Monday, February 28, 2011

Spring Cleaning

Today I finished Spring cleaning downstairs. I did the bath/laundry. I washed the washing machine with the Tide cleaner (still love the fresh scent) and I put in a new air freshener, sweet pea and lilac from Glade. It's a great Spring/Summer scent. I used my new Reveal mop where you mix your own cleaner and it has a washable absorbant pad. I just put in water and vinegar and it cleaned really well. I only have 3 rooms left to clean upstairs and the mudroom and then the whole house will be done.

Spare Bedroom Update

This is the pretty new quilt for the spare bed. Yes, that's Max sleeping in his bed on the bed (well, his eye is open watching what I'm doing). I finished Spring cleaning this room today, first one upstairs. I decluttered some things and got rid of some things on Freecycle from this room over the weekend.




I got the 2 baskets for the top shelf of the new bookcase for more storage. They are the perfect colors for this room and the new dot background of the shelves.




These are the new black check valances I bought the other weekend. They look really good in this room with the new wall color. It's a little hard to tell in the picture, but they look better than the navy ones that I had up. I washed the curtains in this room just so I could put up the new curtains. I will have to wash the windows when I do the rest of the house.

Friday, February 25, 2011

February Rudolph Day

So I guess I'm not the only one who hasn't done much for Christmas prep over the last month because no one has updated anything that I regularly look at. I did just order a gift for Hubby because I wanted free shipping on a new quilt for the spare bedroom. The quilt came today! I will show you later. I have gotten a lot of Spring cleaning done over the last month. I will be cleaning the spare bed today so I can put on the new quilt and then I'll just have to clean the rest of the room later. I had a bunch of stuff to Freecycle that I posted yesterday and I got rid of 2 things yesterday and possibly the rest tonight, but the weather is gross and not cooperating so I'm not sure if we'll be putting that off until tomorrow. We have a lot of errands to run tomorrow so hoping I won't have to add another task. This month's Rudolph Day doesn't have many tasks that pertain to me, so it will be an easy Christmas prep month coming up. That's good because I have to finish Spring cleaning and decluttering tasks.

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Updates

I put away my Winter decorations yesterday. I need to dig out the few things I have for St Pat's Day. I also cleaned the living room. I just have the downstairs bath/laundry left to clean and then the whole upstairs. I bought a new light slipcover for the Summer.



I went to a store with my Mom over the weekend and I picked up this cute pottery jug (on the right).



I've been working on the spare bedroom again. I got this black bookcase because I need something tall to put lights on top of in order to get the room bright at night. I got the 2 little lamps over the weekend and I got the paper in the back of the shelves because the black was very heavy in the room. The paper has exactly the right colored dots. I'm thinking about getting baskets for the top shelf for more storage.



I bought new black valances for the spare room too. They are going to look much better than the navy that's up now. I figure I'll wait until it's time to do all the curtains and windows before I put them up. I'll post a picture when it's done. I also got a cute valance for the downstairs bathroom which I'll show when it's up.

Monday, February 14, 2011

Spring Cleaning

I cleaned the computer room today. The computer armoire is nice and neat again. That takes the longest to clean in that room. I cleaned and rearranged the shelves in there too. They are neat and look pretty good. I took out some items to make a little more empty space. It's almost time to put away Winter decorations and put out Spring and regular stuff. I only have the living room and bathroom left downstairs to clean, then the whole upstairs. We're considering doing the flooring upstairs with part of our tax return so I'm not tackling that area yet. I will have to clean everything all over again after doing the flooring so it's best to wait until it's done.

Upstairs Hallway Done Over

This is my new light switch cover. It wasn't supposed to be quite so dusted with cinnamon, but you can still see the sheep.



This is the cute sheep picture I got to match the light switch cover. It's hanging across from the tiny shelf and light switch.



This is a star I had in the downstairs hallway, but it was the perfect size and darkness to balance the space across from the new shelf cupboard and across the doorway from the sheep picture.



This is the new shelf cupboard. I'm not sure if it will stay decorated as it is, but for now it's working. Everything is coordinated in the upstairs hallway and it's nice. This is the first time I've deliberately decorated that space. I have one cow hangy thing that I will need to find a home for because it was too light to look right with the new black things.

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

More Updates

A few weeks ago, we finally changed the rest of the hinges and door knobs upstairs. It looks much nicer than the brass ones.



I Spring cleaned the dining room over the past couple of days. I took out a couple more things for Freecycle. Everything is clean and shiny.

Friday, February 4, 2011

New Shelf and Snow Madness

My Mom gave me this little shelf and I put it in place of a different little shelf that I got tired of. I'm looking to freshen up the upstairs hallway. I think I found a little cupboard shelf to put up there so you'll probably be seeing that soon.




This is our porch. See how the snow is almost completely blocking the opening? The snow is ridiculous and it needs to stop.