projects

Ok...bare with me there are a few more "mom trip" posts I am doing. Since this blog also serves as scrapin these days (and yes I WILL get around to printing it one of these days) I must finish writing about her trip.

OK - projects! Like I said before, I contemplated on not doing any so we could have more talking and hanging out time but it just wasn't in the books. Mom is so helpful to me I just had to have her input on lots of things.

Before.

The thing you don't get to see is the ugly shelf I used to have next to the dryer and the broken door kinda hanging from the hinges or the rotting hole in the outside door...

Our main two projects for the trip were to update and freshen up the "sun room" which is in reality a little bit of storage space, the dryer, and a dog room for when Mark's dogs are around. And the second project was to help me redo the living room. Now I don't have any pictures of the living room yet because I still need to paint it and finish some pictures (I had to fight my mom to keep her away from the paint cans). Now if we had decided to paint while she was here yes, it would be finished but we would have been busy up to the last minute she was here. I didn't want that. Instead we had a great little birthday party for ME.

After. There is a special place for all the shoes and even the wellies! Isn't it just beautiful? I love walking out there everyday and before this I hated it!

Now I can't go without mentioning some of the other things mom helped me do:

build a shelf for under my desk

re stain my front door

weed and mulch the front

fix the rotten edging by the front bushes

de-algae the sidewalk

the sun room - build shelves and update everywhere

fix the back door and re glaze around the windows

caulk my windows

decorate the living room

shop, shop, shop... i am sure i missed a few things

Isn't she amazing!

THANKS MOM