Subway

I obviously don't live in a town where there are subways and I probably never will.

But these are just too awesome and it really makes me want to make something like this.

This one is just inspired from the Toyko subway maps.

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 This one is the Paris Metro map using embroidery floss on canvas.

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And this one is the US interstate system in subway map form!  How cool is that!

Chisholm

Here is just some pictures I took of Chisholm this past weekend.  I've wanted to take some pictures of her for awhile now, but I was always forgetting about it.  I figured now was as good a time as any!

I also took some black and white film photos of her about 8 years ago on my 35mm Canon.  I took those to a photo place downtown to get some prints made.  I'm really excited to get those back.  For being an ametaur photographer back in high school, I think they turned about pretty good.  And really, I'm still an ameteur. 

DIY Art - Pinterest Challenge

Thank you Pinterest...again.  And thanks to BowerPower , Younghouselove, and two other blogs for thinking up this Challengefest!

I've long been looking for something to go above our bed since we repainted and got new bedding.  I didn't want an actual print because I knew it would take too long to find and I might have a hard time finding just the right one.

I really like canvas and I've seen some cool simple DIY crafts using it.  Like this one:

 The canvas and small letters are simly just painted white.

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 Then she spiced it up by covering some letters in glitter.

I also considered doing something like this; Organic to tie in my bedspread.  This idea got nixed because I don't have the patience and I thought it might look wierd.

Ultimately, I came back to doing something personal with letters. 

While dating, and sometimes even now, Stephen and I would say that we needed "you and me" time.  This consists of just the two of us spending time together with no other distractions, no tv, no games, just us.  It was time to just sit and chat about things and really get to know eachother.  Even now, we may see eachother everyday but sometimes we just need time away from the chores and the tv to really just talk to eachother...."you and me" time.

So, hence the reason why we decided that our DIY art would be three 14x14 canvases with the words "you & me" across them all painted white.  We had trouble finding the right font and size of wood letters at Hobby Lobby and Michaels as they are the only craft stores around here, and they have really poor selection.  Enter the Internet!  This site was perfect.  Custom font and size!  They even had videos explaining how they size their letters.

Unlike the true everyday bloggers who thought up this challenge and could start and finish a project within the week, we started this project in like November and just hung it up last weekend.

We carefully chose the right size letters, spray painted the letters and the canvases seperately, and glued the letters to the canvas using a hard core fabric glue we found at Hobby Lobby.  Then we simply waited a day until we hung them up with finish nails.

Looks fabulous to me!

Oh yeah... and we also finally got curtains for our bedroom!  It only took us 3.5 years to finally decide it was necessary.

Now our room is starting to feel more put together.  If only we could finish our bathroom soon, too!

Broken

It's raining today.  Praise the Lord!

I was really excited to be able to see how much rain we'll get today with my rain guage. 

Then, I remembered that a few weeks ago I went to look at it after our last rain and saw that it had broken.

The test tube thingy is made of glass and it must have shattered a bit with the cold weather.

Hmph...now I'm on the hunt for a new test tube thingy that will fit my custom made from the okc art festival rain guage.

Bathroom Update

Since the last bathroom post, we've had the electrian and the plumber come to our house and get our bathroom all fixed up.  We got a new light box wired and our light switches simplified. 

The plumber jackhammered our foundation and moved the drain a good 5 inches to center.  He also raised the shower head and moved the fixtures to be more centered as well.

This weekend, we took out the toilet and removed the tile and thinset from the floor.  It created a lot of dust in a tiny room and poor Stephen's hair was all dusty white.

It's all very exciting but we still need the drywall fixed and the new shower pan to be properly sloped in.  Hopefully we'll get to that in the next month.

We haven't ordered the tile yet, partially because I think we're still a bit torn on our final design... and color scheme for that matter.  We had decided on a dark tile, but then we saw cool light colored mosaics at the store and Stephen then got the urge to go with a light tile.  So, we've still got time to decide on that.  I think we're worried that even though the dark tile is awesome looking, the whole shower bathrom area is only 5'x5'ish so it might make it look smaller and darker.

 Oh well, we've got time to figure it out.

Anything will be better than this:

New look!

The HUGE picture I had on here was nice but ....huge.  I finally figured out how to make the picture smaller and customized.  Welcome photoshop and pixel sizing.

I hope you like the new look!  I'm thinking of making the backdrop more of subtle lighter pattern but I haven't decided yet.

AND!!!  The electrician is here right now!  Update on that later!

We're like best friends now

Ahh.. this is so cool.  I know I'm such a dork for this, too but I don't care.  I commented on young house love's blog the other day and Sherry commented back!  EEK!

um...that's all I got for today!