a little more paint

It really is amazing how much installed baseboards can calm the nerves! It just makes the birdhouse seem more finished! For the holidays I was on a two week break from work- hooray! The to-do list is always so long when it comes to the birdhouse and I really wanted to cross more items off the list. Didn't totally happen though- that's okay!

I finished painting the walls in both upstairs bathrooms. When we painted before we had the old light fixtures still up. Since then we've installed the new ones- much smaller- and there's been a large white rectangle just calling my name for paint. I also cleaned the ceilings in both bathrooms- they were totally gross. As you can see we're still waiting to install medicine cabinets and there's a hole next to the light fixture that needs some small patch work.

My favorite father-in-law wrote to everyone in his Christmas letter that he was fired for painting a wall the wrong color. It made us laugh- not only to be included in the letter this way, but also for the fact that he was actually "fired" for painting part of the ceiling yellow. Plus, he left the painting above the door frames for someone else to do. Who did that fall on? Yep, me! After some blue painters tape and a steady hand I took care of it.

So, the painting we now have left to do is: bathroom ceilings, hallway ceiling (that's half-yellow), and baseboards! Hooray!!

On our annual Christmas skiing trip this past week David asked me, "What do you want to work on next when we get home?" I'm so glad he's still into all this demolition/repair work. This past July went by so fast and so many things were done. Now that we're into the school year and I'm back at work it feels so slow. Things get pushed to the weekends and then other stuff happens on the weekend that slows the progress too. That's okay though- it makes it that much sweeter when something does get completed!

A few days before we went out of town we went to Ikea and scouted out a few items! Perhaps a new couch that we've been salivating over (especially now that the price has dropped a few benjamins!) and some furniture for our office. I really want to get back into my scrapbooking. Living in an apartment meant all my supplies have been stored in a rolling bag- great for when you go somewhere to scrapbook, bad for when you just want to work on a page here or there. So, hopefully we'll get our office furniture bought and put together and I can unpack my items. I think the last time I scrapbooked David and I was our trip to Vegas a couple years before we were even engaged!

BTW: I got the book How to Sew... (twice actually) for Christmas. It was in my stocking from David and in my stocking at my mom's house. Perhaps I should blog about a bedroom set I've been wanting or a new car...ha!