Bedroom Hater

I hated our bedroom.  I didn't actually realize that I hated it so much because it was just this white room where we slept and stored sundry furniture and artwork that didn't really fit anywhere else.  In fact, I apparently hated our bedroom so much that we don't have a single picture of it before I started working on it other than the real estate photo.

I basically did a bedroom blitzkrieg and decorated it all over the course of 36 hours while Eddy was traveling for work.  I made this amazing blanket that I think I will replicate for the living room eventually. It's flannel backed with pom pom trim and it basically can't be beat.

I covered some letters in fabric.

And I spent an entire freaking day assembling and installing the chandelier.

Ta-da!

No more bedroom hate.

We're Not Young Anymore

The rest of the country seemed to have an awful lot of snow days this year.  Not so in our neck of the woods.  That's fine by me, but Eddy craves snow.  So he was pretty excited about his annual company retreat in Tahoe. The drive in (from our sunny and 70s home town) was spectacular.

When we got there we geared up for some snow fun.

We circumnavigated a very steep hill.

And attempted to sled down it.

I say "attempted" because what actually happened was that we crashed and burned.

Every. Single. Time. In fact, at one point, Eddy went face first into the snow, scratched up his pretty face, and destroyed his shoulder for the next few weeks. We're not young anymore.

We also tried our hand at downhill skiing.

Eddy is clearly more graceful on the snow than yours truly.

Lamp Revamp

One of the things I am glad I have more time for now that I don't have a job is going to thrift stores.  That way I can buy weird things for not much money and make them awesome for our house.  It's a dream.  Recently I had this find.

I taped it up and spray painted it.

Then I replaced its hideous shade with one I fashioned out of some leftover metal we had from a previous project.

Voila!

Tacky Zoo Selfies

Recently Eddy had to travel to San Diego for business.  Norman and I decided to tag along.

NBW and I explored the city, chilled in the hotel bed, and checked out the dog beach.

But one of my favorite things we did while we were there this time was the SD Zoo.

I decided that if I had to go to the zoo all on my lonesome, the least I could do was take some ridiculous selfies.

You're welcome.  

Catsup Quilt

Recently I made a quilt for our dear friends, the DP^2s. After all, they had been kind enough to let us crash their Thanksgiving. Also, I found this quilt pattern that just made me think of them so I modified it and got started.

 

After all, they <3 black kitties.

When I was piecing this quilt together I was trying to hard not to mess up and piece a cat head upside down.  I kept chanting to myself: cats up.  cats up.  cats up.  catsup.  catsup.  catsup.  It's a catsup quilt.

 

I Picked out some fabric for the back.

 

Bound it up.

 

And sent it on its merry way just in time for Xmas! I think they were surprised. All except Anouk who promptly claimed the quilt as her very own.

Yerba Buena

One of the things we have really been missing since we moved was our old herb garden in all its many incarnations.  Herbs are pretty much the only thing we have ever had success growing.  I decided to surprise Eddy with a secret build.

I took a naked window outside our kitchen

And some scrap plywood we had around.

I drilled some holes for drainage.

Prettied it up with some paint leftover from the house.

Installed it outside and added herbs.

The rest is history. Delicious, delicious history.