Spare Bedroom Done Over

This past Saturday I painted the spare bedroom. Three coats on the walls and 4 coats along the top trim. I was so sore. I think it came out pretty nice. I also Fall cleaned the room when I put it back together, bonus!
I tried to get most of my Eeyore collection into this room. The color is a light blue/green, although it looks more blue in this picture.

This quilt on the wall was the inspiration for the color and it looks great against it.


I bought a new lamp for the nightstand and a few little things for the room, but I already had most of the stuff in the room so the redo wasn't too expensive. I even got a break on the paint because the color is called "icing on the cake" from Benjamin Moore, but when I went to pick it up they didn't have it in satin finish and that's all I buy so I had it color matched at Walmart in Dutch Boy paint for 10 bucks cheaper per gallon.

Spare Bedroom Redo

This past weekend I picked up the shelves for the spare bedroom redo and put them up with my Husband's help (even with his broken toe!). Everything was going fairly easy which is a feat for me because I can tell if something is 1/8 of an inch off and it "burns my eyes" and I can't stop obsessing over it until it's fixed. Right up until the last screw on the last shelf, that is. The screw broke off inside the anchor and we couldn't get it out no matter what we tried. These are the big plastic dry wall screw in anchors too. My Hubby hobbled downstairs and out to his garage to get his drill and supplies and he countersunk the hanging hook on the back of the shelf in a different place so we put a new anchor and screw in next to the one that we can't get out of the wall. Then we had to bang the broken one into the wall a little so that I can spackle over it. The shelf is now a little bit off and we can't get it to correct no matter how much we tighten or loosen the screws, but it's a really tiny bit and I am able to counteract it by putting something slightly taller on one side of the shelf and then it's an illusion that fools my eyes into thinking it's straight enough.





The items on the shelves might change a bit once the room is painted, but for now those are the items looking for a home on the shelves. The Eiffel Tower picture on the other wall used to be in the living room for part of the year before the polka dotted cow picture arrived. I think it will look nice against the new color in there. Oh yeah, you can maybe see the new color on the shelf in the first picture. It's the lightest one on the strip and it's called "icing on the cake".

Another Thing Off the To Do List

So this weekend included getting another thing checked off the To Do List...Staining the gazebo. The gazebo was looking very ratty and old and this coat of stain in the color new cedar has made it look fabulous. If only you could've seen me on the roof trying to stain the cupola! It had to be done though so I stretched and balanced and I even repaired 2 shingles that had blown off at least a year ago. It was so nice sitting out there with it being all clean and fresh. It's even worth my sore arms! Too bad the heat and humidity are coming back so we won't be using it for a few days.


On another note, I'm planning to redo the spare bedroom. I'm looking for a light blue/green color and I'm going to get some shelves for the walls. I don't want to spend too much so I'm going to use what I already have except for the shelves. I should be doing it in the next few weeks so keep an eye out for that update.

Things Against the New Paint

This is the part of the hallway near the kitchen. This is the part of the big wall that's in the computer room.

Happy July Rudolph Day

Money has been tight this month so I have just put together a good list of gifts to finish off my Hubby's shopping. I think with what I have it will be plenty, I just have to order it when we get some more money.

I organized recipes this month. I have binders with ripped out magazine recipes and printed recipes so I finished filling up two of them and I made an index for each one so that I can find what I'm looking for easily. I have chosen chocolate peppermint fudge for my Christmas dessert and I can find it in one of the binders I finished when it's time.

I ordered a gift for my friend so I'm just about done with her for the holidays.

Today, I have painted the downstairs hallway the same color as our living room. It's hard to paint the downstairs because all the rooms run together and I love the light blue that I painted the computer room, but I have never loved it in the hallway. I never thought anything looked nice against it. Now it's a creamy off white and the stuff is going to look great on it. I kept holding it up to the living room wall to see how it would look and it's way better. Now I just have to wait until it's dry so I can put all the stuff back on the walls. I hope none of the walls that are in this color need a lot of touch up because I'm almost out of the paint now.

I'm going to be doing the Holiday Houseworks Plan from organizedchristmas.com again this year. I usually get the Fall cleaning bug a little early so I'm ahead of the game when it starts.

Happy Christmas in July!

A Little Redecorating

The other day I decided to redecorate the mantle and area above it. I also went to a craft fair this weekend and I got a cute polka dotted cow picture and a sheep plate that I added to the area. I always wanted to put the paper mache cow on the mantle, but I could never find something to balance the other side until I remembered I had bought a Christmas plate on clearance and I decided to see if that would work. It did, so I had to get an every day plate and that was my mission at the craft fair. Unfortunately, I didn't find any every day plates so I had to stop at a little shop on the way home because I knew they had some plates and ta da...the sheep plate.

Christmas in July and Other Things

So I found out that I don't have enough stuff for my Hubby set aside for Christmas yet. I have a couple of things left to wrap, but I still need a Birthday gift for him as well, since he's a December baby. I will set out to round up some more ideas and start picking them up this month. I do have a few things left on the list I wrote out for him so I should look into getting them. I think they are mostly things that I have to go to the dreaded store to get. I have also started my Mom off right in picking up some things on awesome sales for him. I will update my progress on Rudolph Day.

The other things are that the deer have been visiting every night for the past couple of weeks and they have succeeded in eating every last Hosta plant in the backyard. I should have put the repellent out there, but it stinks so bad it repells us as well. We can't even open the windows when it's out there. Not that there has been much opening of windows lately. It's so hot and humid we live inside with the air conditioning every day. I can't take much more of it. It makes me look forward to Fall and Winter even more. I wish it would hurry up and get here. Until Rudolph Day...