Life Without Sinks…

“Sink Still Life”

5 round and one rectangle!

The demolition on the kitchen and bath re-do started yesterday in earnest.  And let me tell you – next to a loss of electricity, where you flight the urge to flip on switches out of habit – it’s really kind of unsettling not to have a sink or running water where you are so used to having it!

My kitchen is topless!

The next funny thing to flipping on switches even when there is no power, or reaching for a faucet when there isn’t one – is breaking the habit of opening a drawer when everything is already accessible from the open top.  We have laughed and laughed.

The same thing is going on in the bathrooms.

The brushing of teeth and running of the water-pik happens while sitting at the edge of the tub!  Good thing we’ve got tub water and toilets still functional.

Bye bye, ugly blue kitchen counters.

Bye bye, boring grey bathroom counters!

All of the old counters, faucets and sinks are being carefully removed to be donated to an organization that benefits women and victims of domestic violence. I hope these items will find their way to someone in need making their situation a little bit better. It feels great to donate things like this!

And I admit to being a bit humbled that my “old ugly and outdated” kitchen and bath counters could be seen as a blessing to someone else.  I’m grateful for those nigglings that remind me “But for the grace of God….”

For washing dishes and other things – there is THIS.

We’ve been here 2 years now.  And this is the first time this utility sink in the basement furnace room is getting any work out!  It’s not bad… I’ve never been as grateful for this little utility sink as I am right now!  I can do dishes, I can fill the water pitcher, I have the miracle of hot and cold CLEAN running water, which much of the world still does not.

Yes, I fully realize that if this were the ONLY functioning sink in my life – life would still be beyond GOOD – it would be WONDERFUL.

Today this is coming OFF the design wall.

It’s been 2 years since I gifted the quilt made with the “other half” of these “Wrong Way” Rolling Stone blocks to my hadn’t-been-born yet nephew, Henry. He is now 1 1/2 years old!

Picture of it in THIS post, along with the Right Way Round quilt featured in last year’s Quiltmaker Magazine that will also be included in my next upcoming book.

Family Reunion, August 2017.

That Mercedes was such a nice free upgrade!

Alternate block pieces kitted up!

But it wasn’t until I sat down to edit these photos and write this post that I noticed something was off-scale in this photo.

I cut the half-square triangles the WRONG SIZE!!  A ton of them.  So guess what may be getting a triangle border? LOL!

Back to the cutting board – there is more fabric where that came from to cut the RIGHT SIZE. (These two quilts have a lot of RIGHT WRONG going on with them.  The theme carries on – I wonder what’s next?!)

7am this morning at the salt lick.

Sorry for the grainy-ness – I zoomed in by phone from the upstairs loft landing through windows. Without my glasses I could hardly see that they were there, they blend in so well! Good morning, deer! Welcome to your Tuesday!

And I have a surprise activity myself happening this afternoon – involving a ton of fun and a great escape since there are no counters and sinks here.

Stay tuned!  You will wish you could have come too! (And no, it isn’t where you THINK it is!)

Quiltville Quote of the Day.

I admit it! I have a one-track mind and it all goes to pieces, quilt pieces that is!

I always love a scrappy good log cabin quilt, Don’t you?

Happy Tuesday, everyone!