Would you like some cake with that?

It is so much easier to blog on the weekends while I am 'attempting' to get things done: clean, laundry, finances, etc. The problem is, no one reads them! Oh well. The past few weeks have been extremely busy for me. I fell asleep on Thursday at 5:30 and didn't get up til the next morning. For 2 weeks straight I have been going non stop. One of the reason is because my Tuesday nights are out of the picture for the next few weeks. I have been taking cake decorating classes. Someone asked me at work yesterday, 'do you have like 5 jobs???' we both laughed. She knows I work with her, she knows I do hair, and now she knows I do cakes. She told me that I am really good at it - I feel differently. I never wanted to do this to make money but you never know when it will come in handy. I think I have done extremely well considering I like to grab a jar of store bought frosting to smother on to a cake, I have never made my own frosting until I took this class. Our first week we did cupcakes. We learned the different types of frosting, tips and how to use them to our advantage. Our second week we learned how to do roses and smooth out frosting on our cakes. The third week we learned airbrushing (Not my friend!) and put into effect the past two week in designing a cake of our choice (Tinkerbell). It has been fun, we have a few more weeks left and I am excited to see how far I progress and what i can learn. (sorry for the crappy pics, they are from my phone)

Really?

Today I was searching through pictures to find some pictures to post on facebook for my nephew. I went through all of my pictures on my laptop and decided to come down and check if Bryce's computer held more pictures that maybe I forgot about. Holy Crap! He has alot. As I was searching I found a stash of picture of the house when Bryce first purchased it. It is completely amazing to see where things have come from to where they are. I am sorry that I don't have after pics all in on file, you will have to sort through my blog. It is truly amazing. Sorry for the picture overload. We will start with the upstairs living room and work our way around. I think those who have been in my house will truly be amazed.
Living Room:

The kitchen (who decided that pee yellow was ok to put into a house??? It kinda reminds me of carpet (see below):

The purple room that wasnt so purple:

The upstairs hallway:

The most disgusting bathroom that pretty much looks the same (New toilet though. GROSS!) soon to be demolished! (Yay!!!!)

Our now bedroom/master bedroom:

Ok that is the upstairs. Let me take you on a walk down the stairs to the basement:

Now here is the basement. In all the years that this house has been a 'house', not one owner did anything to the basement. As a matter of fact, the only room existing was our old bedroom (in which someone mysteriously 'forogt' to put instillation in. yep we found that out the hard way! Now we have to tear out 2 walls when we get the rest of the house finished.) . Since the house was purchased, we moved alot of the framing that kinda sorta existed and most of the plumbing. We wanted to create our own look.
here is our old bedroom:

ok now the remainder of the basement:

Last but not least: The exterior:

Alot of the work doesn't show through the pictures. The urine stained carpets and floorboards that had to be ripped out and replaces. Our kitchen cabinets that someone sloppily painted white (the cabinets were stripped, sanded and sealed, we wanted to keep the orginals). The sprinkling system that no one took care of that was cracked and broken, left for our pleasure to rip out and restart for the beginning.
We often tell our selves there is so much to do to this house and it become exhausting, but looking back at where it used to be and looking at where it is, it doesn't seem so tedious. I am extremely grateful for my home and anyone who knows me knows I am proud of our house. I know it is an average joe house but we have put alot of work and effort in to it that makes me love our house, love what it looks like, and wants people to come see it. This was a great walk back to memory lane. Now that it is over, I must go clean my awful messy house!

Response

Can I say WOW??? Either I have people blowing smoke up my tooshie or people really are accepting of what I have to say. Time will tell. I have had an amazing response to the last blog post. I was honestly quite shocked. Maybe I shouldn't be but I am. It is not the response I was expecting. People seem to be 'ok' with the changes. I was worried. The whole post came after an anxiety filled day at work. Things I have been saying for months, I finally put to action. I have been working on these changes for a while. I knew that my clientele would go up or it would go down. So far no one has canceled so I guess that is a positive thing. Maybe this is just what I needed to get the ball rolling. More changes are coming.