Made the decision to go ahead and decorate on Thursday: We haven’t finished painting the living room or finished the new mantle – but I couldn’t wait; if I’d waited on all that to be done we’d probably wouldn’t have put the tree up til February. Ha. So excuse the unfinished mantle, but it’s nice to have the tree next to the fireplace. Looks nice ...
and again the old room after we moved in for reference: Look at the bathroom door in comparison to the trim - that yellow-y colour is what all the trim and doors in our house is. Ick! Chase will be removing the door to repaint them white soon, and we're replacing the hardware on the doors, too.
Got the bedroom painted this weekend! Well, almost - we only got about halfway through the trim. All of the trim and doors in our house are this icky almond colour, which just looks dingy next to everything else. We've been wanting to paint it all since we first moved in. We picked a slightly off-white for it. Anyway, a pic: What it looked like right after moved in: We ...
Still working on getting my sewing room straightened up and organized. Chase put my new shelves up last night, so I put my bead jars on them - this was the plan from the start, but it took me 2 years to finally get around to getting the shelves. I think I might get one more small one, because I have more beads that could use jars, too. I also got ...
Chase is putting my Belle painting up tonight!!! He got this for me like 2 years ago, I"m so excited to finally be putting it up. Also, how I'm spending my Christmas:
my office is back to being clean after finishing Kevin's christmas present (outside of attaching the patch.) It went so quick! I'm really pleased with it. And then Chase hung a few things up in my office - the 2 Adam Hughes prints he got me for my birthday a few years ago, and my Mike Mayhew Ms Marvel sketch and Matt Busch Beatles print. The last two I've been wanting ...
I was cutting fabric on the floor of my office last night, and it got me thinking of my old workspace at my parent's house (where I had a table to cut fabric). I thought I'd post them all. From 2001-2008 I worked out of the dining room at my parent's house. I took it over! (sorry mom) I don't have a good solid pic of it, but here's a ...
I worked on my office last night, mostly organizing my patterns. I had too many that were in large ziplock baggies so I spent the evening squishing pattern pieces into my usual smaller baggies. Then I put them all away in my new bench! They didn't all fit, though :( But I got the majority of them in there. They were supposed to be split up like this: 1st drawer - ...
Friday night Chase and I decorated the house. Chase put up the tree while I put out everything else, we had Elf on the TV and I baked some cookies. It was fun :) Here's a few crappy cell phone pics. Not a lot new on the tree this year. Nothing geeky (didn't see any we had to have from Hallmark this year) - we just picked a few cute things ...
First step to cleaning up my office is getting control of my massive pattern collection. I just don't have room to keep them in the plastic bins they're in, it's taking up too much room - I need to find a more space-saving option. I could possibly fit a small file cabinet or similar under one of my desks - but the problem is all of my patterns (except the ...