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It is Gorgeous!!!
It is Beautiful!!!
It is Breathtaking!!!
It is not our bathroom.
Ours is not finished.
When it is finished, it will look nothing like this, except that the cabinets will be white.
We were so excited when we got the call that our cabinets were in.
Wouldn't you think that when you order cabinets, sinks and countertops at the same time from the same store that they would all come in at the same time? We sure did. But we were wrong; what came in were the cabinets. That is all.
So we wait...and wait.
Someday we will have our master bath back. It will be smaller than this, by a lot. It will have brown floors. It will not have a bathtub. But it will be ours, and as doG is my witness, it will be finished.
Someday...
said I.
When I was at my daughter's house over Christmas, I hadn't brought any knitting with me (dumb thing to forget) and so I knit her a sock with her supplies. I didn't have my pattern with me and she doesn't use a pattern really, because she has knit so many socks, and because she is younger than I am (duh) and has a better memory than I do.
So I just knit along, asking her instructions from time to time, and I DIDN'T EVEN COUNT ROWS! How freeing!!! How intuitive!!!
The sock came out just fine so when I started one at home, I thought, I don't need no stinkin' instructions and off I went.
Last night after I finished the heel flap, I picked up 18 stitches along one side, knit and purled the instep stitches, and picked up 18 along the other side, split the heel flap stitches onto the two needles with the picked up stitches, and started decreasing for the gusset. Gee, there sure are a lot of stitches, thought I.
But I knit on, thinking that I must not be remembering correctly just how many stitches I needed to work with.
But really, this is A LOT of stitches.
This morning I searched and searched and finally found my pattern and discovered that I had not turned the heel!!!
Mystery solved. WAY too many stitches.
And turning the heel is fun. And magic. I like turning the heel.
So I frogged many, many rows and turned the heel. I trust I will not forget again any time soon.
Et voila! A properly turned heel.
It would seem so. I wrote about having a hard time finding shower caps.
Well, today this ad showed up on my FB page:
The ad says that this cap fits everyone,
and it comes in fashionable patterns,
and it's $43.00,
but it lasts FOREVER, so it can become an heirloom I guess.
Facebook, if you are reading my blog, leave a comment!!! Otherwise, this is kind of creepy.
While I was at K-roger on Thursday, buying groceries, minding my own business, an elderly man stopped his cart in front of mine. That was fine; he was going across my path, so I was waiting anyway for him to go by. Instead, he stopped and said to me: This is more fun than anyone ought to have. I laughed politely, and thought to myself, and myself hates going to the grocery store: This isn't any fun at all, but ok.
He leaned in closer and said: Don't tell anyone this. I leaned in closer.
I could have been somebody.
I started to feel sorry for him and also wondered if I was going to have to listen to a long, sad tale of woe.
I coulda been a contendah! he said.
And then he walked on.
As I said---alrighty then.
On to knitting. Tah-dah! Or something. I have made progress on the Papillon, but it sure doesn't feel like it.
I have finished two of the three sections, and it's still very purple. I'm thinking of cutting into the next bit of yarn so I can get to some other colors, although there are really only three others---green, turquoise and blue, and not much of any of them.
On the construction front, the shower is finished, and I thought, silly me, that we could move back into the bedroom. I am living in a dorm room, I've decided. Too much stuff, not enough space.
And I have a really messy roommate, although the daughter whose room this used to be blames me. She is in LA so how would she know? I would NEVER have made this much of a mess myself.
So even though the mess from the shower and tile installation is gone, now there is the mess from the cabinet and mirror removal, and the the drywall compound patches on the walls. Sanding the compound remains to be done, and that produces way too much white powdery dust to live in.
Various paint color samples are on the walls as well, but before we decide on a final color, my husband will prime the whole room to cover up all the random paint.
Once the cabinets and counter tops and mirrors and faucets arrive...maybe we'll be finished with this, knittergran says with hope in her voice.
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