The apartment with the blue door

So I've been wanting to paint the door to our apartment for a long time.  I think my idea sprung from "Notting Hill."  Anyway, so today as I had most of the day off, I decided it was time to fulfill my plans and add some pizazz (is that a word?) to our fabulous apartment.  It was a messy project.  I am definitely not a professional painter, and I got paint on my face, hair, arms and the bottom of my foot (I accidentally stepped on the cap of the paint can...hehe).  Anyway, after about 4 hours and a couple of coats it is finished.

Here's the before and the after.....

And here's one of my nasty foot... :-)

Today's Tasks

In an effort to improve our apartment, I decided to paint a chest that I've had for years.  It used to be gold and today I painted it black.  It's not perfect, but it's better.  It could have used another coat of paint but I ran out.  Regardless, it's definitely an improvement!

Here's the before and after:

It really doesn't look this bad.  I think the gold shines through more because of the flash.  Maybe one day I'll give it another coat.....

Also, today Connor finished his last final for the semester, so I decided to make him Pineapple Upside Down Cake as a treat for him.  This is the first time I've made Pineapple Upside Down Cake and it wasn't half bad if I do say so myself.  :-)  Connor definitely seemed to like it.

New Furniture!

Today we went shopping for some furniture.  Thanks to a very generous Christmas gift, we were able to buy both a bed and a couch.  Yay!  Here's what our new furniture looks like.

Here's the couch.  It's not as red as it appears, but it's nice.  It'll give our place some personality.

And the bed.  We just bought a frame to go with it for now.  Some day when we have more money we'll buy ourselves a nice bed frame.  We also got some free sheets to go with our bed so we're pretty happy about that too.