What?!

Okay so, my double wall oven cabinet finally came in. And it was delivered today. And it's now laying in the middle of my kitchen floor.

Well long story short, the oven doesn't fit in the cabinet!!

As you can see the oven is in the front of this photo and the cabinet is in the background laying all over the middle of my floor!

So, I am patiently waiting for my husband to get home with a bit to take the cabinet apart and then saw out what I don't need. The trim pieces they told me it had to adjust for the size of the oven are apparently screwed and glued into the rest of the cabinet. I'm not impressed. This was supposed to go in and that was supposed to be it. Maybe tomorrow........

There are HOW many days until Easter?!?!?!

Okay so for the last, like, month Ali has been counting down to Easter. They talk about it at Sunday school and every time they say how many weeks are left she turns it into months... I'm sure you understand my pain. Well, the countdown has now moved from Ali to me- mainly because she's been sick, BUT I am counting now because we have this little construction project going on and well, Adam's parent's and brother's family are coming on Sunday............

This is what my house currently looks like:

And I must say these photos don't even really show the disaster area that I am living in. I'm a little concerned... BUT Saturday is supposed to be nice and I only work a 1/2 day tomorrow- we should be able to get the windows in and the last one out. And cabinets up and the walls back together. I can do this. I know I can. Okay, I'm pretty sure I can...

If you happen to see me around down breathing into a brown bag I'm only having an anxiety attack. It will be a fabulous Easter! Now I need to get back to painting, among many other things...

All in a good day's work...

Well today was mighty interesting. I planned on taking a trip to see my bestie and her baby girl and Ali woke up feeling sick... therefore I cannot go. On the plus side it was a beautiful day out!! AND I could start installing windows!!!! Finally. I'm so impatient...

-BEFORE-

-AFTER-

And it's a good thing we took out the big window where the door now is. We noticed it was already loose after we, I mean, I removed the siding! :) And when we got the window out the glider fell out of the track. Awesome. I absolutely do NOT recommend glider windows, even if they are Andersen. The door also opens and closes better now that it's moved. AND it's on the right side of the wall- no longer opening into the middle of a room!! That IS awesome!!

On my to do list tomorrow: order Sheetrock, Tyvek tape and siding...

Wednesday, when it's nice, some people better be expecting phone calls from me because this whole thing revolves around nice weather.

Happy Birthday Cala

Happy 21st Birthday to my baby sister!!!

This is not the best picture of her, but it's the best one I have at this very moment. And since she is still in SD at school, I find this one to be somewhat appropriate.

Happy Birthday Cala! :)

Remodel Update

Yesterday my new windows arrived...and with much anticipation I am impatiently waiting for Mother Nature to cooperate so we can install them. In the mean time I'm trying to keep myself busy getting ready. In between quilting and working and Ali and all those other things in life... As you can see the only things left on the walls are the goose, the deer, a clock (see below) and 3 cabinets (also see below). Those things will be moving tomorrow. Please excuse my fabric ALL over the place. We seem to have a lot of that around here... The kitchen is in disarray, and I cannot stand it. If it could only be finished I could take a BIG something off my worry about list.

Oh and maybe I should explain that I took everything off the walls so I can put on a fresh coat of paint. In 6 years this paint has taken a beating. Maybe if I would stop all of the projects we seem to constantly have going on...

On another note- I did manage to get my border for the new show quilt mostly together tonight. Phew! I'm a little behind though, because I was hoping to at least have it on the long arm if I wasn't already quilting it. Big dreams and high hopes, but it's been a long week. I think I'll be loading a Valor quilt tomorrow to practice my feathers on...

And if someone wants to tell good 'ole Mother Nature to warm up and not rain for me I would appreciate it. Have a great weekend everyone!! :)

My Saturday

Today, I got to do some Quilting Therapy. When I saw the Kool Kaleidoscope Quilt Carol Moellers had displayed a few years ago at the Floyd Count Fair I fell in LOVE with it. So of course when she was teaching the class at Stitches in Charles City, there wasn't the option to not do it!

So last weekend when I was going on about making Stratas, this is what they turned into...

I'm pretty excited because I'm the only one who got mine put together. And I love how it turned out!! It goes perfect with the paint in the rest of my house. Carol gave me some pointers on how create the awesome border she made that I want to re-create. We'll see if I can do it, otherwise she might be having a class. I also need to figure out how I'm going to quilt it and with what kind of thread. My plan is to do some bobbin work and make the back look really cool too! :)

Happy Saturday!

Last Weekend

Please pardon our backwards photos from the weekend...I really meant to do this, well, at the end of last weekend and then I thought I'd do it Monday, then Tuesday and well, I've been working a lot.

Sunday, I worked on my Stratas for the Ricky Tims Kaleidoscope class...

My first quilt with Batik's! I just love the 52 or so that I have picked out....We're supposed to have 15-20 for the class but extra for the border that I am in love with. I picked out a textured black fabric for the background. It's going to be stunning.

This was Saturday... Ali and I were working on my flower beds. The Croka's (no clue how its actually spelled) I purchased from Ali's preschool fundraiser came up! YAY!

My FORD. Over the last couple months, all he's done is gotten BIGGER! I think we should have named him Bear. He often looks like a black bear coming towards you... and he's OH SO CUTE!

Ali also played on her swingset and this is her sad face after Ford peed on her slide just as she was getting ready to go down it. It was SAD!

I love this photo of her. Luckily I got it. Pre- pee. :) HA

And we had to swing. I'm so proud of her pumping her legs!!

AND the Dress. The "Minnie Mouse Dress" as it is called here...Ali's in love with it, I'm in love with it. We all love it. And I cannot wait for her to wear it! My dress is also in the works. If I get to it this weekend I'll post pix, well, sometime.