Knitting Sandwich

backyard goings on

it's time for a backyard update!  we've been busy little springtime yard fairies making all sorts of changes and improvements.

first, brian built us this new raised garden bed with some recycled lumber we were gifted from friends who were doing some yard projects of their own.  that weekend my apple tree was all pink with buds.

the next weekend i went up to the cities to pick up our two new rain barrels that we got through a program run by recycle minnesota.  i can not even begin to tell you how excited i am to now have two rain barrels!!

then the following week brian and some friends filled up our new bed with dirt we were gifted by a neighbor of our friends (hooray for all these donated materials!!  when all was said and done, all we had to purchase for this project was the extra large nails to build the bed and a couple 6-packs of beer we gave out as thank yous!)  i am so so excited to get some veggies growing in my new garden bed!!  

in the week and a half it took for us to complete this project my apple tree bloomed!

we've got a few more yard projects up our sleeves so stay tuned!!

-melissa

slowest kitchen redo of ever

you may remember back in july when i decided to redo our kitchen?  well i naively thought that i could get everything completed in three weeks time.  (yes, go ahead and laugh, it's okay, i've come to terms with it.)

now here it is mid-september already and i am still not finished.  but i am making progress.  over labor day weekend we tore out the old countertop and sink and installed the new ones.

pretty much all i have left is to install the new hardware on the cupboard doors and rehang them and then paint the walls.

i already have both the the hardware and the paint.  now it is just a matter of finding the time to actually accomplish the tasks!

-melissa

color inspiration

say goodbye to my old dark ugly kitchen. 

we've been talking about redoing the kitchen since we moved in (three years ago) and on monday i finally took the bull by the horns, so to speak.

all the cabinet doors are off and half of them are sanded.  i'm in the process today of emptying out the cabinets (it's raining so i can't be outside sanding).

i had decided (after being inspired many times over by manda over at treefall design) to paint the cabinets white with a yellow back wall and a grey countertop.  

but yesterday i spent the whole day staring at my paint chips and countertop samples second guessing my choices - maybe i didn't want yellow after all... did i really want a dark grey countertop... maybe i should just paint it green (like the rest of my house) and get it over with...

then today while i was unloading the cabinets i found a dish in the back of one of the cupboards, i'm not even sure when or where we got it - i think from one of our grandparents when they were downsizing. but when i saw it i knew right away that i had made the right color choices.

now i just need to figure out how to hang it on the wall.

-melissa