Girl with the Pink Toolbelt

Quick post for you on this Father's Day!  I kind of gave you a sneak peek of the latest project at the end of the sunroom reveal. I picked up a fence panel from Menards a few weekends ago.  It's 6 ft high and 8 ft wide.  You can see it through the windows.  I am using it more as a privacy panel since behind it is the curve of the street and everyone going by just stares into my yard.  Sometimes a girl just wants to sit outside topless without all of her neighbors gawking at her.  Am I right? Well I was driving to pick up my new patio set and thinking about finding some sort of privacy panel and I saw this image. Exactly like what I wanted.  I saw a fence panel in Menards flyer that was on-sale.  Score for only having to DIY half of this project.  After I picked up the patio set, I went and grabbed the panel.  I've had it propped up between one of the couches and some planter boxes ever since.  Until this weekend. I picke...

Y'all.  It only took 9 months but I'm pretty sure the sunroom is finished!  I mean, except for the decorating part- which I'm super excited to be able to start putting all the cute stuff I've bought in there!  Like a fireplace!  But that's for another day.  I know, I'm such a tease. So last we talked about the sunroom, the walls were up and I was going to start on casing and trimming the windows.  This is what it looked like. See the inside of the windows?  Still the exposed 2 X 4's.  See the top of the walls?  You can see how uneven the ceiling is.  See the bottom of the walls?  You can see how uneven the floor is.  Well, they are still uneven but at least I made them look slightly less uneven.  But first, windows. They were really starting to look good once I got the insides all trimmed out.  Then came casing them. Don't they look like real windows now?  Like a professional did them....

I get so many questions and statements and opinions (soooooooooo many opinions) on why I write my blog, I figured it’s time to answer some of them.  I’ll be straight right now, you’re gonna get honesty from me here.   I started writing my blog originally because I’m out here in Indiana and my family and the majority of my friends are not.  They have not and probably will not ever visit me here and therefore will never see my house.  It started out as “Look at how I decorated my brand new, empty house” to “Look at what I’ve changed/built/created/etc.” just so that those people could see where I live because they more than likely will never step foot inside.  I have never, nor will I ever, care if anyone outside of that circle reads my blog.  I don’t want to get paid for it.  There isn’t a company looking to sponsor a girl in middle-America who does semi-decent DIY that swears far too much.  I’m not DIY Blogger friendly.  I don’t want p...

Has it really been since October that I've posted about the sun room?  Or in general?  Jesus!  I guess when I think about it- it turned cold outside and winter has lasted for 947 years.  So there really was no way to be out there working when it was negative hell outside.  But I've done a ton of stuff in the room the last few months, I just haven't gotten to the posting part of it.   So sit down and kick your feet up.  I'm about to give you at least 7 minutes worth of reading.  Last time we chatted about the sun room it looked like this- the floor was down, the ceiling was up and the walls had the first layer of plywood up. The goal was to have the room finished by end of spring.  I got an early start the beginning of March.  The sun was out and it was what you could consider slightly warmer out.  I jumped at the opportunity to get the wall boards outside and painted.  I had gotten a Wagner paint sprayer and th...