Some Good Ol' Fashioned DIY

We've been busy lately. We still have TONS of things left to do (the never ending To Do list) but we're really crossing things off.

The bathroom has been started! Here is the new color. It is a lot darker than the blue, but I think some big mirrors will help break it up. I think we'll also go with some white matted black and white print over the tub, so that should help, too. Now, to figure out the window treatment.


We stained and rehung the railing to the bonus room upstairs. It matches the new mantle.


We (the majority of work went to Jeff) removed the old door (it was too shallow thanks to Home Depot ordering the wrong depth of door initilly) and hung the new one. It is so nice to have a door the right depth and not be looking at Tyvek when watching TV.


Purchased, stained, and hung a mantle. Obviously we still need to tile round the fireplace but it is looking better. I'm thinking of putting some of those candles that aren't candles on the mantle.


Kind of hard to see, but we hung our house numbers finally, too. The yard is slated to be graded, scraped, and hydroseeded in the next couple of weeks. Hooray!



In OTHER news, the Preeclampsia Quilt is 3/4 quilted. I'm going to finish it up this week and then get to the binding. I think I might need some recommendations on binding colors but I will post about that when I'm getting ready to bind it.

I bought paint.

I bought paint yesterday at Home Depot. It is kind of this gray/green/brown color. The name is Spartan Stone and I'm excited about it. Stupidly, I somehow volunteered myself to paint the bathroom. Jeff will have to do the ceiling but I'm in charge of the rest.

My mother's day was great. Elise slept through the night for the first time ever and miraculous, Darsie slept through the same night. Jeff got up with the girls and I got to sleep until 8. EIGHT! As in two hours after I normally get up. WAHOOOO. I got a lovely lovely note from my husband decorated lovingly with what my husband called "my special stickers" and it was Darsie's idea. Inside was a great gift certificate to a fabric store.

This weekend was DIY extreme camp here. We had to replace a door onto our back deck because when we originally ordered it, Home Depot first ordered a door two feet to short. Second, they ordered it in 2x4 and we have 2x6 framing. So, a year later, we ordered the right door and we installed it. I say, but I was more in the cheerleader role and the cleaner role than installer. That would be Jeff. Anyways, we have a door that extends the whole width of the wall instead of two inches shy.

We also went to the dump.

It was a good weekend.