My Creative Space - My new Kitchen

     No words, just pictures to tell the story

(too tired for words that make sense)

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Feels Like Home

I spent most of my day at the small house today.
I was busy cleaning, helping to put furniture together and watching the beautiful new floor being installed. 
But mostly I was  imagining living in our new town. We sat in the garage having some lunch watching the quiet street from down the long driveway. We had a few visitors pop in, keen for a sticky-beak, keen to share in our new adventure.
The ballerina caught her new  bus 'home' today, with a lovely bestest friend that lives around the corner from our new house. As the pair came skipping up the driveway laughing  and smiling, the lovely friend handed me some leaves saying  "Welcome to the Neighbourhood" Suddenly it feels like home.

Its All In The Details Collection

“The true secret of happiness lies in the taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.”
-William Morris

 Old

New

Puppy love

Leotard + tutu 

Dancer food

Love notes

Last week to admire these 

The Beetleshack Weekly Stills

Making Progress

The beautiful, pale grey paint is on the walls in the entrance,  lounge/dining and kitchen at the small house. 
I am really loving how it looks, and how light and spacious it makes the house feel. Now there is only one more week of that green carpet to go, looking oh so forward to the floating floor being installed. 

I am also enjoying having the heavy old,dusty drapes down, and discussing the possibility of not even returning them.

The Kitchen Is Go!

The kitchen remodel is now in full swing. There is definitely no turning back now, despite fears about having everything ready in time. The  pipe in the dishwasher cupboard has been removed and re-routed, the new light coloured bench tops ordered, and all of the old appliances removed. The new ones are all ready to be installed.

Unfortunately, my beautiful big beloved side by side fridge and freezer is not going to fit. No way, no how. So now the hunt is on for one that will fit in a quite small cavity, but still meet our requirements. Many are way too tall, most are too wide. Time is running out very fast. I thought I had decided on one, but all of the online reviews that I read stated that it was VERY noisy, which would not be great in the small open plan space that we are dealing with. I'm not so sure that reading these reviews are particularly helpful, nor a good use of my limited time!

The Happy Collection

Things that are making me happy

1 Winning the entire set of Motex Tapes from Lark's Pinterest Competition. They have come in very handy in my present situation!

2-5 Mail from a beautiful part of the World, as part of the 4 Happy Things Swap

6-7 Pretty things for my new kitchen (it appears that the tiles are here to stay at least for the time being, so these will hopefully detract attention from them)

8 Saying goodbye to these  handles in my old kitchen - they have this amazing knack of always catching my pockets as I go past. The new handles will be simple and catch-free.

9-10 Lots of packed boxes and empty cupboards

11 A new home for this little fellow.
The Beetle Shack     Stills Collection

Missing In Action

The girlies make their escape to the drive-in!

It's all go here, with the big move in less than two weeks, a kitchen reno in the works, the painter due to start on Tuesday and new flooring all set to be installed.

I am sure you can see why I haven't had much time for blogging.

I am so looking forward to being in the small house, and I am  excited about the highly reduced level of stuff that is coming with us.

Oh well, best get back to the boxes.... unfortunately they do not pack themselves!