Photo Day!

Hello all and welcome to photo day! (Fun Fact: Click on the photos to make them bigger!) I finally lugged out my little baby we like to call "the professional"  and took it out to the house! (I dont think I've ever actually called it that) We headed out there this past sunday because they had poured the foundation when I last wrote. Waking up that morning we honestly had no idea how much this changes our view on things. By the end of the trip there we had a renewed and refreshed feeling! We hit up Lowes and got all my supplies I needed to transplant my garden into my lovely garden box! 

Side note about this garden box: When we first moved in together I said I would love to have a garden again. Showed him a picture of a big box and said "this is what I want!" Lucky me I had a long day at work one sunday and he got with our roommate Jake (who is Todds son) and they worked it out and built me this box! When I came home exhausted I saw a clean house and smelled fresh saw dust... he took me out to the garage and showed me this big I mean HUGE garden box that could probably hold 3 grown men. I am a lucky girl I tell you!!! 

So anyways... we finally added wheels (after moving it 2 times already. I swear its 900lbs) and 10 bags of dirt later I was able to transplant my cucumbers! 

Sunday we met with Todd out here at the lot. Where they are standing is in my pantry near the garage. I am at the back corner of the house where our main window is in the master bedroom.

Here the boys are talking about the front door. The Hubs measured it to make sure our giant door is still going to fit... it will :) I am now standing on the front of the house where our bathroom is. 

This is where the island in the kitchen is going to be. Keep in mind we have tooonnnnsss of wide open space. I'm standing in the living room. 

So this is the back yard. Yea. I know. Its going to need a lot of work. BUT ITS HUGE!!! 

Well this is mostly supposed to be about our little red friend but here you can see where the tree guys tore up the fence from the neighbors... yuck. 

Today we come out here to the house and found block! Yay!!! I would be standing in the bedroom or maybe right outside of it. The two notches in the middle are the windows in the spare bedrooms. The far ones are the windows in the bathrooms. The garage is on the left side and the back of the house is to your right. 

This view is from the road leading up to the house. That my friends to your left is the start of a great 2 car garage!!!

I thought these guys looked pretty cool! They go over top of all the window and door openings in the house. 

This is now the back of the house with our walls going up! Yay!!!

Well this is awkward.... ha I kid I made The hubs take this (he so hates taking photos) This is my big window I asked for!! I wanting something huge and lovely to look out on the backyard from our dining room table and the kitchen. It has a little corner and then another window to the right... then another small piece of wall and then a 3-paned sliding glass door. 

This is the zombie room. Hahah its actually made for "pool" storage if we decide on one. If not then it will be for easy access to things we might need in the back yard. Its the one part of the house that will be completely blocked closed. If we lived in Kansas it would be our Tornado room. 

This is where they forgot to add the other wall to the zombie room! Oops! 

Pardon my nerd glasses! 

This is the future location of my soaking tub. I am soo so so excited! I think when we move in I wont take a shower I am going to take a long hot bath!!! 

Then something strange happened. We were walking back to the house from the yard and we looked up and saw....

Thermin. 

Thermin started following us everywhere in the house! He was pretty great even for a cat :) 

Todd was driving by and saw us and he pulled in! Ha! So 7 ish tonight we had a little meeting with him... shortly after the block guy, Otto stopped in too! This really is a local job site for a lot of our guys! 

He said they will be close to finishing the blocking out of the house by monday or tuesday! He was a really nice guy and told us that he really liked the house. He also said that some lady came up to him when he first started and asked "whats with all these Mega-Homes?!" haha! silly lady its not that big!  

Hey Thermin! I swear this guy was everywhere! He is our night security :) 

I should be taking my big camera out there from here on out so no more iphone photos! 

How to fix a bad day

So after a terrible day at the artist market (if you can even call it that) there was some progress made on our house! The footers were poured yesterday. Note to anyone who is building... after your mind makes it look huge on paper for about 5 months when you get to it actually starting it will look small.... much too small to live in actually... because of this I think I have decided to not go to the job site till the walls inside are up and the roof is on... haha I kid! I cant stay away from the compound for that long!!

I popped on my "construction boots" I keep in the back of my car and I headed out onto the land! 

This is the first round of block we have had delivered to the lot. Yes super exciting... I do need to take a min and talk about the "Cat Situation" 

I completely forgot to talk about this before hand but it is a serious issue going on here on the property... I think it will soon be upgraded to "The War on Cats". So the crazy neighbor who I previously mentioned ((the one who comes out every few days to talk about where all the wild animals are going to go and what is going on here)) has decided to feed the animals.... on our property. yep. In her coocoo for cocoapuff bird brain she thinks that if she places multiple bowls of cat food and water around our property it will keep the wild animals (raccoons) from eating the cat food on her porch for the strays. Hello! Earth to crazy pants!! If you place cat food around and they run out they will look for more cat food!!!! Derp!!!! So we found a few bowls and piles of cat food around and I decided enough was enough... I'm not even going to comment on the kind of danger she is putting herself, people, and other animals (mainly my dogs) in by feeding an animal that contracts rabies quite frequently! Anywho... I scooped up the cat food into the bowls and placed them all nicely back on her porch (where they still sit 2 weeks later) I also placed a note with them... my first draft was very passive aggressive (or maybe just heavy on the aggressive part) and The Hubs made me re-write it. Long story short, our trip out there last night we found some more... so I picked them up and walked them over to a house that is recently forsale and placed them over there. I dont think she ventures out that far so I doubt she will find them! Once we have a dumpster out there I will just start throwing them away. My next call will be to animal control and the police since feeding raccoons is a crime... haha 

Back to the more pressing issues... :) So since the house seemed a little small I grabbed my trusty tape measurer out of the car and got to work! ((Okay so I just walked around ordering The Hubs to go here or there)) when suddenly it exploded....

So truth be told I had "fixed" this thing a few times before and it had suffered a few soda spills while sitting in a cup holder for months but this guy has made it through and generally got the job done... sure he was only 10 feet long but when out furniture shopping it worked... but I think its time to lay him to rest... I will try and pass him on to Todd to see if he can cement him into the walls where he can measure life to his fullest. I know he will probably just be tossed but as long as I dont have to do it I dont care :)  Turns out the house is still big and we will go forward as planned haha! 

We washed the day down with some mexican food and called it a day...  

Time to Pour!

Nope... not another celebratory drink... but CONCRETE!!!!

Thanks to Todd again for the photos ((smartphones are amazing)) We have lift off!!! We are still waiting on funding but finally our paperwork has been filed with Sarasota County and we are able to actually begin! Today is a great day. Sure its like 3 degrees outside but the dogs are behaving, I am officially an artist vendor downtown, and my land has concrete on it!!!!! 

We will be stopping by there later today, I would like to slip in a secret R&B in the concrete so someone can find it later on... you know like 2045 or something :) I will be also placing a family photo of us (and the dogs) into the walls like a secret time capsule. Well I have to get back to my art projects I need to finish for tomorrow... If you are in the area this weekend and the rest of the good weather weekends come find me!!!  

Quick update on our front door... since it takes 9-12 weeks to make we placed our order yesterday and placed our deposit on it... we also were able to choose our handles, finish, and how the door will open. Speaking on how to open the door I would love some feed back on which one would you make as your main door the one on the right or the one on the left??!! 

We have till tomorrow to let them know! 

Side note on this if it helps your decision... each door is 400 pounds. Yes, 400. :D  

You see that?!

Yes I super sized this picture for you all to see! That folks is work being done on the house... yes. HOUSE! We have brought in about 20 loads of dirt to get this mess of land level and set and we are on a roll! 

This photo was actually sent to us from our lovely contractor Todd. He is super excited about this... the only thing we are waiting on now is the funding of our mortgage. This WAS supposed to be funded the day of our closing but our "specialist" seems to have dropped the ball on this. Calls to her have been sent to voicemail and emails not responded to... yet. I might be making my way to the bank tomorrow morning to pop in an see what the dealio is. 

These beauts are what we will be going with for the laundry room. We were a little worried because we made a trip to Best Buy on sunday and saw there was a returned dryer, then monday we went to HHGregg and saw a returned washer! Putting puzzle pieces together I think they were the same set but I decided to do my research on these bad boys so this wasnt just a freak omen not to get them... turns out they have a A- rating from Better Homes & Gardens and a 4.4 out of 5 on over 40 reviews on Best Buy's website. My only worry was how loud a few of the reviews said the pipes ended up being when the washer was filling up with its sensor. A little bit of padding on these and it shouldnt be an issue at all.

This stainless steel beast is the LG Counter-Depth French Door Refrigerator. Since we are tucking it in to our cabinets it limited how big this guy could be without screwing up the doors being able to open at a full 90 degrees. Fun Fact: Counter depth fridges are more expensive than larger fridges. This is not a fun fact when it blows past your fridge budget but thats okay thats what you have contingency plans for!! This too got great reviews. I wasnt too impressed with the small produce drawers when I first saw it and yes I poopoo'd it a bit since my peppers would be crammed but it features LED lighting and one of the best temp controls. Better Homes & Gardens gave this a great review as well! 

I'll keep you updated on more appliance choices! 

To the front!

So, sure I was exhausted from going to the Husky Olympics with the pack yesterday but I really felt like designing some rooms last night after we had dinner... or lunch? I'm not sure where our day went but it was fun. 

Finally I have my full sized floor plan views to share with everyone! I learned from my mother how to try out some color with these and will be doing that in a few days after I get some copies made. We still aren't decided on what our outside color will look like but I think I will pick up some color options for The Hubs later today and then draw up some mocks. As you can see we will be doing a rock accent on the front of the house. We are hoping to carry this back to the back wall of the house as well. I am super excited about the natural look and thankfully so is The Hubs. 

We went to a new antique/ estate house the other weekend and found some amazing things for the house... as much as the hubs wants this crazy red cabinet we just dont have the place for that to go... but its nice to see that he is suggesting colors! We then headed into the back room of this place and found the Venetian mirror mecca.... boxes and boxes and boxes of them in all sizes and shapes! I cant even tell you how excited I was to see this!!!! And for once they didnt cost an arm and a leg for a bigger one. We had found a smaller one that was kinda pretty but not everything that I ever dreamed of at the same place where we found the overpriced table... for about $1100. yes. gross. No thanks. This new place had the large ones for $350. yep. I'll take them all thank you. :) I kid I kid! 

We then found a ton of cast iron in that same back room! Oh so exciting! I cant wait to bring some of this to the new home and get to decorating. 

I am more than excited to do that part of it all, I know it will be overwhelming but I am ready for it. We have a very different style and its exciting to know that when we have people over there will be something different and weird to look at and something that really can tell about our adventures :)   

still just dirt.

Well not too much going on here on the "Home Front" :( sadly we are still waiting on the bank to get back to us, we heard from a little birdy that the appraisal was to be turned in by tomorrow... so we might just bug our friend at the bank.

The land is finally cleared... a 4 day job took about 2 weeks to be complete.... yes I am making this face right now { :|  } 

Some damage was done to the neighbors fence.... This is not entirely our land clearing people fault. These trees have been growing wild for years and when they went to take out the trees next to it on our side of the fence the roots were tangled and took down the fence.... when I went out there today all of this was on the ground, I'm thinking we have had some visitors out there lately being hoodlums. Grrreeeaat. 

Had to do a little land owner up-keep myself while I was out there. We lost our some of our property lines with all the dust and dirt flying around so I picked up this cute little can of spray paint (at the craft store) and made my lines appear again! 

The Hubs assigned me the task of finding quotes for our fencing we need to have while we build and afterwards for the pups... I lined up about 5 quotes and met with 2 of them in person. Since Todd gave me all the measurements we needed and told me the lingo I needed to use when talking to these guys I thought that it was going to be a walk in the park. 

No. Not true. Clearly some of these men take me for a fool... or just a typical woman. Not happy. I told one guy that I needed 450ft of fence and 20 of that was going to be a large gate (which is do-able) he called me back and told me that I actually needed 554ft of fence and that didnt include the gate.... where in the world did he get over 100ft MORE than what I was asking for?! I had to go over everything with him and he was pulling some huge numbers out of his ass and I decided to just let him talk and then threw out his quote. 

Another one of my quotes I got was WAAAY too low... but he was a nice man and just did it over the phone... I think he might have missed some numbers and I cant fault him for that. 

The quote I got today I think I told the guy probably 20 times that I needed 8ft high fence in the back and I needed a quote for temporary fencing and also a separate one for the repairs on the neighbors fence (we will only be paying half) when I got the quote today it didnt have any of this included. 

Are you kidding me?! Maybe I am not speaking clearly... nope that cant be it I went to speech therapy for 3 years! 

As for our rental.... oh man. This place is a hot mess fo-real. So currently we have at least 4 outlets that do not work. This includes the one and only outlet in the master bath... and the guest bath. I have been curling my hair while sitting on the floor in the middle of the bedroom. <heavy blinks> I also had to blow some leaves with this miniature leaf blower that our landlord left us and found out that the only outlet outside doesnt work either. 

Being born and raaaised (say it with a southern accent) in Florida, I know that there is a very likely chance I will encounter bugs from time to time... more specifically roaches and I have recently taught myself to not scream bloody murder and now have resorted to calling The Hubs. When I am alone depending on the size of the bug I will sometimes sacrifice one of my dogs and use a paw. The larger ones sometimes get hairspray or windex.... or the tried and true shoe if it is around. This house though.... ((shivvers))  when we moved in I saw no signs of bugs at all... now its like a breeding ground. Okay so with the help of Todd's son and a trip to Lowes we have controlled the masses. I can now walk into the kitchen at midnight and not have to worry about anything under my feet but a dog or two. :) The kitchen sink is leaking... seems to have been like this for a while and our landlord doesnt really care so I have decided to throw an air freshener under there and call it a day. Rot or not I dont care enough to try and get this fixed. 

We still are not using any of the cabinets or drawers, I have my pots and pans I use on the daily out and on a shelf that used to live in my craft room this is also my make-shift pantry. Its working for me for now. I was going to just live out of boxes till the house was complete but The Hubs wanted some artwork on the walls. 

so I gave him this option.... I think its actually going to stick around. :) 

We got busy at work and I packed up at the end of the day and didnt complete this post so I will give you this mornings updates:

The bank called us and we were sent to underwriting! YAY! We asked what our timeframe was looking like and she said it was looking good for being done soon! Yes.... I almost cried. Its like music to our ears right now! We want this sooo bad! 

I also got an email back from the fence guy I met with yesterday... he thinks I just dont understand his email.... uh hello. yes I did and clearly you weren't listening to me when I was talking to you! Stupid men! 

On a good note we found a beaut of a path to take the dogs to the park. This park is amazing too! So many pathways to bike the dogs! We headed out on sunday and did our first treck with them and then biked through the local art show afterwards... We are quite a site too haha I think one day we are going to cause an accident. 

Back to work I go... I'll keep you updated on what happens :) 

Fence Companies Used: Arrow, H&Y, Johns Fencing, some other guy, and USA Fence. 

Seeing dirt

We had a meeting this morning with our (hopefully) lending bank... Mary has made the process super easy for us and has really put in a substantial amount of time to make all this work. We were prepared to come out of pocket for some things but she is working on it so we dont have to come out all the way... just peeking :) ha! We also started our account moving process to get the hell out of Dodge (or the bank that needs to suck my.... never mind)  :) I have really surprised myself lately with just letting life happen around us. I want to look back on all this and think 'when can we start the next one'! Besides fighting for my huge kitchen and huge pantry I think I wont need to fight for much more.

Todd has put in some of his own fight lately and thankfully not with us. Our glorious front door:

...has decided to make us jump a few more hurdles than your average door. First you have to take into account that Florida has to have Impact rated doors... due to our below sea level life and our hurricane attraction! This company is out of Georgia and hasnt completed its full range of impact testing but is ALMOST complete and they have all the paperwork in order. Bummer news is that it was denied to begin with but once they sent over their testing info we became a little bit closer to closing the door on this chapter! (you see what I did there?!) 

Why are we fighting for this door you ask?! Well... is your door made of complete steel? Can your door withstand some of the most extreme weather testing? Does your door have impact glass panels that open to let the ocean breeze in? and finally.... does your door need a fork lift to move it from point a to point b? Well... our door is, has, and does. :) (hopefully OUR door, keep your fingers crossed for us) 

Mary said she cant wait to see this door on the house! 

That is our land as of 2 hours ago. I stopped by our PO Box and came to see this in the day time for the first time since saturday. Huge change from this...

We can see the main road from our private road finally! Yes. Scary. Very very scary. Shit just got real. 

Here you can see the man in the bull dozer peeking out. I found out today that this is a husband and wife team and thats pretty cool! I love being able to say that I do that too with The Hubs. 

I havent started my Cupcake bribery to finish faster yet... but I will. I mentioned it today in the bank to Mary and told her to pass the word on to everyone who will look over our paperwork. I know that this is a low tactic but I want my home and I will use all the sugar and cream I can to get moved into this dream house!  I need to go rest my eyes but I will write again in a bit about a few things I have in mind for the inside... I might even show you my completed plans for the house! 

Quick note: My pup decided to get himself and his ball stuck under the couch... when I tried to reach it I pulled something in my neck and have now put myself to bed while I wait for the muscle spasms and shooting pain to go away, and if my entry seems a little disjointed its because I took half of a muscle relaxer and I am a little spacey. See exhibit A. 

Exhibit A:

Impact fees

Oooh Gurl let me talk to you about a little thing we like to call Impact fees...

"Impact and capacity fees are charges on new development and increases in development intensity for the local government's cost associated with providing infrastructure to serve the new development.

The following impact and capacity fees are imposed by Sarasota County on new development in unincorporated areas of the county: potable water, wastewater, roads, park, library, fire/rescue, EMS, law enforcement, justice, general government, and education.

Municipalities charge some county impact fees, and municipalities and special districts may have their own fee systems for certain types of infrastructure."

So I pulled that right off the county website... a month or so ago we decided to run through every single article and section on that website and came up with a total $6429.00 not including potable water, road, and waste water. GROSS! Well I got a call back from someone in that department today who told me that my impact fees are going to be around 9 thousand. Yes. I pushed the right number. 9. I just threw up a little in my mouth. Let me be crystal clear when I tell you that we will be on septic and well for about 2 years max before we have to pay AGAIN to be hooked up to county... the septic and well is a cool 6k as well that we will get maybe 20% back from the county over a possible 20 years or so in our bill. What a joke! The county is also letting everyone know (who couldnt make it to the secret county hearing) that these fees are a deep discounted rates so that it will entice more people to build. 

Oh Sarasota County you are so silly! With your silly angry office employees and your silly impact fees! 

The only good news about the fees is that you dont have to pay them until you have your 'Certificate of occupancy' sooo.... we will part with this money when we move in. Bummer deal. Oh lawd. 

Guess this is the price you pay to live in paradise! 

Land Clearing Time

Well its time for us to start clearing the land! After finding out that we have 15 more feet on the side of the property its just that much more for us to clear! yuck! Just kidding! We are actually super excited about this revelation! Since we are fencing off the whole property and adding a gate up front I have been super worried about looking out of the windows on the sides of the house and seeing... fence. Ew. Nope, not anymore we get to have actual plants and such now! Everything with a pink flag around it is set to be removed... this is a total of 20 trees. Todd told us that this was going to cost us anywhere from $12,000 to $2,000 and we needed to keep our fingers crossed. Who knew that cutting down trees was so expensive!? Not only do they need to cut down these trees but they need to grind and remove the stumps as well... needless to say we will be selling firewood for the next few years to make some of this money back! haha! Kinda joking... kinda not...

Again, dont worry we will be more than compensating down the road with new plants, trees, flowers, and other misc landscaping. Thanks to my father I learned a lot over the years and cant wait to hit up the local growers and get to planting! I also have plans for a garden... my lovely garden box that The Hubs made for me when we first started dating is sadly sitting empty in the garage. :( 

Back to what I was saying, we did get quite a few quotes for the land clearing and all I can say is thankfully we did not hit the 12k mark! Woo! Mini celebration! 

With a construction mortgage you have to come out of pocket on about 25% of what you would like to get a loan on... this can include: Land clearing, Contractors fees, Architect fees, Survey Fees, Sewage survey, and so on and so forth. Just posting this so that if you decide to build on your own land... you should just know that the land itself probably isnt down payment enough for a bank anymore. Ew and more Ew to this one. Sucks that we have to come out of pocket this much before hand but glad we are prepared. 

On a lighter note! I dropped off the final check to Jason our Architect yesterday! Do you know what this means?! Do you?! THIS MEANS WE GET TO FILE FOR OUR BUILDING PERMITS! <insert happy dance> 

Yes Ladies and Gents, if all goes as planned we will be breaking ground very soon! This puts a swarm of little butterflies in my stomach! This isnt like your normal cookie cutter builders special house that you found in some neighborhood... this is our dream! This is excitement kept me from tearing my neighbors head off with my bare hands after he took a leaf blower to his "yard" and covered my white dog in dirt and leaves while he was peeing. Let me be clear that the word yard is used very loosely... he  has a busted driveway and stupid oak trees. The landlord cut all the branches off before we moved in so we wouldnt have to deal with his leaves... but thankfully he blew them all into our yard! They just drove away so I'm about to bust out the blower myself and give them back to my very giving neighbor. If I knew where his hose hook up was I'd use that and wash my little white dog with his water too! 

6 more months. 6 more months. 6 more months. 

I think the dogs will soon join us in this chant too... they are hating being in this house... 

well dont look at them right now... you couldnt tell. 

Have I mentioned yet how much this oven sucks? I'm sure that my baby chicken that I am cooking right now will take a good 2 1/2 hours... waaaay more than its used to. grr. time to go baste it again.... talk to you soon! 

Kitchen Table

I just can't get past this table! I have tried to find this style in a darker color but not happening! This lovely table seats six when it is folded up and then expands to ten when its needed. All the parts are kept internally and only come out when the 'Pie' is slid out. Its so impressive! Damn you expensive table! We are looking for a round one that can be expanded but not the traditional round to oval expansion and this fits what we need! I know I could always paint it the color that I want but at its current price I want it finished already! 

In other news we are almost completely moved in to the new rental... its... a rental. Just counting my blessings that we didn't have a ton of turn downs because the amount of dogs we have :) 

Had some help from friends and it was complete the same day we trucked over here. The dogs love the fenced in yard, since we have a smaller sqft for them to play and run inside it really helps out! So far I havent gone completely nuts with them in the house. 

Today I had my first 'gate open' scare... oh my so we are outside playing the '3 huskies run as fast as you can' game when they stop and look at the driveway. The garage is still packed so I cant park inside yet, and I noticed a bike tire and the far gate open... then guess who comes from around the corner of the house... the landlord. 

Yep. He biked over and started his creeping. Since I caught him early I gave him the death stare till he claimed to be getting our recycle bin back from the neighbor. I knew this man was a creeper! We had been using the garage opener to get in and out of the house for a few days and when I finally used the key I noticed that he gave us one real one fake... seems odd. I'll be re-programming the openers and we will be getting locks for the doors and gates. Thankfully we hung the blinds the other night. We have nothing to hide but we sure dont want someone all up in our bizznass! 

I have that dirty grimy someone is watching me feeling now that I just cant shake. yuck. 

I did cook in the house for the first time tonight! That was refreshing and I am starting to really feel a little more comfortable, we did eat out of paper bowls. Let me make it clear... I will NOT be unpacking just to pack again in a few months! No way! I will only OCD label these boxes once! 

Time for sleep its 3:36... am.

MOVING!

Tonights joyous episode will go through the in's and out's of how to pack like you have Obsessive Compulsive Disorder :) Swear not making fun of anyone because I am an admitted control freak and once thought that I liked to be super organized but it got a little out of hand!

Here we have our wonderful 26 foot Uhaul we rented tonight! Not sure if we needed one this big but hey it was the same price as the smaller one and we just might be able to fit everything in it at once!

Got all my cleaning supplies packed up and ready to go first trip over to the rental. Sure it may look clean but you never can be too sure, this will make easy storage under the sink and a quick grab to the new home too! 

Yup this house we are moving out of is about 3700sq ft but having all these boxes out in the living room for days is just irritating and doesnt look so clean... so here we have jam packed a spare bedroom closest to the garage. You may notice the pink and blue tags on top of 90% of the boxes and this would be the contents of each box. Too much? Possibly. But keep in mind we will be moving to the new house in less than a year. I packed each box knowing that I was either going to use this stuff or it could sit together for a few months and I make due with what I have used. Yes I bubble wrapped my mermaid statue. Dont judge me! :) 

Okay. So I admit it I dont always make the wisest box content choices, but they sure are interesting. No you are not seeing things... this box is lopsided, has a metal horn sticking out, and contains one of many of my animal heads inside. I havent even taken down or wrapped my huge Eagle head and wings hanging above my bed. Crap. The bed. It's 12:30 at night and I have just put up my swollen feet and we havent even taken apart our king size bed. :( The Hubs....is sleeping. 

Note to self on this one: when Target has a clothes hanger on wheels on sale for $8 it will look like this.  Not wise, go for the $40 one next time I think this is precariously perched on the Christmas boxes stacked behind it. Yes, it does have wheels but they forgot to say: "Will only roll when filled with infant clothing."

This Gem of a photo is something I am super excited about. My older sister taught me that if you use garbage bags and rubberbands you will have makeshift garment bags! Hold the phone, I am not waisting garbage bags... I'm not sure if any of you have used the forceflex bags lately but every time I pull the bag out these jerks have been ripped. I filled a bag with pillows and it ripped! PILLOWS! 

Bye bye small walk-in closet! They are excited for the new house and a bigger closet.... I havent told them yet that they must go to a smaller closet for a few months. :(