Wants for my house

Ryan and I have been pretty busy doing things to our house. Making it "ours". We've re-done our bedroom and bathroom, another bathroom, our kitchen, yard...the list can go on and on. There are so many more thing we want to do. Here is my list:

-I want to plant lots of flowers in our front yard. I want to have the prettiest yard on the block! Unfortunately I can't do it this weekend because I have to get my stupid stupid wisdom teeth taken out. Why did God even give them to us? Ehhhhh

- I want a brick back splash in my kitchen like so:

I LOVE THE LOOK OF THIS! IT WOULD BE PERFECT IN MY KITCHEN

- I want crown molding throughout the whole upstairs

I THINK CROWN MOLDING JUST TIES THE WHOLE ROOM TOGETHER

 -New counters in the kitchen and bathrooms

I LIKE THIS COLOR FOR MY KITCHEN OR A LITTLE DARKER

I LIKE THIS COLOR FOR MY MASTER BATHROOM

I LIKE THIS COLOR FOR MY UPSTAIRS HALL BATHROOM

-New light for over the kitchen table

RYAN & I LIKE THIS ONE FOR ABOVE OUR KITCHEN TABLE

I LIKE THIS ONE FOR ABOVE OUR STAIRCASE GOING INTO THE BASEMENT

 -We also would love a new kitchen table. The one we got is okay I guess. But, when we moved in a few years ago we just bought a cheap one from Wally World to have something to eat on. I want something more like this:

I LOVE THE RUSTIC LOOK OF THIS TABLE AND THE BLACK CHAIRS LOOK PERFECT WITH IT!

 

 

That is just some of the wants for our house. I think eventually we will get it all done. Decorating a house can be expensive and time consuming for sure. I love my home so much! There is nothing like coming home and looking at a space you did all on your own (well with Ryan of course).

I need to take some pictures of the new bed we got at Ikea over the weekend! It is soooo awesome. I love it. It's one of those platform beds. We needed a bigger bed for two reasons: Molly and Crockett. Crockett is 90 pounds and Molly when full grown will be around 130. A queen just wasn't working for them haha. And also I have been told it is bad for large breed dogs to jump up and down on things. It is bad for their joints and stuff. It can take years off of their life. I love my bed and so does my hubbster and my pups. It worked out for everyone!

Vampires

I have an obsession. Almost a fetish for vampires. I have seen every vampire movie or show there is. Ever since I can remember I have loved them. They are sexy and mysterious. They are my favorite make believe supernatural being. Second would be witches for sure like the Sanderson sisters :) It all started with the TV show Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I own every season and I have seen them all at least twice. Then I just went nuts and watched everything I could find on them. My favorite Vampire movies are Interview With a Vampire, Queen of the Damned, 30 Days of Night, Lost Boys, and Fright Night. Then there are the TV shows. Vampire Diaries, Angel, and True Blood are my all time favorite shows EVER. I want to be part of a Damon and Stefan Salvatore sandwich. Then after that I want to be part of a whole other Bill and Eric sandwich. I own all seasons of these as well and have watched them multiple times. Vampires are sexy and mysterious. They are fast, strong, smart, and immortal. Then there are the books. The Twilight series was awesome. I couldn't put them down. I am reading them over again right now. I loved those books. The movies are eh...but I watch them because I loved the books so much.
Call me crazy...I don't care. I am sure I am not the only one who gets a girl boney over sexy vampire men. Here are pictures of my favorites. And you have my permission to drool.

 Damon Salvatore is above. YUMMMMMM

This is Stefan Salvatore. He is so damn sexy I can't stand it

 Vampire Bill. He is with Sookie, but maybe she'll share

Eric Northman..he is naughty. And I dig it. A LOT

Lestat...mmm

Sexy Interview with the Vampire Lestat and Louis
 

Now that I have you drooling...go watch some of these shows. I am going to watch Queen of the Damned this weekend for sure. Oh! And another plus with Vampire shows and movies. They ALWAYS have the best soundtracks.

New bedroom

Ryan and I re-did our bedroom. We painted and changed some fixtures. Basically just made it "ours". When you move into a new home its almost always just the generic cheap fixtures, white or tan walls...BORING. So we've been slowly changing it into US! I was stupid and got so carried away that I forgot to take before pictures of my bedroom ughhhh. Sorry. But it was plain and boring. Here it is now :) Yippee~!

 My room as you are walking in

 My awesome comfy bed

 My husband's butt and my coo mirror from Ikea

 The knobs on my dresser were silver. I changed them to this cool brushed nickel color

We also changed all the ugly white outlet and light covers to this color. MUCH BETTER.


I seriously love my room. We also added a really pretty ceiling fan. I could stay in my room all day and night and never come out EVER. The only thing I am mad about is that we spent awhile taping off the baseboards and stuff and then when Ryan peeled off the tape, the paint had leaked under it! So in some spots we have to touch up with white paint. Does anyone have a recommendation for a good painters tape? We used the blue kind.

Our kitchen has all black appliances, except for our sink. It was UGLY stainless steel. I hated that things stinking guts. No matter if I cleaned it 1354063165464341 times it still looked dirty. If you just touched it, it showed the finger smudge. So we took it out and got a gorgemous black sink and a nice new faucet. I love her.

We also did our bathrooms. I will post pictures of those soon!!!!!

I am special

Here we go. I painted and did some really cool things to my bedroom and two bathrooms over the weekend. I took pictures of it too. I was going to post all about it. I brought my camera cord for my computer to work sans camera. Guess I will do it tomorrow.

In further news...I thought there were 13 Commandments. NO, not 10. 13! I am the WORST. CHRISTIAN. EVER. My friends and husband made fun of me all weekend for that.

So since I don't have pictures about my weekend adventure in painting and decorating...I'll talk about all the other stuffs. Saturday Ryan and I painted all dayam day. But honestly it was fun. I like doing things like that. Making my home perrrty. Also Molly learned how to go down the stairs. We were hoping she would have the same aversion to them as Crockett, but nope. Crockett is scared to DEATH of the stairs. He has never and I think will never go down them. Since Molly does everything her big brother does, we figured she would never go down the God awful stairs either. I made the tragic mistake of picking her up and taking her downstairs. She had no idea there was a wonderful new world down there for her to explore. As soon as I brought her back up, she walked back down. SHIT. See, we like the basement dogless because our two cats reside down there most of the time. And our older cat Belle, well she HATES the dogs. She pretty much hates everyone but me and Ryan. So the basement was her refuge. I am now on the hunt for a baby gate for the top of the stairs. Right now I have two hampers blocking the way and it looks beautiful.

I got the dogs talons clipped. Molly did great. Totally oblivious. Crockett on the other hand acted like his life was coming to an end and the groomer lady was death and she was trying to rip off his legs. Before she even started clipping he was crying like a big baby. It was pretty funny. I felt bad for laughing. Actually no I don't.

Easter was fun. I didn't go to church. I celebrated at home...in my heart. In my bed. I bought Ryan a gnome. He has been going on and on about how he wants a gnome. I personally think it's retarded, but I love him so I got him a damn gnome. And the lil guy is pretty cute. He's even smokin a pipe. And I got him a way cool Batman coffee mug. That way he can fight crime and have his coffee. Oh and lots a candy. I have an OBSESSION with Phineas and Ferb. Specifically Perry the Platypus. If you don't know what I am talking about then you are a looooser. Ryan bought me a girl platypus Easter bunny stuffed animal. I love her!!! I am going to sleep with her every night. He also bought me candy, an Itunes gift card, and a Starbucks gift card woo hoo!!! I love Easter. A LOT.

Here are a few pictures of my adorable pups

Just so you know...the bottom picture is BEFORE my room makeover.

Wish me good luck...I am painting

When Ryan and I bought our house almost 2 years ago it had brand new paint and carpet. We recently have noticed that the painters totally did like 1 coat with no primer. The stud spots all over the walls are showing up. It's like you can see black spots all over the walls where the nails are. It's so frustrating. We literally have to do every damn room. This weekend I think we are going to start with our room and bathroom. I wanted to do them anyway. I am not a huge fan of white or tan walls all over an entire house. I like color and warmth. Here is an example of the color I want to do my room in.

I love this brown color a lot!

And then I am going to do my bathroom in kind of a burnt orange. I think it will look pretty in there.

I will take some before and after pictures and post them on here next week. I am so excited to start painting. I don't really enjoy the painting part, but I enjoy the aftermath :) And I get proud I was the one who did it. It's more satisfying when you have done the job yourself. I have really enjoyed having my own home. No more renting. I can do whatever I want to it. Make it my own. It's been so much fun!

Wish me luck!