The Salvage Yard!

It's finally snowing here! And of course I'm at work for it. I'm hoping we'll get one more snow day this winter, and it will be my day off. For now I'll content myself sending Travis text messages reminding him to put the pugs coats on when they go out so they don't get soaking wet and cold. I bet he is rolling his eyes at me as we speak.

Here are some pictures from when Travis took me to the salvage yard over the weekend to look for stuff for our bathroom remodel. I was looking forward to seeing the rows of colored toilets all lined up but they had them covered with trash bags because of all the rain we've been having. Bummer! But it was still fun to look at all the colored porcelain. Is that too lame? I feel like you guys will understand. 

So many pretty pinks and blues and yellows and greens!

I wanted to find a bathroom cabinet and too bad this one was so rusty. I like the awnings too! We have metal awnings on our windows and I have talked about painting them. Maybe we'll do it this year. 

Pink and yellow tubs.

I liked looking at all the beautiful mantles too! If I had space, I would love one in my kitchen/dining room. I have seen cutes ones where they put cookbooks in the whole where the fire would go and just use it like a shelf.

So gorgeous.
There was a cool organ too!
We dug through a lot of buildings. I was looking for a tile toothbrush holder, but didn't find one. We'll see what we can find closer to the actual remodel. We're getting the funds together now so hopefully it won't be too long until we are able to get started!

      

Painting our room

it snowed for three days last week! that never happens her in tennessee, it was so exciting! sadly i worked all three days so i didn't get to make a snow man or anything, but it was still exciting. i hung a bird feeder from that little awning and i love watching all the birds! so far is have seen cardinals, chickadees, and a few kinds of sparrow. i haven't seen a tufted tit mouse yet, those are my favorite.

the other day we painted our bedroom! it was pink. which with the ugly horrible ceiling paper was just too much for me to handle. i also noticed this day that there is a subtle asian undertone to the paper. little pagodas and a man holding a parasol and another man fishing. haha. so weird.



crystal and dana helped! crystal brought her fancy detail brush and did all the little annoying parts. which is good because i don't have the patience to do a good job.

now it is grey! so much better! and we redid all the white trim. i didn't notice how gross it all was until we started to redo it. i can't wait to put all my crap on those shelves!
is calling me...goodnight!

Some shots of our new house

Travis woke up really sick today. it was so sad. because he never gets sick. he puked almost every 15 minutes for hours! i felt so bad having to leave him to go to work. poor thing. right now we are sitting on the couch and he is sleeping on my lap. i don't want to get up because he looks so cute and comfortable.

we watched "the hangover" tonight. ugh i hated it. i didn't laugh once. i can't believe it was such a big hit. so stupid. i think i have hated every movie i have ever seen about las vegas. except for rat race.

omg omg on new years the wide angle part of my lens magically started working again! it hasn't worked at all since MAY! so here are three pictures of my messy house. all the work is supposed to be done this week, so we can actually unpack and it won't look terrible all the time. haha.



i bought a new shower curtain! it makes the bathroom look so much better. did i take a picture of the cherub curtain? haha. i don't know why there is a window in the shower. our first apartment was like that too.

i really really really hope the stove gets hooked up tomorrow. i'm so sick of eating out. dana brought us falafel and fries for dinner two nights ago. and that was awesome. but i can't wait to be able to cook in my kitchen! ahh!

Painting our new house!

we started painting yesterday. it was much harder work than i expected! and much more expensive! it was fun though, ryan and thomas and dana were all here to help out.

we did dana's room!

it's "dylan velvet." so sexy. haha.

and we started on the kitchen/hallway. it's the same blue in both rooms. but the different lights make it look different. hmmmph.


so the kitchen will be blue with white cabinets/trim, and with red accessories. so cute.

ALSO our heat is now working!!!! when they turned it on, it was 49 degrees in the house! now it's 68 and i couldn't be happier. i slept so well last night.

and in shameful news. travis shaved his beard only halfway through whiskerino. and sadly, it is my fault. i tied to hide it but i hated that thing. i'm so so so glad it's gone.