Lather, Spackle, Paint. Repeat.

Other than a few closets, there isn’t a surface we haven’t painted, both inside and out. We’ve painted the living room, dining room, hallways, master bedroom, master closet, exterior, and recently the exterior door. The breakfast area and two back bedrooms? We’ve painted twice. Kitchen and master bathroom? THREE times. I have to go back to Lowes this weekend for MORE paint.

We are getting close, but my left arm is about to fall off. Good thing tonight is knit night!

More Paint

We painted our bedroom years ago Taupe 4, and loved it. So we went with what we knew and painted our living room and all hallways Taupe 3. Again with success. So when we wanted a darker brown to paint in our bedroom, we naturally chose Taupe 6. However Taupe 6 looks a less like a pretty dark brown and a little more like Fresh Shit Brown. Not pretty. And for a bathroom? A little too literal.

So now I am thinking of the chocolate brown on the right. (And yes, I am sad to be painting over the purple sponge paint. I loved how that turned out.)

Sprimmer Fun 07

Can you still call it Knit Night if only two out of the seven people there knitted? And even that was only for a few minutes at best. But Mojo joined us (pictured here) and we had fun chatting, catching up and enjoying treats.

At “Knit” Night, we talked more about our Sprimmer (Spring/Summer) of Fun. I am trying to squeeze in all the fun San Antonio events, places, concerts, happenings, trips and other fun outings starting now through the end of the summer (or for me, whenever I leave). My coworker/friends are in on the fun and while needing to work on the house a little bit, I am looking forward to squeezing in as many fun times as possible.

And after a record setting amount of rain for March, today was beautiful! I just hope the heat can hold off a few months longer, but really who am I kidding.

Spring Fresh

The nights are still cool, but the 80 degree days mean that it is finally spring in southern Texas.

And though we’ve been planning it for over a year now, it is finally official. I keep thinking about things here as my “lasts”. This will be the last time I see tiny leaves on the red maple tree in our back yard. This will be my last mountain cedar allergy season (still on its last legs). Fiesta isn’t too far away, and it will also be my last fiesta in San Antonio.

Don’t get me wrong, while I feel slightly nostalgic about these things, I am completely excited to move…and back to Bloomington no less!

Tim will be a PhD student in Information Science this fall at IU. I am job searching, and we are getting our house ready to sell. There is lots to do, but I know this is the best decision for our family and I. CAN’T. WAIT!

Scandinavian Sky

Old paint color:

New paint color:

Bussey’s

Nohemi and I spent a chilly but sunny Sunday afternoon sorting through dusty, dirty, (sometimes moldy) junk and had a great time. There wasn’t much there in the way of fabric, quilt tops, or quilts but many people had antique sewing machines or cases. Nohemi was looking for unique things for her garden, but ended up buying two inside pieces…an onion bin for her yarn (complete with onion skins), and a vintage suitcase, just because. I bought a little sewing machine desk that needs a little love (but worth it at 3 bucks), a quilting book that has been on my amazon list for awhile, and a sheet of Russian stamps, just because.

There is also painting going on at my house, both back bedrooms are getting a coat of fresh pale blue (Scandinavian Sky) paint. Will take pictures when we are finished.

Tim and I have been talking lately about just using flickr for all our photos instead of doing the galleries on our site as it is much easier…I have been frequently posting photos there, so check those out.

The Snowy Day

Tired of non stop new coverage of the weather, Tim and I put on some music and play Scrabble last night. We were both originally scheduled to work at noon today, but we both got calls this morning that our work places were closed all day! Which is probably a good thing as most of the highways in town were closed.

We woke up this morning to a proper ice storm and went outside to take some pictures (both on my flickr and in the gallery). I haven’t seen an ice storm like this since about my senior year in college! It does make things very pretty, though I probably wouldn’t be thinking that if we didn’t have power like many in our area.

Since I’ve been a slacker recently and had the bonus snow day today, I worked on some quilts. I completely finished the top to Ashley’s queen sized block of the month quilt and once we have a day where we can open the windows, I will start quilting (I use a spray adhesive to temporarily glue the layers together and it is smelly).
And since I had my machine out…I made the above block for Thien’s block of the month quilt. This is the one applique block that every quilt has. Applique isn’t my favorite, but I am happy with how this turned out.

Arctic Blast!

Icicles on my neighbor’s shed! We are in the middle of an Arctic Blast which is actually pretty fun because it doesn’t happen very often here. Tim actually had a “snow day” today as his university was canceled. I went into work today for five completely unproductive hours. Our fingers are crossed for tomorrow…the schools are already closed and there is sort of unnecessary non-stop news coverage.

The cold isn’t making me feel very productive, but I have some days off coming up, so hopefully I will have other fun stuff to show you then!

Winter Blustery Blast

I feel like a kid in Colorado waiting to hear that schools are closed tomorrow. Like most of the midwest, southern Texas is experiencing a cold wave (it was just in the 70s earlier this week!) and they are predicting sleet this evening. While I know it isn’t the 50 inches of snow that they’ve had in CO, it is still pretty exciting around here. I only get to wear my one turtleneck sweater about four times a year!

Earlier this week I was able to drive out to Houston for a day to see Larissa, Kristopher, her mom (who I pretty much grew up with) and their baby Niko! I haven’t seen LA since Tim and I were in NY for the fourth of July a few years ago, so it was so nice to see everyone and meet one of the cutest babies on the planet. Since there are just a few of them, I went ahead and put those pics on my flickr account. Isn’t he cute?!

Photos are also up in the gallery of our trip to Florida this Christmas.

Not Fall Yet….

Yay! Lily made her way into the world this weekend, and I am so excited. I can’t wait to meet all the new kiddos. I am so happy for both Lily and Niko’s parents…first timers! I know they will all be great parents.

Watched Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price this weekend. If you still shop there, you might be interested in checking out the movie or website to see what happens behind the scenes and where your money goes. Its pretty sad.

I am fighting the urge to talk more about work, which leaves me with books, the weather (still in the 90s), and quilts. I am getting ready to make a quilt for Cyn and think I have a good pattern to go with some of the fabrics we found online. I am anxious to start working on it, so am unclear why Hancock’s of Paducah took a week to cut three pieces of fabric to send. This was my first time ordering from them, and I might not be back. Though I guess the last time I ordered fabric online they send the wrong fabric…so maybe I should just stick to the local stores (of which there are actually plenty here).

Which reminds me, there are probably 8 quilting stores here, but only one independant yarn store. What with the knitting craze, you’d think SA could stand one more…a little hipper, a little more fun than the one we currently have. Anyone want to move here and open a store with me?