After many headaches, I’ve finally got this blog back on-line.  My account with HostGator had been hacked multiple times to the point that Hostgator shut our account down and forced us to clean it ($300 or so).  Instead of getting a ‘professional cleaning’, I opted to just close out the account all-together and start over.  But I chose NOT to ditch Hostgator and go with some other service, instead we stayed with them and set up a newer, less-expensive account.  

Moving this blog over to the new account was not easy.  It took several days.  I did as much as I could, but finally reached a max on my knowledge of how to make all this crap work!  So, I hand it over to Holly who promptly fixed the database and image problems.  

We’re back!  Better than ever.  🙂  

Well, since we’re pretty much living in a constant state of remodeling, let’s give Ivy’s room a makeover too!  She had been complaining that it was like a ‘kid’s’ room, and that is true with the cartoony animals I painted on the wall when she was a baby.  

So with a lot of sweat, frustration, aggravation, learning new techniques, and lots of money, Ivy now has an Industrial loft type room.  We used faux-brick paneling for the walls and ‘german-schmear’ technique to make it look aged.  I had never done that before, so I think I schmeared it on a bit too thick.  Still, it came out looking really good.  

Also put together a bunkbed with the bottom bed being a futon.  So you can sleep on it, or sit on it and watch TV.  Really nice!  We’ve been getting a lot of use out of this already.  

Threw in an old, near-antique piece of furniture from Jane’s old house.  I think that came from April’s old bedroom.  I’m guessing it is about 25 years old at least. 

All in all, it looks good!  Everyone is happy with this remodel.