Fancy New Lawn Ornament!

So we got ourselves a fancy new lawn ornament today!

Yeah!! Our house is officially on the market!! Such an exciting day for us! We're really looking forward to the new journey we're on! Bigger and better home, cant wait for the boys to have their own space again!

Wanted to share a few pictures taken for our sale!

Front of our home

Livingroom:

Eat in Kitchen:

Boys room:

Lemon's room:

Master Bedroom

Backyard (so hard to get a good shot when we have sooo much snow still!). Its large and fenced in and the snow just doesnt help us give it credit.

We havent finished cleaning out the basement yet, so no pictures yet of the family room down there. And no shots of the bathrooms as our agent doesn't post bathroom pics.

So thats it! We're on this journey, like it or not! lol Button actually cried when we got home and he saw the sign on the lawn. I think the whole process is confusing to him. I think once we find a place and can take them to show them they will be more excited and better able to understand.

So here we go! Lets hope this isnt too long of a journey!

Home Improvement: A little bit of paint!

Something I've really discovered lately while renovating is wow can a little bit of paint go a long way!

My style has changed a lot over the years but I really haven't changed much in our home to reflect this change. Main reason is probably because since becoming a stay at home mother we haven't had the money for many upgrades in style. But now in retrospect I had $30 here and there for paint! And what a difference a little paint could make!

I started the renovations with the boys room. Not much needed to be changed in there, but when we moved in the room was a light blue and it was perfect for our little boy once we knew he was a he ;) So its never changed. Lots of wear and tear on the room, including a few spots coloured by 2 year old London and 2.5 year old Lincoln.

So I went to Home Depot and looked for a similar colour to what they had, but a little darker. Ended up getting this really nice blue for them.

Took an afternoon and because it was only a little darker it only took 1 coat to finish their room! They were at camp that day and came home to a newly painted room! They enjoyed it a lot.

Best I could get of a before and after. Has made a big difference!

Now that it's done I wonder, why did this take me so long! I used money as an excuse but this nice little upgrade cost me $35 max... amazing!

Home Improvements: The Stairs.

Hello all! Its been a while but I'm finally back to blogging!

Been a busy few months around here but we are now in the final stages of fixing up our house to get it on the market this week so lots of exciting projects on the go! We had a list to tackle and I've been chipping away at the list for 2 months now. I have lots of before and afters to share, today Im going to share our journey with your stairs!

When we moved in (9 years ago) we had nice carpeted stairs leading to our upstairs. It started out all nice like this:

Now fast forward to 4 cats and 3 children later and its turned into this mess...

So I started out one day and wanted to see what was under the carpet. Was it a rounded step or not? To our surprise I discovered the floor was round and could be salvaged! I took 2 days (hey I have 3 kids!) to rip all the carpet on the stairs and take all the staples out. What a job it was! But I was left with this beauty!

So I spent a few days cleaning them up, Sanding them and getting them ready to stain. Once ready I started out. Again this was a few days worth of project become of drying time and our bedrooms being upstairs ;) I decided to do every other stair so we could at least still get up when we needed.

Another project I had to do was fill in the space between the stairs and the wall, so prior to staining I had to put Poly fill in and sand it down once it was dry. LONG job! lol But worth it, you can see the white here when I did it.

After the staining was done I was able to paint the risers white, as well as the handrail and balusters.

Once this was all done I was able to finish the painting. Painted the area Grey like the rest of the livingroom. And here is our finished product... (we're obviously still finishing the Newel Post, will be fixed this weekend, so ignore that!)

Apple Picking 2013

Mama's New Toy!

I got this special surprise yesterday from my hubby for my early 30th birthday gift!

So Mama has been having fun the last 2 days exploring apps and taking pics! Im hoping it will really help with my productivity!

Kinda looking forward to doing the dishes while watching a show!

Fall Colours...

Fall is quickly approaching, infact the cooler weather already seems to have started here... I've been thinking a lot lately about clothes for the fall/winter and have been window shopping with Lemon lately as well...

While out shopping in seeing what colours Im into for the fall. I made a Colour Lovers Chart to track the colours

Right now Im thinking of starting off with a new Fall/Winter purse. Im thinking either the red or blue colour...purple is my go-to colour so I may end up with it ;) Stay tuned while I shop ;)

Bedroom project!

I have loved the look of the old fashion frames for a while now so Ive been on the hunt for MONTHS!

Recently while at Salvation Army I found this beauty for $5 and I knew it would be perfect in Lemon's Big Girl Room!

I started out by picking up some Krylon Spray Paint at Walmart for $4. I knew I wanted to paint it purple to match her room! I spray painted it with the old picture still inside, then removed it when finished. It took about 3 coats to get fully covered and perfect, but only about an hour project total with wait times between coats!

(Image borrowed from the Internet as I forgot to get one of the can ;))

I absolutely love the finished product! I decided to hang it over her name  on the wall as a statement piece and it fits in perfectly! 

What do you think? Have you tried anything similar in your house? Share a link in the comments for me to check out!