I painted the kitchen, the kitchen, the kitchen!!!!!

i know, i know. this is not the season, nor do i have the time right now for house projects. but when i start i just dont know when to stop. i am very good at biting off more than i can chew (which is the grossest analogy ever). this results in things done halfway. well not anymore!!!! it is my new resolution to be more detail oriented.
one of my best friends, and business partner, Danae, is so good at this. I have decided to take a few lessons from her and give details a little more attention. i am queen of starting something and only half finishing it. for example: the trim in my living room right now is only half painted gray and has been for probably 6 months or more. the husby, is good at balancing me out in this aspect.... and what i mean by balancing me out is that he usually finishes what i start. anyway, i have learned from my mistakes and now have decided to do things right from the beginning.
this however turned my small painting project into a huge painting project. i got out the white paint so i wanted to repaint everything in my house that needed white paint. so my kitchen repaint turned into a bathroom repaint and some doors in zula's room, and the trim in the dining room. but i stuck with my new resolution and did everything well. really, i did. you can come over and look for yourself!

anyway. i decided to do ALL of this (well thats not quite all. we also stripped and sanded the dining room floor, rearranged/made room for two new lockers, made gluten free bread and cleaned up outside for the winter). a week before the husby's birthday party, two weeks before thanksgiving. oh and did i mention i am planning a craft show also? needless to say i was feeling a little overwhelmed. in the middle of all those projects i realized "i have to get these finished cuz we're going to be having people over soon." and "oh yeah i should probably plan a birthday party for the man i married."
i keep telling the husby that these are the last few projects until winter. and i really do mean this.

well i am truly truly happy with our kitchen result. and wish i had painted this room years ago!!! like before we moved in, it looks so nice and fresh.

p.s. you do not get to see the sanded dining room until we paint.... in the spring (i dont know if i can wait that long!!!)

zula belle joyful lee's place to sleep

finally. i know you  have all been dying to see it. zula's room!
the color was left over from when alicia lived here. she always picks great colors for rooms, so i left it.
then i found this awesome map at a church rummage sale. it was 2 dollars!!!
ah.... living in yakima. where cool things are considered worthless. oh how i love you!

yeah for bathroom floors

i don't know if you've noticed..... i'm trying something new. its called writing. who woulda thought you would write in a blog??  well when i began this blog writing scared me and blogs scared me. but i do so much to my house i wanted to share it. so.....what do you think? do you like just pictures? or do u prefer a little silliness?

anyway, bathroom floors: they were awful and stained and old. too bad for me there was also a leak... oh now..... this led to fixing, as most broken things do, tearing up flooring, replacing floor joists, and the best part: new flooring!
yeah! this is not a project we did, our friend/landlord did. and he did awesome!

before:

 after:

 i know right? like my new shelf too?

Floors??? Say what??

here it is! our floors have been refinished. by refinished i mean sanded. and by sanded i mean, beautiful. we did it ourselves. blood, sweat and tears. oh yes, many tears. and i love them!!! they are beautiful and quirky (just like our house and just like us). this has only been a project waiting and needing to be done since we moved in.
and yes.... i will even show you my horrid embarrassing before pictures. there was still carpet glue on the floor when then they got painted (please dont do this it doesn't work out). so as you will see, they looked forever dirty. well they were forever dirty. i would mop and mop and scrub and scrub and that dirt just hung on for dear life to that glue. as i scrubbed it would move back and forth as if saying "haha, you can't get me." every time i'd mop i'd get so upset i would demand we move. we didn't move, yeah, and here are our new floors!
sad news: i was going to show you my before pictures, really i was. but unfortunately they were accidentally, i'm sure, deleted from my card. ahhhh. you'll just have to piece together what you can from my previous pictures, even though i did my best NOT to show the floors.

these also double as my halloween/thanksgiving decorations, thats triple, i guess.
my husby came home with 2, count 'em, 2 white pumpkins for me!!! i was so excited. i wish all my pumpkins were white because usually i hate orange. but lately i've been feeling rather affectionate towards it.
we will begin with the before-ish:

 see they are green and dirty, trust me.

 yes, my nook with crafting supplies, i use it all the time

 now for the fun part:

My new little nook

New Hallway Before and After

BEFORE

AFTER

Bedroom