While I haven’t named them that here, I like to call around the house updates our “Keeping up Appearances” section. If you have not seen the britcom by this same name, you don’t have to, but we kind of got into it some in preparing for our trip to England last year. For my sake and yours, we can be thankful that I am nothing like Hyacinth Bucket (that’s “bouquet” to you!). But anyway, here goes a household update…
We got close to completing our master bath just before my folks came at Christmas. Scott has done a great job with it. We just have some finishing to do – caulk, make sure the sink and shower are sealed, and finish putting up towel racks, the light fixture, etc. I think it looks awesome, and with all of our work, has become a much larger, usable bathroom than what it started out as. I can’t wait to fully use it! Here are some photos!
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| Bathroom Remodel 12/2008 |
I also got to working on a project that was supposed to be an anniversary project for us/Scott, but….that was May and this is December, but it’s done! Finally a piece of graphic art up in the house done by me!! I am really happy with it. The project uses lettering from a company called Uppercase Living. I prepped the canvas (textured with stucco paint) and did the stenciling and layout. Scott hung it for me!
yey!
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| Uppercase Living project 2 |
At some point we’ll get to decorating and preparing the baby room. We’re running out of time, I know, but I also know that he won’t notice any of it until he’s much older!
So we’re just taking things one step at a time. We do have some of the pieces to put into place…but it required completing the bathroom and getting the toilet out of our second bedroom before we could really make any progress! Ah, home ownership…

