Sunday....

Vamps, Blood, Love...Oh My!

The day has come...the season finale of True Blood..

I am so excited to watch the season finale of "True Blood" (sad). There will absolutely be no interruptions tonight during my show...lol...so I hope! Yes...oozing with excitement for 9:00 tonight~

Stay True!

Adventures of Sponge Bob

Hello!!! (Throughout our renovations, I have been addicted to these cute little "Sponge Bob" ice creams that are sold at our Dollar Tree....since we seem to be in Dollar Tree for little things for the House I keep nabbing one of these little tasty treats)!

Well, as I assumed before our home renovations I have had minimal free time, so I haven't had the time or energy to turn on my computer to blog lately. We only have 2 weeks to go before we need to be out of our hole in the wall apartment.....can't wait! So far we have started to tile the floors, took down wood paneling in the family room, put up dry wall, skim coated almost all the walls that are finished and even started painting. Here are some updated pics of the house:

( Pic of the side of the house)
(The one room that was renovated before we moved in...doesn't look like it because it is a mess filled with clothes and this and that...we still need to change the wall color and put in a new vanity/sink to make our mark on it).
(The front entry way...another room finished.....which Mr. Papitag let me complete without any of his interventions. I tiled, painted & finished the walls all by myself....now we just need some art on the wall and a few coat hooks to top it off)
(Looking into the Dinning room from the family room...both rooms are still in the mid stage of renovations. As you can see we need to finish grouting and taking down some wood paneling, etc...)

OK, until next time....

Check out my favorite sites for some home design and DIY inspirations:

Design Sponge

http://www.apartmenttherapy.com

DIY Network

Flickr

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Trying Times!!!

Not Quite Home Sweet Home!!!

I have been away from crafting, blogging, working out, just about everything I love to do in my free time because.....We finally own our fist home!!! Yeah, the search is over. I posted a while back when we were in the midst of searching for our fist place....boy was it trying times. I am glad that it is finally over. We finally decided on a 1920's colonial home. Its cute but needs a lot ofwork. Thank you Mr. President for your wonderful incentive for new home buyers....

Me In the "Family room" doing some construction. Who ever invented wood paneling "sucks!"

Mr. Papitag in the master bedroom wrapping up the disgusting carpet that was in every inch of the house

The Family room before Demo..but after we ripped out the carpet, to our surprise the hardwood floors were in great conditition...they will be excellent after a nice sanding and a nice chesnut stain.

entrance & Living room before Demo but after we ripped up the hideous green carpeting...again nice hardwood floors.
The Dinning Room before demo but once again after we ripped up carpet and to our surprise there was horrible sticky lanolin tiles underneath the carpet....WHAT IN THE WORLD! LOL

As you can see, we have a long way to go and only 2.5 more weeks until we have to be out of our apartment. I will be sure to keep the pictures coming. Silly me, I forgot to take a pic of the outside of the house....

To be continued....

Happy Friday

Hello,

Thank goodness today is Friday...it almost seems like I am wishing my days away to get to the weekend. I have been crafting a bunch lately and trying to increase my inventory for my annual craft show at Transcongretional Church here in town. Last year was my first craft show and I did great...overall I had the highest profit (exciting) glowing with glee just thinking about this year!!! Below are a couple of items that I have added to my etsy shop...I haven't made any for the craft show yet...

All Items can be found in my etsy shop at: http://www.dadootdoots.etsy.com/

The family has been doing a lot of stuff together lately even though Mr. Papitag doesn't get home until after 6:30 most nights. We have been taking loads of day trips to the parks and taking full advantage of the "free" things that our state has to offer. We are both addicted to physical activity so the natural parks have become a great past time of ours...and Gizzy has been loving chasing the Geese!

Hopefully this weekend I can convince Mr. Papitag to join me in my quest to recapturing my title of "thrift store queen." I will have to keep my fingers crossed because he typically lasts about a good 10 minutes in a thrift store and if you are like me 10 minutes just doesn't cut it when you are trying to find lovely treasures. I will be sure to bring my camera to try to capture all the great or not so great finds!!!

The Family

Until Next time!

Sunday Television

TRUE BLOOD............

I am so addicted to this show....for all that don't watch it, its not to late for you...you can rent the episodes and catch up! Trust me you are missing out! AHHHH there is nothing better than a glass of red wine and a dose of True Blood Vamps....

Poor Suki...I can't wait to see what happens next, next weeks episode can't come soon enough...what is the deal with Godrick? Only time will tell....until next week!

Keep it True!!!

I thought we lived in the City??

Hello...hope your Friday is going as great as mine

Well I thought I would share a couple of pics from earlier this summer. It was sometime in early July that Mr. Papitag yelled into the window from outside " Re...Re...come here you have to see this!" Apparently he was walking Gizzy and ran into this fellow right down the street:

Yup...it was a freaking turkey...walking in one of our neighbors yard! I was so quick to run and get my camera I didn't even care that I still had on my pj's, hadn't brushed my teeth yet and lets not mention what my hair was looking like. It was all in a days work of sacrificing looks for a great photograph...plus its not everyday that we see a wild turkey lurking in our neck of the woods...or shall I say "city." Hopefully none of my neighbors had their cameras taking a picture of my "wild" looking self (lol)! NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC...I am still waiting on that phone call (LOL) !!! No, but seriously I am =)

(gobble gobble)

I wonder if someone had him as a pet because he wasn't afraid of me getting too close to him. Mr. Papitag at this point kept yelling "Re, get away from him...he is going to attack you." I was just concerned with getting a good glimpse of him before he ran off into the empty lot down the street that makes it seem like we live in the boonies...that is another story though...I will save the hideous, nasty empty lot story for another day!

enjoy your Friday

Get out and do something Crafty...I sure will

A Day in the Park!

Hello!!!

Blogging has been a stretch for me lately. I have had so much on my plate that the last thing I have considered doing is blogging. Now that my track season is over I have dedicated a heap of my time to my little boy (gizzy) and my Fiance (Mr. Papitag). Actual quality time like trips to the park and simply taking a walk together are scare when track is in full effect...Track season leaves very little time for a lot of thing...so I have really been enjoying the "down" time and doing things that I typically don't have the luxury of doing.

(Here we are at the park on the Great Giant Swan Paddle Boats)

Gizzy has been taking full advantage of having all of Mommies time. We even got to escape to the park just the two of us; I tend to give him a little more breathing room than Papitag to roam and be free, which ultimately ends up biting me in the butt because somehow he ends up off the leash or either in a not so good situation....like almost being eaten by the real life Swan and geese (lol)....no really it wasn't that funny when we got swarmed by a gang of ducks (lol) ....but I can look back and laugh now...he was seriously almost lunch meat!

(Gizzy on the boardwalk at the park)

(The dangerous Swans that almost ate Gizzy) LOL!

(Gizzy amping up his retaliation)

(The swan getting a little to close for comfort at this point circling us. Gizzy was barking like crazy)

(Gizzy wanting to attack or either play with the duck... don't think so buddy that water was iiky)!

The following week the entire family got to go on the paddle boats. We had so much fun. Gizzy was so fascinated with the water!!

(Me and Gizzy on the paddle boat)

(Mr Papitag and I on the paddle boats)

(The ultimate Geese fighter) lol!

(Cutsie little turtle on the lillipods at the park)

Until Next Time!!!

Stay Crafty!