dresser before & after

Here are some not so good pictures of the dresser. Once I get our bedroom painted, I'll take some pictures of it in action.

Before:


After:






I really, really, really love it and it makes me happy to work on labels everyday. I feel so organized.

nothing

Well I'm supposed to be waking Molly up from her nap, or cutting diaper doublers out, or hanging clothes on the line but here I am blogging. I wonder what excuses the pioneer women used for not doing chores? Or did they always do their work? Oh well.


This isn't done yet. I need to get some tie backs for the curtains, touch up the paint and finish putting knobs on the hanger.


Sneak peek at our new door.

We are super close to finishing Grae & Molly's bedroom. I'm just decorating it now. It looks so different then before. Much better. We are in the process of refinancing our house and have an appraiser coming sometime. So that means rushing around fixing things so that he appraises it high. We need to prove we have 20% equity in our home so we can drop PMI and lower our interest rate from 6% to 5%. This will result in a $350 savings each month. Can you believe it? We can make our payments now but how great will it be to have some extra money every month. It's going right into savings to help build our 6 month emergency fund.

We are in the process of canning anything we can find. So far we have canned blueberry jam and we're getting ready to can peaches (I hope). We didn't plant enough beans to can those but maybe we can find somewhere to pick. Then on to applesauce, pickles and whatever else we find. Our garden is doing great and we're just about ready to pick and eat our grapes. They are so good off the vine.

So that is an update. Not much but I really do need to go wake up Molly so she isn't up until midnight tonight. That wouldn't be fun.

superman

Grae drew this and Brian put it on his work computer. I think it's super cute. He's always drawing super heroes.



I'll have some before and after pictures of my desk and the kids room soon!

overheard

Grae: "Do I look like a pastor?"

Me: "No."

Grae: "Well then do I look like a ninja?"

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Grae: "Do I look fat?"

Ava: "No."

Grae: "But I want to look fat-tastic."

Ava: "Uh, I think you mean fantastic."

Grae: "Oh, yeah."

going on

Since it's much too hot to go outside and do anything but sweat, we're staying inside and trying to find stuff to do. This mainly consists of me looking around and seeing how filthy our house is. When did my carpets get so dirty? Why are the baseboards so dusty? Seriously is it to much to ask anyone to vacuum the blinds? The kids are really loving this and look forward every morning to see what new chores we will do that day. I caught Ava googling "African rain dance" yesterday so the deep cleaning would stop. (not really).

I did sew some clothes for Molly yesterday. She loves them. The little pink dress was supposed to be up for sale but she wouldn't give it up. So I made another one to sell.



Here's when I told her to smile:


Brian picked up the new Wii Sports Resort so we'll be doing that this afternoon.

I have to get ready to take Lauren to the orthodontist as one of her brackets fell off while eating cereal. She now knows to not eat cereal. Lauren just got her braces on two weeks ago. Grae thinks they are cool and even put some silver Christmas tree beads over his mouth to show Lauren that he had braces too.

We finished putting the pergo floor down in Grae and Molly's room and I took pictures accidently deleted them off my camera. I'm going to try to recover the images today and will post pictures. The difference is amazing!

dresser

So I don't know where the before picture is but here is the after picture. We picked this up at Goodwill Outlet for $15. It is a very solid, dovetailed drawers, vintage dresser. $15!!! I already had the mango paint from the mistint bin at Lowes for $2.00. The drawer pulls came with it and I just spray painted them red (that I already had around here too).

Imagine this dresser as a pale wood color with burn marks all over the top. Bad shape. Surprisingly the inside of the drawers look like they had never been used. Perfect shape.



This dresser looks great against the green walls in Grae and Molly's room. I love finding things and fixing them up.

remodel

We're working hard on Grae and Molly's room. So far we have the old trim off, the new ceiling and window trims on and of course the new green paint.

Here's before (when it was my office). Excuse the mess, we were moving stuff around. I loved the colors of blue and orange but the paint was in bad shape and I wanted a new color.




Notice the jolly roger on the door. We're replacing this door and I thought Grae would like that for now.






We painted the ceiling a smoke blue and painted the ceiling fan to match. The window air conditioner is only there through the summer. It gets so hot in that room.

Our new flooring came in so we will rip out the carpet and replace it with wood. Then we will do floor trim and then I can have fun with accessories!