Final Decorations

Today I put up some Christmas lights on my balcony. Sadly, our balcony's have no exterior electrical plug so I have to run one through the door, and when I want my lights on, I need to be cold form the air getting in the cracked door.

 

I had a hard time getting a good photo of these. Its always hard to capture lights first. And secondly, my camera battery was exhausted so every time I went to snap the picture the camera turned off. Its also raining, and I had no where to steady my hand. Since its a night photo you need absolute stillness to get the perfect shot. However, These two shall do okay.

 Our apartment is the one in the middle that is glowing pink/red. At least we cause an effect. The person the right of the building really has a nice set up.

This is a zoomed in photo of our apartment! You can see the pink cat sitting on the railing, and the red & white lights lining the beam. Nothing for up top though, we have no lights left.

 

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New Layout

As you may have noticed, I created a new blog layout for the winter season. I am pretty pleased with the way it turned out since its a pretty basic template. I was orinigally trying for a dark blue and gold winter themed one, but the images I wanted weren't big enough and I was having a hard time color matching from paint to blogspot.  Yea, I still use Paint program, and I must say it has gotten a lot more complicated since I used it as a child.

 

I always need to provide some sort of eye candy on each post, so I leave you with a handful of photos of the cats that have accumulated on my iphone over the months.



 Mae west cuddling up with the xbox controller, I think she wants a turn?

 A bit blurry, but I caught Mae sleeping in my TNA duffle bag on the shelf in my closet!

 Aeries standing a little bit like a bunny rabbit. Not sure what she was doing. But you can see Mae is sleeping next to her, so maybe she is in attack mode.

 This is Mae when I let her on the balcony after the snow fall a couple days ago. She ran out so fast because she was excited to go to her condo and didn't realize there was snow until she got up there. She is investigating it in this photo.  So cute to see her little paw prints in the snow.

 And a final one of Mae taking a nap on our bed. Cats always look so comfortable when they are sleeping !

 

 

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Sherman Oaks

Today me and Anthony went to see a model home for some townhouses that are being built in our area for the 200's. When we got there, it turns out 200's to them meant 299's so turns out we cant actually afford anything but we went into the model single home they had on site just for funsies. This one was probably half a mill at least.

This is the staircase and the grand entrance. Stairs are my weakness, and these ones are incredible.

 Below is the entrance way. Beautiful double french doors and high ceilings.

 This is the living room, or part of it. Nice homey feel with the fireplace. The flooring in the house was amazing.

 This is the dining room. I just LOVE the full length patio doors. Makes it look so open and bright.

 Next is the kitchen. Love that is has a breakfast bar. The appliances are nice too. There was lots of cupboard space in the kitchen off to the left of the image but I couldn't capture everything!

 This is the view from the top of the stairs looking down to the front entrance. I have always wanted something like this in my home.

 Amazing laundry suite on the top floor. No lugging laundry up and down the stairs. I love how laundry rooms are now a pretty part of the home that is decorated and finished, as opposed to being in the utility room that isn't even dry walled. SO NICE.

 At the top of the stairs we have the "hallway", big enough to be its own room. Master bedroom is the top right, with second bedroom on the top left. On the left side is the shared washroom. To the right is where the laundry room was. Behind me (i took the picture ) is another bedroom. Each room has its own walk in closet!

 This is the en suite bathroom. I tried to take a panoramic photo of the whole thing because it was just great!

 This is the en suite vanity up close with the glass shower in the corner. I love the rustic style of the cupboards.

 & the bath tub in the en suite as well, I am obsessed with bathtubs. I miss them :(

 This is half of the master bedroom. Couldn't fit it all once again. Nice large window in here, and a giant walk in closet which i am about to show you. I love the effect the chandelier gives off.

 This is the master bedrooms walk in closet, it even has its own window, just incredible.

 This is the shared bathroom upstairs since the master is the only one with en suite bathroom. Still quite a decent size for shared.

 Back down to the main floor. This is a den.office space, that only has half walls on the other walls to make it look more open concept. Of course this is where they displayed the town home floor plans.

 Yet another stair case that leads to the basement. I just love the spiral look.

 View from stair landing into basement. Behind me is utility closet with furnace and cold storage.

 This is the bathroom in the basement complete with a shower! Also a decent sized bathroom. This house just has amazing square footage.

 Extra bedroom, or exercise room as they set it up with a whole wall a giant mirror.

 & Anthony's favourite feature, the "man cave". Complete with a projector screen and four massage chairs, plus plenty of room for a bar and a pool table.

 

Isn't this an incredible home? After seeing this I had "house depression", knowing that houses like this exist, except I will never own one. Its such a tease. But I would do it all over again at another site.

 

 

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