Girl with the Pink Toolbelt

One of the other big projects, that I didn't think was going to be that big my bad , was adding additional lights in my workshop/garage.  There was a single light bulb towards the house door and lights on the garage door opener that were motion censored.  But other than that, there were no other lights.   Most of the time when I’m in the garage I’m either painting or staining and opening the garage door is a big no no when doing that because you don’t want stuff blowing into it and sticking to your freshly painted/stained furniture.  Oh and there’s nothing like mid-paint stroke the lights going off because it didn't sense you in there so you have to do a dance and jump around to get the lights to turn back on.  Yes- this happens.  A LOT.  Don’t mind the crazy girl getting high off paint fumes.  I was chatting on the phone a few months ago with my Daddy-O, when I brought up this problem.  I had seen in the Menards flyer those long flore...

While it’s technically not “done” done, I’m putting this one in the bag.  Who wants to hear about the worst project ever?  You all should send a big thank you for my father not disowning me while you are at it.  I honestly didn't think it’d be as bad as it was.  I mean, HGTV gets it done in a 30 minute show.  With commercials for crying out loud!!  Just kidding.  I’m not that stupid.     Anyway- let’s talk patio.  Some of you might have seen this photo already.  But this is what was delivered to my house Saturday morning.  At 8am.  My neighbors LOVED me.  Thank god they delivered!   First, let’s start with the basics.  I ordered 263 pavers that were 16 in X 16 in, 154 bags of gravel, 154 bags of sand, and 12 bags of polymeric sand- per the instructions on the virtual patio designer at Menards.  It was going to be roughly 500 additional square feet added on to my existing concrete patio. ...

I've done it again.  I think I need more friends because it seems when I have down time, I paint things. If you haven't noticed, I paint a lot- therefore I apparently have no friends.  So painting is what I did yesterday.  At least this was something that was kind of necessary.  Since I went and screwed the piece up by doing another project way back when. Let's start with this.  You remember my cute little pedestal table in my kitchen, right?  Don't mind the old photos.  There are no pumpkins currently on the table.  I'm not that crazy. OK- while I was staining my new laundry room shelves however many months ago, I somehow got splatters of stain all over the top of this table.  Which, as you can see, is no where near the laundry room or the shelves that actually got the stain.  Apparently I'm super talented like that. After I finally realized that the stain got on the table top, well after it was dried of course, I knew I nee...

I really haven't been in the mood for any big projects lately.  Not sure if it's that I don't have anything to change up or I'm just enjoying the calm before the storm of El Nino Patio.  Either way, I've been a total bum around the house lately.  However, as I'm typing this I'm thinking about what I can to do this table of mine that I messed up the top on.  Hmmmmm..... There are a couple of things that I've done though- but don't go getting all excited.  They really aren't all that awesome.   First up I did a little reuse, re-purpose, re-whatever.  Remember that horrific wire shelf in the laundry room? Well I decided that instead of just leaning up against the garage wall, maybe it'd be better served being attached to it.  So mama got out the drill and made it happen. And yes- I'm busted.  Totally haven't painted the garage yet.  It's hot as balls people.  I cut myself some slack on that one. Next up you might have ...

Actually, the post title should be "Got Bored?"  Because when I get bored, apparently I find something to paint.  And I painted something yesterday.  Woot woot!  When I should have been doing my laundry.  So here's my not-so-sincere apology to my co-workers for maybe possibly smelling today at work since I didn't get a chance to wash my clothes.  My bad.  At least I brought cupcakes. So I enter my house through my garage, into the laundry room and then into the kitchen.  My "front door" is my garage door.  Kinda not a pretty sight to come home to.  Especially when your garage is full of junk that's not pretty- no matter how many times I've written to companies to make prettier tools.  One just can't make a lawn mower and shovel look sexy.  Unless you are standing naked next to it.  Which I'm not. Then to top it off, when I signed off on the house, it came with an "unfinished" garage.  So what they mean by unfinish...

Well hello!  Do you remember me?  I used to run a blog about my house.  But apparently I go on vacation and forget about it for a month.  Oopsie.  It really has more to do with the fact that I haven't done shit in my house rather than going on vacation.  But I'll certainly let the trip take the fall. When I finally finished unpacking (I won't even tell you how long it took me to do that- lazy) I was putting my suitcase back into the spare master bedroom closet and noticed all of the "stuff" that is just sitting in there waiting to be placed somewhere in the house.  There's artwork, decor, pillows, picture frames, dvd players, old cell phones, 3 laundry baskets and so much more CRAP!  It totally irritated me that the one piece of art that I bought way back when was still sitting there so I did something about it- right then and there!   I definitely showed it who was boss.  I took it out of the closet and leaned it against one of t...

I actually didn't think that I would be doing this post tonight because up until a few hours ago- the dresser was STILL in my garage waiting on another set of hands to carry it into my house.  But my dear friend Judy stopped by today to bring me a desk and while she was here she kindly offered to help me bring the dresser inside! Short story long- I have been looking for a piece of furniture- ie. a dresser or buffet table- for my living room to put my TV on.  I bought a TV stand from Target shortly after moving into my Palace and it has served its purpose.  I was never in love with it but it was better than leaving my TV on the floor- like it had been for months.  No shame.  Here's what it looked like before- don't mind the pumpkins.   That's what she said.