Spring!

This is one of my favorite times of the year - when it starts to feel warmer out and Spring arrives. I can't believe this weather though. This has been the best winter ever. It's not often you can say it's 79 degrees when it's still winter. And this is the tree across the street. It has leaves popping out on St. Patricks Day.

This time of year also means home improvements. Sometimes I hate owning a house. Our windows are going bad (along with everyone else's in the neighborhood). Not sure what we're going to do about that but it makes me sick to my stomach to think about it. The builder just used cheap, shoddy, windows. Our neighbor has it much worse but it's probably only a matter of time before we're there too.

One a simpler note, we put in a new kitchen faucet. Our house came with the cheapest of the cheap (and ugliest of the ugly) faucets. This is the last faucet to be replaced and what was supposed to be simple turned into a two day project for Greg. First, the faucet was on so tight that Greg had to saw it off to get some leverage. Then, our plumbing under the sink was done so cheaply that the old hoses underneath did not even screw into the new faucet (they clamped I think) so we had to get some special adapters. But we finally got it done.

Here's Greg in action:

And here's the new faucet.

Our next project is hardware for the kitchen cabinets. I thought it was time for that after 9 years. I'm very excited about it and I'll put up pictures of it whenever Greg decides to tackle that project.

This weekend was the Just Between Friends consignment sale that I participated in. From what I understand, they had the best sale to date. They had over 100 more consigners this spring than they had this fall. And traffic at the sale was outstanding.

I brought in 112 items to sell and I only brought home 18 items! I sold almost all my maternity clothes too. I'm so happy. See in the picture below? That's all I had to bring home! I do think this great weather inspired people to buy for spring/summer so that was good. I grossed about $415 so after they take their cut, I'll be getting about $300 or so.