Bahhhhh

1. This is the second week of the semester. One paper written. One quiz taken. Two assigments done. Six chapters read.

2. We reinstalled the porch swing last night. I finally repainted it with a color very close the new trim color for the exterior, a creamy color with green undertones.

3. The baby fish are getting bigger! Most of them have their colors now but some are still black. They were zooming around the pond last night while I was cleaning the pond pump.

4. Makenna's first birthday party is this weekend. I bought the burgers last weekend but still need to take an inventory of the party supplies that I need to buy. And clean the house.

5. Got an update from the painter, now he talking mid to late September. Whawhawha, I should have specified a date in the contract. It isn't a big deal but I would like to get it over with so I can stop second guessing myself.

6. I've been loving me some pinterest lately. It started out as a way to find yummy recipes (like last nights) but I can also use it for wardobe, organizational and decor inspiration.

7. I'm thinking about painting the foyer. I'm wondering if I can find a grey that plays well with the woodwork...yes, I am in love with grey. I'm also wordering how much work taking down the wallpaper will be..eeek. It should be noted that I'm driving Brent crazy with all my projects and he isn't even the one doing them.

8. I finish resealing the metalwork for the gable and the mailbox, this time with products designed for the exterior..

9. I also fixed the fence panels which had popped off the vertical 4x4s when the tree dropped a huge branch on it. We have a "special day" with a tree removal service towards the end of September.  Last night Brent cut down the dead branches on the red bud, they were wayyyy dead.

Grey-er

Second coat on porch with retinted paint, tinted a little darker and grey-er. Before and after shots.

1st coat

2nd Coat retinted a tad more grey and dark

1st coat

2nd coat after retint

Dos

1. Second coat for porch is down. Went back to the paint store to have them retint the paint a little, the porch looked quite a bit more blue than my swatch and posts were reading more grey from my original sample. We'll see how it turned out tomorrow when dry and light outside.

2. The semester started today. I dropped my Women in Technology class, a little too feminised for me annnnd the teacher was a little crazy. I for one don't want to have to write a paper next week or read 69 pages this week, so dropped it was. I picked up a technology and society class and picked a professor that worked for IBM for 30 years, he is pretty laid back and chill. Nicccce. Psychology class looks like it will be easy as pie. Niccce. Only a few more semesters to go and then I'll be done. I think 4 more to go? That is with only taking 2 classes at a time, I'm in no rush, just enjoying the ride.

3. I'm quite enjoying my shiatsu massage chair after two days of painting the porch. Deeeeep tissue massage.

4. Maybe tomorrow I'll start prepping the porch swing for repainting.

Bippity Boppity Blue!

So over the weekend we did a little work on the casa. Brent ran an electrical outlet at the front of the house while I spray painted my porch light fixture (again). I painted it once before installing it and after getting it up there decided it wanted it to be darker than it was...so I just taped around it and taped some newspaper to the ceiling, sprayed it right in place. I also decided hey why not repaint the porch one of the accent colors of the new paint scheme..it is a grey blue navyish color (Mark Twain Grey Brick), from Valspar's Historic Color Line. It is an improvement over the brown, I must say. I have some touching up to do since it was pretty dark by the time I finished on the driveway side. I might roller another coat quickly to see if it darkens a little bit I like how it makes the yellow door pop! I am well aware the house looks crazzzzzy right now.

Close up of body color, trim color and door color

Touch screen pop machine at Jimmy Johns!

Tada! And Vote!

1. I realized I never posted photos of my finished cabinets.. Tada! The cabinets are Martha Stewart's Schoolhouse Slate, the wall color is Martha Stewart's Cornbread.

2. Last week we visited Prarie Fruit Farms. On Tuesdays they sell goat cheese, produce and gelato and we also got to see the goats! We had blueberry, apricot and cucumber mint gelato. My favorite was the cucumber mint, it was yummmmmy. By the way.. this is Carmen.

3. Earlier this week we got rid of a bunch of furniture that was out in the chapel which we either weren't using or had broken. Yay! Next month we have an appointment with a tree company to come cut down the huge mulberry tree which dropped one of its limbs on the fence and is rotting from the inside out. Yay! We've been wanting to get rid of that tree but now we have an excuse, it is super huge so we are paying the professionals to do our dirty work. We are getting closer to when the painters are suppose to start on the house. I'm getting antsy!

4. Speaking of painters, pick which photo you like most. The colors depicted on the house aren't the actual colors, color renderings on the computer suck. Even though the gable above the porch looks darker it won't be, it will be the same color as the body. Pick your favorite by leaving a comment at the bottom of this post or in the cbox app to the right.

Rendering 1- Dark Posts dark trim above posts

Rendering 2- Light posts, light trim about posts

 

Rendering 3- Dark Posts, Light trim above posts

For Lara:

Nursery Ideas--Some of the more interesting ones I've found for inspiration

Pretty blue green greyish, gold, white and pink. Love the name above the crib.

Coral! and crisp white and pink!

Greeeen

This kinda reminds me of your old bathroom?

Bright, fun colors!

Pale grey blue and pink

Silvery purpppple

Purple brown and white

Light green white and blue, especially the ceiling

The flowery curtains make it more girly

Donnnnne.

All coats are done. Reassembly tomorrow.

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1. Coat 1 is done on the doors (did it last night). Backs of the hardware are also done, waiting to be turned over.
2. I still need to do coat 1 on the frames, coat 2 on the frames, coat 2 on the doors and the fronts of the hardware...
3. I could get it all done tonight, if I was realllly motivated. We'll see. Onward.
4. Still working on purging the house of stuff we don't need. I made a few trips to the Goodwill and mostly just put stuff out on the curb with a free sign and listed it on free section of Craigslist. Decluttering feels sooooo nice.

1. Yay for the stock market taking a dump today, I'm not even going to log into our investment accounts..

2. The bottom cabinets and their doors are all ready to be painted..just waiting. Scrubbed them, sanded them, rinsed them..next step 2 layers of paint.