My New Project

So the greatest but not necessarily latest thing in my life is these beautiful ultrasounds....or more specifically the baby in the ultrasounds:D. He is a little boy and I can only imagine he will look exactly like his daddy - the good-looking guy in the picture below, Erick Cortez. And for now, the baby with what I bet will be a huge head, is Dominick Cortez. For now. Who knows. I am 20 weeks on monday and just barely starting to show. still not really in clothes, but my waist is getting thick and the baby is almost to my belly button. I, and we, are very excited and hoping to feel more pregnant every day - i've had a great go of it, no sickness, just fatigue. Anyways. Due date is around the second week in January and i'm anxious as all get out to see him. Wish us luck and health :D

Tuscan Dining

So I will let the pictures tell most of the story -- but here is my 95% finished dining room. I'm actually quite excited how it turned out. Although you can't see the texturing in the pictures, I personally applied a italian-like texturing that turned out awesome. The table is in shipment from WA....so it will not be usable for a while....not that i cook much now anyways....

BW

So I want to share on my new favorite spa treatment. The Brazilian Wax. Yes, I know many of you may, WHAT? or WTF as misty likes to spout, but yes. I have survived my first Brazilian wax and i must say, I'm a fan. Now since it may not be something some or any of you are familiar with, let me just say No, it is not my favorite as in 'Ooooh what a great spa and facial treatment' favorite. But in exceeding of expectations and results, I must say Yes to Brazilian Waxes. Thank you to my friend Nicole for talking me through the experience and giving me the expectation of greatness that pushed me to jump. Now, if by favorite some of you are thinking ' Oh that must means it didn't hurt'. no my naive followers, the actual process was slightly uncomfortable if never really painful.....BUTTTTTTT the AFTERMATH was what I would call shockingly tortuous. As I thought she was about to put another strip of wax on near the end, I double over it shrieking burning pain of the alcohol!!! that she had just dumped on me. And by dumped, i mean gently wiped. But seriously. What they don't tell you. But i am here to tell you. Waxing- yes. Alcohol -Never ever ever.

Only for you Sunshine....

I really couldn't think of anything to say. Seriously. 15 minues. Nothing.

So i've been getting hassle for not posting lately. people seem to think that i have house busines going on that i'm not sharing.....not the case. i haven't really don't anything since the purple room. i have done more 'demo' on the dining room. which means i spent a month scraping the wallpaper-textured-painted wall crap off the walls. then i did nothign for a month. well i did but that is for another day. nothing on the house. so i washed the walls, patched the plaster and just caulked the window/door frames adn primed the walls this weekend. i'm almost ready for the texture. so i'm excited to have a dining room soon. anyways..... the house is nice. had a bit of a leakage problem.....now i'm deciding central air may be a necessity possibly by next year....so just livin the dream....

One down.....

One room down!! i'm also noticing my camera has a mark on the lense it appears.....anyways. So we - me and my free labor Luis - finished the guest room today. It has been like 3 weeks or more in the making......refer to previous posts for the wallpaper removal nastiness. So here is what you can see of the finished product. It rocks quite frankly.

Home Renovation and Demolition. Really just Demolition

Here are some updates on the house. I've finally got some momentum on the house - mostly in the downward destruction direction. say that 3 times fast.. anyways. problem is 1) demo is cheaper than re-no and 2) I'm pretty clueless on some of the things that needs to be done but i'm learning as I go. I'll try to explain whats been done so far. And yes, the bathroom is still in its original state of disarray from the previous post.

This is the guest bedroom. Estupidos that lived here before painted over 2 layers of wallpaper that had started to lift in places. So I had to strip it. Seriously sucks. And if it looks like I have free labor, I do.



This is a different room - probably will be mine. There of course was a wallpaper border that was painted over that was lifting. Ugggh.




Here is me prepping the room...lots of dust

These ones are the 2 storage rooms that are in the basement. Looks like the constructed this random wall, that doesn't even reach the other wall...one room had shelves, the other was just empty. So I took my new hammer (the previous one's head kept falling off) and went to town. I even got blisters. I felt very SheRa-ish.