Five for Friday

Hello and welcome to my Five for Friday! I am linking up with Cup of Tea , Bright on a Budget, Della Devoted, and BYBMG!

1. I was finally able to get a book shelf a couple of weeks ago and it was really nice to be able to put all my books and stuff up on it! I got the Billy bookcase from Ikea.

(Yes, it does annoy me I can't center the bookcase between the doors. The lightswitch is in the way.)

2. This week has been filled with so. Much. Painting! We worked in my sister's bedroom because her room was wallpapered with this ugly 90's striped wallpaper. I mentioned a few weeks ago about when we tried to remove it, but that didn't work so we had to just paint some Kilz on the walls and then paint over that. We also had to paint the doors as well as the trim all around the room. The trim is all a really dark wood, and considering how dark the house is already, it really needed to be brightened up.

I was going to color correct and brighten the first photo more, but I decided to just leave it so you can really see what a difference the painting made! The after picture is just with one coat of Kilz on the wallpaper and before the actual paint color is put on. I'll share more later!

I also painted almost all of the doors on the second level. That is quite a chore! Anyways, here is the bathroom door:

The previous owners were...I don't even know but they had something wrong with them. They painted the ENTIRE bathroom that awful teal color (it's so much worse in person!) I mean, who paints the door the same color as the walls? And not just that but they painted the CEILING that color too!!! The rest of the bathroom will be painted eventually, but just painting the door sure made a difference!

3. My sister and I tried a small group on Wednesday. I'm hoping it will be okay. It's always awkward going to those things at first when you're new to an area and don't know anyone.

So here's to being cautiously optimistic!

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4. And here is the current state of our backyard after hurricane Michael came through. This is after my mom and I spent a good portion of the last Saturday cleaning up every single leaf in the backyard:

We are in Virginia so we just had lots of rain yesterday. This wasn't even from wind but just from how hard it was pouring down rain! I mean, we're from Washington state. We know rain! But I've never seen it pour like it does here. We were under tornado watch most of yesterday afternoon, and then flash flood warning yesterday evening.

(I know so many people have it SO much worse and some leaves all over is just more of a minor annoyance compared to what most people are dealing with.)

5. In case you missed it, on Monday I shared a review of my September Ipsy glam bag!

Hope you have a great weekend!