Sooo am I crazy? Yep. Probably but super excited!

Ugggghhhh, Blogger is driving me crazy, it won't let me use my signature, but I am LOVIN the new post option, you can actually put pictures where you want them! You need to go in to your posting options and change your settings to the new post option to try it out!...Ok, had to get that out. So I know I haven't posted all my projects I said I was going to, I know, I know, I know, I'm terrible! But I promise they are coming. My little guy still hasn't been feeling well, he is better today and with 3 new toothies! Pour baby! Anyway, guess what?? I am so super excited, as I am redoing my bathroom COMPLETELY, all by MYSELF! Seriously, this is the biggest thing I have ever done and I am ever so proud of myself.

 The left blue color is what I mixed, I am still tweaking it a bit but I like it better than the color on the right, which was my free glidden paint.



Let me give you a little background on my bathroom, ( I have before pics but sorry I refuse to show them til it's finished or you might not come back, it's. that. bad. ) It's horrid, no seriously its bad. It has been this way since we moved in over a year ago, once you see the before pics you will wonder how in the world I could stand this bathroom like this for so long. The paint, well not just the paint a lot of parts of the wall are peeling, the medicine cabinet is ginormous and hideous, the bottom half of the walls are tiled, the tiles you can tell where moisture got behind them and ruined them, plus they are like a greyish and mauve color,Our bathroom needs completely gutted, needs a new tub, needs all new walls, needs to be bigger, it's the only bathroom in the house and hopefully we will eventually have one in the basement so that we can rip up our main bathroom but that will be forever, so I decided to make it as pretty as I could, make it more livable, for now, until we get to tear it out and start over. I could not stand it anymore. I am changing everything, and guess how much it's all going to cost me? Nothing, nadda, zilch, absolutely FREE! That alone excites me. I had the paint and just mixed it to make the color more what I wanted, I scraped and peeled all the nastiness off the wall and used some plaster stuff we already had to smooth out the walls the best I could, I am changing up the mirror, painting the vanity, and guess what, I am adding wallpaper to cover the tiles on the bottom. I know what your thinking, no way but there is no way I can rip the tiles off and I know behind them is going to be probably a huge mildewy mess so for now, until this will work. Right? Wait til you see the wallpaper I am using, Can you guess? You all have seen it, right here on my blog.

Your probably thinking I am crazy, I am, but trust me when you see the before pictures you will agree with me that something needed to be done til the big redo can happen. Plus it's free and it really hasn't been that much work. After done I will probably have spent one day on it. What do you think of the color? The first picture above I was just playing, should I have gone with the lipstick red? Hahaha no way! They were all paint I had and again, I was playing in paint.


A couple of ugly things that I can't change in the bathroom are the flooring, it's black and white tile, and the countertop which is ugly but I ain't touchin it. Oh and the tub of course. It stays for now. Ok no promises but hopefully I will be all done after Monday. I will be back with something to show you before then though. Tomorrow we are headed to my grams for a cookout, what are your Labor Day Weekend plans?


I have lots of things to come this week. I am on a kick to get organized ( I am the most unorganized person on the planet ), I am reorganizing my kitchen, craft room, closets, you name it, Everything in this house is going to have a spot. It gets so messy when it doesn't. I also have a bloggy friend starting a candle party, my very first one eek! As well as a giveaway coming up!

Enjoy your 3 day weekends and time with the family!!!!!

Nicole :)

New paint color! And I need your help!!!!!

What do you think of that color? We are getting ready to paint our kitchen, cabinets and all. I will spare you the hideousness and hold out on the before pictures til it's finished. We have one of those pretty little hallway kitchens, you know what I am talking about right? Seriously. I hate out kitchen. But it's mine and I have to live with it so I am hoping some paint color and making it my own will help a little. It is SO SMALL. We have no cabinet space at all, none. Our fridge is gigantic, our stove is itty bitty and green. I believe it's an apartment size. Though we won't be updating the appliances just yet we will be updating everything else. Out cabinets were put it in about 2 years ago but they are ugly wood color and fake, no hardware. I do like our countertops though. They aren't bad. We are painting the cabinets black, I know gasp ( my gramma probably just fell out of her chair, sorry grams ). I just told you my kitchen is itty bitty and I know your thinking black? In a little kitchen? But we do get pretty good lighting in there as we have a big ugly window over the sink and 2 more littler windows in there. I like the look of the white cabinets but it's just not for me, I cannot imagine having white cabinets with 3 boys in the house. No way. So I am wanting that green on the top of the walls, and white on the bottom with black cabinets? Can I do that? Have the bottoms of my walls white with black cabinets? I need help, I am HORRIBLE with paint colors, hence the completely red living room and dining room. In the kitchen we have the chair rail? but there isn't much of it and we were going to paint the bottom of it white and the top the green. Oh heck here is a small picture of what I am talking about....


Seriously I cannot believe that I am showing you these pictures. Am I the only one that has a list of a million of the simplest little things that needs to be done? Like replacing that awful disgusting mini blind for example. I am trying to knock out all the little things around here, we need to paint all the trim, yep we skipped that part when we painted the walls. The new wall we added still needs trim, lots of blinds need replacing, there is just so many easy little fixes that I am determined to cross off my list in the next couple of weeks. Oh and about the green stove you are all drooling over. I know you are all wondering where can I get a beauty like that? I promise when we get new, I will let you all know and you can fight over it. Seriously it's a beauty.


These are the cabinets I told you about. And really this is about it for our cabinet space. We have 2 more one above the stove and one above the fridge that you need a ladder to get to, so needless to say they don't get used. I have no room in here to add any storage so I am working on a solution for that. Any ideas? You are all brilliant, help me out.

I made hubby hang that shelf above my little cabinet in the dining room, and I hate it. I don't know how to decorate it. I kind of like what's on the shelf but I need help with decorating the cabinet. Any ideas? I think it looks junky as is. Should I take the shelf off the wall and hang a picture or mirror or something else? What do you all think?

Ok enough with the kitchen issues. Menards has these bags of 50 clothespins for .99 cents and I can't wait to show you what I am doing with them! Nothing seriously spectacular but cool!


Ohhhh and I stocked up on some much needed spray paint! 2 cans of heirloom white, 1 glossy black, and 1 cinnamon color for some fall projects!



Target has all these cute little letters marked down to like .48 cents, These will be cute for some monogram projects.


These were in the dollar section which was loaded with half off items. Half off a dollar, I will take it! haha! These are nice big magnet letters, These will be great for something!


And letter stickers for 1.00, can never have to many of these!


These little water squirters were clearanced for .24 cents, I bought about a dozen as I think they are great for goody bags for my sons upcoming birthday. Something to fill them up with.


These cute sprite tins will be great redone and hello they were half off too and only .50 cents.

Well are you still reading? Did I bore you? Would love to hear your feedback on my kitchen colors and cabinet setup! I need all the help I can get! Over the next few weeks I will be showing you my living room, craft room ( eek! ), dining room and other rooms. Have a Wonderful Tuesday!