It's the small things....

that can be so frustrating sometimes. This was a busy weekend with family gatherings and Christmas shopping. Not much work done on the kitchen renovation front. However, I decided tonight not to ignore the kitchen completely. This kitchen redo has forced me to rethink how I'm using furniture and other items throughout the house. Furniture has been shifted and moved. I moved a small table I have next to the stove since I don't have a real spot to set things when I'm cooking. I also decided that I wanted a small shelf to hold commonly used spices.

Here's a quick pic. This shelf took me 40 minutes to figure out how to hang without destroying my wall with huge amounts of wrongly drilled holes! It was the first time I've ever hung a hidden mount shelf.

However, now that I've done the first one, I know what to do. And it's even level! I'm going to work with this little setup this week. If I like it, the shelf and the table are in line for repainting when the kitchen is finished being painted.

Slowly but surely, it is all coming together.

They're Here!! & More

There is no lunch to post today. I'm going to a retirement party for a collegeau today and will most likely eat lunch out. I do have a bit of bento related news.

First if you look the right hand side of this blog, you'll notice all links are now bento-related. I've decided that this blog will be about bentos with a bit of my life and dogs interjected now and again. Any jewelry related items (which there have been little as of late) will go somewhere else.

Secondly, I must announce that THEY ARE HERE! The new cabinets I ordered from Home Depot that is. They are just simple wooden freestanding cabinets. I was so excited I snapped a picture of them still in the box.

I have three to put together. Since some of the sides seem to come preassembled, I'm thinking (hoping), it won't be too bad.

I'll show off pictures later of them assembled.

Kitchen Chaos

The kitchen renovation has begun. Here is a small picture of what's going on. I've sanded all the upper cabinets and painted the inside of one green. The pantry has been sanded and painted (picture to come at later date). I've cut new shelves for the inside of the cabinets and have started priming and painting those as well.

The walls have been washed and readied for painting. I'm hoping I can get some painting time in tomorrow! Hopefully I can get 3/4 of the kitchen done. Then, I can get the kitchen back into some sort of order so that hopefully by Monday I can have real food again.

Since this blog is as much about eating healthy for myself as well as bentos, I've had to eat fast food 1x during this kitchen renovation so far. UGH! I can't believe how much I ate that stuff all the time. It's sandwiches for the rest of this renovation. Better than fast food, but will get boring fast!