Note: This is a retroactive post I put together in December 2011 to create a full month-by-month recap of our first year in the new house. I admit I’m a little Type A. Below is what we tackled in May — styled like a high school yearbook.
Most Improved: Organizing the insanely cluttered “playroom” (more like a disaster area).
Biggest Procrastinator: Painting the dining room — after living with paint swatches for five months.
Most Repetitive: Mounting prints on canvases — not once, but twice.
Most Outdoorsy: Sketching an outdoor “floor plan” (not to scale — the house is much bigger than our almost-acre lot).
Most Domestic (Runner Up): Making a festive table runner using Clara’s weekly fabrics.
Miss Congeniality: Clara’s photo project, which we decided to continue monthly with a few tweaks.
Most Artistic: Painting some geometric prism-inspired art with a few test pots of paint and a clearance canvas.
Most Shy: Installing a privacy fence for the newly finished patio.
Most Likely To Result In Goldfish Crackers Everywhere: Making a pull-string piñata for Clara’s first birthday party.
Most Shrinkage: Slipcovering our Craigslist dining chairs — thanks to lucky washing.
Biggest Party Girl: Throwing a big house party for Clara’s first birthday.
Most Sentimental: Making a video of Clara’s first year.
Most Glamorous: Updating everyone on our cloth diapering adventures.
Most Type-A: Our admittedly insane whole-house to-do list.
Best Feeling Ever: Completing the cobblestone patio that we laid ourselves — woot!
Most Unexpected: Becoming possessed and sewing a birthday quilt for the Bean.
Most Calculating: Digging out and laying the foundation for our new patio.
Most Annoying: Fixing a pesky broken light.
Most Sinister: Tackling some unexpectedly involved patio demo work (just look at that ominous blue glove).
Most Detail Oriented (Slash Neurotic): Painting our add-on bed finials to match the “Ikea White” bed.
Best Break Up: Completely breaking the patio budget and learning to embrace the imperfection of it all.
