So last night Ryan decided to give me a Christmas present a little early this year. We drove over to Crabtree Valley Mall and visited the Apple Store. While at the Apple Store, we picked up a iPhone 3G [in black]. I’m very excited. It’s a great phone and the functionality is better than that of my Nokia. So where I love Windows-based computers, I am loving my Apple iPhone.

What a generous husband I have…

Happy Birthday Ry, hope you have a great day!

 
Someone please remind me of this project when I attempt another one… Though I really had a lot of fun and I think the end result is exactly what I had imagined, it was A LOT of work and it was extremely time consuming. That said, I can definitely say I’d do it all over again….being creative is always rewarding.

Check it out! What do you think?

So last night I finally decided to push forward on my project. I hadn’t really touched the project in a week or so, other than puttying a few seams. Anyhow, Last night I primed the plank wall and tape the rest of the room for paint. I am pretty pleased with the “white” effect. I think it does exactly what I wanted it to do. Some had suggested leaving it the natural wood, but I just didn’t like that idea.

It’s definitely beginning to shape up. I am hoping to be done with this project and have it all put back together by the end of the weekend. That may be too ambitious, but we’ll see.

So we decided to take a few days off after the 4th of July Holiday to make it an extended holiday. It’s been a very productive 4 days thus far and I during this time we’ve gotten lots done. Inspired by the success of my couch project, today I decided to start my “Plank” project in the guest bathroom upstairs. So here’s where I am at day 1. On the left is the before picture of the guest bathroom.

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We’re DONE!

Before:
 

 
So here’s the deal: We began this little adventure yesterday morning and made good headway on disassembling the couch–removing what seemed like 200 old stapes and upholstery nails. We removed all the old fabric to use as templates for the new fabric, replaced batting on the seat. Recovered the seat and cut out the the seat back. Yesterday we had to make a run to two fabric stores, so that ate up a lot of time.

We started our second day of recovering this morning by covering the seat back and the arms. It was tedious, as we had to be carefully to line by the pattern on the seat with the seat back. I’m extremely proud of the result and I know my Grandmother is looking down smiling tonight.

I discovered lots of little surprises–horse hair batting (it’s a 100 year old couch) and old flour bags used to hold the batting in place. It was quite ingenious in my opinion. My Grandmother reupholstered the couch with the pink fabric over 30 years ago. It’s a special piece of furniture, not only to me, but to my entire family.

I am also hoping to get the accent wall painted by Tuesday evening. I am sure I’ll post a final picture once the wall is done.

What do you all think of the new look?

So has Ryan mentioned, we spent the better part of Friday preparing for this evening’s wedding–picking up the tux, getting last minute makeup items, picking up a card and other miscellenous things. Last night’s dinner was wonderful. Family-style Italian food. I was good. I had a little Pork Loin, a few fork fulls of Caesar Salad, Rigatoni D and Bruschetta.

The Bridesmaid gifts from Tina were so nice. We each recieved a small Vera Bradley clutch bag and inside was Sephora Makeup brushes. They were very nice.

The the wedding is at 5pm and I have a hair appointment at 1pm. Photos will be at 3:30p and then again after the ceremony. It will be an action packed day for sure.

The title of this post says it all. It was a crazy busy week and I am glad it’s coming to an end! I may even try to dodge out early…

 Hope everyone has a relaxing weekend! I know we will.