Diversifying my Handiness Portfolio.

I really think that my husband needs to make more money so I can stay at home and diversify my handiness portfolio.  Your thinking what the heck? Right?  Well after looking at the million bazillion trillion websites that are about DIY-ifiying your home.  I am totally obsessed, and not only that I am seeing AMAZING projects that I know I could do.  Well ok, may be not do well but defiantly do. 

But if I could become a stay at home mommy and wifey then I could get some practice with baking super cute desserts, doing crafty decorations, up-cycling old crappy furniture, and the whole slew of other things that I would like to do that keep me up at night. 

Well actually I have a few projects up my little slevies, muhahaha (evil laugh).  We actually the way these projects excite me it should really sound like EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! (Better? No?)

I need to get some pictures up...well I should say I need to charge my camera(s) so that I can take some pictures of my projects before I start them.  You can see some of them in the previous post.  But I have a bit of a surprise, I conned/quilted the hubby into getting me the coolest buffet ever!  Accept the truth of the matter is I am a little intimidated to get into the whole redoing/up-cycling thing.

I know this piece has great potential but I have never done a project like this and I don't really want to mess it up.  I should just go for it right?  The perfectionist in me says that I will never get it to look like this from Better After. 

I mean look at that!  Isn't that awesome! OMG! Can I fake an illness so I can skip work to begin the beautiful transformation that I have in mind?

Ok, I'll stop obsessing over what I don't have time to do right now.  But I will get pictures posted sometime soon! 

I think these projects really need to be started soon, if not I do not see much sleep in my future.

Weekend Warriors

After cleaning the bathroom last week I noticed that the linoleum was discolored and there is always a new ring of nasty grime (unusually nasty) around the bottom of the potty on the floor. Well this lead to a weekend bathroom renovation, and good thing too. We found out that the toilet was leaking.

So we got a new toilet, a white one to replace the 'bisque' toilet. New flooring, epoxied the tub and surround white (which was 'bisque' also), and I ended up painting too, for good measure.

This is the before...

During.....

Notice the lovely water stain on the floor

After....

For about $300 we have a brand new bathroom.

Eli was pretty eager to help mommy paint,

Wearing my safety glasses.

All in all it was a pretty productive weekend. I still need to do some decorating but it's really nice to get rid of that nasty toilet and have a 'new' bathtub. There are a few cute antique stores in Covington that I'm going to check out for a shelf/medicine cabinet. And I am planning on framing the mirror to give it a more finished look. Lights might be next...there are a million things that I want to change about this house, Christopher has a pretty long 'honey-do' list.