MOMMY-TO-BE'S PARENTS TOLD

Today Tommy worked on the crown molding in the foyer and I painted some touch up spots.   Then we started our trek down to the Tile Shop in south jersey to return the remainder of the tile from the master bathroom.  We were able to return it all, a whopping $900 back!  awesome!  We then went over to GPs to take down her Christmas decorations and were able to tell her our good news!

Then we went down to Jess and Dan's to see the progress with finishing the basement.  Jess cooked everyone dinner and I set the table with a little bit of a secret... When everyone was finished I started picking up the plates to clear the table and when i lifted them there was a napkin under each plate that said "Baby Blyskal Oct 1, 2011"... When everyone realized what was going on there were lots of hugs... Good times!

TILE IS DONE :)

Tonight we finished the tile in the master bathroom. Tommy finished up the tiles on the wall around the area for the handheld shower and some other pieces on the floor. I put the tiles on the countertop and now we are OFFICIALLY done with the tile!!! yay!

CROSSING THINGS OFF

On Saturday we worked on a bunch of smaller tasks... Tommy worked in the laundry room... he caulked the counter and sink, re-installed the dryer, installed a shelf... then he worked in the princess bedroom... he installed hangers in the closet, finished the hardwood floor, installed the toilet in the princess bathroom, put on the baseboard covers, and installed the baseboard molding... and he installed the tops to the windows in the master bathroom. I worked mostly on painting... I painted the base molding and shoe molding, put a coat on the master bath door, painted the floating crown in the master and some of the trim around the house....





Today we decided to conquer some more tile in the master bathroom shower. Tommy cut on the tile saw in the basement and fed me the pieces... I marked them up and installed them... We have all the tiles that needed funky cuts done! Only a few more pieces to go and we will be done with the tile!

MASTER BATH CONNECTIONS

Tonight Tommy worked on hooking up the radiant floor heating manifold in the master bathroom. The manifold is located inside the wall through a small access panel in the tile so it was a bit of tight quarters but he got it done...

I installed the tiles Tommy cut on Sunday in the shower and then marked up the rest of them for him to cut in the next coming days...

We have created a WALL OF WORK... I took sticky notes and wrote a job on each one of them and stuck them to the wall... This way we can add tasks easily and remove them when they are done. Some of them are small simple tasks and others are more complicated and time consuming...

COLD

We were outside today for most of the day. Tommy worked on cutting a majority of the 3"x3" tiles with funky cuts for around the tumbled stone in between helping his dad in the basement. He was working outside on the tile saw since it gets kind of messy and it was a little too cold!

I tackled fixing up the baseboard moldings. When Andre and Amy did their house they ordered too much molding so they sent it over to our house... but they stacked it when it wasn't completely dry... this created some sticky which left holes in the paint when it peeled off... I spent the entire day sanding them so that you could not longer see the holes... I still have to prime them and repaint them...

Tom's dad worked in the basement. He is doing some work on the heat so that we can hook up the mixing valve near the furnace for the radiant heat in the master bath and possibly the kitchen...

COMPLETED FRONT PORCH

I continued to work on the tile in the master shower today... didn't get as much done as yesterday but Tommy helped me out and got some of the more difficult parts done. I installed the tumbled stone on the curving top ledge and he cut some intricate pieces for the swoosh at the top.

Tom's dad finished up the front porch... He made a ring to cover the hole where the light fixture went, sealed it, and then later in the day he installed it.

Tommy worked some more on trimwork. He built the tops for the two windows in the master bathroom and installed crown molding in the skylight area of the master bathroom and finished the rest of the crown in the bathroom.

MASTER SHOWER and CROWN

I tiled today until all I saw were tiles... The small 3"x3" tiles that we cut a few months ago were on my to do list today... I got all the walls tiled by the end of the day... they only parts I didn't do were the pieces that needed some funkier cuts along the tumbled stone... The tiles worked really well on the curved walls....

Tommy was all over today doing trim work. His dad made the keystone for over the front door and that got installed. He finished up the trimwork on the eyebrow over the center garage door. He installed some crown molding in the master bathroom and put the crown molding on either side of the fireplace.

Tom's dad worked on the front porch... finishing up the siding and making the azek corbel pieces for the front door.

CROWN LIGHITING

Tom's parents were here today. They worked on the siding on the front porch (unfortunately I did not get a picture)... and Tom's mom cleaned up around the house... this morning the master bedroom looked like a tornado went thru, but when I walked in tonight it was soooo CLEAN!!! yay!

Tommy worked on the floating crown in the master bedroom tray ceiling. We had wedges cut at the spring angle of the crown a long time ago that he nailed up and then he nailed the crown to that... turned out really great... and of course he couldn't go to sleep without putting the rope light in and checking it out... It came out perfect.

I worked in the master bathroom some more. I put the little pencil molding around as the basemolding and then I put the crown type tile going up the curved wall... need lots of tape to hold them up...

ACCESS PANEL II

Today Tommy finished up the other access panel... The second one is on the tub suround to access the GFI and the motor...

I worked on the tile baseboard inside the shower and Tommy cut a few pieces for me.

BACK TO THE BATHROOM

Today we worked in the Master Bathroom again. Tommy worked on the access panel for behind the shower... we need access to that triangular section to get to the manifold for the shower nozzles, the manifold for the heat and an outlet. We found some sheetrock clips at home depot that slip over the sheetrock and hold the panel in place perfectly... I worked in the shower itself putting up the continuation of the border that we have around the entire bathroom. I had to tape the pieces up to get them to stay but it worked out