Blues

I've got to be honest.  I suffer from the winter blues.  It's not my fault either since between work and school, I never have time to go outside when the sun is out.  Also, I live in Utah and this week is the first that the sun has been out since Christmas, I'm pretty sure.  I'm severely lacking in the vitamin D department, so I'm probably going to pick up some supplements.  I've also made it a goal to walk for my breaks at work so I can get a little sun-as long as the inversion isn't so bad that I come back in sounding like I've smoked for 20 years.
School is going fairly well.  After a couple rocky weeks, I feel like I'm really on track in sewing class.  Last week I finished everything in class and didn't have to finish anything at home.  It may not sound like much, but it was a total accomplishment.  P.S. I rock at open intersecting seams. 
Last week in textiles we had a couple adventures.  We were doing burn tests to determine the fiber content of some fabrics and apparently another girl didn't listen when the teacher said cotton was highly flammable.  She kept waving this flaming swatch in front of her face trying to blow it out and we were all yelling for her to put it down in the metal pie tin which was sitting right in front of her.  It's a good thing a lot of fashion majors are health conscious because we had plenty of water bottles to put it out.  I'm really not sure how the fire alarms didn't go off, but watching that crazy girl waving her swatch around was probably the highlight of the school year so far.
As far as home repairs/upgrades go, the bathroom is basically done, but we need to get some baseboard/crown.  I'm pretty excited to just be done with it!  The craft room is cruising right along.  We have the paint up and Nic put down about 1/4 of the floor this morning.  Hopefully we'll get the baseboard and crown up in both rooms in the next 2 weeks!
Here's a little paint preview for you-it's a blue to battle the blues!

Back to school

This is the second week that school has been back in session.  I'm fairly excited for this semester since sewing and textiles ought to be a blast.  I already had my first textiles adventure!  One of our exercises in class today was a burn test to decide what type of fabric we were dealing with.  Today we worked with only natural fibers and burned cotton, flax, hemp, silk, wool, and leather.  The first three were fine because they're all made of plants, so they mainly just smelled like campfire.  The last three smelled pretty bad since they're made of animal proteins.  Strangest thing, wool smelled exactly the same as the smell while they're drilling teeth at the dentist.  (crazy, but once I put my finger on it, the rest of the class agreed.) Leather, well, leather is flesh.  So leather smells like burning flesh.  And if you've never smelled burning flesh, consider yourself lucky. Very, very lucky.  I dry heaved, and it smelled so bad we actually ended class an hour early.  Bonus!  

Nic and I are making slow slow progress on the upstairs bath.  It gets hard with limited funds, work, and school, but hopefully it will be done soon.  Tonight we put up a picture ledge from Ikea.  I have a couple decorations/frames for it, but I need to get the pictures for them.  It seems like there is a huge list of projects that need to be done and it never gets any shorter!  Oh well, this is the life of a full time employee/student/homeowner.

Textbooks

Sadly, I'm still trying to get my associates and I've been going to SLCC since 2007.  I never thought it would take me this long, but at least I'm still trying, right?  Right? 
Anyway, I really only need math classes to graduate, but I'm taking some other classes that will transfer to BYU (hopefully) for my major.  Along with math, I'm taking textiles and beginning sewing.  I can honestly say I've never been so excited for classes.  And when I thought I couldn't be more excited, I decided to look up my textbooks for the semester.

Seriously.  Best textbook ever.

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year!

Nic and I were pretty boring last night...we were going to go to a party, but we were pretty exhausted from a crazy week, so we just stayed home and watched The Dark Knight Rises, ate pizza and wings, and played Little Big World.  Can I just say, I hate new gaming systems.  I think after N64, they really started going downhill.

I thought I'd start the year off by giving a little bathroom update.  We started by measuring the Ditra Mat and then we threw up a new paint color.  I still love my Behr Appletini though, so it will totally make a comeback (laundry room).  Once the paint was done, Nic and his dad put down the tile.  I'm glad that I didn't have to do that part.  :)

While the boys were hard at work, I started building the vanity.  We looked at buying one, but the styles I wanted were just out of our budget, so I took to the saw!  I used a basic template from Ana White.

I didn't like the idea of using a wood top with a basin sink, so I found a nice top at Lowe's instead.  I used a Glidden Ultra High Gloss paint to finish it off.

We've done a little more work, including patching the gaping hole you can barely see above the vanity (it used to be a medicine cabinet), but we still have more work ahead.  Hopefully it'll be completely finished sometime in January!

Bad Blogger

That's me.  A bad, bad blogger. 
Nothing new is really happening for us right now, we've just been saving up to finish the bathroom (with a lot of car issues along the way to derail us!) and that should be happening this week!  Nic's sister is staying with us for Thanksgiving, and we want to have the bathroom upstairs done by then!
We have painted it, but I am going to repaint because I decided I like the green color better for the laundry room.  Hopefully I'll have a completed post by next week!