just in case

in case you didn't know, this is the address to my new blog. :) happy reading!

sick of blogger

I am sure any of you that pay attention are sick of me talking about switching to blogger or switching everything to wordpress and blah blah blah.

Well, I am thinking I am going to stick with my two separate blogs.  But, they are both going to be on wordpress now.  I am working on getting all this info from here onto my wordpress blog.  I'll update you all on that later.

Ikea

I am hoping that next weekend we will have time to go to Ikea.  I desperately want/need this book case:

This will go in our dining room/office.  And we will hopefully then be able to get ride of the awful bookcases we have now.

I also am thinking I want this for my coffee table:

The bookcase is only $99.00 and the coffee table is only $19.99.  I might look for a new duvet cover as well. And maybe even a new console/entertainment center/table to go under our TV.  What we have now is just way too bulky.  And I think I am leaning towards the two pieces above in white  I am sick of having such a dark house.  And I think with the bookcase being such a big piece and because my house is so small, it won't look so closed in if it's white.

mad woman

This weekend we had a going away party for my brother.

I think my way of dealing with him leaving is by keeping myself busy.

I have gone through half of my house so far and organized every drawer, table, basket, etc.  I was non stop since Saturday morning.


I still have to finish our closest, which will be a pain.  And the closet in that closet...even more of a pain.
I also need to finish the kitchen.  And once we get a new book case from Ikea, I will go through our books.
I also painted some furniture this weekend, I will post about that at a later date as that is not a complete project yet. And I need to repaint our two side tables in the living room.

I have big plans for our house the next few weeks.

I don't have any before pictures(except this first one, an in the process picture), but here are some afters:

I think I may have turned into a crazy person.

cleaning house

Back in the winter I told myself that once spring hit, I was cleaning out our house.  Well, I never really was able to get rid of anything... I tend to hold on to stuff, like furniture, because I hope that one day we will have a bigger house and I will need it.

Well, no more.

I am sick of clutter.

I think I need to just go from one room to another.  Maybe start in the living room because you see that first.

I need some changes to be done in the house.

Clean/clutter free house = happy mind and heart.

night sky

The picture is kind of blurry, but check out the color of that sky!

new curtains, finally!

When we first moved into our little house by the sea we had these as our form of privacy in the main room:

Ugly, I know.  They were too short.  And I didn't buy enough panels.  But hey, curtains are expensive!  And we just needed something to cover that huge window!

Well, I received a $50.00 gift card to Target for my birthday and I decided it was time for new curtains.

Target had tons to choose from.  I wanted white from the beginning.  But every pair of white ones were either too expensive or not the right length.  Then I found a set of two panels of white drapes for $24.99 each. SCORE.  However, right NEXT to those drapes I found the same set, but in grey.

Oh grey. You are so wonderful.

I stood there for probably 10 minutes trying to decide which color to choose.  The more I thought about it, the more I leaned towards the grey ones.  My cats fur would have destroyed the white ones in a day, anyway.

***EDIT*** Here is a better picture:

Now, mind you, this picture was taken last night at 9:30.  So, everything looks dark and junky. (maybe if i feel like it ill take a better picture this afternoon) But, I promise you.  These are far superior to the previous "things" that were hanging before.  I worried they would be too dark, but this morning they looked quite lovely.  I had thought of trying a pattern, but nothing really hit me at Target as a "gotta have".  I am more of a plain jane sorta girl anyway.