WIP

I'm finally getting around to sharing what we've been working on. This last weekend we continued in making our new house 'ours'. For a while now I've been feeling like we've been living in some one else's house that just happened to have some of our furniture in it. There are boxes and junk stacked in places, the walls in the living room are this crazy sea foam/teal color, the window blinds match and the garage seemed to catch all the random things in towering piles but goodness knows where things have been stuck if you need them. Even the plants in the flower bed don't seem like 'mine'.

We started the multi-weekend conversion by doing some planting, cleaning the garage and painting the living room. The planting was really to replace what had died while we were in WI - the former owner put potted plants throughout the flower bed and almost everything in the pots died in the 100 degree heat and no water for a week. Jason mowed the yard - it didn't look like there was a lot of grass but it really made a difference. Then he started to organize the garage while I painted the living room - with the fabulous help of Ellen. I've got some before and after pictures below - though it's far from finished and the color came out littler in the pic. Some friends from church came over Wed night and helped me decide were the living room furniture should go. Us women made the guys rearrange the room about 5 times, it was fun :)

This weekend is more of the same. I really want to get some things hung on the walls, it's looking so bare still to me. But I'm definitely starting to see 'My' house coming through. One of the biggest differences will be when we finally get rid of the teal window blinds - I keep them open as much as possible so I don't have to see all that blue/green.

BEFORE:

AFTER:

"You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however." - Richard Bach