It's been a while...

I have been very negligent of my blog lately. For some reason I find it difficult to keep things up to date. So rather than try and write a lengthy blog to update on all of the projects that we have done I hope to just post some pictures of our recent house projects.

I know that we took many more pictures along the way but I can't seem to find them. Prior to this project the fireplace was just the black metal portion that you see here.

Kyle (with a tintsy bit of my help) worked really hard on this tiling and building the mantel piece.

It was finished just enough on Christmas Eve for us to hang our stockings for our first Christmas together.

This painting hangs in our downstairs bathroom. I bought the painted canvas a few years ago in Nice, France and had been hoping to hang it somewhere in my house (down the road). Kyle and I stretched the canvas and framed it ourselves, which was loads of fun and super easy!

Cross stitching that I made my mom for mother's day/birthday.

Cross stitching in our frog themed guest bathroom.

Please pardon the mess! These are curtains and a valence that I made for our bedroom. They are very difficult to photograph and capture the correct color so just admire my amateur sewing skills and ignore the colors.

We used to have a ton of artificial plants about our cabinets but were sick of the look (and I was fed up with a spider infested kitchen). So we hung these neat little decorations.



Our new doorstops so that we can cool the house off overnight and not have the doors slam shut at 3 am (and much less obtrusive than a chair).

Here is a close up of our doorstops. I crocheted two of these but I haven't quite finished them. They both need a set of black eyes from a small bead but I need to go buy them and keep forgetting so they may look a little goofy for a while.

I started knitting this pillow about 5 years ago and it has been mostly finished for 3 or 4 years but I finally finished it recently.

I think it coordinates nicely with my quilt from that same time period (which is now the comforter on our guest bed).

This isn't a project but one of the few pictures we have of us. The Saturday before 4th of July was the stadium of fire here in Provo. We didn't pay to go to the concert but found a secret spot to hang out for the evening in hopes of being able to have a good view of the fireworks. We really lucked out because we could hear all of the concert and see all of the fireworks from our awesome hillside!

Kyle built this table that I think is beautiful. He constructed the frame, stained and finished the wood, and laid the tiles for the table top.

Here is Kyle building the shelving unit for a tiny storage closet under the stairs.

Here's the finished closet before it is loaded with tools, etc.

Here's the finished closet full of odds and ends.

I believe that is most of the work that we have done around the house recently. I know it was probably picture overload so thank you for bearing with me!

Stay tuned and I will try to be better about posting more often (as often as our simple lives give reason)!!