HEE, HEE, HEE

Who would have thunk it! John Travolta. (Courtesy of: http://celebedge.sympatico.msn.ca)

KITCHEN RENOS

After years of careful planning (LOL) our kitchen it finally nearing completion. I've been learning a lot of new skills throughout this whole process. I always wanted tiles like this in my kitchen - it's like a dream come true.
Just for comparison here are a couple of before pictures:
Step 1: sand the wall board in preparation for tiles.
Step 2: apply glue and tiles.
Looking good so far.
Tahdah!!! Grouting is complete.

All that's left to do is the trim. Looks so much better.

DREADING IT!

Finally! A dream come true for Hannah. She has been wanting dreads for a few years now, but we wanted her to wait and think about it because it is not something that you can just take out easily. So, after much thought we decided to order the products needed to make the dreads. They arrived on Friday and the process began.

Step 1: Section the hair into one inch pieces. (This was done amidst a couple ambulance calls, but it was done nonetheless.)
The sectioning is complete. Looking good already.
Step 2: Backcomb each section like crazy until the hair is a hopelessly tangled mess. We finished this after 12:00 am!Step 3: Apply wax to each dread and then heat the wax to melt it into the hair. Step 4: This one goes on for days and days - roll the dreads a LOT to get them to stay into place and get nice and tight.As beautiful as ever!

TAKING A BREAK TO BAKE

Amidst all the mayhem of renovating the kitchen it was suddenly discovered that we were out of bread - a complete disaster! So out came the breadmaker to create some delicious bread.The aroma of baking bread got Josh thinking about cookies. He baked some wonderful chocolate chip cookies. He had to make a special "large" cookie for himself.
Is your mouth watering yet?

OH SO MANY CUPBOARDS

For the past 2 years it has been in the plans to renovate our kitchen. This has been the week that we finally began the project. After removing all the doors (22 doors and 5 drawers) we set to work sanding them. We also had to fill one of the handle holes on each door since the handles we liked were a different length.

Since we had easy access to all the cupboards the girls spent some time organizing the cupboard contents for me.
Then is was time to fix around the dishwasher and sand everything ready for painting.Painting at last!
Here I am putting all the hardware back on the cupboards.
Josh was a great help when it came to reinstalling the doors.
Brian did his part too.

Tahdah!
Now to stage 2 - a tiled backsplash and finishing the pine walls. Stay tuned for more pictures.