Carpentry

Oh yes everyone!!  I am learning how to build some AWESOME things out of wood!!!  A couple months ago I came across this blog called Shanty 2 Chic.  It is a blog all about making things out of wood!  Plus its two chicks that do all the work!  I started looking through their site and thought, if they can do it I can do it!  I have been wanting something for our house since we moved in (3 years ago) and they have plans to tell me how to build it!  I am not sharing quite yet what it is but you will know soon enough!  It is so so fun and I CAN'T wait to have it completed!  But beware it may a month or so!  It's that big of a project:) 

 

 

We had a lot of the tools around the house that I needed to start my carpentry projects but we didn't have a kreg jig and I didn't have a work bench so that I could cut my wood.  Luckily my amazing husband bought me these two things for Christmas!  Sure sign I am getting old when I am asking for tools for Christmas! lol!

 

Now, the girls on the website make these projects look simple and easy!  I am here to tell you that if you don't know what you are doing its NOT that easy!!  haha!  It is definitely a learning process!!!  The first time I tried to drill screws into wood, don't think dirty here people, my husband was helping me and lets just say that didn't go very well! Those little bastards are hard to screw in.  He got so mad at me. To make things even more peachy I was so angry at the girls on the website for telling me this was simple DIY project.  I needed more than just myself to conquer this.  I stripped 2 of those asshole screws before B and I got in a fight in front of my mother in law and niece! Things were going great:).  Since I  wasn't going to be able to learn how to do this from my husband, I turned to a good friend and had her and her husband teach me.  Well more her husband but she helped too.

 

He was a much more patient with me.  Once I got the hang of how to use the drill, it really was super easy like those little bitches said it would be!!!  Here are some pics of me completing my first project.

 

 

 

Finished product! 

 

 It was so much fun!!!!  I can't wait to start on my next big project!  First tho I have to get a big ass dresser that is taking up the whole 3rd car space in our garage redone and moved.  Once that is out of my way there will be lots woodworking going down at the Wall house. After I finished my first  project I just knew I needed a couple more pieces of equipment to help me with my future endeavors.  I need a miter saw and a new drill.  The drill we have is bigger than my arm, no wonder I couldn't make it work right.  Here's to convincing B Wall I need all these tools!  Wish me luck!!!!

 

Love, Mrs. Wall

 

 

 



Happy New Year!

Happy New Year Everyone!!  I saw this picture and thought I would share it with you!  It's so fun and its my motto for this year!

How fun is that!  I am very into animal print/pink/and gold right now so this picture was absolutely perfect in my eyes!  2013 was amazing!  Brian and I had so many fun adventures including getting married, still the best day of my life so far, plus I turned the big 3-0, and we did lots of traveling!  As great as 2013 was I just know that 2014 is going to be even better!

This year I have so many fun projects we I am working on!  Lots of changes going on around the house.  I have been feeling like our house is just blah and a little too "young" looking.  So I have decided to spruce it up a bit one thing at a time, but I do at least 3 at a time!  Drives the hubs NUTS!!! LOL!!!  I  will be blogging about each of these projects as well as sharing them on my daily picture on instagram!  If you don't follow me on instagram you should!  Click on the instagram icon on the top right of my blog and it will take you to my profile so you can request to follow me.  I am using the hashtag #AwallAday2014 for my posts so they will all compile under one area and I can look back at them at the end of the year!

  I have about 12 projects going on in my head right now!  If you ask my husband what he thinks about this he will just shake his head and say "that is 11 too many for me" haha!  I have already made some mistakes and oopsies when working on these projects! For instance when I was giving my blog a makeover I downloaded some spam and maleware!!  oopsie daisy!  Good thing B is a computer guy and could delete them from our computer easily and quickly!  Also while updating my blog I was working so hard and it took me like 6 hours to figure out how to do one thing!  When I finally got it I was so excited!!  B asked me what I was so excited about so I told him and he was like "oh I could have told you how to do that in about 2 minutes!!!  haha really B Wall!!!!!  Thanks for the help!  So now that I know that I will be utilizing him more for blog updating!  He is thrilled hehe!!

The blog is still under construction but I will continue to post as I work on it!  One of my New Year's goals is to blog more often so that is what I will be doing!  Hope you all have a fabulous Sunday and your 2014 has started off great!!!

Love, Mrs. Wall

Trying to be Martha...??? hmmm....

Happy 10.10.12 everyone!  Loving the Fall weather.  Last weekend did get a bit cool for me but oh well.  It was an amazing weekend!  The Wildcats demolished the Jayhawks on Saturday!!  Not gonna lie though I was slightly nervous during the first half?  Not sure which Kansas team that was but I was very glad the real one (that is terrible) decided to show up in the second half!

Sooo...since the game was at 11am I wanted to have chicken tortilla soup in the crockpot ready to eat for dinner when we got home!  Fabulous idea right?  Well..I bought the chicken, or so I thought, and put it in the crock pot to cook all day Friday so it would be nice and juicy, and ready to shred for the soup on Saturday.  Come to find out when I was about to take it out of the crock pot it just looked a little funny?  So I had Brian come over and look at it, and he says, "Why did you put a turkey in the crock pot?"  WHAT?  I was like are you serious?  I freaking didn't buy a damn chicken I bought a TURKEY and threw it in the crock pot. Who does that?  Well anyways it wasn't quite cooked after being in the crockpot for 10 hours, so Brian said we should just turn it on high so it will cook all the way and we can take it out after we get home from dinner.  Sounded like a good idea to me.  Got home and the turkey looked like the turkey on Christmas Vacation, you know the one that was so dry it poofed when they cut into it!  Ya thats what happened.  Lesson 1-Make sure when buying a chicken you actually buy a chicken not a turkey:)  We didn't get to have tortilla soup Saturday after the game.

I told you about the projects of repainting the god awful dressers that Brian had in his old room right?  Well I decided that it would probably be a good idea to strip the paint off the dressers with paint stripper and then paint them.  I was going to strip the paint, prime, and paint the dresser and be done by the time B got home from work. NO..bad idea!  haha stripping paint is a nightmare!  I started on the small end table, thank god, and worked on stripping the paint for probably 3 hours.  Brian came home and was like why are you stripping the paint?  I said BECAUSE I thought it would be a good idea.  He of course laughed and told me to call him next time I had a brilliant idea like that;)  haha how rude?  But as usual he was right.  The small dresser is still in progress.  BUT I did finish the tall dresser.  Brian was so sweet and bought me a sander, which would have been the smart idea in the first place. This made everything so much easier thank god.  I will post pictures of the completed project.  I think it turned out FABULOUS!  It was gray and black, NOT my style, and now it is antique white with very cool knobs.  Brian's not a fan of the knobs but I don't really care they are pretty sweet.  Lesson 2- Don't strip 3 layers of paint off of a dresser, YOU will make yourself CRAZY!! Even my neighbor came over and asked what the heck I was doing?  REALLY!!??

This week has been fabulous so far!  Saw Pitch Perfect on Monday!  Acca-AWESOME!! lol...I recommend everyone see this movie!! Fat Amy is HILARIOUS!  My favorite part is the burrito scene, you will know what I'm talking about when you see it.  Got engagement photo outfits lined up yesterday. so excited they are NEXT Friday!!! 

This Friday I am going to watch my cousin Allison play in the State Tennis Tournament at Shawnee Mission East!  This is her second year at State and she and her partner won Regionals last weekend to defend their title!  Can't wait to watch her play!  Good Luck Salthawk Tennis!!

Hope everyone has a wonderful rest of the week! 

Projects

Happy October!!!  I LOVE this month! It is my favorite month of the year!!  This month is jam packed full of fun activities for Brian and I!  Also so sorry it has taken me so long to post again!

Right now I am working on a lot of home projects, which has been keeping me extremely busy!  I am painting 3 different rooms and redoing a set of dressers that we have in our garage.  It is taking me longer than I expected to get all these things done, but it has been lots of fun and I am very pleased with how things are turning out!  Once they are all done I will be posting before and after pictures of the projects...so stay tuned.

Brian is working on getting our grass back to being green, instead of brown, since we finally got our sprinkler system fixed, and has been helping me with some handy work on my projects!

This month we have a baby gender reveal party for my very good friends Kadi and Mike Atteberry!!  Can't wait to find out if they are having a boy or a girl.  My hunch is BOY!  We will know October 14th!  Also we have our engagement pictures on October 19th which I am so excited about and really hoping there are some awesom Fall colors outside still!! 

Marathon is also this month.  October 20th.  I am bummed to tell you all that I am going to have to cut this down to a half marathon.  I have been having a lot of pain in my right hip after running such long distances.  So I have decided for my health to cut back and rest so I don't permanently injure myself and not be able to run at all. 

Wedding planning is going GREAT.  I am still loving it.  I have quite a few things checked off of my checklist so I am feeling good about it.  I started a wedding website as well for all the information about the wedding day etc.  Here is the link:

http://www.weddingwire.com/schartzwall

Please feel free to check it out and tell your friends or family to check it out as well if they would like!!  I hope you all have a fabulous day and week and I will be posting again this weekend!  WE are headed to Manhattan for the Sunflower Showdown this Saturday!  Goooo Cats!!!   Hopefully we can beat up on those little Jayhawks:)

Hoping to get to the Pumpkin Patch later this month as well!!!