This picture was taken back in April of 2010. My sister-in-law and her husband came to town for a visit and we decided to walk down town and check out the cherry blossoms. They were great that year and this is my favorite picture from the day! We got this picture blown up to an 8×10 and matted/framed it. The plan is to hang the picture in our hallway at some point soon!
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After painting the guest bath, master bedroom and the living/dining room the only thing left to paint was the master bathroom. We had agreed to leave the builder grade paint in the guest room until we decide exactly what we plan to do with that room. The guest room is pretty much a landing zone or storage room at the minutes, which clearly isn’t ideal. Anyways, similar to the living/dining room choosing a color for the master bath wasn’t easy. We ending up going with a color that’s a shade darker than our living/dining room after putting couple different samples on the wall.
Once we were pretty sure we wanted the color we put a big color swatch on the wall. Do you see my reflection in the shower? Hahaha I was attempting to document the process.
After painting the guest bath we knew that the correct paint to buy was semi-gloss. We “assumed” the guest and master bath were approximately the same size we purchase 1 quart of paint. We were well, WRONG! The master bath is slightly bigger so we really needed two quarts of paint. Back to the store I went to pick up the extra quart. Then something disastrous happened. We started painting the remaining wall and somehow the color just was NOT the same. I really don’t know what happened … the husband and I stood there looking at the wall and then at each other and we were seriously PERPLEXED. In any event it was unanimous that we needed another quart of this paint in an effort to resolve the issue.
Back to Sherwin Williams we went to purchase our THIRD quart of this paint. We were so excited to get home and make that final wall match all the rest that we pulled out all the painting supplies and got to work. Clearly this damn bathroom just didn’t want to be painted … I’m not sure how it happened by the roller started shedding and the wall started to look all textured. At this point we were so perplexed I didn’t even think to break out the camera to document the disaster that was unfolding. We attempted to wipe the wall down with paper towels and start over, but that was an epic fail leading to an empty paint can and a textured wall.
After letting the wall dry and sanding it back to “normal town” we were ready to being painting the dreaded wall again. SOOOOO back to the paint store we went for a fourth and final time. The husband goes in to buy the paint and when he got back to the car he looked a little defeated …
Me – “What’s wrong?”
Husband – “The just asked me if I was aware of how many quarts of the same colored paint we’ve purchased.”
Me – “Too many … but it wasn’t our fault there were so many issues. Didn’t you tell him all the issues we had.”
Husband – “Nope. Just told him I was aware we should have purchased a gallon at the start of this project.”
Me – “Oh okay then.”
My poor husband was so horrified that we had to purchase so many quarts that he wouldn’t own up to the issues we encountered when the sales man pointed out we purchased incorrectly. :)
After the fourth quart of paint we were FINALLY able to fix the remaining wall and put a little extra paint on the other walls. Unfortunately I haven’t master the process of having paint colors show up correctly in pictures when there is zero natural light. Therefore there is no great “after shot”. Sorry :(. It was SO nice to call that project a wrap after four tries LOL. Overall I love the color of the bathroom. Now I am on the hunt for a new bathroom mat and accessories. Somehow the to-do list never seems to dwindle!
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And I mean that literally … the wheel on the bus (read party bus) went POP. So which (party) bus, how, when and what exactly happened is the “not so funny then”, but “kind of funny now” type of story. Last summer my amazing maid of honor and bridesmaids planned a super fun bachelorette weekend for me and our friends!! It was weekend packed of fun activities in the DC area.
The weekend started with a roof deck party. Each girl brought a special drink/shot to share with the group. It was our “low key” night in, however it turned into a late night with a very late night round of the game “never have I ever”. Seriously, I don’t think I had played that game since high school, but what a fun thing to do on my last weekend as a single lady!
The next day we woke up and got ready for our party bus to arrive! The ladies and I were headed to the beach to catch some rays and relax before our big night out that evening. We all loaded onto the super cool bus and off we went.
About two thirds of the way there we all hear this huge POP! The bus driver stayed calm and managed to pull over without any incidents. We all pilled out of the bus and there was the culprit …
There wasn’t a whole lot we could do, but sit on the bus and wait. This is where we went wrong. What we should have done was called a cab and had the bus company meet us at the beach. Instead the bus driver kept assuring us it would only be another 30 minutes. About 2-3 hours later they finally had a limo pick us up and drive us to the beach. By the time we made it to the beach it was FULL and they were no longer letting people in. We were all at a loss. What should we do at this point?!
Luckily one of my friends jumped into action. She called her friend who has a boat and he agreed to let a bunch of girls come hang out for a couple hours … lucky him, right :) Back to the city we went and spent a little fun in the sun on the boat.
The evening was spent having dinner at Lincoln and then we got our dance on at Josephine’s. Despite the wheel going POP we had a great day!!! I’m very lucky to have friends who just roll with the punches (so to speak). The weekend showed me no matter what happens my friends and I always have a great time together … even if that means sitting on a hot party bus on the side of the highway for a few hours!
Do you have any “not so funny then”, but “kind of funny now” bachelorette weekend stories?
Happy Bachelorette Weekend!
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Over the past year Life’s Tidbits Blog has gone through many changes. We started out on Tumblr and eventually migrated over to WordPress. Not only did the URL to the blog change, but it also got a new look and feel. I’ve been meaning to give the blog a face-lift since switching to WorkPress, but it never seemed to make it to the top of my to do list.
Here’s what Life’s Tidbits looked like on Tumblr:
Then we transferred over to WordPress and used a standard theme:
When choosing a theme for the blog I really wanted to add links to other posts “you might also like”. I hadn’t been able to figure it out until recently. Last week as I was reading a couple of my favorite blogs I noticed a little LinkWithin text next to the “You Might Also Like” sections. I clicked the link and VOILA a free widget. And what exactly is this widget you ask? “LinkWithin is a blog widget that appears under each post, linking to related stories from your blog archive”. It was a cinch to install and LinkWithin was kind enough to provide step by step instructions. In under five minutes I had downloaded, installed and made live the new functionality. I’m super excite and loving the free widget so far!!! Do you like the new feature?
With one improvement already complete I figured why not continue with the updates. My husband found a site he thought I was really going to like a couple of weeks ago called Subtle Patterns. This site has tilable textured patterns that are FREE to use. There are tons and tons of options. I spent a long time looking at the different options and finally decided upon “Scribble Light”. After installing the background and figuring out how to make the posts and right navigation columns have a white background the site looked like this:
Since I was clearly on a role I spent about an hour creating a new logo for Life’s Tidbits. I must admit I’m not 100% in love with the new header, but I do think it’s a vast improvement from the “standard” header that came with the WordPress theme.
The header/logo (and design) is still a work in progress, but the site is slowly getting to have some “Life’s Tidbits” style to it!! What do you think? Do you like the new look of Life’s Tidbits?
OH and we are now on Facebook – please check it out and “like” us!
Happy Blog ReDesign!
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This picture was taken just a few weeks back. We had just purchased these pillows from Crate & Barrel and Sophi took a liking to them immediately. She started by squeezing herself in between the arm of the couch and the pillow. My puppy is such a cutie!!
The husband thinks we will have a mutiny on our hands if we ever get rid of these pillows hahaha. I mean look how sad she is when I pulled the pillow away from her ….
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