Some pics of our Neighbourhood

We still haven't sorted out the issues with our camera so I thought I would post up some pictures of our neighbourhood. After living in Oakville for the last 10 years it has been a bit of an adjustment to move to Hamilton but so far everything is working out pretty well. Living in a city we can walk to a lot of restaurants and bars and we are very close to the Escarpment trail and the stairs that go up the mountain (a great work out). I really enjoy discovering a new city on foot and seeing the architecture of the older homes and buildings.

I am loving my new teapot...

I found this Le Creuset tea kettle at Home Sense a few weeks back and it has already been put to a lot of good use. I am in my thirties and would you believe I have never owned a tea kettle before!!! That just seems so wrong. With most of our free time being spent split between the kids and reno's having a nice cup of tea at the end of the day just feels fantastic. It's amazing how sometimes the smallest things can make a huge impact...

A Wonderful Thanksgiving....

I really enjoyed making Thanksgiving dinner at our new house. The gas range was installed late Friday afternoon (talk about cutting it close) and it looks fantastic and cooks well too. We made a turkey and just some basic side dishes to keep it low stress. To make the weekend even better the washer and dryer were also installed along with two brand new toilets.

The house finally feels comfortable. There are still tons of reno projects and decorating to do but we sort of know where everything is and can take a bit of time to relax when needed, there is no better feeling.

We even started to clean out the basement (basement=dark and dingy, partial dirt crawlspace, super creepy, fit to be in a horror movie...I am secretly afraid to go down there alone but getting braver. This will be a HUGE HUGE project and one I didn't think we would get to so soon. Since we bought the house power of sale the basement is full of the previous owners stuff ..and the owner before that...and the owner before that. It is overwhelming, my guess is cleaning it out will involve about 7 trips to the dump and 5 days of work. We were rewarded with a few huge scores. Score #1: Finding an old cast iron heat register that should fit in our upstairs bathroom-the current one is badly broken. Score #2: Dark and dingy basement no more. Reno Hunk found a secret hidden light switch which turned on four flourecent light strips that flood the entire basement with light. Score #3: An old broken window which I will use on the second floor patio as a trellis.

What else do we really need to do....get internet access so we can post some pictures!!