Ooops!

I realized that my kitchen cabinets aren’t the only thing getting a makeover. Do you like my new design??

MAKEOVER!!!!

This is a day I have been waiting for, for a LONG TIME, or 3 years 9 months. My kitchen got a makeover!!!!

When we moved in (3 years and 9 months ago) I knew I didn’t like our kitchen cabinets, but we liked everything else, and it wasn’t a deal breaker on the house for us. Well…. I got the itch to paint our cabinets about a year ago and right after New Years, I did!

I used Rustoleum’s Cabinet Transformations kit in Chocolate and am very pleased with the results. It was time consuming and there might be a few things I would do differently next time, but overall I really like the outcome and process. AND I got an amzaing deal.

The Kit retails for $70-$75. I saw the chocolate kit at Home Depot at the beginning of December on clearance for $53(it was just a return, nothing wrong with it). I thought it was a good deal, but didn’t pick it up because I wasn’t sure what color we were going with. WELL fast forward to New Years Day at Home Depot and it was still there, so I asked if they’d go any lower on the price since it had been there for a month and they did, $38!!!

So Basically we transformed our kitchen with “new cabinets,” added crown molding, and new hardware for right around $110. I LOVE a good deal!

Enjoy the before and after's!

Before… orangey oak with brass hardware

After… Chocolate with Brushed Nickel hardware and crown molding

the bachelor week 2

Bachelor week two was a little dullsville; quick recap, Seans takes Sarah on the first one on one date, Kalon’s helicopter picks them up… no one’s ever done that before! They do some crazy free fall off a 30 story building. They connect, she’s already falling in love with him, blah blah blah. Ok thing is, I really like Sarah, but stop talking about your missing lower arm; by talking about it so much you’re making an issue out of it, let it go, it’s not a big deal. He gives her a rose so she’s around another week.

Then there’s the group date; a bunch of crazy girls go do a photo shoot for some romance novel cover. I bet 50 shades girl is wishing she didn’t get sent home the first night. Anyways, it’s awkward, they do some more photos of Sean with his shirt off.  I like Lesley (the one from DC in the cowgirl get-up) and I like that he wanted her to kiss him and she kept changing the subject and missed her chance, but went back later and kissed him, it was cute.  Selma is SOOO beautiful, I like her too. I cannot stand the yoga instructors hair, it was worse than last week, get some product girlfriend! Luckily, she’s not feeling the bachelor process and goes home. Ok, don’t you know what you’re getting into when you get cast on the bachelor??? There is A LOT behind the process, and paperwork, and background checks, and naming your last 25 partners to make sure you don’t have STDs, what a waste. Not only did you waste your own time, but another girl would have gladly taken your place… like Nicki, if we’re bringing girls back, bring her, I like Nicki! Sean gives desperate Kacie the rose, because now they're in girlfriend zone….???

Lastly, Sean takes Desiree to an “art” opening and pulls a not funny prank on her. They go back to his place and eat steak, corn, and huge broccoli florets (Robert noticed this, thus his contribution to the post this week). And of course, get in the hot tub. More smoking bodies alert! They connect and I genuinely like them together, they seem to have a lot in common and are relaxed and themselves with each other. I can totally tell when Sean is uncomfortable and it’s been a lot so far, hopefully he calms down and starts making some connections.

Rose ceremony, goodbye to two girls, and we’re out ‘til next week, which I’m HOPING is as juicy with catty drama as ABC is advertising….BUT it probably is something totally lame.

The Bachelor

Happy New Year! I took a small break over the holidays; 1- because it’s a super busy time of year, 2- I wanted to enjoy and focus on the true meaning of Christmas and 3- we were out of town, and had a WONDERUFL trip to Wisconsin and Nebraska. I <3 my family! (I’ll post pictures from our trip soon)

Anyways… I’m totally hooked on reading “celebrity” reality tv gossip and thought it’d be fun to do a little bachelor thoughts/recap/can you believe she did that? chat. Last night was the first episode of Sean’s season, so here we go…

Bachelor: Sean Lowe, super cute, Ken-like hunk (at least two girls called him a hunk to his face- really????) He seems to come from a great family and I LOVE that he’s open about his Christian faith… we’ll see how that plays into the fantasy suite.

The opening bit kept showing him working out and his hunky muscles, yeah he’s good looking, we get it. Then Arie (bachelor runner up on Emily’s season) and Sean had a little bro-love sesh. It was amusing, Arie gave Sean some pointers on how to kiss, which I remember always feeling grossed out watching Arie and Emily kiss, but whatevs.  They joked about how to deliver the line “Will you accept this rose?” and how to break up with one of the crazies ladies. funny stuff.

Then we meet the girls…

• That 50 shades girl……. too much, way too much
• Robert (who was just walking by, definitely NOT watching the show with me) thinks Tierra (the girl who got the rose right out of the limo) looks like a brunette Britney Spears
• I liked the bridal consultant
• There was a girl in a blue dress that reminded me of Nicki Minaj- bold make up and hair and every time she talked her southern belle “accent” sounded fake
• Kacey’s back! Oh I like this girl…. but this seems a little desperate??? I hate saying that, I really like her
• Girl in a wedding dress… funny idea, a little too much white wine, not working out so much
• Paige is also back, she was on Bachelor Pad and got the boot, and got the boot again, although her attitude seemed a little arrogant, she knows all things bachelor after all?? (that’s how she got on BP)
• A girl tried to do a back walkover/handspring…. and totally fell, why would you even attempt that in an evening dress???? Random side note: the stones always look so slick and wet outside at the mansion, I’m surprised Chris Harrison doesn’t slip and fall
• The yoga instructor with the wildly curly hair… my best friend in high school had hair that curly, It’s a tough thing
• The girl with one arm, I like her too… and her confessional, (does that date me, Real World anyone??) she so was open about wanting to be accepted and for people to look beyond her handicap? (I don’t know what the PC term would be) Anyways, I like her
• Selma, the BEAUTIFUL brunette with big eyes and a smoking body who rocked her LBD. (Ok so maybe I have a crush, but not in a weird way!)

Obviously I didn’t cover all of them, but those are the ones that stood out. I love bachelor season and am already campaigning for Kacey to be the bachelorette. (I have a feeling she and Sean don’t make it too far). Also… I’m not into spoilers for this season,  so if you read Reality Steve or any other bachelor spoiler site, please don’t share.

And lastly, a parting quote from last night:

“I mean, you’re beautiful, but that’s not the first impression rose, that’s just the first rose he gave out”

yikes!