elizabethmccoy

Here we are day 5 of our vacation and just now getting to paint with color!!! It has been a tiring staycation (LOL hubby came up with that one) but we're liking the color more and more and are happy to be done!!! Well except we still need a second coat...Hopefully we'll accomplish that today.

back wall with bay window

dh painting the half wall

another shot of the back wall

doorway into the playroom (dining room & living room) Hey don't you just love our retro oven LOL!!!

The 2008 Scrappy Awards are being held this month at DSP. I have entered 2 layouts so far in the following categories:

Best use of a Single DSP Kit
"Pure Love"


Best Use of a DSP Quick Click
"Sunshine Smile"


Click on the layouts to see credits.

Anyone want to share the blog tools they use???



===COMMENT MANAGERS===

Here is one I LOVE called Disqus.
It is a comment manager it turns your comments on a post into a
threaded gropuing. It also allows you to manage all your comments (on
multiple blogs, too) from one control panel. I love that it also
integrates with Plaxo (www.plaxo.com)
where I feed my blogs into. If someone leaves a comment on my blog post
within plaxo it will show up on my blog for others outside of plaxo to
read.



http://disqus.com/



===PUBLISHERS===

I also use Scribefire (for Firefox) and love love love publishing to all my blogs through scribefire.



http://www.scribefire.com/


When posting photos at home I will sometimes use Picasa (free photo manager) you can easily edit your photos then publish them to your blogger blogs.

http://picasa.google.com/blogger/





Anyone else have any tools they want to share.

Found this great map on my friend Jamie's blog and had to do my own.

Here is a great map of all the places (states) I've been (either driving through or actually visiting). Click on the link below to make your own!!!!

Well we're on day 3 of vacation day 2 of working on the kitchen. A friend of ours, Beth, a professional painter gave us some pointers on where to get started today. The walls from taking the wallpaper down were beyond SCARY!!! We weren't sure what the heck we were thinking LOL!! She instructed us to prime over everything and that will show us better where we need to spackle and sand etc.


Wall above the open railing.

Back wall with bay window & back door

Wall with doorway to playroom.

Here are some photos of the in between part.

Back wall with most of the wallpaper removed.

Overhead wall above the open railing to the den.

Still a work in progress today we have Jack so we're playing and running errands. We will probably get alittle more done while he takes his nap and again when he goes to bed tonight. Tomorrow will be a bigger progress day. Things are definitely gettin difficult as the 2 layer of wallpaper (original to the house) is stuck on there pretty darn good. Looks like we might have to skim coat all the surfaces. YIKES!!! We are going to have to beg our friend to come over and help us with that part :)