Life Lately;

Lately things have been pretty hectic to say the least.

To start, rewind about 6 months ago, {seriously time fly's} my husband got out of the Marine Corps and we rented our home in North Carolina and moved back to our home state of Washington. Our initial plan for "life after the marine corps" fell through so plan B was to move back in with my parents and save some money & go back to school. I start Interior Design School in the fall and my husband is currently using his G.I. Bill for Graphic Design // Web & Multimedia Design. We will be moving to downtown Seattle in the Fall most likely. Life lately has been such a roller coaster, ever since we have been home its been go go go to figure everything out and things are FINALLY starting to calm down. In the midst of everything I broke my laptop {ooooops} which has led to a dead bloggery silence, soooooorry!

But now that everything has settled, for now, I'll be getting back into the swing of things around here on the blog! My Facebook page has been pretty active recently so make sure you "like it" to be kept in the loop :) {link here}

As for furniture refinishing, I've pretty much picked up where I left off in North Carolina, I have been getting a ton of business lately and can't wait to share with you all the lovely before & afters! While going to Interior Design school in the fall I will still be doing furniture on the side so if you are local {Seattle-Everett area} feel free to contact me if you need some pieces refinished :)

{refinishing info here}

contact:

jordynpruitt@gmail.com

I'll be back tomorrow with a sweet before & after. Until then here are some pictures from our cross country trip from NC to WA:

~ J

Reasons for my lack of posting;

Our house is currently getting a much needed "face lift"

to put it lightly.

If only I could tell my past self everything I have learned the past two years of being a first time home owner.

Buying an older home is WAY more upkeep,

and with mine & my husbands luck

{luck of the irish? haaaaaa! that's a joke}

we've had to replace our entire heating & ac unit system,

{was 15 years old & completely outdated, went out in the first few months of us living here,

Washington girl stuck in a house with no AC at the end of july in the NC summer heat, indoor temperature meter tapped out at 95 degrees + for a week, no thank you}

& then one morning we woke up to this beauty after a huge wind & rain storm;

sorry for the cell phone quality.

god only knows what could have happened had that been a hurricane or something.

& here is it currently as it is getting fixed;

so there you have it,

it's a two story process.

& you want to know the icing on the cake?

it's all because it wasn't flashed.

flashing is like $2 a piece.

this bill? No where near $2.

So far we are about half way into the fix,

we've had to replace our front door & upstairs sliding glass door in this process as well.

Here's to hoping nothing else goes majorly wrong with our house before we move in the next year.

Because our inspection didn't help us at all :'(

First time home owners be warned!

xoxo

- J