Bartlet Glen: Family Room

Here are some "look how far we've came" pictures of the family room. Geoff was about to have a nervous breakdown over the boxes that were still out and about so he worked his hiney off yesterday getting things sorted. Then on Monday we brought furniture that my grandparents gave me from Richmond and started getting them sorted too... things still aren't 100% but its on the right track. Wall color: Valspar from Lowe's in Nickel, I call it "Pottery Barn blue" and I LOVE IT! ~and of course anything would be better than the army green we started with~

Grant's Photo Riddles

Grant loves our iPhones, mostly because hes learned how to take pictures on it. I love looking through at the end of the day and seeing what he has captured. So heres a game... can you guess where we are?

or how about these?

What do YUDU?

Finally finally finally, I got to play!

Geoff caved in and got my a Yudu for Christmas even though he had no clue what it was or what I would do with it, and I was a very happy girl. The short answer is that a Yudu is an at home screenprinting machine. Basically, take an image and print it with paint on any flay surface (i.e. t-shirts, clipboards, canvases, etc)Well the Yudu is big and since we knew we'd be moving it has been in the box in Atlanta since, and I was not such a happy girl.

Well with Geoff gone this whole week I decided it was time to play! Yudu here I come!

I chose to use the logo I designed back in college for ELONTHON, a 24 hour dance marathon to raise money for Duke Children's Hospital. The event is this weekend, the Tuttles are speaking and I'm hoping we can go. So heres what happened: I aged the image a bit, made the transparency, burned the screen and...

STARTED PRINTING! :o) really really really happy girl! The shirt in the pic is just one of my maternity shirts from old navy and the picture looks a little elongated because I had just stretched it off of the board, but yea, a perfect copy and the exact burn-out/ aged look I was going for. oh the wheels are turning, who needs t-shirts?!?

SPAM hacking

Yes, I know. Someone has hacked into my hotmail account and is sending spam through it! I hope by now everyone knows the nature of spam and me well enough to not open anything about Canadian Drugs that supposedly comes from me...

Bartlet Glen: Upstairs

You've been patiently waiting for some pictures of the house and the painting/unpacking that we've done so my goal over the next few weeks is to give you some shots. We're still waiting on a run to Richmond to get some furniture but I'll try to string you along as nicely as I can!

Heres the upstairs bonus room/play room Before and After:

It went from a dark chocolate purple to white and the room feels 200% bigger. (In real life the room is brighter but I had to close the blinds in order to take a halfway decent picture) It was the last family's man cave complate with surround sound wiring and so there was a lot of Kilz and puttying to be done. I would never usually choose to go white but since we wanted this to be a playroom and bright the use of white with primary colored accents turned out perfectly. The letters were collected from hobby Lobby, JoAnne's and Michael's and then spray painted bright colors, the world map rug bought from Hearthstone catalog and the Toot and Puddles painted last year. Behind where I'm taking the picture is a computer desk and what will be my craft table but they aren't quite done so stay tuned!

We didn't do much to the bathroom upstairs, we kept the chocolate purple that they had and I finally got to use a bath set that we had registered for at the wedding. Its Groomin' by Croscill and it fills the little room with whimsy. (Do you know how hard it is to take a picture of a half bath?)

Grant with the Tulips!

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Happy Easter!

Hope everyone had a wonderful Easter!

We spent the weekend in Durham, got tickets to Disney Live! Mickey's Rockin' RoadShow on Saturday and it was a BLAST! grant was in hog heaven as he saw his favorite charaters in real life, he was shaking and jumping and all together WOUND UP, it was really special to see him so incredibly happy. Then Sunday we spend Easter at Westminister (The tie actually lasted all through nursery and church and only came off when it was time to get in the car to head to the gardens) then we continued my family ritual my heading over to Duke Gardens to take a stroll around and some pictures!