Cards

With another birthday under our belt we have even more cards. Currently they are all in an envelope in our filing cabinet. Well from baby showers, Christmas, bdays, other holidays that file is getting full. Insert solution.

First declutter the pile. I kept all the ones from our family members and dear friends. The others leftover I tossed if they didn't include a little note aka just signatures. Now I have a more manageable pile.

Find a binder and make a cover page. check. Punch holes in all the cards check.
Now we have the perfect storage of all our cards! YAH! I know I will appreciate this alot more down the road. I need to do this project with our Christmas cards too.

Other news. 4 nights of solid sleep for Aiden. Knock on wood this continues!!

Even more exciting news......as I was chatting it up with Lowe's paint people trying to see what the difference is in all the exterior paint and telling them how sad I was I had to paint our vinyl white I learned something. Valspar has speciality formulated colors that allow you to paint outside your color card on your vinyl. UHHH WHAT?! Repeat that again. I was only expecting like maybe 5-10 different colors....nope like 30! Shut Up! Totally made my day! So if you have vinyl look for the "Valspar Vinylcolors" handout. AMAZING! So gitty after this trip!

So here's what we are thinking........if we don't have to paint the brick we are going to paint all the vinyl  on the house "Chipped Ice". It's kind of a tan/gray. Since our mortar is gray I think it will look nice.

But if we have to paint the house I want to paint the brick (Area 3), Hardy board trim (Area 2) and the siding on the side of the house the "Chipped Ice" and the siding roof overhang (Area 1) "Mystic", which is darker version with more brown in it. I think if we painted all of that the same color it would look weird. (PICTURE OF THE COLORS DONT DO THEM JUSTICE). But I really don't want to paint the house anymore....haha probably because I don't want to paint it. (We'd have to do it ourself because paint alone for our size house 200 bucks and that's only for 1 coat. SHESH! And then renting a sprayer ontop of it, the materials to mask off all the things not to be painted, etc. Cost just adding up. I'd rather put that money in our back porch in a nice patio set. Plus I don't think we see that investment value returned whenever we want to sell.

The contractor came out yesterday to take measurements and get the list of everything we want quoted, so please cross your fingers it's reasonable because I REALLY don't want to go back on the drawing board to find another contractor.