Pictures People!

From this and this to now......



The corner shown here is where the hole in the wall shown in the 2nd link used to be. Major improvement, eh?

I'm finally able to load pics of my bathroom renovations. I'm glad to say the bathroom is complete except for the painting of the ceiling. I'm waiting on 'cute boy' to do that! LOL

I couldn't be happier with how things turned out. There are a couple things I'm not 100% pleased with, but for the short amount of time I'm going to be living here I'll deal. I think the towel bar is hung too high, although with the decorative towels hanging on it it's not as bad as when there is nothing. The robe hook on the back of the door is too low. I don't know what Scott was thinking, but again, not really my house after a short period of time. I know I'm a perfectionist! This is something, if I were staying would have to be changed!

The grapevine wreaths shown in my bathroom are courtesy of Velda. Thank you sweetie. You're awesome. I've been hanging these things everywhere in my house to get the best effect and I think the perfect spot is in the bathroom. My bathroom isn't exactly how I'd envisioned it, but it works. I wanted a country cottage look, but instead ended up with a bit of a clean country look if that makes sense.

Things are starting to come together. As usual, I think there is still much that needs to be done, but if I plug away at a little something each day it will be on the market sooner rather than later. Hopefully in the next couple weeks anyway. Of course, I'll keep you updated. Maybe you'd rather I didn't, but without this outlet as of late I think I'd be 100% certifiable!

I'm off to bed since 5:30a comes early for this chick.

Happy stitching to those fortunate enough to be stitching tonight!

Bathroom Bear and Basket

Here is my little bear that will sit on the back of my toilet. I was looking for a silver coloured basket which I was going to fill with light blue and white face clothes rolled up to give the bathroom some colour. I borrowed baskets from Pam, but the toilet lid is sloped and everything kept falling down. I came up with taking my country bear from my bookcase and propped her up there. What do you think? Her legs can't hang down or she'd slide right in to the tank. I don't think she'd much approve. Not that I can say I blame her!


I found this basket at The Bay. I had seen it before, but my mind wasn't heading in this direction at the time. I rediscovered it again tonight and it seemed perfect to fill up the corner, do a little decorating with a bit of colour and limited expense. Again, what do you think? In the store, Princess was concerned about the colour being wrong. She has since changed her mind and we both think it really brings out the rustic colours of the floor.

As you can see the flooring/wall area is still lacking in trim. That would be because my contractor has seriously gone MIA again. I'm going to see if when Cute Boy is in in the morning if can do the wee bit of dry wall mudding that needs to be done to get the bathroom paint ready. I don't think he'll mind, but he shouldn't have to since... oh hell. I'm not even going there tonight.

I think, I'm finished with the bathroom purchasing now other than the spray paint and I just have to remember that when I'm at Walmart next. I'm spray painting a white picture frame light blue then sanding it to a rustic state to show through the white underneath. Of course, I'll post pics when I'm finished the little job as well.

We're getting closer ladies, oh so much closer! How relieved are you?

I'm off to stitch for the night. It may be difficult though, trying to keep one eye on my stitching and my other on the look out for that damn frog!

Happy stitching days to you!

Is It Over Yet?

I've learned a lot about myself this week. I'm not sure if the things I've learned are good or bad, but I've learned nonetheless.

I miss my house. I miss the quiet tranquility I find when I'm there. I miss the clean. I miss being able to bath or shower without a leak. I miss my body lotion. I don't have a clue where my contact lens crap is and I've been wearing my contacts for days! My bad!!

I don't deal well with things when the don't flow smoothly. I don't always freak out, but I do like a smooth flow to my life. Right now I have none and it is bring out my 'turtling' ways. I just want to block it all out and make things work the way I think they should. I'm s

I tried to bath again last night and couldn't since the tub is still leaking. I'm now to the point where I want to cry or scream. Maybe a screaming cry would work best. I'm at my wits end. I thought my tub was fixed last night. Why would I think otherwise, I was told all was working properly. Ya right!!!! Fill the tub a bit and you'll know it's not fixed! GRRRRR I get in the tub only to hear the water falling in the laundry room again! I couldn't believe it. Why am I surprised? Oh, I don't know because I was told it was fixed! So, I'm armed once again with the shop vac cleaning up for the 2nd night in a row. Ya know, you feel all clean and then you're walking around cleaning up a mess, it does nothing but make you feel dirty all over again. Frustration level is off the meter.

I went to bed pretty early last night. I was emotionally burned out. I just want things finished, and without much more in the way of setbacks. I know renovations can be trying, but these seem like simple things to me. I say simple, I couldn't do a portion of these jobs, but I'm not doing them, so of course they seem simple to me.

Anyway, I apologize for the negative tone of this post. I don't like getting in these moods and I usually refrain from posting when I feel like this, but today I just need to get this out of my head before I go insane.

Let's hope that today will bring some good news and I can start to feel as though positive progress in being made in the saga of my bathroom renovations.