Imperfect Perfection

It's Been a Long While :)

I need to take some time to update this blog!!! I want to use this as a memory book in a way so here are a few things that have happened to us over the past year.

We painted the living area in our home...against so many people's opinion to leave it as it was. I just thought the room was too dark with the paint and wanted something that brought in more light. We used Olympic One in Crisp Apple.

Here are some before pictures

And the After.....I just love the way the light hits it and creates several different shades throughout the living area:)

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Outdoor Updates

AJ has worked really hard on cleaning up the front porch area (I help as long as I can take this heat:). I don't have the best before picture but here it is before we bought our home. You can't see from the before pic, but there was a stone walkway from the front stairs that lead to the garage. Well, it was very uneven and hard to walk on, so we re-did it. There was a ton of left-over over bricks from the previous owner's renovation. AJ pulled up the natural stones, leveled the area and layer put a new design...voila!!!!!

We still need to decide on the plant to put in the planter next to the garage and possibly get a different color planter?

Still more to come but so fresh and new right now...love it!!!

Oh...and here is something else we got. The table we got $100 off, yes, only $50 from Beds Bath & Beyond. The chairs were harder to come by, but ended up finding them for $10 each at Lowe's!!!! After storing the new table for several months in the garage, I was stoked to set it all up:)

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AJ's 30th Surprise Party 6.10.12

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We had a wonderful time celebrating AJ's 30th Birthday at Hurricanes Grill & Wings on June 10th, 2012. He was actually surprised...I was so proud we all hid this from him for so long. The theme of the party was "AJ's Dirty 30 & a Little Bit Nerdy". I tried to make everything technology themed, we had: Binary Code Cupcakes, XBox/Droid Centerpieces to hold the balloons, an upgraded to version 30.0 banner and I wore a "I <3 My Nerd shirt! The food and the company was awesome. My first successful surprise party!

I made the centerpieces out of large coffee canisters that my co-worker gave to me. I used the same technology themed pattern I used for the invites, printed out on long paper and cut to size then I added the droid and Xbox logo.

I got this idea from Pinterest http://elizabethkartchner.com/, this is the Dear Lizzy blog and she is amazing! The banner cost me $6.00 to make and only took about and hour :)

I have been wanting to make this shirt for a long time and this was the perfect opportunity! It cost me about $5. I used and old tank and bought a bleach pen and contact paper. I made my own stencil by printing out a reversed image and tracing on the contact paper. Here is the tutorial http://www.plumadorable.com/bleach-pen-love-t-shirts-free-svg/. It was super easy.

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Merry Christmas All!

This was the first year we wanted to really go all out with Christmas lights. AJ and I got up on the roof and hung all the lights ourselves...that is hard work!

I made this wreath myself as well, I think it cost me about $20, still much cheaper than bying it off the shelf.

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Halloween at 1101

I love Halloween! Here are a few shots of our household getting festive. I made the wreath myself. It cost me a whopping $11:)

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Closet can hold clothes :)

We were lucky the master bedroom came with a good sized closet. Only problem was it was not finished, it had only one bar to hang all of mine and AJ's clothes.

AJ did so good creating a closet for us. He designed it and did all the manual labor putting it together.

We used Lowes.com -Rubbermaid closet and it was pretty simple and affordable.

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Mail Call!!!

One of the first things AJ and I wanted to change about the house was the "unique" mail box.

We found the original front porch supports out in the back yard. I knew this would be the perfect mail box post, and I was happy we could keep pieces of the original home on the property. So, hours of sanding and grinding off rust and then applying several coats of spray paint, we had our final product:)