Picture Wall

After 5 years of having our basement completed - we had this big empty wall with nothing to show on it.  I bought these frames a few months back and they have been sitting on my floor laid out just like you see here for about 4 months.

This weekend we decided it was time to put the fames on the wall - and I smile now every time I walk downstairs.  I love how it turned out.  May need to tweak the picture hanging from the ribbon, but other then that I'm happy.

Now to fill them with pictures - hopefully I"ll get that done before I realize its been 4 more months.

I'm getting the itch to redecorate the house.  I started by putting away the red white and blue and have starting putting up the fall colors and quilts.  Is it too early for that?  I feel like changing out my decor is keeping me from repainting the whole house....so I'll go with it for now!

Laundry Room

I never thought I'd spend so much time in my laundry room. In our old house we didn't really have a laundry room. It was in the unfinished basement right at the bottom of the stairs. Obvoiusly a man placed the hook ups where they did cause had we finished the basement you would have had to walk through the laundry room to get to the family room down there....seems a bit odd. My point being, when we built our current house I was just thrilled to have an actual room to call the laundry room. Not too much thought went into it.

Fast forward to 2 kids....to do the laundry now takes me 20 minutes or more just to load the dang washer. I have to spray n wash EVERYTHING. Jake's clothes causes he's not the cleaniest eater out there, Sam's clothes cause he's a walking burp cloth, my clothes cause he spits up all over me etc etc. I should own stock in the company cause I go through spray n wash like mad.


In my next house (come on a girl can dream) I'll rethink my laundry room a bit. Add a mud room and some personality to it all. Who knew I'd be spending so much time there!