Project Land continued...

 Well, back to project land. Jeremy and I went to town on our four day weekend and we worked and got a lot done. Who knew painting such a small space would take so much time!
This is me to the right painting our kitchen walls, martha stewart sea glass green. It's so bright we love how it turned out. 

 There's the project man himself (such a good husband doing all my little projects with me) He's painting the big wall that leads into the closet a light gray, it turned out real good too.

 I just put this one up because he's so stinking cute. :)

 Also one of our updates was a peg board for some good closet organization. It's so perfect and it's cute. I'd been pinning after one for a while and now thanks to my very handy man husband I have one hung and functional too.

 There's me with some paint in my hair painting our shelves and the hardware attached. we didn't remove them from the wall because we were afraid we wouldn't be able to put them back in with the plaster behind it... so tricky. File cabinet white for the shelves and a my own mixture of acrylic paint for the hardware to make a nice green. 

There's the final product... well a work in progress. Now that the paint is up my mind goes running with ideas. the water pitcher to the left is a new thrift store addition. I want to add some red and things like the rustic water pitcher look... I'm sure you all care so much about my random house decorations, probably have the same look on your face that jeremy does when I talk about these things to him. He's such a good sport. 

 Ok so super excited for this addition. Been Thinking up this one for a while. Ever since I saw some fruit crates staked up at the farmers market like this it triggered the idea to make a night stand out of it. We don't really have a big enough space for a real night stand so we hammered two wood crates together. It fits quite a bit of books which works out pretty nice for us being students and all.

 I stenciled in some numbers and a big letter A down the side, just to give it some style. You can't see it but on the top of the upper crate I painted a big number 17 in typwriter stencil.If you don't already know that was Jeremy's number in water polo. I got major brownie points for that one :)

 This is also a new addition and a work in progress (still putting new additions inside to add to the style of it) It was a cd shelf we found at a thrift store. There's a perfect place for it in the corner by our bed and the window. It fits a lot of books once we moved the shelves around, and a few tea lights inside the tea cups add to the mood ( you know, we're newly weds, don't judge us)

 There's the final product. Newly painted desk as well, all it needs now is new hardware (via anthropology) and for it to be sanded down to antiqued perfection.

There's our new couch! Thrift stored that one too and we love it. We bought some cleaner and borrowed a vacuum from the Pine's and now it's as good as new. 





There are many more home improvement projects to come so stay tuned. Next on the list picture frames! we have very blank walls at this point. 
we love our new apartment more and more. It definitely feels like home now. I really look forward to being here with Jeremy at the end of the day. It's really relaxing and has been so much fun to do all these projects together. Studio apartment life is the life if you ask me.

Project Land

This past week was Missions Conference and this coming Monday/Tuesday is what Moody calls Study & Reading Days...which means two things: #1 Sort of a Break and #2 The Creation of Project Land.

Missions Conference is sort of a break...more of a break if you live off campus because you aren't required to go to as many sessions, but its a conference that is at Moody concerning Missions. Anyways, it means no classes and therefore a little break from nightly homework. Although we still have stuff to do and work to be done, we have had a good week so far hanging out and building up to what I just coined...

Project Land: It is in a tiny little 425 sq. ft. apartment on Maple and Dearborn where two people live. Though it be a small space, the possibilities of PL are endless. In PL you will see painting, peg board mounting, closet organizing, nightstand equipping, and painting (and all the little projects that show up in other projects that you didn't plan on having as projects). Amy loves to be in Project Land. I think I like Project Land and am excited for Project Land and am pretty sure that I will enjoy Project Land. But Amy loves PL.

Look forward to many pictures of all of our great ideas and projects and creations coming soon.

If all goes well, PL for this weekend should end by Tuesday evening.

Breakfast With My Boo

One of my favorite things about Saturdays is that my boo and I get to have breakfast together. During the week I have class at 8 a.m. four of the days and Amy has class at 8 a.m. the one day that I don't have an 8 a.m. class. So most of the mornings consist of a quick breakfast...either a bagel with cream cheese, maybe toast and eggs, but never anything more than that. Most of the mornings we go for no breakfast because of my sweet Food Service benefits which gets me a bagel, coffee, a piece of fruit, and chocolate milk at school. I go for that option a lot because it saves us money and gets me more sleep in the morning.

Anyways, so this morning I got to make breakfast for my boo. On the menu was: Vanilla Banana Waffles, Brown 'n Serve Sausage, OJ, and coffee. I think these things are my four favorite breakfast items besides omelets. I'm still trying to master the omelet and haven't quite come up with the perfect recipe or skills to make a great omelet. But back to this morning's breakfast...waffles...these were an ode to Waffle Wednesdays with my little brother Timmy. Most Wednesdays Timmy would have like 3.5 minutes to make waffles even though he had a late start day at school. But I put a little dash of vanilla, mashed some bananas and put them into our $1 Waffle & Pancake Mix. They were good. Secondly, the Brown 'n Serve Sausage. I think I love these because I grew up eating bacon. I still think bacon is great and would eat bacon all the time, but for some reason I was deprived of sausage at home growing up (Kind of like why I'm really into crunchy peanut butter right now, because we only had smooth peanut butter at home growing up). So Amy, being the wonderful wife that she is, buys sausage at the store for our breakfasts together. Third, OJ...Orange Juice...only kind of watered down OJ and not completely watered down OJ. Amy and I got a really big juice pitcher and for whatever reason, Amy felt that we needed to fill the whole thing up even though we only put in one thing of frozen OJ. Anyways, this morning's OJ was good and we no longer fill the whole pitcher up with water. Lastly, we had coffee. There's not much to say about the coffee except that I put half and half in my coffee this morning, which reminds me of when my mother-in-law and father-in-law came to visit Amy and I at school (although, they were not my in-laws at the time)...

 

So Bob and Lynne were in Chicago for a few days getting to see Moody etc...and this one morning we stopped by Starbucks underneath the train station at Chicago Brown Line. I think we all went for the cheap and easy drip coffee and headed for the milk, cream, sugar bar. Now, I don't know Bob that well, but am getting to know him...I think we first talked about wedding stuff that weekend and so I was at the nervous/scared state still, but I learned that morning that Bob loves Half and Half. He was really excited about the Half and Half. I think he said something like this, "Oh, I love Half and Half. I always put Half and Half in my coffee. Its my favorite." I kind of chuckled and affirmed that I too love Half and Half and consider it the best additive to coffee. I remember Amy telling me that he gets stuck on things like that, which I thought was pretty funny because I get stuck on stuff like that. Anyways, good story, huh?

Hey Bob, I put Half and Half in my coffee this morning.

First Time With No Wife

My wife is away this weekend for a wedding in Santa Cruz. I miss her. This is the first time in our marriage that we've been away from each other. I'm glad that it was her that left and not me...I don't have to bear the guilt of being the first one to leave. The apartment feels empty without her, although I practically fill the room by myself.

Anyways, I'm going to try and supplement my depression of not having Amy around by working out more, doing more homework, and putting in some hours on the job. Since its the beginning of the month, I have to pay bills too. (Only a couple though.)

She comes back on Sunday night. I'm going to meet her at the airport. I'm also going to attempt to make banana bread for her on Sunday afternoon. I tried to make cookies a little while back and despite my baking expertise and pride, they turned out pretty bad.

Come home soon boo.