it was a full and productive weekend.
on friday morning i woke up with a great idea for an art project for our new house. the plan was the build a wooden frame, then stretch decorative fabric over the frames to create some attractive yet simple art. i'm so pleased. on saturday our house was way too hot to sleep so i woke up at 7:30. by 10 i'd headed over to rona to buy some wood and had it trimmed to size. by noon i was on the job. glueing, hammering, nailing, cutting and stapling. it was awesome. i LOVE doing things like that. i made three and they turned out really well. unfortunately the only home decor fabric (meaning fabric with large print) i could find were different kinds of flowery designs. i'm always highly sensitive to flowery designs, especially when i'm sharing a house with a man. but at least there's a consistency, and it's not like there's flowers anywhere else in the house. b likes them a lot, so that's all that matters.
with bren being in ethiopia at the moment, b and i went to skye's hockey game then hungout with her and kieran while mike was at another game with ro. it was great. at 5 years old, skye is the best player on her team - which is comprised of all but two girls. watching little kids hockey is a little bit of a gong show but at the same time being a person quite unfamiliar with hockey it was neat seeing them learn different skills like stopping and stick handing.
i can't remember if i've mentioned that the upstairs apartment at the exile on main street needs some renovations and repairs. anyways, our current plan is to give notice to the tenants that they have until the end of april, then they must vacate so we can do our renovations. it's been pretty stressful buying a house for the first time, instantly becoming landlords, then having to evict someone before we receive our first months rent from them. it's really not ideal. and we have next to no rights even though we own the house. in order to lawfully evict someone on the grounds of renovations we need a building permit. we're toying with the idea of installing 2 tubular skylights - one in the stairwell and one in the bathroom - which would qualify us for a building permit. this is what a tubular skylight looks like when installed. doesn't it make a lovely difference? anyways, b and i have yet to reach a consensus on this. but at least i'm not feeling stressed anymore.
on friday morning i woke up with a great idea for an art project for our new house. the plan was the build a wooden frame, then stretch decorative fabric over the frames to create some attractive yet simple art. i'm so pleased. on saturday our house was way too hot to sleep so i woke up at 7:30. by 10 i'd headed over to rona to buy some wood and had it trimmed to size. by noon i was on the job. glueing, hammering, nailing, cutting and stapling. it was awesome. i LOVE doing things like that. i made three and they turned out really well. unfortunately the only home decor fabric (meaning fabric with large print) i could find were different kinds of flowery designs. i'm always highly sensitive to flowery designs, especially when i'm sharing a house with a man. but at least there's a consistency, and it's not like there's flowers anywhere else in the house. b likes them a lot, so that's all that matters.
with bren being in ethiopia at the moment, b and i went to skye's hockey game then hungout with her and kieran while mike was at another game with ro. it was great. at 5 years old, skye is the best player on her team - which is comprised of all but two girls. watching little kids hockey is a little bit of a gong show but at the same time being a person quite unfamiliar with hockey it was neat seeing them learn different skills like stopping and stick handing.
i can't remember if i've mentioned that the upstairs apartment at the exile on main street needs some renovations and repairs. anyways, our current plan is to give notice to the tenants that they have until the end of april, then they must vacate so we can do our renovations. it's been pretty stressful buying a house for the first time, instantly becoming landlords, then having to evict someone before we receive our first months rent from them. it's really not ideal. and we have next to no rights even though we own the house. in order to lawfully evict someone on the grounds of renovations we need a building permit. we're toying with the idea of installing 2 tubular skylights - one in the stairwell and one in the bathroom - which would qualify us for a building permit. this is what a tubular skylight looks like when installed. doesn't it make a lovely difference? anyways, b and i have yet to reach a consensus on this. but at least i'm not feeling stressed anymore.
2 comments:
they look totally awesome! your link didn't work for me, but i just googled them, and I think they are neat.
My parents have one in their bathroom and it's really wonderful since the room has no outside walls and can't have a window. It's amazing how much light they bring in.
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