Keeping in Teutsch

As I was sitting here surfing the Internet, waiting on Matt to finish playing guitar with a friend, and getting hungrier by the minute, Juliette whipped out the camera once more. She wanted a repeat session of my happy, sad and scary faces. I obliged (and deleted them) and then remembered that I still haven't posted pictures of the living room. So, here they are. It's just a room...nothing fancy. The built-ins are quite old school, but we like the fact that they hold all of Matt's books and more.




So there you have it! That completes the tour of our home!

So, about 18 posts ago or so I said I would put up pictures of the sun room and the living room. Well, I hope you weren't holding your breath! :) The sun room has mostly been a huge mess, but my mom came to visit for a few days and I got it spic and span for her (since I don't want my mom to think she didn't do a good job teaching me to clean!) and so I finally took some pictures. BUT...these are just pics of MY side of the sun room. The other part of the sun room is about twice the length of my side and has Matt's guitars and music equipment, a hand-me-down, worn couch and the TV armoire. Nothing matches, or is decorated, and it probably won't ever be since we plan on being in this house only through June of next year, so I doubt I'll want to take pictures of it. My side is really the only part worth looking at anyway...mainly for my crazy organizational skills and overuse of the label maker! :)
The printer and my organizational system for bills. PAY--the bills that need to be paid; FILE--the paid bills that need to be filed; and MISC--where the label maker, my address stamp and other misc stuff reside. These were originally supposed to be used for flowers, but I put the scrapbook letters on them.
I have oodles of ribbon...I just love ribbon! And I needed a way to store it so that I could actually SEE what I had. I searched the Internet and found some different ideas and decided to use this one. It has worked out nicely.
These are clear glass jars that hold scrap ribbon that wasn't long enough to put in those baskets with the holes.
A while back, I found two of these planters with the chalkboard section on them for $2 at JoAnn Fabrics on clearance. I wasn't sure what I was going to use them for, so they sat around for a little while with nothing in them, but I eventually realized that I had no place to put any new ribbon I bought, so these two quickly became full of ribbon and serve as another storage area for it. (They sit in the sink that is in the sun room, since we never use that sink. Notice the stopper?)

Tomorrow, I plan to post pics of the living room finally and also have a super cute video of Juliette to share! Mom is here and Matt has class until 8:30 tomorrow night, so we plan on hitting the road, doing some shopping for Mom's new house and showing Mom around Lafayette. I'm looking forward to it!

Check back tomorrow for more!

Melissa

I had a really productive day today and was able to get the Master Bedroom unpacked and decorated. Then I talked to my sister around 9 pm and she said that her, my nephew and my little brother are coming to visit for a couple of days tomorrow, so I made a mad dash--quite literally--for the guest bedroom and got it in order, so tonight I have pics of not only the kitchen and the other bedroom, but of the master bedroom and guest bedroom as well. This leaves just the living room and the sunroom, so we are almost there!!

This is Juliette modeling the entryway into the kitchen from the living room. I got the cute fleur de lis from Beehive in Ruston.




Yes, there is a picture of Juliette crying in the kitchen. This is a frame I used to have in our bedroom and it matches the tile in the kitchen now. I will be changing the picture out, though.
This is my cool new gadget that I got at Target. You can put other stuff than just cereal in there...beans, oatmeal, rice, etc.
In the corner by the stove is this lazy susan drawer that I put all the spices in--all in alphabetical order. I was tempted to use my handy dandy label maker to make little labels but decided that would be a little overboard!


Our double closets. We had a big walk-in closet in our other house, but these actually hold more!

This is the bathroom that is off the guest bedroom. It was not part of the original house and is newer. The only thing about it is that this bathroom is the only one with a shower (Juliette's bathroom doesn't have a shower head), so Matt and I use this as our bathroom. There is a door on the left that will bring you into the bathroom from the sunroom, which is the way we have to enter when we have guests to keep from walking through their room. There is also a door from the sunroom into the guest bedroom as well.

Hopefully, within the next few days I'll be ready to post the last pics of the living room and the sunroom, so stay tuned!