Drumroll Please......

The time has finally come for before and after pictures to prove that while I have not had time to force even one creative thought into my brain, I have been a busy, busy girl.

First off, for the last two months I have been trying to tame my overgrowth of a yard, and I must say, for someone who has no more experience with growing things than watering houseplants and constantly stuffing food into a little monkey-boy, I'm pretty proud. I even put in a garden, all by myself. Yeah, my mother used to force us to garden, but she was the brains behind the operation then.

So I proceeded to the garden spot with my straight-line string, a hoe, a tape measure and some seed. I was busy measuring it all out and making sure all my rows were absolutely and perfectly straight when my grandparents decided to show up and thought I looked ridiculous. My grandmother's suggestion?

Just hoe a roe and put the seed in.

Apparently stuff grows better in crooked rows. I couldn't bring myself to plant crooked rows, but the rows in which I didn't count absolutely every single tiny little carrot seed came up much better than the rows in which they were meticulously counted and evenly spaced. Who knew?

Oh, and remember that crappy (literally) little pond I had in the backyard? Well, we did a little sprucing and here's the transformation.



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Here are some more flower garden shots....I thought I'd better snap them so at least I could prove I can grow stuff like a good little housewife.

















And of course, the pirate house....



With that done, last week I tackled the bathroom. We had finished the tile, after ripping out CARPET out of the bathroom quite a few months ago (see Holes in the Bathroom) but in a week's time we tore off that terrible wallpaper, replaced the countertop, installed new fixtures, spray painted some of the old fixtures and redid the tub area. We had planned on just doing kind of a concrete overlay on the countertop to make it look like concrete, but we found this remnant countertop for $25, a fourth of the cost of the materials to do the concrete look.

Remember that most-hideous wallpaper and the wonderful holes in the floor?



Well that's all gone now.



Some friends came over and helped me de-wallpaper, which took hours upon hours with sponges and surprisingly, a spatula. Nothing like a good ol' spatula for taking off wallpaper.

Here are a few more pics for your viewing pleasure.







See, I have been very busy.




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