Just a few things.

This is another after photo of the bathroom. This one shows the tile around the tub much better than the one's before. This weekend we really didn't do anything. Friday I went and picked up my embroidery machine and haven't even got to try it out to see if it's working correctly. My parents are leaving Sunday morning to go to Ireland with their friends. That leaves me at home all day by myself. This rarely happens and I got to say I really excited about it. Breckin will be with his dad this weekend and hopefully I will be able to get some stuff done. I had talked to a lady in town that has the cutest store, Vintage accents. I would love to have this store! She said she was interested in some of my Baby blankets and bibs and stuff to sell there. So I really need to sew like a mad woman and get my stuff down there. Well i better get to work, since I am here! Ha! later girls!

Just checking in.

I have been looking at alot of other bloggs and I'm in love with Nester. She makes what she calls Window mis-treatments. I guess that's what you could call my window treatment on my first post. I got a 7 dollar rod from the dollar store and the fabric is just sewen a little to put the rod through and I didnt hem it. But the rest is just pinned and held up with the ribbon. But one thing that I like about Nester's blog is she said she never cuts her fabrics. she just plays around with them till she gets them the way she wants it to look. Then when she moves or takes that one down she can use the fabric for something else because she didnt cut it. I like that.

After

Before

this is a picture of the living room before. The walls I think were painted a very light blue. One cool thing about the walls were they had put paintable wallpaper up. It was embossed with a design and after we painted it a color that we liked it looked awesome. Notice the pink carpet, it was the first to go. While we were pulling up the carpet we found a really dark stain on the carpet padding, then we pulled the padding up there was blood on the hard wood floors. I just know that some one got the ax there or something. Anyway we just tried to forget it and go on. I never did find out what happened. And the house never felt haunted or anything so I guess everything was ok. Also look here at the windows. In typical old lady style she had every window covered like light was going to come through them. She had mini blinds, blackout shades, sheers, and then curtains. It was like this on every window in the house. That was the second thing that got tore out.

A Little House Redo....

before after


This is a photo of the one and only bath before. The house was owned by a little lady who had passed away. So everything was pretty much little old ladyish. The bath room was pastel colors, the wallpaper reminds me of something in a Florida condo in the 80's. Ugly brown floor and some kind of plastic shower surround that they had painted over. Because of this it bubbled and peeled off after a couple of showers. yuck! It was messy. The second photo is the after of the bath. With the new tile that I picked out to go with the 1920's bungalow. We tiled around the tub and peeled that awful wallpaper off the wall. By the way. While peeling the wallpaper off plaster walls. It also peeled the smooth part of the plaster off. So I had to use textured paint, which is basically pouring sand into paint. It work fairly well better than re-spackling the whole room.

A Little House Redo......

I thought I would show you my first house that I ever had. We bought the little fixer upper very cheap. I want an old old house to redo, and my husband at the time did not. He wanted to do very little work, so we settled on this little house.

Little bit of info....

This will be my 2nd official post. I've have just started reading other blogs and I'm addicted. I am so loving looking and reading about every one's ideas. It really has inspired me to do a lot. I really needed to be inspired. I have been divorce a year and a half and I'm still trying to get over it. I've been depressed and I finally feel like I'm starting to come out of it. I have felt this way before but I've always had set backs. Like learning my ex got remarried on my birthday!! and then that they were having a baby and that it was a girl. I really wanted to have another baby. We have a 3 year old little boy together and I love him to death. Just went you think that you couldn't love something anymore you wake up the next day and there is that sweet little smile and those big eyes looking at you. Then he says "Mommy I love you". Your love for him just shoots higher and higher.

My first post

This is a test run on my first post. Just checking every thing out. These are some curtains I made for my bathroom last spring. They were very simple to make. I got the fabric at Wal-mart for 4.95 a yard and the trim was half off.