RENO RENO RENO

So we are almost all done.  Just a few pieces of quarter round to be put down and I need to finish the window treatment for the bathroom and decide what I am going to do in the kitchen.  No more work will be done on the house until after the holidays!

As promised, here are some before and after pics.

First the bathroom

 

Here is the after:

Here is the kitchen before:

We had already taken the white tile back splash off, hence the messy wall.

Now the new!

 

New sink, new counters and a fresh coat of paint! 

Notice how nice and empty the counters are?  Well that lasted until I took the pictures.

And last but not least, Don and I would like to wish all of you a very merry Christmas and all the best for the coming year.

Sonoran Living Live

Yesterday I went with 3 other gals to Biltmore Fashion Park in Phoenix.  We had tickets to Sonoran Living Live.  This is a daily local show rather like The Marilyn Dennis show out of Toronto.  We left bright and early at 6:30 am not knowing what traffic would be like.  We arrived rather early and were able to get front row seats!  The show itself was done outside in the courtyard of the mall.  Well, remember I said it was freezing?  They had heaters but as we were in the front row, which was nice, we were a bit far from any warmth.  Being in the courtyard it was also shaded.

Accept for the fact we froze, we had a great time.  Every time they went to commercial, they brought out more food.  We had cucumber lemonade, beef tenderloin sliders, salsa and some sort of enchilada with nacho chips. We then had a large bowl of peppermint frozen yoghurt.  The did it, we all started shaking from the cold! Then they brought out boxes of personal size pizza which everyone used to warm their hands and that helped some.  For a dessert we all were given shot glasses with cheesecake it it.  Very nice.

There were all sorts of draws that none of our group won.   Included on our chairs was a small gift bag with some coupons for restaurants (not that any of us were hungry after!).

After the show we did some shopping and managed a late lunch after all.  One of the gals was taping the show so we could watch it later but alas, she had a senior moment and when she went to add two minutes to the taping, ended up only taping 2 minutes!  She even had a friend who was to tape it for a back up and he forgot as well!  Oh well.

Elaine and Cheryl

Hallie and Elaine

The Hosts

Christmas fashions.  Poor anorexic girls were freezing.

 

Today was a lovely day, sunny and warm.  It was also our second tennis invitational.  What a great day.  Sorry no photos.  

Heading out now to hopefully finish my Christmas shopping then Don and I are going to a movie.

It's cold down here!

It's freezing down here!  Literally, it is freezing!  It has gotten down to the freezing mark or below for several nights  now.  Monday was particularly nasty with high winds and rain off and on. Since then we have at least had sun.  That being said, the sun is warm and by mid morning, with a jacket, we are still out and about. 

We had our second tennis social last night.  Great fun.  We had ham and scalloped potatoes made by the expert hands of the 3.5 team.  Also our Tennis after Dark group played a few Christmas toons.  Following that Peggy entertained us as well.  Great night.

Tennis after Dark group

It was a Christmas theme, what can I say?

Our singer Peggy, she's fab!

On another note, we have decided to to some major renovations.  So this month we will be getting a new, shower, sink and vanity, bathroom flooring.  Also new kitchen counters and sink.  There has been a promise made by the contractor that it will be in before Christmas.  You know how that goes...When it is all done I will put in some before and after pics.

The new look

I have almost finished the redo of the bedroom.  I say almost as I had planned to add some swedish weaving embellishment to the blinds but alas, that yarn is back in Ontario and I have been unable to find it down here.  That likely means it will never actually get done.  So having said that I had promised a couple of people that I would send pictures so here they are. 

This is the old look.  Nothing wrong with it, came with the unit.  I needed a change.

 

I bought a the new duvet cover and two sets of sheets.  I used the second top sheet to make the blinds and toppers

 

This appears a little plain in the picture.  Can you see the coat hooks on either side on the wall?  Well that is filled with robes etc. which fill in the space on the wall.....

 

Since I went with the narrow topper I had enough material to do a topper for the patio door in the AZ room.  We put this door in 3 years ago and I still hadn't gotten around to doing something.  This is just up temporarily.   The end product will be less deep, have a black out lining and they WILL have some swedish weaving embellishment on the front!  (I have already started that, some nice cactii with new yarn that I purchased here.)

Now enough of this, I must get out and walk.  It is a beautiful day, sun shining.  Although when I first got up it was 9c here humidity 76% and 9c humidity 76% back home as well.  What's with that!

November 25 2011

Well this is the start of my blog.  I thought this would be a good way to keep in touch.  I hope as I go along the site will become easier to do.  Right now I am just fumbling along.

I thought I would start with a couple of pictures of our homes.

 Here is our home away from home in Mesa.

Here is our home in Ontario.

Now I will add one of Don and myself.

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This was taken at the Grand Canyon in October of this year.  See me gripping onto the railing like I might just magically flip over the railing or something?

A little fund on the tennis courts earlier this week.  See it's not all hard work!

Yesterday was Thanksgiving.  We invited two other couples over for dinner and had a great meal with contributions from all.  I am still stuffed.  Great  fun with  a great bunch of people.  If I had known I was going to start this blog,  would have taken some pictures.  I was too busy eating to think of it yesterday!