WINNER and house pictures.

The winner of the awesome art giveaway from Cori's Etsy Shop is...

Comment Number 15: Tera from Olive Hue Designs. Tera is actually an artist as well with her own etsy shop. Congrats Tera!!!


Tera says, "Oh my gosh - her stuff is totally cute and charming! I love "away she went".
Thanks for the intro to another fabulous artist! There are so-o-o many shops on Etsy it's hard to keep up.
Thanks for stopping by my blog this morning! ;)"


Robin mentioned in my comments it would be hard to know if I was abducted by aliens because I don't blog daily.

And it's so, SOOOO true.

Besides being crazy busy with this house my two year old now refuses to let me use the computer. NO JOKE, he will close the laptop every chance he gets and if he HAPPENS to be entertaining himself, I have Charlotte to feed and change and, well, the list goes on. It takes me DAYS to just get a tiny post finished.

But I do have lots to say (as usual) and will post whenever I can, because, your comments just make me pee my pants laughing and THAT is why I blog!

Here are a few projects we've been trying to complete the last few months.


Our most current project is the kitchen. I just painted all the oak cabinets a creamy white. We are putting crown molding on top of the cabinets today and in the process (between childrens' cries) of putting all the hardware on. Here is a "in the process" set of kitchen pictures.










Here is a before of our guest bathroom:


And after, all done on a $40 budget!


Sawyer's room. More pics to come in another post one day!


Kids' Bath. Again, on a $40 budget. Painted vanity, new hardware, towels, etc.



I still need to put mirrors up in their bathroom.






And another ongoing project is the second guest room/sewing room. Believe it or not, this isn't even the BEFORE picture. When we were in the process of buying this house, the bank failed to winterize in time leaving frozen and eventually broken pipes right outside this room. Geoff had to cut FIVE holes in the walls, FIVE! The holes were left alone for a while and about two months ago, Geoff drywalled them leaving the rest up to me.



Not fully an after. I'm going to upholster a headboard, I need to hang the curtains, hang the art and order myself a few pictures from Cori's shop. The etsy shop that inspired me!




Love you guys! More to come soon, the kids are crying...

But if I WAS abducted, you guys better act all sad!

Geoff left for sailing class last night and I was alone.

All by myselffffff.

It was sad.

Okay, so Sawyer and Charlotte were here but once bedtime hits, they are no fun.

I'm not a fan of being in this house alone. I feel like mountain lions and bears can make their way in and attack me.

To ease my mind, I turned on some instant Netflix.

NEVER WATCH A GHOST SHOW WHEN BY YOURSELF.

I totally loves ghost stories. They make me happy and freaked at the same time and it's a fun little place to be in: happily freaked. Not last night though.

After watching some ghost stuff, I was sure a dead mountain lion was haunting me. Okay, maybe just dead people but that doesn't sound any better does it?

And just when you think I'm nuts, GUESS WHAT HAPPENS?!?!

The pantry door opens on its own. NO FREAKIN' JOKE. It opened and creaked just like a scary movie.

So I was like, I OPENED A PORTAL BECAUSE I WATCHED A GHOST SHOW!

And to totally be a hypocrite, I've always said I wanted a ghost so I can be all,"Yo, ghost, seriously, what do you have to do today? Get some of those dishes done and maybe some laundry. I AM PAYING YOUR RENT!"

See, how perfect would that be?

But when the pantry door opened, I was like , "AHHHH! Ghost!!!!"

I then go on facebook to chat with anyone that was on and would talk to me so I could ignore the ghost and of course no one really wants to indulge me in an hour long conversation about NOTHING. I called it quits,closed the computer and got into bed.

I saw some crazy weird lights in the sky and KNEW it was UFOs out to get me. I don't even BELIEVE in them and of course they are flying outside my window on a night when Geoff isn't home.

I was totally going to be abducted by scaly alien creatures with fast flying, weird-lighted UFOs. Of course it happens this night. A BY MYSELF night. Ugh. Sooo not convenient aliens!

I turned on the lights because I figure they only attack people when the light is off and peeked out the window to get a closer look.

It was an airplane, you know with like passengers and not aliens.

I try to fall asleep but worried about Geoff driving home at night in the super dark and being safe and all that. It's like 10:30pm, he should be on his way home and there it is.

The call.

From someone I don't know with my area code calling LATE at night.

A pit formed in my stomach.

No one calls me this late, especially someone I don't know.

"Hello"
"Hi, is this-

I start freaking out. Is this? IS THIS?!?! If they ask for me and it's a stranger, I'm going to freak. It's going to be a hospital, Geoff got hurt, our other car is in the shop right now, I have no way to get to him. I start thinking about friends I can call to come get us and take us to see Geoff.

She continues,

"24 Hour Fitness?"

Of all the people you can call this late at night and dial wrong.

I now love-hate 24 Hour Fitness. Love them for not being the hospital, hate them for making me worry so much.

Geoff got home not too much later.

I was safe. Geoff was safe. The ghost didn't make another appearance and I wasn't abducted.

I think I need to be medicated.

Drunk or Kid?

I don't like when people apologize for being gone from blog land. I mean, it's the internet, we SHOULD have another life right and I don't think anyone should owe us an apology for that?

Note to self: Get life.

BUT when I'm away I can't help but want to say I'M SORRY!!! See, I can't even follow my own rules.

I've been painting so much every dream I've had recently is about paint. PAINT?! I miss those crazy sex with Geoff dreams I used to have, now THOSE were fun.

(Ummm, is his family reading this? I mean, I miss those dreams I used to have with Geoff were we would go to church and read books.)

I also started teaching Kickboxing again. Woo-hoo. Sooo, I've been supah busy BUT on the way to class they were playing a game on the radio that I thought I would play with you guys:




DRUNK OR A KID????


Sooo, I'm going to tell you a story and you have to tell me whether I was plastered or a kid.

Easy right?

And you play too!!! Tell me a story in the comment or in your blog and link it on over so we can all take a guess!


Here goes:

I stayed the night at a friend's house and peed in their sock drawer in the middle of the night. Oops.

Drunk or Kid?

(Answer will be up next week along with links to you if you put a story!)

Belle Baby Carrier Winner!

The winner of the Belle Baby Carrier is...

Lucky comment #43- Jess and the Boys


Congrats Jess, these baby carriers ROCK!



I have so much more to post but my husband is taking this laptop to some sort of computerey smarty-pants convention today.

I hope everyone had an awesome Labor Day weekend and I will back soon with lots of words and pictures. We've been working hard over here!


Peace, love and buying the wrong ceiling paint,

Us