Stop what you are doing, take off your clothes, put a bucket on your head and dance in your driveway!
It's leap-frogged Spring and headed straight to Summer.
Not that I'm complaining....
Showing posts with label spring. Show all posts
Showing posts with label spring. Show all posts
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Weekend's Are For Sunshine
And by sunshine, I mean cousins from New Jersey.
My sister and her two kids came down on an e-saver on Saturday for the weekend and it was glorious.
The weather was beautiful.
The children cooperated.
We ate.
We played.
They slept. Ish.
It was amazing.
Especially since about a year total separates all four of them. Don't believe me?
No we didn't dress them the same ALL weekend, but we were tempted to.
They were hilarious.
Especially these two, who are pretending to be Jedi's. When this happened (the whole Jedi obsession thing) I don't know. But we are going with it.
There was another e-saver this weekend and don't think we weren't tempted.
I have a feeling you will be seeing more of these posts in the future.
Sunday, March 11, 2007
House Projects
I have the home improvement itch again (and you can't get a creme for that!). So Matt and I went to Home Depot and Lowes to start scouting for the supplies that we will need to spruce things up around our house. Here is the list of projects that we want to get done to the house in the next year:
1) update/gut master bath. We will tile the floor, paint the walls, new countertops, faucets, mirrors and lightfixtures.
2) redo our back deck. We need all new handrails, stairs and probably the actually deck wood should be replaced as well. Plus, we really REALLY want new patio furniture.
3) chisel out the random tile wall at the bottom of our stairs and replace with drywall and insultation.
4) buy and install a new garden shed.
5) new light fixture for our stairs.
6) new countertops for our kitchen.
We started working on the bathroom. We bought new paint and a light fixture yesterday and we picked out the tile. We hope to have a first coat of paint up in the bathroom sometime early this week and then we will take everything out of the bathroom and start to tile. This is one of the major projects of the house, but I am so excited to have a new and updated bathroom. I think that this will be of the sticking points if we want to sell our house, so we have to do it. We'll see if we ever get to the these other projects! Our major obstacles are time and money. So if anyone has either of those laying around, feel free to bring it on over to our house!
The main reason for wanting to do all of these projects is that we want to sell our house next spring. It probably won't take a HUGE amount of money to do these projects, but if we get them done, and do them well--the payoff could be really significant. I know that a lot of people talk about a housing cooldown. But there has been such thing here in Asheville. This town is a destination and houses will always sell. But the more that we can do, the bigger the paycheck. But in order to tackle this list, we just have to get started. So here we go!
1) update/gut master bath. We will tile the floor, paint the walls, new countertops, faucets, mirrors and lightfixtures.
2) redo our back deck. We need all new handrails, stairs and probably the actually deck wood should be replaced as well. Plus, we really REALLY want new patio furniture.
3) chisel out the random tile wall at the bottom of our stairs and replace with drywall and insultation.
4) buy and install a new garden shed.
5) new light fixture for our stairs.
6) new countertops for our kitchen.
We started working on the bathroom. We bought new paint and a light fixture yesterday and we picked out the tile. We hope to have a first coat of paint up in the bathroom sometime early this week and then we will take everything out of the bathroom and start to tile. This is one of the major projects of the house, but I am so excited to have a new and updated bathroom. I think that this will be of the sticking points if we want to sell our house, so we have to do it. We'll see if we ever get to the these other projects! Our major obstacles are time and money. So if anyone has either of those laying around, feel free to bring it on over to our house!
The main reason for wanting to do all of these projects is that we want to sell our house next spring. It probably won't take a HUGE amount of money to do these projects, but if we get them done, and do them well--the payoff could be really significant. I know that a lot of people talk about a housing cooldown. But there has been such thing here in Asheville. This town is a destination and houses will always sell. But the more that we can do, the bigger the paycheck. But in order to tackle this list, we just have to get started. So here we go!
Wednesday, March 7, 2007
Spring Has Sprung!
About a week ago, I planted these little flowers in hopes that I would be able to transplant them outside in about six weeks. I am so excited to see all of the little plants and that I might actually have a little bit of a green thumb!
As an added bonus, I figured out how to do extreme close-ups with my camera!
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