The House Update #5...

Ugh...Why is it taking so long...This is how I have been feeling lately.

It seems like we were never going to get into The House until yesterday. Dustin and I got up super early on our day off and spent the whole day over at The House working on the floor, and by golly we got it DONE! Yes I said it, We are done with the floor which means we can start moving in slowly. We still have the base boards to put in but we can do that while we have furniture in the middle of the rooms. We are going today after work to get the new door handles/hinges so we can hang the doors.

The Bathrooms are not done yet but we will work on them while we are living there. We decided to leave the Kitchen alone for now. Maybe next year we will get around to updating it. Until then we get to cook our meals on the wonderful '70s yellow tiel countertops...haha. But we did remove those ugly hanging cabinets that blocked our view of the kitchen knok. If we were 4 feet tall it'd be a different story.

Here is the Allure floor all complete in the Dining room...

We were able to transition the flooring from the Living Room into the Hallway seemlessly...

This flooring had to be the easiest flooring to lay down ever!!

Next is the move! YEAH!

The House Update #4...

We have been pretty busy working away at The House since the last time I posted. Once the texturizing was done it was on! We were on a mission this weekend to get the painting done no matter what! And we DID!! I'm happy to say that ALL the painting is done in the house, with the exception of the bathrooms (that's another story I'll get to later).

Dustin and I had not been agreeing on what to do with the living room ceiling. Remember it looked like this...

I wanted to leave it the way it was because I knew it was going to be hard to paint and I didn't want to be the one painting it. Dustin wanted to paint it, he wanted the ceiling a flat color and the beams a semi-gloss color. I agreed to finally help paint only if we did the WHOLE ceiling in the semi-gloss AND use a paint sprayer. Well Dustin did it all with me supervising. And now it looks like this...

Next we are onto finish up putting down the flooring. The Dining Room, Living Room, Hallway and Craft Room are all that's left to lay down. Once the floor is down we can FINALLY move in. While we are moved in we will work on getting the bathrooms done.

Which leads me to tell you a little story about the bathrooms...The weekend Dustin, his Uncle Lloyd and Cousin Gavin where trying to figure out why the attic fan was not working. So Dustin and Lloyd where up in the attic investigating. The attic fan is located in the front of the house right above the Master Bathroom. As Dustin and Lloyd where making their way across the beams, being careful to where they were stepping, Lloyd stepped on a beam thinking that it was secure. Well it wasn't, and his foot went through the roof of the Master Bathroom. Can you believe that! So now we really have to do some remodeling to the bathrooms...haha.

Stella & Dot by Erin Burger, Independent Stylist

I have wanted to get into selling this line of jewelry ever since my Aunt Debbie got my sister and I a pair of earrings for Christmas a couple years ago, those earring have become some of my favorite! I wasn't until recently that I really conisdered it something that I could do. I wanted to wait until we were settled into our new house before I got involved. I wanted to be have to designated spot in the house to set up my "Office".

I have a friend from college who sells for Stella & Dot, she had really been encouraging me, but I kept telling her in time, in time. Finally a situation happened at work that gave me the push to join the Stell & Dot team earlier than I wanted. With the new home and the decrease in income from work I finally had the drive and desire to do something the I'd LOVE. I've been missing that lately. One of the rooms in our house has been named the Craft Room, this is my room. I will finally have a space again to do what I love; quilting, sewing, scrapbooking...crafting! And I'll be able to make it my Stella & Dot office as well. I'm excited to get going on this new venture. I feel that it will really help me get to know people in Lakeport. I've been here for over a year and feel that I really dont know that many people. I mean I know people that know Dustin but I really haven't made any close friends. So if you want to get a sneak peek into what I will be selling please go to my Stella & Dot webpage and browse. If you see something you absolutely love Buy it, you will not regret it. The pieces of jewelry are beautiful! Also visit my Stella & Dot Facebook page and "Like" it to stay up to date on what's new. Thanks!