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I've never spent money like this in my entire life on upgrades. I've been saving it up just for this I guess.

We've had demos and insulation people and plasterers come finish the worst rooms and now my main job lately has been winterizing old 100+ year old windows to keep the drafts out.

I have so many questions. How did the people who lived here before us never really address these windows? Now that it's in my attention I've had to engineer and macgyver various ways to do my best to make the windows stronger, but many are in really rough shape!

I've been using mostly packing materials from all those deliveries we all get when we order online. Foams just shoved in cracks with a putty knife. If it works, it works and it doesn't look ugly.

Dad always put this awful rope caulking over the cracks and plastic wrapped the entire window sealing up the deepset windows sills I love to use.

I'm plastic wrapping the top and bottom panels of the windows separately so the window sill can still be used.

Each window is a little different and has its own set of challenges I have to figure out. I learn something new almost every time and have evolved the process as I go. There are appx 20 or so windows in this house and I'm almost done with the first floor.

If I could go back in time to the days I lived here and my dad was alive, I would have helped my dad do this properly. I just didn't know better and I don't have a time machine.

I'm so exhausted by the time I settle down, All I want to do is relax, do something fun and creative before sleeping and starting up again the next day.

I've been playing with Ai art renders with Capcut and the character Kosmos from Xenosaga in my downtime. We can't get a remaster of the game series anytime soon anyway, so i'm just doing this to kinda scratch an itch and play around with what it is capable of.

I really wanted to share some of the art online with people. It keeps evolving everyday and surprises me whith what it creates. But I know there's a stigma about AI art and artists which is understandable.

Kosmos is a such great model for testing, though. And I'm aware I'm just a hack artist at best with a broken down body and a vision but no time or energy anymore to put in the time and effort to create art myself.

Anyway. I'll keep thinking about how I want to share the art peices I've made while I continue to make more each morning and night.

Thanks for reading the ramble.

One reblog from my previous post is enough for me to keep going with these sets. Thank you @aliciasmo!!

Here's my next set. I have such a large amount of these already and they keep getting better. I'd love to find a place where these are enjoyed the most. Every place else feels like a ghost town to me. But then again I've gosted away any social media for so long... I'm just like that I guess 🤷🏼‍♀️💕

One ❤️ or reblog from anyone and I'll post the next set 🥰

Kosmos headsets created using Capcut. I have nearly 100 of these.

I've been so busy. Every day I wake up, drive 40 minutes to my future home which used to be my father's farm house originally built in the 1700's - my husband and I recently decided to inherit this property. As a first project, I've been working on my one of my son's rooms (this kid get's his own living room and bedroom) so he can move in.

The room I've been working on has been a nightmare of old wallpaper and horsehair plaster to smooth out and fix up in order to paint. A celling full of cracks that I've taped over with joint compound... Who knows when this room was really last updated - 50, 60 years? more? There are very cool and unique looking old wood floors I've had to fill in the gaps in between and prep for paint too - the floors were originally painted long ago before my father moved in - I just didn't want to deal with sanding and staining them myself, so I opted to lightly sand and prime them instead to be re-painted once more.

My son wants some kind of dark gothic Victorian feel to this room -and I am so happy to play with this concept! I've been priming out the walls, trim and floors with GREY Killz primer, this is after a few rounds of using up my own personal leftover "oops" paint through the process to help myself see all the imperfections in the walls better to mud and smooth out all the existing horse hair plaster. Horse hair plaster is a bitch to smooth out. Ultimate challenge for any professional (Which I am not, just doing my best).

I had to give up on painting the ceiling because bits of the ceiling layers were coming off into the paint roller, which would've resulted in myself having to re-mud and re-paint for fucking years for all I know (I'd never get it done). We're going with tiling the ceiling with some very cool products I found via Amazon while searching for ceiling ideas. I can totally get away with these vintage looking options in an old farmhouse for sure and will really tie into this "gothic victorian" look my son is going for.

Well, that's it for now -

This is Dad's Farm. I'm inheriting it.

It is still going to cost us $200k, sort of. We are buying it from my two brothers. If we had sold it like we all originally considered, we would have split the profit three ways. Yet, after all the fees involved in selling (do i really have to list them? There is a lot.), getting $100k each after all that would be wonderfully and incredibly ideal, so hub's and I factored that into this investment and we're happy to give them them each their most ideal fair share.

Fortunately, we have a home to sell (a small one floor ranch in a city suburb) and now is still a really great time to sell so it's definitely time. Our goal is to get our city home on the market before memorial day. In the meantime, we are free to move our stuff in while we clean it up.

There is a very large stone pit which was once part of a barn's foundation long ago. Ever since I first lived here back in 2002 we've always used this space as a bonfire pit for peace and parties.

Before pictures are good to have. You didn't want to see the before/before we cleaned out the clutter, did you? That was last year. I have all these awful colors and unfinished projects and the overall conditions of the house burned into my memory... Dad never did much updating. Funniest part about that detail is that he worked professionally as a finished carpenter in the Boston union.

Here's some junk on the second floor:

oh, and back to the kitchen. I decided to take off the cabinet doors on the top. They are ugly, don't open well or don't close well depending on the season so fuck these cabinet doors!

Ugh blurry video screen shots. Trust me, it looks better. We have a large pantry elsewhere for food in ugly packages. Only plates, cups, etc... clear bins of foods (like rice or pasta) in this kitchen on these shelves. The new colors I'm working around kinda go like this:

We are all so excited! Our kids (adult kids, 20 & 25), are both super excited, even after seeing all the work involved. One of them wants a dog, the other wants a cat... and as long as they can pay for their needs, as soon as we are settled in - I don't mind. We need a cat anyway for mice. We already have a dog, but my baby is getting up in the years so she's gonna have to keep to the first floor. But oh, ok wait - now we're also talking about goats to help with our landscaping and chickens because why not? Yeah maybe probably... one animal at a time! ok?

Wanna see some of the leftover junk and repairs involved? Here's some. I don't think I mentioned from the first picture we're working on getting a quote from a company that literally jacks up a side of your house to repair a corner post (currently incased in a green tarp, thanks, dad).

Thanks for checking out our happy little project. ;)

The house needs a complete room to room cleaning, fresh paint, a few major repairs and many minor repairs. 2000+ sq feet of living space with an enormous attic. Thankfully it has a newer heating system and a new roof already. I already had the septic tank repaired while we were prepping the house to go on sale last fall.

So I guess in a way I am playing Stardew Valley IRL, The property sits on a 4 acre lot. I can't see my neighbors... Surrounded by trees,,, It's beautiful! There is a barn foundation/pit we like to use for cozy little fires. I'm really happy for the opportunity to honor my late father in bringing life back to this old house. I'm also pretty excited for our 2 kids to get out of the suburb/city and into this much quieter, slower paced place. I lived here when I was their age. It's peaceful.

Anyway, got to get going... I'm thinking of starting a side blog for the before and after pictures and overall process. Or would you like to have me just post them here? hmmm....

I'll still play Stardew - I always come back to it! Yes at the moment - My mind is filled with ideas on how to make this place a happy beautiful home that reflects some of the original style of the house (colors for the walls, curtains, rugs...) mixed with some modern comforts and designs...

My kitchen is going to be mushroom themed! Never had a themed kitchen before :) So fun!

Beach Farm update... last day of Winter year 3, First day of Spring Year 4.

This is the year I plant all the ancient seeds outside. The greenhouse is fully stocked with all the seeds I need for one time grows and all the repeat crops are all set and planted in there.

I also plan to finally get married. I'm actually in day 3 as I write this. I asked Seb to be my boyfriend and I plan to date him for a season or 2 before getting married. I've got to finish the skull caverns and kill all the dinos and flying serpent things for the Adventure guild, get popular with the rest of the locals, finish decorating the dwarf's cave, stardrop saloon, krobus's sewer... train station.. wherever else, plant trees around the desert for later chopping...

Then I'm going to prepare to finally get over to ginger island. I've been there once recently even though I repaired the boat the first week Willy allowed me to. I need those banana and mango trees!

Pardon the tilt shift blur, i woke him up and he said this, so He's ready. Check out how I kinda decorated his room a little! Just a few carpets and things. I should put some tables along the bottom and put his favorite crystals on em - just thought of that :)

I got a new mod over at Nexus called "Cat Crows" which is very cute! However, I really wanted FF6 scarecrows... so I overwrote some of the files :P Not pictured here is Locke who is a "Deluxe Scarecrow" that I do not have yet since I have not yet bought the Gau scarecrow from the casino. I think thats all of them... hmmm

I made a little stardew themed 8x10 framed print of my family for my husband's birthday tomorrow. Our kids kinda already look like Seb and Maru (which is kinda funny in itself) so they were pretty easy.

Bitch, please. I know you're off to go drink your dinner at the bar.

Gus is being stingy with his pot. I need some for this gremlin goblin guy at the swamp. (distant lands mod)

Doodles from when I was bored at work (when i had a job working for some auto mechanic a few months ago) of most of the stardew valley produce.