Help Wanted...

Do you feel like you spend the majority of your time vacumning and mopping? We all wish we can afford maids, but it's not always possible. The other alternative is ROOMBA and SCOOBA

These are robots that you can time to vacumn your home 7 times a week. Just imagine coming home to a clean house every day. These two items will be on the top of my christmas list this year. My house is tiled and it tends to attract a lot dirt. I usually vacumn and mop 2-3 times a week. If I had this I can just come home and watch my soap operas instead of clean.



It's kinda pricey, but cheaper than a maid. The ROOMBA cost about $399 and the SCOOBA varies based on the square footage. I'm hoping Santa brings me the SCOOBA. I just recently purchased a Dyson, so no ROOMBA for me. Check out the video, it's so cool!

How do you like your bulbs?

It's that time of year to plant bulbs for the spring and summer. I want my own garden so that I can have fresh flowers. How do I go about accomplishing this? Internet!! So I found some really neat articles on how to plant bulbs in a way that they look naturalize. What is naturalize? Well it's a technique to make your flowers look like they just up and grew like that. Just like wild flowers in the mountains.

Since this is my first year and attempt, I'm worried about the outcome. I'm going to plant lots of bulbs. I don't want to wait until Spring to find out that there will be no flowers because I screwed up.

I thought about just sticking to plain white flowers, so the yard doesn't look like a rainbow threw up in it, but that's boring! The following are the color schemes and flowers that I want:

Behind on pictures...

Yes, I know I'm behind and you all have been waiting to see how my house is coming along. I can't seem to find my cord for the camera. I have tons of pictures to show you, but no cord. URGGGG....the husband is no help. He's probably the one who misplaced it.

My backyard is finished and we bought an outdoor utility sink kit from Home Depot, so that the landscaper can installed our sink. At no additional charge, isn't he wonderful? I came home late last night from running errands, so I didn't see it yet, but my husband likes it.

I also bought these trellis thing to go around my AC. I'm going to cover it up with silk leaves/vines to mask the ugliness of the AC. I thought about growing actual vines, but too much maintenance involved. The trellis thing I got from Target for $5 each. They usually run about $10 each, so I saved $15. Wooohoooo!!!

We also placed an order for a high pressure double burner stove to cook outside. Apparently the place in town that carries it no longer sells the tall ones. We desperately need this, because I can honestly say that we've been starving. Starving?? Yes, we haven't been cooking indoor and I miss a nice, and oil smelling meal. Can't wait to get it!

Paint, paint and more paint...

So we finally finished painting the kitchen, nook, hallway, and living room. I used Valspar's digital painter to create this kitchen and the living room. The kitchen color is slate green with the nook wall in coffee n' cream to complement my dark furniture.


The living room color is natural, the fireplace wall is skylark (milk chocolate brown), and I'm thinking of painting my fireplace mantel black as well. The hallway is also coffee n' cream but due to the different lighting the color looks different.



I thought about going darker in the living room too, but figured that with the kitchen being dark already I needed to go light to balance the two. Overall I'm happy with the outcome. I also felt that with these colors, I can change my accent colors with the seasons. Bright orange in the fall, soft blue in the summer and so forth.

Right now, I just need decorations and my furnitures which are arriving this Friday. I'll post the actual pictures up soon!

Landscape almost done...

After much deliberation we decided that we absolutely needed to have our backyard landscape done. With winter, rain, and all, we just know that it's going to be messy. Also we don't want our yard over flooding because it's super tiny.

We got a pretty good deal, paying a little under $4K for the sod, drain pipes, sprinkler system, concrete, and an extra water spigot for our outdoor sink. This is by far the most affordable out of all the quotes that we got. The most expensive was $7K.

The concrete is done and we are just waiting for it to dry. Two weeks before the landscaper started, the weather was perfect not too cold or hot. Right after the concrete was done, it rained the next day. I'm kind of worried about how this will affect the concrete, so we'll have to see.

The yard should be done by this week, just in time for my halloween party. I don't think anyone will be outside because it's just too cold.

Pictures to follow.