Farmhouse with Altitude

Well I can tell I've started back to school........because I have sucked at blogging lately! I'm sorry guys! I'm going to try to do better this semester! I really do love blogging but sometimes other things have to have priority first.

I have some good news today on this Thursday! WE ARE ABOUT 90% done with our house renovations we've been working on!!! YAH!!! I can not wait to be 100% done!! We would not be this close without our dear GA friends here in SC! Thanks Cam and Whitney! Don't get confused her name is Whitney too, and that is definitely not the only thing we have in common!

I know it's Thursday already but in preparation for the upcoming holiday weekend I'll share a little bit about what we did this past weekend.

Friday night we were able to attend a wonderful event at Shandon Baptist Church, where Whitney works as the admin assistant to the young married couples director. We enjoyed delicious food, a bunch of laugher, beautiful decorations, and wonderful company! This was Whitney's first event putting on at the church so we enjoyed getting to see her in action and see all her hard work that paid off! (YES, I suck once again because I forgot to take any pictures of this event; when will I learn). We also were able to meet Whitney's parents who came to enjoy the event as well. They were very sweet!

Then Saturday Cam came over bright and early to help Daniel out with the house. Daniel was in much need of some manly help, so thank goodness for him! Then around lunch Whitney and her parents headed over to our area to show them around and to show them our darling little house. Thank goodness it was clean! LOL So after a little tour, they decided they were going to head shopping at a nifty place called Sandhill, which is basically an outdoor mall; very cool!! Then they invited me to go with them, which was so sweet, and I happily obliged because what girl can resist shopping over working on the house. Plus I was really more of the water girl....HA! So we headed shopping, the guys finished up working, and then met up with us for dinner at Olive Garden. Yummy!!

Sunday, you guessed it, we worked on the house some more!!

So hopefully soon my weekend festivities will be filled with more fun things instead of house work.

Daniel didn't get called out to Hurricane Issac, which means he will be home for this long weekend!! YAH! This weekend we plan to finish up everything for our guests that are swinging through on Monday. Daniel's parents are going to make a pit stop by our house to see all of our hard work as they are on their way home from their anniversary cruise in the Bahamas! How exciting!! I can't wait for them to barely recognize the place!!

Well a while a go I started this thing with Daniel where I said "Well make it a good Thursday" and now I try to remember to say it every Thursday! So I'll leave you with those words today!!



XOXO

Recently we have ventured into our phase II of our house remodeling projects. The outside of our house has needed a little tender loving care since we bought it, but we knew the project was going to be a beast once we got started. So needless to say we finally jumped off the cliff and started the outside revamp 3 weeks ago and every weekend and pretty much every evening, with the exception of some, we have been working on it and still have a little ways to go. So the next few posts I'm going to dedicate to our recent house projects.

Today I'm going to share our most recent project with you. This wasn't really planned to happen this soon but due to the rainy weekend we just had it left us tucked indoors to see what we could get our hands into. We have been talking about it for a little bit, but decided we were going to put in four can lights, recessed lights, in the corner of our living room. Hopefully to add a little cozy element and some more resale value to the place.

Let me just stop for a minute and say without my wonderful husband we would either live in an outdated house from 1960 or we would be crying our eyes out from the debt we incurred getting someone to do our projects for us. He is definitely the man!! Haha! Hence the cheesy title! But seriously Daniel is very talented in many things and building/renovating is certainly one of them. Sometimes I just sit and watch in amazement the skill set he has in so many areas. Thanks babe! I love you!

Off of that soap box and onto the project I mentioned earlier. This was supposed to be a very simple project but nonetheless nothing is simple or easy in our house. Daniel had to install a new light switch by the door into the living room to connect the lights to, which was a bonus anyways because currently we had to walk across the room to turn the fan on but now it's right by the entrance doorway. This should be as simple as cutting a hole in the wall where it needs to go an then feeding the wire up to the attic. Well wrong-o!!! The builders of our house decided it needed extra support and put boards both horizontally and vertically. So handyman had to keep drilling holes into the wood with a huge drill bit until he had a hole big enough to feed the wire through.

Once he cut the holes for the lights and installed those in the attic, the next step was to wire the bad boys. And thank goodness other than him sweating 10 pounds off in the attic to get this task done, everything was on and working. This little project took about 8-10 hours to complete but I would say it was well worth it. Now Daniel on the other hand, he said I need to LOVE these lights with all my heart for it to be worth it. Which I do and I'm going to try to remind him quite often of it!!

So here are a few pics of the new lights, it is a little hard to get a good view of all of them so bare with me on them.

Lately I have been doing a lot of dreaming… dreaming of what you may ask…FALL!! I can not wait for the weather to turn colder, for boots and sweaters to be a common sight, football Saturdays, snuggling inside with a warm blanket, bonfires, hayrides, baking delicious treats that warm the heart, the smell of cinnamon and apples filling the house, pumpkin patches, scarecrows, leaves changing colors, brisk early mornings in the deerstand, and not to mention the special holidays coming near: our 2nd anniversary, Thanksgiving, and Christmas!!

O how I dream about these days coming so soon!!

School will be starting this week and I'm not very excited but the list above keeps me anxious and hopeful for the joyous times to come!!

I'll leave you with a few photos so you can catch the fall fever!!

This weekend has been very calm and relaxing so far. We worked so hard last weekend on the house we didn't want to wear ourselves out two weekends in a row, plus it rained here today. So we slept in, ate a late breakfast, and then lounged around the house watching TV flipping between the Olympics and Yard Crashers. Then we decided to get up and go out for a little bit.

We headed to Lowes, not your typical "day out shopping" but if you own a house you understand the joys of going to Lowes. Needless to say I did not know this morning what was going to happen there today. See we are renovating the outside of our house currently and we are taking it step by step. So one thing we were debating on is changing out our current shutters or just refurbishing the old ones. Although it would be a huge pain in the rear to sand and paint the current ones, new ones we thought would be a little pricey. We looked them up online and we thought they would be around $50-70 per shutter, hence why we weren't sold on buying new ones. But we decided to check them out in the store today to see what the actual cost would be. And then it happened. We struck GOLD! We came upon the shutter section and see yellow clearance signs on some of the shutters. Of course, my ears sprung up. So we looked at them to see what they were and they were black, which is what we needed, and surprisingly they were the most expensive style, board and batten. I liked those when looking before but just wrote them off my list because they were the most expensive ones. But today they were clearanced 80%!!!!! And they come in a pack of 2 as well! Seriously I was having a coronary in Lowes. Daniel had to make me calm down. So needless to say we ran back home real quick to make sure that we had the measurements correct and went back to Lowes to make the purchase!! So we bought the 3 sets of shutters we needed today for a total of $52!!!! That's cheaper than one set normally!!!


So I would call us Olympians today as we won gold in our local home improvement store!!

Good luck to others out there searching for great deals! Let me know if you find anything!

Hello Everyone!

Tuesday on my lunch I needed to get out of the office and get a little fresh air. So I decided I would take a 10 minute ride down to my local Hobby Lobby. If I've never said this before let me say it now, "Hi, my name is Whitney and I'm addicted to Hobby Lobby". I promise there have been some months I have gone there 2-3 times a week. Lord, forgive me now. But anyways, I figured it had been a good while since I had been there last, so I decided I would go see what kind of deals they had going on this week. And boy did I go at a good time. They just so happened to have their "Spring Shop" on clearance for 80% off!!! Yes that's right I said 80%! So needless to say I got a little excited and started filling my basket like crazy. Here's what I was able to snag up:

All metal works was 50% off, so I got this cute sign for only $6

This adorable serving plate was only $3.60!!!

And this patriotic sentiment was only $2.40 and the ribbon to match was only $0.80 cents!!!!

So go check out your Hobby Lobby to see what you can snag up! I'd love to hear what kind of good deals you got!!

XOXO