Boys' Room......
Today I went to Ace Hardware and found a gallon of paint in their clearance section. It was only $5. I thought it would look good in the boys room. I painted this room yellow before Anna was born because I didn't know if we were going to have a boy or a girl. It's been needing a change. When I saw a deal on this paint I couldn't pass it up. It only took me about two hours to paint the room this afternoon. What do you think??? About the paint color not the ugly green carpet. We really need to get new carpet in this room.

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New Bench......
I picked this little bench up for free a little over a month ago. The colors of it were pink and purple and we had it up in Anna's room for a while. I should of taken a picture of it, but I forgot. It is now a nice green color, which looks nice in the entry way. The seat of this little bench lifts up and there is great storage for kids's shoes, socks, mittens, and scarfs.

I have to say I love it and so do the kids.

Tree Gone....

This was a big project that we wanted to get done before we put our house on the market. We had a guy come and cut the big pine tree down and then it took Brandon & I good week to get everything cleaned up. There were so many roots and rocks around the base that we had to get cleaned up before we could have the guy come and cut the stump out.

After the stump was gone we had to pick up a bunch of bark and take out the plastic edging. In the end we eneded up putting about 10 bags of dirt on top to get it evened out and then planted grass seed. Hopfully in a few weeks it will be covered by some good grass.

It was a big project, but it looks so nice now. The front yard looks bigger and we can see out our front windows.

Before & After......

We have been doing some landscaping this past week. Brandon tore out a large bush that was in the wrong area and then we moved some dirt/rocks around. The rocks in this area are so deep there is no way to get rid of them all. Last year I pick up buckets of rocks & thought I would never see the end.

We planted some new plants and then put down some shredded bark. It looks so nice I don't know why we didn't do it sooner. We also put some fresh bark on some other areas, which I will take pictures of and post sometime next week. The yard is looking really nice and we only have a couple of things to finish up.

Before Pictures.......
Brandon's mom & dad were here to visit this past week and took on a tiling project and a few others as well. As you can see we had some lovely floors in our kitchen and bathroom area. We had to move out all the appliances, take off all the trim, take down a couple doors and then screw down cement board. It took a couple of days to get the floor ready for it's new tile.

Finished Result.....
Here are the lovely new floors that we have now in our kitchen and bathroom area. It makes everything look so much bigger and cleaner. Thanks Ray & Kara for all your hard work:)

More Furniture Transformations.....
Here I took a end table and stripped the wood and then gave it a nice stain and a polyurethane finish. It looks a lot nicer and didn't cost me much at all.

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Here's also another stand that I had gotten from my parents, which was my Grandma's at one time. Unfortunately, I didn't take a before picture of it, but let me say it was in ruff shape, but stripping it did the trick. I then also stained it and gave it a polyurethane finish and it looks brand new.

Furniture Transformation......

I got this end table from my mom and dad. It was just sitting out in there garage and I thought that I could use it, so I decided to bring it home and make it look nicer then it did. I first gave it a good coat of primer.

I then asked my hubby what color I should paint it and he said to use this green color. I actually got this can of paint for free because I had signed up at some paint website. So far the cost of this piece of furniture was pennies.

I think it turned out pretty good. I just need to find some handles for the doors that are on each end. It's not only a great stand that could be used for many things, but it has some great storage to.

Two Week Project.....
I love to make our home more homey and updated so I decided to paint the 1980's era brick around the wood stove. The job ended up taking a couple of days which was a lot longer than I'd anticipated. Painting brick is a lot of work especially when you have to go over it twice. First I had to prime the brick, as paint peals off of unprimed brick. Then I had to paint it. I think it turned out great and it really brightens the room up. The pictures really don't do it justices.

New Sewing Area....

In one of the rooms in the basement we have a nice work bench, which goes a long one wall. Well for so long it has been cluttered with so much stuff that we have never been able to use it the way we should. So after buying some new shelving units we now have enough space to stack stuff without having to stack it on the work bench.

I then gave the work bench a nice new coat of paint and one end of the work bench is lower so I am able to use it as a sewing table or scrapbooking nook. I am hoping now I will be able to work on a few projects that I would like to do like make some throw pillow covers, make Anna a few summer dresses and start Gabriel's scrapbook and hopefully be able to check up, so Noah's scrapbook is done by the time he is one. I know it wishful thinking.

I still have some organizing to do and containers to put away, but soon it will be nice and organized.