Wednesday, May 29, 2013

NARF Walk-a-thon

So for the past two years of living in San Jose, every time the Nike Animal Rescue Foundation has this event it either gets rained out and moved to a weekend that I can't participate or we go to Costa Rica for some other event...go figure ;-)  Anyways, this year I reserved the day early and have done the no rain dance just so I can walk to help raise money for the homeless animals in the Bay Area.  Please help me raise money for the kitties and doggies that need homes.  If you know me at all you know I have a big soft spot for shelter animals, heck we have two shelter pups that we have called our kids for years now (Tucker for almost 10 years! can you believe that?!?!)

Anyhow, please see the flier in this post and if you want to sponsor me that would just melt my heart and 97% of the donation would go towards helping these animals.  I promise to post pictures from the walk to my blog and facebook so you can feel like you helped out and walked with us.  Even better if anyone in the bay wants to join us we would love to have you, bring the furry friend along for the fun :-) My mom and Kyle will be joining me and the pups for the event. 

Thank you thank you in advance. (if you decide to donate you can send me a check made out to NARF or you can contact me sirgens@gmail.com and we can work out another way to send payment)

The doggies and kitties thank you for your support.


Friday, March 15, 2013

Kitchen Update from Start to Finish, no particular order ;-)

Photo dump!!!  I will try to get these in logical order but no promises...what a project this was and we aren't 100% finished yet, still need a couple new hinges for a cabinet door (busted when i was trying to put them back together) and touchup paint around the edges of the cabinets, a fun paint dance between yellow and grey.  Needless to say I think the transformation is AWESOME and we are totallky enjoying the new look, ESPECIALLY the butcher block island :-)  Next project inside for me is to tackle our baby poop colored bathroom and green bedroom, i see some overhead lighing installation, paint for sure, and possible closet door facelift...wish me luck, throw in some outdoor landscaping and call it spring :-)
 
This is how we got the kitchen with the house...not bad just not our taste, especially the wood pulls on the wood cainets, ugh

Old appliances...old owners took the fridge with them and we sent the oven to my parents rental up north. the new appliances mad a world of difference

View of the overall kitchen, use this to compare to the finished product :-)

New Years Eve dinner preparation....functional yet ugly

testing out paint color for the accent island
wall and cabinet paint next to one another, making sure the finished product will jive

hardware removed and organized for smooth replacement after the paint has been completed

Doors removed and ready for prep



Doors laid out in the garage for assembly line painting...learning curve on this one, when you flip them put them on plastic (garbage bags) insted of paper towels, the "dry" paint sticks to the paper towels....extra touch up paint work
 

Cabinet boxes prepped and ready for final paint color


 
Kyle painting away on the island, nice accent piece :-)

doors have been painted on one side, time to flip

Kitchen painted and ready for sealing, just waiting on those darn doors





doors flipped and painted on second side, ready to seal!


Doors sealed and hung, patiently wait for a little bit to install the pulls.


 
while waiting for pull installation, time to plant cool/shade garden :-)

we planted two avocado trees and can't wait to harvest them :-)

sequoia, our strawberry theif, helped me plant our fun new strawberry pot

Tucker as always was quite the helper, he assisted in the planting of potatoes, soy beans, sugar snap peas, arugala, butter leaf lettuce, and romain lettuce.  Now we wait for the harvest season. 

AND....the finished product minus one door and touchup paint, but not bad eh??


Saturday, March 2, 2013

Half way there

Cabinets are just about done being painted, then to seal them. Doors need two coats on the other side then sealed too... Getting there and looking amazing!


Friday, March 1, 2013

Kitchen fun

Last weekend we painted over the chocolate brown in the kitchen, this weekend we tackle the cabinets and island... Take a look :)


Kitchen before


Kitchen after wall paint.


Kitchen cabinets come off!


Time to tape and prep!



Monday, January 14, 2013

Our 'New' Humble Abode

It was brought to my attention that I haven't shared many if any pictures of our house. Please don't mind the mess/boxes, here are three pictures of our new place. Master bedroom, kitchen/dining room and the living room. The house is a 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom place, with a two car garage and a large backyard. The dogs love it!

This house has so much potential and we can't wait to make it ours :) look forward to our visitors! If you don't have our new address please email or message me for the info









- Shalyce

Monday, November 5, 2012

AND THE WINNER IS.....

Its a TIE!!!

Kyle and Eric both received 7 'yes' votes...congratulations to both of you.

Thank you everyone that voted, awesome party and can't wait till next year :-)

Here are the winning pumpkins - great job everyone!!!:

Eric

Kyle
 
And here are the rest of the pumpkins and their creators:
 
Megan

Jordan

Kami

Jeff

Ariel

Ricardo
Siobhan - 1

Nicole

Shalyce

Siobhan - 2