We had a busy weekend!

The hubby was busy building and making our planting mix for our first box garden. I am so excited to see what we grow. We bought lots of seeds...all kinds of veggies and strawberries! We are using the book All New Square Foot Gardening by Mel Bartholomew as a guide. He breaks it down simply for us city folk!

While the hubby was working on the garden, I was busy painting our computer/hobby room. It looks so nice with a new coat of paint(I enjoy painting~ if you recall the hubby and I repainted all of the downstairs except this room and the laundry room and the upstairs bonus room and hall for 3-1/2 days about a year ago). Click here to see the kitchen and here for the family room, click here for the living room/dining room to take a peek.

We both feel so good accomplishing so much this weekend and now are on Alleve for the aching muscles that we don't use on a regular basis. Looking forward to a good week and dinner with a blog friend and her hubby tonight. Have a good week!

New Living/Dining Room

BEFORE 

AFTER

The new living room(currently used as a pool room-you do this when you have teenage boys and they get a nice pool table given to them!) and dining room.  We painted a darker green which I love.  This room is so bright in the day time that with the new darker wall color and the new drapes it is much warmer.  We painted the wall behind the dining room going up the stairs the green too and it changes the room so much.  It was tan before.  It's like I have a whole new home!

Great Paint Party Day Two and Three!

We are making great progress on the painting!  The house is a mess and looking more beautiful everyday.  Hubby was in a good mood yesterday and painting went very well.  Today not such a good attitude.  He added more to the painting than what I originally intended and now is focusing on how long it's going to take us.  He wants to paint the stairway and that leads to the bonus room which leads to the upstairs hallway.  Today I went upstairs to cut in the hallway and then had to go do a little work so hubby painted all day downstairs in the family room and kitchen.  He repainted the ceiling too. Hubby hurts all over after today.  Aleve here we come!!  I fell off my small ladder today and hit my shin pretty good.  We hung the new curtains tonight and they really change the lookof the rooms.  I like it!  Here's a peek at the mess yet.  How do you like the chocolate wall in the kitchen???  The paint looked like chocolate pudding.  More pics to come soon!

Great Paint Party Day #1

Day #1 is done and so is the living/dining room.  We love the transition and the darker color.  I will show you before and afters later this week.  Here is what it looks like today!  We are headed to dinner....it's hot and muggy here today.  

Great Paint Party!

Saturday we are painting!!!  Dwight is taking a few vacation days and we are going to paint together. (I found out he had some vacation days to use and threw the thought out there and he bit!!) We are going to paint the living/room dining room and the kitchen/family room and up the stairs and down the upstairs hall~it all runs together.  Dwight taught me to paint and I love it!  I am in my own world and it's therapy for me.  It will be an adventure I'm sure with Dwight. It usually is!! He is a very early riser(usually 4:45am--I don't even hear him get ready in the morning!) so we will start early.  I can do that!  I am not too social first thing in the morning and he is very happy and talkative.  I can handle that!   Thank you Lowe's for having paint on sale this weekend.  We did our dinner and date nite to Lowe's and picked out some paint samples.  We have them drying on the walls to see if we like what we've chosen.  We've learned a few things over the years.  I am ready....painting starts Saturday 8am in the living/dining room which is a pretty easy room to start with.  I'm excited.  I will share pictures soon!  Have a good weekend everyone!