San Diego Photographer, Families

There are quite a few ideas I have saved that I really do plan on doing one day.  The how to’s that are out there… crazy.  I just watched a video on how to bind a quilt and I can easily do that.  I would have failed miserably without the turorial on YouTube.  So I thought I would share a few of these grand plans.  Maybe to help make them seem more doable.  They are all very doable.  And I used to do quite a few home projects but stopped since I got pregnant with Slater (that was over 6 years ago).

First up, water storage from rain gutters… doesn’t that sound fun. This is actually a project for Joe.  Once he gets into it, he will totally love it:P  Currently we have our water from our rain gutters go exactly where it shouldn’t and it collects on the side of the house every time it rains.

I have honey oak cabinets.  They are really nice wood cabinets but I am a white cabinet kind of girl.  I’ve had this on the to-do list since we moved in a million years ago.  I’m feeling like it just might happen 2012 (by my hands or a hired contractor… I’m always up for trades:)

Oh how I would love to have a chicken coop.  But Joe says I can’t have chickens until I can keep compost worms alive.  He gave me a whole compost worm kit for Christmas one year (by my request) and it only took a month for me to kill them.  Who knew a four day heat wave in January would be their demise (and I kind of let it go after that… terrible).  I blame my lack of chickens on Joe but who am I kidding… I can’t keep three boys, three cats, a dog AND a handful of chickens alive!!  I digress… isn’t this coop so lovely?

Now this project is right up my alley.  While I have never done any embroidery except on a scrapbook page (award winning I might add), this looks doable.  This link will take you to an etsy shop that the owner will do it for you.  But I think I might try my hand at this.  I have a few favorite pieces I’d like to memorialize in stitching.

I am all about trying just about everything to stay organized.  Of course some of my methods only last a few days.  But how cute is this magnetic dinner planning board?  I admit, my fun would be in creating all the little magnets and organizing the whole thing.  I wonder if it were cute enough, if I would be able to stick with using it.  This one might be a pipe dream (along with my coop) but you never know.

Isn’t this fun to live vicariously through my wish list of projects to do and incorporate?  Ok, next … this is a doozy.  It will actually never happen.  But how cool is this?  And a total how to step by step.  Every kids dream… and in ground trampoline.  We have a trampoline.  But my guess is that the two feet it sits above ground, even with a net around it, is a deterrent for doing anything too crazy.  So above ground it will stay.  But in my dream backyard, it’s in the ground with responsible children who only jump on the trampoline one person at a time (not five).

I know I’ve put out a few lofty ideas.  But this next one… I totally plan on doing this on the side of the house I said collects our gutter rain water.  By saying “I”… that might be misunderstood.  I’d happily hire someone to do this:)

And last but not least… I am doing this in my living room.  And when I say “I”, I mean Joe.  I’d do it myself but I am not a perfectionist and this job requires some precision.  Painting the wood, yes.  Cutting it to exact lengths… eek.  I could never be a carpenter (or a seamstress, I tried).  We have this really awkward angled high ceiling that needs some grounding.  I think some high faux paneling just like this would make that room even cozier.

Alright!  So how do you think I will do on my 2012 projects list. I think at least three of those were soley up to me.  There are quite a few more saved up on my pinterest boards.  But these are at the forefront… right now anyway.  That’s subject to change at anytime.