... More on that later... Love the Provo mountains... Not so much Provo!

I tried a spray paint picture... To be Continued...

Became a convert of the polar pipe... Blows my mind!

Cruising around in my favorite artist Co-op, came across this creepy beauty... The arm.... That's what kills me! But seriously the old flamingo.... Is ah-MAZING! Go to there!

Have a happy weekend!

I Love Spray Paint!

Since my dream mirror can no longer be a reality... I dug this little number out of the garage! The mirror, not the pooch!

I'm rebellious... I don't play by the rules... Never have.... Like gold and silver don't go together.... I say why not? I love grey and Gold together, and green (our floor) together.... The only problem was finding gold fixtures.... Everything is silver or chrome! Ugh! Well I thought I'd take a whack at gold and silver... It's only paint after all!

I don't know.... I want to love it... We'll see....maybe a bathroom ceiling would help... And windex to remove the goof off.... But how subtle is our stencil? Love IT!

Tactile Matching!

What I thought would be an easy free way to spend 30 minutes turned into hours of fun!

I saw this idea in tutusandturtles.blogspot.com! We filled balloons with a bunch of different items! Each item filled two balloons... I used this cylinder toy to fill up the balloons... I couldn't find a funnel, and necessity is the mother of invention...

We filled the balloons with tiny gravel, grass, mud, cheerios, and quinoa... And added a puff of air into each balloon...

Threw the balloons in the yard, and they went crazy squeezing the balloons! "Dis ones keenwah! I knows it!" ("This one is quinoa, I knows it!")

They had a blast feeling matches, and starting over....When they were done feeling for matches, the balloons turned into impromptu bean bags! Major score! It was like an awesome Payless sale! BOGO!