Laundry room is coming along!

We are turning our butler's pantry into a laundry room.... When we moved in, we realized when you flush the upstairs toilet, it came with it's very own waterfall in this room!! *sigh* So, we had to rip out the ceiling to fix it.



The ceiling stayed ripped out until just recently.... We redid all the plumbing finally, and now we are converting it into a laundry room so I don't have to go to the basement.



I will post a final picture when it's done. We still have chair railing, a few bead boards, and painting trim to go.

Deck demolition

My life is really full with school, work, and having a family.... to the point I sometimes feel overwhelmed!! So, sometimes I wonder why I'm trying to blog - it's just something extra.... But I keep on trying to blog, so it must mean *something* to me.

Anyway, our house restoration has been very slow go lately. It takes this thing called money.... haha! We did, however, tear down our back deck. We will eventually rebuild it, but not this year. It has been rotten and dangerous to walk on since we moved in 4 or 5 years ago. It has gotten continually worse, and we were worried that a heavy snow would bring it all the way down this year. Whoever put this thing up.... they put green indoor-outdoor carpeting on it. So it just held in that nasty rain and weather, allowing it to sit against the wood.

Ta-da!!! It looks weird with that door kind of in mid-air. I wish I had a before picture - I guess I didn't ever feel like photographing it before. Probably because it was so hideous~!

Also, I've always had a sewing machine, and I really can't sew a straight line. Thanks to many tutorials and great blogs - I've started really practicing. I put in my first zipper the other night (crooked, but.... hey...) into a little zipper pouch I made for my two year old's markers. I was proud that it actually turned out halfway decent.

Sealed door open!!

I have absolutely no knitting to show you. I haven't done any knitting all weekend. Not even the hint of stockinette stitch. We have been tearing this house down.... the ceiling of the butler's pantry got torn out so they can fix the upstairs bathroom plumbing.

The best thing this weekend, though.... we got a sealed door open. A pocket door at that. It sealed the soon to be library shut from the foyer. Whoever owned this house sealed it shut by locking it, then caulking around it on both sides. The door is off it's track right now, so it doesn't open or close smoothly... but that will get fixed whenever we can find someone who understands the mechanics of pocket doors.

Maybe now that we've accomplished some things around the house, I can rest and knit some tonight.

Short update.

Brea is downstairs blocking! Every time I look at this bag, I get excited.

I cast on again for the Marshmallow Bonnet. I am using a different yarn, and this time I will be more cautious on the mattress stitch. I have a plain sock cast on as well.

As for our house, we tore down the wood paneling in the library. I'll get some pictures maybe this weekend. It looks bigger now. They glued it straight down to layers of wallpaper, but actually that is better than gluing it to the plaster. We took two large truckloads of trash to the recycle place today.

We also are getting estimates on fixing the upstairs bathroom plumbing today, and estimates on rewiring the whole house on Thursday.

Sorry, no pictures today. I feel like I just got off my four days of work, and I'm already going back tonight!