All Decked Out

The deck is done!!

The last board was screwed on this Saturday and then on Sunday, under the threat of rain, we stained the deck! It is so wonderful to see it finally done! DH has worked so hard on the deck, doing it all himself (I helped where I could). He had to fit it in between work, overtime, the weather and time with the kids (which is very important to him). But it is finally done! I am so happy! The backyard seems so much bigger now. Yesterday we washed down the table and chairs and BBQ and put them up on the new deck. Today DH is going to build some stairs from the sliding door to the deck. We have 2 back doors (odd eh?) and we haven't used the sliding one because it hasn't ever had stairs. So this is really exciting for us LOL! Anyway here is a picture of the beautiful deck!




And this is the patio DH built a few years ago.



The backyard has so much useful space now!


Thank you to everyone for the recent comments!! It is great to know that I am not just talking to myself LOL!!!! I have been tagged by LoraKelly Designs. I will get to that asap. It is funny because you mention not liking to be "IT" as a kid and that was me as well!! I will do my best at tagging others though! Thanks for the tag!!

Have a beautiful day!

Purple Haze

DD#1 is now living in a purple haze! The drywall and mudding and sanding and priming are finally done! Today she is painting her room purple. It is a sort of dusty lilac. She is quite pleased with the colour.

While avoiding being creative today, I have tidied the house and planted some new plants in the garden. DD#2 and I planted a Bleeding Heart bush. We also planted some garlic here and there in the garden to try to keep away the aphids and the bunnies! I hope that works!

I also played around with my camera some more. I am trying to learn all the millions of settings that it comes with! I have and Olympus Evolt-330. It is a digital SLR. This is a huge upgrade from my HP digital point and shoot and quite the learning curve from my non-digital Olympus SLR.

I took a few pictures of my studio cupboards. I am trying to organize most of my supplies in photo boxes from Michaels to try to keep everything uniform. So far, so good. Now if only I could find my desk amongst all of DD#1's stuff from her room!!!









Ok, no more excuses! I am off to create! LOL!!