Before & After

This is my second 'Before and After' posting. I bought this lamp at Second Use in SoDo (one of our favorite places to shop for house supplies). I think the lamp was $8 or $10. I really wanted a bright accent color in the living room so I bought a can of bright yellow paint at Home Depot and voila! I've gotten mixed revues of 'like' and 'not so much'...but I really love it. So there!

I bought a lamp shade to go with the newly painted lamp...but I'm not in love with it and am still looking for the perfect shade.

Oh...the chair and table that the lamp is on (which is now painted black) both craigslist finds. Chair $20. Table $10.

Sunrise on the Front Porch

It's a peek-a-boo view, but we have a view of the Cascades from our front porch and from the south side yard. When we moved into the house in March I remember seeing the sunrise peek up over the mountain and thinking what a great picture it would make. Finally, here's the picture. Fuzzy, but you get the point.

Back to Housework

After a short, but wonderful reprieve, it was back to house projects. While the weather was still nice we spent a lot of evenings outside pulling weeds and scraping and painting the siding to prep for the winter rains. We're not planning to paint until next summer, but there were a lot of patches of peeling paint on the south side of the house that needed to be primed so that the exposed wood siding wouldn't rot.
The house has a lot of white spots all over it now. The neighbors love it!

Year 2, Day 1

I'd heard from other married folks that alternating the person making anniversary plans keep things interesting. Year number 1 was my year, so I planned a sunset sail in Elliott Bay (which by the way if you've never done, do it with the guys at Sailing Seattle) with a picnic dinner and a bottle of champagne. Earlier in the week my hubby had suprised me, which is very hard to do, with a beautiful watch that I'd been wanting for a long time. I was able to surprise him, with the help of our good friends Chad & Wendy, with a replica of the Mies van der Rohe Barcelona Chair. Hubby has wanted this chair since around the time he decided he wanted to be an architect and have a fixer-upper house. I found an amazing replica at Area 51. He was so surprised when we got home from our sail and the chair was in the living room!!
Sunset over the Olympic Mountains

What a beautiful city!
The chair!! It's so comfy and looks great in the living room. Hubby looks great too (right)!?