I've always heard not to get a tattoo the first time you think about getting one. One should wait and see if the desire to permanently ink one's skin pops up systematically over the course of a few months, and if so, then take the plunge. If not, you were probably better off without that snoopy tramp-stamp. This anecdote symbolizes my feelings towards starting a blog. At first, I thought the blog-bug would pass. I had it in my mind that blogging was equivalent to Xanga and other sites designed to express how much you can identify with the movie "Twilight". Now, I just think this is a great place to share photos of what we're doing in the house, and to chronicle our craziness. This blog is more for me than for others, but I hope everyone who has hounded me to start a blog gets a little bit of happiness out of my
frequent sporadic posts.
This is me:
As you can see, I am holding a baby...something I am getting very good at. This little guy belongs to my bestie; Brenda. We have begun calling him "Sweet Baby James" (Or at least I plan to). There must have been something in the water because there are 4 other babies born to family and friends all in the past two months! 3 are my Nephews and all are boys!
Here's another one getting baptized! Babies everywhere! Baby Ethan did a good job and looked smashing in his baby tuxedo.
This is our house:
We're in the process of taking down the old-lady awnings. The ground floor is done. I can't wait to get the second floor ones off so that we can get some quality sunlight in our bedrooms. Somehow, I feel cheated that I can't see the sky from the second floor.
We plan to paint the front door in the future and are bickering like a good married couple on the paint color. I would like a pumpkin orange....but now that I see the pumpkins in the photo, I am not so sure I would describe the color I am lusting after as "Pumpkin Orange". Here's a link to the color I like:
Best Paint Color in the WORLD!!!
Kevin would like red... (Of course though, I am biased). Once I figure out how to make a photo page, I will post more pictures of the house and our projects. Right now, we're doing something a little crazy....ripping up our kitchen floors! It was on a whim this morning. We are doing away with 2 layers of laminate and 1/2" of underlayment. (How in the H do you spell that word?) There is wood flooring underneath! Unfortunately, U-layment was glued down, so we will have to dissolve that glue. Here are some pics for you to see how crazy we have been today:
Boring Old-Lady Laminate Before (Everything in our house is old-lady-sh):
Tearing up 2 layers of Laminate. See Kevin chip:
Tearing up underlay. See Kevin Pull:
As you can see....we've been busy. Here's another project Kevin's working on. He's chipping the un-primed and flaking paint from the ceiling of our music room. What you see is exposed green board. Soon, we will be able to prime and paint after he patches all cracks with joint compound.
Thanks for reading. I promise I will be less corny in my future posts.
~Jessica Lowe
