Our House

We've been lucky enough to have a carpenter around for the past three weeks. All those projects that Jason and I started and never quite finished? Well, they're still not finished, but they're MUCH further along. Unfortunately, the rest of the work is for me, and it includes a lot of nail hole filling, priming and painting. That doesn't sound like much, but last Saturday I primed the mudroom and painted the mudroom and bedroom ceilings. It took me the entire day. No kidding. The entire day. I'm not complaining, mind you. I'm thrilled that the mudroom is almost finished. I'm thrilled that the bathroom is almost finished. I'm thrilled that the bedroom is almost finished. I'm thrilled that the hall is almost finished. You see where this is going, don't you?

Here is the bathroom. A sink! We haven't had a sink in two years. Unfortunately, there is still not plumbing in our sink. But I have hope that the plumber will come back - someday.



Also in the bathroom - closets! With doors! Here, there used to be one door to access the shelves with great difficulty.

"Hellooo!" says Stella from the new bathtub. And now we have a shower, too! Okay, in all honesty, a shower we'll be able to use once I put up a curtain.

The old tub. See that bad closet? This was after the floor had been improved greatly.

The door now opens the right way. Hooray! It's a little thing, but it makes life so much easier. And to think we only waited 7 years to fix it.

This picture is for Karen. See the bi-fold doors? Those go to the laundry room you and I built three years ago. Or was it four years? I only wish Mike hadn't pointed out to me how great it would have been if the laundry room had been under the stairs and the bathroom had opened up to where the laundry room is. Whatevah. We don't want to make this place too nice or anything.

My new favorite part of the house. Closets in the hall. Our house had exactly one closet before, if you don't count the closet in the bathroom. Now we each have a closet. Mine will soon be chock full of fabric and yarn. It's blissful to have a place for fabric and yarn. Or rather, it will be blissful as soon as I get the closets primed and painted.

Wedding Girls

"When I grow up, I am going to marry maybe Evan or maybe Stella but I don't know which one." - Violet

I think I have mentioned that my brother is getting married this summer. Violet is going to be a flower girl, so I had to put double the effort into choosing Stella's attire. It was actually a whole lot of fun to browse online for her dress. And even better - no matter which one I chose in the end I knew she would be absolutely adorable. Sure enough, she is.


When Violet saw her wearing the dress, she immediately ran upstairs to get her own red dress. The dress that belonged to my mother when she was about 6 years old. It was made by a seamstress in Japan when my mom loved there.

So they had a little red-dress-band. They look a bit like the Partridges, don't they? Much cuter, though.