everyone needs a jack-o-lantern on halloween

Happy Halloween!

Here's Jackers last night trying on his costume.  I'm sure we'll have some better pictures tomorrow without his pjs on underneath.

pot rack

The kitchen is finally starting to look like we actually live in it instead of...er, um, someone else?

As you can see, we hung the light over the weekend and tonight we threw the pot rack up.  We don't have enough hooks quite yet to hang all the steel, but soon...soon.

And what a relief it is to have my beloved Nepresso back where it belongs.

On another note, volleyball season is about to suck me into its vortex.  See ya'll in about 8 or 9 months.

kitchen pendant

Here's what we got to go over the kitchen table (the large metal one). I think it's about 15 inches wide instead of 6 like the other we liked. Good ol Pottery Barn.

Asparagus!

So the walls are finally done. I love it - Pink doesn't love it, but doesn't hate it.  I think the color looks really good against the cabinets which I think I've decided not to refinish - just some new hardware.  But I do think the color looks little more yellow in the pictures than it really is.The next step is to prime the sink window and the door and then I'll get to painting it.  We'll be able to put the table back in the center of the room but for the time being we won't have a light since we're not putting back up the chandelier that was there before.

This is what I'm thinking of for the light over the table but I'm worried it might be too small - it's only 6.5 inches wide.

time sink

In one week I've got two completely different time sinks: the kitchen project and Facebook.

I love that the kitchen will finally not look like yellow stained teeth.

I hate that my life this week has been swallowed by the black hole that is Facebook.  It's like crack, seriously.

Here's a shot of the kitchen ceiling while we were priming last night.  No, really, that's how yellow the ceiling was.

Here's what it looks like tonight after the first coat of ceiling paint and primer on the walls.

I'm ready to build a fort, Papa!

This doesn't completely capture how hard Jack had to work to get between the two chairs to climb under the end table, not to mention the effort to pull all his buddies and the cat bed in there with him as well.

I heart Juan

Progress!

After waiting 2 weeks for one guy to show up and give us an estimate Juan came to our rescue at a bargain price.  The kitchen is finally coated and begging for some color.  It looks incredible.

It is now so obvious how dingy the ceiling looks.  Tonight we're going to caulk, sand the trim, and wipe down the walls in prep to prime both tomorrow night.  I anticipate some asparagus by the weekend if not sooner.

Jack's morning shout out to Twitch