Happy Anniversary!

.....to the love of my life! Mr. R what a year....holy freaking cow! People keep telling us the the first three years are the hardest. We have made it through all major holidays, buying a house, two pretty serious family crises, a European vacation, and living in a mess of a renovation project! And we're still standing!

November 19th 2011

Happy 1st Anniversary sweet boy! You are the best part of my day...every day! I can't wait to see what the rest of our lives look like. 

Happy Anniversary!

Bye Bye Boyd!

The R's are headed down to see Miss Boyd become Mrs. Teague and I cannot be more excited! These two got engaged the day after our wedding at my parents place on the Brazos. Emma was there to catch the special moment. Pretty handy being best buds with an awesome photographer! Love love love this idea!



Will you marry me?


Mr. R proposed in the kitchen while I was doing dishes....true story. I love our engagement story though....it's so us!

While we were in New Orleans celebrating Boyd's bachelorette weekend she took our "mug shots". This was after a very long night...eeer morning on Bourbon Street. Some stayed out longer than others! She got this idea off Pinterest, e-mailed me this pics, and put in together for her. I love how she personalized every ones name plates. It's so funny to see how all of these girls fit into her life. I hope no one cares I am putting this on the internet but it's already been all over FB.

How funny is this! Such a good memory!

Wishing the future Mr. and Mrs. Teague all of the happiness in the world! I hope your house is always full of love, friendship, laughter, and hopefully soon some babies! Love you both! Congratulations!

Happy Wedding Weekend!

Pretty....ugly!

Out of town wedding, huge fundraising dinner for work, and then Halloween...what week!

Progress on the bathroom has been slow and....gosh, I can't even say steady. For a good week I felt like nothing was really happening. I know that is how it works when you are dealing we several different crews of people. Plumber has to wait for drywall guy, drywall guy waits for the electrician, blah blah blah blah blah. I will admit I was stomping around here the first three days because progress was not moving at the speed I had envisioned....I got over it.

On more than one occasion these last two weeks we have driven up to strangers in our backyard. It has become so common to have men in and out that we weren't even concerned. Everyone who has worked on the bathroom has been great. I'm sure my constant peeking is really motivating them. I will say I give lots of encouraging compliments. That makes them move faster right?

These photos are so sad I hate to even post them but I have nothing else to show. These are from earlier in the week. When we came home today there were walls without holes! Heres how we started...

Demo day1

Removing the gas heater

Goodbye pink tile

Sharing a bathroom with my husband has been easy. I pretty much stay out of his space and have set up camp in the guest room. Now my sweet little guest room looks like a tornado went through it but it's only for a few more weeks. You know, the dust hasn't been nearly as bad as phase one. The guys shut the door every afternoon and I don't even notice. The back porch on the other hand is a disaster but that's pretty normal around here.

It's going to be busy busy the next few weeks, happy to be out of this mess for sure. Excited to have a new space and finally have people over again. I will not lie, I was a tiny bit sad to see the pink tile go, but I could not justify keeping it. I ran into an old high school friend this weekend and she asked what it was like to buy a house knowing we were going to have to put so much work into it. Honestly, I love it! I really wouldn't have it any other way. This is my hobby. And yes, it's stressful and at moments expensive, but it is so worth it! As I'm typing I'm engulfed by the sounds of the saw and nail gun.....

Stay tuned!

Happy Renovating!

Boo!?!?!

Is it already October? In my head and heart it's still summer. Maybe because I continue to tromp around town in my shorts and flip flops. The house has been turned upside down. Rooms that were once clean and decorated have been cluttered and neglected. Who thought is was a good idea to live in a house during a renovation? No one....ever! I know it hasn't been that long ago but Mr. R and I still laugh about living out of a cooler while Phase 1 was in progress. Why do we create these very difficult scenarios? We like the challenge maybe? Or we are too cheap to do anything else! What phase are we on now? 16? 

I saw one of my girl friends last week and she asked if I had put up my Halloween decorations. I love Halloween, i love dressing up, I love wigs, I love a Tootsie rolls....please brace yourself.... I do not love Halloween decorations. Stop gasping already, I'm just not into it ok. I enjoy other people who go all out with fake cob webs and styrofoam tombstones but it ain't happening at this house folks. It's like seasonal Starbucks flavors....it's just a little too much for me.

Despite the chaos I managed to throw out a few holiday decorations. And when I say a few, I mean two pumpkins....they're painted at least! Please give me a little credit.

I scored these awesome big pumpkins at Aldi....never lets me down y'all....for $2.99. These were the small ones too. I couldn't lift the big guys. I jazzed them up a little bit and I am very happy with them. I chose the Charlie Brown shirt design because I always think about those cartoons around the Fall holidays. I am fully aware that it just looks like black and orange chevron but whatever....call me trendy! Hopefully they will last well beyond Halloween and into turkey season.

Boo!

I also scored these orange roses and thought this little grouping looked seasonal. And that my friends is all the Halloween decorating I got in me. Phew, I'm exhausted:) I'm sure when we have some kids running around here it will be more fun to put up the real spooky stuff but until then I sticking with just getting this house decorated....period.

So spooky!

So now the biggest dilemma of the month, besides bathroom fixtures, cabinet pulls, tile color, and the dust piles, what should me and the Mr. be for Halloween?!?!? We have thrown out a few ideas but nothing is concrete. We celebrate a very PG Halloween with our neighborhood crew. Thoughts and ideas would be appreciated!

Thanks for visiting our little house blog! Hopefully I can post some before and after of the current bathroom project this week.

Happy Renovating!

Hello Hutch

Well I have gone and done it now! Please meet the world's brightest build-in. Good gracious, I am the worst paint picker. I am too emotional about it. I go when there is a sale and I have this weird buying high which leads to emotional colors like neon teal! I am totally exaggerating, it more like really intense neon teal. I made a little splurge on SW Cashmere paint, still 40% off of course. We now have a teal hutch y'all!

You must first see what we started with...

Please note on the picture above there are cans of paint, a pile of keys, and the always important wine glass! I think we had been in the house for one night at this point. Our counter pretty much looks the same.

Popcorn + ceiling  fan = gag reflex

Knocking down walls!

I've got some goodies that have been itching for display. Milk glass collection, Vintage glass odds and ends. Jars of cotton....just like your cotton collection right?

Finally my sweet baby globes have a home. Now I just have to find a place to the 10 giant ones I have. For about two second yesterday I thought about selling them. I lined them all up and was just about to take a picture when I remembered that I loved those round things too much. If I ever do sell them I will have to work out some kind of visitation. Y'all think I'm being funny but I really do love my globes.

Definitely still a work in progress.

Well it's an eye catcher.

Hopefully I will have knobs and handles on this bad boy before Halloween, that is my goal at least. I invited my neighbor in today to see the house and she kept saying how much progress we have made. I can't see it, I guess when you live in it everyday you just see the drop cloths and dust pans.

Ahhhh, finally!

With the hutch re-paint complete-ish I have two other semi big/semi time consuming projects in the works. They have to be finished by next Monday because that my friends is when our pink bathroom is getting smashed to bit. Yep, it's happening....about 4 months later than I wanted, but I will take it.

Thanks for taking a look at our little blog. The house is moving at a snails pace but at least it's moving!

Happy Hutch!

Showerpalooza

Today I attended not one but two wedding showers. Unfortunately I was having a mini can't find anything to wear breakdown on my way to the second shower and walked off without my camera. So for today I only have one to share.

I have known this sweet bride my entire life. She is one of the funniest girls on the planet with such a big heart and love for life. Her laugh is truly epic y'all. I was so happy to be apart of her bridal shower and in few short weeks watch her tie the knot.

The sweet bride 

Beautiful home!

Simple bow on the door

The beautiful dining room

The house was truly amazing. Everywhere you turned there were huge windows and beautiful views of the backyard. I could have spent the entire shower just wandering around the house looking at all of the amazing details.

I could not get over than center piece

My sister cracks me up. She could not get enough of the sugar cubes. She went on and on about them. I told her it was the small things that made her day. I just had to share that story because she made me giggle. Now I know what to get her for Christmas. Who knew!

Bride and groom's initials

Very adorable shower guests

Father of the bride sent this special gift

Mother of the bride

Gorgeous ring

I could not be happier for this little bride to be. It was such a beautiful day. 

Happy Wedding Shower!

Mantle Mania

Hello!

Oh yay for mantles! This  makes mantle make-over number 2! When we bought this little gem of the house our front room mantle was a 1970's throw back with some very dated mirrors. 12 mirrors to be exact. From the first week I knew what I wanted to do above the mantle but executing it took a little longer. You know with work, family, vacations, 3 weddings, and the 207 other things we had to get finished first. Lets stroll down memory lane folks.

Mirrors + curtains = nightmares!

Bye bye never ending reflection

I always joke that when Mr. R is not supervising me I start tearing things off the wall. When I was painting the mantle I just started pulling the mirrors down. More like hammering them down. I've started something is what I yelled across the house and then was promptly brought protective eye wear and gloves to finished my manic mirror excavation.

Underneath the mirror montage was heavy duty black adhesive....gross! And surprisingly a really beautiful plum color...nice! Although none of this matters because it will be covered. I picked up this new mirror at the good ol' home improvement store. I like how it mimics the shape in the Waverly curtains.

Sadly all my globes could not fit. But while I decide where all 19 of them will live they perched up on the mantle. After the mirrors were removed we just lived with this weird splotchy situation. We had a neighbor over and he made a comment about the lamb wallpaper. What lamb wallpaper? As I am frantically searching the house. I have torn down all of the wallpaper?!?!? Every last inch of it! Then I realized he was talking about the area over the mantle. And it does look like little abstract lambs:)

All my collections just started piling up.

I've been chasing some serious brass!

I love these hot pink chairs!

We could not have done this project alone. Our sweet neighbor helped us cut the boards. We wanted them all to be different. Mr. R attached each board with dry wall screws. I love love love the way the stain turned out.

Half of the front room complete.

Why have one when you can have thirty?!?!

Still hunting for rugs and such!

So happy for the results. I keep walking into the front room just to look at the mantle. I don't know how long the brass candle sticks will last as I have a room full of other random things I want to put up there. But for today they will do.

Happy Day Off!...Whoo hoo!