Stripes stripes stripes stripes stripes stripes!

I wrote that title while singing that song, 'Shots shots shots... '.  Ha.  

As Tom is vacuuming the house right now... and he just hung up blinds in our bedroom too.  

I know one day this will all be done with - right?!?!

Tom painted the stripes in the boy's bedroom yesterday.  Looks pretty sweet I must say!  I think it will look much better when the room is set up.  But that won't happen for a long while, actually.  Still need to finish 4th bedroom.

Mickey mudded the dry wall in the boy's closet today.  Yesterday Mickey was here too.  Tom and him worked on the concrete countertop for the kids bathroom and also insullated the attic furnace some more.

The stripes process went like this:

Here are the plain walls

Found the pattern in a Sherwin Williams booklet at their store.  Loved it.  Chose the blue colors I want for stripes.

Of course, on that website, they have directions on how to do that... except they just tell you how to do stripes.  And don't tell you that exact pattern layout.  So, we used a tape measure and 3/16" counted for 3" on our wall, 1/16" counted for 1" on our wall, etc.

So, once we got that laid out on the floor for those two walls, we used a level for the entire length of the wall to make each stripe.

She took her chair out and wanted to watch

Then, we started placing tape against each pencil line - floor to ceiling.  Had to use a ladder for the top part - so that wasn't easy!

We had a little helper!  She HAD to get her gloves :)

The tape, ALL of it!  (the yellow tape is hard to see - we ran out of yellow)

Finished product!!

Days go by... and cat lovers be ware

Here is what we are working on this week:

1. Getting insulation quotes
2. Getting new window quotes
3. Getting home equity loan to help pay for this and others
4. Putting stripes in baby boy's room
5. Concrete countertops
1. Already made one.  Mix too dry (Tom didn't trust his instincts)
2. Also - its not very 'white'.  I think we are going to add white paint to the next one.  Anyone know anything about making these?  We are just learning from the internet :)

That's about it.  I've worked 30 hours so far this week - that's a lot for me!  I do enjoy spending time with Mary and at home so I can pay medical bills or sell some things on ebay or craigslist!  (sold our 7' ficus tree an old cuisinart coffee pot last week - got $50 for them total.  Not bad!)

So, I promised the cat rescue video.  Cat lovers - be warned.  There is no intentional harm done - I just know you'll say 'awwww... poor Oscar!'

This was the 2nd day we were in the house.  Oscar was a bit fritzed out because of the move and new place - he had been hiding.  BUT, we hadn't seem him for a while.  He is a very social cat - when we come home he usually says hi.  We came home Sunday night from a last minute Lowe's run, and still didn't find him.  Hadn't seen him for 7 hours or so?  Kept randomly hearing him meow.  So, at 9pm that night, I knew he needed our help.

SOOOO.  We heard him meow.  Thought he made it outside?  Nope, no cat paws in the snow.  Anywhere.  Heard him meow again.  Thought - can he really be in the ceiling?  Sure enough, he was stuck between the first and second floor - in the ceiling!!  

Poor guy.  Here is video of it all.  You gotta watch all 3 parts, in order :)

Part 1:   http://youtu.be/kHztl17KmoA

Part 2:   http://youtu.be/AFo5ifWfc4U

Part 3:   http://youtu.be/kxKshr4LomU

Happy ALMOST THE WEEKEND!!!

Just like Daddy

What a whirlwind of a weekend!

We were as busy as you could be - really!  (yes, I think it was about 3 days between showers for me...!!!)

Dry-wall went in the baby's closet!  Gosh, its a tiny closet.  Everything about this house is pretty huge.  Except this closet.  Oh well.  Good thing its the boys room - eh?

Can't see much - but i think I posted a pic of this closet already.
Mickey is coming back tomorrow to mud and hopefully finish!  (sanding still needed)

Have I mentioned how thankful and lucky I am that my husband is handy?  (yes, he does occasionally read this!)

So.  Cutest thing ever.  We were putting drapery rods up in Mary's room and when her Dad asked for his drill, she got hers out!  As soon as he started using it - so did she!!

We hung these curtains in her room and they LOOK AWESOME.  I will have to put a pic up of the finished product (because her room is actually clean now too!)  Actually, they look very classy - as tom says :)

We had an $800 gas bill, yikes, so Tom and Mickey spent 4 hours in the attic fixing the A/C vents and making SURE no air escaped.  Also insulated them.

We had a window installer come give us a quote on Monday, and we have an insullation specialist coming Tuesday.  Ick.

Also, we started making the stripes in the baby's room.   Actually, I'm going to post a bunch of pics on that process and what it entails.  Nothing crazy - but its not easy!  I'm hoping its something that can be 'classy' and last for a long time (instead of doing like elmo on the walls or something, ya know?  Not that there is anything wrong with that... just that kids grow up too dang fast!)

Oh - and I'm going to make a post on the cat rescue soon.  Haha.  Stay tuned - that one will be worth it :).

37 WEEKS!!!  Much love to you!!!