Month: August 2017

My Stitching Treasures

While no house progress is being made (busy summer) – I have been stitching in the evenings and I pulled out another old unfinished piece.  This is My Stitching Treasures by Jeanette Douglas.  I got this as a gift for my bridal shower (hosted at a stitch shop) from all of my friends – the pattern, fabric, silk threads and notions.  I haven’t worked on it in years but pulled it out and I’m making good progress on it again.  It’s meant to go as the top to a box (where you store your stitching treasures) 🙂

My Stitching Treasures progress August 2017

Another party this coming weekend so still no house progress to be made.  Things should settle down after this weekend though for sure!

New Roof and Solar

The latest big house project has been hiring a crew to put on a new metal roof (standing seam) and then we had some solar panels installed on the back dormer roof (the flat one).

New roof!!!

We’ve only had the solar on for a week and of course it was very rainy and cloudy last week but we’re generating electricity more than we use (which is great since this solar is only enough to cover approx 40% of our annual usage.  So summer it covers us, in winter it won’t until we put more panels up in future.

Hard to see but there are the solar panels up on the dormer roof

And secondly last week (a month after we ordered it) our new fridge came!  Technically Fridge and Freezer as they are separate units – like our old house!  I didn’t want to wait until our kitchen renovation to buy them – I would rather use them now!  They are installed and running great and I love finally having space in the fridge for everything!

dont’ mind the kitchen mess this was late when i finished installing it

I had to remove the cabinet that was above the old fridge so everything that was in that cabinet is now just sitting on the fridge.  Luckily when we redo the kitchen we can customize our cabinets 🙂