Bathroom redo update

Shower curtain has all the right colors although they all look white in this pic

Vanity, MedCab & Lights up…Still working on ugly surround & repair of tile

Happy Birthday, Deb! (a couple days late) :-/

Sisters . . . sisters . . .

Consummate Fisher

Beautiful Grandma

Hope your day was much blessed!!!

The other night we were vegetarians, tonight . . . not. so. much.

Bathroom redo in spurts Part 1

We are at long last redoing our upstairs bathroom (the only bath in house with bath) These are before pics and “in progress” pics I’ve snapped with my iPhone (so handy)

Picture 1:  How the ugly looked

Picture 2:  Ugly Bathtub but inside has already been primed (wish I’d taken a pic of how worn it was)

Picture 3: the commode is in the hallway–DO NOT USE

Picture 4:  Painting started & pulling out sink

Picture 5:  Macho Man pulling apart vanity <3

Picture 6:  Vanity out via Macho, macho man

Picutre 7: Black grout on prior vanity makes for ugly stain on wall ugh

Picture 8:  Time to start on the floor

Picture 9:  Slate!!  Slate!!

Picture 10:  We’re on a roll now

Picture 11:  2 cuts around the important hole in the floor

Picture 12:  an eyesore that might take a while to fix –Right now we’re just going to texture paint the wall surround.  The contractor who built this house had really weird tile taste and wrapped it around stupidly and “un”Uniformly :p But da’ floor looks purty!!

Picture 13:  GROUT!! GROUT!! And I’m the one who washed it all up (mega hard work)

Picture 14:  Today I texture painted the sore spot and did some swirleys (after all it is a bathroom !! )

Picture 15:  Forgot to turn the light off but texture paint area that will be painted green.  Will probably later come down under the window with tile, but my real dream would be to rip out all tile in outside of the tub area and do bead board or large up to date tile. #IhateTheGuyWhoDidThisBathroom50YearsAgo (sorta)

Picture 16:  Hubs painted the bathtub today with first  coat of tub paint.  Fan employed to dry it so we can take a shower before church tomorrow morning. The congregation thanks you, fan.

Picture 17:  Tub without fan  Remember how ugly it used to be?

Picture 18:  Inside of tub–it used to be worn down to nothing w/rust spots around the drain

Stay tuned there’s more to come (yay)

SALAD TIME

Sonny #3 has gone back to college which means we are much more faithfully eating salads. I love how this looks so pretty and fresh! Spinach and fresh red bell pepper = TOTAL yummsville!!  And as per always on a paper plate (yes-indeedy)

Walking With God (and my iPhone)

Oh my, am I loving my iPhone? In a word . . . yes!  Loving the Bible app (youversion) because it SPEAKS the Bible to me in a wonderful, soothing  voice that I listen to when I do my trek through the house.  Wearing a pedometer, trying to get my 10K steps in (at least) a day, and listening to God’s Word.  WHAT can be better than that?!  Tonight I listened to Ephesians 5 through I Thessalonians 5 ¹⁵ Make sure that nobody pays back wrong for wrong, but always strive to do what is good for each other and for everyone else.

 ¹⁶ Rejoice always, ¹⁷ pray continually, ¹⁸ give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.

 

Amen.

Adventures in Breadland

Yesterday I tried my own rendition of Ciabatta Bread after buying a pkg from Sam’s this week. I used the dough only mechanism on my bread machine and then followed the directions on how to make it Ciabatta–you can virtually use any recipe. I used 1 1/2 cups of warm water, 2 tsp yeast, 2 T sugar, 2 T Flax Seed, 2 T Olive Oil, 2 tsp salt, 1 c Whole Wheat Flour, 1 c Oat flour (pulverized Old Fashioned Oats) 1 c Bread flour.  Throw it all in your bread maker–I cured the yeast or whatever you call it, is it cured?  I let the yeast stand in warm water with the sugar to see if it would bubble (which means the yeast is still yeasty :p ) Selected “dough” on my bread machine and then waited for the bread machine to do its thing to the dough–> mixed, jiggled & raised.

I then followed the directions on how to turn it “into” Ciabatta bread by letting it sit 15 minutes with a bowl inverted over it, (after I rescued it from the bread machine) and then I separated it into loaves (I chose to make rolls) and then let it rise again 45 minutes in draft free environment. I set the oven at 400 degrees. I spritzed water on them a few times during the baking process. They came out with a perfectly crispy crust, chewy inside (Just how we like it)  

Bake at 400 on a stone pan if you can for about 20 minutes for rolls

This inside pic wasn’t focused very well, but it had good air pockets which you want in this type of bread.  YAY!  Total Yummsville

Back to the old grind

Great time with the fam last week, golf every day for them at least once a day, most days twice a day Great vacation for hubs who needed it desperately.  Male bond time galore–I went once and walked with them–FUN!  Took pics (of course) Cooked, Went out to eat a couple of times, an overall very BLESSED week!  THIS week you ask?  Transcription, baby!  Working on my fourth one this week.  Thankful for work too.

Mother’s Day Prez done

I finished the Trivet I was making and will be sending it to my mom tomorrow–(I’m always a little late) I also don’t sew or do things very straight–I’m all about the “homemade look” :p so don’t look too closely

Working on this:

I’m going to venture into turn under applique which will be new for me because I usually just pink and zig-zag my way into applique (lol that rhymes).  I started with a 10 x 10 square, and layered my batting and backing onto the top.  Then I added this embroidery I had done a while back:  Maybe I should call it turn under, pin, and then machine quilt applique –not a hand-sewer, don’t have the patience.  Will post more pictures as I get farther along.  PS:  Have you seen this?  

My Big Scrappy Giveaway and here’s the link/website address–

http://fairyfacedesigns.blogspot.com/2011/04/my-big-scrappy-giveaway.html