going a little black

you know, i love my white. i love white trim in a house. white baseboards, crown moldings, door frames, cabinets, bead board... i love it all white. bright white. ultra high-gloss white. i think it makes everything look clean. so i was a little nervous when i asked husband if he thought i should paint the bathroom vanity white or black and he told me black. black? its just so... dark... but i usually paint things whatever color i want, despite what he says so this time i decided to go with it.

this morning, after baby fell asleep in the high chair and was taking a very early nap (we're talking nap started at 9:30 people...) i started thinking about what i wanted to paint today. i did just find the perfect shade of grey for my bedroom... but the trim isn't quite done and i'm not strong enough to move furniture blocking my way. same story for the front room. however, i could always get myself a quart of black paint... cabinets aren't so hard... i just finished my laundry room ones (pictures coming, i SWEAR). so as soon as nugget woke up from his nap, we headed to home depot. i picked out the blackest of black in the highest of high-gloss. i got home, put some gates up (nobody needs black baby hand prints every where) and got to work.

Here is my "before." okay, so i'm not the biggest fan of this bathroom. first it has carpet in it. yuck. second, i'm not a huge fan of the blue sink. combine that with the wierd blue tiles around the sink and vanity top and you get a gem of a bathroom. third, i don't really like oak cabinets. they are fine, just not really the style i want to have going on in my house. so here's what i did. i cleaned my door fronts, drawers and everything, you know, anything i wanted to paint, i cleaned. just some 409. i figured i didn't really need to worry about the finish since i was going to be painting over it. then i primed it. I used glidden gripper in grey. it. is. awesome. i hardly had to do two coats of the black at all. i only did because i wanted everything to have a nice super glossy finish to it. after the primer dried i painted the first coat of black. waited about an hour and then did the second coat. waited a little bit longer and then put all the hardware back on. i probably could have waited longer, but i was just too excited to see it all put together:

and here is is finished! i really really really like how it turned out. I'm way happy that i went with husbands idea of black and didn't do white instead. i like it so much that i just might do my other bathroom too. i do have more than half of the quart of paint left... we'll see! i think all i need now is some good drawer pulls. i'm thinking a brushed silver of some kind.

what do you think?



a little trip!!!! and a sick baby :(

about a month ago, i went to moab with my mom and sisters. it was lots of fun!

Also today, I sat Liam in his chair in the kitchen and I was in my room getting a few things done and when I walked back to check on him I found this:

Poor little thing is getting a cold (again!) and just couldn't stay awake one second longer! Love this little boy!

A Valentines post

I sure love making cookies for Valentines, remember this? It makes me happy. I didn't make them last year, which was a little sad and missed. So today was the day!!!

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So classy Bonnie

Baby approved!

*pictures from my phone

Double

So get this. A couple days ago I was making husband some eggs. I cracked one open and there it was. A double yolked egg. I called husband over to take a peek. It was cool.

Today I'm making eggs and it happened again. Totally serious.

It's a sign...

what the what?!

So I have this dream of running a marathon someday. I don't know why, and I think it sounds pretty awful, but I really really really want to.

I also really really really want to go to Disney World again someday.

Last week I stumbled on the results of a disney half marathon. I got interested really quick, and I found this:

The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror™ 10-Miler Weekend

September 28–29, 2012

We double-dare you to brave dark and ghostly streets haunted by Disney villains. Your commemorative medal announces your towering triumph as you ride thrilling Disney's Hollywood Studios attractions till 3:00 a.m.!

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Right?! So I think I'm going to see if somehow I can work this event. I really think it would be so much fun. And husband thinks it sounds pretty awsome too!!!! 



a mini project

remember when I gave you a tour of my house, and I mentioned that I got a new piano? well that piano came with a bench that had AWFUL fabric cover it. I'm talking gross. Faux leather that was old old old and discolored and had weird looking stains on it.

well I decided that just wouldn't do. i needed something new up in here. so i went off to the fabric store to see what i could find, and this PERFECT fabric was sitting out on the cut table. and it was fifty percent off!

score.

i bought a yard of it and headed home. after rounding up the tools needed (scissors and a staple gun i borrowed from my father-in-law) i went to work!

now, i'll be honest. my first re-upholstering job i had only completed about 45 minutes before this (pictures to come) , so i'm still not entirely sure i know what i'm doing... but I'm pretty darn pleased with how it turned out!

see for yourself!

much better, don't you think?!

i really love the style of fabric and it looks so nice in my front room!

so here's how much it cost:

fabric- $0 (i actually bought this for a different project... and was hoping i'd have enough left over but wasn't sure.)
staple gun - $0

I love me a free project!!!