Stitching

Since this blog is supposed to be about stitching, here goes....

I've been working all week and last on digitizing something for Cody, my son-in-law. I am hopeless when it comes to digitizing. Classes here I come (after the kitchen remodel).

Hand stitching I can do. I'm doing Jeannie Baumeister's sew along daygown class. I ridiculously behind, but I am working on it. Today, I'm going to get the sleeves put in.

So, I am stitching, and I hope to do more!

Fewer ceilings, more progress

It's still two steps forward, three steps back where the ceilings are concerned. They took the little hallways down today. Had an A/C guy here to check for leaks in the duct work, waiting to hear back from the contractor on that one.

On the other hand, all the electrical is done and the lights work! Gas pipe has been moved for the new stove. Nail guards are being installed and the boards that the cabinets will be attached to ( I can't remember their name) are being installed. Tomorrow is a day off, Friday will be foam insulation, next week dry wall will go up. Yeah!! Ceilings and walls. Who would have thought that would be so exciting?

Also took pictures of how I want the cabinets and granite to be around the stove. Here's the right side.... it's above, but I wanted to add that our cabinets will be white.

Demolition

Well, this is how my house looked on Friday. No ceiling, no walls, etc. Today, Monday, I have a ton of wires sticking out of everywhere and can lights in the ceiling. I guess it's making progress, one week down, 8 to go...

Progress

I now live in house with "plastic walls" and zippers in the plastic. The entire kitchen/breakfast room is blocked off. The zippered walls are hard to walk through. The baseboards are off, the appliances are out, and tomorrow is the rest of the protective flooring and then they scrape the ceilings!

It's here!

The kitchen is empty, the utility room is set up with a microwave and a coffeemaker, we're using paper plates and plastic "silverware", and I'm hand washing coffee cups and wine glasses. Tomorrow morning, 23 August, is the real beginning of the kitchen remodel. Tomorrow morning Stephen and his crew will arrive and start the project for real. First, they're going to protect our wood floors and then the demolition begins.

I so hope that we've made the right choices for granite, cabinets, backsplash, lighting and appliances. I think we did and it certainly is too late to make changes.

Onto the demo!

It's getting closer

One week from today our kitchen/breakfast room remodel will start. We've done all the choosing, we have picked out granite, tile, a sink, a faucet, appliances and the edge for the granite. We also have 4 new windows, all in place already!

Windows

Well, my kitchen and breakfast room look naked.... we took down the blinds and toppers to prepare for new windows this week... it looks like we are moving and we're NOT!