catch'in up

We have a ton of projects in "the works". Let me fill you in...



My daughter's room-a huge designer dilemma
Extremely difficult to remove this wallpaper without damaging the walls. I used DIFF, then rented a steamer.
NOTHING was going to remove this paper nicely.  The walls were an uneven mess, ripped sheetrock & peeled paint. It took forever to repair one wall, so I decided to try and paint over the rest of the wallpapered room...





I took a couple of times to decide on the right color. We first picked a bright turquoise (on right), then decided on a calmer "carribean blue" color (on left).



As I began painting, "Oh no, bubbles!" I panicked and took a break. Came back an hour later and bubbles were gone!
The room looks great! It's all painted-what a HUGE relief. We're going to put the mural up tomorrow.





Finally decided on a kitchen color
Very exciting kitchen updates!
We have a few new appliances and ordered our granite countertops today-
more details to come...





Our kids new bathroom countertop & fixtures are in!
This is an acrylic countertop from home depot

  



Just a reminder of what the countertop looked like before :(


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I'm looking forward to decorating for Christmas. I bought this vintage holiday box at our school's craft fair.
I'll have to find something good to fill it with.
We're decorating the outside of our house this weekend so hopefully I'll have something good to post in a couple of days, along with the rest of the project updates!




Oh, how could I forget to introduce our new addition to the family-little miss "Liberty".
Liberty is a labrador retriever, 3 months old. Ours kids have been begging us for a dog, they're very excited.
 We're enjoying her company, she's lots of fun!



been a long time...

Well, between losing power, a busy Halloween, the kids having many days home from school and working, I've been getting little done. As my husband says, I'm a little all over the place and he's right.

Here's our cozy family room

Our fireplace
Great for when we lost power!

A sneak peak of my son's room-
I'll share details soon.

Well, everyone knows what leaves look like but I had to show you that we've been working hard on this too.
Unfortunately, we're not rich, so we have to clean it up ourselves!

Oh my...

Also, the countertop for our kids bathroom came in. We were so excited-this bathroom needs a serious makeover. My husband removed the existing formica countertop, opened up the new one and it was damaged :-( We had to reorder it. Hopefully it will be in soon, I can't wait to share this bathroom makeover with you!