Summer living arrangements

Every other week this summer I travel to visit R at his summer internship.  Since it is a short term living arrangement we didn't put a lot into the housing situation.  It is livable...but not the most comfortable.  Kind of fun though to be like we are in college again.

We found these awesome blow up chairs and bean bag!  Pretty inexpensive, and really easy to move around.

We have a little speaker system set up and one picture that we purchased as a souvenir that decorate the hearth.

Our kitchen table/desk for when I am there.  It's pretty nice unless you are sitting on the chairs for more than 4 hours...then they get a little rough...but manageable.

And our blow up bed.  I think that if you were to sleep on this for a short camping trip or in a living room for a few nights that it would be the most comfortable bed.  After the last month and going from our bed at home to our blow up bed here...I really appreciate our bed at home.  The awesome night stands are the bins that we had packed our clothes in for the summer.  Love double usages.

Saturday's DIY project

Sometimes one of us will get a crazy idea, and then we work super fast to acheive the idea.  Not sure why that is, but it has paid off so far with all of the ideas we come up with...usually getting completed pretty quickly.
About a week ago we came up with putting in a flower bed in the back yard...to match the one we put in the front yard in last October.  We have really been enjoying the flowers and the color that it brings to the yard.  Below are a couple of pictures of the purple tulips that bloomed this year....and the Petunias had nearly tripled in size since we planted.

 
The first matter of business was to rake all of the rocks out of the way to prepare for the new flower bed.

Then we dug up the drip system and repositioned it so that we could attached the flower bed onto the drip system to get watered automatically with the rest of the yard.  Turns out we had something come up so I ended up working on this project alone.  So, no time for messing around if I was going to complete in one day as was the original plan.  (In side I can feel the determination kick on right about now).  After careful calculations and measurements the below picture is a diagram as to where the flower box is going to end up.  It will also help me to make sure that the stones get set properly.





Next key was to dig around the end a little so that the stones will stay put once they are in the ground.  One of the reasons this didn't take too terribly long was because I knew that I would be working in the yard so I had been soaking in as often as I could.

I took pictures as I worked...but here are a couple of the last ones with the flower bed stones all put together.  I am loving how it is looiking already!

We talked about getting the mat's that are recycled rubber to use and a stepping stone/sidewalk from the patio to the grass, but the color was too dark and wouldn't blend with the stones,  So instead I found these large stones that looked like a puzzle piece. So, after 12 hours and a lot of bending over and standing back up...here is the finished Saturday "do it yourself" flowerbed that I put in...complete with freshly planted flowers to add more color to the green backyard.

I may actually have dinner on the patio every night now so that I can look at the flowers.

What I have been up to...

I haven't blogged in a while but that doesn't mean that I haven't thought about it from time to time.  It has been a while since I posted a few of the projects that I have been working on.  Here is what one of our dressers looked like in January.
 

Not in bad shape at all...but I am still working on updating this bedroom set to black.

The yellow rose will soon be vanished and replaced with what I have imagined for sometime now.

The handles weren't bad for their day, and they have served many years...but I personally think that they are a little too ornate for my tase.

After a month (ok, maybe 2 months) I have finally finished and am so so so pleased with the end result.  I think the only thing I would change about the end is the fact that know I know about wood putty and that it would hide a few holes that I patched.  Oh, well...when I found out I only had one more coat of paint to go.

Now, if I can just find the time to finish the last dresser and the mirror that sits on top of it, I will have successfully finished the entire set!!  Can't wait for that day.  Maybe in another year I will have it all completed.  Until then, on to my next project.