Productive Long weekend
It's been an eventful week. Last Tuesday a huge oak tree limb fell off a tree in our backyard in a storm and hit the house. It felt like an earthquake hit us. It was crazy. It hit and bounced off the house and fell on our lilac bush and some houseplants on our patio. A neighbor wants the wood so he's going to cut it up next week and haul it off... we don't own a chainsaw (yet) and bought wood for the winter last week, so we're glad he wants to take care of it, it's a huge limb- as long as the house!
A's been super-busy, he had 4 tennis matches last week, two were away. They had district this weekend and his #1 player won and is going to the state tournament this weekend. The team as a whole finished the season on a really positive note finishing second in the district ahead of several teams that beat them this season.
I spent the weekend painting. I actually had never painted a room before- since I'd been a renter for so long. I painted over the wallpaper that had been painted over and had bled through and was this weird faint jungle print that loooked like a stencil. Now it is off-white because we can't quite decide on colors yet for the living room. Big improvement. I also tackled the purple bathroom. It was a nightmare- it took three coats of paint to turn purple to yellow. It's much brighter and actually matches the floor tile color instead of being this odd dark purple. My sewing/craft/office room is still purple, but will eventually be a light blue. I've decided I don't really like painting, it's kind of a messy pain in the ass. So I'll get around to that last room eventually.
We've also made some progress/decisions on our living room. We've ordered a dark chocolate brown sectional couch, and I'm trying to decide what color to accent it (pillows, a chair cushion, and an ottoman I want to make out of foam and fabric). Either kind of a bright green color, blue, or orange. I kind of want to go orange and use this line of fabrics for the stuff I want to make- I love the print with the off-white background, dark birds and branches and orange berries and the orange wood fabric- and I like that it's all not too girly (unlike a lot of the other fabrics I like and might want to use but A might not like so much). Either way I'm ordering some of it! The green option would include this I think, or at least the top green pods fabric, if I can find it anywhere for sale anymore, it seems to be sold out most of the places I've looked for it online. I already made a bunch of green and brown cushions last year for our wicker furniture that could work with that print too, so it would take less sewing. Anything is cheaper than the fabric at the furniture store that I really wanted for throw pillows. It turned out to be either $150 a pillow (for a throw pilliow!) or quite a steal by the yard at $80 a yard. I could buy almost 10 yards of the Aviary fabrics for the price of one yard of the one (it was gorgeous- a textured brown and orange brocade with leaves and stems) at the furniture store. If I went orange I could also make a couple of pillows with the leftover wedding orange silk fabric. I have a ton of it and it's weaving up really quickly and look great, but they don't use much fabric. It's fun though, to slowly kind of think about what we want our rooms to eventually look like. I think it will be a while before we even think about the basement other than moving the old couch down there when the new ones come in.
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