Let's Get Personal: A life Update

I was so busy the majority of this year, doing life, traveling and experiencing milestones, that throughout my posts, I forgot to post about some of the great things that happened this year!
 
So, first off, April 2nd was the 1 year anniversary of me dating my boyfriend (at the time!)


2 weeks later, right before my birthday, we bought some chickens, and 2 days before my birthday, on April 15th, 2016, My boyfriend proposed! And then he was called Fiancé :) 5 months and 2 days after the proposal, on September 17th, 2016, we got married! Immediate following, from September 18th-24th, we went on our honeymoon!


Check out my instagram for some Wolcott Wedding Pix and Honeymoon Pix :)
All of our wedding photos can be found here.

At the end of October, we celebrated 1 year of being in our house. And what a great year it has been. Super trying, super rewarding, and now my boyfriend turned fiancé turned husband and I have a wonderful life. We're still not perfect at the marriage thing, afterall, it's only been about 2 months, but I'm happy. He's happy :)

I definitely fell behind on the PfWo (Pfisterer-Wolcott) House to Home project series. Now it's just the House to Home since I'm no longer a Pf, and there's no need to distinguish the fact that there are 2 bodies in the home, "the 2 will become 1 flesh". We haven't done a TON of remodeling, so there's still hope for the series.

Definitely fell behind on the reviewing front, but planning a wedding kind of took precedence. And my husband uses our 1 computer for editing his photos, so when I want to blog, it seems to come at the most inopportune time, so it's been set aside and I haven't been able to blog much.

I won't set a schedule for myself with the holidays coming, but I hope to find some sort of regular schedule to post and hopefully build this blog into something amazing :)

Until next time

-S

PfWo Project: House to Home - Painting

As nice as the light yellow walls, and the blue walls, and the purple walls are, it's just not our style. Our goal for the house? An elegant and classy home, with neutrals and shimmer (think Carly Cristman's loft).

So phase one of house to home: Repainting! Our goal is greys and blues.


All the common spaces have gone from yellows to grey.











This was all done the day before Halloween, before we officially moved in. Since then, we've done a lot to the house. I really sucked at posting House to Home updates. I'm working on some more posts, so be sure to keep an eye out for you!


What's your favorite part of remodeling? Comment below!


(Update 11/4/16) All of the pictures have disappeared and I'm not sure why. I will look in to remedying this situation asap!)

PfWo Project: Moving Day!

I'll let you in on a secret. I hate moving. I really do. As nice as it might be to some to pack up their life and go through things as they're putting them away nicely, I don't. Trying to pack plates and cups and all that flatware...utterly stressful!

I'm all for tips and tricks and hacks to make moving and packing easier. While I know I have plenty of friends who would probably gladly help me move with their trucks, I'd rather just fork out $80 to rent a UHAUL and put all my stuff and move in one fell swoop.

The day we closed was a Thursday evening, Max and I grabbed our dog, stopped by Jimmy John's, my go to for first meals in new places, and went to the new house and had dinner.

Did I mention it was in the dark because I forgot to schedule the power turn on for that day. Whoops.

Friday, we did a mini move of some items. And we began the painting process.

But Saturday, that was the big move. Happy Halloween to us.

These pictures were taken a couple days before. Max helped with the packing (Thanks to his UPS skills). I was so caught up in directing the move, that pictures were scarcely taken.

The first of the packing began October 25th, 2015.

The living full of boxes for sorting.

 

The bed which was a sorting spot.

 

THIS IS BY FAR MY FAVORITE PACKING HACK! Saves so much time. Just use trash bags to bundle your clothes. Then it's easy to just get them rehung at the next place!

 

Ruger was very concerned that we were going to leave him. Actually, he had no idea. He'd never gone through a move before. After all, he was only about 6 months old. He just had fun hopping in and out and darting around the boxes. That's a collie for you.

 

Amidst the chaos, this was the ONE picture I managed to get on moving day. Max just backed the truck into the front yard of my old place so we could load all right from the door into the truck, which he oh so strategically packed. He was amazing.

 

 

Aside from Max, we had our friend Lance help, and my friend Cody. Great team of people. It didn't take us that long to move, ok, well maybe 3 hours. But we made it in one trip! Oh, the only thing that didn't fit in the Uhaul was my couch, which Lance was able to fit in his truck. And some breakables we could have fit in the Uhaul, but didn't want to because they were breakables.

 

Overall, great easy morning. The hardest part was the unpacking...which to this day, isn't done. We had some other obligation that day where we were gone most of it. And by the time we got home around 9, we had trick or treaters. We ran out of candy...who knew there were that many kids in the new neighborhood?! Yeesh! we'll plan better for next year :)

 

So, guess that's it for now. Until next time...

PfWo Project: House to Home - The Introduction

I think I'll call this series about the house PfWo Project: House to Home. We'll see how well the title sticks, or if Max likes it too. [Maybe he'll be a guest blogger. Though his blogs are more poetic here's how I feel posts. Less the DIY, Tried it and here's how it turned out, Fashion posts.]

Title derives from our last names. First two initials of our last names, mine being "Pf" and his being "Wo". And then since it's our first house, it'll be how we take it from just a house, to our amazing home. (Eventually the names in the title may change, if I'm lucky!)

So first off, welcome to the PfWo house when we moved in eons ago (Being October 2015). These were the pictures I took on our final walk through before we moved in:

Here's the kitchen and laundry room. Hideous color! Blech.

 

We have plans to remodel this bad boy and make it more efficient. Now after living there 3 months, we have a good idea of what we want to change. (By the way, that handsome devil is Max, the awesome boyfriend I have in my life :))

 

Our living room. Still a weird yellow color. We have since painted the whole house.

 

The unique full bath in the hallway

The tiniest room in the house, it's 8x9. Max and I think we're going to make it workout/prayer room. And we're going to repaint it. But we haven't decided yet which color we're going to.

This is the master. It isn't a horrible color. But we've repainted since we've moved. Look for future posts to see the aftermath.

 

 

This is the unique half bath in the master.

 

Walk in closet in the master. I have since taken over the left side, and Max has the backside.

 

This is the guest room. We've left the color as is so far. And it's also my cat Smidge's room lol.

 

This room will be the office. We're not going to keep the purple color. I've ordered a desk (last week) and I'm assuming Max and I will paint it before the desk gets placed.

 

The house wasn't awful. But does need a little TLC and conversion from the way the previous owners had it, to the way we want it. There are also some big renovation projects to be done: aka big money depleters. But Max and I will work on saving up for those. :)

So until next time...