Anatomy of a bathroom makeover Part 2

So we finished (mostly) our bathroom reno' and this is what we have to show for it. There are a few paint jobs needing to be done (powder room and bathtub wall) and the new flooring, that can be seen under the new sinks, eventually the entire floor will look like this. What ya think? Not bad for a couple ah amateurs eh?

Gimme my Money!

OK so I sent in my taxes waaaaay back in January so we can get in on that home-buyers tax credit. Yes, I would like my $8K in small unmarked bills thank you very much... I have called the IRS on several occasions to find out what the deal is.. After much holding and transferring and more holding and several different people, I was told look ma'am, they didn't even start processing them until April 15th... WHAAT!?!?! So who knows when we will get the money and continue in our quest to prettify our house.. Day Eleventy-million and the wait continues...

Anatomy of a bathroom makeover

So the hubby and I decided to make over our master bathroom this weekend. Shall we say we had NO IDEA the actual amount of time this would really take??? We figured, heck we both got a lil bit of know how, surely we can knock this right on out in a day right? WRONG! Lemme tell ya, we got an amazing amount of work done, BUT we still have some stuff tah' do. There is STUFF everywhere right now, but at least we have working sinks.. Our goal was to remove the builder grade single sink/counter/cabinet and replace it with dual sinks. We found some amazing free standing sink/cabinet sets with granite counters and we were SOLD. The install proved to be harder than we thought! We are still painting the walls and we need to install the new floor and mirrors, but otherwise it looks awesome! I will start posting pictures of all the remodeling we are doing. Hopefully it all turns out as awesome as I have it pictured in my head.

Playing Catch Up

So it has been way longer than I anticipated with keeping my blog up. Part of it is, what do I talk about? The other part is life getting in the way, which is actually a good thing. Just before the end of the year alot of changes happened for our family. First we bought our FIRST home! We are super excited at being homeowners and all the decorating and painting going on. We closed just before the end of December (literally with just a few days to spare) and we have been going nonstop it seems ever since.

Our goal is to get all the things the inspector pointed out fixed. Not a lot of things, just time consuming things, especially when you have a husband that works full time away from the home and you work in the home.. We are actually almost finish with the "work" parts and getting into the "fun" parts like choosing what we want the outside to look like paint and landscape wise.

Now about my webstore. It has been doing really well. I had an overwhelming response to it during the holidays and I had to take it offline during the move, but now it is back up and I am slowly getting things added to it as I unpack and reorganize my inventory in the new house. With more room it should be much easier once I have all the pieces where I want them.

School: The boys are adjusting to their new high school. There were some problems initially, but now all seems to be going well. The only catch is they are having to change schools again for next year as this school is too small and the city built another high school to accommodate all the kids in the county. So the pros to this are my oldest will be the first graduating class at the new school and my youngest comes out the year after him. The BEST part is they are going to a brand new school literally with all the fixings and I'm really excited about that. So that's about it for now, I will try really hard to keep this going better than I have, but it gets hard with all the things we have going on.. No promises, but I. WILL. TRY.