Something new to me.

When going to garage sales a couple weeks ago, we found this old chalkboard for free. It is in very good shape, there are no scratches on the writing surface. I thought about taking it to school, but was inspired by Mr. Kunnari. So, it is now hanging in my kitchen. I think it looks quite lovely there.

A little green

A while ago, I bought these little plants at a greenhouse that was going out of business. Rob had these little spice containers that belonged to his grandma that we had sitting on our kitchen windowsill. What a great way to use these little jars and bring a little color into our home. I also put one in a little glass tea cup for our table.

Using found items.

In a previous post, I told you about how Rob and I found a bunch of things in a crawl space in our basement. Here is how I am using some of them.

Home exploration....

Saturday night when we came home from a family Christmas, we found that our toilet wasn't working. We were kind of nervous about the whole deal because we know that the corner of the house where the bathroom is located is prone to pipes freezing. (We need to do some work on that) Sure enough, the pipe that went to the toilet was frozen. Rob started running some heat in the basement to help warm it up. It was after midnight already, so doing more intensive work would have been really tiring. We got up the next morning, equipped with a hair dryer and some space heaters. Rob finally got it thawed with no damage to the pipes! What a handy man. The great part of the story is what Rob found while doing this repair. The place where the pipes are located are way in the back of the basement. there is a partial way and a crawl space with a dirt floor. Here is where he had to climb through...



While back there he found these things...