I Spy With My Little Eye.

Have you ever looked through an "I Spy" book?
They were a staple around the house when our kids were growing up.
Always wished I had been the creative person that had thought up that idea. It had to have been a lot of fun working on the scenes for each page. The royalties would've been nice too!

Well, here is my version of I Spy, titled ....

My Kitchen. - Not the Before, Not the After, But the In-between.

I Spy..... 

One propane furnace (loaned to us, but never used, it didn't come with instructions.)

Two ladders, 

A U-Haul mattress protector (meaning the mattress reached it's final destination!! )

A kitchen sink faucet (still in it's box and bought in Moncton, NB with a Home Depot gift card, compliments of Geoff's last job. Thanks Guys!)

I Spy.....

A glass tea-pot.

One sugar canister

A pair of rubber gloves.

A broken mirror. (so Geoff can shave his whiskers) 

I Spy......

Tea for the Three Bears. :) 

I Spy.....

Two, re-purposed, scrubbed clean, primed and painted drawers, waiting to be installed. 

One, two-burner hot-plate.

An orange cord leading to the "trouble-light" rigged up to a window to light the path to the trailer, since the out-side light-bulb on the trailer blew, and who knows where to find a replacement?! 

I Spy....

Another drawer, and a roll of paint-able wallpaper.

Snazzy plaid wallpaper that's going to look so sharp behind our black cook stove!

A drying rack and a pair of work gloves. 

I Spy.....

A dining room table waiting to be put back in service.

A drill,  two dry-wall mud spreaders, tube of silicone, tube of wood filler.

I Spy.....

One broom, that's never in the room you need it in. :) 

A five-gallon pail, holding two bags of cane sugar, brought from Ontario.

One toque and three boxes.

I Spy.....

One, handy-dandy step-stool.

One, of many, loaned to us space heater.

One piece of cut-out counter-top and a box of Manson jars.

I Spy.....

My feel-all-happy-when-I-wear-them rubber boots.

One pair of moccasins and a double sink, bought for $20 at the Re-Store in Midland, Ontario

I Spy.....

Two rolls of under-lay, meaning I will soon have a new kitchen floor.

One repaired, scrubbed, primed and painted twice, door to the mud-room that is helping keep the house warmer then when it was just a gaping hole where a door used to be.

I Spy.......

Four re-claimed cupboard doors, scrubbed clean and waiting to be primed and painted. 

One beautiful, made by an extremely talented fellow, my husband, cupboard frame.

A brace for healing tennis-elbow injuries that I hardly need to use anymore! Yay!!

I Spy.....

One cleaning basin.

Two bottles of Essential oil. 

Three types of cleaners.

A sink that we are loath to take out since that is where I clean all the paint brushes and trays etc. But at least there is now a shut-off for the sink's plumbing.

The day is coming when I will have a fully functioning kitchen and my OCD-self can go back to being happy keeping everything where it belongs. :) 

A place for everything and everything in it's place. 

I like that motto. :) 

But even more..... I like, and am thankful for, the grace that God has given us to live through this amazing, but at times trying, experience.