and now we have a place for knick knacks!

I felt like the bathroom needed a shelf but I couldn't decide exactly what I wanted. I found a handmade shelf at a antique store for $2.00. I painted it the same gray that I used for the tub and the wall pipe. It turned out like this:

a disaster, and not even a beautiful one

After rethinking the fancy I decided to go for something basic and found one that matches the frame for the newspaper. 

classic!

But, needs a little something....don't you think?

ah, that's better!

Ah, that's better. A few pieces of my milk glass collection and of course I put a (vintage) bird on it!

bathroom cabinet plans

James will start building the bathroom cabinet any minute now! Some of the styles I like look like this:

mirror(s) mirror(s) on the wall

I hung these mirrors in the bathroom today. I've been sidelined with a back injury so have not been able to do the painting I had planned. bummer!

The wall that these mirrors is on will be home to the ladder type towel rack James is building for me.It will look something like this:

I found this here

I'm going to paint mine white....

It will fit perfectly between the wall and the tub- especially since it will be custom made!

ah, there is Penny, our photobombing dog!

pretty pen cup

I decided to take a break from bathroom painting and whip up a quick pen cup. Th is is about the easiest and cheapest craft out there. Take a clean glass bottle (this one had cherries in it) and some paint (this paint is leftover from the chicken coop)

see how Penny is always photo bombing me?

Pour a bit of paint in the jar and swirl it around to cover the sides. Hang it upside down to dry. I used a clamp and then hung up up over some grass, since paint will drip out. When it's dry you've got  your color on the inside of your vase/pen cup/whatever holder.

How cute and easy is this?

touch ups in the bathroom

This morning I decided to complete the touch up painting in the bathroom that I've been meaning to get to for about 11 months. Poor James. This is how he spent is 7am on Saturday:

James in the tub!

whenever I see this paint I think of that song "divine thing" P.S. this is a Portland company. Shop local!

note the dots. It's a a style (design?) element I have throughout the room

bathroom curtain

Since we don't have any neighbors, I'm not very concerned about window coverings. In fact, I'm not into them. I wanna see the great outdoors. Especially when I'm taking a bubble bath! That aside, I felt it was time to put up a simple curtain (we have not simple ceiling and crown molding, so I didn't want the entire room complicated).
I chose muslin fabric because it's super thin and lets the light in. I wanted to have dots, to follow the style element of dots we sorta have going. I could not find any fabric that fit my needs so I decided to paint the curtain myself.
Lotta Jansdotter has a cool book of stencils that I used. It's a quick and easy process:

Lotta Jansdotter Stencil book

fabric paint- I mixed black and white for the perfect shade

stenciling happening atop the ironing board

and here it is!

I'm happy with how it turned out and how simple it was to do. Ok, what's next.....

its time to organize!

I am attempting to organize and downsize. I have a tiny house and its too cram packed with s.t.u.f.f. Take my bedside table, for example. See how  much stuff was stacked on a tiny table? (not pictured are the lamp and alarm clock)

so: 9 magazines, 6 books, 1 nook, a card from james, 2 book marks, a watch, some lip balm, and 33 pony tail holders. whew

I don't think anyone needs the sheer volume of reading material that I had going on there. And t.h.e.r.e were all the hair ties I couldn't find! Feels good to get this stuff put away! Now, on to the closet.....

we've got bats in our belfry! errrr library!

Hi, friends!
Today when James was pulling more siding off the library he noticed a bat up on the ceiling! Can you see him?

This photo is from his phone, so it's not as zoomed in as I would like. When I went in with my camera he flew away. Sigh. Soooo Edward of him not to want attention.

More progress is being made getting the siding off this baby. We measured the building and it's 16X24, so about 284 square feet. Perfect size for all our books....and a bat or two....

Here are some photos of the progress:

who wants to help fill the dumpster?

I found this in the library today. hmmmmmm

Hunter is supervising

This is the little cement room. 

The red and white siding is the back of the library

remodeling will (re)commence in 4...3...2...1

Hello, friends! Remember us, the Wilsons who are building a home?! Well, we're back and ready for more remodel action. 

This is our library. Or, it will be. Right now it's a building that is crooked and needs the frame straightened out and to be re-sided before we do anything else to it. Last summer James and his friends worked on fixing the foundation, and that was the hard part. (hard to believe when you see the photo below.

Step one (or two, really) is to remove the siding. Here is where we are at so far:

The brick you see is a room that was once the fridge for our house. I want to turn that room into our office but James is against it. He suggested it be the room where paperback books are stored. (Since the whole building is the library). hahaha what a book snob! I'm against that. So, we're undecided. First things first though. Let the deconstruction begin!