Biggest Craft Project of All

So I'm finally putting a pic up of my house...aka The Hut. When I first moved in, it hadn't been lived in for over a year. Foreclosure. There was no grass, no landscaping and the inside needed an update from the 70's. It's been my biggest craft project of all. It's been alot of work, yet it has been great fun too. I've loved painting all the rooms (don't look too closely at the trim please), tiling the kitchen & learning how to take a toilet apart (apparently putting a toilet together is the tricky part).

The house is in what I like to call a "hubcaps optional" neighborhood. Neighbors are great and I feel very safe there...however I'm the only English speaking one there is. Korean? check. Mexican? check. Chinese? check. Indian? check. We've got it all! Gotta love it when I'm taking a bike ride and in one house I see a hamock hanging on a living room wall (shout out to the Mexicans) and the house right next to it is a woman in a burka. Good times.

Neighbor across the street has binoculars on my house at all times. I'm not joking. He knows everything that goes on and when I see him on my walks he asks me about things I thought he never would've noticed. Through his window he'll see me carry in a box from my car and then later say "so how do you like your new DVD player?" What? Some may find that freakish, ok, maybe alot of you will. But I find it assuring. If someone was to break into my house, he would be all over it. And God help the workmen I hire...he lets me know how long my landscapers lunch was and how many phone calls he took while doing the job. I LOVE IT. For me, he's the greatest selling feature my house has to offer.