Gallery Wall Pt: 2

I had a day off today. So naturally we went to Ikea. It was amazing! Gah, I love that place. I would live there. I see all the little houses they have made in the showroom and I get totally jealous. They make 350 feet look incredible. We have around 800 feet of crap! :) Not really (yes) So much inspiration!

Anyway...

I got dressed up to go. Of course I did. I spend 99% of my time in either work clothes or PJ-ish items. I hardly EVER get to put on something cute. So when I get the chance, I take it!

JP thinks I'm nuts. He had to talk me out of wearing high heeled boots. They would have looked great, but I would have been in tears by the time we made it back to the car. By the way, it was 88 here. I sweat the entire time. Totally worth it though.

Story wanted to get dressed up too. But she gets to wear cute stuff all the time. And will change her clothes 5 times a day.

This is what she came up with, finally. :)

It's a Moroccan dress that is too short. So she picked out black skinny jean tights. You can't tell in the picture but she has on black striped socks and pink Twinkle Toes shoes. Oh, and the Dora shades.

Diva for sure

We had a relatively nice trip. A few close call melt-downs. But fun times too.

It's just Iron Man Girl Story. No big :) :)

But........ The whole point of the trip was to get a few more frames for the gallery wall. Which we got, and some other neat stuff. 

It's a decent start. Majority of the frames are filled with stuff. 

This is how it will look on the wall.

Said wall

Like I said, majority are filled. I have ideas for the others. And plan on getting more frames. The wall will only be about 50% filled with these. The blue frames are going into Story's room and will be replaced with black frames. I just couldn't resist. 

I know a lot of the gallery walls out there are being done in white. But when I started buying frames for our wedding pictures I got black ones. I had already purchased 6 frames and didn't want to have to start from scratch. So our gallery wall will be in black. 

I can't wait to start hanging! But I will wait until I have all of the necessary supplies. (Like nails)

Until then I will hang up our curtain rods, along with the new panels we picked up today. I also hope to FINALLY hang the shelves up in the kitchen. (still waiting on the right screws)

It's progress! Very satisfied with how it's all coming together. Even if we don't live in a Ikea home :)

Glorious Washer

You might have noticed in the last post that we got a new washer in our kitchen.

Well, we did!!!!!!!! :) :) :) :)

It was an anniversary present from my In-Laws and JP's Grandmas.

We went to Sears to pick one out on the actual anniversary. We drive all the way there (which is actually far. We've been spoiled. Here is Matthews everything is right down the road.) and picked one out. But they were out of stock..... Of course..... So, we went home and was able to order the exact one online. And they delivered it 2 days later!

Here is the moving truck they brought it in. I was jumping up and down with excitement at this point.

Here it is! Newly installed!

It's the greatest thing ever. It even plays a little tune when the cycle is over.

This is some leftover fabric I had from the bathroom shelf redo. I just wanted to see what it would look like with all the yucky stuff covered up. And I think I like it better. But that's stuff to worry about another day. :) For now I just want to stare at it.

Whoa.... Look at those curves... What a beaut :) :) :)


* Special thanks again to:
BP, NCP, and the Grandmas 2 (as Story calls them) :) :)

Living Room Pt: 1

Not a whole lot has been happening over here. We just re-arranged the living room. No big... :) :) !!!!!!!!!!

Super excited to show all the progress we have made. Bear in mind, the room is NO WHERE near done. But I feel okay about showing it to you now :)

Without further ado, here is our living room.

We had thought about this floor plan for a long while. It worked out in our favor this time. Normally we'll just move things around until I'm either depressed or too tired to deal with it that night. Then JP will finish it up and it will stay like that for a few more months. But like I said, this time was different.

I really like how it turned out. We have the 2 areas instead of 3 like we were going for. We decided not to put up the curtain dividers for now. I really like how light and open the space feels.

There is one area that is still a bit weird.

I still plan on doing the gallery wall, but I think I'm going to have it continue past the TV, all the way to the bookcase that is in the corner. But I'm not sure what to do with the open space in the middle of the floor. Maybe a new chair?

This is a close up of the seating area. We are going to turn behind the couch into a storage area. I also plan on getting a few different pillows and more paneling for the curtains. We also have a different end table that we will use in the left hand corner.

Opposite the sitting area is the entertainment center. It's new :) I had planned on painting it gray, but now I'm not so sure. It's not quite big enough to hold all of our stuff. So I might just hold off on painting and start looking for something bigger. But it doesn't take up as much bulky room as our old one.

I really like how everything has turned out so far. I can't wait to get started on the gallery wall. I will keep you posted :) :)