Wednesday, August 30, 2017

down to the river



Last Wednesday,
after a squabble about what we should have for lunch,
I up and decided we were having a picnic at the river.


It had been waaaay too long since we'd been.











I've often thought it would be neat 
to return weekly to the same place
and observe changes in nature.


I've never planned it, though,
because
weekly



is a big commitment.


I decided that this might be the year.


And the river might be the place.


And even if we don't always make it to the river weekly,





if I at least make it a (soft) goal,


we'll make it occasionally.


And occasionally


is better 


than never.


Right?


We went back today
and I didn't bring my camera,
but my goodness, I wish I would have!! 


The river was sooo much lower than it was
just last week!


This is going to be fun.
😊


go to the river ð‘‚½ Check!

Tuesday, August 15, 2017

weary and worn



I'm feeling really worn out,
so I'm listening to this song on repeat
(I prefer it live in my LEM,
but listening to the original artist on youtube is okay too)

I thought maybe you might need to listen too.



This one is pretty great also
to help me regain perspective.





Wednesday, August 9, 2017

one way to fold a quilt






Remember the Pigeon quilt??


It sold!!
😀


I've been meaning to share how I fold quilts 
so that they don't get strong creases in them
with my new friend, Carolyn,
and figured I may as well share it here, too,
in case anybody else would like to know.

Since this one is going away soon,
well, it was a no-brainer to use it in my demo.











Obviously,
if you have a larger quilt, you'll just add a few more folds
in each direction.

The key is 
to fold diagonally,
and when you unfold your quilt
you won't have strong creases in it.


I have more of this fabric,
so if you felt great sadness in your heart
when you saw that the awesome pigeon quilt sold,
don't fret - I can make a similar one for you :-)


Sunday, August 6, 2017

let there be light


Now that we actually have some progress to speak of,
I figured it was time for a house update.

As a reminder,
at the time of my last post
all ceilings and walls were primed 
and ceilings were painted,
but the only walls that were painted
were Brandon's.


Currently,
we've got color on the walls in the boys' room also
(PPG Tornado - same as in Brandon's room)
as well as in the playroom
(PPG color matched Sherwin William's Waterscape @ 60%)
and living room / dining room / kitchen,
and the pantry and mudroom
PPG color matched Valspar Clothesline Fresh @40%)

squeeeal!!!

We've got oh, probably 20-25% of the receptacles (outlets) installed 
and several light switches.

My dad came down Friday and Saturday
and finished up getting the breaker box set up,
and did the wiring of 3-way switches
which is much trickier than regular switches
and required more talking to himself than usual ;-)
and helped Tyler and Brandon install the final door.

Jeannie came with him on Saturday
and helped me paint the second coat in the playroom.
(My friend, Eva, had come earlier in the week 
and painted the first coat with me,
so that room's had a lot of love already :-)



The most exciting progress though,
aside from the fact that we
(obviously)
 finally picked our main color
(and painted it everywhere it goes except the entryway)
is lights!!

Tyler and I spent about 3 hours at Lowe's Friday night 
and came home with
lights for all of the closets,
two lights for the mudroom
(one of which I love so much, 
it makes me squeal and smile every time I see it!)
and all but one of the ceiling fans we still needed
(actually we still need 2 - we'd forgotten
 that we wired the office/music room for a fan too - oops)

We've installed several can lights over the past week;
the only ones left are the kitchen  and dining rooms
which weren't installed
because Miss Picky wasn't happy with the ceiling's paint job yet.
The 4th (or maybe it was the 5th?) coat 
(applied at 9:30 last night)
did the trick,
so we'll get those put in this week.

Friday night
Brandon and Tyler installed  the mudroom lights,
and Saturday
they installed
all of the closet lights,
the front porch fans and over the door light,
and the absolutely perfect living room ceiling fan/light


It's all very exciting!!

(Tyler and Brandon went out while I was finishing typing up this post 
and finished up the kitchen and dining room can lights!
I nixed the installation of the pendant lights, though,
for fear of bumping heads and breaking the lights
during the remainder of the construction
especially flooring installation
which should begin before long!!)