Archives for April 2011

Do you hear that?  Yes, that’s me squee-ing from my office.  I did not expect it in the least but our bathroom got painted today!  Woo Hoo! 

First off, these are the paint colors I picked.  The light is the bedroom and the dark is the bathroom.

Pictures aren’t really doing it justice but here it is on the wall

So. excited.

Also?  The stone got finished today.

So. excited.

And tomorrow all the tile goes in the bathroom.  Cue more squee-ing!

Starting to go fast here!  Today he finished up the trim, primed the walls and painted the trim.  I handed over my wall color selections.  Eek!

Toilet room/Shower

  Vanity  

Shower

Today I was happy to come home to much of the crown molding and baseboard in as well as 4 of the doors in!  It is really looking like a room!

From the closet into the bathroom:

So this post is more of a deal post than anything. If you are a Mary Kay makeup user you need to listen up!

If your Facebook stream hasn’t already been bursting with the news, Mary Kay has a deal to sign up as a consultant for $50. The thing is you get all of this stuff with your start-up package.

Full price just for the full-size product shown would run you over $100. It is a no-brainer to go ahead and buy this up at this price. On top of that, if you put in a $200 wholesale order during the regular year you get all your product 50% for the next 2 full months.

Now, I swore up and down to my consultant that I would never become a consultant but if you are already using the product, I think it’s silly not to sign up even if you just get that starter kit.
If you don’t use Mary Kay, I highly recommend it. I’ve been using it off and on for about 15 years and I always, always return to it. There is just nothing better than make-up that stays where it’s supposed to, I love their skin care products and I love that you can try on all the colors before purchasing.

I signed up in just minutes last week. Completely painless process. If you’re interested in signing up, let your consultant know or if you don’t have an active one, I can point you in the right direction. This only lasts until April 30 so you’re going to want to jump on this.

Now don’t worry, dear local friends, I’m not going to be calling you up to book parties and I have no desire to earn a pink car (ok, I wouldn’t complain about it) but if you need something, I now have the magic order button available to me.

Wow, what a weekend.  The last 3 days have accomplished more than I thought possible.  Four of five of my prayer requests were answered in just 48 hours.

Friday afternoon we barely squeaked into the granite shop for my mom to sneak a peak at the original cream colored (crema marfil – going to look a lot like this) marble remnant I had seen a few weeks ago.  We took our floor tile this time and it was a perfect match.  I felt really good about it.

Dani stopped by Friday and was a gem and took my inspiration picture and helped me pick out colors from that and the floor and shower tile.  I would be a good blogger and post a picture of this but I’m trying to sneak this post in before the morning.

Friday at lunch I picked out and bought our carpet.  This is truly a miracle because I picked out a carpet AND color BY MYSELF in all of about 10 minutes.  It was the easiest purchase of this entire addition.

Saturday the guys came back to do round two of the mud and when they were finished, had a little surprise for me.  “Can we come back tomorrow and sand?”  Uh…..sure.  If you recall, we weren’t expecting sanding until Monday, maybe even Tuesday.  As soon as Scott got home we kicked it into high gear and emptied our two bedrooms, bought some plastic and tape and went to town.  I think at one point I was putting plastic over plastic, just to be sure.

Saturday night we had everything taped down and spent the night at my parents.  Scott was working this morning so we had to have it all ready for them to show up at noon.  The girls and I went to church and then spent the afternoon at my mom’s, all the while wondering how much cleaning we’d be doing this evening.  Either way, I was so happy that they were able to do it today since tomorrow I’ll be at the office and not home until 6 and then wanting to crawl back in bed by 8.  Well, I didn’t have too much to worry about because our finishing crew apparently had some sort of vacuum on their sander and left almost no dust behind.  It was a super good thing that we covered in our rooms and taped off the hallway, but beyond that, you wouldn’t have even known anything had happened.  And even in the rooms, it was just a light dusting.  I was SO, SO grateful.  The bad news is I had taken so much stuff down in preparation that I had to really hustle to get the house back in order tonight.  But not too much complaining.  As they say, better safe than sorry.

Our washer is still not fixed but honestly, it was quite a blessing for my mom to take on ALL our laundry this weekend.  I think she must have washed 8 or 9 loads so far.  I completely enjoyed the smell of home and putting away unwrinkled clothes this evening.

So between getting all the big decisions out of the way, getting this huge hurdle of the walls out of the way and all the clean laundry, I have to say I feel so FREE this evening.  I really feel like we’re out of the woods with this addition and now everything is just tying together loose ends.

As for a loose upcoming schedule:

• Doors, trimming and paint go up first of this week.
• Vanity goes in after that
• Next week will be the tile, countertop and carpet!

We’re on the home stretch!

I’ll do a more detailed post with pictures of the room and paint picks soon.  I’m getting really excited about all the finishing touches!

Well, here we are on Friday and I haven’t given a bit of an update since Monday.  Click through if you’d like to read on because I have a lot to get out.

[Read more…] about Dry Wall, Light Switches, Washers and Countertops

Paul – I thought this song was a lot of fun and I love Paul but I think his days are numbered.

Jac0b – the last three noted deserve any praise he gets. Beautiful!

Scotty- Ok I called it weeks ago that he sounded like George and while I liked it something was off with him last night. Did Pia freak them out? He seemed super nervous. It was the first time I’ve seen him unsure. Or was that his attempt at emotional vulnerability?

Lauren I’m a fan of the original but Lauren did some really cool things with it. Imma fan.

Haley – I fast forwarded most of her. Again with the overt sec appeal. How old is she anyway?

Stefano ok vocally I was a fan. But good gracious why does his face have to look like someone is twisting a knife in his back?

James – I like that James sticks to his guns on songs. While I’m not a metal fan I certainly can appreciate good vocals and a good performance. He won’t win idol doing that every week but I think it’s enough to get him through.

Casey -Again, we got The Casey Abrams and I love every second.

In trouble. I keep putting Stefano and he’s continually in the bottom but never goes. I’m still calling it and putting Paul as backup.

Favorites: Lauren, Casey, Jac0b’s last three notes