Long story short(ish.)

So, long story short- I didn't end up moving in with my sister into the awesome house. I moved in with mom and dad to save some moo-lah and pay down my student loans a bit. So, since I haven't been paying rent, I've had a little extra cash flow and have taken to baking up a storm. Seriously. We're all getting fat over here. Let me just say that the foodgawker app is bad news. I'm seriously addicted. I mean, look at this.

Pumpkin Spice Cupcakes.

How am I supposed to pay attention in Lit. Heritage with these babies staring me in the face? No, I'm calculating how far the nearest grocery store is so I can recreate these asap. 

So basically, this is my thing for the moment. I have adhd when it comes to my interests. I bounce around all over the place- all the time. So for now, I'll be posting recipes and pics of yummy stuff I'm making. Next week, who knows.

♥ lucy

Blue: walls and bruises

So, It's been a while but a lot has been going on. Over the weekend we ditched the house and went to a couple of Redbirds games to rest and relax. On Friday Gant and I went with some friends from YoLo and on Sunday we went with family.

Seestor is in the process of finding another roommate. A girl is coming to look at the room on Friday. So, we had to take on the hideous downstairs bath. It looked like this-

Yeah.

Monday and Tuesday we stripped paper. Stripping wallpaper SERIOUSLY sucks. Seriously. I fell off a step ladder and I have bruises all up the right side of my body. I'll recover. It was just a bit of a setback. The swelling has gone down anyway. Tonight we plugged holes with spackling compound and put on the first layer of paint. We picked Olympic C55-2 Adrift.

Tomorrow night, we're putting on a second coat and putting up some new light fixtures and then VOILA! We're finally done with this room and hopefully one step closer to fining a roomie. I'll post pics when we're done!

Until next time, Lucy

August 08, 2011

So It has been a CRAZY week. It was Gant's 21st birthday on Wednesday (Yay!) and I got switched over to a whole new terribly stressful schedule at work. But anyway! Since I've been busy I hadn't made it over to the house in over a week until today. I have however made it around the blogosphere and I have seen some CUTE stuff I'd like to do in my room.

#1. DIY Pallet Furniture-

  

I LOVE the idea of making a piece of furniture out of something unexpected and for cheap! I've seen desks, beds, light fixtures, bike racks, nearly anything made of pallets. I didn't really plan on making anything in particular but I was on my way to my parents house and found a nice clean pallet laying on the curb that was the perfect size for a coffee table. I bought an old window at a yard sale, a couple of table legs and VOILA! It's going to be beautiful! (I'll post pictures after I stain and finish it.)

2. Combo Rooms-

 

I think this one is GORGEOUS. Maybe it's the crisp white with the lime green or maybe it really is just a beautiful layout but I think it's so so pretty. I know our living room in the new crib is humongous, but I really want to include a little seating area and multi-function desk so I can keep to myself if I want to. I haven't quite worked it out but it's going to happen.


 Olympic C11-3 Weeping Willow
Gant and I painted the walls of my room today to a nice warm green called weeping willow. I love it. SO much better than that nasty nasty pink.

I also bought some Tri Sodium Phosphate today so I can finish getting the wallpaper in the bathroom off so a color selection for in there will be made soon as well.

Next post coming soon!
-Lucy

Our New (to us) Money Pit House

Here's the skinny-
My little sister and I moved out of our parents house into a 2 bedroom apartment almost exactly 1 year ago. Our lease is up in a little over a month and we are ready to move on and out of this place!

So since little seestor is completely AWESOME and works SO hard at her job, her boss has given us the opportunity to rent her SWEET 5 bedroom, 3 1/2 bathroom house in Germantown (with an in-ground POOL) and at a better than just affordable price. However, this place has been empty for over a year and needs a little (and by a little, I mean quite a bit of) work. I'm talking a rotting incomplete deck, unfinished bathroom, oddly covered pool, and nasty floral wallpaper people. gross. At that point let me just say that this place is gaudy... HELLA GAUDY. Check out Leopold and Lloyd, our oh so lovely white marble lion guards of our front porch... OH! and that fountain which is oh so lovely and perfectly framed by the front door!

Ok, sarcasm aside, the place is really nice and a really sweet deal so we'll work with a few eccentricities. haha

Do you see that yard? So beautifully manicured and mowed with great precision... That was me and two hours in the blazing sun. So since I mowed the lawn little sister and our other roommate bought some flowers and planted them around the huge tree stump in the yard.

Meanwhile, I attempted to take on THIS-

This wallpaper was in my bathroom. Note the gold foil which actually made it appear that the flowers were moving around my bathroom. Not ideal to wake up to. And it conveniently matches the very pink paint on the walls of the bedroom...

which will also be gone before long.

That's all for now!

-L