Another room near complete

Today Elizabeth went back to work/college/home. :( Before she left she helped me put the dust ruffles on the queens (no more "faking" the photos!). We also put the small rug in the bunk room and decided it was too "brown" to really work well with the bedding and the bunks. So it was pulled back up and put in the closet.

While Liz was sleeping I put the dishes away.





After we had some breakfast and Liz drove out I went back to the house and puttered around. I vacuumed the house and put stuff away and organized.


Elizabeth helped put the bedroom on her side.


We're not happy with the night stands but that can be fixed. We love the lamps (purchased yesterday at Old Time Pottery)


We hated the yellow shades but loved the lamps enough to go ahead with buying the lamps. I'll look for replacement shades that are more white and barrel.


The art for the room is on the floor. I will need more. I'll work on that. And hang these.

At about 10:30 I took a break while I took Sally to her Drs appointment.

When I got back from appointments and went took naps. Ahhhh! I tried to limit mine. I had an alarm. I snoozed a few times ;)

I finally got up and went back to wrk. I had sprayed the laundry room window panels with paint remover before snoozing.


We now have clear glass in the laundry


Nice and bright in there now!
I looked for pictures of the original look and can't find any. It had what looked like a filter. And it was. It was the outside layer of a filter over the screen frame. So next up putting a screen into that frame.

I'm not sure that I'll do anything else tonight. I think I'll save it for tomorrow as I have to be at the house the whole day.

**late addition**





With the light on isn't horrible. It may stay this way a while. See if it grows on me.

Work, work, work

This morning was competing the paint in the kitchen. It's all done including baseboards.

I also had to finish the refrigerator opening so it would fit. I got it all sanded down and prepped for trim paint.


I also cleaned the floor in the bunk room. It's all clean and looking spiffy. Tomorrow I will be putting the rug in there in prep of the bunk beds coming in....WHHHHAAAA? Yup you read that right. Bunk beds have been purchased.


Mine is without the trundle under and the nice thing is that there is a LOT of headroom under these. I'm excited.


This is the couch I THOUGHT I was going to Rooms-To-Go. The bad news it was now discontinued. Drat it!! So I had the nice sales lady show me around.


In the meantime I found THIS entertainment console!! LOVE!! Bought!!!


This is the sofa we bought. It's so pretty. The pillows will need to be replaced with something solid that will go with the chairs (^^~,€^#~? Chairs that I'm trying to coordinate with!!). Hind sight is 20/20.

We also shopped till we dropped after that. Back to Home Goods to get the lamps we saw the day prior and they were GONE. Yep. It wasn't meant to be :( we then went to Target and Old Time Pottery to lamp shop. We found GREAT substitutes and they cost less. Win/win!

And in the room.


New lamps a few more pillows were purchase to fill shams and some bed side rugs.


And behind the scenes. I really had NOT put the dust ruffle in the bed, just tucked it under the bedspread...


And everything that was on the bedsides is now on the dresser...


And other stuff tossed toward the closet ;)


And the 2nd queen ....well, let's just say it still needs some work ;)


But the bunk room is looking ROCKING good in the floor area. All cleaned up and ready to go.


Our reaction to spend the amount of money I did today!!



And a fun comparison. The left is my lose lamps. Right the new pick. I didn't think I would like the burlap shades as much as I do! And the rugs really add to the experience.

Where's the love (aka day four)

Well, the tile being installed made it impossible to push the fridge into its hole. Ugh!!! I have been working on getting the hole expanded. Aka chiseling at the wood like a fool and I'll be sanding like one tomorrow. Today I noted we failed to put the blasted sanding pads into the car. Sigh. The good news to this is I had to go to Home Depot for another gallon of wall paint. Five gallons apparently doesn't cover a whole house even with coats of Kilz under it. Sigh. More paint purchased.

Along with that purchase a short girls fence fix as I had to go let her in (or out to grandmas) because she can't reach over the fence to unlatch the gate. The good news is now this is fixed ;) one loop and an eye hook and all is well.

Oh and replacement sanding pads. Hey we can fix this stupidity thing - sometimes.

Remember the statement yesterday about the electrical? Yeah, that would be us not reading the contract fully. Whoops. We are up to code, just not where Butch wanted to me. Another sigh. This too can be fixed.

So. We had the gas line extended today for cabinet prep. Yes, it paid to have me here to ensure the cut off was in the right pace for cabinet placement. All is well and the extension is in place and ready to go.

They were late of course, but it's done. Next up shopping.

Ok I LOVE to shop for bargains, but REAL shopping? Freaks me out! So. We went to Home Goods, Marshalls, Walmart - hey, some things are just grand at Walmart - like plungers! Then Ross and Tuesday Morning, then a furniture store followed closely by the Sleep center (bunk bed hunt!) then to TJ Maxx and Books-a-million (gotta keep the kid happy!!)

What did we find?





Home goods was the biggest find with pillows, art (too cute coral beach sign), lamp shades. Thinking the lamp shades are going back and some new lamps are in order for the master bedroom. Something with blue glass and twine!


TJ Maxx was the last good find with pictures. This is going in the kitchen actually. But for now we'll leave it here for safe keeping.


This is going in the entry hall.


What we brought from home.
We will also get Don to come over and look. He may shift is all around.

Tape needs to come up out of the hall too

Oh and these floors. Shoot me now end stands are wobbling too and fro in the master. Frustrating for sure!!

The other things purchased where hooks for the bathroom. Hooks for the bedrooms for clothing and wet towels. Dust ruffles and as I said earlier, plungers. Ha! You thought I was kidding didn't you?

So for a 1/2 day of shopping, not nearly enough was found, but this too shall pass.

Oh we did find the perfect TV cabinet at one store however when I asked if they had another they said no and when I asked about the price with the dings and a crack the manager asked for a price then walked away to take care of someone else and we discovered the crack was a break in the load bearing board so we left. It wasn't meant to be.

Day three (or is this two?)

I really wish I could go quicker on stuff. It's hard to heard cats. The kids don't want to work, don't come prepped to WORK and are generally lazy and want to sleep all day. And I stand in the middle wondering what is going to get done. BUT amidst much crying and gnashing of teeth the bathroom fan is IN!! I'm thrilled. It's a super quite one as its on any time the light is in.


And just to show you a few more lovely accomplishments Don (Butchs brother) was sweet enough to put in all of the A/C diffusers. You probably won't know this but that is also a NEW light fixture for the bath as well. Always a bonus.

I have issues with the floors being constantly dirty and there is stuff EVERYWHERE still. No order. BUT. I have to remind myself if JUST Monday.


OH and during the rewire of the fab it was discovered the outlets in the house are NOT grounded. And it's paid for. UGH. Really!?? I'm NOT happy and not sure what they did first he two thousand!! I sent him an email and will be calling him today.


How the girlies have been since getting together this weekend. So nice to see them huddled together catching up ;)


My haven in the storm that is construction ;)


The ONE wall that is wall color. I ran out of wall paint. Apparently 5 gallons only covers majority of the house. I ended up with ONE pan of paint in the end. Sigh.


Love the morning sun in here and can't wait to see it CLEAN and with morning sun :)


Another accomplish or two. New toilet roll holder. Swing arm one. How cool is that? Lol I need to get out more since that excited me. And two new towel hooks.


Oops make that TREE hooks up. And a new hand towel I got at Ollies in Macon.


And where I'm writing this from as I need to update my list and its 6:30 so I have a bit of a wait until the gas folks get here this morning.

Hopefully the electrician will come this morning too.

While waiting, we repaint baseboards.

Then it's off to places unknown to get needed items for the house (lampshades, extension cords, curtains).

Day two....

Hard to tell where the progress is, the kitchen is the most striking



Still have tarps down from painting the first coat of Kilz


It's so BRIGHT!!


Cabinets with hardware



Close up of the cabinets. The pulls have glass inserts and we have glass knobs.


The reality of the living room. Yikes.

What's not pictured here:



New light fixture for the bathroom. All because they didn't have a replacement globe for the one we had. The replacement? It's the same as the current one but its stainless and its new. Sigh. $12.00, sure, why not. Globes are $7.99.

The rest of the story and not photo worthy is the caulking going on. I'm at using dads little green sit on tractor and I'm in love!! Seriously. Roll along and caulk as you go! No hurting knees life is GRAND!! Angela has taped around all the baseboards for our painting efforts. Yay!!

The other thing is a new shower head from Delta.



I have to say it's awesome. We had to change our the curved pipe to make it work well with us but I'm enjoying it!!

We bought fans for the baths however they haven't been installed just yet and not sure we'll get to them this weekend either. Drat it!!

So tomorrow. Paint and caulk baseboards. Yay? I'm soooo tired already and I have a week to go.

Day one was setting up beds and getting it set up with paper curtains in the windows. Seriously, those this's ROCK for indecisive people!! Ha!! Still working on what type of curtains I'm putting in.

Time to slow down and place myself.

Lizzie just popped in and told me she's only staying until Wednesday so I guess I'm solo for the last half of the week. Maybe Sally will go play with me?!?!

Channeling college days

Loaded up and headed to FL to work on the house. Good thing I have no passengers as there is even. Wire basket setup in the passenger side of the front as well as a few things on the floor. ;)





Yep LOADED!!


What is in there you ask?
2 night stands
4 pillows
1 quit set
2 mattress pads
2 night stands
2 lamps
1 curved showed rod
4 paper type mini blinds
10 bath towels hand towels and a bundle of washcloths
10 beach towels
Two collapsible clothes baskets.
1 - 3 tiered wire basket
4 medium pieces of art
A coffee pot
And a HUGE suitcase!!

Does it look like I crammed that much in there?






This photo is a funny thing. The transition from Georgia with slightly wider shoulders and reflectors in the center to Florida when it goes DARK deserted road at night. The funny thing is there is a huge 4 lane roads about 1/2 mile up the road from here that you T into.

And with that Butch and the girls are in charge of the home front and I'm working on the little house for the week.

Smarty Pants

Proud mama brag – Elizabeth is presenting at the 46^th annual DAMOP.  Her presentation is Friday and is part of the “hot topics” according to her.  I can’t find it on the website, but how exciting for my soon to be Junior in College!  Go Lizzie, Go!

 

46th Annual DAMOP Meeting
June 8-12, 2015 • Columbus, Ohio

APS DAMOP 2015 Meeting

The 46th Annual Meeting of DAMOP is heading to Columbus, Ohio! The meeting will take place at the Hyatt Regency Columbus and the Greater Columbus Convention Center. The conference will open with the prize session at 8:00 a.m. on Tuesday, June 9 and continue with other exciting scientific sessions until 12:30 p.m. on Friday, June 12. In addition, a number of special events will take place during the conference including a welcome reception on Monday, June 8 at 6:00 p.m.