Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Our House - Before & After

  
     Every time I watch this video (which I just put together last week) I'm still in shock over how much we changed on our house. When my friend came to visit in 2012 we showed her our house (before any work) and she asked "Why are you doing this?" =)  Looking at this video I think "why did we do that?!"  Most of all, there is a feeling of gratitude that it's all over and that everything turned out so nice.
     If you haven't seen our other remodel posts, you can check them out:
     Here are just a few more pictures of our house.
 

 We would unltimately like to have white furniture in our living room - but this works for now.
 
 Like my piano? I bought one when we moved into our house. Always wanted my own, but would've had nowhere to put it. I love this one - great sound and a little different-looking than most.
 
 Cute pictures from previous beach shoots work so well as canvas in our house.
 
 

 

Saturday, February 22, 2014

Our House

     Finally! Pictures of our remodel job. Today I'm using some of our "inspiration" photos compared with what our finished rooms look like. I'm in the process of working on another post incorporating before-and-after pictures and slideshows. It should be up in a few days. Enjoy - and let us know what you think! :)

Caroline & Laura's Room:
                (Inspiration)

 
 
 
 
The Finished Reality:
            (We all love it)
 

 
 
 


My Room:
(Inspiration First)

 
     My inspiration from these pictures is mostly in wall color. I liked the idea of a white quilt, but since my sisters already did that, I decided on a bit more colorful approach and love it.

The Finished Reality:
            (We all love it)
 I bought my bed through Craigslist and the dresser & bedside were my grandmother's
 
 
My Chair:
  (Inspiration)
 
 
The Finished Reality:
(I'm still looking for a throw pillow)
 
 
The canvas on the wall: Amelia posed for me
 
 
     And here's a look at our bathroom. We don't have before-and-after of this because we so totally re-did EVERYTHING in the bathroom. It's not even the same shape as the original. Mostly we wanted clean, white & spacious-looking. Because it's actually rather small. We love it.
 
Totally sold on our clawfoot tub.
 
     The laundry area too, is much different than the original. To save space we went with a stacked washer/dryer and it's working very well for us. Our house has a beach theme (not prevalent in the bedrooms) and we were so happy with the beach picture we found with the laundry hanging out.

Tuesday, February 18, 2014

Random Cuteness

A few random pictures I took of Amelia last year (when her teeth were missing - so cute!). It's hard to get her to stay still long enough for pictures, so I chased her all over the yard for these. :)

 
 
 Her hair was all braided cute with ribbons and bows.
 
 
 

Friday, February 14, 2014

Happy Valentine's Day!

 
 
 
     I recently came across these pictures I took back in 2012. We were taking them for her Valentine cards (see below) and I got a little carried away. <smile> Enjoy..... and have a wonderful day!
 
 
 
 
 
Yes, that is a big piece of PVC pipe she's holding. But once we printed these out in wallet size, we poked a hole in the top of the "pole" and pushed a sucker in. They made such cute cards!
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Friday, February 7, 2014

A Snapshot of Christmas in a few Pictures


 
Amelia is doing so well on piano - she played a duet with me at our Christmas Program at Church
 
 Amelia is the Star and Asa a King in our Christmas Play
 
So proud of all those who participated!
 
 Our Benefit Concert went well. We performed it 6 times and raised over $2200.00 to send to Baby Haven in South Africa. We were so blessed! It was a little bittersweet as this was most likely our last concert. (Yes, we said that last year too, but felt God calling us to do it once more. I really DO believe this was the last.)
 
 After the concert
 
Daniel and a friend (wearing Asa's too-short tie) :)
 
The Girls
 
A few of the Guys
 
The excitement of Christmas morning!