Corkulents...

Hey, just wanted to stop in and show a few little projects I've been working on. I'm still getting a few things together for our backyard and craigslist find post so that'll be this week sometime.

But I wanted to share a few little things that are fun and added some great color to my very WHITE rooms.

No painting is sad, but I've learned to add color in other ways.

Cue plants - I love greenery. Period. I try to incorporate it in every room. Succulents have gotten pretty popular in the design world as an accessory and I love them. So I decided to give it a try.

I had bought this cute coral pot from Home Goods before I left and I just picked up a couple little plants from Home Depot and arranged them together. This will be living in our living room to add to the coral, dark blue, and like a bluest green color that I haven't been able to name yet color scheme. :)

I also bought a new cork board for our Kitchen due to lack of room for this one. It came in this pretty blue color but I was looking for something a bit more neutral.

So I spray painted it dark grey! I love this color.

This is how it looks in the Kitchen - AKA perfection.

Today we worked on a Gallery wall in the Living room. 

I'll share that another day.....


Hope you had a great weekend!


Cathy

Before...

Hi Again,

I'm the one that literally has no excuse not to write, remember me?

Here are the before pics of the house, Finally!  We've done so many things that this doesn't even look like it anymore!!

So I'm gonna start with the downstairs.

Here's our front door. The stairs are right in front of you when you come in and the Living room is to the right.

Here's Med in the Living room. Which goes into the itty bitty Dining room.

Wittle dining area. There's a little hall off this room that goes into the downstairs bathroom.

Here's the hall with a closet in front of you. Bathroom to the right.

And here's the downstairs bathroom. We LOVE having two bathrooms. This one has a stand up shower.

From the Dining room you go into the Family room. Here's the wall closest to the Dining room.

And here's the oppsite wall. SUCH an awkward shaped room.  It's been really hard to arrange!

The Kitchen is open to the Family room.  Which I really love.  You can watch TV while you cook and you can have someone sitting on the couch and can still see them while you talk to them. Better pictures soon, this was the day we moved in.

And this is the walkway through the Kitchen to the back yard and garage. We have a washer and dryer where those boxes are now, which has been great to have right here in the house :)

Okay now to the upstairs... view from the top.

 Upstairs hallway. I'm gonna start from the far end moving to the left.

At the end of the hall there's a random "large closet". It's huge, I really don't know what I'm going to do with it. Right now Ross has all his army stuff in there and it's kinda his very own dressing room.  We might keep it that way. You're welcome babe. :)

Then we have a small office, which is full of boxes and Med's crate for now. I'd like to say this would be one of the first projects we'll get done so Ross can have a set place to do his homework but I don't see this being done until winter time. Maybe sooner though.

And then we have our oh so grand guest bedroom. Haha. I actually have some fun plans for this room and hope it'll be ready by Thanksgiving because I have a few people visiting then :)

And lastly we have the Master bedroom and bathroom. I actually really love our room. This will be one of the first finalized projects. We decided that we really want a nice place to be able to fall asleep in because we never did our room in our last apartment. Sooo we bought a new bed which is so comfy and I just ordered our very first bed frame since being married. I'm so excited for it to get here!!

This is actually the Master bath and the upstairs bath. It has two doors. One from our room and one from the hall. It's pretty big and it has dual sinks, which we LOVE :)

I feel like we're already done so much since we took these pictures!

I'll share the front and back yards in another post.  I'm so excited to share the process of making our house more our home :)


Next up - Craigslist finds and the back yard makeover (so far).


:)


Cathy

3000 miles...

It was quite the trip to get here. I figured I would share some of that before doing before pictures of our house or any little projects that we've been up to (which have been a few).

Dave, as previously stated, was nice enough to come out with me. I honestly wouldn't have been able to do that trip without him.  He drove most of the way and I literally would have gotten lost, or killed somewhere in the Midwest if he wasn't with me.

So we started our journey on a Thursday morning. We left New York around 9:30.

Here's Medved in his favorite spot of the whole trip. He would literally fight me whenever I tried to pull him in.

Dave's co-pilot. (bad IPhone pics)

Here is an Indiana sunset.

And a rainbow in Iowa.

I can't remember how long we drove for but it was over 30 hours. We felt great so we just kept going. We were in Omaha, Nebraska by the next morning. We ate breakfast there and continued on with the journey.


Here are the plains of Nebraska.

By Wyoming we were pretty convinced that we would make it the whole way without having to stop but ourAlternator didn't agree. Right around Laramie, Wyoming we had to stop and spend the night so it could be fixed.  We left around 6 the next morning.




Here's the sunrise the next day in Wyoming.

The next two pictures were through Wyoming too. I LOVED this state. There wasn't much there but it was golden, open and beautiful. I would love to own a ranch there one day.

Here's Med being a HAM in Utah. He couldn't get enough of the wind. At first I kept asking Dave if it was raining and then I would remind myself that I was getting Med's drool all over my face and arms. He was so funny and so good the whole trip. The 2nd picture is in Utah too, he was happy to get a little time out of the truck.

Here's Nevada, which I drove through, and is also very boring! Dave took Med out for a little game of fetch at a rest stop. It was so funny to watch because it was so hot and sandy, whenever Med ran to get the stick there wold be dirt flying up everywhere.

We stopped in Sacramento to spend the night because it was so late and because we thought only having a 3 hour drive in the morning would feel really good. 

This was our sight on our way to Monterey the next morning :) Gold like Wyoming, mountainous like Utah and a little green like New York.  It was perfect :)

And here's when we first drove through Seaside and Monterey :) First time I ever saw the Pacific.

We made it that Sunday morning and stayed in a hotel for two days until our house was ready for us.

A couple more pictures of the coastline for you to be jealous of ;) 

The weather is alot cooler then I expected and Monterey is more small town that I thought it would be but it's perfect for the year and a half we'll call it home :)

Before pictures of the house next!

Cathy

New California Family...

Wow it's been a long time.  I didn't even mean for it to be this long. It's been a pretty crazy two months that's for sure.

I'm sure I'll fill in little details as I get back into the habit of blogging but here's a summary:

Ross finally graduated Basic Training :)

I was able to go down to South Carolina for the graduation and to finally see my awesome husband!

I flew down on a Tuesday and was able to spend Wednesday with Ross for family day. He wasn't allowed to leave base but it was great being able to catch up with him and hear all about what he had been doing for 2 and a half months.

He had lost 40 pounds while he was there so it was so crazy seeing him. I felt like he was a totally different person.  He was so much more confident and handsome as always, I was in heaven. :)

And then he had his graduation day on Thursday. It was by far one of the proudest days of my life.  Ross was able to march in a different group and he received a coin from the general for being Soldier Leader of the Cycle for his company.  He did so amazing, and I was very happy to be there to witness this great event in his life.

Everything kinda went in fast forward after that. Ross left for California the next morning, that Friday. Then it was my turn to get everything set up for moving.  We ended up doing a DITY move. (Do IT yourself) So while Ross was in the land of fun and sun (not that he was able to enjoy it) I was packing up our whole apartment and going through tons of paperwork to get ready for our move.

Ross' Dad, Dave, was kind enough to drive out with me.  It was Dave, Medved and I in the front of a uhaul while we towed our Honda on the back.

It was quite the trip. We made it in 3 days, and the only reason we didn't make it in 2 was because the alternator went out in Wyoming so we had to stay a night while it was fixed.  It was fun, I drove through Nebraska and Nevada and was so happy to finally reach California.  It was more beautiful then I thought. So worth the long drive.

After a few set backs we finally made it into our house (townhouse actually) and have been getting settled since then :)

Our days now consist of driving Ross to school, very early in the morning (due to him not being able to drive yet) and then unpacking, getting settled, exploring the area and cleaning, then picking Ross up, making and eating dinner and then Ross doing homework and studying for hours before we finally go to bed. And then it starts all over again the next day.

It's stressful and it's only just begun but we're together and we're happy. :)

I've already been getting little things done with the house. So look forward to fun posts all about my little home projects and my Californian days. <3

There's been a lot of change in my life, and I'm loving all of it.


One big change:

Medved (for the time being) now looks like a greyhound.  I miss his long locks :( but it needed to be done. He's so high maintenance, I can't keep up with all the knots!

Til next time, 

Cathy