We lost the house we were going to buy...

So now we've been madly scrambling to find another place we can afford.

A preview of our next option....

Character

Character

How to totally strip the character from a century old home: throw out the clawfoot tub (300.oo to have resurfaced) and replace it with a fiberglass surround tub, .99 cent tiles to cover the wideplank pine floor and the cheapest fiberglass vanity sink you can find to replace the old enamel one!


Then cover the rest of the softwood flooring upstairs with engineered flooring, a different colour in every room (hey it was on sale!)
Oh, and instead of reusing the beautiful wooden mouldings the house came with (see above), replace all of them with MDF fiberboard cause it's fast and easy to work with.

Throw out those 1920's kitchen cabinets - who wants an unfitted kitchen??? Replace them with the cheapest kitchen in a box cabinets you can get at canadian tire.

Oh we have extra tiles left over, netter not waste them, cover up some original oak flooring for good measure.

To finish of your destruction of vintage character rip off all the cedar shake and replace it with beige plastic siding.

VOILA!

BUT....location location location, and it could be returned to its original cute gothic cottage feel. And it has a massive barn with 100 amp service and an insulated woodworking shop already in place.

I love this age...I hate this age...

This small person is running me ragged. He's talking, he's into everything, he runs everywhere, and he is a delightful ball of PURE LOVE ENERGY!!!!

Did I mention he's CLIMBING...and can open the front and back door all by himself now?????

He's planning a road trip I think...outsmarting him is a full time job.

Nature Girl got presents in the mail!

She climbed up to the top of the slide with her stack of envelopes and pieced her gift from Oma together!

HANDKNIT SOCKS and a secret message!

A card from Red Fraggle's parents and money for BOOKS!!!

Nana and Puppa sent lovely clothes and a BEAUTIFUL necklace, for which a fashion shoot is necessary.

Wild Thing is a big ol' DANDY LION in this Nova Scotia Wind!

Some favorites from this week

My gift to Nature Girl

An "add a part" treehouse dollhouse (we'll be adding lots more tree stumps and levels and rope ladders and twig ladders etc. Nature Girl will be helping. I've got aeight more branches cut to add when she decides where she wants them.)

A needlefelted dollhouse family...our family. I have standing orders for a red squirrel and an owl to come live here too.

Nature Girl's 9th Birthday

NINE YEARS OLD!!!!!

She had friends over for a "Dress up and Craft" party after school - Rock Hound made her a bow and arrows. They were a huge hit.

They painted shadow boxes cause nine year olds are all about their collections.

They dyed playsliks with koolaid using the magical number 9 (3 packets of koolaid 3 minutes in the microwave x 3 times)