Spring Cleaning

Sunday, I Spring cleaned our bedroom. It was the last room left for cleaning. I just have a few small cleaning tasks left on the Spring cleaning list. I am hoping to finish staining the porch today. I have to wait until it warms up a little, so I'll probably wait until after lunch. I'm guessing I have about 3.5 hours left. Right now I'm going to do some laundry and clean up the kitchen a bit.

Thistmaster

Hubby and I celebrated a new holiday Saturday, Thistmaster (Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Easter all rolled into one). Every year around Thanksgiving I buy a small frozen turkey to make in the Spring so my Mom and I can have turkey soup one more time before Summer. Saturday, I cooked the turkey with most of the usual fixings. We watched youtube videos of people at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade and then listened to Christmas music and then we ate some Easter candy as dessert. We were so into the spirit that we went out and bought ourselves a couple of gifts. Next year we'll have some small gifts ready when this holiday comes again. It was a super fun day!

New Couch

So here is a picture of our new reclining love seat with the pet cover. I am so happy it matches perfectly. You can see the forsythia picture now in a frame. I think it looks nice and at least it's protected. I also got the little rug under the "coffee table" on clearance at Target. The table is actually a toy box, but it's not too big and it has storage for blankets. The rug blocks the space under the table so Max can't shove his toys under it and annoy us trying to dig them out.

Happy Rudolph Day

Our new couch is coming today so I'm not really doing anything Christmasy, but last week I ordered some gifts and I picked them up yesterday. I've started staining the porch and I painted the porch door so it matches the front door. I think I'm going to buy a poster frame for my forsythia picture I had blown up so that I will feel more comfortable storing it behind the couch when the other picture is up. I was afraid of dust and the canvas getting ruined. I will be happy once the living room is put back together with the new couch. I'll probably get a picture soon. I ordered a pet cover for it so Max won't ruin it, but it's not here yet. I'll have to cover it with other blankets in the mean time. I'm going to head over to OC and MHH to look for the assignments and see if I need to do anything to be more prepared for Christmas.

Blog Refurbish

I decided to update my blog a little. The picture of the quilt in the title is the one I want to use on the new couch. I just have to wash it when I have some extra time. I wanted to make the font bigger because most blogs I read have it bigger than mine was and I found it easier to read. I love the colors in the quilt so I thought I'd coordinate the rest of the blog with it. I think it's cool and soothing.

Painting, Staining, Cleaning...

All day Saturday I helped my Mom paint her living room. It's a nice neutral brownish color. She helped me paint all the rooms in our house when we first moved in, so I try to help her do hers too.

Sunday morning I stained the front of the porch stuff. Two coats on the railings and one on the lattice. It went much faster than the front stairs. I just have the side and back lattice left.

Today I cleaned the spare bedroom. The only room left for Spring cleaning is our bedroom, but I've been putting it off until the weather gets more consistant. I want to wash the bedding and put a lighter quilt on for the Summer, but some days it's 80 degrees (today) and some days it's chilly. I only have a few odds and ends left besides our room for Spring cleaning. I'm ahead of the game this year.

Friday, I think we'll go look at new couches. I hope to get it ordered and have that done with. I think I will take a quilt from our bedroom chair and put it on the new couch for a blanket. It's got many shades of blue and it will go with the curtains and be another pop of color. I want a tan/brown couch so it will be neutral and the quilt will add a some color since I won't be able to use my slipcovers anymore if we get a reclining one.

The city called and said they would be flushing water in our area over the next week so every time I do laundry or run the dishwasher I have to check the water first and make sure they don't come while it's running. Nice of them to be specific. I did as much laundry yesterday as I could because I figured they wouldn't work on Sunday. I had washed the stuff in the spare bedroom too in case. That made it easy and quick to clean today. I think our bedroom will be faster to clean as well since I redid it when I painted in December.

Back To Cleaning

We've been cleaning up the yard recently. We did around the new porch except for grass seed because we might be getting loam and trying to improve the back yard. We'd have to go through the side yard so we'll have to wait on that. It looks much better anyway with the decorative rock trim. Today I cleaned the craft/exercise room quickly. I don't know if it went quickly because I already got rid of the clutter in there or if I just didn't do a thorough job because we want to try our hand at putting a laminate floor in there and it will need cleaning before putting everything back. I cleaned everything in there I think so I hope it's the former reason. I want to try to clean the spare bedroom Sunday while Hubby works.

Fancy Art

Here's my new picture of forsythia. I took the picture of the branches with my fancy new camera and had it blown up. I think it came out nice. Now that I know it comes out good, we can make our own Fall pictures.

New Things

I went shopping with my Mom and Aunt this weekend. We were all on a curtain mission. I needed a couple of extra valances for the big windows on the porch. We went to a few places. I got this new wreath and I put it in place of the big picture that's been up for about 10 years. It's refreshing to have something different and new. I also got the carrot on top of the shelf.

The little mouse on the top shelf is new from this weekend. It reminded me of a mouse my Grandmother had and I loved when I was a kid. The little black thing is a cute sheep I got last weekend. I was going to put it on the printer's box, but you can't see his face good so for now it's on this shelf.

The bunny on the left is also new from last weekend too. I got a $10 coupon so it was only $4.75.

My Aunt spotted these curtains. They were cute and marked down so they were perfect for me. The blue will play nicely off the blue in my new forsythia picture that I should be getting today. The tan check sheers I had up were just too blah with all the other neutral colors so I wanted something with some color.