On your mark, get set, go!

What we were up to this past weekend....

Turning this curly mop...

...into this. 

I tried to just do a "little trim" that went horribly wrong. The result were the buzzers and a 1/2 inch guard being busted out :(  Good thing he's still happy.

I (Well really Michael - with my direction) made this...

$3.80 people.  Bodda bing bodda boom.  It's old barnwood from the farm and a borrowed can of chalkboard paint (and really a whole basement of tools at our disposal). It's covering up an old phone box in the wall that we were too lazy to drywall over.  I guess people in the 70's used to always hang their phones on the wall....

Mike kept plugging away at this.....

Our fourth level was completely unfinished.  Mike framed out the exterior walls and has installed insulation - just in time for the energy rebate to still be applied!  Next up we're going re-paint the cement floor and paint a racetrack on it for Carter.  I'm probably more excited about this than he is (and may just bust out my own bike in the winter to loop around it).

And we painted this....

...to this...

...to this.

Mike actually sprayed it out when we were doing the main painting of the house but I finally got around to painting out the brass surround.  Hopefully someday when we go to sell prospective buyers don't cringe over a painted fireplace!