i'm not one to toot my own horn...

but what's that over there? a horn? hand me that.
*toot too too toooooo!*
thank you.

today in news of the hardcore housewife, i took care of a baby, hung some wash, ripped up a tile floor with my bare hands, and then patched some unlevel concrete.  now i think i'll go bake some freaking banana bread and build a house.  booyah!

billy and i are still receiving ginormous quotes on the cost to replace our kitchen/back room/half bath floors.  then, this weekend, while i was chatting with a neighbor, she said "why don't you just paint your floors?  i bet you could do something really creative with that, you're so creative."  why didn't i think of that neighbor lady who is obviously more creative than me? 

so we embarked on a treacherous hunt (google search) for linoleum floor paint and found this.  hmm, sounds promising.  the back room linoleum is solid, but the kitchen has some bad spots.  then i discovered these wonderful create-your-own-rugs at pottery barn where i could order the perfect size rug to cover the problem area.  it's like a fashionable and expensive band-aid that looks intentional. 
i'll take it.

we bought the supplies to clean the linoleum really well, and plan to paint it sometime next month.  (lots of busy weekends coming up beforehand).  the only remaining problem was this crappy uneven tile laying in the half bath.
so i ripped it up. 
i have to be honest, it wasn't properly installed so basically i just picked it up because it was just laying there.  but that's besides the point.  then while i was vacuuming i noticed that there was some water damage to the concrete that was under the tile.  i noticed this because my vacuum sucked up half of the concrete.  weird.  so there was kind of this big hole in the bathroom floor.  odd.  so i just mixed up some concrete filler and filled it in.  no biggie. 
also, i totally used my pyrex measuring cups to measure out the filler. 
i may or may not have been wearing an apron.

now that i'm feeling very accomplished and slightly out of breath from all of that horn tooting, i'll bid you farewell.  hope you're having a fabulous spring!  i will keep you up to date on all floor changes as they happen.  xo!