It's actually a girl! But you knew that from the pic... right? ;)
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Monday, January 28, 2008
Sunday, January 27, 2008
Living room laminate floors: complete
Thanks to my Readers Digest handyman book, and some support calls to my Dad I finally finished the laminate flooring in the living room. I'd hoped this would've only taken a few evenings, but given that we live in a four-plex, I had to shut down around 9 each evening. Add a couple nights off, and it turned into a week long job.
It's good to have this phase of the project finished. Now we can spend some time enjoying the living room again. In particular, the cats are going to appreciate that the construction has ceased for a bit.
Friday, January 25, 2008
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Thanks Mom and Dad Y.
My lighting gear, a Christmas gift from Tamara's parents, arrived in the mail today. I've now got some lighting umbrellas, stands, wireless triggers, and a few other little goodies to further develop my photography.
Here's my Pentax flash shooting into one of the umbrellas:
And me tinkering with the flash while it's attached to the stand:
Here are Tamara and Oakley posing under the new lighting:
Here's my Pentax flash shooting into one of the umbrellas:
And me tinkering with the flash while it's attached to the stand:
Here are Tamara and Oakley posing under the new lighting:
Monday, January 14, 2008
Post weekend update
So after painting all weekend (a little tiring), we've now completed step one of our renvations. The colour looks great. There were a few mishaps, the most major one being this:
Josh accidently bumped into the paint can, which actually left us JUST short on paint for the walls. But on the plus side, we tore up the carpet and are now doing laminate. Josh is hoping to get installation started this week. Currently we have about half of the carpet in the living room pulled up, and we have stacks of laminate now in our dining room just waiting:
So that is this week's project (well, next couple weeks, since we are headed to Calgary on the weekend). We are planning to do the living room, hallway, landing outside the master bedroom, master bedroom and the 3 flights of stairs connecting all that. We figured if we decide to do the other 2 bedrooms at a later date, we can always get a different laminate.
Anyway, just a quick update. Our renovations are progressing and we have laid out our plans for the next few months. Sadly currently the only room that is fully useable at this point in time is our bedroom (which has some extra stuff piled in it, and the main bathroom. Everywhere else is in chaos at the moment. I'm aiming to get the kitchen in working order again today (just a lot of clutter from painting and such).
Josh accidently bumped into the paint can, which actually left us JUST short on paint for the walls. But on the plus side, we tore up the carpet and are now doing laminate. Josh is hoping to get installation started this week. Currently we have about half of the carpet in the living room pulled up, and we have stacks of laminate now in our dining room just waiting:
So that is this week's project (well, next couple weeks, since we are headed to Calgary on the weekend). We are planning to do the living room, hallway, landing outside the master bedroom, master bedroom and the 3 flights of stairs connecting all that. We figured if we decide to do the other 2 bedrooms at a later date, we can always get a different laminate.
Anyway, just a quick update. Our renovations are progressing and we have laid out our plans for the next few months. Sadly currently the only room that is fully useable at this point in time is our bedroom (which has some extra stuff piled in it, and the main bathroom. Everywhere else is in chaos at the moment. I'm aiming to get the kitchen in working order again today (just a lot of clutter from painting and such).
Tuesday, January 08, 2008
New Year
So, although we've been really bad about posting for the last year, I'm renewing my commitment to this blog.
I made 1 resolutions this year:
I will produce one card per day of the year
-this means that if I miss a day, I'll have to make an extra card another day.
-this also means that I will have to keep a craft corner permanently set up
-I will do all occasions and hopefully produce more than 365 cards in the year
Josh also made a resolution this year:
He plans to take a picture a day
So this year has started out alright so far. Since we got back from our Christmas travels and visits, we've been organizing and planning our house out a little. We have weekend projects coming out the wazoo. This coming weekend we are painting (living room, front entry, hallways, stairways), as well as replacing all light switches and electrical outlets. We will also be replacing all the baseboards. We decided to get this done this weekend, as there will be no couch in the living room (new one coming soon), and we haven't gotten our LCD TV yet, so it isn't mounted yet. So perfect time to get it done.
Other weekend projects we have planned are:
-painting nursery
-building DVD storage unit
-installing a dishwasher (FINALLY)
-clean basement out, and go through things stored in crawl space
I've got all the furniture planned on where it is going, but until April, when our tennant moves out, we can't access one room, making other rooms a little more crowded.
So this blog will now be converted to an family update (as it was before), as well as a posting site for all my cards and scrapbook pages (I'm just converting to digital scrapbooking. Josh may post some of his pictures here as well (hopefully). So this blog will definately pick up in posts, and hopefully regain some of its readers, as well as gain new ones.
Happy 2008 everyone!
I made 1 resolutions this year:
I will produce one card per day of the year
-this means that if I miss a day, I'll have to make an extra card another day.
-this also means that I will have to keep a craft corner permanently set up
-I will do all occasions and hopefully produce more than 365 cards in the year
Josh also made a resolution this year:
He plans to take a picture a day
So this year has started out alright so far. Since we got back from our Christmas travels and visits, we've been organizing and planning our house out a little. We have weekend projects coming out the wazoo. This coming weekend we are painting (living room, front entry, hallways, stairways), as well as replacing all light switches and electrical outlets. We will also be replacing all the baseboards. We decided to get this done this weekend, as there will be no couch in the living room (new one coming soon), and we haven't gotten our LCD TV yet, so it isn't mounted yet. So perfect time to get it done.
Other weekend projects we have planned are:
-painting nursery
-building DVD storage unit
-installing a dishwasher (FINALLY)
-clean basement out, and go through things stored in crawl space
I've got all the furniture planned on where it is going, but until April, when our tennant moves out, we can't access one room, making other rooms a little more crowded.
So this blog will now be converted to an family update (as it was before), as well as a posting site for all my cards and scrapbook pages (I'm just converting to digital scrapbooking. Josh may post some of his pictures here as well (hopefully). So this blog will definately pick up in posts, and hopefully regain some of its readers, as well as gain new ones.
Happy 2008 everyone!
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