We Have Siding!

We went out to the house today and we have siding up and it's painted.  I love the colors we picked!

They've also completed the electrical.

And they started putting the insulation in the walls.

I'm excited for all of the progress that is happening!

Five on Friday

Last week's 5 was fun, so I decided to do it again this week!

One - We have a roof!

Two - My bags from Thirty One came and I'm in love.  I'm debating on becoming a consultant because I love them so much!

Three - FSU has advanced to the Super Regionals in the College World Series.  We play Indiana tomorrow at noon.

Four - I've become an Instagram addict recently.  Since I started Project Life, I've been taking a lot more pictures, so I've been sharing them on Instagram.  Come join me! http://instagram.com/brideonbudget

Five - I'm excited that it's Friday.  This has been the longest week ever!

I'm linking up to Carolina Charm.

Tour of the Framed House

I went out to the house tonight to walk around and took tons of pictures.  It's starting to look like a house.  The only change on the outside is that they framed out the pillars on the front and back porches.

This picture was taken of the living and dining room from the front door.

This is a picture of the dining room taken from the kitchen.

This is the kitchen taken from the dining room.  The bar will be where the half wall is and that is a pantry on the right hand side of the picture.

Our back porch taken from the dining room window.

This is our master bedroom, taken from the doorway.

This is the master bathroom.  Not really sure why there is water in the tub, but there was also water in the shower and also in the guest bathroom tub.  I'm assuming there's a reason...

This is the guest bathroom.  It is right off the hallway near the kitchen.

This is the hallway leading to the two additional bedrooms.

This is the garage.

It's pretty cool to be able to walk around and figure out which rooms you're in.  I can't wait until the sheet rock actually goes up and we have real walls!

Let There Be Light

The last thing that needed to be picked out for the construction of our home was the lighting.  Our builder has a relationship with a local design company, so we had to make an appointment there to pick out our lights.

We had an $1850 budget for lighting and we had a lot of lights to pick out.  Our main goal when we walked through the door was to not go over budget and we stayed pretty close.  We ended up having to change the fan on our back porch to a light and still went over budget by $160.

Here are the lights we ended up picking out for our house. I apologize for the bad pictures!

Lights for the exterior of the garage

Front and back porch lights

Light in the front foyer

There will be two of these fans in the living room and one in each bedroom. It will be the English Bronze, which matches our dining room and kitchen lights and will have the same color glass as well.

Dining room chandelier

Main light in our kitchen

Pendant lights that will hang over our kitchen island

This light will be used in the hallway, communications room, and laundry room.  

Lights that will be hanging over the master bathroom vanity

We will be using the 3 bar light in our guest bathroom. It will be brushed nickel just like the master bathroom though.

This light will be used as an overhead in both of the bathrooms as well as the overhead in the closets.

This was one of the hardest things we've done throughout this entire process, but I can't wait to see them installed in the house!

Five on Friday

TGIF!  It's been a long week, so I am very glad that it's the weekend so that I have some time to relax.

I stumbled across this fun link-up at Carolina Charm, so I thought I would share with you.  Every Friday, you share your 5 favorite things at the moment.  

Here are my 5:

One - Our house now has windows!  We've been going out there every day and it's so much fun seeing the progress that the builders make every day.

Two - I just placed a huge order with Thirty One Gifts and I can't wait to get it.  They have so many products that I want and I'm in love.

Three - I finally decided to hop onboard the Project Life train and I'm sold.  I'm currently working on our wedding album and have started an album for 2013.  

Four - Florida State is hosting the baseball regionals again and I'm loving all the sports fans in town.  I'm also loving that Florida State is still in the regionals and won their game tonight!

Five - Ice cream + Samoas = LOVE

If you decided to join and share your 5 favorites right now, I would love to see the link!

It's Starting to Look Like a House

We drove out to the house after a couple of days of being away and were shocked by the progress!  It's starting to look like a house!

Scrapbook Paper Dry Erase Calendar

We've had so many appointments and plans to remember, I knew we needed a central calendar that both J and I could look at.   I had the perfect spot, some spare frames, and some scrapbook paper, so I sat down and created these beauties.

I apologize for the horrible pictures.  We have absolutely no natural light where these are located.

I measured the frames and then cut the scrapbook paper down to size and made sure they would all fit into the frame.  Then, I took the fake picture that comes with the frames and flipped it around so that I would have a white surface to work on.  I glued the strips of scrapbook paper to the white background, leaving a small gap between each strip.  Then I just made some circles using my Cricut and glued them on.

Seal the frame back up and then you can add the dates and appointments to your calendars.  I decided to use one for the current week and one for next week so that we could plan ahead.  You could make one, two, or even four if you want to cover an entire month.