Wordless Wednesday: My First Estate Sale Treasure! {linky}

Hubby and I discovered the magic of an estate sale this weekend. We brought home a few really amazing pieces, but this tea trolley is my biggest prize.

It only cost us $25 and it needs a little bit of love, but it is an absolutely PERFECT addition to our new home!





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Adventures in Moving: Renos Part 1- The Floors

Hello friends! As promised, I am bringing you updates on our BIG move. Here is the first instalment of a series of posts showing off our progress.

How in the world will I ever get you caught up on our last 2 months? It will be a process, but we've got to start somewhere... Floors!

The white ceramic tiles in the hallway HAD to go! Forget the aesthetics- I have a toddler running around! We get enough bumps and bruises as it is. Rock hard floors are not an option!

A different version of the accident-waiting-to-happen, cold, white floors were lurking in the living room- dining room.

Demolition time!

Bye bye tiles!

So it turns out that we are very lucky. After ripping up the tiles, removing the glue and cement that was holding them in place, and a layer of plywood, the original hardwood floors from 1956 were still mostly intact below!

Next step: sanding...

...and staining...

... and sealing...

Stay tuned for more updates and a look at the finished product!

Until next time... stay cool, dudes!

Adventures in Moving: Updates

You all may have noticed that I've been either MIA or hiding behind my book review posts for the last few weeks. The first step to recovery is admitting you have a problem- right? I confess. I have been hiding. No question. Procrastinating as much as possible so as not to have to do a move update. Guilty.

It's coming. I swear it is. 

Here's my defense: 

1. Our move did not go as smoothly (not even close) as planned, as evidenced by previous posts.

2. The amount of work we ended up doing in the house ran over time due to unforeseen issues, so while we moved our things in on the scheduled moving date, we did not actually sleep in the house until about 5 or 6 days later.

3. Once we finally got in to our new house, this mama also started a brand-spanking new job, so the moving-in process has greatly slooooooooowed.

4. Softball. MamaKujo and hubby, The Funny Accountant (shameless plug- but notice how little time he's had to keep up with his blog posts, too!) both play softball. Our evenings do not exist most weeks.

5. The Kujos went on our first family vacation to Cape Cod for a week. That also means we spent the week before prepping and packing, and the week after cleaning and doing laundry.

6. In between all of this craziness, we have had numerous out-of-town guests come in to town to visit plus other family obligations. 

Mea culpa. 

I promise that I will get myself together, collect my thoughts and pictures (and get over my frustration at the lack of progress I've made despite wanting to share with you all a perfectly organized and decorated home by now) and provide a beautiful, complete update as soon as humanly possible. 

Thank you all for your support and patience! 

Big hugs and kisses!

Adventures in Moving: Week 1 Recap

Also known as the week from H. E. Double Hockey Stick or more affectionately known as the week Mama Kujo lost it (like, actually).

To be fair, it's not just moving and new house troubles that nearly caused my complete mental breakdown this week. As I hinted at previously, we are enduring some occupational complications as of late. Overall, it's been a week of dealing with a lot of inconsiderate, nasty, disrespectful human beings across the board. I really wish common courtesy was something required to be learned by everyone in life before being allowed to interact, unsupervised with other human beings. Don't you?!

Now that the rant is over, thank you for letting me spew that negativity all over your day/evening. :)


I am beyond exhausted, so this recap will really be the briefest possible debrief before I shut down for the night and crawl into my warm, cozy, always-courteous bed.

Remember when I shared this beautiful photo of what our new home looked like...?

Well, THIS is how we actually received it. Disrespectful, inconsiderate, and rude only scratches the surface of what I actually would like to say.

Aside from the mess above, the inside wasn't much better. (You DON'T want to see some of THOSE pics!) We also had to fight and argue and threaten in order to actually get all of the keys to the house the day AFTER we were supposed to.

Then there were the conflicts with our new city's public works department. I won't even start with the lovely "welcome to the neighbourhood" experience I've had this week with certain individuals at the City of Cote St Luc. I won't call her out by name, but suffice it to say I was treated in such a fashion that I left the office in tears (after 3 days of trying to rectify the above trash situation which we did not cause). And let me tell you... it ain't easy to break this Mama down in public. So, yeah, thanks for that Public Works Lady!


Aggravated yet?! And that's only the most surface coverage of what has ACTUALLY transpired these last few days (on top of my job stressors). Thank heaven and every guardian angel I might have for my daughter, my husband, and few VERY key mummy-friends out there (you know who you ladies are!) for helping me find a way to keep it together this week! And an EVEN BIGGER thank you to my hubby's family for helping us out with keeping Little Miss entertained while we deal with all of this grown up stuff!!!



On a positive note, our contractor, David, from Dash Construction and his entire team have been absolutely wonderful to work with, and TOTALLY respectful ;) . Awesome to work with, super helpful, great at what they do, and I am LOVING the results so far! (Full before and after pics to come!)

In the meantime, check out this little bit of transformation so far:

Can't wait to share all of the excitement with you! Stay tuned for more fun (and WAY less negativity, I PROMISE!!!)!

Nighty night!

MamaKujo

Adventures in Moving

I haven't been as active in my writing as I would like to be lately because there is just so much going on with the Kujos these days. My Little Miss is starting at a new "play school" soon (she's going to be 18 months old! Tear...), we are closing on our new house this week, this mama is on the hunt for new job opportunities, and that's aside from the ever-changing day-to-day craziness! Oh yeah- and packing! Yikes!

Almost ours!!!

As our adventures continue, I promise to keep you all apprised of any and all hilarious, useful and/or useless discoveries that come our way.

In the meantime, I leave you with this...

WE LOVE SPACE BAGS!!!!!!!

Seriously, this is ALL of our winter clothing: coats, hats, scarves, sweaters, fleece pull-overs. EVERYTHING!!!