Our Grateful Life

Weekend of Labor

So my cleaning rampage continued this weekend. Although with 3 days to spend entirely devoted to the house (and football), we were able to work in a few redecorating projects as well.

After watching Game Day Saturday morning (and seriously, Kirk, the tie? Bad choice), I went to Hobby Lobby and TJMax. I have been on the hunt for a clock for our living room for months. I finally found one at TJMax that I liked okay. It was cheap too so even if I find something else months from now, I won’t be out that much. I went to Hobby Lobby to purchase more word art for the walls. I saw them a couple of weeks ago but decided to give which one I wanted to buy some serious thought. I didn’t know exactly where I would put it since I already have “Family”, “Blessed”, our initials and one of my favorite verses up but thought I would figure that out later. And then I saw my verse in the word art and bought that instead. Now, my handwriting is not awful but it’s certainly not professional. It took me about 30 minutes to get this up on the wall and I think we can all agree the redecorating was worth it.

Before

After

The rest of Saturday was spent at Wal-mart, watching football and scrapbooking. I am so close to finishing our 2007-2008 First Year in Texas scrapbook I can taste it. But I ran out of ideas when it came to the last pages. The house remodel. I plan to go to Michael’s sometime this week to hopefully get inspired. But Saturday night I did manage to finish two events so I feel pretty good about that.

Sunday was all about painting. On my list of things to accomplish this weekend was finally getting our bathroom vanity painted. I did that and then I couldn’t stop myself. When we had the house painted, we opted not to have the trim painted. That was some serious coin and I figured I would get to it some day. Well, some day was Sunday. In addition to the bathroom, I painted almost all the trim in the entry way, kitchen and living room. I say almost because I managed not to go totally insane by painting trim that didn’t need painting.

In between the painting, I steam cleaned our bathtub and Chris CLR’d the shower. I stayed out of the bathroom while he did that and instead did some dusting. Sunday night found the house in complete disarray leaving me all day Monday to put things back together again.

A couple of weekends ago, we came to the realization that a scrapbook room was a complete lie. If Chris is home, I want to be in the living room with him leaving the scrapbook room very lonely. We decided it was time to move the elliptical in there and the desk into the Auburn guest room. Chris did all the heavy lifting so all I had to do was adjust the decorating. I bought a navy bedspread because the white on white on white was just too white. So here are the finished rooms:

Auburn guest room before

Auburn guest room now

Old scrapbook room

New gym

Then Monday afternoon Chris was looking at our kitchen faucet and on a whim decided it was time to replace the darn thing. More than one innocent person has been sprayed by a stuck nozzle. So we loaded up and went to Lowe’s. I knew what I wanted so it was pretty easy to pick one out.

Old, didn’t work, cheap builders faucet

New, fancy, hasn’t sprayed me yet faucet

All in all a productive holiday weekend. I didn’t get the curtains ironed or finish the scrapbook but I have plans to do both of those this week. The house looks good. It’s clean and ready to for visitors! Ya’ll come on over!!!