to pack or not to pack

in a quandry as to wether or not i start to pack now. I don't want to pack too soon and then have to go on the hunt to find stuff but then i also don't want to wait too long........If anyone watches the newshour..sunday night Mike McCardle did a spot which was about my nephew Jackson and his attempts at shooting hoops--so very cute.
that's all for now, off to ponder.....

it's official

It is official! we have now sold our place and bought a new house. All the subjects on both places have now been removed. We take possesion on the 28th of Feb and they take possession of ours on March 14th so we have a few weeks to rip out the ugly carpet etc.

ok so is it sold or not?

apparently when you buy or sell a house certain criteria need to be met....why does it take so damn long to get it all figured out??!! hopefully by tomorrow it will all be done and I can start dealing with the fact that I have to pack all this stuff!! I am quite enjoying my finished house though...and after 3 yrs of waiting it got finished in 1 week!! it has also-amazingly-stayed clean!
Here is a layout I did of matthew snowboarding that I love.....
enjoy your weekend everyone!

woohoo!

1st open house---offers----sold!

almost.......

almost done that is! We have been working so hard all week trying to finish up the house before the open house on SUNDAY! I now refer to my hand as the claw as it is swollen and so very sore from all the painting. The new carpet looks so good! The tiling is all finished and grouted. We went the extra step and also put laminate in the basement-looks great also. Today i am going around and doing all the touch ups with paint. This afternoon all of the baseboard should be finished and then it is just a matter of hanging the towel holders etc and cleaning cleaning cleaning. I am pissed i couldn't get tomorrow off and i went about it through the proper channels-shift trade no luck so then asked for vacation......denied! Apparently I now have to do what everyone else does and call in sick next time i need a day off.
Hope everyone has a great weekend, cross your fingers for us that we have a great open house and sell this puppy!!

i hate taupe!!!!

so i have spent the last 5 days painting....our bathroom, bedroom, mainfloor and all the trim work. my hands are killing me!!! we had to paint the bathroom a taupe color to hide the ugly pinkish tiles, how boring is that!!
saturday i took a break and went to a fantastic class with Ali edwards, got some great ideas. Small world-ended up knowing so many of the people there. Also managed to start no finish two great mini albums.
worked last night so not really feeling like picking up that paintbrush but duty calls---wish me luck.

Jenn

somewhat exciting news......

Did I peak anyones interest yet?
There is this cute cape cod house in our neighborhood which went up for sale, somehow I talked Darren into looking at it and then..........we put an offer in.....which was accepted!! now all we need to do is sell this place which means work, work, work to finish all the unfinished reno things. eeeeeeek!
The house is great on the outside, great location across street from friends, next door to one of Taryn's best friends. Backs onto park......sounds perfect! One tiny issue.....inside is hideous! Brown mottled shag hideous, blue toilet, turquoise tub hideous, ugly white cabinets with brown inlay pattern hideous so there will be a bunch of things we need to do before we even move in meaning rip out that carpet(they had cats so since Darren is deathly allergic no argument there. It also needs a new kitchen so we will have to do it at the same time as the floor to get a good flow......
Wish us luck as we still need to close and sell here before it is 100% official.

Happy New Year!

I hope that everyone had a great christmas and is starting the new year off right. We had a fantastic time up at Big White. The kids loved skiing and snowboarding and now that is all they want to do. When i get organized i will post some pictures. I had to work Jan 1 and today so New Years for me meant bed at 10:30, how sad is that? It used to be that I didn't go out till 10:30 now in bed by 10:30....yikes!
My new years resolutions are the same as every other year........get organized, lose weight......
For those that scrapbook i have some exciting news....well i think so at least. I am going to be a guest designer for Lovebug scrapbooking(an online store).
Bye for now!