Well...who would have thought that I would find these treasures in Hawaii?

Sister Jess and I went out for a craft shopping trip while we were in Hawaii. We stumbled on an incredible selection of Pyrex and at the best prices we have ever seen. As usual the battle cry is, how will we get this home. After bringing home a Vitamix a couple years ago, everything seems easy in comparison. My sister bought a mint condition Friendship Cinderella Mixing Bowl Set exactly like this one. Incredible. She also got two Friendship baking dishes. One orange and one yellow.

 

My Pyrex find!! One red bowl from the Primary Color Mixing Bowl set that my mother in law had. She had the yellow and green in mint condition, but no red and blue. The red I found is in really good shape. I also got a 1.5 quart blue on white snowflake baking dish. It is lovely and mint. This is what it looks like. If I should win the lottery....I will be known as 'that crazy Pyrex lady'. I can hear Allan now, 'what does winning the lottery have to do with you being the crazy Pyrex lady?' Point taken.

Look what I came home to today!! Doors!! We have a kitchen!!

We have doors. We have a kitchen!!

Look glass doors. I have a plan for those. {see below}

This is what the kitchen looked like this morning.

My wonderful little Pyrex and Jadite collection!!

We have our table back.

And little Charlotte testing our temporary plywood counter top.

I rarely make two posts in a day. I've made an exception.

I am so excited. We have clear areas and the kitchen is semi-functional.

The dining room is almost clear. 

WE HAVE RUNNING WATER!!!!!!! 

{the sink just looks black in this ipad pic..it's actually stainless}

We have a stove in the kitchen....sort of. My Dad made us that rolling dolly about twenty years ago. Here it is again, being a life saver. 

I am cooking. 

We can do dishes in the half sink.

And I'm cooking. 

The kitchen renovation continues.

The project continues. The house is much easier to navigate now. I am so thankful to Allan and Rob for doing all this. 

We are a bit pinched in the living room still, but it is coming along. 

See...we can get to the back door now. Yayyy.

Our friend Rob is working on getting us water on the main floor again. I must say it is the only thing I really missed. 

A few pictures of the kitchen, and friend Rob. We have known Rob since high school. Nothing like an old friend. 

It has been 36 years in this house...time for a new kitchen?

At the moment our living room looks like an episode of hoarders. No I'm not kidding. We are having to scootch around boxes and furniture. 

Early on.

Half of the cabinets out. Look at that old paint colour. It was the 70's and almond was all the rage. 

Our kitchen corner in the living room. 

Getting there. 

New cabinets being assembled. 

Cute cat in the living room. 

Allan and Charlotte. 

Unearthed the 70's linoleum. Isn't that amazing. I gasped when I saw it. I remember thinking it was so beautiful 36 years ago. 

And these back splash tiles. We loved them. They were crazy expensive and such a huge decision. So did we really need them? No...but we loved them. They were $6.00 each. I was 22 and made $6.00 an hour. So these eight tiles were a day's pay. I was getting kind of emotional watching things come out. These are still on the wall, so I will ask that they come out when I'm not here. Who knew that kitchen reno's could stir such emotion. 

*Update: Allan got all of the tiles off without breaking them. I think I'm going to try to find a place in the garden for them.