I totally learned something!.

My friends, it may not always feel like it but I’m definitely livin’ the dream.My own dream and one that a lot of other people have too.

About three and half years ago we managed to leave our stressful, under-payed, over-worked, over-charged life in the city and buy a big house on a big property.It’s something I grew up thinking romantic thoughts about and hoping I might be able to experience one day, maybe when I retired.I caught the “restoring and old house” bug early on in life and I know it’s an affliction that a lot of other people have too.

I thought today I’d share our story and our tips just for fun and so you might see how you could do it too if it’s your dream as well..In the planning stages, it’s all about the money.

Oh my goodness, living that hustle-and-bustle city life is expensive!

Big mortgages, big child-care costs to cover those long hours you have to work, and expensive fuel costs so you can get to the job to work the long hours, all that.I started out spraying these little guys in a gloss white that was really kind of terrible.

I didn’t think you could screw up painting pumpkins!Instead of looking all happy and creamy, they looked really stark and cold, and with the bit of orange still showing through, kind of dirty.

I went over them with my good ol’ dollar store antique white acrylic and they were perfect.Though I only clued into this after a week of trying to convince myself they were OK and if I just tied a little orange ribbon in the right way, they would be perfect.