Stove Luck.... Yep

I finally have a working stove in my home. Can you guys believe it? I can now cook. Not that I do a lot of cooking in the first place but even the little things can be done now. Breakfast at my house....( Now maybe I can stop eating out).
This means that my microwave can get some rest... whew!

So I do have a a long list of projects left:
1. find artwork for the living room and bedrooms
2. paint the furniture in the guestroom
3. make curtains for the dining room
4. purchase remaining fabric for living room curtains (kinda pricey for me but gorgeous)
5. find a demilune sideboard for the dining room
6. repaint dining room table ( was distressed by previous owner, not quite my style)
 and this list goes on and on I'm just highlighting the biggies

Now to start collecting recipes!

Guess What I Found!!!

I have had an obscene fascination with cut flowers. After calling around trying to find tulips I discovered most florist shops charge anywhere from $4 to $6 for each stem.... Yikes!!!
Don't they know I just purchased a house. I can't be splurging on flowers that cost the much. Heck the power company just decided to increase their rates. I'm poor dontcha know.....

Well  I guess you are wondering where I am going with this right. I went to Winn Dixie, a local grocery store chain, today to return my redbox rental and a sign caught my eye. They were selling bouquets of roses for 9.99. Now this isn't uncommon in most grocery stores and in some drug stores locally, but this reminded me that Winn Dixie actually has a florist section. Now I went right before closing so there wasn't anyone actually in this area but there were bins and buckets of grab and go flowers located on the counter and floor.

I was in Flower Heaven.

 So I approached the bin on the counter to get a better look at the bundles and instantly fell in love with several of the bouquets.

These beautiful flowers were $2.00 a bundle.... can you believe that!!!!! Only 2 bucks!

But I really wanted some yellow flowers and I got a bundle for $1.00!  Yes... Just a measly buck! Take that expensive florist!

Will edit later with the pictures from my diningroom. Right now blogger wont let me upload them... boo

Paying the Piper

Ok who said that Family isn't the greatest. I think I might have mentioned that my Aunt the amazing seamstress has been working on all of the sewing projects in my house. This includes the curtains, the upholstery on the living room chairs and anything else that I can think up and imagine. And so far everything has been great.

There is only one dark cloud to this story. Of course my aunt was making all these amazing items for free for me. So in exchange I promised to whip up some business cards and take some photos on all the different projects and create a portfolio for her prospective clients to flip through.

Enter the side-eye.... OK so I hadn't started on any of these projects and she has almost completed all of mine. I am officially the worst niece ever. So tonight I came in from work... "cough" took a nap... and then set out to make the greatest business cards ever.
So I can say mission " Business Cards" is now complete and I need to work on mission Portfolio but there is less of a rush for this one because I haven't finished painting the frames for my sofa because the weather has been really intermittent here and I am kinda afraid of dragging the chair outside and it getting caught in a random drive by shower. But I saw an awesome blog post today that has me itching to do some indoor spray painting. I think I'm going to tent off my den and turn it into a temp painting studio so I can get this one last chair out of the way.

Ok so I am definitely sitting in the better niece category I just need to deliver the cards so the rest of the world knows this to.

Laundry Room Wet Dreams!

Yes you heard that right I had a wet dream about my laundry room. One where creamy white cabinets top matching front loader washer and dryer and under cabinet lighting. Is it wrong that instead of dreaming of a some hot guy ( I am single remember) I am dreaming of laundry detergent in pretty jars and clean, warm clothes.
That is absolutely horrible of me.

Just thought I should share!!   lol

Being drawn into the Blogosphere!

I feel like I need to document all of my projects because of the awesome posts that I see on other peoples blogs.
But is so easy to be distracted especially when you can't use you laptop without it dying on you.....

ohh well, back to unpacking. I am turning this into a sport... hahaha.

Awesome Sunday!!!

So today I awoke to my phone ringing... and you will never guess what happened!!!

My cousin came over and power washed the front of my house, so now my front porch is super clean and so are my windows. Now I own a power washer that I have never used but after watching my cousin work today I think I will pull my little power washer out and give it a try on the rest of the windows around the house and on the brick that has mildew on them from the large oak trees that I have in my yard. I love having a brick house because I will never have to worry about having the whole house painted. A little trim paint every couple of years  and everything will look like new again.

There are little rocks mixed into my cement steps.... they are quite adorable and I didn't even know they were there. Now I just need to scrape and paint the railings. I am waffling between black or white. As you can see they were previously white but the shutters on the windows are black, thus the dilemma.

In other news today I also did some work. I started painting furniture today. After several months of surfing the internet looking at blogs of other peoples furniture redos I decided to try my hand at it.

The Before:

And a Peek at the after:

So that was how productive my Sunday has been, and I throughly enjoyed spending time with my mother and with my cousin. Some times I think I have the best family in the world!!

Time Away

Between finishing the floors, moving my things, and working on my mini projects I haven't had time to update here on the blog. But I will be back with pictures and updates once my Internet is installed on the 28th. So not too far away but just enough for some anticipation.