Bedroom flip-a-roo

Two posts in one week? Who am I? haha. This rarely happens anymore. But hey, here I am anyway! Earlier this week I got a fire under my ass and decided to rearrange my bedroom... again. But this time I really dove in head first. It took a whole day to get everything done, which I didn't mind since Gracie was with my parents for the day to go swimming. If you wanna see what the bedroom looked like before the big switch, you can see those here.

I knew right from the beginning that I wanted to move our Ikea PAX closets to a different place in the room. I made several drawn by hand maps of where to put them but nothing was working. Then finally it hit me and I was like a tornado taking everything out of my bedroom. I put everything in the kitchen (mattress, end tables, clothes, dresser, etc) for easy moving in the bedroom.

Of course, Max took it upon himself to sleep on top of the mattress the minute I put it out there.



And now pictures of my bedroom...

During the spring & summer months, my usual black & white fancy comforter is waaay too heavy so I put on our old pink one. The pink & green remind me of a watermelon, which then reminds me of summer. It's a win, win. I have plans on getting a new comforter, a green, white & grey one from Target but yanno, don't have the extra funds at the moment, but in time, we'll get it!



See. I moved the Pax closets to the opposite side of the room. In front of the window. Putting them in front of the window is no big deal since the view out that window is just a fence. No biggie!



My vanity is on the left side of the closets...



Paul's dresser is on the right side, next to his side of the closet.



This is toward my side of the bed.



The TV is actually not in a bad spot. We can still watch tv from where the bed is now.



And this is the view from across the bed. Yes, we neeeeed to have a fan going at night. The mix of the sound & cool air helps us sleep like babies.



Here is another shot of the bed with the lamp lights turned on.



And of the closet area.



Here is a close up of the area above the headboard... my favorite part!



We both love the room so much like this. We actually have what seems like lots more room to walk around, fold clothes, do a little happy dance, whatever. ;)

Have you rearranged a room recently? Did it take you a whole day too? Feel free to share the deets. ;)

Little improvements

I know, I've been totally slacking lately with the updates. Sorry! Huge sorry! I guess time just gets away from me. What are ya gonna do? Yanno? It happens.

Warning: Before viewing the pictures below, be aware that I still don't have access to a good working camera. These were taken with my Nokia. View at your own risk. haha ;P

Anyway, enough excuses. I've been pretty busy around here doing things here and there. I recently took down the big ugly fluorescent light that was in between my kitchen & living room. I had been asking Paul to do it since.. I don't know, February to take it down but you know if you want something done right, you might as well just do it yourself. So after months of looking at it, I finally just got it done.

Before... (from when it was Easter time)


And after... from the kitchen side.


& the living room side.


So much better.

We also took a trip to Ikea last week to pick up the dishes I have been impatiently waiting for. I also picked up these Vivan curtains for the front window since we needed something a little more private. If you stand at end of our driveway and look at the front window at night, you could see right in & that is a problem, until now! These curtains are a tad bit thicker & worked perfectly on the privacy issue. I got gray of course, they match my walls perfectly!



I took this picture at night, so it's super dark, but during the day they make the room much darker which is really good for summer because it is hot as hell outside! Keeps the room much cooler.



So you can see how they are hung... behind the pretty sheer curtains. So from the outside, you only see gray, which is fine with me.



My mom and I are going to hem them so that they reach just below the window. I only want the pretty blue & white curtains to be long and flowing. I'm sure months will go by before we actually get this done tho. lol.

Back to the kitchen for a moment. These are the dishes I got. White. Simple. Perfect.



And here they are all cleaned & put away... at the top you can see yellow bowls. I got those two for $1.99 at Ikea. I mean COME ON. I heart Ikea.

I also got yellow place mats for the kitchen table. I love pops of yellow in a room! These were .99 a piece I believe. I'm going to be painting the table black, top of it in chalkboard paint & the bench I'm gonna do a chevron print on. I'm excited to get started on this project VERY soon!



I've also been holding on to these E. A. T. letters since February. Well, I finally got on this project too.



I painted them yellow too! See a trend going here?



Then I picked a place in the kitchen to hang them. Hello lonely wall!



Goodbye lonely wall! Hello happy yellow letters! :)



And a wide shot of everything.



Overall I'm happy about the little improvements made in the last week or so. Doing little things really does make a big impact. I hope to share the finished kitchen within the new month or so. This kitchen redo has taken a lot longer than I'd planned but isn't that always the way it goes? Until next time! <3

Thifting & Gardening

First things first, I hit 2,000 hits today! Woo! Thanks to everyone who keeps coming back & to all the new visitors everyday. Means a lot!

Yesterday, Paul & I did our regular Sunday routine. We got up, went to brunch and then thrifting. I usually come up empty but this time was different! I found three dishes/bowls for .80 cents a piece! Did you get that? Eighty cents. I call that a steal! They are super cute, multi color decorative dishes. Here, take a look...

Sorry for the bad lighting & blah quality. I still don't have access to my Nikon. So, these once again were taken with my Nokia.



And here is a up close shot. They're cute right?

Today I went outside and took pictures (with my crappy phone camera) of the front garden so you could see the flowers we have growing in there now. I'm pretty proud of myself, I usually would have killed all of them already. I don't have much of a green thumb. To be completely honestly, I'm not much of an outdoorsy person. I'd much rather decorate the inside of a house and completely ignore the outside but since I'm a home owner, these things have to be done no matter how much I'd rather not do it. Honesty is key right? I'm just keepin' it real, people.

Anyway, here you go! We still need to add little things like mulch and whatnot but it definitely looks better than it did when we first started this project.









And a wide shot of the front yard. Grass is still growing in. By mid-July it will look so green, you won't even remember those dead patches of grass.



And no I still haven't moved those two trees to the right of the garden. See what I mean when I said I'd rather just ignore anything to do with outside? It shows here. hahha. I have no shame! ;)

Hopefully by my next post I'll have a working camera... err battery for said camera. Fingers crossed!

Miiiami

We left for Miami on Thursday (5/24) and stayed till Sunday (5/27). Before we left I got a knock at the door. It was the UPS man delivering my laptop! I was so happy that it came before we left, because no one would of been here to bring it in the house if it came on Friday or Saturday and who knows what would of happened to it. We loaded up the car with our things, Gracie, our cats Max & Ruby and our dogs Niko & Gloria and headed for my parents house to drop them off.

We finally got on the road around 11:30am for Miami. We actually stayed in Pompano Beach, which isn't that far from Miami. About 40 minutes or so. We stayed at the Wyndham Palm-Aire Resort. It was ok. The room we got was pretty big, full kitchen, living room, dining room, master bedroom, two bathrooms. That part was good. The not so good part was the ants in the kitchen, the not so clean looking tub, the location of the room (they put us allll the way at the end of the building and it was a hike to get to and from anything), oh and the A/C in the master bedroom didn't work which resulted us into sleeping on the pullout sofa in the living room. How would I rate this place? 2.5 outta 5 stars. It would of been better if we had a better location & the A/C worked. Let's get to the pictures, shall we?

On our drive down we stopped at a Beef 'O Bradys. I got a cherry limeade. It was delish! Also here's a shot of the view of our hotel from the gate entry.


I took pictures of the hotel room, after we unpacked and messed the place up. Right after, I decided I probably should of taken pictures BEFORE we put our shit everywhere. Isn't that always the way? We didn't have much time between unpacking, getting ready to go & getting to the Marlins Ballpark for game 1 of our trip. So, yes, picture taking of the room at the right time fell at the waste sides. Oopsie.

But here's some shots on our way to Miami for the Marlins game & the view from our seats.


A view of the Marlins bench & the fish tank behind home plate. So cooool!! Also a shot of the "dinger machine" as Paul likes to call it aka the Home run Sculpture.


Something extra cool about Marlins Ballpark is the bobble head museum. Every bobble head you could imagine! Baseball related that is.


I of course had to take close ups of the Yankees bobble heads. I mean, of course I would. ;)


I'm one of those 'I-have-to-take-pictures-of-my-food' people (as you'll notice through out this update), so here's a picture of baseball park food. I heart baseball park food! Oh &&& the Marlins hit a homerun at the first game we went to (& the second game, but who's counting?) & when they hit homeruns the "dinger machine" lights up & dances & spins! Here she is all lit up!


Oh hey a picture of us! Paul said he did in fact smile in this picture or attempted to but my phone takes forever for the actual picture to snap so I got this semi-smile/I hate taking pictures face from him. ;P Also, a snap of Paul in front of the "dinger machine" sign. Oh & yes all of these pictures were taken with my Nokia, hence the crappy quality. My battery on my camera died the day we got to Miami. Like dead dead. Like can't be charged dead. Figures right?

On day two of our trip we headed to a local place called Dawg House (great, great food & locally owned!), checked out Dolphin Mall in Miami & went to another Marlins game. Excuse my stupid looking face. It's stupid. ;P Also bluuurry. lol.

Day three we decided we'd check out the pools at the Resort & play putt-putt golf, since it was complimentary! Here we are on the elevator heading to the pools. Paul once again smiled but yanno camera takes too long so I got this face. hahahha He's still cute to me, so IDC.

We thought we'd head to the Miami beaches for a little while before we went to the Marlins game, the closest we got was two blocks away. Traffic was awwwwffuuulll. No joke. Then on the way out of South beach, we sat in two hours of traffic due to a crazy person eating another mans face off on the overpass. Read about it here. I couldn't make this stuff up.

We wound up missing the game due to traffic, so we went to a great ice cream place after we got back to Pompano Beach (that doesn't even promote their awesome ice cream skills on their website) The Point Cafe. They put on a laser light show & dress as mad scientists & make the ice cream in a fun way. I got cotton candy ice cream with gummy worms! It was super cool. I took video too but my phone won't let me email it to myself, so I'll have to upload it from my phone somehow. Shrug.


Here are some random images of food we ate & shots of our drive to Miami.




Minus the random acts of crazy on our trip, ie: Ants in our hotel room, no A/C in the bedroom, traffic, traffic, traffic & a crazy man eating another mans face off, we had a really nice time. lol. No really, we did. We enjoyed the baseball games, the time alone & the quiet times when we could just sit and talk for hours.

That about sums up our mini-vacay to Miami/Pompano! 6 years down. Here's to another 6... and 6 more after that... and... yeah. You get it. Did I just type 666? Rawr, I'm dangerous! ;) If you made it through this entire post, comment & tell me. You deserve a hug or a brownie, or something. This ish is loong! <3