Board and Batten Bathroom

Here are the before's. 

Mr. Wonderful and I took everything off the walls and started getting our boards cut for the walls.

After what felt like a very looonnng two weeks, a lot of snow, a whole lot of prayer, it is finished.

Well, almost, we still have to paint the doors and the floor molding, but for the most part we are finished,

The light was a bright shiny brass, and I happened to have some spray paint that could only make this light better, so I couldn't wait to get it painted.

My top color is Honeysuckle beige by Valspar and the bottom is just a classic white high gloss.

I followed to same measurements as Domestically Speaking and I am

so pleased with my results.

I have seen the top board not a thick as this, but I really like how it looks.

We had planned to take our large mirror and have it cut down,

 but while we were at the home improvement store we

 found these, and while you can't really tell it now, they match the

light. 

 I absolutely love, love, love it.

What do you think?

PS.  I linked up at A Soft Place to Land for DIY day, and It's so Very Cheri!

Things I did. . . . . .

When it FINALLY decided to snow, we just had to go out and play, right?

Sweet BG stayed out all day sledding, and this lump is what happens when you keep running and jumping to get on the sled. 

OUCH!!

While the kids were out playing this is what we were doing.

We still aren't quite finished but at least it is starting to look like it should.

We still have a few more coats to put on but I absolutely love it.

When we get the crown molding up I will take more pictures, but I was just so happy to see it actually look this good.

  PS. I linked up at Thrifty Decor Chick.

Good Will Hunting!!!!

While strolling thru the Good Will Store, I came across these.

I thought I would see if I could be as crafty as all you other bloggers.

Here they are filled with Conversation Hearts, and M&M's.

I thought they turned out pretty good, I love the way the glass is.

The squigley lines.

Bathroom Pictures!

OK, we really had a pretty busy weekend but I was determined to get started, so here they are.

The before picures of the bathroom.

We both decided to get rid of the big mirror!!!
YEA!!!

We originally had a beachy theme.

After we took everything down.

Look, we got a new shower head.

Mr. Wonderful putting up the first board.  We both decided to paint after we put up the boards.

New Project!

I have decided to re-do my bathroom.  I saw exactly what I wanted to do to it here.  This weekend, I am hoping to get started on it.  

I have high hopes for what it could be.  Let's keep our fingers crossed.

This weekend I will post the before pictures.

I hate to make excuses but you will see that again, it is sponged. I know, I know.   But when we built our house we painted everything white to save money.  It just seemed like a good idea at the time OK, but now that I see all the things we can do ourselves, I am looking forward to tackling it ourselves. 

I am really excited about this one!!!


Pictures to come.

Signs

Sunday, the name of the sermon was Signs.

When people start talking about signs, they can be talking about all different kinds of signs, but the kind we were talking about were Miracles.  The first miracle was actually what we focused on.  

When Jesus turned the water into wine.  

The first actual "sign" that Jesus was more than just a man.  He was with his mother at a wedding feast, when she approached him.  She told him they had run out of wine and he should do something.   Yet, after she went to him, he was not really interested.  He told her his time had not yet come.  She then told the servants to do whatever he tells them to do.

But in the end, he told the servants to fill the jars with water.  After they were filled he told them to dip some out and take it to the Master of Ceremonies (I guess that's kind of like today's Wedding Planner).  It must have been the best wine the man had ever tasted because he called the Bridegroom over and told him how most people serve the good wines first then use the cheap stuff when everyone has already had the good.  But he saved the best for last.  Imagine that, he saved the best for last.  


So in Cana of Galilee Jesus did his first miracle.  There he showed his glory, and his followers believed him.      John 2:11


So he did it so they would believe.  That's what miracles do, or they do for me at least, they make me believe. 



This morning on the news there was a story of a lady burried in the rubble of a building in Haiti, someone heard her voice and they tried to dig her out but they didn't have any equipment, so they tried digging her out by hand.  They talked to her and she was in pain, she said her fingers were broken and she was thirsty.  Could they get her some water.  They did and they were able to get her husband who with the help of a mirror got to see his wife.  She kept telling him that if she didn't live she loved him.  

That's when help showed up and they were able to get her out.  As soon as they pulled her out, the first thing she said was "Thank you God", then she sang a song, praising God, and she told the people she felt like she would get out, but she had been there so long she wondered if anyone would find her.  She got up and rode away with her husband.  It was amazing. 



That was a miracle, that was a sign that even today, even in disasters, he lives!  He lives, and he still works miracles!

Organized at last!

OK, These are the befores, and like I said I am really ashamed for you to see this but after it's all cleaned up it looks pretty good. 

Also, just to let you know alot of the boxes were from Christmas, but as you can see, I did use them for storage too.

I forgot about the cat being inside until I uploaded the picture. 

After a  lot of organizing and cleaning out stuff I didn't need or use, I finally finished.

I was really glad I got the peg board it really freed up a lot of space when I could hang the frames on the wall.

I linked up at Room a Month Makeover!