Friday, October 31, 2008
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Haunted Luau birthday party
I have been so busy at work and at home but I managed to make a small online scrapbook of the Haunted Luau birthday party for Dylan and Olivia last Saturday. PS, the scrapblog.com website is really easy to use for making online scrapbooks and more than a little addictive. Here is the link for the much larger online scrapbook version:
http://www.scrapblog.com/48DA18A3-91F6/1D71BC8F-01CE
(copy and paste it into your browser)
or you can just look at the smaller one here:
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Our new granite counters!!!
It's finally here! Our new granite counter tops! We like to call it 'Tig-belly' inspired by our Terribly Tignatious Tiggers' belly. The door pulls are similar to that of Zoe's Entrancing brown Eye and the (future) backsplash will mimic the Fabulous Fluffy white Fur of Kendra. Hehe! Our kitchen is animal-inspired!
Sunday, October 19, 2008
Saturday, October 18, 2008
Who says we don't have a back yard?!
some pics of the outside of our house...
It was such a beautiful day today that Rick and I went to the plant store and bought some autumn plants that I put in the 'back yard'. It's not much but Zoe does her business there in the mornings. Of course, it is unacceptable for her other 3 'business opportunities' throughout the day. She's very religious as she will only conduct 'major business' on the holy ground at the church which is 3 blocks away. There's also a few pics of the front of the condo. We aren't supposed to do any planting in the 'front yard' but I decorated it for Halloween. A far cry from the decorating I did at my old house but it will do.
Our Kitchen update...
Since the wedding, Rick and I have been (very slowly) renovating our kitchen. Once that is complete, we will start on removing the ugly saltillo tile flooring downstairs and replace it with stained bamboo wood planks. After that... the master bathroom which, I'm sorry to say, is carpeted. yuck.
Anyway, we started in the kitchen from the ceiling and are working our way down. The ceiling installation is nearly complete. I just want to caulk the seams and add some trim. Then we'll put some rope lighting behind the crown molding to uplight the wrought ironwork. Then we removed the plastic laminate counters, backsplash, and sink. Rick cut out plywood counters that is to be the base for the new granite counters, which we are supposed to have installed today but the sub called and asked to delay the project. :( Hopefully by Tuesday night we will have them. We bought a new sink and faucet and added cabinet hardware. We also bought glass shelves to go over the sink. After much debate, we decided to leave the cabinets instead of replace them. I just didn't want the headache of a complete redo. But, if we still hate them once everything else is in place, we will hire someone to refinish them. Our kitchen is s 'U' shape and there is a ton of wasted space in the two bottom corners so Rick came up with a way to utilize that space. He put a platform on slide hardware. One side of the kitchen has a custom made 'lazy Susan' and the other has a wire shelf attached to the platform. I think it's great!
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