Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas from our family to yours!!
The boys and I went for a ride to check out people's Christmas Lights on Christmas Eve.
The past few days hubby has been working on one of our son's bedroom. He absolutely loved sharks so he is painting the whole room blue and has made some cutouts out of old paneling that was in our attic.

We eventually will get him shark bedding and some stickers for the walls.

Running towards final stages

We now have a bedroom door, built in shelves near our future window. Thsee shelves are where my grandmother's desk will be sitting. To the right I am going to make a message board out of an old window we have here.
Mudding is being put up and flooring is being laid down as well.
Hubby made his own chair rail.

A little more done

About half way done now!!

Hubby just needs to finish putting sheet rock up around the closets. Finish sheet rocking the entryway. The ceiling just needs the rest of the "beams" added. The door put in. Tape and mudding, paint then voila it is finished! !!

New room pics

Here are some more pics of the room.  Hubby has put a bathroom door in from master bedroom. He also put up some of the bead board on the ceiling with the beams.
Closets are framed in and barn boards in it to match the bedroom.

Hubby measuring to cut out spot for bathroom door.

Looking from inside of bathroom to master bedroom.

Voila bathroom door installed!!

Closet's framed in and boards put in.

Top picture beams being created.

2nd pic faux beams.

Last pic hubby staining threshold to match.

We will keep u updated via pics of this diy!!

Newest Project

All of you know how much I love pinterest. Here is hubby's newest project.....pinterest inspired. Master Bedroom

U see in these pics the faux barn board walls and faux hardwood flooring. We bough several sheets of plywood from Lowe's and had them cut them to the sizes that we need. I wanted the boards to be gray like the lockers hubby made but the stain we used do not come in a Gallon bucket. I ended up choosing another gray shade with hints of blue.  The floors we are staining Antique Maple.
We will be taking the old farm doors below cutting them to turn them into barn door closet doors. The glass door if it can't fit where my pantry is will be hung sideways on our wall above the bed with a quote hand written on the glass.

I'm going to keep the doorknobs on them.
Here is our new to us entryway light fixture we got at the Habitat for Humanity ReStore.

I will post more pics as hubby makes more progress. :)

Thanksgiving, My Favorite Holiday

Thanksgiving has been my favorite holiday for many years. It's all about blessings, food and family. I love cooking a grand meal to show my family I love them.
Here are some pics of our Thanksgiving:

Recharging

I'm slowly learning I need to take time for myself in order to recharge. Having a large family fully evolved in sports,  one in scouts and a co-op we are on full steam ahead most of the time.
Yesterday I was able to take time for myself and spend the entire day hunting with my dad. (I just rode along and walked as I don't have my hunting license yet)
Here are some photos.

He also took me to see the turbines. I was amazed how quiet they are and how they do not affect the wild life population contrary to what i've seen on the news.

I did not realize how big they were until we were able to drive up near them.

I was also shown a radar tower NORAD uses.

We did not have a successful day of hunting but we did see 3 partridge, a woodpecker, a red tailed hawk, robins, woodcocks and snowbirds. Maybe this week my dad and my brother will get a deer.

Now I just need to figure out how to take time for myself each day.

More house Pics

Hubby has started the mudding in the room on the ceiling an the entryway. It has some progress!!! Maybe next month we will get some sheet rock to put up.

I am getting very excited to see our entryway coming together and having a nice organized mud room. Next year we will start replacing windows!!

DIY project finished!!

I know I have said this before, but I LOVE pinterest. I love searching what other people have done and put my own personal spin on it. Hubby has been working all day long making rustic lockers for our entryway.
Here are the in process pics and then finished result!!

They way I took the picture you can only see 3 lockers but there is a 4th one attached as well.
The only thing left to get for the 5th bedroom is 1 more bag of insulation, sheet rock and the 2 doors.  It will be nice looking back seeing in progress pictures and seeing a finished product!!