Paint on my walls!

HOORAY!!!  There is paint on my walls!!! 

Well actually it is primer, but it looks so different with color.  The painting is the only part of this project that we are taking on ourselves.  We had the get the primer on so that our contractor could put up the trim.  We started on Sunday and got almost all done but ran out of paint with two walls left.  Ugg!  So after work on Monday I went back to Lowes and go another gallon of primer (and also paint cause I figured we will need it).  I got home and got the rest of the painting done... or so I thought.  After I had already cleaned up all the paint and showered, I realized I missed a wall.  I know that sounds really silly, but there are a lot of small walls with weird angles, and with two of us painting it over two days I somehow completely missed it.  So yesterday, I came home after work... again... and painted the last wall. 

We are going neutral with everything that is permanent in the space since this isn't our forever-house.  I really like the tan walls (sorry the picture is so terrible I was taking photos in the dark).  I think it will be very bright and airy when it is all done.  Yippie! 

My Local Fabric Shop

So I am a little late to the party, but I finally got down to my favorite local fabric shop.

The Fabric Shack in Waynesville, Ohio is my favorite place to go if I really need to roll around in fabric for a while. 

They have a great supply of fabrics regardless of your quilting style.  They have tons of modern fabrics, more traditional lines, and lots of solids.  They have so much the place is bursting at the seams... my kind of place!

I got a call in the morning from my quilting buddy Kelly saying that she was planning to drive out to the Shack (our term of endearment) and that my presence had been requested by her two and a half year old daughter G.  I am just tickled that G associates a trip to the fabric store with spending time with me!  We had a great time.  Kelly was on a fabric mission so G and I checked out all the kids fabric.  I learned all about Yo Gabba Gabba and dinosaurs.  She is a great fabric store buddy!!! 

I wasn't planning on buying anything, but they had all of their clearance fabric on sale for $1.99 a yard.  I couldn't help myself.  I found a couple good ones.  These two I thought were fun blenders.

I bought the rest of the bolt of this one.  I just loved it.  I think it will make a good quilt back.  Unfortunately there was only 2.5 yards left... I would have bought more.

They also have a great selection of fat quarters.  I grabbed a couple blenders to put in the stash.

The trip was totally successful.  I got 5 yards of fabric for $17.75!!! Best. Day. Ever!  Thanks G for inviting me on the fieldtrip!

Candy Buttons

Getting fabric in the mail is one of my favorite things.  There is just something so exciting about a box full of fabric just waiting for you to cut into it.  Brenda at Pink Castle Fabrics had a sale a couple weeks ago on her blogger bundles.  I just couldn't resist.  I had to have the Candy Buttons bundle.  It includes:

·         Lily Leaves in Pink and White

·         Sweetest Floral in Yellow

·         Spot On Small Dot in Lime

·         Wallpaper Flowers in Coral

·         Small Chevron in Tone on Tone

·         Floradots in Solid Aqua

·         Polka Dot Gingham in Blue

·         Sugar in Leaf

·         Dumb Dot in Candy

·         Hello Daisy in Blue

·         Front Row in Orange

·         Raindrops in Watermelon

And since I was paying for shipping anyway, I thought I would throw in a couple extras (shhh don't tell).

·         Sketch in Aqua

·         Tutti Fruitti Gingham in Fuchsia

·         Hello Pilgrim Stripe in Blue

·         Hello Pilgrim Jewels in Emerald

·         Song Bird Stripe in Blue

Love

Look what I got from my valentine!  Yummy!  Happy Valentines Day!

Thrift Shop LOVE!

The construction guys were at the house on Saturday so I wanted to get out of the house.  I decided to stop by the local thrift shop to kill some time and came across this little dandy. 

It is the kind of thing that I like to think sat on the shelf for a year waiting for me to find it.  Let's be real... it is a milk glass strawberry... it takes a special person to love it.  I am at that person.

It is actually in really great shape.  There is a little wear on the top, but not much.  It is a jar, but I'm not exactly sure what one would keep in a red glass strawberry.  It will probably just be pretty in my house.  Welcome home red strawberry.

Drywall Day

Have you ever read Alexander and the Terrible Horrible No Good Very Bad Day?  It was always a favorite in my house growing up.  Well that was my day today.  A guy called at work and yelled at me (I still don't know why), I had to work until past 7:00, I threw my water bottle in my purse and it spilled all over everything, and I came home to help make a dinner that we were missing half the ingredients for... ugg!

However, my evening turned around when I walked upstairs to check out the construction and dun dun dun... there was drywall!!!  Not all of it mind you, but it is starting to look like rooms again.First, I realized I hadn't really explained the layout of the second floor.  Our house it a little cape cod.  The second floor is only about 650 square feet total.  It is two main rooms (I am calling them Bedroom 1 and Bedroom 2), two closets (one a walk-in, one a normal closet), the bathroom, and a hallway.

So here is what I came home to.

It is starting to take a form again.   It is nice to feel like we are in the process of putting the place back together instead of tearing it apart (even if there are still 8 weeks to go)!

Let There Be Lights

The electrical elves were busy at work today installing 14 can lights!!!  The bedrooms were always really dark, as the only lighting was from a single dingy ceiling fan in each room.  Any place there was a chair or a bed, there had to be a lamp.  We are resolving that in the new construction by putting six can lights in each bedroom (which turned into only 5 in one bedroom because of space), one in the hallway, and two in the walk-in closet.  Hooray!!

We also had dimmer switches installed, the thought being that you might not want the bedroom to be super duper bright (mom cover your eyes).  The other switch will be for the ceiling fan that will go into the middle of the room (without the light kit).

Plumbing

Came home today and all of the plumbing was moved!  When we redesigned the bathroom we moved every piece of plumbing.  It is amazing.

I thought it would be best if I drew you a picture first.  The red is the old shower, shower head, and drain.  The blue and  yellow is the new shower, shower head and drain.  It is so much bigger, I can barely remember what the old cave shower was like. 

Here are the new shower controls and the drain so that we can redirect the shower. Isn't she pretty!?!?!

The old toilet was a wall mount, so we had the drain pipe moved so that it could be a normal person's toilet . We decided we had to move it when we had a really hard time finding a wall mount toilet that that didn't look like a urinal (or super expensive).

This is what bedroom 1 looks like today.

This is bedroom 2.  This wall is where the book shelves used to be.

Progress!

Demo Week

Yeah for construction!  This is the point when it is still really exciting but not yet a total burden.  I'm basking in it while I can.  Every day this week I came home to a few less walls. Please note that the blue stuff is all wood paneling that we painted when we moved in.  GONE!  Yippie!

 Bedroom 1

 Bedroom 1

 Bedroom 2

And check out this awesome wall paper we found under the wall paneling!  I am a little bit in love with it (but not enough to keep it)!