cupboards

So I know I already posted about the kitchen cupboard remodel, but my friend Tosha took some professional photos of them, and the bathrooms remodeled as well, and they are too gorgeous not to share again! She made it look like I live in a magazine.  And thanks again to my amazing sister in law Kristin and her hubby for all their work redoing them, check out her latest projects at Navy Bean Lane.

Kitchen

Basement Half Bathroom

Laundry Room

Basement Half Bathroom

Laundry Room

Upstairs Full Bathroom

Upstairs Full Bathroom

Master Bathroom

Kitchen

Kitchen

Kitchen

Kitchen

Kitchen. Love that you can see the wood grain, glaze, paint and hardware colors and details so well in this one. 

Kitchen

Kitchen

Basement Half Bathroom

our new house!

Well, we moved in back in July. And the house was great! It was just an empty canvas ready for us to do anything we wanted! It was just white walls, and pretty new carpet, so after decorating and painting, I feel like it is really ours! Everything is coming together perfectly, and we catch ourselves about once a week saying "I just love our house!" So without further ado, and about 4 months later than you all wanted, here is our house!

I still need to paint the kitchen and put up a back splash. Other than that, the house is pretty much, complete!

quilting

A couple months ago, Ryan's parents came home from his grandparents house with a big bag of old San Francisco 49er's clothes. They'd all belonged to his Grandpa who'd wear them all back in the 80's and 90's to the games while they lived in the Bay Area.

Anyway, They were getting rid of all these clothes and thought Ryan might be interested in them, since he is such a big 49er's fan...well, they were a little dated! Instead of throwing them out or giving them to the DI, I decided to make a "game-day quilt" out of them. Finally months later, and a move to a different state later, I got started on the project! This has been my first sewing project in a long time, so there was a lot of trial and error involved, as well as no pattern, just guessing and placing. But I think it turned out great! There was even a little bit of left over black fabric that I had to buy, so I made Easton a matching little blanket...now my boys can watch the games in style this season!

addiction and addition...

alright, first things first...I got an addiction to the cute crafts below, and I made two more :)
this one is above my stove

this one is bigger, and its in our bedroom



and now for the addition........

i'm pregnant!!!!!!!!!















NOT! haha, actually our new addition is just a weekend addition, we're puppy sitting our friends dog Toto, he's adorable, and he should be keeping us on our toes all weekend....sorry about the short lived pregnancy exceitment!

Craft Night

Last Thursday, my friend Danielle hosted our Enrichment Craft Night. It was so much fun!! She came up with the idea of making wreaths that hang on a painted wood plaque, and are hung with a ribbon. So many girls came from the ward and we all had such a great night of just hanging out with fun girls! She took a bunch of pictures so I'm going to steal some and show all of you!

a collage of some of the creative ideas....they are all so different, but so cute!

me with my wreath!

Kari with hers...

Danielle...our cute hostess

here we are just painting away

bathroom updates

ok, so we're slowly getting things done around here. we have our new bed ordered (a nice new king with a really nice bed frame) we're picking that up tomorrow. the tables are taking longer than we thought (sanding and staining) but the little decorations around the house are getting done! we hung up some pictures today, and the bathrooms are now officially DONE! so here are some photos up the upstairs bathroom:


Also, I got a hand towel rack for the bathroom, but i didn't think about how it is supposed to be used before i got it. (i didn't know towel racks could be confusing) so the top picture is of the rack, and the second picture is of how we're currently using it. i don't know if this is the right way, but it's not too convenient, but the rack is too short for the towels to hang off of the hooks, so i don't know what else to do with it:



now for the second bathroom, it's just a normal little bathroom, but i didn't know what i wanted to put on the walls. but what i did know is that i didn't want to go out and spend money on new pictures and decorations for it. so i just took the pictures from the bathroom in the old apartment and painted the cream frames with a little bit of some goldish paint. the first picture is the "before" frame color, the others are the "after". i think it turned out really good, and now they don't clash on the white walls! so here are some pictures of my afternoon craft project:





and don't you worry! ryan was doing his own afternoon craft activity of staining the shelves for the living room, they look great, and those pictures will come later!