The kitchen reno progressed slowly last week. The painting is done. The delay is waiting for the countertops' material to be ordered and cut out; we expect the countertops and backsplash to be installed this week. With the built-in oven and steam oven, we discovered that we were focussing too much on the height of the oven and not enough focus on the steam oven. As a consequence, the oven cabinetry was reordered and will be installed this week. Although I am itching to post a photo to show you how it has progressed, I am holding out! The kitchen electrical/plumbing is to be complete on June 21 and we expect to move back into the kitchen then! The initial schedule was that the kitchen would be complete by June 17; the current scheduled completion date is June 21. This shows the amazing scheduling skills of our general contractor (as the project started with demolition on May 10).
Little N celebrated her 5th birthday! I pulled out two frozen cakes from the freezer and iced them on my freezer so she had 1 for her daycare and 1 for her home celebration. To celebrate her birthday, I also made her a charm bracelet in an effort to capture her interests and personality at age 5!
I've also been participating in Baker's Dozen, an online scrapbooking class offered through Big Picture Scrapbooking! It provides a scrapbooking prompt and layout on alternating days so I have really plowed through some photos in a short time! It has been a lot of fun and, without a question, is the highlight of my day as I ponder which photos and supplies to use to respond to a prompt. In addition to needing lots of white space on a layout, I have discovered that journalling is one of the most important elements to my scrapbooking layouts as I try to capture the emotions and details of why I've scrapbooked the photos. (I often include my journalling on the back of the layout in case I run out of space on the front of it! Click on the photo to enlarge it!)
Your new kitchen is just around the corner! Won't be long now...
ReplyDeleteI enlarged the photos and really enjoyed seeing the details. I really like your layout of the Waskesiu page. The sandals pic is so cute. Nice job! I just started my wedding scrapbook (six years later!) I was a bit rusty and needed awhile to get into a groove!
Happy Birthday N. I know she will treasure the bracelet.
ReplyDeleteI am glad to hear the reno is going well. Tell him to keep up the good work.
Happy Birthday, N! Wear that sweet charm bracelet well!
ReplyDeleteYay! I'm so glad you're enjoying the class! I'm really enjoying it, too, and it's fun being in class with you! I didn't realize how happy I'd be to make the same layouts again with a different topic and products. It's so freeing for me; far less thinking than starting a layout from scratch!
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