Wednesday, October 29, 2008
The Point
We ate at The Point at Glenwood Monday night for my birthday. Here are a few reasons why it's a great place to eat:
1. The food was great.
2. It was not packed and we've never had to wait for a table.
They also have pizza that's reasonably priced if the other prices on the menu are a bit too high for a dinner that's not a special occasion.
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Another good buy...
This cork board costs $149 at Pottery Barn.
This cork board costs $11.50 at Wal-Mart and is just as big.
I put the picture wire ($1.17) on it to display cards with the mini binder clips ($2.50). My goal is to arrange stuff on it like the Pottery Barn one....once I find the stuff to put on it.
Saturday, October 11, 2008
Dad's Home!
Dad (left) in front of Saddam's palace.
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
A good buy
One day at good ol' Wal-Mart I was poking around the picture frames and saw some for $3. The first ones I saw weren't that great, but then I saw some black ones that were 8x10 and black. They have them in 8x10 and 5x7 and would be great for a big frame collage. I got three for now, but I have every intention of going back and getting many more to use in other rooms.
This is a corner in our very, very unfinished bedroom. Just imagine that the walls are porcelain blue, and there is a chair rail with beadboard on the bottom half of the wall...oh, and that I've taken the generic photos out the frames and put in some very cool, artsy pictures.
My Sidewalk Chalk Art Never Looked Like This....
I feel like I'm looking at one of those Magic Eye things if I look at these too long.
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Friday, October 3, 2008
October is here!
Saturday, September 27, 2008
A Good Weekend
Season 5 of The Office premiered. After a very disappointing 4th season I was pleased to see that the first episode of season 5 did not suck. Spoiler Alert!: Jim and Pam get engaged.
Friday Night: We had dinner at El Rodeo and watched Leatherheads. The movie didn't do that well in theaters, but it was actually pretty good.
Saturday: We watched That Thing You Do! and I'm currently watching Sister Act II: Back in the Habit. Two of my favorite movies from the 90's in one day! Go 'head, Lauryn!
It doesn't take much to make me happy.
Friday, September 19, 2008
Spray Painting
I couldnt find our attachable trigger for the spray can and now I have a case of crazy fingers. I can't feel the tip of my thumb and pointer finger on my right hand.
Monday, September 15, 2008
keeping the boredom away
Here is my handy work:
This track out I've been working on our daybed in the office.
This is taking me a lot longer than I thought it would. I am no where near done and I have so many more pillows to cover. I still haven't decided if I like the red in there or not. Maybe I'll attempt to make a daybed cover so I can get rid of the cheap fitted sheet on the hand-me-down mattress.
Where I get my stuff:
1. Discount Fabric Warehouse
3523 Maitland Dr
Raleigh, NC 27610
Pretty much everything is $7.99/yard. I've seen the same fabrics in there that I've seen in other pricey fabric stores.
2. Ross
This is the best place to buy down filled pillows. You can't get plain inserts for as little as you can get an ugly down pillow with a removable cover from Ross. I found 18x18 pillows for $3.99. I've bought 20x20 pillows for $7.99....it's great!
3. Wal-Mart
If you can find a Wal-Mart that has fabric it's worth checking out. They buy remnant fabric from nice fabric stores and you can get it for $4.50/ yard or cheaper. You just have to dig through the ugly John Deere and camo fleece to get to it.
Sunday, September 14, 2008
Jar Glove!
Also, you should check out Tracie Jordan's Meat Machine....Meat is the new bread!
Thursday, September 11, 2008
Success!
This is our new little island/kitchen cart:We got this from R & J Furniture Xpress in Spencer, NC. The Home Comfort Clearance Outlet on Glenwood is a good place to go in Raleigh. Lots of times they'll have the same stuff that's in their showroom.
Sunday, September 7, 2008
Tag! I'm it!
Sunday, August 31, 2008
The Dark Knight
See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.
Monday, August 25, 2008
chocolate french toast and black paint
Chocolate Stuffed French Toast
Ingredients:
- 3 eggs
- 3/4 cup milk
- 3 tablespoons sugar
- 2 tablespoons HERSHEY'S Cocoa
- 1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
- 8 to 10 pieces thickly sliced brioche
- semi-sweet chocolate chips
- powdered sugar
Directions:
1. Beat eggs, milk, sugar, HERSHEY'S Cocoa, vanilla, and salt in large bowl until smooth.
2. Heat griddle or skillet over medium-low heat. Grease griddle with margarine, if necessary.
3. Dip a slice of bread in egg mixture. Place on griddle. Place a layer of the chocolate chips on top of the toast. Dip another piece of bread in the egg mixture and place on top of the chocolate chips. Cook about 2 to 4 minutes on each side. Serve immediately with powdered sugar, if desired.
(I tried to find the video of the French chef who was actually on the show. When he made it he
put bananas on the side. If you've never heard a French person say "bananas," I highly recommend that you do whatever it takes to hear it.)
Painting the bed and chair took a little longer than we thought it would, but we are really pleased with the results:
While I'm tracked out I'll be working on making our $40 Craigslist twin bed look like a pretty classy daybed. I'll probably use a black ticking stripe for the daybed cover. Hopefully it will end up looking like the one below (better yet, I'll find a cheap one at the Pottery Barn outlet):
I'm going to get lots of different black/cream fabrics from the $7.99 fabric warehouse to make pillows. Here's a sample of one we already have:
The finished product should have a similar look to the bed below:
Thursday, August 21, 2008
kids say the darndest things
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
stuff we've done to our house...
We got a desk/project table to go in our office. I'll be doing lots of sewing on that thing. That chair will be painted black.
This is currently our office. We painted the walls "Latte" from Sherwin Williams. The bed was a Craigslist find that will be painted black and turned into a daybed. We also got blinds!
This is what I hope our office will resemble someday (but with black furniture)....we have a lot of work to do.
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
yearbookyourself.com
1. Me in 1954 & Jason in 1956....I think we could've been homecoming king and queen....
2. At some point in the '60's we both had glasses...
3. And my favorite.....at some point in the '70's we were both black....
Sunday, August 17, 2008
I love Wordle
So this is Wordle. I love this website! www.wordle.net
Take your random thoughts, bible verses, song lyrics, or whatever words you want to - paste them in a box and wordle will make a jumble of words for you. You can customize the font and colors to make some pretty cool pieces of art.
This one is a song from pretty much the best band ever - U2. See if you can figure out what song it is.
Sunday, July 20, 2008
We've Moved!
Before: After:
There is still so much to do, but it's comin' along.
Here's the kitchen with our brand new fridge and accidental GE Profile microwave. The contractors put the wrong microwave in, but we get to keep it!
In addition to getting away from pickled oak cabinets, white laminate counter tops and gross apartment carpet:
1. I only have to drive 10 minutes to get to school! No longer will I leave the house at 6:30...hopefully I'll actually able to get there on time too.
2. There is a brand new (opened this past Wed.) Super Wal-Mart 5 minutes away. Hooray! for cheap groceries.
3. Pelican's SnoBalls. One of the things we missed from Louisiana were the shaved ice snoballs. Neither of us had been able to find a place with snoballs (not snocones) similar to the ones in Louisiana until Friday night. The people that own the stand are from New Orleans, the snoballs are great, and it's less than 10 minutes away!
SnoBall Flavors Bahama Mama Banana Big Red Birthday Cake Black Cherry Blackberry Blue Bubblegum Blue Raspberry Blueberry Butterscotch Candy Apple Chai Cheesecake Cherry Cola Cherry Margarita Clear Bubblegum Clear Cherry Clear Grape Coconut Cola Cotton Candy Cream Soda Dill Pickle Dreamsicle Egg Custard Fireball Fuzzy Monkey Fuzzy Navel Georgia Peach Granny Smith Apple Grape Green Apple Grenade Guava Hawaiian King Cake Kiwi Lemon |
Lemon Lime Lemonade Lime Mai Tai Mango Margarita Maui Wowee Melon Berry Nectar Orange Orange Pineapple Papaya Passion Fruit Peach Peanut Butter Pina Colada Pineapple Pink Bubblegum Pink Grapefruit Pink Lemonade Plum POG Polar Punch Praline Red Raspberry Root Beer Skylite Sour Apple Sour Cherry Sour Grape Sour Tsunami Spearmint Strawberry Strawberry Cheescake Strawberry Daquiri Straberry Lemonade Strawberry Shortcake Sweet Cherry Sweet Tart Tamarind Tutti Frutti Tropical Punch Vanilla Vanilla Charlie Vanilla Cola Watermelon Wedding Cake Wild Cherry Wild Strawberry Wild Thang |
Monday, June 30, 2008
Our House!
Here are our most recent pictures:I'm not so sure about this light fixture.Wood floors! No more nasty apartment carpet.
Don't our fake counter tops look real?
My brother, Dan is in the doorway. He'll be our first house guest.
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Sunday, May 11, 2008
Paradise Lost
So I started reading "Paradise Lost" by John Milton. This was a work of poetry I first read (just a snippet) when I was a junior in high school. I was very bored with it back then. But now that I am way more interested in theology and the things of God, I wanted to pick it back up. It's considered one of the best pieces of literature ever. It is a epic, depicting the fall of satan and of man. Peculiar thing is, Milton wasn't a Christian. He actually was a heretic. He denied the Trinity and didn't believe Christ was the only incarnation of Jehovah (David Hawkins, XXXVII). The amazing thing about Milton was that he was a guy who "got it" but didn't "get it." What I mean is this: it's hard to believe that someone who wasn't a Christian could write something so on target. In these lines of pristine poetry, Milton is describing why God let Satan sin against Him and why He chose to let the enemy roam the earth:
pg. 17
So stretch'd out huge in length the arch-fiend lay,
Chain'd on the burning lake: nor ever thence
Had risen, or heav'd his head, but that the will
And high permission of all-ruling Heaven,
Left him at large to his own dark designs:
That with reiterated crimes he might
Heap on himself damnation, while he sought
Evil to others; and enrag'd might see,
How all his malice serv'd but to bring forth
Infinite goodness, grace, and mercy shown
On man by him seduc'd; but on himself
Treble confusion, wrath, and vengance poured.
I'm just amazed that a man could understand grace enough to write that - yet not trust Christ.
If you have time, read this great work by Milton.
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Things Jason Misses from Home
LSU FOOTBALL!!!!!!!!!!!
Good Food
Duck Hunting in the Mississippi Flyway
The BEST Saltwater Fishing
GREAT Music!!
Great History
I really miss Louisiana and Baton Rouge more importantly. I hope we get to visit soon.
I'm pretty sure I shouldn't have copied some of the pictures from different sites. Please don't sue me! I'll give you credit or take the pictures off.