More Up & Coming Stuff

Alright, so I made a boo boo in my last post about when my first household project was going to start. It won't be happening for another week yet. But that's okay. There are other projects I can tackle in the meantime. Or at least start on.

I also know that my title is really lacking in creativity this time around. I'm slightly ashamed of myself. Ha ha.

One of those projects is our living room. When my husband and I first moved into our place we had no furniture at all. Kijiji saved us and we found a leather sofa and love seat which we paid $70 for. Yep, that was it.

We had already bought a tv but had nowhere to really put it. Until I remembered this old tv unit I had built shortly after I finished college. So I touched it up, stained it and we hauled it in. It's done the job for over a year now. But I like it less and less all the time.

Up and Coming

So for the past couple weeks I've been busy figuring out things for around our apartment. We currently live in a basement suite but had hoped to move to a new place before the new year. When we were suddenly faced with a rather large and unexpected bill we realized that our plan wasn't going to work out quite like we would have hoped.

And since our place as always been rather sparse I made the executive decision to decorate. Unbeknownst to my husband but knownst to me.

And because of this big bill we need to take care of and our single income I knew that anything I chose to do would have to be done as cheaply as possible. So I scoured pinterest for budget saving ideas and I think I've got a pretty good idea of what I'd like to do in each room of our apartment and how to do it.

'Tis the Season for Pumpkins!

So fall has arrived and with it pumpkins flavored everything's have arrived with it. So of course I absolutely had to make something with pumpkin in it. I even decided to be a bit more ambitious and I made two different treats. Yup! Two!

The first is a new recipe I decided to try. My Mum decided we shouldn't do a traditional pumpkin pie for Thanksgiving so I offered to make a cheesecake. And of course I once again trolled pinterest in search of a recipe to try. And I found one that looked absolutely amazing.

Say hello to Pumpkin Cheesecake Bars!

I didn't take tons of pictures this time around. Partly because I almost forgot and partly because there aren't too many steps to take pictures of.

Crushed Velvet

So I'm pretty sure one of my sisters sent this recipe to me via pinterest and it has been just sitting there waiting ever so patiently for me to try it out. Well today was the day.

Say hello to these little darlings! Red velvet cheesecake brownies! Can you say yum?

Now, I can safely say that I've never been a huge fan of red velvet cake. Don't get me wrong, it's good, but it certainly has never been my favorite. So this was an iffy idea for me. But I figured that since it was also cheesecake there was no way I could not like it.