Half Bath After

First of all, Happy First Day of December and I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving! We woke up to snow falling here today, so pretty and a great way to kick off the Christmas season.

Now, time for the reveal of our downstairs half bath! Sorry it took so long ;-)

Click here to see the before pics or here is a reminder:

It was quite, ahem, lovely, wasn't it? You should have seen it the way it was for the last, oh, 2+ years! We had started to tear it out and then it just sat...and sat...and SAT. Until, my wonderful husband finally announced that we were just going to hire someone to do BOTH bathrooms (ugh, wait til you see the before pics of the upstairs bathroom, YUCK!)

So here is the finished downstairs half bath. Well, not COMPLETELY finished, I still need to finish decorating, but its a million times better than before!

Alrighty, here we go! Just a couple pics because, well, its a tiny bathroom and there's not much to show ;-)

 My pretty vanity, I wanted it the moment I saw it. Its from Lowe's. We had to get the smallest version because the next one up was just a hair too big for the space. I used oil rubbed bronze light fixtures - that was a fun search, NOT! I had to get the kind with the on/off switch on them because we didn't have a good way to wire them both to a switch and it would have been silly to put a switch under just one....I spent at least 1 day online searching, then when I was about to settle for something that wasn't quite right...I found these on a site I had already looked at...then found them on amazon.com (where I had also searched before!). I swear they added them overnight!

Oil rubbed bronze faucet (from Lowe's). Oil rubbed bronze looking towel and tp holder. Not quite actual oil rubbed bronze, but it was cheaper than the others and works fine for me!

 Jim insisted on having a medicine cabinet, so we got the one above (kinda hard to take a good pic), also from Lowe's. It doesn't "go with" the vanity, but its a close enough match. I am glad we got it now, more storage is a plus! Oh and it had to go over the toilet because the area over the sink is too low because the bathroom is under the stairway. I think I am going to get a vinyl wall quote to go there...or make a sign myself...not sure yet.

As for the paint color, I gotta let you in on a little secret.....I am not the biggest fan of blue for home decorating. I always turn to my beloved greens. I told myself I had to pick a color other than green this time!! So when I saw a picture of a bathroom that was similar to this, I fell in love with the blue! I just think it goes so well with the oil rubbed bronze and the wood colors. The color is called "Heritage" and its by Valspar, at Lowe's. Sorry I forgot to post that before!! I totally meant to!

The woodwork is actually Antique White. That was a mess up. Jim picked it up instead of the plain white, but I am happy he did. I like how it matches the vanity top and the towels. Good faux pas Jim!! ;-) I made sure to get WHITE when we painted the upstairs bathroom though, hehe.

That's pretty much it! Except for these:

My cute little owl towels! I found them at Goodwill for $1.99. I have always loved owls (a bit ironic that they are so "in" right now!) so this was a fun find, the perfect colors too!

I hope you enjoyed my little bathroom makeover. Keep an eye out for our upstairs bathroom's makeover. I will post those before pics soon!

Thankful Thursday

Today I am Thankful for all of the veterans that have served our country. Without you, we would not be the country we are today. May we continue to lift up and support our service men and women as they do the difficult, scary, and highly honorable job of protecting our country and freedom. Thank you!

Happy Veterans Day!

Tiny Half Bath Before

Alright, here are some before pics of our tiny downstairs half bath. Jim ripped out the vanity and toilet over 2 years ago, then he put the toilet back in (same toilet) because my sister and her hubby were coming to visit and my sister was pregnant at the time so we didn't want her to have to go to the upstairs bathroom in the middle of the night. Then the half bath stayed like that, just a toilet, for the last 2 years. I did take a lot of the wallpaper off too, but I don't have any pics of that. Sorry!

Vanity straight ahead when entering the door. See how the ceiling is slanting above the sink? This bathroom is under the stairway.

Toilet to the right of the door

Looking at the floor from the doorway.

Well, that's our lovely little half bath/powder room before we had it redone. I will post the after photos in a couple days!

Hi....Remember Me??

Long time no see! I hope there is SOMEONE out there still interested in my blog! I am going to try this out again. I am not going to even try to post every day, but maybe a couple times a week.  Maybe only once a week. I am not going to work myself up about it though. If I can get around to it, I will blog. And hopefully I will be able to keep up with some of YOUR blogs too! I really miss my blog friends and I am hoping I can do a better job of being a good blog friend to you.

So wow...what's happened since I last posted....well, I had a double ear infection and some sort of sinus/allergy infection. That was not fun AT ALL. Lots of pain, I even told hubby that I would rather go through natural childbirth again than that awful ear pain. Then Matthew got a cold and had a cough for a few days, but it wasn't bad. Jimmy then got it and he is still coughing. Our Aussie, Luke, turned a year old on the 23rd. And then there was Halloween, Matthew's first. Jimmy was a cowboy and Matthew was a cow. I am posting a pic below.

We have been having both of our bathrooms remodeled (finally!!) so I am excited to show you the before and after pics. I am so glad we have nice bathrooms now, its like a huge miracle!! Seriously, our upstairs bathroom was just awful, there was even mold growing on the walls and ceiling - I was a bit tired of having to bleach it. YUCK! So I will be posting about the bathrooms in the coming weeks, this week I will show you the downstairs half bath and then I will post the before pics of the upstairs full bath a bit later. Its not finished yet so I will post about it when its closer to being done.

Well, I am off to do mommy duties. I will leave you with this pic of Jimmy and Matthew from Halloween. Have a great week!!

Tot School - Letter L

 

Jimmy is 32 months old 

Boy, am I late getting this posted!!!

Here is what we did for letter L last week:

Letter L on Starfall.com

We did the letter L tracing sheet from Confessions of a Homeschooler.

The Letter L Lion on the Totally Tots website

A Leaf Garland like the one on No Time For Flashcards.

We read a few books:

We made a letter L tree with leaves on it.

Some things we did that have nothing to do with letter L:

A neat Tracing Placemat inspired by the ones on No Time for Flash Cards.

And shape matching using Carisa's shape tracers printable.

Shew, that about covers it! Sorry this was sooo late! Letter M will be up in a few days, hopefully!

Make sure you head over and check out the other Tot School posts for the week at 1+1+1=1