An Overly Obsessive Spice Rack

Inspired once again by Smitten Kitchen, I decided it was high time to take my cabinets from looking like this:

Teaser

Guess what I've been up to...

I'll give you a hint.  It's a tiny bit obsessive.  Not that I'd ever do something obsessively.  Not this girl.

Improved!

Did I ever post this?  I can't remember, but I don't think I did.  The cabinet I got through Craigslist for $50 that weighs ten thousand pounds that went from this (these are phone pictures, so they're pretty awful)...

Project: Retaining Wall

**UPDATED 7/23/12**

I actually remembered to take a before photo, I just forgot I took it.  Here's the full before:

I forgot to take a before photo, so this is the "mostly before, but after we ripped out most of the scraggly ground cover" photo.

Busy Beaver

D.H. and I have been watching Mad Men, and it cracks me up when they say "busy beaver," as in, "you've been a busy beaver."

Not to say that I have been a busy beaver, I spend most of my time sitting on my arse.  Before Christmas, though, you should've seen me go.  I built my husband a workbench for his Christmas present.

I know.  I'm pretty damn amazing.

I didn't think to take pictures of it before now, though, so you don't get to see it in it's pristine newly erected beauty, but as it stands now - covered with stuff.

Our first project!

First, let's get this out of the way: I don't like ANY of the paint colors in our new house.  I really don't know who chose these colors, but my feeling is they either couldn't really see yellow or they really REALLY liked yellow, because every color they used has a yellowish tint.  The entire downstairs is yellowish-green, the upstairs rooms are yellowish-white, the kitchen is yellowish-orange, and the upstairs bathroom is was baby-poopy-yellowish-brown.