My Personal Weightloss Challenge

This week was Week 1 of my own little personal weightloss challenge. I am going to get on track to losing about 10 lbs. (taking baby steps and making small attainable goals). I signed up for Step Aerobics at the Rec Center. Last week was week one and boy was it tough! I am so glad that I did it though... one week down five more to go! The instructor is really nice and always switches things up so it never gets boring. I can't wait until next week!

Yummy Banana Bread!

Yesterday I noticed we had some bananas that were getting old. I then remembered that that is the best time to make banana bread! So I searched for an easy recipe that didn't require nuts, because I don't like them. Well I found this easy recipe online that I had all the ingredients. The bread came out so yummy! The only modification that I made was that I added some cinnamon. It was delicious for my first banana bread!

Part 1 of my Laundry Room Makeover

So one of the things that I want to do this summer is makeover my laundry room. The hubby says that I can do whatever I want to it. So I am going to paint it, make curtains, and redo it to make it more 'homey'. I want a bright and airy color on the walls and a fun patterned fabric. So I went to Joann's and found a great fabric and I am basing everything around my fabric. I wasn't quite sure how I wanted to do make the curtain for the laundry room but I bought the fabric and thought I'd 'wing it'. Well the other day I went to Hancock Fabrics and they were having a sale on their McCall's Patterns. I bought like 6 different patterns for different things. One of the patterns had a valance that I wanted to use for the window. Well yesterday I spent a good 3 hours on the curtain and it came out wonderful! I am so proud of this valance! The most tedious part was cutting the pieces out. That can be tiring! But I finished it and it beautiful if I do say so myself.

Here are some pictures of the valance in the laundry room. I put it up to see what it would look like.


Here is a picture where you can see the color that I am going to paint the wall. It is Glidden's True Turquoise.


Here is a picture of the other side of the valance. The contrast color is brown.


Tomorrow I plan to start painting the laundry. But first I have to empty it!

My Master Bedroom Updated and Other House Pics

I put my master bedroom on Rate My Space to get feedback and got a suggestion to add bigger lamps to the nightstands. Well I don't have the money to buy some bigger lamps plus I haven't found any yet that I like so I found some tall branches to add to the nightstands. I already had the vases and rocks so with the two branches that were on sale at Anna's Linens it cost me $7.98! What a steal... I love how it adds height to the area.
Here are some pictures of the updates.



Here are some more pictures of our house.
Our Master Bath




Office/Craft Room



Guest Room



Upstairs Guest Bath

My Baking Day!

Today I decided to bake a couple things while I was home and do some post vacation laundry. I had wanted to bake some chocolate muffins. So I went online to find a good recipe that I had all the ingrediants. I found this recipe online at Muffinrecipes.net. I made it a while ago but I forgot one of the ingrediants so they turned out hard! Today I tried them and I am going to give this recipe a C. There is still something 'off' about them. So now I am still on the hunt for a good chocolate muffin recipe.




I also made some delicious Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies. I found a great recipe on another blog called Baked Perfection. These came out so yummy! I love peanute butter and chocolate so this was the perfect recipe.

My new home!

Here are some pictures of my house! I am super in love with it. We still have a loft, a guest room and an office/craft room to decorate but that will take some time since I don't know exactly what I want to do in those rooms.

LIVING ROOM:




DINING ROOM:


KITCHEN:






HALF BATH:




MASTER BEDROOM:





FRONT OF HOUSE:


We really love our new house. I can't wait to do other fun decorating things to it.

Buying a House!

We are buying a house! We hope to close March 19. We will see. Yay!