A Nugget and a Doodle

Merry Christmas everyone!  I found out yesterday that there are really big milestones coming up at the house in the next couple weeks, so I wanted to get this update out before there are more important updates to share.  Plus the brick work is nearly done, and the wall texture was done Monday night!  I want to wait for the mortar to dry before I post pictures of the brick - it makes a huge difference. So, you might remember the nugget's wingback chair, which was my first attempt at reupholstering  anything more complex than a flat dining seat.  It went really well - maybe too well - and I think I went into this second project a bit too confident.  It was hard... much harder than I was expecting. I bought this antique settee (or my new favorite word, sofette!) at a local antique shop.  It's about 200 years old, and I got a great deal on it.  I got an estimate to have it professionally reupholstered, and the quote was $625, excluding fabric. ...

I'm not sure if it's because I traveled a couple weeks ago, or because I've been sick for a week now, or busy and preoccupied with the holidays or all the projects waiting for my time, but for one reason or another, I was completely shocked to walk in to a house full of finished sheetrock, fully taped and mudded!  It looks so much more like a home now and less like a bunch of sticks and wires! When we built our last house, the framing stage made the house feel small, and then we expected the blueboard to make it feel even smaller but it had the opposite effect.  This time the framing stage made the house feel big, and the sheetrock has made some rooms feel even bigger and others feel smaller.  The ceiling height is having a big impact on the overall feel too.  It's SOOOOO exciting to see it come together all around us in 3 dimensions, or 5 dimensions if you count the construction smells and the blaring mexican music playing on work days.  :)  They reall...

Per usual, we're delayed.  I'm not sure why, but 3 weeks ago we were "definitely on schedule" to have sheetrock start this week.  Well, now we're hoping insulation starts mid-week.  We haven't seen the sheetrock delivery yet.  Brick was supposed to start this week too, but haven't seen those deliveries either.  So we took matters into our own hands to force the "progress" issue. We went shopping! Mom and I have gone Black Friday shopping for as long as I can remember being old enough to last all day.  Last year was the exception.  We were a bit crazy planning our big cross country move, plus it was the first year with 2 babies in the house... we were tired.  :)  We aren't the type to run over an old lady to get a parking spot or the type to get in an altercation over the last doorbuster on the shelf.  It's usually about the hunt and the strategy and the tradition.  After Thanksgiving dinner, we spread out the old fashioned flyer...