What I did last night...

I hope you'll forgive me for not having this weeks roundup ready today. (I promise I'll post it tomorrow!) They normally take a couple of hours to get together and last night I was too busy working on a surprise project for Jus.

Since he's been working till midnight every day we've only gotten to spend about 5 hours together this week. I wanted to try and do something fun for him.

When we first moved to our house Jus was very excited to have a guitar room. He immediately decided to paint it red and got to work trying to decorate it with concert posters. I can't remember who mentioned it first but one of us said it would be cool to have something unique painted on the wall. We tossed around ideas, drug our feet, and finally quit mentioning it.

But this week I decided it was time, so this is what I did last night...

(10 points if you know who this is)

I am really pleased how well this painting turned out. Turns out I didn't quite waste all of the money my parents poured into an art degree.

Yup, that's right. I was an art major, not the painting and drawing kind (I actually had a drawing professor tell me that the reason my drawings were interesting was my lack of technical skill).

I studied graphic design but a semester away from graduating I realized that I wouldn't be designing the kind of things I wanted to be designing and decided to step away from graphic design, and once I did that I forgot how to use all of the designing programs, and the rest is history.

So what did you do last night?

(Ed. Note from Cole- I wanted to take some more pictures in the daylight last night there wasn't any way to not get the glare. I made a graph on the wall but I freehanded the painting itself. Last night when Jus came home I was sitting on the sofa but he noticed that the guitar room light was on so he went in and ended up doing a double take. He said it was the best present he's ever gotten.)

Taking Care of Things

First off I want to let you know that I had a very productive day yesterday. I had some luck thrifting and then I went grocery shopping so our fridge is stocked for the week.

Last night I cooked dinner. (Hooray!!!) We had whole wheat pasta tossed in olive oil, garlic & basil and topped with shrimp. Jus had candied carrots (which I hate) and I had an artichoke (which he hates).

I'm feeling very proud of myself and am anxious to get back in the habit of cooking every night. I really love cooking and trying out new recipes, thanks for all of your ideas and help yesterday. I'll try to share any delicious recipes we happen upon.

Now, on to Tuesday things. I thought I'd play along with with Kassi at BacWoods Fern. Every Tuesday she has a link up featuring two things around your house and I love seeing what's in everyone else's home.

The first thing I'm featuring is this floral stool I picked up at an antique mall for $18 when I was visiting my sister at Indiana University. I know it's probably more of a kitchen thing but we don't have room in our kitchen and it's too cute to hide so it sits in our living room.

I'm not entirely sure if I get to claim the next thing as "mine," I'm sure Jus would put up a fight, but I really love the guitar room in our house. Jus is an awesome guitar player and it's nice to have all of his gear tucked away in the guitar room. Jus spends a fair amount of time in this room and I usually head there first when I get home from work, it's also where he proposed.

I especially love that he has his guitars hanging on the wall, I think it looks so freaking cool and is a great way to store them when he's not playing.

If you'd like to play along hop on over to BacWoods Fern and link up but be sure to leave a message so I know you've played along!