I am alive!!

Life has been crazy and I wasn't able to post due to computer issues and now I just don't have the time! So I am not too sure if and when I will be back. Not that I have any readers or followers bit just in case someone somehow stops by!!

My bad

I have been slacking so bad lately!! I have had so much going on with school starting, Aiden starting karate, and Leah starting gymnastics!! Its been crazy! I really haven't gotten much done!! I am almost done with the desk though!! I just need the right knobs to finish it off! I am also finishing up the dresser in the dining room!! It is raining like crazy today though, so hopefully once the rain stops I can put a few coats of poly on it!!! I am finally about to paint my living room and re do the gallery wall too!! Can you tell I am a little scatter brained!! LOL!! Sorry! Well here are a few pics of the desk!! Hopefully once I get used to all the running around I will able to post more often!!!

Do you like all the wall colors behind it!! LOL! Oh and here is a pic of one of the barrel chairs, it is not quite finished either but hopefully I can get to it soon!!

Well thats all I got for now! Later guys!!

My comments

I just wanted to say thank you to all who have left comments for me! I appreciate and read them all! For some reason when I try to comment back I can't, not sure what is going on. I hope to figure it out soon. I just wanted to let you all know I am not ignoring you!!! Thanks again guys!!

Too Busy

Sorry I have been slacking in the blog world lately but I haven't been slacking in life!! Gabe had an MRI done and we were so thankful to get good results back! We are of course getting the kids ready to go back to school in a few weeks!! Crazy how summer break flew by! We have also had some house disaster projects going on!! When we bought our house over 4 years ago we knew it was going to need a new roof but we had to put it off for financial reasons. Gary was unemployed for a while so we are still trying to get back on our feet. Well we have had a good leak in the roof in our laundry room area for a while now. It has been a pain to deal with but since it wasn't in a major area in the house we have just dealt with it for a while. We had a major rain a couple weeks ago and we ended up with a huge mess! Now we have drywall and insulation all over our basement stairs and on some clean clothes!! Not cool! And if that wasn't enough we had discovered that the previous owners never secured the toilet to the floor! That sounds nice right? Well that means that lovely toilet water was trapped underneath the floor!! Awesome!! Well when we bought the house they had just redid the bathroom and it was with the ugliest blue ceramic tile ever. It went so well with the faux SOMETHING blue wall!! Well I painted the walls a pale gray but of course we still had the lovely blue tiles and now I wish I would have replaced them too so we could have discovered and fixed the problem before it got so bad. My first clue something wasn't right was the tile grout always looked wet, and they were starting to crack in a couple spots and of course the freely moving toilet. Well we knew ripping up ceramic tile was not going to be easy and we just don't have the money to put in the kind of flooring we want so we put if off for a little bit. We took a trip to Lowes last weekend and I found some flooring on clearance and couldn't believe it I could re do the floor in our bathroom for $14, yes you read that right, $14!! Now it is only temporary until we can afford to redo with what we want and put in a big jet tub for the hubby!! We still had to buy new sub floor and the primer for the floor but it was still an awesome deal! It was hard dirty work but it was worth it!! I still need to repaint because the floor is lower than it was before and it needs to be freshened up. I also talked my hubby into letting me paint the molding, trim, bathroom door and frame white!! Which believe me was a huge struggle!! He likes oak and I do NOT! The previous owners decided to NOT go with the rest of the house and put 2 oak stained wood doors, trim ,and molding up. The rest of the house is white and it has been driving me crazy for years!!So still some work to be done but here are the pics from that GROSS project! LOL!

The first pic is off the a piece of the ugly ceramic blue tile.  The second pic is what was under the tile and a layer of plywood! Layers of old tacky WET floor!! The third pic is how wet it was under the toilet!! Nice huh? The rest are the after floor, not bad for $14!!! The last is the ugly wood in the bathroom that I can't wait to paint!!!!!!! Well I hope that I don't take so long to post again!!

I must go on!!

Hello! Well my wonderful hubby came up with a temporary solution for my computer problem!! I couldn't be more happy! He decided until we send it off we would just hook up a monitor to my laptop so I could see again!! Love him!! Anyway! I have been super busy working on that desk and the set of barrel chairs! I am almost finished with the desk, I just need to get new hardware to put on it and we will be all done! I can't say the same for those chairs!!! I am in the process of removing all the fabric and a gazillion staples!!!! I have never seen so many staples in my life!!! I have been working for 2 nights now and I am still not even finished with one chair!!!! BOO!!! My hands hurt so bad!!! But I must go on!! LOL! I wanted to share with you guys some color inspirations for my living room. The colors are gray,brown, and orange. I am going to paint the walls gray but I am still deciding on a color. I am also going to get a new couch, which is a dark brown with a little gray in it! I also need to get some new curtains! The old ones have to go!!!! If you saw them you would agree!! LOL! I have everything else I need, I just have to pull it all together!! Anyway lets see some inspiration rooms!!!

Gorgeous right? Of course they all had to be bedrooms but the colors together are to die for!! I think anyway! LOL! Oh and on my first trip to IKEA ( amazing place) I picked up this cute rug!!

I would love some comments!! Oh and more followers, lol! Until next time!!!!! Bye!! 

So sad!

Well last night I cracked my screen on my laptop and well can't see a darn thing!!! I am so mad at myself. I have to send it off to get fixed so I am not sure when I will get it back!! I will try and do my best and blog when I can. I am using an old relic computer we keep in the basement so it isn't the greatest! I guess I can at least get caught up on my projects rather then getting on the computer!! So when I get back I will have a ton to show you!!! Later!

Eyes bigger than my stomach!

Have you heard of the saying "my eyes are bigger than my stomach"? Well I am sure you have but I am not referring to food I am referring to taking on more and more projects but can't seem to finish them!! I am in the middle of ripping up our carpet in the living room, refinishing my dining room table from back in like March, finishing that dresser I showed you, refinishing a desk I just got last week, trying to redecorate my living room which means I have to re paint, and today I bought two rolling barrel chairs. I must be crazy, but when I saw them in the Goodwill today they were calling my name!! They have so much potential and for $5 you can't beat that!!! If anyone has any experience in recovering chairs like these please let me know!!!! I have never done anything but recovered my dining chairs, so any help would be greatly appreciated!! Well here are the pics of the chairs and the desk. The pic of the desk is from the craigslist ad and the pic of the chairs my daughter took.

Well hopefully I will have a reveal of some sort for you soon!!!!