Before & After: Living/Dining Room

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Before & After: TV Area

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Before & After: Kitchen

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Happy Anniversary House!!!

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Today I have officially owned my house for a year !!!! (I haven't lived in it for a year yet, but she's belonged to me...and yes my house is a she.) I can't believe it's already been a year...it has most definitely flown by! In honor of our year together, I'm going to try (emphasis on try) to post some before/after pictures of the house this week...you know, show off her makeover :) Although there are still a lot of things I want to do to the house (it's true what they say, the projects never end), it'll be fun to see how far we've come in a year.

Thank you all for joining me on my home-owning journey this far...

my new Happy room....

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I apologize in advanced...this will be a long post :) It has taken a while for me to transform my "extra" room into my new Art/Craft/Sewing room...

Back in January, I finally tackled painting this room...


I painted it a light, bright green...very cheerful :)
I had replaced the door leading from my kitchen to the backyard, and knew I wanted to take the old door and make it into a table/workbench (as I've seen done on multiple home improvement shows). It took a while, but I finally got a glass piece and put together the table one night after work.

I just used 4"x4" posts as legs (Home Depot didn't have any table legs that I liked):

I took a day off work this last week and got a lot of things done around the house; my big goal of the day, was to tackle more of this room, starting with putting up these shelves that my boss gave me (thanks Candace!!!):

I got half the shelves up by the end of the day (and the mirror), and got some organization/cleaning done... Friday I finished up the room:

When you look out of the window in this room, you look out onto the vegetable gardens.
Me...and my new favorite room...even passing by it makes me happy :)

More Veggies...

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Last Saturday, while I was gone all day, my parents finished installing the last 2 raised vegetable beds. Sunday we worked on putting some more veggies in. Now we've almost filled all 4 boxes with all sorts of veggies....the latest additions are green squash/zucchini, yellow squash, beets, cucumbers, chinese peas, lettuce/greens, and a couple fruits: watermelon and cantaloupe.

We've also planted some sunflowers along the fence which will hopefully pop up nicely.

Germinating Seeds

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I started some seeds inside a week or two ago and they have grown a lot! Some days it seemed like they grew an inch; it was so fun to see a difference in them every day. We transplanted some of them outside today (more on that later).

A few of the seed packets we bought:

Chinese Peas and Cucumbers:

Green Onion, Carrots, and Cauliflower:Various types of lettuce: