This weekend Mike and I did the usual Saturday stuff.... cooking, cleaning, laundry, groceries etc.... AND we continued on with the house project. The "project" is ongoing, but this Saturday Mike reached the "corner" of the tiling project in the house. ..
Woo Hoo... when this corner is finished our tile will be wall to wall and corner to corner....
the last little piece.... So are we finished tiling?!? NOOOOO.... we still have to grout, seal, mould and do the bathrooms.... AND.... there is one area we have saved til last to finish tiling... cuz... well... it's gonna take a little time....
The "Hutch"... I didn't take a before picture, but I found this one from last year... The "hutch" is filled with "milk glass" dishes. What is "milkglass" ?!?!? Well... my mom had some milkglass that I think she started collecting in the 50's... I think she got some of it with greenstamps... if you're not old enough to know what greenstamps are... just google it and I'm sure there is a history lesson to be found. 
So anyway... as years and moves went by... the milkglass was boxed up and I inherited it. At first I kept it boxed up too... then I decided I needed to unbox it and display it and maybe add a few pieces so the kids would know it was grandma's and now mine and an heirloom etc... SOOOO.... I added a piece here and there as I ran accross a cheap deal... and my brother added to it LOTS, especially at Christmas time, he would (and still does) give me more pieces .... BUT.... I never had a big hutch or the space to nicely display it and even use it once in a while... AND... when I "moved" it was again boxed up.
If ya haven't fallen asleep yet, there's a little more to the story....
Woo Hoo... when this corner is finished our tile will be wall to wall and corner to corner....
the last little piece.... So are we finished tiling?!? NOOOOO.... we still have to grout, seal, mould and do the bathrooms.... AND.... there is one area we have saved til last to finish tiling... cuz... well... it's gonna take a little time....The "Hutch"... I didn't take a before picture, but I found this one from last year... The "hutch" is filled with "milk glass" dishes. What is "milkglass" ?!?!? Well... my mom had some milkglass that I think she started collecting in the 50's... I think she got some of it with greenstamps... if you're not old enough to know what greenstamps are... just google it and I'm sure there is a history lesson to be found. 
So anyway... as years and moves went by... the milkglass was boxed up and I inherited it. At first I kept it boxed up too... then I decided I needed to unbox it and display it and maybe add a few pieces so the kids would know it was grandma's and now mine and an heirloom etc... SOOOO.... I added a piece here and there as I ran accross a cheap deal... and my brother added to it LOTS, especially at Christmas time, he would (and still does) give me more pieces .... BUT.... I never had a big hutch or the space to nicely display it and even use it once in a while... AND... when I "moved" it was again boxed up.If ya haven't fallen asleep yet, there's a little more to the story....
So the milkglass sat stored for quite awhile. When I met Mike I told him of my milkglass collection... I don't think he realized what a COLLECTION it was! SOOOO... our first BIG purchase when we were married was the hutch pictured above. When we got the hutch it was the first time EVER that I could unbox ALL the milkglass! It was way fun to finally be able to put the milkglass in a prominent and beautiful place.
The dilema is.... ya just can't move a huge hutch filled with milkglass... it has to be unloaded... SOOOOO...
The dilema is.... ya just can't move a huge hutch filled with milkglass... it has to be unloaded... SOOOOO...THAT is what I started doing Saturday... unloading the hutch onto the table and counter and washing all of it that got dusty during the "project".
So... that's the story of my milkglass, an update on our tile and that's how we spent Saturday! Life is good!
So... that's the story of my milkglass, an update on our tile and that's how we spent Saturday! Life is good!
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