Fish bowl no more!

Sorry that it has been awhile- school started here a few weeks ago and life has been crazy busy!! We have a footballer for the first time and that has rocked our world!! anyway on to the house, which has been as neglected as this blog these days :) 

LOVED these golden beauties from IKEA!  they are an orangy goldy color.  To the right is how they came- you know the type- you wad it up on the rod and it never looks quite right?  We also bought some chocolate brown curtains for our room and they had a tab system on the back--not the hangy tabby things but a tab on the back of the curtain.  I liked how they looked SO much more than the wadded up business, so I took matters and my scissors into my hands.  dun dun dun!

 I made these slits every 5ish inches- and then 1 inch so...every 5 inches there is a 1 inch "tab" does that make sense?

 oooooooooh that hangs so much better, so much neater---so... not "college dorm room".

So the rod actually gets looped on the 1 inch tabbys only.  hmmm If I decide to "invent" the word "tabbys" for the multiple tabs on my curtain....should it have 1 b or follow the double the letter rule, like in rub to rubbing? or should it be spelled tabbies?  hmmm spell checker likes that, but maybe it thinks I am talking about cats?

Anyway, now I just need to hem them up, because right now they hang a little too low, and I am not taking about that nice pooling on the ground that is so hot these days, I mean they are flooding onto the ground, they look a bit silly--it will happen evetually.  

At Last!

 Here's a little reminder of how we were washing dishes

 No fun

 Who doesn't like to wash dishes with a plunger nearby??

 The final before shots! Here is my spice drawer with the spices that I use the most-- the rest are in the cupboard--where did you get those cute little matchy matchy bottles/lables??  Well, I am glad that you asked.  They are from Penzey's spices my FAVORITE spice company!!  Thank-you Jeanne, I will love you FOREVER for introducing me to their cinnamon 7 years ago!!! You can order them online, or the lucky ones will have a store nearby! I am not one of the lucky ones :(

 eeeeee!!  here they are!!! I am still a little giddy about it!!

 oohhhh soooo pretty!

 It was almost a shame to have to cut the sink hole--it was such a beautiful length of counter!

 Seriously,we just sat and looked at them- we couldn't stop touching them.  I would leave the room just so I could come back in.....and they would still be there!!!

 too bad there is that pesky wall back there that isn't finished.

 I LOOOOVE my new kitchen....can you tell?

Talk about some yummy celebration food!!!  Graeters ice cream is quite possibly THE best ice cream in the world and my guilty secret is I love little Debbie cosmic brownies....I know- I shouldn't like them so much--and I have no idea why I do.....but there you go- every lover/maker of good food has a dirty secret and that is mine....well one of them anyway :)

HOORAY!

The counters have come in!!! They are at the store waiting to be picked up!  This is killing me that they are here and not at my house aaaaaahhhhh!