A year ago!
It was a year long process to finally get into a house in town and we are definately happy with the change! We love the city and being able to walk to the bookstore or go grab coffee, although it is still my dream to end up in a nice suburban community with a backyard and a garage!
And on top of all the stress of buying a home (including 12 offers and 4 failed escrows)...we found out we were expecting! I was elated to say the least...but then reminded that I was still in an escrow that hadn't closed. And if it did close, we got ourselves a major fixer-upper that we weren't going to live in right away. Ahhh! I prayed we wouldn't have the baby sleeping in a drawer at my parents house. And prayers were answered! We moved in four months before he was born, with no flooring downstairs, no kitchen besides an oven and fridge just sitting there, and all of our worldly possessions piled in boxes fresh from storage. And crazy as it all has been (and still is), it's been worth it. Baby was born in April and I have a feeling he's going to turn out to be an amazing handyman!
And because late is better than never I'll give a formal tour and lots of before, during and after pictures. Come to think of it, is there ever a real "after" when it comes to a home? It seems like there is always something to be done, or tweak, or paint colors I change my mind about. Emphasis on the paint colors changing...I'm picking out the THIRD color for our master bedroom. Hopefully this time I'll get it right!
Anyways, pictures to follow, room by room!
And some for friends with little hair flower clips. There's an easy to follow tutorial here.
And since I was in a very DIY gifting mood, I took an inexpensive white porcelain bowl and jazzed it up with a Porcelain marker from Michaels after seeing this adorable post! The bowl went to my Mom!
Our Christmas-winter table. I already had all the candlesticks and a piece of fabric lying around that was the pefect length for a makeshift runner. The front tree is an old school magazine tree I made and covered in glitter, the feather tree I also made with a $2 cone and $2 feathers from Michaels, and the silver tinsel one in the back was $2.50 in the dollar bins at Target.
We forgoed the traditional "Baby's 1st Christmas" ornaments and went for something that would remind us of his first year, so we found this little giraffe at World Market. Baby seems to have an attraction to giraffes, perhaps because of their easy to grab necks and his Sophie teether is a giraffe. We also went to the zoo and he got to feed the giraffes...so it seemed fitting.
And so we can always remember how tiny his hand was, I used Sculpey clay to cut out the outline of his handprint. This one is definatly my favorite and I may have to find a place to hang it year round!
