I'm Back

Alright, I know I've been MIA for the past, well, weeks, but my little sister's asked me to start posting again and I think I'm down.

The wedding was a huge success! I know I kind of fell off on the posting right when things were getting juicy, but a poor internet connection at work along with my negative desire to sit in front of another computer when I get home led to zero posts.

So let's see if we can get this party started again.

You all remember that I ordered our bridesmaid dresses from etsian sohomode, right? Well, she recently sent me a convo via etsy asking if she could share my wedding photographs on her blog. Ummm... heck yeah! But also, how in the heck did she find my wedding photos? I've never been big into facebook and definitely haven't posted my photos here so I started to get that eery the-internet's-really-Big-Brother feeling.

I told her that of course she could post my photos but oh, how did you get those again? She said my photographer posted them, and she turned them up in a Google search. Ah, okay, phew.

In an ease-me-back-into-blogging effort to get my first post back out there, I recommend you all go check them out there! And because I can't seem to view or post photographs anymore at work, I'll post some from her blog when I'm home.

Enjoy!

Hemming and Hawing

I am extremely embarrassed to tell you that these curtains - and the fabulous deal I got them for - arrived today and, much to my surprise, the amazing deal was for just one, not two, panels.

I feel like an idiot.

But since they, ahem, it was so cheap, at $11 with shipping, I figured I'd just shimmy over to buy another.

But of course the length and color I need is THE ONLY one unavailable. Absolutely ridiculous!

I just bought a longer one for a few more dollars - since the coupon codes I used before are no longer available - and I'm going to have to do the dreaded hem again. Not looking forward to that.

I feel exhausted!

Curtones

Double score.

The curtains that I've chosen in the past few months have been plaguing me. In addition to picking the wrong ones and not realizing it until I'd hemmed six pairs (that's 12 curtains, people), we also chose some really heavy white ones for the living room that are too long. After the hemming fiasco, though, I really wasn't down to hem any more, so the living room curtains are just dragging the floor by about 5" at the moment. Not cool.

J and I have been eyeballing them for a few weeks, muttering how ugly they are and how heavy they look. So I perused west elm (my favorite for curtains!) and found these bad boys (Y, I know you're laughing at me right now!):


Nice, airy, and green - our main accent color for the living room. What's better is that the size and color we want are on sale from the already good $29 regular price down to $12.99. And (here's where the 'double score' comes in!) then I found a coupon code for 20% off (20MORE) items already on sale. PLUS, they come with free shipping. So really it should be 'triple score'!

The grand total: $11.01. Can't beat that!

They'll need a little hemming (sigh), but I think I'll actually fake a serge just to keep things in tact without weighing down these lovely light guys with a heavy hem. Wish me luck with that!

Curtain Craze, Continued

Still dreaming about curtains over here.

I’m thinking of these for our bedroom:

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Too bad they’re $50 a pair, and we’d need two pairs.

I’m kind of eyeballing these, too, from West Elm:

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The very first day that J and I owned the house, we went over and removed all the doors. Bedroom doors, closet doors, everything – with the exception of the bathroom door. What? I’m modest.

So now almost all of our closets are still gaping open, though I’ve since used some of the beat curtains that I messed up for my craft room closet.

J’s thinking about something like this, on a track, for his closet (in our master bedroom):

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I love the texture and think it’d look great against our purpley blue walls.

As for the office, the walls are currently papaya (a fun orange) and the ceiling is a very light blue-green. Sounds horrible, I know, but it’s actually quite fun. J installed our blinds in their yesterday, which look like this:

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… and I got the inspiration to find some curtains that are mostly white with some flecks of blue – to bring out the color of the ceiling, since a lot of people have said they don’t really notice it.

Still trolling for those. I’ll keep you posted on all my curtain adventures, though – don’t you worry!


Once I have a few more of these things done, despite having stuff crap scattered about, I’ll begin posting some “after”s. Though I don’t think we’ll have true afters for a few years (!).

Smile City

… A follow-up to Gripe City, yesterday’s post.

Though my cranky pants are merely dirty, getting washed and will probably be available for wear here again soon, I’m trying to look through all the this-paint-color-is-ugly-and-let’s-tear-down-that-wall-no-that-one bs and really discover the things that I love so far about being a homeowner (!). Here goes:

{} I love that J calls me the “Money Manager”. All those years honing my Excel skills (and money-counting) have really paid off.{} I love that in a few weeks, I’ll be sleeping in MY house.

{} I love that the yard is OUR yard to do with what we want.

{} I love that if the paint colors are in fact ugly or if we tear down the wrong wall, no one will really care except us.

{} I love that I have a “project” that will keep me occupied for the unforseeable future (though I still want one of those baby things, too!)

{} I love that J and I were able to save such a hefty amount of money and still live our lives happily. I don’t and won’t look back on the past year and think of it as the year “we saved”. Because, let’s be honest, I’ll ALWAYS be on a budget and I’ll ALWAYS be a saver.

And hopefully this weekend I’ll FINALLY be able to get some photographs off of J’s camera to share with you, but projects are moving so quickly that I might have a bit of a backlog to get through. I’ll catch you up, though!