Movie Screenings

Something I've recently discovered, and John and others have enjoyed with me, are movie screenings. They're when a company wants to get buzz about their movie out prior to the release date, so they hold screenings in certain cities and theaters. Well, it's totally free (sometimes you get free concessions, too) and you get to see the movie before everyone else (but who cares about that, I said free, right??)

My first one was in the spring through Crowdtap.com, a social media survey/brand sites. However, the sites that most big-name movie screenings go through is Gofobo.com. I have fallen in love with this site and have already seen a good handful of movies, just after 2 weeks! I've seen Trouble with the Curve and Won't Back Down and will soon see Hotel Transylvania, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, End of Watch, and Chasing Mavericks (from Nickelodeon.) So check out Gofobo or let me know if you want to see Hotel T (I have 2 passes left) on Sept. 22 at 11am in Royal Oak.

Update: Again, you can't go wrong with a free date night :) Many of the Movies shown are in 3D and we've been suprised with a few Imax ones as well. My most favorite find so far? Seeing The Hobbit a week before it came out. Seriously, take a few minutes to poke around the site!

Craftyness Board

Quick post, and then I'm off to clean. Thursday is my cleaning day and I need to get it done before I leave for a movie tonight with Kriste. Here is a board I made a few days ago with a bunch of stuff on it!
 Ta-da! It looks fabulous!! I've seen a few at a variety of stores and thought they were cool, but didn't want to pay. Then I started seeing a few homemade ones on Pinterest and since all I needed was a frame, I decided to do one myself!

 This menu has a magnetic backing from an old dry erase board I had. I just cut a piece out and pasted behind the menu paper. Then, I made Popsicle sticks with some of our favorite meals (or Johns, at least, and I eat veggie sides and a salad.) I put little magnets on the back I cut out from a square and they stick perfectly!



I put the calendar and cleaning list page behind plexiglass to make it a dry erase board. I've got my weekly chores I can cross off and it's nice for John to be able to do a quick peek at what's going on this week. I have a separate planner for all the details, but he usually just likes to know the time and where.

 My notes and grocery list. It's ridiculous for me to remember everything we've run out of and we both need random things at random times, so now I have one compiled list that's placed where I'll never forget it.

I love these meal sticks!!! Super cute and SOOO easy to plan a week's worth of dinners! I can just look in the fridge to see what I have and then make my list according to what else I'll need.
                                   And this is just a page from our wedding album I 
                                    pulled out recently. It's coming along, I promise!!






Also, pray for Penny, today is her surgery. In fact, she's probably done. John and I were both anxiously waiting for her to get spayed and declawed. We love our little gymnast, but she cost us $200 worth of blinds and drapes. She completely tore the bedroom and living room ones down.

What we're up to.

John and I have been quite busy around the house. Sorry for not updating recently! It's been hectic trying to get everything fixed and all the "construction" stuff done! I've been working on making books for craft shows and working on our wedding album which is looking awesome and going to be huge!

John, on the other hand, has really been hard at work. He's nearly finished with the bathroom save the shower. We have the tile, we just need a certain shower head and a few other little things. Here's some pictures of his hard work so far:

 Our sink went batty! It leaked completely and was creating all sorts of mold underneath. I guess the past owners didn't clean it. Well, John replaced it and killed the mold and it now looks wonderful!

 Now it looks like this (excuse the mess, I just went and snapped a picture.) It has this insanely neat handle and faucet.

 I'm sure everyone forgot what the bathroom looked like, but that's ok, because it was yucky. We couldn't change the silly layout of it, but that's ok, we're making it look awesome despite that! Here's a toilet John put in. I took this some time ago, there is trim now.

And the sink and tub! It's really a lovely sink, a bit small, but nothing bigger would fit. It's also tall! The tub was there when we moved, but John added trim around it and we're planning on building a shelf to hang above it.

 And here's the shower. I don't really have much to say about it, it was HORRIBLY moldy, we had to rip out everything around it. There was a massive leak that was never fixed and it had to have been there for at least a few years. Yucky. Fortunately, we killed all the mold and ripped it out.

 John also installed a new gas dryer. Our electric one stopped working suddenly and when I went to investigate, it was STUFFED with lint in the tubes (and Victoria must have left the past owner some secrets, because they were in there, too! SUPER YUCKY!) And the dryer tube thing was burning because it wasn't meant for a dryer. Praise the Lord that our dryer stopped working for no reason, because there WAS a reason, a few of them. When John cleaned it out and got everything set, he plugged it back in and the whole dryer lit up in blue sparks. Super, super weird. Needless to say, we got rid of it immediately and used a gas dryer we had received as a wedding present. Praise the Lord for providing for THAT one.

 Our new door :) John didn't put the whole thing in, but he sure had to keep track of the person who did! He helped clean it up and what not and it looks absolutely lovely!

 Our new dishwasher :) The last one didn't wash at all and was rusting on the inside, so we got some rusty dishes. We got this new one and it's amazing, super quiet, and on works so well.

 This has to be John's proudest accomplishment so far. He mounted our TV on the wall and threaded all of the cords through the drywall. You can see our lamp on the left. It's sitting on a table with our Wii, computer plugged into the tv, and some other stuff. We are definitely liking it!

 John put this up awhile ago: our master bedroom ceiling fan. His NEXT job is going to be the blinds on the left. Our cat Penny pulled all of the blinds down, so we put some curtains and yes, a sheet over the window. The blinds should be in in a few days.







So that's some of John's amazing work! I've heard so many things about how Engineers can't even use a wrench and he's proving it all wrong. Our house is coming along so wonderfully and it's nice to think it's all ours and we can, for the most part, make it how we like it and create a home! As for me, I'd rather not post my work just yet. I'm pretty excited for everyone to see it when it's finished!