Monday, January 25, 2010

Wedding Shadowbox

I never really knew what a shadowbox was before and once I saw someone else's, I knew I just had to have one for myself. So now that we have been married for over a year I guess now's as good of time as any to finally make it. This is not the final product, something spilled on the program so I need to change that out. But I love how it turned out. I think it looks great and can not wait to be able to display it in our new home along with our wedding photos!

Saturday, January 23, 2010

We have a basement!


The basement has been poured! YAY! It's now starting to look like a house. There was a slight problem pouring the cement but nothing that can't be easily fixed. On one of the corners it looks like when they pulled the frames off some of the corner came with it. But I contacted Hearthstone who contacted the builder and they will put the frame back up and repour that corner. It shouldn't affect our time frame at all.


Next comes the lumber drop which is scheduled right around Wednesday the 27th.


We meet with the home loan people that day also so we can get things moving along with them as well. There are so many things that they need! I guess they just don't give that kind of money to just anyone! So we have been trying to get that all together. It's not easy though. They want to know all your financial business. Such as a student loan I paid late on back in '06, I have to write them a letter about why it was paid late! How the heck am I suppose to remember that? I am sure I will get it figured out though.

Sunday, January 17, 2010

This land is our land....


The excavation process on the house got delayed a week due to all this darn snow and cold! But the good news is they have cleared the snow away so they can start digging. I am hoping they will start the digging tomorrow and I will be able to capture a few pics of that. Chris and I have started to pick out paint samples so we can start to get some idea of how we would like our house to look. So far so good. We are on the same page with ideas and colors and have a few picked already! Just can't wait till we can actually see it on the walls!