Happy Friday!

Thank you, Jerome's Furniture in Corona for my Christmas present.  I love it!

Our old couch had HAD it.  It was leather and one little split turned into a shredded mess.  I forgot to take pics before it went to the dump. :(  Used to have to sweep pieces of leather up twice daily.  So annoying.

To give you some perspective of our formal living room a couple years ago...

Blah!  That's the table I used to make my ottoman, btw.

And today...


 Color! Texture! Yay!

And the family room now...


Got the blinds a few months ago.  They sure beat the off-white ones from 1992...

We got the lamp for this room the next day:


It's a fillable jar so we're gonna start collecting stuff at the beach to put inside. :)

That's all for now!  Someday I'll remember to take pics of our master bath to share.

Have a wonderful weekend!
♥ Holly ♥

Happy December to y'all!    ******SEE UPDATE VIDEO BELOW******

Daniel finished the counter top to our "coffee bar" and I'm so excited about it!  Especially because we've been living with a piece of plywood for our counter top for at least 6 months...

Wood-look tile

I'm in love!!!  We got the tiles at Home Depot and they're only $1.49 each.  It's about $16 for a box which is all we needed for this one counter top.  The edge tiles are from the sheets (like below) they make for back splashes and stuff.  Those are more like $5 each but we only needed 2.  
  I couldn't find ours on the website but you get what I'm talking about from the above pic.  

I can't wait for the rest to be done!  We're in that mode now, so we'll continue to work on the counters.  Our goal is to be done with all of them by Christmas since everyone will be coming to our place.  

Have a wonderful week guys! 

♥ Holly ♥

UPDATE VIDEO All the countertops are done, just waiting for the back splash now:

I'm back!  We all knew I would be at some point.  Last time I posted (back in April!) we had failed our Whole 30 Challenge.

I'm sad to say that I've been terrible lately, food/drink wise.  Healthy?  Not so much.  My rolls have increased considerably because of it.  No bueno.  But I've decided that crazy diets and "challenges" don't really work for me.  Once you stop whatever one you're doing everything comes back.  I've been eating better for the most part lately and haven't been drinking alcohol so that's helping.  I just need to get back to a place where I'm working out consistently.  Struggle of my life...

In other news, our bathroom remodel is coming along nicely!  Daniel even surprised me while I was away for a bachelorette party by doing the baseboards, yay!  Seriously, we've been in that house for 10+ years and took the baseboards off when we tiled the floor back when we moved in.  Here are some "before" pics. 

So blah...

Paint is done, baseboards done, hung some curtains (which need to be hemmed), spray painted a candle holder, hung it up.  I also mounted 2 pieces of art that we got on our honeymoon but have yet to hang them.  

I whitewashed the boards too. Pic to come later.

It looks a million times better though.  It got held up because I started to peel some cracked wall texture and discovered mold, eek!  Daniel had to cut out a chunk of drywall and re-do it. 





As for the rest, I'll wrap up the last few details soon and post "after" pics. Until then, or until I feel like writing again, ta-ta for now!


♥ Holly ♥