Out of Sorts!

 Someone has been "out of sorts" lately.  Her PURRFECTLY ordered world has been turned upside down.  We have just finished an upgrade to our main bathroom which meant we were using the small bathroom where Cici's food and water dishes are as our sole bathroom for about a week.  And then, WE WENT OUT IN THE EVENING!  Yes, we went to the Marshall High School play, Deadly Deal, because one of my piano students was in the cast.  Andi did a wonderful job and it was really fun to go out and do something like that.  The cast was small, the crowd (can hardly call it a crowd) was small and it was fun.  We also realized we hadn't been in the high school since Sarah graduated almost 5 years ago.  There were new doors at the entrance (making it look like a prison in my opinion), new doors to the gymnasium (looked great!), and new seats and flooring in the little theatre - very nice!  After the performance, we lingered in the commons just looking around.  Sarah's picture and plaque are still hanging there for having over a 30 ACT score and/or over a 4.0 GPA.  She had both.  I noticed they have not added any of these to the wall since she graduated.  So, in the midst of all this reminiscing, we somehow forgot (gasp!) to put more food in Cici's dish before we went to bed that night.  To make her displeasure at this situation very apparent, she got up on the kitchen island in the night and tipped over a vase of flowers.  When I found the mess in the morning, there was no water on the floor.............because I had left a pile of piano student checks, receipts, and my notepad with my To Do list on the counter which had sopped up all of the water.

I managed to peel the checks and receipts apart and hang them on the oven doors to dry out.  The flowers hit the trash can as did the notepad with the To Do list.  So, in making Lemonade out of the Lemons, I told the hubster I guessed that meant I could just do whatever I wanted for the day!

Even Willow has been trying to make Cici feel better!

You can imagine how well that is going over!

And the new bathroom..........

New tub, tile, fixtures.............

Same countertop, but new cabinet.  The new cabinet has been in place for a couple of months, but then this project stalled due to the tile work.  I finally suggested to my "do-it-yourself-husband" that we could hire the tiling done and he jumped at it!  He really doesn't like tile work.

New light fixture over the counter..........unfortunately the hubster broke the mirror (7 years!) so we are headed to Sedalia this evening to return extra tile and other stuff and pick up a mirror.

Lest you think that the sewing room has been abandoned (it almost has), there is one finish to share.......

For you Star Wars fans, this is Sarah's BB-8 quilt that she designed and helped piece last summer.  She asked Mary Durham to quilt it and purchased the backing, a gray snuggle fabric that was NOT fun to hand stitch the binding down on, but it's FINISHED!

Well, maybe I'm off to the sewing room today to play with the long arm........we'll see!

Christi