we’re making some changes around camp1899…..
up till now we’ve had 4 separate blog pages (phew!)
now everything is all together at camp1899.com
all the same stuff: our home diy, travels, me & him,
life in the fast lane, the grits, dear ask me….
most days i’ll post 1, 2, or 3 times throughout the day,
thanks for following along!

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we had the best weekend! we had company in town (love visits from the fabulous miss L) and took time off for a mini road trip. we started in idaho springs, it’s en route to vail and we’re are always tempted to stop but…it never seems to happen. it’s nestled between two mountains and is only 3 blocks wide and 3 miles long, very quaint. we had the biggest fried mushrooms ever at tommyknockers plus they brew some seriously good beer (i recommend the stout). next was echo lake (one of our favorite trips from last year, see that visit here & here), we were lucky, it was beautiful and sunny and warm. there is something so charming about echo lake, the picnic area, and lodge (although the lodge was a few days shy of opening for the season), the air is the cleanest, crispest air i’ve ever been in, if you have even a short time in the denver area it’s a great spot to visit. our last stop was evergreen, the drive from echo lake to evergreen takes you winding down the mountainside and past echo run ski area, have any of you skied their runs? and.. we could.not.help.ourselves.. we had to do a little wine and port tasting to round off the day, i mean we did have company. (;

** a big thank you to blog reader DeAnn for recommending photo software to me!!**

we have updates. but not today because……. today is my last day to hang out with little miss lindsey so no time for the computer till later!!! tomorrow, what we’ve been up to this weekend, and one thing i can tell you for sure. nothing like company to get the house in really good order and little lingering projects *much* further along. hope you had a great weekend!

are you going to an open house?
can you imagine… 14.3 billion dollars?

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→ guess what this means? it’s tiimmmmeeeee! we’re finally sanding the front-end of the house, which means next we paint, and then officially unpack the rest of our stuff. he also got more trim finished around the door frames and baseboards in the bedroom, but… i didn’t get pictures fast enough before everything got a sheet of a plastic over it, so later, trim pictures. you would.not.believe. the amount of dust sanding creates, it looks like white sands national monument when he’s done for the day. and best of all..  i’m heading to the airport this morning to pick up one of my best friends for a weekend of fun and thrifting!

we now have doors on both bathrooms & the bedroom, we’re shy one door, the closet, and are on the hunt for one. he first built the frame for the door, routed the door for hinges, we went with four hinges instead of the standard two because our doors are 8 ft tall and solid wood.. super heavy. he even got the trim around the door and is now putting the trim around the rest of the doors this week.. such progress, we feel like we can see a teeny tiny light at the end of the tunnel.

on another subject.. the camera and i do not get along when it comes to this master bathroom (hence the black & white today.. a bit more forgiving), the pictures always turn out weird colors, not sharp, so frustrating! entirely the camera i’m sure (; if any of you reading know of easy online software for creating collage photos will you PLEASE send me an email or leave the info in a comment? the software i used closed shop and i have yet to find a simple site for combining multiple photos into one, and can i just say it’s making me a little crazy.

are you excited? haha.. probably not, but here’s a little update of our weekend (; he hung the bedroom doors (as my mom pointed out… no need to say master bedroom doors when you only have ONE bedroom) both were hung but this photo with the mister over smiling won out on pictures to share, and our fancy wall hung toilets come with dual buttons (you know… for number one and two) but we kept saying the buttons aren’t fitting, explaining, explaining, ad nauseum and finally! they figured out that they gave us the wrong buttons, we just received the correct ones and now we have flush buttons (told ya it was exciting). it may be tiny but we’re making progress, and have we said thank you for following along lately? because we’re so happy for all of you who do!

we don’t have a big red barn next to us anymore! this is the in between stage, but it’s looking so good… we tried out a chicago pizzeria this weekend with friends but i miss going here even more now (please!!! open in denver) we don’t have grass, a few weeds, but no grass, so we tried our eco friendly push mower on the neighbors grass and it works great. i read a really good grisham book, the litigators, and soaked up tons of sun. and we (and by we i mean he) got lots of little projects done… you’ll see this week. what did you do?

→ privacy in the bathroom!! yay us! the first interior door is officially hung.. it’s tall, all of our inside doors are 96″ to give us the feel of a bigger space in our tiny home. we got an amazing deal, door companies both local and online were pricing this style of molded door at $300 and up and while we only need 6 doors that’s still a lot of moolah. after lots of persistent craigslist browsing we got lucky and found both bathroom doors and the double set of bedroom doors for only $75 a piece. (now we’re on the hunt for the final two for the closet)

the breakdown of above photos: trimmed the excess drywall, cut and installed wood framing, used shims to level out the frame, a tiny trim was needed on the actual door (diy tip: use blue painters tape to prevent splintering or saw marks on your door), routed the door for hinges (second diy tip: a routing tool/template makes hinge cuts extremely easy..we got ours here), new hinges (we’re going with shiny brass.. we saw brass hardware in quantum of solace in the grand hotel and right then & there knew that’s what we wanted), and badabing, badabang, we’ve got a door! (doorknobs on order and paint.. soon)

how was your weekend? we celebrated a whole first year gone by for this tiny redhead, went for an early morning walk around the lake, watched a huge flock of pelicans, saw the day go from sunshine, to gray, to a hail storm, and back to sun again. watched the descendants, felt very very lazy all of sunday, watched aladdin (don’t you love the original disney movies), and went to bed early every single night. you?

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