no hgtv for me!

i've kind of resigned myself to the fact that we're not buying a house tomorrow and that we'll probably rent through christmas. we've tinkered with the idea of moving, but i thought, rather than run and worry about it all i'd work a bit today (in amongst my website building work) on doing nice things to our living space. so, today i gave ourselves light in the bed rooms by taking the insulation out of the windows (whoa fire hazard!)


and then i found some shelving taken apart in the garage and thought, "stop the bus!" our kitchen has so little storage and shelving and being a hard-core domestic nutt and cooker (and soon to be canner) and having a vintage-glassware addiction means we don't have space for anything! our stone-ware plates are weighing down the cabinets and i have to store our beautiful wine glasses in the closet! but i love the kitchen right now! everything's starting to fit and it's nice putting my peculator out on display. (it's from white elephant vintage).

then in the shed i found the broken basket for the bike that someone stole from me (jerk). after being in love with alisa's toilet top medicine cabinet i thought that utilizing the space above our toilet would be nice. so i screwed this into the wall for cloths but thought toilet paper would be better. i love how it worked out and so easy! our ramshackle bathroom with milk crate shelving and a bike basket for storage. ha!

lastly, the previous tenants aren't living here anymore and that means their dogs are gone and while i loved their dogs and adored them, rupert didn't. he's barely inside anymore and he's not cranky or sick or as bite-y as he used to be. he usually just hangs out in the yard, it's nice.

up next, moving my craft room into the laundry room! that's going to be epic! but it will give us a dining space! tonight a friend came over and we watched desperate housewives on dvd (i bought it to knit to, season three) and knitted! it was so great. we ate her yummy raspberries and baked goods and chips and i just realized that i consumed a lot of junk food today. anyway, we were both knitting on socks and at one point stopped knitting in unison and tried our socks on. like a ballet. we chuckled. it was nice.

speaking of knitting, i want to do more now. xo