No not a link to my homepage, but updates on our new home. Crystal, Avie and I are getting really settled in to our new apartment now. Today Avie spent the day over at Nanny and Papa Wall’s, which gave Crystal and I time to get a few pictures up. It’s hard to get that stuff done with Avie on the loose, what with the glass from picture frames and nails for picture hooks and all that good stuff that she would just love to get her hands on. So it was good today to spend the day getting a start on making the place more homely. We took a load of different picture frames and painted them all black, then put different artworks in them and put them up in clusters. It makes such a difference to the place to finally have some art up on the walls (photos to follow). We have some more frames that we just painted tonight that will be dry tomorrow too, to get even more stuff up. When it is done I will finally send the video to my family that I promised, I haven’t forgot, I am just waiting until all our pictures and decorations are up so that you get the full effect.

The new apartment is working out really well for us. In our old place it was always a struggle for me to keep Avie contained while Crystal did her work, what with our “office” being right in the living room and all. Now that we have a separate office/studio Crystal can lock herself away and do her work while Avie has the run of the rest of the house. That doesn’t stop her from wanting to crawl down the hall to bang on the one door that is always closed though! She always gets super excited when she does get to sneak in to Mommy’s work zone, she is too cute.

The office/studio (still can’t decide on the official title) itself is coming along nicely, we are still getting settled in and finding a place for everything though, but it is starting to take shape. We picked up an adjustable drafting table, with the money my Nannan and Grandad sent us for Christmas. Which Crystal and I have both put to good use today cropping images to put up on the walls. Crystal also uses it a sewing table for the little sewing machine I bought her. We also both got cork pin boards (another part of my getting organized lifestyle) to pin up notes and inspirational ideas. We are thinking of painting a mural on one of the walls in our office too. It will be awesome when it is all organized and finished. I’ll post more on our office/studio later, when I can post photos after I do the video for my family.

I could go on and on about our apartment. Everything about it is leaps and bounds more comfortable that our old place, not that we had a rough time there or anything, it was a nice place. But I definitely don’t miss having to go through the shared laundry room to get to our bathroom or having to shut off the TV and living room lights before we could use the microwave (it would overload the circuit or some shit every time we used it!). We are definitely both excited about our new life here.