Well, here we are almost through another month - and what an eventful one this has been! When I send my newsletter I'll tell you all about the Studio Tour last weekend ... but today I want to let you know what else has been happening around here while Bill was off for the entire month. We love the weather in September, so he tries to book the whole month off whenever possible. Kind of nice to have him home for a change, LOL.

He has been wanting to get some work done on the kitchen for some time now, and finalize our floor plan so we could finally order the countertop. Soooo, we pulled all the cupboards out of the room, so the wiring and insulating on the outside wall could be upgraded. We also wanted to fix the floor, as the grout was not sealed properly, and has discolored and chipping away in several places. Our poor DD spent most of a week sitting on the floor in the kitchen, using a tiny screwdriver and hammer, and this little grout scrapper tool, to remove all the grout from visible areas.

I'm not sure I told you that I took the china cabinet hutch I built, and the kitchen cabinet I want to use for display, and had glass doors put on both units. The second one is finally done, and is actually driving around in the trunk of the car until we have the kitchen put back together, LOL.

Of course working on the kitchen floor meant we couldn't do any other work in there... but that was OK, as Bill totally changed our concept of what we wanted to do, LOL. He decided he didn't like the big pantry in the kitchen, and wanted a more open concept... so we had the water heater moved back into the laundry room, and figured out how to move the pantry in there (not an easy job when it's so tall, and the room is so short - we had to cut 2" off the kickplate to stand it up in there, ROFLOL). The good news is that I can have THREE pantries (so two more), which means LOTS of storage! Yeah, LOL. But of course it wasn't that simple.

Since we had some time, and were working in there anyway... we decided to install a ceiling light - and gyprock the ceiling too - ... which of course meant wiring and drywall. Since the room was empty for working on those things, we thought we might as well paint and when we found a tile sale, we decided to lay a ceramic tile floor (my first floor!). I have a bit more grouting to fix up in there, and that is pretty much done! Bill is building the other two pantries (we ordered doors to match the first unit), and they are just about done... so by the end of the week/month, the laundryroom s/b pretty much complete! We just heard today that the pantry doors have arrived, so will pick them up when we get the van back from the shop.

There wasn't time to get the tile sealed and grouted before the Studio Tour, so we just pushed the counters back in place, and hid them behind our lovely show racks (GBG). We did get the new sink and taps installed (yes, I know they have to be pulled out to put in the new cabinet and countertop), and we also got a faux-tin ceiling all done, so we're quite chuffed about our progress this month!

However, in the never rains but it poors department... we opened the cargo doors on the side of the van, which have been getting stiff for a couple of months, and something went awry, and now one door won't close. We have been meaning to take it in for a tuneup and to get the door fixed, and just kept putting it off... but since I have a show this weekend, I need it fixed asap, so off to the shop it goes on Thursday, and hopefully they can fix it up.

I'm going to close there - quite a bit done really, when you break it all out, but I'll save the rest until next month... happy stitching!