PICTURES

It has been a really long time since I have added any pictures of the B and B! So I took some this morning. The B and B is really messy right now because there are a lot of things in it, like mattresses and vanities, but the construction is still going on. Bear with me, I promise it will look awesome when the construction is complete. The addition is coming along really well. It's looking like all of the major things will be done by the end of the week. That means the trim is done, the doors are up, the tiling is done in the bathroom, the Murphy bed is made and the stairs and the entrance into our house will be complete. The electrical has come a long way as well. There are a couple of fixtures up, and some pot lights in. And it's all starting to look really good. Everyday I go up into the addition and there is something new completed! Clayton our 2 year old loves to go and look at the B and B as well. He will come over to Ben or myself, grab our hands and say "Look??" with this really cute look on his face. Here's the stairway entrance from our living room into the additon.

Here's some pictures first and then some stories about how the addition has been going. This is one of the doors. I splurged a little on this, but it looks just a little different than the regular old white 6 panel doors.

This is the bathroom tiling in the larger bathroom. There is going to be glass blocks in the square where the plywood is currently.

The doors are on the closet!

These next 2 pictures are the second bathroom. The colors didn't quite work out on the pictures, in real life it's a little bit darker. But it gives you a good idea of what it's going to look like.

A beautiful ceiling fan, door and fireplace!

I think I took this picture to show off the hardwood floors as best as I could. But they are mostly covered right now to protect them.

The beginnings of the murphy bed.

In the last couple of weeks I have gotten a bunch of other things done for the B and B as well. I got business cards made. It was a lot of fun getting those in the mail. I ordered them online, so I wasn't exactly sure how they would look, but they are fantastic. I put some in my wallet and am really excited to start handing them out to anyone and everyone! We are also planning on having an open house for our neighbours at the beginning of March, so I had postcards made up as invitations. These also came in the mail this week and look great! I will start handing those out next week.

Let's see, what else has been happening. I ordered all of the bedding that we need. I am really hoping to see that this week! I bought a lot of it from ebay, new of course. But since I have been home with the boys, I have started to love, love , LOVE shopping online. Both of the kids generally sleep for at least an hour at the same time in the afternoon so that's when I am able to get some of these things done! Clayton used to love shopping with me. He would sleep in his car seat and he would be good to go for a couple of hours, however now that he can walk, and talk he hates having to be in a stroller in stores for any length of time... I guess I can't blame him.

I vowed that I would never get a Costco membership. There were a variety of reasons for this. I don't have space to store large quantities of anything. We only have a fridge freezer for food, so I would have been able to any buy one package of meat from Costco and my fridge would have been full. I get overwhelmed every time that I go into Costco because it's just so big and I have no idea where anything is, and everything looks like such a good price that I want to buy it all and the couple of times that I have gone, I spend way too much money! It's always, and I mean always busy there. I went in on a Tuesday afternoon to get the membership and it was a zoo! And you have to buy a membership to go, and you can't use master card or visa,,, so ya I just didn't think it was worth it. However this past week I got a membership. The main reason for this was because they partner with a company called Elavon that does credit card processing. And through Costco you can get some really good rates and discounts. As I was needing a way to process people's money for the B and B I thought that I would give in, and get a membership. I haven't yet ventured to actually shop for anything,,,someday...But as for the B and B I will soon be able to accept credit cards!!

There are going to be window seats in each of the bedrooms, so we had to get custom window cushions made. It's going to look good, but I had no idea what I was getting myself into. Thankfully Sharon Gehrels is awesome and knows her way around Fabricland. I am not a sewer nor do I know anything about sewing, so it was quite the experience going into Fabricland trying to buy everything that I needed for the cushions. Sharon had given me the list, and so I thought I would be fine.. and it was pretty good. I got the foam, the fabric, some zippers, and then I had to call to Sharon and ask her where the cording that she had told me about was. She had mentioned that it was only 25 cents a metre, but I could only find stuff that was $2.50 a metre. I looked around the store a good 3 times, before I gave up and had to call Sharon. Anyways I called her and she literally directed me through the store and was able to get me to find the cording that she needed!! It was pretty funny. Yesterday I got to see one of the cushions,, and they look fabulous! I can't wait to put them into the benches!! You can't really see it, but this picture shows the corner that the window seat will be going into, and you can also see the beautiful ceiling fan that Ben has installed.

That's what I have been up to. This week my plan is to get a menu made and a pamphlet made up for the B and B. And then next week I get to start moving in furniture!!