open house

Our front porch area;
Presenting the bride and groom, Alicia and Adam;
The couple looked great and had lots of people involved getting ready for the party. Fresh flowers, cake, dip, meatballs, green salsa, bean dip and chips. They brought purple candy left over from their reception n Utah...we still had some left after this party....the next youth dance may have a influx of purple gum balls for refreshments. They also served the punch I recommended and that we served at Melissa and Liz's receptions. I did nothing but sit and visit; a lovely party! (Everyone loved the house, too.)

life continues

Wednesday our 'stuff' was delivered. Most of it anyways, we forgot to contact the piano storage and the electronic storage people. Which is a good thing; it was a madhouse anyway with Roger, Reed working on the house, the electrician trying to finish up in the kitchen AND the contractor, then throw in the mix 2 grandsons, 7 and 5, 5 women hired to unpack boxes and 3 men to unload the truck and it was wild. We ended up unpacking onto the family room floor since we could not get into the kitchen. If it didn't look like it was fragile we left it a box. The closets got full, to the ceiling full, but then they left and we continued working until late. (Angela and the younger boys left at 6 to go to the apartment and watch a movie and eat.)
We (that's the royal we since I mostly sat and directed workers) continued to work as much as possible until the open house started at 7 Saturday night. At 6 I ran to Home Depot to get door stops and paper towels, since we couldn't find the 6 already in the house. The house looked great, pictures will get posted soon....
We move into the house today.

tour of studios

Saturday Angela (my daughter-in-law, Reed's wife) took the day off and visited the quilt studios of 6 quilters in Lakeview Quilt Guild. It was a fundraiser and fun to do. The homes were far from each other so we had a lot of driving to do.
All of the studios were amazing. The first home had antiques everywhere. Lovely home with pretty simple quilts; but lots of them (of course all of the homes had lots of quilts) Sue Garman mentioned 150 on her quilt table...instead of folding her quilts she had 3 banquet table up next to each other with her quilts laying flat on top. She also makes a living designing quilt patterns and does guild programs and needs lots of quilts for her business.
On the non-quilting side she had a garland of gingerbread cookie cutters that I thought was charming. (I took a picture but currently have no way to get the picture off my phone.) The cookie cutters were tied together with a short bow at each hand. Each cutter was a different size....I have lots of Christmas cookie cutters.....somewhere... I wouldn't have to just use gingerbread boys.
We identified a gift to purchase for Grandma and Granddad..
Angela decided on a new handwork project that she will work on for the next couple years; a yoyo quilt. Perfect for her to work on here since I have plenty of scraps for her to use, I doubt she can make a dent. She ordered these to get herself started. It will be a long project but she loves to have a 'small' project to work on. She just finished a king size English paper pieced Grandma's flower garden quilt. Who knows how big the yoyo project will become.
Last week we finished cleaning the boy's rooms; moved all the boxes to Jeffrey's room but you can still get to the bed in there. Then we started on the master; Angela encouraged me to get rid of 3 bags of clothes and 170 video cassettes, and our old world book encyclopedias. Who knows what will go out of the house once we start on the boxes....

house... continued

Progress is being made daily now; The trim is propped up on saw horses being painted and I have doors and

a stove that is connected to power! Monday the floors get sealed (we have been banned-I wonder what we will do? Clean the apartment to make it easier to move out..)
Once the sink and the dishwasher is installed we will move in. The furniture is coming Wednesday morning; during my pre-op dr. appointment. I'll come home and the house will be all together! HA!

Granite upstairs

I was too tired to climb the stairs again with a camera last night. It still looked great this morning.
Still so much to do, this morning I'm hand washing some of the doll clothes that got covered in dust and buying more purple cardstock for the wedding open house.

Granite. Is. In.

Yellow River Granite was a good choice. Isn't is beautiful?
I particularly like this gray, almost blue strip;
The granite guy put small things on the surface and then couldn't find them; just what I wanted a granite that doesn't scream 'I'm dirty, I'm dirty every time you look at it. The stove is in but not connected.....
Our electrician had surgery last week...that means his work is going to stall for a bit.

If ya'll are in the Houston Area I have a granite/cabinet guy that did a great job and I can recommend him with no reservations.

Tomorrow I see some grandkids!

green drink

I finally made my first green drink. I was too timid to actually taste it but my boys said it was good and ate it ALL.

rice milk
2 handfuls of frozen spinach
frozen pineapple
frozen mango
frozen raspberries
2 teaspoons frozen white grape juice concentrate
water

I don't have a blender so I put it in a pitcher and used my stick blender. I scooped out a bowlful and thawed in the microwave and then it blended up great.

We've been in the apartment 3 months and this splattered enough that the floor got sticky...now someone needs to mop. Go to the house, find a mop, bucket, bring it back, use. Will probably take at least 4 days to remember and do it. Or we could find the 2 rags we have here and do it on their knees, you know I won't be doing it.

I fixed a black cape for my grandson last week. Took the fabric to the house....scissors were at the apartment. Brought the fabric to the apartment...cut..... the black thread was at the house. Take it to the house, sew........... the Iron was at the apartment. Need envelope. Go to store. Hunt address, not in the apartment, call. Finally visit post office with teenager to stand in line for me.

J. came back with my change and I found out he had insured the cape for $200. He figured I'd spent so much time on it it was worth at least that much. Sweet boy.