A cat called Rococo

Here is a little update on my dresser... I bought this contact paper at the dollar store that i loved but only had enough to do one drawer and when i went back to the dollar store they were all out. We even checked the one in Idaho Falls. i was very sad at first and decided to give up on that. But yesterday we went to the dollar store for fun and there it was again! So i bought all they had even though i only needed two. haha. I really like the pattern and its soo cheap so i'll have some for another project. 

Also unhappily for chad i sold our couch today. Darcy likes to lay on it and does this cute little thing where she sprawls out and holds on tightly. She did it early today so i made sure i took a picture before we no longer had the couch, because i think shes adorable when she does it. :)

Also also, we put in our application yesterday for an apartment we went and looked at and liked but today i got a call and someone put a deposit down on it the day before! So that stressed me out and i felt hopeless. But chad and i found this other one that would be good. It says it will be available by the 24th which would be fine if we can move in right away, but the other apartment said it was available right away but it was actually going to be a week before we could move in because they had to do repairs and clean the carpets. So i'll call on Monday and hope everything works out!

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Just found this website where you can buy pegs for your sofa's from ikea. They come in many many colors and shapes. They are quite expensive though, and ship from Sweden.

We've got the bomb.

(Darcy looking at me boredly)

A couple things have happened these past days....

I have a new nephew his name is Bridger. i have only seen two pictures of him so far but he looks like a cutie. We are planning on going up to Utah early next monthish to see him. That means i now have two nieces and two nephews.

I've been trying to keep myself busy while chads at work. For work he's already gone to the zoo twice, long boarded, and went to the part and toysRus. I feel bad for him he works so hard. haha.. jk. i actually do really appreciate him for finding this job and working for us. I've decided i don't want to get a job until we have moved to idaho falls since driving blacky back and forth scares me. Driving blacky any where scares me actually. haha. 

Anyways we are going to go see an apartment on tuesday so thats exciting. Its a little more then we wanted to pay but its been really hard find an apartment that allows pets and isn't in a junky/sketchy neighborhood. 

And thats about it. So i love bird home decor things and we went into this little store the other day in rexburg and i bought this cute little moss birds nest. i think its cute!

Oh yeah, also my friend kimberly gave me this little side table for free so i spray painted it (with the original dresser spray paint) and then "tried" modge podging wrapping paper on to the top. I say tried because it did not work to well. It looks great from farther away but up close there are bumps. After modge podging chad spray painted it with this sealant stuff so its got a nice glossy feel to it. its kind of cute. 

And you put your arm around me for the first time.

I've finally finished my dresser. Im very glad im done with it. It was starting to drive me crazy. Lots of problems came up with this dresser and money wise it ended up much more then planned. But i learned a lot of things for next time, which wont be for awhile! 

So i had taken picture of all the steps it look like filling in chips with plastic wood, sanding things down, and primering, but it appears i deleted my memory card before uploading them onto my computer. :( oh well. They were boring pictures anyways. But here are some things I learned that i must remember for next time....

1. It might not be worth it to buy a piece of furniture if there are lots of chips and holes. You can see in the after picture how there are still bumps and chips on the drawers and top. I used plastic wood and sanded as much as i could but i didn't quite get the hang of how plastic wood worked until it was a little too late.

2. I am no good at spray painting anything wider then 4 inches! I first tried spray painting this dresser. All the blogs say its the best. I just about went crazy! No matter what i did it always looked stripey or blotchy. I even googled youtube videos on how to make it even but i could not get it right. So after buying about 4 bottles of spray paint (one blog said the stripes would go away after you put enough paint on.. lie) i decided to go back to good old paint. Although this leaves brush marks (I could try using a roller instead) it at least gives an even look.


3. Make sure colors go well together before buying. After the spray paint didn't work we went and bought paint: Grape Festival. I loved it. After painting the frame i went to paint the drawers that still had the spray paint color on them. Chad and i both thought the two colors looked really well together and we wanted to leave it. BUT, because they were spray painted they were all blotchy and gross looking, like you can see in this picture. So we went to walmart to look at the clearance paints to see if there was anything good we could paint the drawers. Below is the paint we found which we thought was a grey that could look pretty. When i got it home and started painting the drawers it looked awful. It was more of a light blue/white then a grey. So i ended up just painting the drawers the same Grape Festival color as the rest of the dresser. And that is how the dresser ended up the color it is now.

Yep! And now im excited to not paint anything for a long time!

Turn up the volume.

I've been looking for apartments and found these two on craigslist that i love. The first link is of a cute house that would be my first choice, but im pretty sure city utilities are not included so even though its cheaper it might not be after our utilities bill. But i love it. The second one is also cute and is a lot like the apartment we have now. So its cool.
http://eastidaho.craigslist.org/apa/3165585642.html
http://eastidaho.craigslist.org/apa/3130672671.html

So i mentioned that i had a big furniture painting project i was working on. here are a couple pictures to see what its like. I'll post a blog just for it once im done.

It is a 512 K

We are college graduates!! I was glad my parents could come up to see me graduate. Also, surprisingly chad parr decided to show up as well. Its been great being done, i feel like i could do whatever i wanted right now, like road trip to salt lake, which is what we did yesterday! Or start a big furniture painting project, which is also what im in the middle of, or start of. Its great.

Here are some of my favorite graduation pictures!

While my parents were here we brought them to the Teton Dam. Chad made us go look inside of this potato field that was there as well. It was creepy. I don't like those things. 

 Here is the inside... gross.

We also took a quick trip to salt lake because scotty was here in rexburg for a visit and instead of him going on the salt lake express we offered to give him a ride. We also got to go to Ikea, and see chads brother and his wife. It was a fun trip.

We bought this cage for when we had planned to drive to canada during this time. But we ended up not being able to go to canada. We had to take the cats out of our apartment since people were coming to check on it so we decided to bring them along too. Darcy was good and slept most of the way. Kitty whined for a majority of the drive. It was annoying im glad we weren't driving all the way to canada with her. 

A pizza from the store.

5 Days till Graduation!!!! Chad's been studying a lot and i am just about finished with my giant paper for my sociology class. I just have to write a couple more papers and take some chapter quizzes and i'll be all set to graduate. 

My friend Jaime Comer stopped by rexburg the other day on her way to the MTC. We all went out to eat at JB's. I was really glad i got to see her before she left. She seems very excited about her mission, i hope she has fun. 

So today we went to go drive to the civil defense caves because neither of us have been there. We didn't end up making it there because there was a giant puddle in the middle of the dirt road so we had to turn around. But we stopped a couple places so i could take some pictures. 

I know i know, i've been taking a lot of "car" pictures. I just love our little car!

Why don't you tell her to go out to dinner with you?

I've been spray painting things again. I still had left over blue and white.

For this one i bought sticks and a glass vase at the dollar store. I really really like how this one turned out.

And this one is a find from DI. I think the candle stick holder is cute, and Beethoven was pretty cool too. I ended up deciding i liked the gold on the candle stick so i didn't spray paint it. But Beethoven was spray painted blue. I have no where to put these yet.. but eventually they'll go on my desk or something like that perhaps.

two can keep a secret if one of them is dead.

Its been hot hot. During winter i always think how i want to live some where hot and be happy, but it only gets into the 90s here and im dying. I don't think i can live somewhere hot. haha.

We brought kitty outside today and she wasn't too happy about it. I think she felt too scared. She whined and whined shes so funny. Darcy liked it, but we didn't stay too long. 

Why not?

Fantastic news. I got a Nikon D300 for graduation. This camera has been my dream camera since like the beginning of college. And now i own one. Its crazy.. i still can't believe it. We drove around Idaho Falls so i could try it out a little at the friendship garden we went to back when we were first married (i tried to find the previous post about it, but it is lost?). When we got home i was all excited to edit my pictures like i always do, but then looking through them they all looked just fine without editing. haha. Editing them would make them look too bright and high contrast. My new camera just has soo much more quality then my old D50 its ridiculous :) Heres some pictures!

This is it.. instagramed of course. 

 Not very many pictures i know. Im going to take more soon. I also want to take comparing pictures with my d50 and d300 of the same thing so i can show the difference between to two. I think that would be cool. But.. that'll happen eventually. haha.

she's probably going to die.

Well.. we finally bought a new car! Its a 2012  Pruis C and i love it. We drove to the Tetom Dam just so we could drive around in it for a little while. Its just the best.

Thats why i didn't expect anything.

Lots of stuff has happened that i haven't yet posted about. So here is my big everything thats been going on post......

Chad parr got a JOB! Its a psr job and he's rather excited about it. Im glad he was able to find a psychology job that he will enjoy and so quickly. Im real happy for him!

Darcy got spayed... sad. I had to pick her up and she was all sleepy and not moving. When we got home we had to take off this little bandage she had on her wrist and underneath there is a little shaved part on her arm for the iv. It looks all sad. Also of course her whole belly is shaved and has a big cut with stitches on it. At first darcy really wanted to lick it but she's not allowed to so that was tough. Now its been 2 days and she is very much herself running around trying to jump up places (which she is not suppose to do until 4 days, shes a baddy). Another sad thing was that we couldn't give her food or water for about 24 hours which made us feel bad. Chad told me when he gave her food the next morning she gobbled it right up. Here she is taking a nap today. You can see her little shaved belly.

 And i thought i should also include one of kitty. She's sleeping right now as well.

Also I went to that white place flea market and bought this desk! The picture doesn't give it justice. The white knobs have little crowns on them its cute. And it was only 45$. I decide to put it up stairs in our room since there aren't any places downstairs for it and chad didn't like that idea. He wants it down stairs so it can be seen. I told him that other rooms should try and be pretty too.

 And remember this old kitty litter table i spray painted red earlier? I didn't like the color, I let chad pick it out :), so i tried painting it silver and i like it a lot better. You can see that the paint isn't quite even. Thats because i ran out. I'll have to finish it after we go to idaho falls and i can get more spray paint.

We also found this little book shelf at di for chads paper back books (he buys like 3 every time we go to di, i think he likes di more then me now). It was an ugly brown so i spray painted it silver. I like it. Chads still in the process of picking which books go on it or not.