Home at Last

So we are IN!! (our new home that is :-) Lots of hurdles and the such, but does it really matter, nah.... we are finally here! We are loving being able to spread our wings out a bit... Here are just a few pictures of the upstairs rooms... pardon the boxes and such littering the way, it is a slow moving process, since we can sort in the old house and move just a few boxes at a time, much longer moving process, but I also don't need to move things we seldom or NEVER use, either. For some reason the quality of the pictures isn't that great either, but I thought I should just post SOMETHING! I had a gallbladder (the dr. thinks, I kinda wonder if more ulcerlike) issue in the middle of the moving process, so that knocked me off my feet for a few days. But I am better now, and the kidlets are back in school.... so little by little we are moving in.

This is a little bouqet that I made up the other day, to help blend my reds and browns...
My craft room... Notice that big beautiful chair.... I LOVE IT!!!!!

Our room... kinda picky about what is getting hung on the walls, so for now, we are enjoying our plain walls until inspiration hits :)

House Update

This is my red wall in the kitchen dining booth.... I LOVE it... I know my builders think I wasted a perfectly beautiful white wall, but oh, it is so warm in a few weeks I will be drinking coffee here :) BTW it is Cherry Chocolate... who could resist that catchy name.?

This is my craft room... It is painted Nevada Tan, and my dear hubby put together my expedite unit with desk while I was called to work for a few hours the other night.
Here is an overall view into the kitchen... Of course I cleaned the counters the next day... but haven't snapped any shots yet.
Wall in the living room with loft above....

So, I am suprised if anyone even looks at my blog anymore. I post so seldom. I promise that will change when I get moved in... then it will be all about crafting (paper and fabric) again. This house has consumed us this last year. Fun, YES, but we are ready to go on living normal lives again, if there is such a thing.. :)

We are headed to Miltown Convention today and we will be gone for a few days after as well... We will probably camp up at Larabee State Park in Bellingham... Seems to be our tradition.

The carpet is supposed to be laid this weekend while we are away... Our appliances were put in yesterday and I baked a Papa murphy's pizza in there last night and we ate at the table. Soon every meal will be in there and I am sure I will not be able to bake pizza everynight... back to healthy eating...

OK... just a little update. Hope this finds all well.

Kat

Sharing 7 Thoughts

Share 7 facts about yourself on your blog, some random, some weird.* Tag 7 people at the end of your post by leaving their names as well as links to their blogs.* Let them know they are tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.

1. I love coffee! But truly I wonder if it is coffee that I enjoy or the stuff you put in it. I have a red espresso maker and I make my own lattes each day, (each day is EVERY DAY) my favorite drink is a double sugar-free fat-free Vanilla Caramel Latte.
2. I am a registered nurse, and I love my job! Actually I love the work I do... I never thought I would like to be an ER nurse or OB nurse or Med/Surg nurse. HOWEVER, I wear all those hats and I LOVE IT! My dad was a doctor and my mom was a nurse and i avoided medicine at all costs until I hit 30... then I felt the need to be a nurse!
3. I met my husband Tony at Chelan Convention, church fellowship, 18 years ago this past June. We dated for 2 months then I broke up with him for 3 months then I soon realized how much I missed him and begged him to take me back, within 7 months we were married.
4. If my daughter Tori would have been a boy I would have named him Gharrett. So I think my hubby was very glad that it was a girl.
5. I am not very creative.. but I do happen to do a good job if I can lift an idea from someone else's brilliant ideas.
6. My middle name is Lucille. Have no idea why they named me that?
7. I always wished people would call me Kate or Lucy... Funny how my human nature is... if I was called Kate or Lucy I would probably want to be called some other nickname. heehee


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Where does the time go...?

Well, the time doesn't go soon enough... :) We are still awaiting move in day, though we are much closer than we were in June. I took these pictures a few weeks ago, and still haven't uploaded them... i will try to get out there this weekend, as we have countertops done, cupboard, trim, doors, showers, etc... done on the upper floor. Pretty much on the main floor we are just waiting on carpet and the finishing touches... Today they are texturing the down stairs and hope to paint, tomorrow and Monday... so then on to the finish work downstairs. We were told move in date in 2 weeks, but since our original was May, I won't be getting to anxious for that day... I imagine the middle of August will find us snuggled in to the house amidst boxes, etc... but we do only have to move 10-50 feet or so.... sometimes the shortest moves are the hardest though, because we are not really all that prepared for the move yet... Started packing up some things, but hard to store much around this little house.... We are ANXIOUS to spread out. I am hoping to get my craft room painted next week and hopefully paint some colors on a couple walls in the great room.... They paint the one base color and the accents are up to me... which is fine I love to paint :)


This shot is from the little loft looking down on Tony and Tori in the kitchen.... Tori is in her jammies, so it must have been a late night.

House Update

We finally decided on an outside color..... i think it looks a little like a hot cocoa with whipped cream... :)

This is our back deck...

Starting to put tile in the kitchen.... Everything is painted upstairs......

House Pictures... Getting closer to moving in :)

Siding is complete!!
Tony had lots of back breaking hours working on this wall...
The front entry posts still need to be completed., but oh so much closer

Trying to decide on paint colors here.... ughhh, who knew it was so hard.
Back deck upper and lower have recessed lighting and sheet rock.... LOVE this space.... Already envision where my little hanging swing will be!

Little better house pictures

I took this shot from the roof of our house now.... Shows a nice view of the roof line and the view of the house from the lake side or West side... The guys "hard at work" discussing how the retaining will form this way and that, etc....
Just a different angle taken from the Northwest corner... on the left of this picture you see a little "BARN" my mom built that when I was just a wee one... 30+ years ago... I vividly remember her working after work on this project, she did from scratch. She is gone now and so this little building will stay... Tony is willing to shore it up reroof and paint it for me... It has been hard for the guys to move around it, but they are so kind about understanding the sentimental significance to me. Mom made a little loft in the top and several of my long time friends will remember slumber parties up there in our younger days.... we will de junk and de clutter it once our garage is built and then fix it up as a play house for the kiddos.

Please excuse the construction mess... Look like the redneck family during this building process. This is the house from the North side. Those two little windows are upstairs in our bedroom... and the bottom ones are lukes room and guest room. There is orchard on this side of the house and the least desireable view... i imagine someday there will be houses where this orchard is, so we are building with that in mind.... limited appeal on this side but the other 3 are our features.
Not much new on the front... Waiting for the window to come in so they can finish framing in the entrance and posts and so forth. The yard will have a gradual slope to the deck (which will be stone). No steps to the front door. A must for the elderly we entertain and someday we may have the priviledge again to have a meeting in our home, so want to make it easy access for all.
Hope you have enjoyed the latest tour.... I am so anxious... but loving the process of building also.... not the chair in the about picture... Where i sit and supervise....heehee, actually when I bring baked goodies out to the guys they let me sit here and chitter chatter with them about plans, changes etc.... Love this crew that have become special to us during the build.
Hope you will be a visitor here soon... :) I will make a latte and we can sit and catch up :)

Fun with family

We traded up on our little travel trailer we had. It had only 2 beds in it and my kidlets had far outgrown sleeping in the same space, so we found a cute little trailer over in Paulsbo, WA on Craigslist and had a nice little trip out there... We rode the ferry (first for my kidlets) and then went to stay with my cousins Andy and Renea and the rest of their adorable family. We so had a FABULOUS time there and got to meet with Lindy H. on Sunday morning which was super special for us as she has been in our field when our kids were younger. Anyhow a few pictures from our little trip....

The ever serious me..... Tori took this picture of me. Smile !

Luke and ZZ... he sure had a good time with her... He loves babies :) and big girls like ZZ :)Then the ever serious Luke with EZ....Loves guitars and of course this little sweetie.
Andy and two of his 3 girls.... I sure am glad chance made us cousins.
Why is there no pictures of JZ and his mom Renea... well.... jonathon was often across the street with his friend and he doesn't sit still long enough to get a shot of him :) also, Renea was a wee bit camera shy and the 2 pictures i did get of her I would need permission to share with the WWW world :)

Anyhow... Love these guys. So glad they are a part of our lives :) Hope they come see us soon... hint, hint, hint.

House update

Well, it has been awhile again, since my last post. It seems like I go through this little spurts of oh, i have to post.... quickly followed by ah, I can do it tomorrow... Well I guess it is finally tomorrow.

They now have 98% of the siding on the house. All ouside windows and doors are on. The 3 decks are built. Outside sheetrocking and lights are done for the roof of the covered decks.

Tony and kids are on spring break this week so they are working around the house. Tony finished up the fine tuning on the wiring and added speaker wire through different rooms and decks, etc... The last two days he has been working on retaining walls. We moved a bunch of dirt to put the house where it is, so now got to shore up that dirt's new home :) I have been off too, don't go back to work until Friday night (I start nights this week) so 7pm to 7am....

Here are a couple pictures to update those of you following the build.

These pictures are not the best ... sheetrock in the way and boards blocking the view... i will try to post better ones another day :)

My beautiful kidlets are growing UP!

Here is my handsome son Luke... He is 12 1/2 (can't forget that 1/2 you know). He just looked so nice headed out to school this morning, I thought I would take a quick snap shot. Had to tell him a joke to make him give me a "real" smile. Dad took him shopping yesterday for new clothes and shoes (size 10-mens) WOW... I am going to have to do a scrapbook page of his babe shoes and his 12 year old shoes....
Here is Tori my little 8 year old princess. She is such a happy, funny, princessy girl. Love her sweet smile so much. She wanted Miley in her picture too. She is our 8 month old Shi-poo. Miley has really made our house such a fun house... We constantly laugh at her little playful anticts. Everyone loves her her and she has been great fun. We lots of times sit as a family in the living room and read our books (Tori is starting Anne of Green Gables-such a good reader) Luke usually a Archie comic or Hardy Boys, me a historical romance (love to get into a good book) and Tony usually something like John Grisham or popular mechanics.... Meanwhile Miley hops from lap to lap giving each of us a 5 minute opportunity to snuggle or laugh at her antics....

Sorry for the ramble just sharing a happy day in the life of our little happy home. Love is the center and it makes things seem just a little brighter each day.

Stuff

I have a spring flyer for the Angel Company... The link is http://www.theangelcompany.net/images/SpringSupplement08/Downloads/SpringSupplement08.pdf if you would like to take a peek at it. I already ordered three stamp sets... couldn't wait.... :)

Also I updated my blog a little bit... On the right side there is categories so if you only come to my blog for crafts.... you can click there... or maybe you only want to see house progress... then you could just click on the house link.... Hope that is a good feature for ya'll...

Have a great Saturday! I am loving our spring sunshiney weather.

Cards, cards, cards, and more cards

So... I think I told ya'll a longish time ago that I signed up with The Angel Company as a hobbyist to get GREAT product at demonstrator rates... so I have made up a few cards with some of those gorgeous stamp sets.... Also my friend Stacey (http://www.thequeenscreations.blogspot.com/) sells Stampin'Up. So between the Angel Company and Stampin Up, we are set with stamps, accessories, supplies, etc... of course I always have WAY more than I need... but I need to fill up that new craft room I am going to have :-)

This cute chick is TAC stamp with various supplies.
This stamp is also TAC... Paper is from Stampin Up... (love it) There is liquid glass over the cake part that looks and feels a little neater in the real world... also blinged up on the little chandeliers that hand down from the platter
Again Angel Company stamp and paper... love how this turned out.... Love the saying... Let us be grateful to people who make us happy! They are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom!
Paper is again TAC stamp is Stampin up... What a cute chick.
Paper is Angel Company, the stamp is My favorite things...

This stamp is also Stampin up... In case you couldn't guess I love coffee... so anything sorta coffee related, stampwise, seems to make it to my collection :)

Hope you have enjoyed my bit of creativity... i used several of Beate's WSC from the past to make these up, since I haven't been crafting much lately....

Comments are always welcome... I actually LOVE them.... If you ever NEED Stamps or supplies feel free to contact me... i will send you a book and I know Stacey loves to share her love of stamping too....