No you don't stand a chance for a second in my world.

If you did not know, i have a dream to someday buy a victorian style farm house. It would need lots of work, would be around $150,000, and have more then about 6 acres of land (with trees not just a field). There is a house outside of Minneapolis that i dream about quite regularly that meets all of these qualities. Its on zillow of course, here  and is $140,000 needs tons of work and is on 29 acres. 

Here she is.... 

Along with my day dreams i enjoy reading blog post on how to refinish hardwood floors and installing drywall. When i buy my fixer upper i'll have to know how to do somethings right? Well while we were in texas visiting my family we went to a thrift store and chad spotted this book series on home repair. It seriously has everything and has these cute little pictures. I bought just about all of them for like a $1 each it was great. 

We also bought our first tool a drill.... i know we are very lame right now because everyone and their mom's probably have one of these in their house already, but i have to start somewhere and this was the most useful tool for me right now. :)

When you're lost and alone

So I haven't been posting because I haven't been doing anything. Yep....

But today i opened an adobe illustrator file on accident and thought it wouldn't work because my trial ended a while ago but it worked. And said that this is the last time i get to use it. So i should probably leave it open on my computer for forever now right? Well there were some quotes i was planing on framing in the future so i thought i'd make those while i had the chance.

Oh i am lost and found.

Here is an overload of pictures from our Christmas trip to Texas! There are lots and im tired so i'll only write a little bit?...

First is Christmas eve. They day we got there and opened presents. 

Some fun swimming time.

Some, infront of the house photos.

My dad wanted his little photo shoot. He even insisted on his own props, the bald of grass in his mouth.. ?.

 On our way to santa town. It pretty much a little texan town where you can buy foods and drinks, and then wait in two huge lines, either for the hay ride or the petting zoo. we waited for the hay ride and it took like 2 hours or more. Then you go through a trail of chirstmas lights. It was very impressive.

To get to santa town you park at a speed way and a bus picks you up. Being on the speedway was probably the best part of santa town for chad. He ran out onto the speedway, i was too scared to go with him :)

My dad wanted to copy chad and insisted on his picture with the green lights too.

And.. we went to the museum.

This is a giant sloth. And chad.

We also went to a boardwalk, walked around, fed some stingrays, and played some games where we won a total of 6 prizes. It was the luckiest day ever.

Lastly.. we went to NASA. This first picture is of mission control. Legit mission control.

alright alright alright

In less then an hour we are headed off to texas for christmas!! Excited.

So i'll hurry and blog :)

I know everyone knows we got our couch but i must blog about it so i can look back and be happy all over again. Its beautiful, never been happier.

This picture makes it look kinda blue but its definitely grey.. like the next picture.

There are seriously about 6 different thrift stores all within 10 mins from our apartment and its the best. Id never been to a good will before don't know if this is normal at all of them every where but target donates a bunch of brand new clearance stuff to them here so you can get the target threshold brand for super cheap and brand new. I once saw a bread box at di in rexburg and decided not to get it then went back the next day regretting it and it wasn't there. So when i saw this beauty for $6 brand new from target i didn't even think about it.

I love the wood grains on it, super pretty, but of course i had to add a little something onto it so i went with a few gold strips.......

 And lastly.... i started getting big crushes on kitchen hutchs this past month or two and have been day dreaming about repainting one and putting adorable kitchen things inside of it. But... i live a small apartment and have an even smaller car. so i thought i would probably have to wait a couple years. I thought... if only there was such a thing as a mini hutch. Then at my favorite thirft store here, we went in for some picture frames and everything in the store was 40% off and i saw this. And the label even read mini hutch. It was meant to be. It took trips home with the bottom and top separated but its in my kitchen now and i can't wait to redo it. This is a horrible picture thanks to my dark dark apartment but the wood is actually a very pretty dark wood not as yellow/light wood as it looks and im having a hard time deciding how much of it to repaint or leave wood?... tough choices.

These are some of the colors im thinking..

Which color do you like best? Im thinking dark navy? The teal i cant quite do since i just painted our new tv buffet that color :(