Do you Kijiji?

Hmmmm.... I think I just turned a noun into a verb! I've been busy stamping but nothing that I can share right now! My best friend has gone home and my Mom is here visiting. What a lucky girl I am! I should have something stampy to show you in the next couple days, but today I thought I'd show you my kijiji score.

Kijiji is similar to Craigslist up here in Canada. I frequent both, but Kijiji is much more active in our area and has many more listings. I'd been looking for a sideboard for our dining room for a while now and came across this.

I adore it! But now it's making me want to paint my dining room table and chairs.

Since we're on the subject of homes, want to see the changes in the exterior of our house? You do? Oh good!

Here's the before:

And here's the after:

We replaced our windows and doors, painted the exterior and added shutters. Oh and we took a couple trees down. The landscaping will have to wait until next year, but I'm so happy with the results!

Well if you've made it this far, thanks for reading! Hope you're having a wonderful weekend!

Gone, gone, gone I been gone so long!

Now that song is stuck in my head - darn it! Sorry I've been away but I've been working (my contract work for the school board), packing, making final Disney preparations, and most importantly of all - helping my husband with a project - check out the pics below.

This is our kitchen when we first moved in. We've done a ton of work since then, but it's the best picture of the floor.

This picture is in progress - after we had painted the walls and cabinets this summer. Again notice the floor.

This is what we've been doing this weekend: notice my new floor!!! We decided to take advantage of the long weekend and get some stuff done around the house. My husband is such a sweetie! It looks so good and is so much nicer than the old lino! We still need to put our new baseboards up, but that will wait until we're back from our Disney trip. We also did the floor in our powder room but I'll spare you the pictures as it's the same floor!

Anyway, I still have tons to do before we leave. I've saved some posts to publish along the way so I will have some posts while I'm away. Hope you have a great week!

Kitchen In Progress

BEFORE PICS

Here's pics of our kitchen in progress. We've finished painting the walls and are now beginning to prep the cabinets for the melamine paint. We're going to paint from the 18-21st while hubby is on holiday. Painting made such a huge difference, I can't wait till the cabinets are done and the hardware is replaced!

IN PROGRESS PICS

One of these things....

is not like the other. One of these things just doesn't belong. Can you tell me which thing is not like the other, before this song is done?

Argh! That song has been stuck in my head all day!

I can see the difference - can you see the difference? Holy moly - where did all these bad cliches come from? So I know this blog is supposed to be about card making, but as you can tell life spills over into my blog too. We're in the process of painting our kitchen. I'm currently working on the walls - which should be completed by the end of the week, and then I'm prepping the cabinets for paint, which we will do while hubby is on holiday in August. So last night we decided to get rid of the eyesore which was our hood fan. We didn't want to replace it, since it's only re-circulating (which means it doesn't vent to the outside - why oh why?) so we painted it. Didn't hubby do a great job? It makes such a huge difference in the look of the kitchen.