hello! we're still here!

yes, it has been a LONG time since i last posted. well, really, you haven't missed much.

an update to the last post i made. the church was saved!!! many thanks to Historic Landmarks Foundation of Indiana and local people who took the time to write letters and attend the final hearing. it is good to know that there are some people out there willing to fight corporate america in order to save our local culture and history. yeah!!!

so work is getting ramped up here at irvington bungalow. we're still waiting on our damn tile sample color match from American Restoration Tile. right now we are having some issues with them and i'm a little peeved. but we'll see, i'll keep you posted. we'll be buying the Pex plumbing supplies next month. we've met with the person who will be laying the tile for us. now it is just getting the tile and then the project can start.

and we're on a timeline now. we're expecting a baby in the fall so there are some projects must be finished by then. we have to finish the bathroom and the walls in the entire house need to painted. but i would also like to finish the guest bedroom, refinish the wood floors and rip up the nasty kitchen linoleum too. of course there are still 1,000 other projects but those can happen post-baby.

we started cleaning out the future baby room this weekend. omg. we had boxes of stuff from jobs we left in 2005 in there. so it was in major need of cleaning and sorting. it felt good to purge some of our things.

oh! and we bought the light above for the baby room from Rejuventation. LOVE LOVE LOVE that store. once the kid is older we'll put a ceiling fan in that room and move this light to the basement bathroom. i mean, once we get around to actually doing something to the basement instead of filling it with more junk.

more to come soon!

a clean slate (or concrete, rather)

this weekend will be five years since we moved into the house. it's hard do believe that this is possible. minus the groovy wallpaper and layers of old dirt, irvington bungalow virtually looks the same.

that is not the point of this post. over the weekend we borrowed a powerwasher to clean the front porch.

a few weeks ago i stripped and painted an old ikea table that was in our living room housing a defunct printer. here it is before:

i painted the table the same color as our backdoors. we loved our front porch before but now we really have a great little space to sit, unwind and watch the neighborhood go by this summer.

closet organized

the weekend of work didn't pan out as we planned, which seems to be business as usual for us. i did get started on cleaning/organizing one of the spare bedrooms but decided it would pointless to finish until we are closer to the yard sale. otherwise it is basically moving piles of crap to the other side of the room. more organized piles of crap, though. i did get my closet organized, though! i mean the closet is like really tiny but i feel like i accomplished something anyways.

the floor - all my shoes were in a tub or on the floor.

now all of my winter boots are in one tub and my flips in another.

on either side shelves held random shoes and shoes in boxes:

i kept the shoes that had boxes in their original boxes. i bought plastic shoeboxes and then took pics of the shoes and ahdered them to the outside. this is so much easier than digging around in a rubbermaid tub!!

spring cleaning

last weekend was so warm that i decided to do some spring cleaning. i swept the front porch (although you can't really tell it now!). planted the flower pots and cleaned off the rockers. i'll be adding the outdoor rug and a table soon.

decided to put the spring sheets on. love the yellows - so cheery.


this is the first time you've been able to see the table in loooong time. i was so sick of seeing my craft supplies out in the open constantly. i finally put things back where they belong.

this is this weekend's project. organizing my closet, one of the spare bedrooms and the basement. fun times ahead! i bought plastic shoe boxes and am taking pictures of my shoes to adhere to the outside. i can't stand digging through piles of shoes anymore!