Party Cake

The cake I made for my 1 yr old.

It was intended to be a two tiered cake, but I ran out of time.

If you're looking for a fondant recipe, go here.

The House

To give you the basics, the house is a small 1053 sq ft and it's currently got a living room, 1 bathroom, 2 bedrooms and the master bedroom has a small closet like room off to the side, and 1 sort of kitchen.

Our plan is to add a workable kitchen, another bathroom, laundry area, and another bedroom without adding on to the house.

Whew.

It will still be small, but we're trying to make the space that is there more workable. I think it will be great, but I'll admit to having panic attacks thinking about the lack of storage and space every now and then.

Small room - off the master bedroom

All cleared out and I've taken off the flooring since this picture was taken.

Master Bedroom (Before picture above)

Living Room (before picture above)

Hallway - Before

Kitchen - (before above)

Small Bedroom

Closet in small bedroom

This closet SCARED me!

So glad to see it gone!

Irises and more...

Sorry, I'm on a taking pictures of flowers kick. The Irises are in bloom and I just can't help myself.

These Irises are my mother-in-law's flowers, and I think she said they are heirloom flowers. They came from Cary's grandma or great grandma.

This one was over by the elementary school

as was this one and the one below

This one is a little on the deformed side, but such a pretty color

This is Blue Flax

These are the Irises over by the aud.

This brownish-orange Iris is in Kenneth's yard.

I thought these pictures of the Cat Mint were pretty. (toot, toot!) ☺

Allium that's growing around our apartment.

I'm impressed I actually remembered these flower's names. I haven't been in school for 6 years and haven't had a garden or done anything with flowers for at least 3 years.

"If you don't use it, you lose it" definitely applies to me.

Before, Before Pics

Well, here are pictures of our house and what we're dealing with. ☺

Starting out with this small room off of the master bedroom

Our plan for this room is to bring in the side a foot and half of it will be turned into a small (tiny) bathroom for the master bedroom and the other half will be a closet for a room we're adding in.

Master bedroom

The plan in this bedroom is to move the wall to where this closet is and make the room a little bit smaller so we can have more space for our kitchen.

View out of master bedroom towards current living room and kitchen area

living room

We're planning on leaving the living room area where it is, but we'll be moving the door over to wall where the window is.

The kitchen will be moved to this area.

We'll be taking out this closet, chimney and furnace.

 current kitchen

Our plan is that this corner will be where we'll be putting the second bathroom

view towards the only existing bathroom from the kitchen.

The plan for this area is adding a room to where the current bathroom is, and the laundry area will be here.

The bathroom only has a stand in shower

The door to the small bedroom off of the kitchen

We'll be leaving this room alone as far as leaving it the size it is...obviously we'll paint and get new carpet etc...

Closet in the small bedroom. (and the closet will be taken out and put a new one in)

We have our work cut out for us! ☺We have cleared out most of the stuff and I'll post pictures of that soon.