The Beginning of the End

As of today, I have 14 days of school left. Therefore, I have been working on developing some hobbies to occupy myself in my new found free time. I have already started my home decore projects as you have previously seen on this blog and I am all signed-up for my photography class so I can learn some new things about my awesome camera. In addition to these exciting activities, I have also started my own business!! You should probably go check it out.

Click on the image below to go to my website. From there, you should also hop on over to the Facebook site and click on "Like."

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Spring Has Sprung

I have been planting! 

 I'm not really sure what this is since I didn't mark the seedlings that I planted. Any ideas?

The Mums from our wedding have started coming back! I was sure I had killed them by leaving them out all winter, but look at this amount of green leafy life that I discovered the other day! I took all 9 of them and cut out all the dead plant carnage and gave them some fresh dirt and plant food. 4 of them now have green life visibly growing out of them!

 My seedlings.

 

I can't take credit for planting this beautiful Lilac bush, but it sure does smell great! 

Wine and Dine: The New Kitchen Border!

Mama B came and put up our new wallpaper border! It looks awesome! 

The Bathroom: Before and After the Paint

My Popsicle and I recently painted the downstairs bathroom. 

Here are the before pictures:

Here are the after pictures:

It's olive green and we got a new shower curtain! 

new soap dispenser

 

new toothbrush holder

new shower curtain hooks too!

Project Update, Pictures Coming Later

Ok, so last time I updated, the kitchen was de-wallpapered and that was about it. Well, I am happy to report that much progress has been made this week thanks to some awesome helpers. The kitchen now has the new wine bottle border up thanks to Mama B and last night Popsicle and I painted the bathroom! The new shower curtain was hung today and with a few touch-ups and a thorough clean-up tomorrow, it is going to look fantastic! Pictures of both projects will be coming soon. 

My next major project will be painting the bedroom. I've settled on a color and even purchased some decore, but the trip to Ikea has yet to occur....

Also, I am collecting WINE CORKS for a small project that I am going to do for our kitchen. Please let me know if you have any you would be willing to donate. They can be used and have writing on them or whatever. I need about 100+ and right now I have 2 so any contribution would help. :)

Kitchen Project #1 Update: Bye Bye Birdies

Alas, I have finished removing the wallpaper border in the kitchen/hallway. I worked on it for awhile each day this past Friday, Saturday, and Sunday and got it finished and cleaned up the kitchen about half an hour before Joe got back from his motorcycle racing weekend.


Here are some pictures of the progress:

And here is a picture of Joe's activities this weekend. He got 2nd place on Saturday and 1st place on Sunday!

Project #1: Before Pictures

Here are some before pictures of our kitchen that I took yesterday prior to starting my attack on the wallpaper border. As it sits now, 5 of the small walls are done so I have 1 small wall left and the 3 big ones. It's going better now than it was last night though.

This is the old border that I am taking off the walls.

And so it begins...

Today I sent my husband off to his first motorcycle race of the season. I have decided that I will be embarking on household projects while my hubby is off having fun this year. 


This weekend, the projects are the kitchen wallpaper border removal and the painting of the downstairs bathroom. The paint was purchased tonight and the border project has been begun. However, the border project is going MUCH slower than expected. Only about a foot and a half of it was finished tonight. :/ Hopefully it will go better tomorrow. 


Tomorrow is also a busy day aside from my house projects-it's the opening day of the Kirkwood Farmer's Market AND the Creating Keepsakes Scrapbook Convention! Not to mention the homework I have due Sunday that hasn't been started...4 more weeks of this school stuff! 


Before pictures of the kitchen and bathroom to come tomorrow! :)