Ch..Ch..Ch..Changes.....

Born to go fast.

Finally have photos for those of you who have been asking...me with blond hair and the changes we have done to the house recently.

The first three need no caption, just me as a blond.
Please don't tell me you like me better as a brunette. I do too, and have always identified myself partly by my being a brunette. But when Mother nature replaces the brown with grey and Clairol cannot make a dye that can cover it for more than a couple weeks, you just go blond and deal with it.
The only photo cheating I did was fix my broken tooth and re sized them so those that have accused me of messing with it to make it look better, well that is simply not true, but thank you for the compliment.
I think I photograph better than I look. The blurry one is there to show how I look when its not a great photo.

Okay now for the house. These I will caption.

Mark and I had to strip wallpaper and paint plaster, not an easy thing, you have to use a brush for the whole wall. Put up new crown molding and new fixtures in the bath. The color of the bath made it hard to photograph. The towels are very bright and the walls are a medium sunny yellow. A very clean, happy room, the Period Table shower curtain I got from The Big Bang Theory, and the same with the bright colors for everything else. 

The dining room walls change color. They were more blue when I photographed them and in different light they are more of a peacock teal. We really took a chance painting it this dark but it paid off through the expressions on friends' faces when they see it. 

I added a photo of how it looked before to show the contrast and sorry but it happens to be Miranda's 16th birthday party.

Sorry this one is sideways. Shows new fixtures and cute shelf mark made from an old piece of marble he found in the shed. Hobby Lobby pictures, and tea light holders, target towels. Also switched out light fixtures from other bath and got a new toilet seat.

Better picture of the fixture and shelf. I went a little wild on the towel buying.

Replaced old shower curtain with the extremely nerdy, and therefore cool as hell to me, Periodic Table of the Elements. Also put in a bowed curtain rod so there is a lot of room in the shower now. Inside there is a bright blue mat and pink soap holder. Oh and a very posh back pillow for baths.

This whole project began because our friends gave us this pretty chandelier. Its hard to see but the table cloth is black and the runner (which has to be sewn up properly) is a light lime green, an really dramatic accent color used throughout the  room.

View from the opposite angle.

Room before the change.

This is the crown molding and corner pieces in the door Mark added. Really brings it all together.

For you Daddy, see how great my prized Canterbury tales looks since Mark restored it and the frame? It has been hanging constantly for about 4 years now. We love it and it is almost the exact width of the piano under it. 

Sorry, I do not know why these are sideways, i fixed them in the photo editor but they moved back. This is a framed copy of the song my great grandparents wrote together and had published at the turn of the century. I was not lucky enough to know my great grandfather frank (apparently whose personality I share) but i did know and love my great grandmother. We spent a lot of time together and I still miss her sometimes. This photo holds a lot of love.