Thursday, November 4, 2010 We think it's what you call a "Blogaversary"...
Hello friends! It seems as though we hit a little milestone here in the land of MAHAH. Originally this blog was intended to provide our wedding guests with information and updates about our big day. That was back in July of 2008, when we had planned our engagement party and just wanted to scream from our Brooklyn rooftop "WE ARE GETTING MARRIED!!". Once our DIY Wedding had passed, we got our hands on a house to see if we could unleash our DIY potential. Looks like we were secretly carpenters, fixer-uppers, gardeners, painters, contractors, and crafters after all. In one short year, we accomplished so much we wanted to break it down and share. Hopefully this will act as inspiration to all those who read!
Joey found his inner furniture maker:
Here is the table for the foyer he built, along with a link to how to make your own!
Here is the progress with the massive King Sized Bed we have taken on.
A'la Young House Love's inspiration, the built in's for the guest room, almost done! - Soon we will reveal! Promise!
A very cool door, for a very cool room!
Some smaller projects we worked on:
Quick ottoman update (my love of burlap!)
Print Your Own Fabric Bed Pillow
Icky Brass floor lamp transformed into super chic lighting.
Animal Art
Animal Art 2
Stumped: a story of a lamp
Our mudroom Makeover (yes, we only finished one room)
If you read here often, you know our decision making skills are hugely flawed. We take a loooong time to pick furniture, and when we can't find exactly what we want, we have a go at making it ourselves. Somehow we accomplished a few fab finds.
Our love of the oversized chair!
India called, they said I can keep their 1880 pillars!
Chest obsessed
Also a new desk (I promise to show off soon!), The Ikea chairs in the mudroom, and those amazing pillars circa 1880 from India, we will reveal when the bed is done.
As for numbers, new friends, and all that fun and nerdy stuff, we have mixed feelings to be honest! First let us express, that we didn't start blogging in a dedicated fashion until December of 2009, when we transferred our blogger account over to squarespace. So these stats are from December until this week.
We have made 55,305 new friends this year!
We have had 120,012 pageviews
254 of you have expressed your friendship in the form of a comment
We have receive one piece of hate mail expressing we should "kill ourselves" - ouch
Lana has filled 2 whole composition books with home improvement ideas
600 of you follow us on Twitter
We have loaded 1,994 photos onto our flickr account - post home ownership
1,090 is the cost of our heating bill each month during the winter - boo!
We have made 378 tweets
We have bought 14 throw blankets to keep cozy
Three animals run this house! Rocket VonScience, PorkChop VanderSandwich, and Zoey Frankenstein
There are six "animal heads" around our home
6,200 is the square feet we must conquer and design
We don't know if our "stats" are good or bad to be honest. We are just excited if one person reads our blog each day. It's pretty nuts all the amazing new people we meet, and get to keep in contact with! I had fun at the Nate Burkus Show with Kate and Cristin:
We are super excited we started the blog, and encourage you to reach out and let us know if you want to see more or less of something. We want to hand out a HUGE HUG and say "Hey You! Thanks for reading our blog!".
Big Love,
Joey and Lana
PS! Keep posted! In the next few days we will be doing a *special give-away* to celebrate all you DIY lovin' MAHAH readers who have kept us movin' along this year!
Reader Comments (6)
BIG CONGRATS guys!
@A awwww thanks!
Congratulations!!!!!!!
@amy thanks!
Congrats on all the success your blog has seen in the last year... wow. And ahhh there is a little pix from the Nate Show! Can't wait to see you again soon.
xo,
cristin
@cristin - thanks so much! it's crazy how fast a year has gone by! so excited for this new one!