You'd be surprised!

So I thought I would high light how much you can change the look of your house with a SMALL budget.

I will first start by saying we would never done anything we did in the house without pintrest giving us a lot of inspiration and confidence.

So we started with painting the living room, kitchen, and hall way. This took one and a half gallons, each gallon cost 37$.

Then we sanded down the cupboards and painted them, we just bought a gallon of white paint, 37$ (Benjamin Moore was on a great sale). We used the same hinges and spray painted them to look new, the spray paint was $5.

We bought new hard wear for the cupboards, the handles. For 28 we paid $48.

We then bought a small can of yellow for the closet door, which was $15- I have a lot left, might do our front door as well.

We then painted our bathroom I got a small can for $19- and I did three coats with that! Finished the whole bathroom. I painted the tiles with left over white which was free.

This last week we have tackled our counter top and back splash, both with tools and adhesives costs just over $200!

The next project is staining the cabinet in the bathroom :) which should not be more than $50.

Refurbishing is WAY less than new!

Another normal day

Some pictures of progress in the house.

Chawezi watching his favourite movie at the moment- Madagascar 2.

I can't wait for all of the painting sanding and grouting to be done!!!!

Photo post February

Some of the kids on here :)

There are some of the kitchen, we started to tackle the back splash today. I am going to save the old back splash which is smashed to pieces and make a mosaic mural in the back yard by painting each piece a different colour. Should be a fun project when it gets warm again. (If that ever happens).

The pictures shows the actual new tiles we are putting up in the kitchen, I love them :)

The last picture is of our hall closet in the same room as the kitchen, there we put up shelves and boxes for organizing some of our paper things :) like an office in the closet! I sold a dresser we were not using, and used the money from that to buy all our supplies for that project.

Anyway, will post again soon.

A sort of day off at home :)

Today started with sleeping in, then a feast of a breakfast with pancakes, sausage, eggs, strawberries, and coffee! Once chawezi went down for a nap I went to planning sets 5th birthday party, which is not easy considering kaden is born the next day after him, and our family is a bit spread out, not to mention all of his friends here in town. So we just planned an in town party this time.

We also have the complication of recording for the next two weeks! Kinda nervous, but it's going to be great!!!!!

While I planned vinjelu played with the kids on the floor with the pirates, the English and the princesses :) very cute actually. Now we might convince the older two to go downstairs and watch a movie and Vinj and I could have some "alone" time at home, which is so rare can't remember if we have had that in months :) maybe even brew a fresh pot of coffee for that momentous moment.

So before the times goes, I will fly away for now.

The pictures is taliah in her princess garb from all angles, and the kids playing. Happy Saturday people, hope you have enjoyed yours too!

Family day again

December 26th was our family Christmas today, we were missing two families though. But we had a great day! Here are a few photos from the day. Had a nice talk with gwanire too, thank to FaceTime for free!

Now that I can blog so easily I might just do this more often. :)

Christmas 2012

A morning and afternoon spent with my mom and dad. It was a very nice quiet day, relaxed which is exactly what we needed!

Was fantastic to eat great breakfast, and even open gifts from across the sea!

Missed our other side of the family so much today though :(

Vinj bought me and iPad!!!!!! Ahhhhhhh! And I am typing on it at the moment, using a blogger app, which is just awesome!