a little closer...!

On the other side of this plastic, Steve is sanding and priming all the sheetrock in the great room !!! Soon it will look like a real space!
You're also getting a glimpse of our cabinets in all their glory!! This is looking from the mud room into the kitchen, then ultimately, into the dining room. I call this set of drawers "The Six Pack", used to tell Steve (who has no earthy idea where I've put things away, then rearranged...and rearranged again until it makes the most sense where the spatulas and foil wrap should live) how to locate items in our humongous new kitchen :) Isn't it so cute?!

cooking in our kitchen!

Thanks to Steve's mom and her repertoire of recipes, we enjoyed a new cheesedip....which we made in OUR NEW KITCHEN! It's so exciting to be able to use appliances and have a countertop, and working drawers, and a perfect space for everthing...I could go on!

mmm...fresh produce! (ok, so the backsplash isn't tiled yet, but everything else is pretty much done :)

What I've been up to...

...the past few weeks. This 4 foot by 5 foot painting that I call "Night Lights" is for some college friends that asked me to do a painting for their house they've recently remodeled (and they've done a great job with their improvements! Definitely motivating for Steve and I!) We delivered it to their house (thanks for the van mom and dad!) where I saw all of the wonderful sewing projects she's decorated with and I'm itching to get my New Home machine out from under the dust cover (which is in fact covered with dust) and put it to use again!
Part of me has been waiting for our remodel to be finished before I continued with crafting simply because our space is in such disarray that it seems exhausting to move everything around...just to move everything around again later. However, I'm getting past that and past all the mess that was holding me back earlier. Piles of pantry items, boxes from new appliances and stacks of paint cans are "no longer going to hold me back" I proclaim! :)

Meanwhile...

Meanwhile, I'm so ready for our kitchen to be usable again! We have our appliances in place and most of the trim work done around the windows and cabinets....but I can't start the wonderful task of putting kitchen things up until the walls are sanded: the messiest thing so far.