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losing weight while pregnant from morning sickness

I dont feel like I have very much to show you right now...but I did get some stuff done.

Ive had a couple pouty moments where I think "I am NEVER gonna get this house in order."

But then Ive had a couple days where I feel unstoppable.

And of course some sick days off in the mix. Its winter (a freakishly snowy winter) with kids. What do I expect?

So heres some pictures. (If you follow me in instagram -- sorry youve seen much of this. But now you can hear a little more about it.)

I found some fantastic handles at Restore (Habitat for Humanitys thrift store -- of home goods.) A quarter a piece!

They are brass with some sort of silver that looks like a mirror insert. With just enough patina for me to love them even more. I cant get over my love for them.

I grabbed them all. Knowing for SURE the are going in the main bathroom upstairs -- Im wanting to accomplish an edited glamor feel in there -- because its my bathtub space -- and LOVE a good hot nightly bath to sooth the day away. So a chic glamor space sounds just right in there. So I knew these handles were perfect.

I put them on the vanity in there right away because I couldnt wait one minute to adore them. But they dont really work too much magic in there yet because they dont stand out on the wood...I want to paint the cabinets when we get there...not sure what color -- the walls will tell me once they are not yellow.

I also have them in the downstairs bathroom right now...but Im not really sold on them in there. (But once again, hard to tell pre-makeover. They could work...but I may look looking for something else.)

I made serious headway on my dresser.

I got a free one off craigslist and Im giving it a good makeover.

Its the perfect size for the space, Im thrilled about that. Its in our room now and Im SO happy with the portion and how it makes the room so much more visually calm.

I dont wanna show you a picture of it right now, because its not done, and I dont really know for sure how Im gonna finish it. I need some more time with it.

But for now here is a peak of how I got rid of the 80s craved vines in the drawers by filling it in with wood filler and sanding a bunch of times. Then I primed it because the top and side were laminate so I cant sand that, it needed primer to make paint stick.

(Its not white anymore.)

I also gave some serious thought to how to improve our lighting situation. I looked at restore like 50 times, and craigslist nonstop, hoping to find more lights, but really didnt see anything. So I started to figure out how to make what I have work. 

I have my two free light fixtures from Iowa with me. So after much debate decided to turn them oil rubbed bronze and put them in the eating space and cooking space of the kitchen.

Having a mess of a house can be kinda awesome at times -- like when you can spray paint indoors in the winter! (If I get more time Ill blog a post about the painting process. I learned a few cool things.)

Here is our eating area light before. Nothing painful or anything, but nothing lovely. (And it had the curly CFL bulbs inside, so it wasnt doing my paint color any favors.)

And after with our new light. (Sorry I just dont care to get out the real camera and upload these days. iPad non-fanatsic pics are what you get.)

The room feels like a real room now. I doesnt feel so awkward anymore. It feels like a place to eat.

And the color comes off right in there finally. 

In other news, this started happening at potty time. And I found it entertaining since it all is gonna come down eventually, so I didnt stop it. But I didnt have plans to really take down the paper yet because I wasnt ready to conquer the whole bathroom.

However Blake got excited with Jasmine and yanked most of the top layer off most the walls in there. So now it looks haunted. I guess it should help me get motivated? (Motivation is NOT my issue. Motherhood vs House is.)
We also found some mold behind the toilet underneath. One more reason to dislike wallpaper. Well have to fix that. Might be a new patch of drywall time.

And our stairs.

Remember how I said I was gonna paint them before we moved in?

I did not.

I was worried it wouldnt dry well enough before the movers came, and I was not too worried about the stairs. I was worried paint could get on our hardwood (that I spend eons on.)

So we lived with UGLY stairs for this long.

They are so weird because they dont come out past the drywall next to them. So I dont think we can keep these. But I also couldnt look at them anymore. They had over spray and tons of dirt on them

So I commenced to paint.

You can see the original on most, the paint on three here.

 Original vs. painted on two.

I painted every other stair on two different nights, so we could still use the stairs while the paint dried.

And here they are painted.

Much improved.

It makes it feel more like a home. 

Its still wonky looking with the bare drywall next to it. 

And now with my paint on the wallpaper.

But whatever.

At least you dont feel like you are walking on a death trap of a stair case anymore.

It looks like something you should walk on.

Other than that, I trying to keep up with motherhood while doing this stuff.

Much of it is in my head. Trying not to compare myself to other people.

Every mom has her strengths, and Im trying not to tell myself to take all of everyones strengths and weigh myself against that.

So while I do that I try to keep up with the mundane stuff that has to be done.

The last couple days Ive started stressing over picking "the white" for my trim.

It shouldnt be that big of a deal. But I am color lady --- so I know, I just know, there really is a difference in whites, and since I know its gonna bug me if I dont try to get it right.

It started because I painted that trim at the top there white (because it used to be yellow!) and it looks florescently white. I used the ultra white I had around from our closets.

Part of it is that the ceiling is very dirty. (I dont know if Im gonna paint it because eventually its gonna get changed out when we open the wall between the rooms.)

But it also just really fluoresces next to the wall color too. I think its overpowering.

For a week there I was ready to say "oh well, Im just gonna use ultra white because ultra white cant really be wrong or bad."

But then yesterday, with all the snow, and my Jasmine being sick, I ended up spending much of the day stuck on the couch, so I started searching the internet about white paint and getting all stirred up about it again.

So I ran to the store last night for paint chips.

Unfortunately the one with Benjamin Moore (which is the favorite white seller the internet wide) was closed by the time I got out of the house. So I just grabbed every white from Lowes since I am really liking their paint. (Good quality for a nice price....side note: I used to be totally fine with using Walmarts paint  -- awesome price, worked good, but between the years of homeowning for me, they really lamed up their paint and I cant stand it anymore. HORRIBLE stuff now. I wont ever buy it again. I had them refund my money for the gallon I tried.... So now its Valspar for me.)

So from Lowes white choices Im heavily leaning towards "Swiss Coffee." (Sounds like it should be brown. But I guess its kinda a normal white color name?)

Next to Ultra white it looks cream. But next to nothing it looks very white.

It seems to play nice with all the colors Ive picked out so far, as well as a lot I am considering.

The ultra white kinda fights a bit with my entry/hall color as well as our bedroom color.

Nothing horrible. Buts it has a bit of dissonance which doesnt leave you feeling soothed. And thats not what I want going on when you first come in the house.

I really like it more than the "ultra white" everywhere but the family room. In the family room I really like the ultra white.

I think its because it has a HUGE window in it, so it is very bright (especially with all that snow light coming in). So the bright white makes more sense. But I want to have all matching trim in the house. So now its up to me to decide if one room not quite looking perfect matters enough. Because if you never saw the other white in the spaces youd never think twice about it.

Also I have to decide if I am neurotic enough to go get Benjamin Moore chips to add into the mix. The thing about that is, Im not paying for Benjamin Moore paint, so Id be mixing it into Valspar, and with the subtleties Im playing with here, Im wondering if itd even be worth it, if it might not even translate at all. Who knows.

I kinda think I should just pick and go, because Im at a painting stand still till I do.

The trim at the top is "ultra white". (iPad photo again, so might not be the best at really sharing) But you can see how the top line just glows.

The paint chip above the door is "Swiss Coffee." It seems to say "Im white and clean." Without screaming about it. And it definitely looks way fresher than what we have now.

And here is "Swiss Coffee" next to the "Ultra White" I used on the stairs. When the sun comes in the windows the stairs almost seem ultraviolet. The Swiss Coffee seems calm next to it.

(The pic just could not really translate that -- its almost silly to include.)

So thats what Ive been doing.

Fun and crazy.

Crazy and Fun.

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