To Say That My Photography Skills Are Bad...


Would be an understatement. But when there is a new baby this cute how could I resist!

Meet new baby Libby! She is Ellen and Rob's new addition and she is adorable. I think she just didn't appreciate being woke up to change into this cocoon and hat for pictures. Honestly, who would? The things we make these new babies do!

A blurry pic of mom and baby. I think by this time Libby was more interested in Mom's groceries than anything!

And the proud (over the top) proud new Dad! Congratulations to both of you on a beautiful new baby girl! She is beyond precious!

Wishing all of my blogger friends a very safe and Happy Thanksgiving!

These Things Make Us Happy

Scored these great chippy old windows today. I see fabric collage in each of these panes. And they were cheap...can you hear me squealing?

Same sale...this makes The Peddler happy. Old school house lights. Still have the cloth wiring but that's a simple fix!

The Peddler's new man cave he built. Huge and has it's own heat source compliments of another yard sale. No excuse to come in out of the cold now. And, it is getting cold!

And little Jayce who looked like a little bird in this picture is now...

looking like this! One chunky happy camper and he lives less than 1/2 mile from us!

It really doesn't take much to make us happy!

Hope you are all happy too!

Lots accomplished today!

The POD is officially gone. No more elephant at our front door!

This is how the wood stove looked when we bought this house.

Check it out now! Much better

And this makes me smile. It's so close to being done!

About an hour later...wine glasses are hung and hardware is on doors and drawers!

We're getting there little by little. And I make The Peddler pinky swear...this is the last house!

Progress


To think that we started with this...

Went on to this.

And now we have this! I think this is my favorite kitchen of all the kitchens we have redone!

This...

is the beautiful sunset we were met with when we crossed in to California. I think it's saying welcome home!

This is what is burning in our living room tonight. I have missed having a fire so much.

I promise new pictures tomorrow. We are finally feeling like this is home. Still unpacking and trying to figure out how to go from a 3 bedroom, den, living room, and 2 bath, to a 1 bedroom, 1 bath, den and still keep what I can't bear to get rid of.

We are having some spectacular thunder and lightening storms. What I love about storms here is that we don't get the high winds and the dust storms. The power is out in town and one grocery store is open because they have a generator. And, it's quiet, oh so quiet.

More tomorrow!

A Few More Before and After's

I didn't get a good start on this part of the house. This is after The Peddler had started on the hallway. You're looking straight on at the laundry room on the right and linen closet on the left. There was nothing here before except for a hole.

This is looking down the hallway now. Far right door is the furnace. Middle doors, washer and dryer, last door is the linen closet. Door on far left is the bathroom, and on the other side of that is the bedroom.

This is the closet/second bedroom before. This was one big room that was made into two rooms separated only by some paneling. The walls around the cedar lined closet had apparently been torn down for more room.

This little space is just off the closet and will be the office/craft room.

Another shot of the horrible shape this house was in.

Missing cedar in the closet.

New enclosed walk in closet.

New cedar and some custom made Peddler shelving. Hmmmm smells so good in here now.

Old wall separating the two bedrooms. Had to move the electrical (if you can call it that) before the wall came down.

Lovely blue paneling and window that only opened by dropping down.

Beginnings of a new bedroom. Still has the old window. There also used to be the same kind of window on the far back wall of the room.

Almost finished bedroom with new window. Excuse the mess, The Peddler's brother is here helping and we could offer him only the best of air mattresses and patio furniture. But hey, at least we now have cable. I don't we think we could have got him to come without that. It is football season afterall!Old, disgusting bathroom complete with water heater.

Midway bathroom. The water heater has been relocated.

New tub, tile and vanity!

That's it for now. We've got the kitchen to do, cabinets to install, flooring to put down in the kitchen and livingroom and walls, ceiling, and beams to paint. We're getting there!