Garage Shelving

Look what we got put in our garage a couple of weeks ago. I love them!! I love how much storage space they provide. Today I am going to be loading them up. I still have a bunch of stuff blocking one of the parking spots in the other section of our garage. I am trying to motivate myself to clear that out. It is getting hot outside and our car needs a space away from the heat.

My Yard

I am finally getting around to posting about the work we had done in our yard. We plan on doing a lot more work, but we need to save up some more money to do so. We don't want to have to take out any loans to have to do it. Here is the front of the house. We took out the cement walkway and replaced it with pavers. We also extended the walkway to add another entrance that meets up with the front sidewalk. Now people don't have to either walk around to the the driveway entrance or walk through rocks to get to our front door.

Here is a closer look

This is looking out my front door into my courtyard

Here is another view of my courtyard. We plan on adding a lot of color with plants. We also want to replace the front door (or at least I do) and put urns on either side.

Here is our Backyard . We are going to put our outdoor kitchen on top of the pavers on the far right. We are going to add some more plants and a pool on the left hand side of our yard.

This is our landscapers working on the back yard

We are so excited about the improvements. It is nice to have grass for the kids to play on in the backyard. We will keep you posted on any new improvements. I figure it might take a little while till we get to the next round.

Getting Pavers

We are getting pavers put in the front of our house and in our back yard. We had somebody come out today to take our concrete out of our front walkway and courtyard. They will start putting the pavers in on Wed. I am so excited. I think it is going to look really nice. I will post an after picture when it is done.

This is our courtyard, with the cement all broken apart.Here is our front walkway.

Green Bookshelves

Here are the before and after photos of my old bookshelves I redid. I really like how they turned out.

I am just starting to get this room together, but you get the idea of how its going to look.

Lots of projects!

I have been busy painting my house. Right now I am working on the 22 foot walls in my living and dining room. It has been interesting trying to get up that high. I used a long pole to get all the way up the walls, but I had to get a long latter to get around our upper windows. It was pretty scary up there. I am happy to have it finished.

Look at the cool dresser I got at a yard sale last weekend for $40. I am going to refinish it and put it in my craft room. I am planning on putting my wrapping paper in the long drawers, and also adding wooden dowels across the mirror to hold ribbon. I will post when I am finished with it.I got busy stripping it today. It is going to be a lot of work.

I am also working on a set of bookshelves for my living room right now. I am painting them green. I will post them when I am finished.