Spent some time in the house this weekend and we’re making progress on the basement, starting with my studio! Thought I’d share a few pics of the progress…. Repair the walls, texture and prime the new sheetrock patches, then paint, paint, paint! Thank goodness Brent can cut in without taping off the other walls. Saved us tons of time! I finally decided on the right green. Brent picked out “Artichoke” by Behr @ the Home Depot. It went on kind…
Oh man, it’s been a while since I’ve blogged. We’ve had a busy couple of weeks and have made some progress on our house project. Tomorrow I hope to paint my studio! WAHOOOO! Brent dug out some of my crafting stuff from the guest room and we started putting the family room back together. Hopefully on Sunday (a break from construction) I will have a few minutes to sit down and create something. I have a neat tutorial that I…
Simply Amazing. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Skan0yO-qU8&hl=en&fs=1]
I saw this quote while blog surfing last month and I wrote it down to remember it. “A photograph is a story captured in a single moment.” Why do you scrapbook? I scrapbook to capture memories that my mind might forget over the years. I scrapbook to make the people I love and adventures we share live on and on and on… Everytime I think of Brent I see his smile and sparkly blue eyes and when I see Brent’s…
Here’s a little sketch to coincide with today’s TFT… Use it as a card, digi layout, a scrapbook layout, etc. I’d love to see what you come up with! Inky Smiles!
I received this quote earlier this week via email. “Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement — and we will make the goal. ” ~ Jerome P. Fleishman And then I received this one: “Appreciation can make a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.” ~ Margaret Cousins, author Do you know of someone who…
Today is Pioneer Day, a holiday celebrated in Utah, commemorating the arrival of the Mormon Pioneers in the Salt Lake Valley on July 24th, 1847. The Pioneers had quite the journey getting here from the east. Some rode in wagons and some walked with pull behind handcarts. When I think of how they wore out the soles of their shoes, lost loved ones, and endured months of agony I am grateful for the modern conveniences we have today. I am…
It’s late and I am EXHAUSTED… The bathroom is on it’s way back to some semblance of normal and we’ve got the kitchen base cabinets and appliances back in the kitchen… well except the kitchen sink. I purchased a nifty new black one and the old faucet doesn’t work, and you can’t use Plumbers Putty on granite… ugh… so back to Lowes we go tomorrow! The flooring arrived at 1:28 pm. We heard a big rumble and the dog went…
Well, we’re making a HUGE DENT in the house projects and this means I am that much closer to getting back to paper crafting, which I am MISSING IMMENSELY!!! The walls in the basement are patched and drying. The carpet has been re-stretched in the family room and some of the office furniture has been moved from upstairs back down into the family room. (We still have to put the baseboard trim back up, but it was 11 pm when…
Last night we snuck away for a train ride and hoedown dinner/dance trip up in Heber City on the Heber Valley Historic Railroad for an anniversary celebration… mooocho fun and a much needed break! Our anniversary was Thursday and we were incredibly busy with work and tracking down tile and supplies for the flooring and preparing to to tile (but that’s another post). I am sneaking away from installing hardibacker board (subflooring) so I can quickly do this post…. shhh!…