Love 'em or hate 'em?

My online shopping addiction has taken a turn for the worse ... I am now buying crafts online! Eeeeek! I know. You would think the rush I get from the 50% sales at Hobby Lobby would be enough, but I find myself wanting more and thus I have found an online store to fulfill my craving. Lord help us!

So on one of my "benders" if you will, I purchased these:

I thought it may be fun to have these jars and I can change out the items in them through out the year as it pertains to the season and/or holiday. So my 3 big boxes are sitting at the door as I arrive home one day and I immediately set them out. One by one, I place the colorful balls in the jars, making sure to not over do one color from another. Finished, I take a step back, cock my head to the side and say, "Hmmm. Not really what I thought it would look like. Maybe they will grow on me?"

So it has been a few weeks now and I am still not feeling them. Tell me ... what do you think?

Finally! A light fixture ....

So after many shopping trips to Lowe's, Home Depot, various lighting shops and even some catalogue orders and return, we have settled on the correct light fixture for above our kitchen island. My apologies to my Dad and John for having to install all of them only to say, "No ... I don't think so. Let's take it down and find something else." We are all good ... for now at least!

Chocolate Wall....

While I had a few days off and contractors in and out of the house, I painted an accent wall in our bedroom. John had to put the tape up for me because 1. I am really, really bad at taping off walls which is pretty much the most important part, but also because 2. the walls are 18' high and even on our tallest ladder, I don't come close. John also helped make sure all of the lines were exactly straight and since I kept moving the laser level thingy on accident he was not impressed.

Up-close look at the fabric that will be our curtains.

Where have I been?

I know, I know. It's been awhile. February was a very busy month for us and I basically sank into a black hole. John had a very heavy travel schedule as his territory has expanded and I had my huge event in Orlando. When I returned home, the shower in the master bedroom had to be ripped out and re-done. Yes - you read that correctly; not even 2 months into the house at that point and we had to have the whole thing re-built.

While we had contractors in and out we also had them move lights for us that were hung off center and patch up holes that had been created by their not-so-careful work. From shower doors not fitting to scratches in the paint to "Oops! We forgot to use fiberglass and mudd and instead only used drywall to adhere title to" we became very frustrated as you can imagine. The entire process took over 3 weeks and was finally finished last Friday - just in time for our out-of-town guests to arrive. Whew ... close call!

What does this look like? A dump?

Standing in the kitchen this morning, I look out and find this:

Yes. 6 cement trucks were lined up to dump and wash their trucks on the lot next to us. I guess driving up 50 feet to the designed area was just too hard.

Super Bowl 2009

Now that we have a man cave, I guess that means that we are on deck for a super bowl viewing parties. We gave it our best shot this past weekend. So much fun to have all our close friends and family in to see our progress. I can't believe it has been 30 days since we have been in!

Up and at 'em!

For those of you that really, really know me you know that I like to sleep in on the weekends. I don't think of this is an unusual habit of mine, but I am finding that sleeping in has become almost non-existent these days. I may wake up early, but it is short-lived as I can always fall back asleep. Well, this is not the case if you live with John. Oh no, we, in his words, "got to go, got to go, got to get up and moving!" even if it is 7:30AM on Saturday. I am hoping that he was so eager to use power tools this past weekend to cut off some dead branches that there will not be a repeat performance this coming weekend or any weekend for that matter. For those that are wondering - yes, daylight savings in the fall is my favorite day of the year!