organizing!

i don't know what happened but overnight i became OCD. i want to scrub the house, top to bottom, make a household binder, make a menu/recipe binder, just get my life organized. (its not bad now, but needs some improving!)

so with that said... earlier in the week i did the kitchen! i took EVERYTHING out of the cabinets and it looked like we just moved in! i cleaned and scrubbed the inside, put liners down, bought drawer organizers, and rearranged. then came the outside of the cabinets, appliances, and the countertops.

my mom got suckered into helping me!

overall it was a great day and i feel like we are getting somewhere! i will have before and after pictures coming soon.

but on the list is...
the kids toy closet
the office
linen closet
bathroom cabinets

can't wait to show everyone!

we are done!

we are finally done painting!
we are finally done painting!

it feels so good to say that!

we (my loving husband!) have painted the entire house

before... tan!!


after... gray/blue


before red


after... dark gray


can't wait to finish decorating and show you even more!

Cheap re-dos!

China cabinet!

We moved it into the office, but the baskets have since changed, a new pic will come soon!




Wait till you see what happens to this little beauty!


Look at all these lovely curves!




Some of you may recognize this lamp. they were Patty's!
We are keeping them around but giving them a face lift!

More Painting again!

Look!
its gray in some light, blue in others!
We love it! it brightens the whole entire place!

More painting!

We painted the house!!!
i know! it took us a year, but we decided on a color and went for it!


Jilliann helped out a lot!


here is the before! More after pics coming soon!

Hodge Podge

Just wanted to show you were our paintings ended up.
what do you think?


LOOK! i found it as Ross! How perfect!

Minor ChAnGeS!

so we did some MINOR work in the house this past weekend!
to start off with

my red... now gray wall before


ta-da! with my beautiful paintings (and a little christmas decorations)
i L-O-V-E them... they set the wall off and are gorgeous!
thanks mom you do beautiful work!

and....................................

the big brother to this thing:

yep... he is up and i love him (i don't care what you think! :) :) )
so far i am the only one that loves him... b/c of the time of the year he has been dubbed...

Mr. Snowflake! (so i guess he needs to be a misses)
Mrs. Snowflake!

*she really is gorgeous, especially once the wall is painted that crisp cool blue... HEAVEN!

the kids playroom

Before


Tommy hanging the light everyone hates!


This was my contribution... i built one shelf


The light no one likes

Ta-Da

focal wall!

Before


After


i have two words.... love it!!!!!!

Weekend...... Started

Well we started out weekend out by organizing and cleaning!
The first project... our pantry!

Before


After



There is a basket for "junk food", cereal, and spice packets. I don't like cereal boxes and the plastic containers always end up with too many crumbs and wasted space. Our junk food is basically the kids dessert for school lunches so keeping them up high and also out of sight is a good thing! It always seems the spice packets get lost or I end up with too many, so now it will be a cinch.