A New Look...

For my house, and hopefully my blog.
It was time to clean house. Time to go into "those" rooms". You know, the rooms that don't get a lot of traffic and attention, so you just put "stuff" in there. Just ask my friend Kara, who patiently kept me company as I cleared out my master bathroom and discovered a beauty bag full of nail glue and other worthless crap I haven't touched since 2003. Today, I am working on the utility/laundry room adjacent to my kitchen and cleaning out the guest bathroom upstairs.
Found while cleaning my guest bathroom (which should beg the question: why do I have a guest bathroom and no guest bedroom? I don't freakin know; ask my husband, his 3 (or 4?) guitars, and piles of wires and computer crap. They all share a room, and I prefer not to talk about it. THAT room will be up next for makeover, even if I have to become pregnant again just to force him out so the kid has a place to sleep :). Anyway, here's what I found:
1. My CNA pin and RN pin.
2. 15 belly button rings from 2002 when I was obsessed with having different belly bling for each day of the week. In my defense; my abs used to be flat and hard as a rock, so they were worth showing off the 2-3 times a year I went to the beach/lake. I let the hole close up circa 2008 when I was contemplating adding a Madelyn to our family.
3. Razor cartriges; which are pretty much a joke now, given how little I use them. I know, poor Ross, right?
4) Vitamins and ibuprophen that expired in 2006.
Its all GONE now! Now I'm painting the utility room and placing things in cute boxes, which is so satisfying. Here's the before pictures:

First, the crap I dragged out of the ulitity room before I began (in all fairness, this is mostly recycling and cleaning supplies; which DO belong in there, but I just need to organize them:




Oh! and then here are my most recent framing/hanging projects:

Vintage wine labels with a red background to go with my red and wine theme in the kitchen. Or maybe even red wine perhaps? Mmmmmm....


Ross's first Father's day present against our new Army green colored stair well/landing. The pictures are of Ross playing his guitar and Maddy "helping" him.

And as for the blog? I really want to hire someone to "make" me a better blog/layout. I tried it myself, but it took me hours and I'm still not even happy with it. It takes me forever to make up my mind and I'm kind of stupid with the codes and stuff. I am looking into Jumping Jax Designs, but I am not 100% sure if she's my style, and mostly I can't really afford the $45 for what I want. I'm willing to pay, just not that much. If you know anybody or any websites, let me know!

*EDIT* Thanks to Alena @ http://charminglychandler.com for her referral and Becca at http://jumpingjaxdesigns.com for the sweet deal, my blog's new look is on its way! Can't wait!