My room... the BEFORE:

Here are the 'before' pictures of my room. I took these right before I started moving things out so that I could paint.












Here are phase two pictures of my closet...
I actually like the look of the blue tape quite a bit!
I did a GREAT job taping, what can I say!?! ;)





















AND, last, but not least... a sneak peek of the colors! I wanted to see what the greens would look like, so I did this yesterday at 1:00 in the morning! Then I finished taping the closet and one wall of the room. Tomorrow I will paint like crazy!!! :)

Summer Projects...

Well, my blog might be pretty boring for most of you the rest of this summer... I've moved back home and am doing lots of projects around the house and yard. I've been back for two days and I thought I'd just post pictures as I go! :)

This picture kind of shows what I'm doing to the family room. When I got home Monday night I got to looking at our curtains and thought they looked a little funny. Then I realized they might just be too high. The middle one is what they will all look like when I'm done.

When I took them off the wall quite a bit came down with them. I had to put putty back up and then this morning I put the first coat of paint on... I'll put the second coat on tonight and then this weekend I'll be able to put the curtains back up... sorry parents for the mess in the family room while all this is under construction!




Well, today I was trying to do something with my room. As I searched through the house for things that I could use to decorate it mom suggested that I should paint it. Well, after spending almost two hours at Walmart we came home with an entire room makeover kit! :) This will be quite a large project, but I'm SUPER excited about it!!! :) Here are some pictures of the things we bought at the store... you'll have to just guess what I'm using it all for! ;)





I hope it looks good! In my head it looks AMAZING!!! I'll take loads of pictures so that I can post some as I go! :) Hope you all have a fantastic week/weekend!!!

Cimanimanim Yum!!!

Well, one morning I woke up to thoughts of braided bread and somehow it turned into a twist on cinnamon rolls... literally! I told a few of you that I would take pictures of the process and put them on my blog, so here you go!




Here's the cute dough ball that needs to rise...




Candace and I left for a while and the dough didn't rise all that much.




I rolled it out in a long rectangle...




We put lots of goods on that rectangle!!! Brown sugar and cinnamon bath anyone!?





Then we cut that rectangle into long 6 strips.







This is what those strips looked like when we tubeulated them... that's probably not the correct term, but oh well!

The final result! Drum roll please...

My favorite part was the braiding! It made it look good, and is just what I pictured!!! :)




Hurray for making something look like you thought it could!







We didn't have a large cookie sheet, so we baked them on a pizza pan! :)





After we baked them (for a little too long) Candace spread butter on the top.




I'm going to have to practice making tubes that don't open...






There are a lot of things that I need to improve upon for next time. Not bad for a first time, though...
...if I do say so myself!

Music Time... HELP!!

So, I decided I wanted to start getting rid of all my burned cd's and buying only the songs that I completely love! However, I can't really think of any at the moment... so I was thinking that anyone and everyone could tell me a few of their favorite songs right now! :)

I like a lot of songs, but I don't know artists and song titles, so maybe the songs that you like are the same ones that I like but I just don't know it yet! (Try to say that big run-on sentence 10 times fast!) :)

The Sun is a mass of Incondescent Gas... however you spell that word.

Well, I just decided to update my blog, but this time I don't have pictures to show. Let's just say that the sun is hot and being in it for long periods of time without sunscreen isn't the best idea ever!

You know you have a bad sunburn when you wake up throughout the night because your back stings all over 30 seconds after you turn your head. It's amazing how such a little movement can hurt so much!

Anyhow, there's my two cents!