Ready for Halloween

I'm not sure why, but this year I am really looking forward to decorating the house for Halloween!  Already getting some things together :)

 I must always have tissue paper roses, this time in a mummy vase. So super easy to make!

I Made It

I made some crafty stuff this week. It felt good to get the scissors and glue out.

For my birthday, I got a new bed set.. which I love, but I had nothing to match it.

I made this flower picture to change up the colors in the room.

(I took this picture before the Modge Podge was dry)

For the heck of it, I made this summer wreath for the door.

 I always have a heard time figuring out what colors to use.

This one turned out pretty good.



New Floors

We finally.. finally.. finally got the carpet ripped out of our bedrooms. We continued with the same laminate flooring that is in our living room. It feels so much better to have all that dirt, cat fur, and cat dander out of here. Here are a few not so great pictures.

Even with all the hammering and bagging, baby boy found a way to take a nap.

Like they always say..

If you want something done right, you gotta do it yourself! ;) I took some new pictures that have now been added to our MLS posting.

212 Brandon's Way, 78610

On The Market

Well, our house is officially on the market. I'm not all that pleased with the pictures on the website. I don't think they make the house look very good. Oh well, here goes nothing. Fingers crossed!

212 Brandon's Way, 78610

Today's Project

Everyday I've been doing little things to get the house ready. Sunday, my mom, aunt and I busted butt around here.. and the house is looking great. Now, I'm just getting all the last minute things taken care of. I painted these pictures today to hang on the wall in place of buying more stuff.

Let the Staging Begin

So it's official.. we are putting our house on the market. Hopefully we can have the house in order by September first. We have accumulated a ton of stuff that we just don't need.. or haven't used in forever. Sooo.... I'm putting on my organizer boots and getting to work. First stop.. closets. If you need me, I'll be knee deep in pile of junk :)

What A Difference

BEFORE:

DURING:

AFTER:

Cash's Bathroom

Cash's Bathroom, aka the extra bathroom.. has a new look. It's had a few different looks over the 3 years we've lived here.. and I'm finally really happy with it! While my mom & I painted the nursery, Aunt Clonda painted the bathroom. She did a great job, I love it. Cash's room is going to be jungle themed, so I decided to go with the same for the bathroom with out over doing it. I don't want it to look like a kids bathroom.. so I went with a more "sophisticated" look. We already had the brown/orange theme going, with these towels I got from World Market which I love.. so I wanted to keep those. I found these really cute/cool animal pictures at Target. They animals are painted metal that pops out. I was so tired of the bathroom being so bright white. White walls and white cabinets.. we picked out a tan color and it looks so much better.

It's really hard to take a picture of a small bathroom!

Pottery Barn

We made our first Pottery Barn purchase a few weeks back.. yeah, I know it's hard to believe. I usually love everything in the Pottery Barn catalogs, but I tend to find stuff that looks just as good for a lot cheaper! I was really wanting a new bed set.. soo.. I looked all over the Internet, and the only one that really stood out to me was this:

I thought that I could put some colorful pillows with it, and brighten it up a little.. but I had to run it by the husband and he liked this one better:

And, I agreed.. this one is fun and a lot more colorful.. so we purchased it. If only I had some Pottery Barn expert to come to our house and it make it look as good as it does in the magazine! I love to decorate, but it still doesn't come out lookin' PB quality!

Desk Project

I've been on a mission to find a real desk... we've been using a card table. Which I was fed up with because it gets so cluttered due to the fact that there are no drawers or anywhere to put anything except on top.

I wanted a desk with a hutch, but those are pretty pricey. I found one that I loved at World Market.. and it was under $100. But.... of course, it was a one time.. back to school offer and every store from Round Rock to Selma were sold out. Bummer!

So I searched Craig's List and didn't find anything close to what I was looking for.. I went to tons of thrift stores.. nothing. Stephanie finally found a few with hutches on Craig's List.. but they were already sold.

Then, Chubbs told me to try St. Vincent De Paul which is a little thrift store on S. Congress. I had never heard of it.. but I went there and Wah La! I found myself a cheap little desk. Only $14.50... but it needed some work.

Before:

There were about 4 different colors of paint under what you see here.. and the hardware was super old and out dated.

After:

I sanded the heck out of it, and changed the hardware.. and repainted....

I'm super impressed with myself, I've never used a sander... or refinished anything before. I think it turned out quite nice!

Trees

When I was a kid we planted an Arizona Ash in our backyard.. it grew very quickly. So, when Diego's Grandpa gave us a baby Arizona Ash, I expected the same from it.. and I was correct! This thing has more than tripled it size in the last 2 years. Check it out:
2006

2008

Note: at some point we moved it away from the fence..

In other back yard news..
Our banana trees are making bananas! My mom & aunt have beautiful banana trees.. and they have already made some bananas.. I thought ours wouldn't because they get so wind blown in our backyard.. they definitely don't look as good as theirs.. but we do have bananas!

Just About Finished

My project is almost done. I just need to touch up a few places.. and throw a second coat on the small red wall. I will probably post another picture once I get the furniture back in place.. but, I thought I'd go ahead and put my work on display:

The yellow is a little bit more yellow than we were hoping for, but I think it looks ok.

Project Paint - part 2

Ok, So here are the pictures of the ugly wall:

Mia is supervising :)

So, that's what Mexican Chile looks like on our wall. Yuck!

That's ok though, I'm over it. I think I have found the colors that I am looking for! They were inspired by a new downtown condo building that just went up. I took this picture today, while sitting in traffic:

Diego and I drove past this building and we both thought those colors looked good together so here we go.. Round 2: Roasted Pepper & Sweet Maple:

I'm off to get started!

Project Paint

I've been trying to write this blog for a while.. and it's really hard not to go into extreme detail.

Basically... I have been wanting to paint our living room for some time. Diego described it as a page in a coloring book.. that hasn't been colored yet.. and I agree!!

So, I was wanting to do something drastic.. to take away from all the green we have in the living room. Our couches are green, and we have a ton of plants! I've had tons of ideas.. but the one that kept coming back to me was some kind of terracotta burnt orangish color. NOT UT orange though!! I wanted to paint the main living room wall, the orange color and the accent the orange with a tealish/turquoise color. Then pick up the turquoise in the kitchen. So we finally narrowed down all the orange colors.. and bought Mexican Chile.

OMG.. We get home and I open the paint can. It is Orange.. very very Orange. I freak out. I tell Diego and that I am not sure if that's going to work. It didn't look the same as it did on the damn card!!! So we put some paint on the card.. and sure enough it's the right color. So I say what the hell.. just try it.

So, when I got off of work on Sunday.. I taped up the edges and got to work..

I F-ing HATE IT!!!!!!! It looks like Home Depot threw up on our wall!! I have to repaint this wall.. immediately, if not sooner! I should have listened to Diego when he said he thought some sort of red color would look better. Now I am thinking a "reder" orange would look a lot better!

*I am at work right now, I will post pictures from home when I get a chance*

#54 - Decorate the Guest Bath - the beginninng stages

So, Steph's been gone for over a month now.. so it's time to get started decorating the guest bath. I had lots of ideas.. but I decided to step away from the Pottery Barn catalogues and do something a little more fun... Since I could not find a shower curtain that went along with the image in my head, I decided a funky rug would be cool.. Diego and I really liked this rug from Urban Outfitters.

The Urban Outfitters on the drag did not have this particular rug.. so I was planning on ordering it, but before I did.. (I'm good at jumping the gun) I went ahead and bought a solid black shower curtain and hot pink towels.. to match.. come to find out, a 3x5 rug.. does not fit in our guest bath.. so.. nix the rug.

So, now I have to find a new rug.. one that matches the rest of my pink and black stuff.. and looks just as cool.. I'm confident I will find something! I'm not in a rush..

I did buy some really cool bamboo for the bath room though..

#84 - Diego Hung The Towel Bars!

Yeah! We finally have towel bars!

We took our old towel bars down when we painted our bathroom back in September..

since then we have not had towel bars which was getting annoying! So after much procrastination.. we have towel bars!

These are just the mirrors that we hung up.