Main Floor Foyer...
Upper Foyer...
Diningroom...
Livingroom...
Lots more to come. The best surprise was when we pulled out all the sheet flooring and carpets upstairs we found bare pristine wide plank pine floors. Those that are painted look pretty easy to strip. Downstairs, we're not quite sure because the flooring choices are strange - painted tentest in the livingroom, vinyl sticky squares over chipboard in the diningroom. But, we have high hopes!
We are a very big family starting a very small farm in the Gaspereau Valley of Nova Scotia.
Friday, June 4, 2010
Thursday, June 3, 2010
So Close, Yet So Far!
I was looking forward to showing you round our new house as today was closing day, but our mortgage company is in Toronto and our banks close an hour before theirss do...so the final stuff on the sellers end will not happen til tomorrow morning. BOOOO!!!!
Instead, here are the doors into our new house!
The side door into the mudroom/kitchen...Instead, here are the doors into our new house!
The front door that's inside the sunporch...
The side door into the sunporch....
Tomorrow I'll welcome you INSIDE!
Nature Girl's 10th birthday!
We'd planned on a picnic but the weather did not cooperate so we moved inside and had a tea party instead
No one minded - see that window behind Nature Girl - that's 3 hours BEFORE sunset, inside was most definitely nicer!
We didn't need to hire a clown, we have Darkmirror instead.
Nature Girl asked for an old fashioned dollhouse that she could paint and renovate just like our new house. The funny thing was I found this at an antique shop a week before she asked, and on the way home from Red Barn Antiques we realized with all the crazy packing going on there was nowhere to hide it at home, so it's been in a friend's basement for a month.
Mudmama knows all.
HAPPY 10th BIRTHDAY my beautiful spirited wild Nature Girl! I am so blessed to be your mommy.
No one minded - see that window behind Nature Girl - that's 3 hours BEFORE sunset, inside was most definitely nicer!
We didn't need to hire a clown, we have Darkmirror instead.
Nature Girl asked for an old fashioned dollhouse that she could paint and renovate just like our new house. The funny thing was I found this at an antique shop a week before she asked, and on the way home from Red Barn Antiques we realized with all the crazy packing going on there was nowhere to hide it at home, so it's been in a friend's basement for a month.
Mudmama knows all.
HAPPY 10th BIRTHDAY my beautiful spirited wild Nature Girl! I am so blessed to be your mommy.
Friday, May 21, 2010
Have I ever mentioned how much I love Kijiji?
It's where I go for appliances furniture what have you.
I have been watching daily for CSA approved wood cook-stoves and classic BROWN leather sofas and club chairs (those new squishy ones with big folded over arms look like a pile of intestines to me).
Every once in awhile I search for vintage stuff too.
For Mother's Day Papa Pan got me EXACTLY THE SAME victorian men's dresser with tall mirror that my dad had when I was little. It has a small cupboard on the right hand side and my imaginary friend lived in there. I'll post pictures of it once we move (we haven't reassembled it since bringing it home)
For years I've been looking for a green velvet sofa. A settee. One with pretty legs and curved arms - something Duncan Phyfe like.
Look what we found!
75.00
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Just life...
Beautiful sunny day.
Laundry load after laundry load on the line.
Kids playing outside with wildflowers
Climbing trees
Running and laughing.
Picnic in the grass.
Swinging up to the clouds and belly racing down the slide.
Digging in the red red earth.
Inside the house is a mess of boxes and half packed bins and piles to donate and piles to mend (I tend to forget about it!)half the curtains are down. the toys are no where to be found. Without cleaning the corners fill with dust bunnies and pennies and used up pens.
But life isn't inside this house we're moving from, it's out there in the sun, the wind the rain and snow.
The neighbours said she was sad to see us go, I have such nice polite children and it makes them so happy to see them playing outside all the time because so few children do anymore.
I'm so excited to see what they think of the stream at the back of our property.
Saturday, May 1, 2010
We found our farmhouse sink today!
We also got a whole bunch of shutters for free (they're for the attic).
This sink is designed to have a cover - a cutting board/chopping block cover. I'm stoked, given our complete lack of countertops. It's a 1938 universal utility sink. It cost us 100.00 and came with the legs and all the original hardware.
More spring kids...
Sprout loves all the flowers but especially these ones.
Wild Thing right before he decided if he was going worm hunting a coat would be a good idea.
Nature Girl and her wild carrot root pig snouted medieval damsel Christina. When they say homeschoolers are wierd, this might be why. Christina isn't just any wild carrot pig snouted damsel, Christina is an actual historical figure who fought back against the Church and her family to stay chaste and take vows in an Abbey (a sordid tale where she was promised to a Bishop as a mistress and the Bishop got her parents permission for this by arranging a marriage to a Duke. Christina would have none of it and actually hung from nails in the walls of her chamber to keep the Duke from bedding her. Nature Girl will recount this while she combs her root's hair.
Sprout is developing his own fashion sense, modelled after his greatest idol - Wild Thing.
Wild Thing right before he decided if he was going worm hunting a coat would be a good idea.
Nature Girl and her wild carrot root pig snouted medieval damsel Christina. When they say homeschoolers are wierd, this might be why. Christina isn't just any wild carrot pig snouted damsel, Christina is an actual historical figure who fought back against the Church and her family to stay chaste and take vows in an Abbey (a sordid tale where she was promised to a Bishop as a mistress and the Bishop got her parents permission for this by arranging a marriage to a Duke. Christina would have none of it and actually hung from nails in the walls of her chamber to keep the Duke from bedding her. Nature Girl will recount this while she combs her root's hair.
Sprout is developing his own fashion sense, modelled after his greatest idol - Wild Thing.
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