Under Construction

Ryan and I have been busily trying to get this house re-organized with the addtion of all my things from Indiana.

We took Grant's room and repainted the whole thing.  I worked on the cut for about 3 hours one day, painting it in Killim flat with the leftovers from when that room was originally painted.  When we ran out of that, we went to the store and bought Killim glossy, unbeknownst to us, and we got to re-do all the work from the previous day I had done.  We repainted that bathroom too, after a major cleaning of it.  I would like to publicly apologize to my mother, who had the unfortunate pleasure of staying in that room pre-makeover.  That room was smelly, disgustingly filthy, and all around gross.  I didn't know how bad it was until I was in charge of cleaning it all up and repainting it!  We also had new carpet installed this week in that room, and bought a headboard off of Craig's List that we will eventually paint whiteish.

Here is the finished product:

Then I went to Ikea and bought two things: a white bookshelf (identical to one I already own but gave to Kelly), and a black dresser for the master bedroom.  I prided myself on putting it all together.  Here is the finished product:

On a roll, I went to construct the bedroom dresser.  It took me two days to do, and it came out GREAT...except for one part....

Notice the bottom piece of wood is just wood - not black?  Ooops....  I think it adds character but Ryan insists we paint it black. 

My dad and Michael came to stay with us last night, and my dad's birthday is later this week so of course I made him a cake.  This was the first time I made cream cheese frosting and the best part about it is you don't have to smooth it all out like with regular frosting.