Whoa, man! It's been a long couple of days/weeks here in my little bitty apartment!

We just bought our house, which is what I posted about a little bit ago, and its definitely a fixer-upper. The house is well over 100 years old, has TONS of beautiful architectural details, wood floors and space, but there is also a lot of work that comes with all of that.

The running total right now that we have to get done before the end of the month is out of control. We still need to fix the plaster on the walls in the bedroom, kitchen and living rooms. Everything still needs to be painted. And I mean EVERYTHING. There isn't a single room in this place (of which there are 9) that doesn't need at least a coat of paint. The kitchen will need many coats of paint.

My office is well on its way to getting a stamp of approval though. I have primed (almost) all of it and I put up a swatch of my robin's egg blue paint last night. I love it on the wall, and today I will paint for a bit to start to see some forward movement in this GIGANTIC undertaking.

I've been pinning like a madwoman, and I'm starting to get a feel for what I'm going to want in my place, which will sort of be a victorian-shabby-chic. I love the old feel and details of the victorian, but I also like the worn look of the shabby-chic. If I put them together I should be pretty happy with it.

My mother is going to kill me though. I've decided to paint the trim work in the house white. I know it sounds boring, but hear me out! The wood in the house is old... like 100 years old. The stuff has not been well taken care of. There are holes all of them from where previous owners have drilled into them, and all of that will have to be cleaned, wood filled, sanded, primed and painted before it will start to look pretty at all. I will have the added bonus of the house looking bright and shiny and welcoming instead of foreboding (like it does now.)

I will post some before and after photos pretty soon. I've just found the camera again, and gotten the sucker charged. Now I can get some documentation going. :)

Gracie comes home!

So, on August 27, 2011 I became a new mommy. Lee and I went to the Huron Valley Humane Society looking around to see if anyone grabbed our attention. Gracie would not accept anything less than our undivided attention from the moment we walked into the adult female cat room. She squawked and whined as we walked around the room thinking that she did that with every new visitor. We looked at other kitties who were quite sweet, but it all came down to her in the end. She wouldn't LET us look at anyone else without informing us that she was right and they were wrong.

Now, Gracie lives with us in our wonderful apartment, and whines all day long. She naps when we nap, she complains when we don't pet her, and she purs when we do. She has us trained already to come to her if she meows in a specific way!

She's incredibly intelligent and refuses to play with most of her toys. When we try to play with her with them she looks at us like we've lost our minds. She would rather be snuggling anyway. Below is a picture of Gracie snuggling with Lee on the couch. Typical afternoon at our place!