Before & Afters...

We have finally started hanging things on the walls!  The only room left to paint is the basement bathroom.  Everything is coming together finally.  Here are a couple before & after shots.  I'll post the family room & others as we finish them.
Playroom before & after (note: this room is only clean on the days I vacuum)

Boys Room before & After (yes I did blur my kids' names for their privacy/safety).  They recently moved from toddler beds to twin beds. The room is very crowded with the new beds.  I did ask them if they wanted to sleep in separate rooms but it was denied.  C told me they would sleep together in one twin bed.  Oh well... Better luck next year?

Busy & My Computer is Down!

Well the social/dance went extremely well.  I'd love to post pics but my computer is down & Jamie's isn't the best... So we all must wait for a better update on the party.

For now we have had a busy week.  We are working on the basement again...  This is the current status:

Will post finished photos when my new power cord arrives from China...  Taking forever. 

Latest Creations...

Well before we started working on garage sale stuff (which is going rather well, almost all big furniture is gone) I was working on dressers for the master bedroom.  The boys have my dressers & Jamie doesn't have any.  I have way too many clothes, so a dresser is a must. 

Jamie found this Kent Coffey dresser on clean up week.  It was going to be sent to the local land fill.  I wish I had taken pictures of it before I painted because the dresser was awful looking.  There was peeling reddish brown paint that had to be sanded/scraped off.  After priming & painting it looks like this (still needs knobs):

Then a good friend gave us another small dress so I did the same thing... Sand-Prime-Paint for this end result:

Not bad for two free dressers... While I was busy painting the boys were working on their own creations.  For Mother's Day each boy decorated a cake for me at a local grocery store.  They were so proud!  The boy's figured it must be my birthday cake so they sang "Happy Birthday" many, many, many times that day.  It was very cute!