SUMMER!

You know how you can tell it's summer............

It's finally warm enough that you can let your kids jump on the tramp with the freezing sprinklers spraying them.

{well you could let them do that when it's cold too- but I try not to be that mean.. most the time :)}

The House Exterior

I don't know why I've struggled with consistently posting on my blog lately--- I've been keeping myself busy -many much Projects I've been doing- why you ask--well -

 because building a House is a bit stressful especially when your just waiting on the bank to do their crap and they say 2-3 weeks but really they man 4-5 weeks. {insert me hyperventilating from the stress that the summer is halfway over and we still don't have even a hole}  BREATH :)

It's all good-- 

but since I've yet to take pictures of all the projects that I've been doing- I even on accident took some and put them in storage cuz they were driving me nuts here-- we don't have to much extra space. I'm gonna share with you the Exterior of our house.

The exterior I really wanted to have a craftsman/bungalow type of feel- but with a garage - cuz we NEED a garage- Need one. I also knew that I adamantly wanted a dormer/attic room-It was one place where I knew I wanted to splurge on the house- I love love love attic rooms and have ever since I played in my great grandma's attic room as a child.  As for the details- Dave won the argument of having a metal roof-- I'm not the fondest of the way they look but where our roof is going to be a pretty steep pitch it'll be nice not to have to worry too much about maintenance on it. I agreed to it as long as it didn't have to be Red, Blue or Green -I'm okay with the Dark Brown though. 

The rest were doing vinyl siding with some vinyl shakes and white craftsman trim :)

 I'm painting my front door red {partly cuz I know there's no way Dave will let me go with a bright yellow :)} and our side door on our house is going to be a pale blue-- all because of that picture-- I saw it, fell in love with it and have never forgotten it.

So it seems things are finally moving along---Yay! Were signing the bank papers tomorrow and I can pretty much kiss my time and life goodbye after that-- I'm excited though-- it's gotta be better than the stress of not doing anything :)

What to do with an old window

What to do with an old window--

 Make a Command Center/ Organizational board

Here she was before-- Just a window I fell in love with while thrift shopping-- I even liked her just plain and missing her glass pane

 but she works good as an organization board too-- and I love cork boards-- probably a little to much.

The Low down of how I did it:

Measured openings

Designed a calendar and a to do picture

Printed at Sams Club t he2 prints and cut them to size

Put them behind the glass pane so I could us a dry erase pen on them

Found an old bulletin board and cut it to size- inserted and glued it in

 I'm pretty fond of it-- what do you think?

Gus- Vol 2

 Remember Gus-- ya we've been working on him--

 Since Dave informed me that I probably shouldn't unscrew the handles cuz the wood is so old and crappy that they'd strip out I painted them right where they were :)

{although I did actually end up taking off most of them I hate hate hate taping things off and those handles and hinges were a pain.}

 I used automotive primer first and than shiny chrome paint

 I than painted the ceiling a high gloss white cuz well it sounded like fun

 and than started on the cabinets

And than primed the table for some Chalkboard paint-- I think that will be a lifesaver for those sometimes boring times when your stuck in the camper-- I mean what kid doesn't like to be able to color on the table :)

I don't know bout you- but it is guaranteed that I when get halfway through a project I panic and start losing all confidence in my plans and ideas :) 

Usually I love em when I'm done but that halfway point for me is a killer-- anyone else struggle with this?

Gus will eventually be all Gussied up though :) 

hopefully soon  too- since were going camping this weekend-- gotta get a move on.

Hope you guys are having a happy busy Monday.

{missed the Vol. 1 click here}

Meet Gus-- Our new 1968 Camper Trailer

We've been doing  a lot of fishing-exploring this summer--- I mean a lot--- practically every few days we're heading to the mountains.

So one morning I said it'd be nice to have a camper-- Next thing I knew Dave had found one in IF on KSL for cheap cheap and we were heading to go get it.

Introducing GUS-

Ain't it a Beauty :) yeah-- he might need a bit of work & cleaning & work & repair & did I mention work

We're working on fixing him up, cuz we stayed one night in it and that was about all I could take in his current condition.

 I won't lie though- the kids loved it! and are so so excited to have a camper-- no more tentin for us-{yay}

So stayed tuned for some Gus Gus transformation.