Saturday, February 28, 2009

Brad Paisley Concert


Even though we were WAY up at the top, it was still a GREAT show!!

The typical Kyla and Nate self portrait of course....

The energy level was awesome and he played all my favorite songs

Not to mention he is pretty hot....and so was Dierks Bentley too! :-)
You can see the stage WAY below us :-) Then again we did buy tickets randomly about 3 hours before the show!!


So Friday at about 4pm Nate and I got home and were thinking about what we wanted to do that night. I was thinking maybe a Blazers game or Lumber Jax (professional Lacrosse team here in Portland) would be fun so I looked up the Rose Garden. Well, no luck but then I saw that Brad Paisley was playing and there were some cheap $25 tickets left for the nosebleeds. So we decided that would be fun, bought the tickets online and went to the concert at 7:30! It was a BLAST! He was so great and they also had DIERKS BENTLEY and Chrystal Shewanda (sp?) open for him and they were both totally worth it too. It ended up being really fun!!

The lot is being built on





The lot we split off and sold is now being built on. They have already built a fence, dug out the foundation and set the cement slab for the foundations. I still can't believe they are able to fit houses on such small spaces but they seem to be getting it done fast so I will keep taking pictures as they get stuff built.


Friday, February 20, 2009

Re-finished cabinet

I found this cabinet on craigslist. It was originally from Target. I really liked the 12 little drawers to hold all my drafting and art supplies for my home office. However I thought it was kind of bland looking and I didn't really think the pulls on the drawers went with the office decor.So I found some wall paper and cut out pieces to cover the front of the drawers. I used a spray adhesive to attach them instead of getting the wall paper wet since the cabinet had too smooth a finish on it and I was not sure it would stick well enough.Then I bought some cheap rubbed bronze pulls from Home Depot and put them on. The wall paper has a little sheen to it where the branch runs and makes it look
so cute!

Thursday, February 19, 2009

...and the finger lost

Well, I was going to post a before and after of a little project I was working on....BUT.....my finger decided to take on the Xacto knife.....and the Xacto definitely won! I somehow had the knife in my right hand cutting and stupidly swung my left hand over to grab something and it stabbed right into my finger, but the blade was so sharp, I didn't feel it and then pulled my hand down and sliced my finger. It looked like a pac man mouth and I tried to put pressure on it and hold it above my head to slow the blood flow, but damn it I could not stop the blood from gushing out!
I ended up driving myself to the ER and luckily it was not busy so I didn't have to wait very long before I saw someone. During this whole time, it kept bleeding profusely and would not clot so when I got to the ER they gave me a shot to numb it up and then something to clot it. I guess I nicked some little blood vessels as well as the tendon in my finger so they had to stitch it up inside the cut and then they put a few quick loops on the outside of the cut and used some glue like stuff that they use now instead of stitches to seal it up. UGH how stupid am I??? It feels fine right now, although the numbing is starting to wear off and it is starting to throb.
SO....... you will not get your before and after posts until Nate gets back from Missouri to help me hold and cut some things!

Sunday, February 15, 2009

Wallpaper the stairs???

This wall paper comes from ferm living (http://www.fermlivingshop.us/) They have the cutest wallpaper, and since wallpaper is making a come back big time, I was considering putting something up the stairs in our house like this, but maybe a different pattern. I don't know if I can quite make myself put it on a wall yet.....I feel like I have had to take off so much tacky wall paper, I would hate to do that and one day someone would have to take it down wishing the person prior had not put it up there. haha...

Happy Valentines day

Hope everyone had a great valentines day!

Nate, Molly and I went for a valentines day hike in Forest park. I started to take pictures and wouldn't you know it, but my camera battery died after these two. Well at least you get to see the cute little ferns trying to grow on the side of the trees.