“Up” House

We went out with my neighbor today to see the “Up” house in Herriman, Utah.

I took a lot of pictures…for those of you who won’t get to go tour it!

First we have the mailbox with Carl & Ellie’s handprints…

Right inside the front door is the hall tree with Carl’s hats hanging on it (and an excited Douglas in front!)

Turn through the entry to the right into the front room with Carl and Ellie’s chairs.. along with Carl’s tennis ball footed cane!

On the wall to the left is the fireplace with the Up house on a cliff painting.. (and my neighbor who refuses to pose for pictures… ha ha gotcha!)

Then down the hall to the kitchen.. the coolest room in the house!

Love the blue appliances!

And the builders/designers even managed to tuck a microwave under the island.

In the basement is a boys room… Drew wanted to go in to play with the toys, once he understood he couldn’t he just stood and stared for awhile. I think he liked it.

Next door is a girls princess room. Cute, but I think you’d have to have daughters to appreciate it!

Heading up the stair to the second floor are framed pictures of Carl and Ellie’s lives together.

The first bedroom upstairs is the nursery they were never able to use..

Then down the hall is the master bedroom. Love the bedding!

In one corner Carl’s ties…

and the master bath.. don’t know if this tub was in the movie, but WOW. Who wouldn’t LOVE this tub?

An award the house was given…

And the back yard.. love the pergola..

And a nice and bright detached garage.

The South East corner of the house..

And the North East corner. I haven’t seen this angle anywhere, so I thought I’d include it.

All in all, a fun trip! If you live anywhere nearby you should go check it out!

BTW.. if you’re heading out there, from Bangerter Highway turn West on 12600 S, turn left (South) at Herrriman Main Street. It will curve West again, turn left (South) at 5400 W. Head straight down the street and you’ll see it on the right (West) side of the street!

'Spooky' is done!

 Finally! It's done! I've been working on this since the middle of September!

 I've decided this space on the wall is going to be my seasonal wall. 

So in the future, I'll be making some fun stuff to hang here!

 However, I think I'm going to back off on the applique. 

The stuff on this one took FOREVER to stitch around.

 So that combined with my almost 3 year old bugging me literally every 5 minutes

kept me from finishing this really not too big wall hanging quickly.

But ya know... a lot of those interruptions turned it to fun

quality time with him. Wouldn't trade that for anything! 

(I just wish he still took naps!)

HAVE A SPOOKY HALLOWEEN EVERYONE!

Updates…

Ok.. I have a lot of photo’s today, because I’ve been working my butt off on a few projects lately and haven’t managed to take the time to photograph and post them… So here’s the catch up post!

When I got my new old dresser for the front room (below), I had to find a place to put the old sideboard that used to be there. The only place in the house to even consider squeezing it into was my sewing room. (And believe me, that was BARELY a consideration). My hubby wouldn’t let me sell it, so that option was out, so was sticking it in the garage to get destroyed.

So.. after much re-arranging in my head, this is the solution I came up with. Notice my red shelf on top of the sideboard? Yup…more vertical space. Yes the room is incredibly tight and crowded, but I have more space to store more fabric and crafty stuff!

This corner was going to be ‘wasted’ space, I solved that by storing all my fabric-on-bolts in it. Works! Now I can see what I have without having to dig through to the back of my closet for it!

New desk placement. Basically in the other corner of the room, straight across from where it used to be.

And the Ikea wall.. again straight across the room from where it used to be.

Now for these projects. Notice my cool Halloween table runner I made? It now hangs over the edges like I wanted it to! And the ‘something Wicked this way comes’ sign on the wall? Awesome eh? Thank you for that Shellie! (I think it was referring to my hubby at the time it was given to me…ha ha ha)

And the new, antique looking, handles I put on the dresser. Much better than the old brass and ceramic handles that were on it. Half of them had the porcelain broken… can we say “trash can”?

And finally the big project that put Dudley in bed with back problems for the weekend…The dog run! (Thank you Seth and Brooke!)

As Dude put it..”who knew putting in a used (can we say free?) dog run would be as much work as installing a new one? We had to do all sorts of funky things to get it useable, but so far it has been great! (Other than Baxter almost knocking himself out on it as we were putting pegs in the bottom of this side.. he didn’t see it and ran full speed ahead right into it. Scared the crap out of all of us! Then of course we laughed hysterically.)

I painted the dog house the same color as our house, and am going to get a new floor installed on it today or tomorrow. The kids are using it more than the dogs right now..(the house and the run!), but we figured we killed to birds with one stone!

The other side of the run with the gate. The pumpkins, carrots and peppers are all in the run now..next year they’ll probably eat the dog house..

And lastly, an update on a couple of my veggies… these are the pole beans climbing up the used gazebo parts I salvaged… they’re FINALLY producing well, I’ve got a big silver bowl of them I picked yesterday.. gotta figure out what I’m going to do with them!

And my tomato jungle! (the big box in the back) Another veggie I’ve got to figure out what to do with. I’ve dried a bunch so far, but am thinking about juicing the rest…

In front of the tomato box is Oregano, Rhubarb, Chives, Garlic, Parsley (two kinds!), thyme (3 kinds!), and Terragon. Oh, and the stray Lemon Balm plant.. they just grow wherever they want to.

So now everything is updated! Hope you enjoyed… as I’m sure you all did… ;~)