You can't ever make me do this again....

We remodeled our master bathroom this fall/winter, and I say fall/winter because that's how long it took us to do it! We had a shower pan type shower that we wanted to throw out because we would throw up getting in to it every day; it was so old and icky. So I wanted a tub this time. I opted for the "heavy duty cast iron tub that will last forever", hubby opted for the "this is much lighter and won't take 6 men to lift it" steel tub. I.won. So in the new HEAVY tub went, with only 4 men to carry it up nearly 25 stairs in all, down the hall way, turn the corner into the bedroom, turn another corner in to the bathroom and plop it down. I think I saw some sweat :)

BEFORE mmm, its soso

(shower: Yecchh!)

First we prepped the bathroom by ripping out everything, tile and all, floor and all. If that wasn't hard enough, the next thing was. Pulling up the subfloor that was damaged. It was nailed and glued down, and when particle board is glued down, it wants to stay there!

(chip, chip,chip,chip,chip,chip...)

and in pops the tub!

A good friend did all the plumbing for us, including moving some pipes so I could have my "Shampoo box". Wasn't he nice? Roughing in the "shampoo box" wasn't so nice.

Alas, we are on to screwing in the hardy backer board, after we hauled the cement board back to the "Depot". Next the tiling. It started out fun, then reality set in and it took two afternoons and an evening to get done. I'm glad we were smart enough to rent a tile cutter. We had tons of cutting to do. Grouting also started out fun and......................well, you know.

After sealing the grout and wiping and wiping and wiping and........ya, we could install the fixtures. Ahhh, new shiny fixtures that turn when we tell them to. And a new floor too!

Then I dropped the BOMB. "Honey, can I put in really, really,reeeealllllly cute beadboard? It'sreallycuteandIwilldoalltheworkanditwillbesoeasyandyouwon'thavetodomuchblahblahblah..."

IS IT NOT CUTE OR WHAT!!

Now, where's my bubble bath?

Bzzzzzzz......busy as a bee.....

Have you ever started a
project and wondered
"WHAT THE HECK HAVE I STARTED!!"
Well I did just that.
"Oh I would love some cute slipcovers for my couch AND love seat.
I'm sure I can whip those up in no time!"
I lost track of how much time they actually took, but I know we ate dinner with thread and fabric pushed to the end of the table, socks trailing small pieces of fabric and more thread all over the house, for at least a month. No one dared say anything about the mess (so their lives were spared or maybe they really didn't notice-that's not a good sign!), but they eventually got done. It only took about twelve trips to Joanns and Walmart for more thread, more fabric, more velcro, more piping, more, more, more....


A glimpse of the mayhem:

Help! Which way do the stripes go? Dang, cut that one out wrong! Ok, I'll use that for the arms later.

Finally some progress was made.....

And then they were done!! (enter lovely angels singing hallelujah)

Then came some new curtains and rods, and a couple of pictures to go between.

Final living room:

While I had the sewing machine out I decided to slip cover my slipper chairs. I have two of them. They turned out pretty cute!

Now I can vacuum. Tomorrow. If I feel like it. Which isn't likely. (hee hee)

My five favorites of the day...

Who doesn't love a DUCK!!

A "BLUE" door, of course!

My favorite color, BLUE! (how did you know?)

Buttons, in white, of course!

And this just made me LAUGH!!

What are ya gonna do...?

Taylor decided to push the limits on his physical abilities this month. Within one week he was taken to two different doctors for two different x-rays. In one of the last plays of his football game he was carrying the ball and got hit with the opponents headgear so hard that it left paint on his hand!
They thought it was broken, but he is MUCH stronger than that! It was just severely bruised.

Then, while doing a frontwards flip, he tore some tendons in his ankle as he was coming down. OUCH! We thought for sure it was broken. Nope. Just super swollen and lots of pain. And of course the tearing of the important workings of an ankle!


Then to top it all off, the very next week he went to the dentist for a cleaning and the dentist said he had time to extract his wisdom teeth right then and there....what to do, what to do, so we did! (umm, rather, he did)

You may as well get all the pain over with in one fell swoop! HA.

...the tracks of my tears...

I thought I left my house looking a little more like this, and............................



Sooooo, I went into a thrift store to find an antique jar, which I found, and proceeded to the checkout. The total should have been 1.98 plus tax. She said "that's $1.93 please." I asked if it was on sale, cause it shoulda been over $2.00. She said no, that's with the discount. I said what discount? ...............and then it happened!!!! .................................."the over 55 discount"

.........................HHOORROORRSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I said "I'm NOT 55". She looked very embarrassed and gave me the discount anyway (like duh! at least!!). "Would you like a sack for that?" NO, I'LL JUST CARRY IT OUT WHILE I CRY ALL THE WAY TO MY CAR!

And so, I left the store feeling like this:

My favorite islands.......kitchen islands!

Some day I WILL have one of these!! (hope, hope)

Where we live...

House "before", just after we bought it in 1995...
what were we thinking!!???

It was definitely a fixer-upper!
(click on pictures to enlarge)

(pretty ugly, I KNOW! Sheesh!)

The new deck is on, now the roof...

Now painted taupe and sporting a new screen door,
this was our house about six years ago.
More things to do...
{and we KNOW how cute flags make a house!!!!}

New windows and window boxes, {made by yours truly....}

{Winter time......doot dee doot dee doo}
{Darn, I forgot to take the dead flowers out of the window boxes!!}
{again ;)}

Then we put in this stone wall.
An improvement over the 1970's railroad ties!
cha cha cha--


This is our house today { I got more ROAD than house in that shot!}
Aren't the pink flags cute! {haha, snort}
We have been redoing the grass, that is why it is brown. And the pink flags mark where the sprinklers are. If I waited any longer to get a shot of the house with green grass and all, it would be winter again!

Okay, so I waited longer and it didn't snow....sheesh! But the grass is
growing in nicely and I pulled the pink flags yesterday!!