I recently joined a club called the East Bay Scrapbookers where women in the East Bay get together online and in person to eat, sleep, and live scrapbooking! I have yet to meet any of my EBS sisters, but I joined my first group activity. The assignment was to create a favorite recipe page to be part of an EBS cookbook. Here is my contribution. I can't wait to get our finished book! The women in the group are so talented and even design for the big scrapbooking companies.
We have a new couch! I know that we still have a few weeks before actually getting our new house, but we seriously needed comfy furniture. Again, I found this couch on www.craigslist.org. This couch is a year and a half old and was originally purchased at Macys.
The couple selling the couch had to sell it because they bought a brand new condo and the couch ended up matching their carpet exactly. We can't have any furniture fashion problems now can we!!! I love our new couch and can't wait to have everyone over to sit on it!
Thanks for looking! Shannon
Note: We've noticed that there is a distinct lack of pictures of our dog on this site. This post aims to help alleviate the situation.
Teenie never ceases to entertain. Below, you will see a picture taken while Shannon was watching America's Next Top Model. Shannon was totally into the show, and calling Kelly to get her to watch. Teenie... well, Teenie was out like a light. Even after I had taken a few pictures of her laying like that, she didn't even move.
Click the first picture to see a bigger version of it.
Another picture, close up.
Andrew and I bought our first piece of furniture for the new house. This is a dining room table from Scandinavian Designs in San Francisco. We bought it used and found it on my favorite website www.craigslist.org. The table matches the china hutch perfectly. It even has the two tones because of the darker legs. We couldn't have asked for a more perfect piece. We only had to pay $200 too! The edges of the table extend to seat 8 comfortably.
Now we can actually have places for people to sit and eat.
P.S. Here is a photo of our first new home paint can. The color is Beechwood from Kelly Moore. The color sample is the dot on top of the can and is actually twice as dark as it appears here. 
Hi all,
Well we are still in escrow and LOVING it! Soon we will release the inspection contingency. Andrew and I already made a trip to Kelly Moore paints and bought a quart of paint for our new house. Our first task is to paint poster boards and hang them around the house to test the colors out. We can't wait to get started on fixing up the place and making it our new home.
Here is a floor plan of our "soon to be" house:
-click on it for a bigger picture-
My Uncle Richard and Auntie Constance came to visit last weekend. Andrew and I wanted their expertise (Uncle=Architect, Auntie=Real Estate Agent) and opinions on the Pippo Avenue house we were looking at. The house was nice, but the previous owners added on a great room and the craftsmanship was not very good.
We enjoyed critiquing the house and finished the night off with a delicious dinner at an Italian restaurant in Brentwood. Richard and Constance traveled to and fro via motorcycle from Santa Rosa. We'll see if they come by car next time! Thanks again for a great evening of fun. Here is a photo gallery of the Pippo house:
Teenie dreams of the new house
So we did the home inspection today and signed off on all of the disclosure paperwork as well. And we like the home even more now that we've gone through it again!
The house passed the inspection with flying colors. Nothing major to worry about, just a few little things that we're going to get the current homeowner to take care of before we move in. A few broken roof tiles, a seal around the toilet, restrapping the water heater (its legal as of 10 years ago, but not the new code).
Nothing that causes us any worry.
Realizing that the last set of pictures was lacking (not the least of which because other people's stuff was in them, but more because I didn't get enough of the house in them ;) we took some more pictures of the house today. Shannon took these and made sure to get everything she wants everyone to see.
View the latest photo gallery here.
The current owners moved out most of their stuff this past weekend. They've moved just over a mile away, to another part of Discovery Bay. We met the current owner while we were doing the inspection and she gave the neighborhood rave reviews. She said we'll like it a lot.
In fact, she wanted to just move down the street but they couldn't find a house the size they wanted in the price range they were looking for. Good news, in our opinion.
And of course, we'll get a floorplan of the home soon. But, its time for bed now.
YIPPPPPPPEEEEEEEE!
Good news! The Cove Lane house is ours! (shown in the story below)
Here is a list of how things happened:
1. We submitted an offer on the house
2. They counter-offered by asking for $5,000 more
3. I said "no way" to our Real Estate agent
4. He told them nicely we were already stretching ourselves
5. They accepted our original offer!
Hooray. We go into escrow tomorrow and our inspection takes place this Tuesday. If we like what we see and still want to buy the house we then go into a loan contingency period. Once they approve that are loan is legit, we can move into our NEW HOME on October 19th!
I will submit a "rough" floorplan soon. Everyone get ready for one rockin' house warming party!
(clipart borrowed from www.realestateclipart.com)
