I love reading blog round-ups each January, so here's mine for 2012!
Probably the coolest thing that happened in 2012 is that I got a little bit Internet famous. Mr. Great Indoors and I whipped up a redneck chandelier for the winter Pinterest challenge, and you guys submitted some awesome projects! I wrote a little update on our chandelier to let you know how it was treating us.
Saturday, January 5, 2013
Wednesday, January 2, 2013
Master Bathroom: Complete!
Six months after we started it (well, really nine) and two months after we finished it, I'm happy to reveal our master bathroom!
Friday, December 28, 2012
Merry and Bright {Christmas 2012}
I hope you all had a very merry Christmas this week! Christmas is my favorite time of year, so even though it's technically over, I'm posting pictures of our holiday decorating to hold on just a liiiiitle bit longer. :-)
I waited until the last minute (i.e., right before we left for the holidays) to take these pictures-- we had days of clouds and/or rain, so I was waiting on the sun to finally come out. But by the time it did, I didn't have time to take a picture of our tree at night. It's painfully obvious in the daylight that we need a new Christmas tree. The tree has been around as long as Mr. GI has; we inherited it from his mom during our first Christmas together. It's a fake tree, but it has real bark on the trunk which makes it difficult to tell that it's fake. But it's been losing more of its needles than a real tree, so it's gotten pretty bare.
I waited until the last minute (i.e., right before we left for the holidays) to take these pictures-- we had days of clouds and/or rain, so I was waiting on the sun to finally come out. But by the time it did, I didn't have time to take a picture of our tree at night. It's painfully obvious in the daylight that we need a new Christmas tree. The tree has been around as long as Mr. GI has; we inherited it from his mom during our first Christmas together. It's a fake tree, but it has real bark on the trunk which makes it difficult to tell that it's fake. But it's been losing more of its needles than a real tree, so it's gotten pretty bare.
Tuesday, December 25, 2012
Christmas Crafts
Merry Christmas! It's tough blogging about Christmas gifts because I don't want to give anything away to my family... so instead, here are the gifts I made last year!
Felt snowflake ornaments
I pinned a tutorial for felt ornaments courtesy of Purl Bee and thought I'd try it for my family gifts. Besides a few mechanical problems (don't we all have love-hate relationships with our sewing machine?) it all turned out well. The instructions were easy to follow and I got the fabric on a super sale on Black Friday from JoAnn's Fabrics. Win!
Felt snowflake ornaments
I pinned a tutorial for felt ornaments courtesy of Purl Bee and thought I'd try it for my family gifts. Besides a few mechanical problems (don't we all have love-hate relationships with our sewing machine?) it all turned out well. The instructions were easy to follow and I got the fabric on a super sale on Black Friday from JoAnn's Fabrics. Win!
Sunday, December 23, 2012
Why, Hello There!
It's been a while, eh? A break between semesters gives me a little time to blog again, and thank goodness. We've been busy studying, but we've had some fun in there, too. Like enjoying the fall...
Friday, October 19, 2012
Juggling
Blog and bloggy friends, how I've missed you! We all juggle in life at one point or another, and recently my juggling has included a promotion, training my replacement, and graduate school, which I started over the summer. On top of that, Mr. Great Indoors has been in school, too.
Needless to say, our little family has been a tad busy recently. Our house is a a wreck most of the time, or at least approaching a wreck. It's not blogworthy in the least, which is, of course, how we in the blogging community compare ourselves, isn't it? There are half-finished projects throughout the house, including (if you've been paying attention) the master bathroom. We're enjoying the finished guest bathroom, at least.
But we're surviving our classes, learning a lot, and somehow managing to sneak in some couple time, too. This newest adventure is forcing us to challenge ourselves on a daily basis, which leaves us happily exhausted. It's all leading us to a better life together, and I'd say that's the point.
One of these days it will all calm down, but until then, I'm trying not to be too critical of myself. In the last year, I've gained perspective and patience, which I know is more important than blogging crafty projects on the interwebs. That said, I am missing doing something fun that is completely for myself, and someday I'll get back to it. Until then, keep up the good work. And keep an eye out for our half-finished projects to be fully-finished one of these days.
Saturday, September 1, 2012
Another Guest Bathroom: Guest Amenities
I hope you all enjoyed the reveal of E's guest bathroom earlier in the week! It's just in the nick of time, too, because UGA football season (starting today!!) brings all sorts of guests to E's house. She pretty much has a revolving door every fall (we also run our own bed and breakfast during football season). :-) With that in mind, we worked some guest amenities into E's guest bathroom.
Psst... in case you're curious, the font I used is "Channel" on PicMonkey.
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