Home & Garden Week: Monday

My living room!

Here are my couches, and yet another rug I really like!


And if you look to your left, you see the big chair, and one of my many bookshelves. This one houses my photo albums and travel books.


Taking another look to the left, you see the t.v. and the ever-so-attractive weight collection (again, like the Treadmill, it's the best place for it)!


And here's a little touch on my door:


And since I'm not sure what room this would fall under, here's my pride and joy, in the little hallway off the living room: my photo wall!


Someday when I have a whole house to myself, I hope to have a completely separate room for all that execise equipment!

Home & Garden Week: Sunday

On the Sense & Sensibility message forums, they are doing a "Home & Garden Review" with a different room each day, so I thought I'd take advantage and post here as well.

My dining room - which really serves as a place where I do all my lesson plans for work (you'll see it's covered with my teaching materials!) is in the middle of the big open space, in between the little "office" and the living room.

My mom gave me the table when she bought a new one - I used to have just a big open space in the middle of the apartment. Now, it's taken up by the table and the Treadmill (nowhere else to put that, unfortunately!). However, I do love my rug!

Here are the two views:





Someday soon I will have a bunch of pictures in those empty frames you see - but they probably won't be there. I have some really nice art nouveau prints I got in Paris a few years ago and I'm just waiting to gte them framed.

Room Tour of the Week

This week the room tour is of another one of my favorite rooms - my kitchen (where all the magic happens!). It's where I spend a lot of time preparing assorted baked goods and meals for friends and family.


The view from the dining room area, looking over the counter. My friends like to sit at the stools and watch me cook. They tell me it's like their very own live cooking show!


View from the kitchen at the entrance.


The view from by the sink.


Piggy! (He really needs to be updated... the slumber party was in July!)

Hopefully soon I'll have pictures of OTHER family members houses! I'll be at Kevin and Lori's in two weeks cause Emily and I are going to visit Kara in Binghamton, so perhaps I can kill two birds with one stone and get Kara's new apartment then as well!

Room Tour of the Week

Ever since I posted about Pam's new kitchen, I've wanted to start doing a new feature on the rooms in various family member's houses. I'll start today with my favorite room in my house - my bedroom! It's my favorite room by far because it has all the best furniture (that I bought myself!) and I painted the whole thing by myself, and I didn't get ANY green paint on the white frames!


Above you see my bed, which takes up most of the room and which I bought with my very first paycheck when I started teaching! (Actually, I think I bought the side tables as well, and later the dresser and the TV thing.)


One of the beside tables, full of all my stuff - books and notebooks, mostly, of course!


The other bedside table. The little plaque was a gift from one of our past Ladies' Teas. It's funny cause when I got it I couldn't imagine where to put it cause it didn't match anything in my apartment - and then I remembered that my bedroom is the same green!


The top of my dresser. One day there'll be a painting hung there... just haven't bought the frame yet.


The view from the other side of the room, with the TV cabinet, dresser, and the horrid thing that holds all my bags!

This will take a while to completely get done (well, my apartment is already photographed) as I'll need to take all the pictures when I happen to be at everyone else's house... and I'll want to make sure the rooms are all nice and clean!

Look what happens...

...when I put my mind to something! Anything is possible, even clearing out the disgusting weeds and dirt and all other manner of debris that used to litter my little side yard! It didn't even take a lot of time - just and hour and my determination to do it!

Pam's New Kitchen!

This has been a big topic for a while, but we've never gotten around to posting the pictures. Anyway, here are some photos of Pam and Chris' fabulous new kitchen, finished at the end of the summer!