It could only be made better.
Posted by: karynforyou on: September 2, 2009
I am in my new home with more projects than I could ever have imagined. Everywhere I look there is something to do when I have the money and the time.
However, it is our home and we are delighted to have our own space.
As with any new house there are always surprises. Our surprise was the electrical wiring.
Then just after Jason started working on that project our basement was wet with three inches of water during a crazy rain storm our community was hit with one afternoon.
The cities storm sewers could not handle the volume of water and backed up into the house. We were one of the more fortunate ones because our neighbours were under 3 feet of water!!
Still, the dry wall had to come off two feet around the perimeter of the first floor and the electrical issues were postponed for a few weeks.
The girls are delighted to be here and have made friends instantly with two neighbouring families which we often get together with for play dates.
But enough about all of this. I have come to day to show you my first before and after project.
I found this.
On the side of the road for free, for obvious reasons. Jason and everyone else who saw it thought it should have stayed on the side of the road for garbage day, but not I.
I saw this as my golden opportunity to make a beautiful cabinet without lot of risk. I mean I could not possible make it look any worse.
And so I painted it with paint I found at a garage sale for .50 cents and mod podged it with Alexander Henry Fabric, replaced the hardware and voila!
This. 
Not bad Ah?
I am really happy with it too.
Now onto re-upholstering a chrome chair with two steps that swing in and out from under it. You know that one that your grandma might have had.
I can’t believe it! Someone was going to throw it into the dump when Jason rescued it for me. Stunning I say it is going to be stunning, ( but even if it is not it is going to be functional).
On the move!!
Posted by: karynforyou on: May 27, 2009
We are so excited and happy to be moving into our own house. We have over-stayed our welcome and were ready to go home.
In less than one month, Jason and I will be evicting our two little roomates after two and a half years of sharing. I’m all for sharing but I there comes a time in every childs life when they need to move on out. In this case it is only a few feet across the hall because at two and a half that is far enough.
Creating, ripping off wall paper, pulling up carpet to expose the hardwood and sugar plums dance through my head. That’s right sugar plums picked from our very own tree. Bird feeders, vegetable gardens, curtains and re-purposed furnature, keep me awake at night with anticipation.
I am enjoying the anticipation, because I know that the inspiration and feeling of newness fades into a distant memory too quickly.
So I am off to surf the web for inexpencive area rugs. Do you have any ideas other than IKEA’S discount bin?
Brain Dump
Posted by: karynforyou on: April 19, 2009
I got this idea awhile back while blog surfing and thought is was a good idea. Here is my list what what I am thinking about these day’s
* waiting, thinking, praying that Jason will get the official job offer so we can go house hunting.
* I need to learn to live well in the space of waiting because life has alot of waiting rooms!
* When will I see the next centipede in my house like this one?
(I saved you a large image that may haunt you.)
Will I be able to exterminate it quickly and calmly so I don’t get the kids freeked out, we have to live here for a few more months after all.
* My little Roo is such a good baby.
* Should I home school? Can I do it? Is it right for Sunshine? What program should I do? It is hard to think about all of this in my static filled mind.
* I feel like my space is closing in on me and I am trying to get a handle on this closterphobia that is eroding my creative energy and enthusiasm.
* I miss my sisters expecially the one in Texas whom I have not seen for close to 5 years. She is going to my parents this summer.
*I will not get to go home this summer because of our housing situation.
* Sunshine is showing interest and ablility in writting.
* I was not prepared that parenting would require so much work to connect, to be in relationship, to love.
* I bought 4, 940g bags of cadbary easter eggs, I’m rich!!
* My baby hammock tutorial has recieved some linky love.
What’s going on?
Posted by: karynforyou on: April 5, 2009
My day’s are filled with great anticipation. We are waiting for the final word that Jason has a job and then we will be house hunting within the hour!!
So while I wait for that phone call or email to arrive in our in box I am dreaming of our new home and all the handmade goodness and smells I can fill it with, curtains, gardens, painted thrift store finds are dancing through my mind.
I will have a batch of my favourite ginger snaps christening the oven by bed time because nothing says home like the smell of ginger or comfort like a cookie. (Much to Jason’s disappointment who believes a cookie must have chocolate)
But for now, these are dreams and I wait and put together rugs to warm our feet because a new home could alway’s use new throw rugs. Like this one.
On warm sunny day’s you can find me on my deck with Roo hanging in her Jolly Jumper, Sunshine up to her eye balls in dirt and Joy alternating play between her sisters and me? I will be ripping sheets or weaving another rug.
What have you done for your new home?
Once upon a time, it was a shirt.
Posted by: karynforyou on: February 22, 2009
My sister gave me her shirt that never fit her properly, she figured that I was nursing so maybe it would fit me better. However, nursing or not nursing the shirt still gapped at the top. So I made it into a dress, it was too cute a print to toss into the thrift bag.
I really like how it turned out. She is so cute. I just love her so much.
They looked so happy, it is alway’s a picture moment when I see them playing nicely with each other.
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