Finally

We finally have the bathroom in a livable state. It took a lot of hard work and trying to fit the time in to finish it with everything else going on was tough. But we have sanded down and painted the walls and we bought all new fixtures. Plus we fixed the fan.

So I would say the scariest part of the whole thing was when we had to cut open the wall and put in some new plumbing. Matt pulled out a piece of wood but when we looked closer it was a dead squirrel. We both freaked out and he dropped it, I totally ran way screaming haha. It was SO gross! But pretty funny after the fact because of how we reacted.

So we painted the walls with a blue gray color. It really makes the white in the bathroom stand out which is great. And the new fixtures are fabulous. We still need to do some final touch ups so I'll wait to show pics but after this weekend I should get some pics up :)

Halloween

So Halloween is just around the corner! I think we have all that we need for our little get together next Friday.

Here is the plan...I'm making some super yummy desserts. Pumpkin Swirl Brownies, Peanut Butter Cups, Pumpkin Spice Cupcakes, Candy Corn Sugar Cookies, 7-layer spider dip, queso dip, stuffed mushrooms and buffalo wings. Most all of these items are courtesy of Martha Stewart :).

This will be the first time I've made dessert in quite a long time. I remember when I was kid we'd go visit grandma and make Chocolate Chip Cookies. I think the last time we did that was when I was like 13. When I was in college we'd make cookies in the sorority sometimes or my best friend would make brownies....mmm SO good. But I never really did any of the actual making of these items. I just hung out while other people did it and ate the goodness. So I am a littler nervous about making these goodies. But I think we'll be able to pull it off and have a great time.

We also got a bunch of decorations. The theme of our party is Zombie so for the wall behind all the food we have a sheet covered in fake blood. Then on the table I just have cute little decorations. Take a look:

Behind the decorations are our two pumpkins too. Mine is the huge one! More details about that in a bit. For the Decorations I have two tombstones, two coffins and then some cute little holders that I'm going to use to label the food on the table. For the the coffin and tombstone that are grey I painted them silver and then used a stiff brush and lightly painted black over the top. Gave it the exact look I was going for! Now I wish I hadn't painted the other ones brown...oh well. The little clip one will hold the name of the desserts I'm making for the party :) And a couple other cute signs I made (I'll take pictures when it is all set up.

During the weekend that I made all this stuff we went to Home Depot to finish getting all of the stuff for the bathroom. While we were there I was looking at the Christmas ornaments and I have decided I definitely want to make my own! I want to get just the plain matte color balls and make my own decorations using craft glue and glitters. Here are some pictures of things I found from Home and Garden online:

So I think that will be my fun crafts coming up :)