Stain the cabinet

I got the cabinet sanded down this week and Haley and Brandon came over to look at it last night and loved it! I started on the stain today and it looks so good! Haley asked me to beat up and distress the edges of the drawers so I took a hammer and went to work. It went against everything in me to beat on something I built but I really like the way it looks. It’s not really noticeable unless you know to look for it but it’s a nice touch.

Before stain. We are going to put a piece of board at the bottom so you can’t see the supports and under the cabinet but we are waiting until we cut the 1/4 in plywood for the back and use a strip of that.

After stain.

I have almost as much stain on me as the cabinet has on it.

 

And because I always have to add a few dog pictures. This is what greet me every night when I head to bed. Kady thinks she needs to sleep in the very middle of the bed and Ki always claims the pillow.

Since I disturbed her she needed a good stretch.

And Pooh decided tonight that her new favorite spot to hang out is on top of the crate.

They are so weird.

Kitchen Cabinet

We finished building the cabinet on Monday. We worked on it all day and finally finished the doors a little after 6 right before N went on shift. I had to take pictures of it with my phone but I do have a camera now finally! We decided to take a break completely on Tues since that was his only day off then the cold front hit on Wed and it barely made it out of the 40’s with a strong wind and just dreary all day. I have to sand outside so there was no way I was going to start in all that. Nikki and Steve came into town Thurs afternoon for Steve to have knee surgery this morning so we still haven’t worked on it anymore. The weather should be perfect tomorrow so we’ll work on it then.

I’m hoping we’ll have it finished by this time next week. This thing is sturdy and HEAVY!! Moving it with the drawers in is impossible.

 

Nikki and Steve brought Patches up with them and Kady was in heaven!! At first Patches wasn’t on board with the crazy dog jumping all over her but they became great friends really fast. By the end of the night both dogs were exhausted and Kady slept like a rock and as soon as Patches left this morning around 10 she went in her crate and went straight to sleep! She’s been lazy all day after all her hard playing. Ki and Pooh just stood back and watched them have fun.

Some other pictures of the girls

Kady loves to look out the front door. We think we need to break this though because we don’t want her to scratch up the door or the glass.

It’s almost impossible to get all 3 of them.

And the reason we are always out of food.

He decided to eat cereal.

 

Nicholas worked at the Talladega race track on Thurs while they were practicing or doing time trials or whatever it is they do in the days before the race but he said it was really cool. They have a care center down right beside the track and he stayed in there most of the time. We have tickets to the race on Sun so we figure we’ll go out there for a little while, why not since they were free!  He flew over the house on his way back to the base so we got to see him fly over. That’s pretty cool. His company is working on bringing in new aircraft and they will allow family members to fly along on an aircraft transport so I’m really hoping he’ll get to go pick one of them up from Denver so I can go with him. It would be so awesome to fly back across the mountains and I’ve never had the chance to fly before so fingers crossed! We were hoping Oct would be slower than Sept but so far he’s ended up working a lot of overtime and everyone is stretched thin. He tried to get someone else to work today for him but it wasn’t happening and his boss told him that if he hadn’t known he was tired he would have asked him to work the rest of the weekend and straight into his next shift which would have been 21 days with only 1 day off. Yikes. At least he’ll have Sat and Sun off and will probably end up working on Mon. Maybe Nov will be slower???? I think it will because N needs a break.

I guess that’s about it around here. Oct is flying by just as fast as Sept did and it’s hard to believe we’ve been in Birmingham almost 5 months. We absolutely love it here and we are so thankful for everything in our life. This move was a huge new start for us, new job, new house, new dog, new life together and we are blessed.

Tool Time

I bought a table saw! It was an exciting day for me! A girl that lives in our neighborhood read my blog and saw the projects that I have worked on and asked up to build a cabinet for her kitchen that they are remodeling. After meeting with her and seeing what we had in mind I knew we would be able to get it done and I was excited. On Sat Haley and I went up to Cullman, AL  to Southern Accents and they had some of the coolest stuff! I knew they had a lot of reclaimed wood but I thought it was all off site in a huge gym so we were surprised to see they have a wood shop on site and a bunch of wood in the back. The owner was out at the gym with other customers so we had to wait for him to get back to the store to give us prices and cut the wood down so it would fit in my car. We got a fantastic deal on the wood for the face of the cabinet because Haley wanted rough reclaimed wood. The rest of the frame we built with plywood to save money and make sure it was very sturdy.

The new toy. It matches my miter saw.


Three drawers on each side and doors in the middle.

The wood needs to be cleaned up but it’s really pretty. I can’t wait to see if finished!


And because it’s not a blog post without some dog pictures.
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Kady Bell

She was sleeping with her tongue out like this. I had to take a pic of it.


My camera broke so I’m having to take all the pictures with my phone. I’ll be buying a new camera SOON because I hate not having one!