Shae’s Earthbag Bedroom
Episode 35
Walk Thru Finished Building
Wowie! After months of hard work we are finished! Completed! My room looks excellent! We will film little things in the future but for now, we are ready to start on our new projects - the earthbag kitchen and bathroom addition! I hope you enjoy this walk through!
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Shae
March 16, 2018
Video Transcript
last week we completed some of the
finishing touches for Shae's earthbag
bedroom
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we started this six, seven years ago
we
decided we were just gonna build a
bedroom for each of the kids
and off
we went
starting off with Bree with great
aspirations
oh yeah, we're going to bang these out like boom boom boom boom
boom you know
Mommy, did you catch that on video?
what?
he took the saw
and he was trying to cut it and he went grrrrrrrrrr
to the dirt bags
in Bree's room, she was interested in a drum space
that's gonna be my bed area
that's gonna be my closet
that's going to be my drum area
and then that's going to be desk area
then you got different financial things
we run out of bags and we don't know where
to buy the bags
it's just different
stresses that happen through the years
that we're putting these together
each
one got a little bit more elaborate
you know
er er er
yeah each one had its own style
its
own purpose
its own theme
each one was
designed by the kids
and then Garen had this a castle look and then we
experimented with his exterior
we were into the paper bags
on Garen's room
it's kind of like the hula hoop
we kind of go through these little stages I
guess
Bryson, at one time was really
into the Stars and that's why you had
that patio to put the telescope on
not everything's all hunky-dory and
roses right?
I mean there's stresses and
and time commitment
there were
times when some of us had to be away
this stuff is really cool
I'm helping you out Dad
thanks Honey
you don't think about the time that you're
gonna be spending with the kids working
side-by-side and you get to see them in
stressful situations and happy
situations and and all of the whole
gamut and it helps you as a parent to
be able to address some of the issues
that come up and help the kids through
things and they help us probably more than we help them
we need to be patient and it's
turned out to be just a really wonderful
experience and more than just building
buildings don't you think?
oh absolutely
Sometimes it was more, what
do I do here?
I know that this should
look like that
the kids and everybody's
working on it and do I leave it or
do I go back and change it
usually I just left it
I thought you
know, it's better for me for them to have
that sense of accomplishment
it's not
hurting anything
that's the look and
that is just the way it's gonna be
and I learned through that
it's organic - that was our saying, it's Organic
Gary and I made a commitment to get these rooms done for
the kids and I wanted to see it through
all the way to the end
I feel really
good now because we're done with that
commitment
finishing the commitment is
really important to me
I actually feel a
little sense of relief now this last one's done
ahhhhh
yes there's a sense of relief
but there's also that sense of, what's next
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it's done
it's completed
it's finished
dad peeping through the window behind us
there
in the little, round beautiful
window
this is my room and we've been
working for several months now to get
this place done
it has several really
cool features like our bottle window
which you can tell the bottle only if
you're looking like this
some artwork in
the process
still going don't look at that
we're gonna a 3d design and print
the light covers
which is gonna be
awesome
we're gonna have three lampshades
they're called lampshades right?
[laughter|
there's lots of little features to this room that I really like
like this space up here
oh yeah like a plant would work pretty good up there
our center post
I love this
post
I'm a meme now
these over at the top
that is so cute
and up here is
going to be my work space so I want to
put my art stuff in this section here
my computer and desk all in that area
some amazing stairs that Garen put
together
he worked on this really hard
and then just came out beautiful
so the
lower circle is where my bed, dresser,
shelves here to put - I don't know
I was thinking eigher books or who knows
we've got a fan still yet to be put in
and that will go right up there
here I'm gonna
have a door
oh wait, there is already a door
What? What do you know
I'm very happy with it yes
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two things that were special about this
room, the sunken-in circle and this
balcony, deck type thing up here
a few
chairs up here just that we can sit and
watch the sunset
I was
thinking about putting a bed up here and
then sleep out at night and be able to
see the stars
I absolutely love the wood, metal combo that
we did on the steps here
it just looks beautiful
it's fun to
walk down onto
it's fun to the touch and
everything
shiny
shiny
the first step that we put in
a cement step here and
then I wanted a little bit
of a patio so we put in this little
swirvy, little - it's just a very fun little patio
as we complete the
bathroom and the kitchen, we're also
gonna be popping back over here to give
you updates on this building so it's
certainly not the last time you're gonna
see it
a bunch of little things that we're
looking to do on the building - you know
like the lampshades, the 3d printed
lampshades and all that kind of good
stuff so stay tuned for that
if you'd like to catch us other places, the four
of us kids have started up a Twitch
channel called SpiceByte
we stream
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday and
Saturday at 6 p.m. Pacific, if you'd like
the catch us live
we've been playing our
favorite game which is paladins
so we'll be live tomorrow night if you
want to check that out
the link down in
the description
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Gizzy is excited to get a new home
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thanks for joining us today and being a
part of our my little homestead family
next Friday we'll be posting the full
version of Shae's earthbag bedroom
if we can get through all the footage in time -
it is seven hours of edited footage that
we have to get down to an hour and a
half so we'll see what we can do
if we can't do it, we'll probably post like the
outtakes from the series or something
like that but there will be something
going out next Friday
stay tuned for the
next series on our earthbag bathroom and
kitchen
have a great week and we'll see you soon
bye
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waterfall
the bottom layer a pool and have the water fall below
that would be so cool
come here because you're gonna be a pain
[dog growls]
oh yeah, get him, get him
okay
let's get close
okay
pretend like we like each other
we do
our family moved from the city
to the country
thanks for taking part in
our adventure
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I also
got this thought too - earlier on, we were
looking back at some of the footage when
we're working on Brees and we look at
the kids and we go, they're really small
we've come a long ways
I had more hair back in those days and I
was less gray in those days
I have more
wrinkles now
so if you look backwards
you can see, we've changed over time
I would like to say to
at the
very beginning of the build of Shae's
bedroom
you probably noticed that Gary
had a little red dot on his nose
yes
and
we actually used that black mud
it was successful as you can see now
that thing has gone way so that's uh, yeah
he's beautiful
once again
we were concerned about that
I was thinking growing my hair long over
my face so nobody's woul ever see it
no, I wasn't
the thing is is that you can't turn the
saturation up
oh no Gary's nose
I didn't want this little patch moving around
it's one of those things
it wouldn't heal, whatever it was
yeah
I crashed her party
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We moved from the city to the country in 2005. Since then, we have been building structures, raising livestock and growing some of our own foods. We are crazy about family, nutrition and want the best for our growing family.
