Before and after shots of house

Here are some before & after shots of the house. First will be the kitchen and part of the living room.

So there you go:) After the other rooms get done, I will post them here as well. My poor dad did all the painting and that red, he did NOT like:) Had to put too many coats of paint on the wall but it is worth it:) I have so enjoyed having my folks here, everytime they visit, I learn more about them:)

I know that some of these pictures are repeat sorry, problems with formatting on here with a not that great computer person on the other end.:) LOL.

Studio will rise again!

I wish I had a Frankstein picture to put up here, won't that be too cool:) Latest update, the folks are leaving on Friday, I will miss them horribly but this will give me room to get my studio set up and start creating!!! I am actually running low on jewelery to put out there and let me tell you, that is too cool! Of course, I think my brother in MN has a bunch that he is trying to get into stores up there:) WOW, three states, now that would be cool:)

My head is super full of ideas and themes to make and I am getting impatient, reminds me of Ms Margot Potter:) LOL!

My living room, kitchen, bedroom and both bathrooms are basically all done. I need to hang up more pictures in the living room and the next are my guest bedroom and the studio. Oh, I can paint my studio really funky too....dur, too used to living in apartments, how fun this will be. Must ponder colors and stuff now.....

Mom and dad's AC isn't working that great in Florida so they need to get home to fix it, of course, neither of them are looking forward to dealing with the heat and humidity, yuck.

Organized

is the key word for my studio. I thought I was but having no space truly you aren't. Now, I have an entire room, a huge closet and my dad sleeping there:) So, my plans are on the back burner for now but yes, they are bumping and thumping around my brain.

I have a good digital camera but I am not getting the quality of the pictures that I truly need to sell our jewelery. Mom & I are taking inventory tonight and getting things ready to go into Copper Country this weekend. For those who don't know, Copper Country is an antique and comissioned store. It has all sorts of goodies in it and I have bought my shabby chic dresser and kitchen chairs from it. It is HUGE but the jewelery counters, which are locked are up front and everyone goes wandering down those aisles. http://www.coppercountryantiques.com/ website....

The kitchen is almost ready to take pictures:) I have my 2 Mary Engelbreit pictures up on my red wall and they both just pop! It is cool!!!!!!!!!!

This picture is my Mayan necklace listed here: http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5041123

House...

The color that I picked for the living room looks rather like baby poop...the brownish stuff...so I am changing my mind on that one. The red will work great in the one wall in the kitchen but we need to get some stuff to put on the wall so dad doesn't have to paint it over 5,000 times. We will check the yellow paint tomorrow on the kitchen walls to see if that will take a bunch of painting over it as well. It is going to be just cutest!

I am so feeling the need to bead!!! I am transfering that energy into working on my house, i.e. hanging up pictures, paint colors etc....sigh. I WANNA BEAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! All my stuff is still packed so I am telling my inner maxine beader person to hold on to her pants and WAIT!

Monkey dad

The monkey dad arrived yesterday safe and sound. He likes my house;) So that is good news...if he didn't like it, he can sleep in the shed LOLOL.

I did way too much stuff yesterday!! Unpacked the kitchen, lifted some boxes, went to the old apartment and cleaned some more there....I am a hurting person right now.

We are going to church later...drinking much needed coffee right now!

Day job

Why do people need to create more work/issues for you than you already have???? Sigh.....I should have taken more time off from work. I am very irriated and frustated at the day job and when I get home to see the mess there & my back hurts...I get more irriated and frustated. I am trying really hard not to take it out on mom. I am going to ask for some time off next week.

I will pray about it and let it go. My one toliet is running all the time, so I am going to shut off the water on that one and dad can show me how to fix it. I can do it once I learn how:)

Now, my goal, hopefully, is to get the bead room more organized by getting the tables set up and some of the boxes that are temporaily in there, moved into the closet. Dad can help me put up the heavy book boxes so at least those are out of the way for now. Tonight, we go back to the old apartment, pick up stuff, bring back the vaccum cleaner and tomorrow the cleaning people show up, my couch shows up and dad shows up. Busy Saturday.

Moving on Jet Plane, don't know when I'll be back again..

Yes, the move was a success:) Everything is in the house but not unpacked yet. I was lucky to find clothes for work last night:) We are exhausted. Of course, you never sleep well in a new home so I am one tired out monkey right now.

I forgot that my water heater runs on gas so we had to heat up some water using Mr Coffee, yes folks you can use it to brew coffee and to heat water so you can take a sponge bath and wash your hair!! LOL

My gas gets delivered tomorrow. It sounds like a mouse/rat is trying to make it's home under my house so I have to get some poison for it...I don't want to do that but I can't imagine trying to get a poor little cutest mouse out of a trap either......yuck. I don't like killing stuff unneccessarly but no cat etc....too bad a friendly snake won't get it and then move out!! I have to get steel wool today to plug up the hole as well, it is probably got in by my gas stuff..

I couldn't find my alarm clock so both cell phones were set up to go off today. The cleaning crew is coming out on Saturday to the old apartment:)

Too tired...

Okay, I am a dork, I set my alarm to go off around 0430...yawns...I got out of bed around 0500 and by 0530, we were done packing the bathrooms/rest of bedrooms etc. So, now mom & I are doing computer stuff and being really really tired.

I am so glad that I am off at noon. I will go home and nap...probably not cause I will have unpacking to do at home:) Please pray for Monkey momma while the movers come etc because I will be at the day job....

*yawns* I HATE GETTING UP EARLY!!! Once upon a time before I got fibromylgia, I was a huge morning person....that went away:)

Life, Universe and everything...

View of my old living rm:

Starting to sound like a Douglas Adams book...good author, he wrote Resturant at the End of the Universe and several other books, they were quite unusal.

I got the half day tomorrow off:) Praise the Lord! So, tomorrow afternoon, I pick up mom and then off to new house. The movers are coming tomorrow and I am super excited! Dad is coming on Saturday so at least we can start doing some painting in the kitchen soon. We got some super cute shower curtains for curtains in the kitchen. They don't look like shower curtains and I really couldn't find anything that I liked so why not:) Thinking creatively out of the box is a fun thing:)

I am still not packed. We are down to 2 boxes which the rest of plates etc go into and the rest, the good old stand by packing material, no rub garbage bags:) They work really well for clothes. Today, I have a cute outfit on that I haven't been able to wear in several years;) Soon, I will be able to get into my summer box of cute clothes that I was really close to wearing when I was living in San Antonio. Tucson has been awesome to me and yes, God has had that happen to me as well:)

I am so relieved that part is over and it took me over 1/2 the morning yesterday to take care of getting things turned on. Yes, I know I waited but hey, I was a bit paranoid stuff would fall thru!!

House...

It is officially MINE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I signed the property lease (I rent that) today and I move furniture etc in on Wednesday! Excited is a mild term for how I feel!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Taking a back break from packing right now. Most of it is done just the 2 bedrooms and then life stuff that you need everyday. :) It took me all morning to be sure the utilities are all done...pain in the butt!!!

I was shaking like a leaf on Saturday when I signed for my house & gave them downpayment money. I was in a much better mood like a huge weight lifted off my shoulders. Stay tuned for a open house invitiation for everyone!!!!

morning...

Not a good start to a Friday morning. I had to talk to a patient's wife to tell her that I will not tolerate her yelling at my staff espically when they were not rude to her. Yes, I wasn't up there but I know my employee very well and know that he would never do that. It was confirmed when the lady left that my staff was very nice and very professional to her.

But, the day will get better and it is so close to signing for my house that I can taste it:) Oh my staff gave me a warm fuzzy on my day job. They told me that they appreciate it that I back them up! :)

Today

We had a vegatrian potluck for one of our social workers who is moving to Seattle. I believe this is the healthiest this clinic has eaten since we opened in Sept 2008!

4 days and counting. If you can't tell, I am so bloody excited that I am ready to burst. Still packing away and will continue in super sonic speed this weekend. Back is better and still fighting off whatever everyone else is getting! Got into trouble several times this week from boss but I am only a human being not God so get off my case!! It is irriating!

I went to work today with one turquoise covered nail polished thumb nail. Everybody was thinking I was crazy! I put the color on last night on 1 nail to see if the color went with my skin tone. It does but I forgot to take it off...oh well, must be different ya know! We bought this color for monkey mom but it doesn't go with her skin tone which surprises both of us cause she looks wonderful in turquoise. Go figure LOL.

6 days and counting

I packed 4-5 boxes this weekend, washed laundry and took care of the back. Mom is so busy with classes she just can't help me like she did before. I am attempting to get sick so please send prayers out that I don't cause I have just too much stuff to get done. I just confirmed our movers and need to call them back because I am brain farting on my new address...dur!

I doubt if we will get anything done regarding jewelery wise or update Etsy so I am going to our stores to put an announcement on there. We should be able to still mail out because I have all of our jewelery that is on Etsy separated into another area. Getting smarter, kind of, in my old age LOLOLOL.....

Happy Memorial Day

May God bless our troops and to fellow veterans out there, thank you!

I am a Gulf War Veteran from the first war. Only ONE MORE WEEK until I sign for my house!! Back is still pinging but I am packing boxes. I am NOT moving the boxes however, I think that is what pinged my back out again on Saturday. It is in my lower back so I can't sit nor stand in one position too long. It gets old, let me tell you.

I just read the first 4 books in the Left Behind series....I HIGHLY reccomend that everyone should read them. It is amazing the power of our Lord!

We got our beads from Gaea..........oh her skulls are so beautiful!!!! Can't wait to make them into beautiful jewelery! wheewwwww.............

I am going to start packing the extra stuff in the kitchen in a second after I stretch out my back. Fun weekend huh?

Winning beads:)

We won beads....lalalalal!!! I am excited. Of course, now I want to create when I have to pack the rest of the beads this weekend. Typical creative spirit! ghessh.

It was misting out today and the mountains were totally lovely! I need to remember to always have my camera handy!

It was a rather yucky morning, short staffed today so I was working the main check in desk by myself for a while. That brought back memories of why I don't do that job anymore!! Luckly the patients were very understanding which I do appreciate it!

I have to throw out a couple of dead air mattresses. Sorry but dragging a queen size air mattress to the patio to run water by it to check for leaks doesn't work for me nor my back. It is better but I rather not push it.

I still can't believe I am purchasing a home soon....wow. I am so not spending any money so I can get paint etc. I still need to get to the dentist to get my crown put on. Trying to build up some more sick leave cause everybody is coming down with the crud. If I get it, I am hurting someone!!

We have pictures taken of some new jewelery so this weekend, we are going to try to update the sites, so stayed tuned:)

Monday monday....

Well, we tried to go to Ikea again and my back got in the way like usual! ergh. Mom and I went to a few stores here in Tucson and delibrately got lost to look at cute neighborhoods like I enjoy doing.

Got to church on Sunday, it was a good sermon. Read a bunch of Harqulian type romances so now I really want a guy...sigh.

I have to get off my butt and pack! I have just been too immobile about it and it still hasn't hit me totally that I have a HOUSE that I am moving into. What is my problem? sheesh.

No creating anything but we did buy a cutest make up table and I showed mom what I want my bedroom to look like. I love shabby chic but only want it in my bedroom. We went looking at some second hand furniture stores for things. We bought a make up table. I finally have room for a make up table so that it rather cool:)

The back is feeling better and I am in regular shoes. It is too cold at the day work to wear sandals all the time! I swear my feet turn blue...brrrrrr.

Mom is in the same mood I am in, nothing new to do. We ate at a horrible Mexican resturant. bleck. I miss San Antonio for the great Mexican resturants! I am still looking for one here. If I find one, I will be a a faithful person, I promise!! LOL!

If you haven't guessed, I am a Christian but being a former pagan/wiccan, I don't believe in shoving my faith down people's throats. I will make comments etc but I won't shove my faith down your throat, I have HUGE problems with that.

moving help

Anybody that lives in Tucson, can I beg you to help me out? I am moving into a new house June 6th and need help.

I nor my parents can lift heavy things so I will need some strong backs, arms, legs and senses of humor:)

I will pay for lunch/dinner for helping me out. I do not drink so water/soda/tea will be provided as well.

You will have my undying devotion!!!!!!!!!!

Training

I feel that I am never going to get thru the mandatory training I have to do for the day job. I and mom figured out where our creativity has run off to...the circus for a while :) I am so busy at work and then figuring out and excitement about the house.

Please pray for my youngest brother Jeff, he is having some werid readings on his ECG. We have horrible heart problems on both sides of the family.

Back to training...

life

No hip surgery!!! I am glad but not thrilled because I know in the colder weather, yes we do get that here I will start hurting again.

My goofy niece has cancelled her graduation party...she is 18 and knows everything!!! Man, I would have one to get some money! She lives in MN and has attitude.

So this means that mom will be here when I sign my life away on June 1st then dad will be coming down on June 5th! Paint shall proceed!

Ms Margaret got her box of new jewelery and is loving it and sending a check in which I am loving it as well.

I was in the creating mood than I got my nose in a book that was it.

The best laid plans of mice and monkeys

We didn't get to Phoenix at all. I did find a HUGE purplish chair on sale which is sitting and taking up most of my living room. I packed 2 boxes and will pack some more tonight. It kind of feels rather surreal to me since this is my first house and I just can't get some of my brain wrapped around it. Once I moved in and start painting than I should realize that it is mine and I don't have to move again and I can do with it what I want!!! :)

Mom finally got some cute clothes this weekend. She works at home and I think she feels that she doesn't deserve cute clothes but the daughter thinks she does!!!

One thing that I noticed, is as women, do you grab your breasts when talking about them or bras? I saw that Saturday when mom brought some new clothes, we were talking about bras and all the women were grabbing their boobs. I brought that up and we all giggled about it. The one guy in the store proably had a great moment at that time LOL

I keep forgetting to bring my camera in so I can post my new hair pictures and y'all can see what I look like. I will get a picture of both of us on here sometime:)