The dining room redo has begun

I love my house, but does it really have to cost so much to get it the way I like. We celebrated or more like recognized our one year anniversary in our house at the end of March. So far both the kids rooms have been pained, my craft room has been painted and the living room is all but done, just needs new floors.

With that in mind it was time to tackle a new room, I wanted to do the downstairs bathroom. A little ambitious I know but I wanted to do something that included more then painting. The money had to go to painting the outside of the house instead. We had peeling paint and boards coming up so it was a must.

I was thinking that it would be awhile until I started another room. Then Miss Flower Lily of the deathly night was caught using the room for something other then an eating place. I knew it was time to pull up the carpet, so I thought that I might as well do the whole room.

The bad news Scott got in trouble at school, the good news is the trouble at school equals housework. He pulled off most of the top layer of the wallpaper in the dining room. I then proceed behind him to wet down the bottom layer and just pull it right off the wall. Never have I had wallpaper come down so easily. It has been like peeling a band aid off. There are a few spots that stick but for the most part it just comes right off the wall.

I still need to pick the colors for the room and the fabric that will go along the top but I have a general idea of what I want.

It's been a long time

Yes, I know it's been more then a year since I last blogged but a couple of my co-workers told me I need to again. I am not sure what they want me to say exactly but hey just for the heck of it I figured I would.

At the end of February we went to Washington DC on vacation and had a wonderful time. We visited 5 or 6 different Smithsonian Museums, Arlington Cemetery, the Capitol building, the Lincoln and Washington Memorials and lot's more. We stayed at a hotel that was just two blocks away from the Air and Space Museum so we didn't even bother renting a car. It's a good thing we didn't though, the drivers there are nuts. They think that the horn is a warning that I am coming and you had better get out of my way. They have to have signs in the middle of the street that say Stop! For Pedestrians! One problem with walking every were though is when your husband (yes husband we got married in Nov) thinks that he knows were he is going so you can take a short cut through the city to get back to the hotel and he runs you right into the freeway. We had to back track several blocks, but the good thing was that we found a Starbucks right around the corner from our hotel!

I finished the Living Room in our house, we still have the pretty natures retreat color on the wall but now we have a cream colored wall fabric on the lower part that has green leaves on it. I also changed out the light fixtures and the switches. I am getting pretty good at this home improvement stuff. I started working on the dining room tonight. Most of the wallpaper came down pretty good but know have to the hard job of steaming the rest. The good news is that the primer they used under the paper is good so it should come right off.

Anyways that's enough though to fingers for me for one night. I will leave you with a random picture for now. This was taken at Thanksgiving when my folks came down to visit. Three Generations. :)

New Family Members

Faith's pretty little hazel eye's got to John and we stopped by the human society today after watching GI Joe. Which by the way was an excellent movie Thanks for inventing us D&D. So anyways as I was saying Faith got to John or rather got to me. The good news is we fulfilled a promise that was made in May and some. We ended up with two new kitties. We almost didn't get them because by the time we decided on which two we wanted the humane society was going to close in 5 minutes. Due to the fact that we were getting two older cats they stayed just a little late for us. :) So we have Flower, who is a 4yo female, who chose Faith as her owner. Flower was very affectionate and loving while there but once we got home she headed straight for the bathroom.

Now Rosie caught my eye from the beginning because of the pretty caramel patch on her face. She is a sweet heart and very adventuresious, even if she did complain and gripe all the way home. We did elongate her name though she is now Countess Rosalyn, Rosie for short. :) Though I call her Countess. She is already having fun exploring her new house with her very sharp claws lol.