The Baby Has Arrived!

Well...Brendt's baby at least. Here are some of the latest pics of progress in the basement, aka Brendt's nursery. One of the last projects we finished was the "cradle" for his "baby."

This was an old piece of furniture that Brendt's mom gave to us. I believe they had it in storage for quite awhile and had come thiiiiiiis close to throwing it out a few times. We immediately saw stellar potential as a tv stand. Unfortunately, we didn't get a shot of it before we started working on it, but we had to kick off a back piece that was tacked on and scrape wads of I-don't-even-want-to-knows off the top of this stand before we could even start sanding and peeling the paint off.

A close-up to see some of what we had to deal with, but like I mentioned we had already scraped the unidentifiable globs off of it.

The finished product!

Even nice enough to hold Brendt's new bundle of joy!

This is pretty much the state of our walls right now. You can see that we have taped, sanded, primed and painted. We have the baseboards up but are still working on getting the border on top.

This was my latest sewing project. Ryn helped me make a cute little spring timey purse. I wish I had more pictures of it since I look so anti-glamorous here, but I'm too lazy to go take another picture. =)

I promise to have more pictures of the basement soon. We are working on moving the office into the basement right now and we are both pretty excited about how the new space is turning out. Hoping to have it finished by this coming weekend!!

Done with Drywall

Just a quick post to commemorate the hanging of the last piece of drywall in the basement. Yay! We've been living and breathing drywall for so long that we are actually excited to finish mudding and start sanding. I'm sure that won't last long. And that isn't all we've been up to lately--we've also completed a couple of little sewing projects and revamped our upstairs hallway with paint and our wedding photos (just in time for our first anniversary....)

I know this photo makes it look like Brendt is napping on the job, but trust me, he is actually hard at work hanging that last piece of drywall.

And here he steps into the fray...and polishes off last of the drywall!


These next two photos are a couple of pillows I sewed for the living room. For those of you who read our blog about the dining room chair reupholstery, you may recognize the fabric.

For this pillow, I tried to make rounded corners and the entire pillow just turned out looking lumpy. :( I have plenty of fabric left so maybe I'll try again later.

Ok, we feel like we need to preface the hallway with our rationale behind the paint color. We wanted a nice, neutral color that would looke good transitioning from a light green living room to a blue bedroom and an orange and grey office. Also, it had to be a lighter color since our hall is so dark so it would give the illusion that our hall was brighter. That being said, we went with a nice light yellow color called 'Soft Duckling' or some cheesy variation of that name that almost makes you want to cuddle with your paint can.
So it turns out that 'Soft Duckling' should have been named 'Rubber Ducky' but it doesn't looks so bad with this picture that we already had.

And finally, it's our wedding collage! We had a lot of fun picking out frames and pictures and figuring out which picture should go in which frames and etc. etc. Brendt mostly put together this final layout. He did a pretty good job, I think.

So that's what we've been up to. Hopefully by the next time we write, the basement will be painted!

Even More Basement....

To be honest, we haven't been up to a whole lot besides working on the basement. We are so eager to get it finished that we are trying to take advantage of our excitement before it wears off. So far, so good. The one project I have completed recently that didn't involve drywall or clearing nails out of two-by-fours was sewing a curtain for our bedroom closet with Ryn's help. The door on our closet had a nasty habit of nicking my dresser and my dresser had a nasty habit of slowly boring a hole thru the closet door. We put an end to that.

I'm so proud of this curtain. It looks store bought to me. Thanks, Ryn, for all the help!
If you look closely at the dresser, to the right of the knob, you can see where the door was slowly chipping away at it.

Just look at all the progress we have made! This is Brendt taking a break from cutting drywall to get a little mudding done.

I had to include a shot of the only drywall I cut and put up myself--the small pieces that went above the door frames. Three down and two to go!