Has The Masked Mommy Disappeared???

No. Last time I checked, going invisible wasn't on my list of superpowers ;-)

However, I have been CRAZY busy! We are moving on Sunday to a fabulous old farmhouse built in the year 1900, and we're so excited! However, packing all our stuff while watching 2 tiny tots has been no easy task... even when you do have superpowers... ahem.

As if packing weren't enough, we decided we needed to paint everything so we would be sure there was no exposed lead paint. So for the last week, I've been painting painting packing painting packing packing painting. Ya. But I do have some great pictures for you guys!

The windows were really the worst off before cleaning and painting...

Then we thought, "Why stop at the windows and the walls?" so we re-sealed the floor.

I'm really glad we did this. We just got some high gloss polyurethane, and brushed it on with one of those lamb head applicator things. It cost $50 for the supplies, but the results were fabulous! The floor was in such bad shape before that even after we mopped, our feet were still turning black. It took us less than 2 hours to do this, and I'm very excited about the results! :-)

Just a little farmhouse eye-candy ;-)

Here's my new living room. I can't wait to get my furniture in there and start arranging! You guys will help me figure out where everything goes, right?


I'll try to blog when I can, but I'll be pretty busy between now and moving day (which is Sunday). I wish I had some time to share some more awesome pictures with you, but more to come! :-D

Want to know where we're coming from? Check out my post Townhouse to Farmhouse!

Party at Southern Hospitality!

Southern Hospitality is throwing a party to show off your top 10 projects from 2008! So I'm kinda cheating a little. All of these projects were done in 2007 (but I had a baby last year. Not much time for projects! :-)

So we used to own a house in South Carolina. We were not able to overcome our slob instincts while we lived there, but we did fix it up to sell it. We did every single bit of the work ourselves with one exception... laying the carpet. Fixing up a house involved countless projects, so here are the top ten before and after shots:

The Kitchen

We did so much to the kitchen! The wall paper strip came down, the cabinets and walls were repainted, and all the light switches and plugs were replaced, along with the floor and the counter top. However, replacing the entire counter top back splash seemed labor intensive, so we just painted the back splash and replaced the top piece. I think it came out really nice!We also replaced the stove from the stone age...Bathroom Number 1

Wallpaper down, new light fixture, new faucet :-)Master Bedroom

New carpet, new ceiling fan! Spare room

By adding this closet, we were technically able to list it as a bedroom (although I wouldn't want so sleep in here!) We also laid the ugly carpet from the master bedroom in here so it would be wall to wall.Bathroom Number 2

We didn't do much remodeling in here, just some redecorating. I was hoping to update it a little and take your mind off of the truly hideous tile...The living room

This room wasn't that bad (besides the carpet) but putting a neutral color on the walls with white trim really made it look much better!The Dining Room

The carpet went, that weird door with a window had to be replaced, and we updated the light fixture.Maybe in the future I'll have some more detailed posts about the work we did, but for now I have to get back to work around my current house which seems to be falling apart...