I suck at posting on here, I get that. Sorry. I haven't been up to a whole lot lately, working a lot. My day is so long and full of work i dont really get a whole lot done once i get home. I havent gotten into a routine still, and its been what, almost 4 months! I feel like a slacker most of the time. :-/ House work is my all time enemy and its always frustrating me. I was so sick of all the STUFF we have that i dont use, dont know where to put, and just sits out in the open with no home that i decided to go through the house and have a garage sale. We planned on having it this weekend and even borrowed tables and got money out for change then late friday night things were still not set up and we hadnt made signs or advertised so we are putting it off till this coming weekend. Hopefully the weather isnt too bad, but my lovely friends wonderful mom let us borrow a nice canopy that we can put in the drive way incase it rains :) I still have to price sticker about half of the stuff and realized there is still a few more areas i need to go through and add stuff to the sale pile. Ive never had a garage sale before so i hope it goes well! We are going to put in on craigslist throughout the week and i might even look into seeing how to get it in the paper, but im sure signs, craigslist, and facebook will be fine too. Also we live on the same street as a busy busy church so i would imagine lots of passerby church goers will stop by. Cant wait to get all this stuff out of our house!! :)
In other news, my dad was getting rid of an old dresser he's had in his house for as long as i can remember that was really beat up and nothing special, but we dont have a dresser and ive been dying to get one so i said we would take it and i would undertake my first furniture makeover!! I got the dresser last week and last weekend i sanded and primed the whole thing, then i went and bought a quart of paint, i decided to paint it gray since we have gray sheets and white bedding with gray flowers on it form Ikea, Im painting our bedside tables while so i thought gray would go well with it all. After two coats the dresser is a bit lighter than i had planned on but it looks so much better than it did!! I still dont have hardware on it, they are pretty spendy so i ended up buying brushed nickle pulls online so they wont be here till wednesday. I cant wait to get it in our room and fill it with clothes!! Once i get it all together i will post pictures! Now i just need to find a mirror to go on top!
In the food world we did find an awesome U-Pick blueberry farm this summer and went twice, first time we got a pound and a half and i made a blueberry buckle and then fresh blueberry pancakes and we ate the rest in oatmeal, the second trip we picked SIX pounds!! Its such a good price and we had a lot of fun picking them, we planned on making jam and wine, but i actually just made the buckle again and some muffins and now the rest are in the freezer! My dear friend Kelsi and I picked blackberries and decided to make jam with those instead of the blueberries, we got about 22 cups of blackberries and made a big of pot of jam and now i have six jars of it waiting in the cupboard...Its been a good summer and we have a fun time going for fresh picked berries! Glad i learned to make jam too! Also, a couple weeks ago a lady I work with brought in some zuchini from her garden and they were HUGE! so i took one home, it was one of the smallest ones and i decided to make zuchini bread, which i never have before, and i got six whole loaves out of the zuchini! It was so good, i gave away four of the loaves and everyone loved it, our two at home went fast too!! Definitly turned out well, I love all the new stuff ive learned to make! And last night i was looking through an old cookbook and found a recipe for Peanut Butter bread, ive never heard of it so i decided to try it today, its nothing spectacular but it ended up pretty good, its good with jam on it too! So its been pretty fun trying new things lately, i just need to start trying DINNERS rather than jams and breads, haha because ive been slacking on making dinner lately, Sorry hunny!!
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