La Habra Demo

Caitlin and Josh are blessed to have this nice 2 bedroom Condo tucked away in La Habra, CA near their College, BIOLA. Its a great place, it just needs a little updating here and there. Cait and Josh felt the living room was feeling a bit cramped due to these built-ins. Now built-ins are nice, but they can collect stuff, sometimes too much (especially books for these two students) and they just don't work for Josh and Cait's TV and  the overall layout. So I gave them a visit and we decided to rip them out!!! 

Books books and more books filled up the futon!

Now the ripping, propping, holding, and sawing!!

Whoopsies! Saw dust took over the couch!

And its all out of the house! Look at all that open space! We found old carpet, wires coming out of the wall, and a few holes. Josh called an electrician and he came and fixed the wire problem in two hours. 

And now here it is all cleaned up after!

Josh and Cait made this sofa table with drawers from some of the salvaged wood. Cool! 

 They found these bookcases on Craigslist to make room for all their books. 

A little blurry but much more space.

Christmas Yarn Wreaths

According to my friend Katie G, I am getting "very crafty". I don't consider myself crafty at all - doing a craft and being crafty to me are different things.

But for Christmas I got excited for this craft: yarn wreaths. They are quite festive plus I knew I could handle wrapping yarn around a foam wreath so I went to Michaels and this is what I brought home:

The Process: 

The results: Merry Christmas Cait!

 

Mini Ornaments and Feathers

Next the Grinch Wreath: 

 

 

The Snowy Wreath:

 

And lastly the results for the Jingle Bell Wreath:

 

 Here you can see the colors better:

They were fun and easy to make and I planned on making more for gifts but when I went back to Michaels - all the foam wreaths were sold out! I guess my ideas will have to wait untill Michaels is re-supplied. 

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

Eric's favorite holiday is Christmas. I like it a lot too, but not nearly as much as him. We wanted to get in the holiday spirit for December and so it all began...

We hung up the lights! 

  The hard way, on a slippery roof, in shorts, while holding a staple gun.

 

Don't they look nice?

  I hung the lights on the inside of the window. The safe way, hahaha!

Then I wanted more lights over our patio space so I could see them all the time.

And we came up with this:

We bought a little (wanna-be) 6 foot fake tree from target and decorated it with our tiny collection of ornaments from last year, festive candy canes, lights, and new animal ornaments. 

 Lastly here is our 2010 Christmas Card:

Wild Animal Ornaments

I may have gone wild...!

Well people, these are just the beginning of my plan for making next year's Christmas Tree WILD!! It may look silly now but just you wait. And yes, you don't have to ROAR about it -I know- waiting a whole year is tough... the anticipation may drive you WILD too! But here is a sneak peak at next year's overall theme:

 I bought these each for $1 and the spray paint was less than $2.

I also bought these little 'screw eyes'. I used the drill and then added a dab of super glue to keep them secure. 

 *note* IF you buy really cheap spray paint, expect to be painting layers and layers and layers of it. I used two stupid bottles of this cheap spray paint and still almost didnt have enough! 

And here they are hanging on the tree!

 Remember - Just the beginning to the theme for Next Year!