Thursday, August 1, 2013

So I Bought A New House!

I've been consumed with being a first time homeowner.  I have four colors of paint in various places on my body and my fingers are still sticky from epoxy from my nightly task - one hour gluing pennies to the floor in our Jack and Jill bathroom.  I'm maybe 1/20th of the way there and it's been well over a week.
Here are the few cakes I've done since we last met:
Karate cake for 8th birthday!
Toy Story cake, fondant with plastic figures on top.



Ombre petals cake with gumpaste medallion.  I really need to use a better camera than the one on my iPod, which used to seem so awesome but now it just seems to be lacking in the resolution department.
I feel like I should be posting pictures of my amazing home makeover, but perhaps waiting for more to be accomplished first is better.  Brief summary for those who care:
New pot rack is up on the vaulted ceiling!
Dearest hubby installed the best ceiling fan evar in the kitchen!
The bearded dragon has a new 75 gallon terrarium!
The walls in the den are Intense Teal, the kitchen is called Tango, but it's really a bright warm orange, the living room is a light sage green, and our bedroom is on its way to having dark gray walls!
I decided on a steampunk bathroom, hence the penny floor you've probably seen on Pinterest.  I still need ideas on this!
Front porch got stained to match the shutters before it started raining again!
There's a hammock in the back!
I bought a new throw pillow.  It really ties the room together, as the den has a few Moroccan accents.
Stinkie's little room off the den (little means LITTLE, it was a storage space) is becoming more of a fort with a few installations.
Hubby mounted the flat screen to the wall with a full motion mount and ran the wires through the wall so there's no unsightly mess!

We have plans on so much more as time and finances allow.  This is really the coolest thing I've ever done.
Stinkie is going to be starting school this September.  I'm excited and scared and nervous and proud all at once.  We did school shopping at Target and it was the most interesting experience, participating in the rush instead of just grinning at it.  I ordered a (hopefully) really cool backpack off Amazon for him with spikes all over it.  Oh and I made his little clipboard awesome with some scrapbook paper and DIY modpodge-ing Calvin and Hobbes.
I suppose that's it for now!  Till next time!

1 comment:

  1. I'd look into school rules and see if they allow spikes, some won't now a days! Lady Bug once wore my dog collar to school with spikes and the bracelet that matched and that school made her remove it and put it into her backpack. She is however allowed to wear the ones with studs round or pyramid.

    I want to see your place, if nothing else facebook some pictures! If you want a cheap camera with decent quality look into Canon Elph cameras, my families (parents included) owned a bunch over the years and they are awesome! We've bought new ones not because they stopped working, but because we've broken or lost them...yeah. Klutz! ;0p

    Cute cakes I love the ombre one! I wish you were closer to order cakes from! You rock chicka! Sarah Lee

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