A New Addition...

I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving..  It was our first official holiday and we had a great day with 14 for dinner...  We went all traditional with turkey, dressing, cranberry sauce and all the "must have" side dishes...''   I don't usually use paper and plastic but it was so nice to toss most of the dishes after dinner..lol

I had a surprise when my sister-in-law showed up for dinner..  She does stained glass and just look what she made me!!

Isn't that so pretty?  I just love the quilt block...those are my three favorite colors...hate that there is no sun to show it off in all it's glorious color...  I just couldn't wait for the sun, that might take days...and I couldn't wait to show this off...

Of course this is hanging in the window in my sewing room...You can just see the shop and garage through the window...

Thank you so much Donna...I love it!

Nancy

 

Waiting on the sun...

Well, we are mostly moved in...  We kept the railings off of the front porch until the movers had left.  Rich got busy that following week and finished it...

 But I am getting ahead of myself...  Like any move, we had a couple of mishaps...unfortunately our mishap ended up at the bottom of our steps..

 As the movers were carrying Rich's dresser down the steps the guy on the bottom slipped...  The moving company is making it all better...they have a guy going to the other house next weekend and will fix the floor, the wall (no photo, but the bottom guy ended up with his shoulder and head going through the drywall) and the banisters..  The mover is fine...he was very upset though and hardly spoke the rest of the move.  You can believe they were very careful when they delivered the furniture..


 The next day DirecTV delivered and installed the satellite and set up the tv in the living room and sewing room.

And look what we saw when the truck left!!

That DirecTV  Dirigible was headed from St Louis where they were covering the World Series to Texas for the games down there...  I'm not sure, but it must be rare to have the dirigible and the truck in the same photo...

And back on ground...

I had these waiting for me...

UGH!  And that's just the kitchen...

This was the master bedroom...  The bed is set up only because the movers did that...

Rich and I returned to the "other" house the following day and our second daughter surprised us by putting the whole bedroom away... sheets, bedspread, pillows on the bed and all the clothes safely tucked away in the closet...  What a nice surprise it was when we got back...

The shop went up the day before the movers delivered..  it was a very tight schedule...

This the view out our front door now...  the shop is the building on the right...  Rich is working to get insulation, electric and heat in there... 

The house is finally put together...drapes are hung..some pictures are up...we can find dishes and food and towels...

And now I am just waiting on the sun... I plan to take some good photos of each room so you can see where we live now...

Oh...the BASR?  Here are some photos...

the shelves are right inside the door...ready for books and pretties...

I put up the thread rack all by myself...

Tv is working and the drawers are empty..

This is the main set up... my machine will face the windows...

and shelves are ready for fabric...

Now...If I could just talk three friends into coming by this Thursday to help me unpack...I would feed them lunch!!

Nancy

13 months later....

Then

and now...

Master bed room then...

and now...

Third bedroom then...

and now..

The bed does not stay... the curtains are blue..

The second bedroom then..

we used it as a kitchen for awhile..

and now..

yes, i need to add curtains and and apparently a register cover!  How did we miss that? And maybe some pictures! And none too soon as our first guests arrive the evening of the 27th of October!!

The kitchen before..

and the kitchen after...

The living room before..

don't you love the lawn chair? 

and the living room now...

click on this to make it bigger... Rich made both chairs, the end table between the chairs, the desk and the desk chair... We aren't sure if this will all stay this way, but after 13 months, we wanted it to look like someone lived there... That brown thing on the floor is a rolled up rug...

The dining room before..

the dining room is that room behind the table...  when we bought it there was drywall and plywood on the walls. This is the best before photo i could find...

Dining room after...

we can't add the hanging light until the table is in there...  We have a buffet, table and pie safe to go in there...and we aren't sure where the table will end up..

This weekend was all about getting it done..

I used these to scrap all the paint off of ALL the windows...then cleaned the windows inside and out, mopped the floors, scrubbed the bathrooms and the house is all clean and ready to move into..

This just might become my regular vacuum .. it really sucks up the dust..

Sad to say that the Magnetic Paint I talked about here...  EPIC FAIL.  This area is roughly 3ft x 3ft.  I used almost the whole quart of magnetic paint and it won't hold a magnet.  NOT HAPPY!!  And I will be calling the 800 number on the back of the can... So this weekend I gave up ... I painted over the black with some leftover white...

And painted over the white with the blue... Yes, there is a big black spot in the middle.  Stay tuned..you will see what ends up there...soon...I hope...

Rich worked on these projects....

lots of tools...

to add this to the living room wall...

For this...a 46 inch flat screen...sure wish we had our satellite hooked up..can't wait for Friday..

Three smoke detectors added and two CO2 detectors added.  Not surprisingly we found NO smoke detectors or CO2 detectors in this whole house when we bought it.  And we have a propane water heater..that wasn't vented properly..

We really tried to reuse the track lighting from the kitchen here in the sewing room.  But it soon became apparent that something wasn't working as two of the lights didn't work.  So this morning we ventured into town and bought new track lights...  We also bought the bulbs...we even had the guy help us find the correct bulbs...we don't have the correct bulbs...so we left one light off the track to take to the store and get the correct bulbs...

He also helped a friend of his haul off all the wooden walkway... and he installed a plug in the basement for the freezer...

Nancy

the small things...

It's getting close ...  A week from today our doorbell will ring and the packers will be here to move us.  I have spent the last two weeks cleaning out drawers and closets, donating stuff we don't want to take with us, and today I cleaned out both freezers.  I have called two electric companies, two telephone companies, two water companies and changed email addresses on Flickr and Facebook.  I have attempted to contact our trash company here and have attempted to figure out who our trash company is at the new house.  I got my hair cut for the last time here this morning...and need to find a new hairdresser in the new town. (I think I have a lead)   We have decided to purchase a flat screen tv before moving and have called a local crisis center and donated our current tv to them...along with the stand, a vcr and various kids tapes...  (luckily for us they agreed to pick it up next Tuesday so we aren't without news!) 

Part of the sewing room... table from breakfast room here will become the table for my sewing buddies (they better come!)  The little wood tv tray will become their personal ironing surface..nothing is too good for my sewing buddies...

This is some of my sewing stuff waiting to be put away... I'm hoping to persuade pay a grandkid to come help me...

I painted this dresser this past weekend.  It used to hold all my paperback books (that were given away) and will now hold my tv in the sewing room.

register cover added to sewing room floor

another register cover added to sewing room floor

register cover added to kitchen

After realizing that the magnetic paint didn't hold a magnet, I added another coat of the paint.  If it doesn't work this time it will become an epic fail and I will paint blue over it...which will mean another three coats of blue to paint over the black...sigh...

Meanwhile, Rich worked outside on Saturday...and I helped him finish up on Sunday...

no more wooden walkway up next to the house

no more wooden walkway from the house to the garage

some of the wooden walkway removed from the hillside.

We used a sawzall, a crowbar and a truck with a chain to remove all this wooden walkway.  We also removed a lot of miscellaneous bricks, rocks and pieces of wood that were strewn all over the yard.

We now have four piles, one pile of bricks, one pile of wooden walkway, one pile of rocks and one pile of railroad ties...  We have a friend that is taking all the wooden walkway this weekend.

This weekend we have more small things to do...

Hang curtains in son's room..
clean all windows, floors, kitchen and both bathrooms...
add electric box in basement for freezer (we I decided to locate the freezer in the basement instead of the back hallway)
help deliver all that wooden walkway..
clean out freezer so I can move the leftovers from here to there...


Nancy