Around the house with some renovation work continuing

Hello again ☺ When you roast a chicken do you split it ie: as in down the middle and spread it apart? The man here is real good at this and I am real good at the marinating side...this one had garlic, chili, ginger, soy sauce, tomato sauce and dash of maple syrup....marinated for half a day and roasted at 190 for just over 1hr....delish and the left over chicken breast made great sandwiches next day and also froze some for later use ☺☺

Look the sunflower has now reached higher than our spare bedroom window.....little face has not opened up yet.....

Ah and some doves have homed in on the bird feeder area, think they may end up too fat to fly lol

No sign of the cockatoo, but then again it may just visit when we don't see ☺

Zoomed back out and the back yard is looking quite neat  

The toilet door and inside is now all complete and we are very happy with it's new sliding door via laundry ☺☺

You can just see the man outside who now is going to tackle more of the rip apart stuff on the bathroom renovation

An asbestos guy came to remove the sheets around and under the bath.....

And yes that is newspaper now around the bath because I found looking under the bath area rather creepy lol, yes I am strange like that.....

Soon to all be removed out completely......

This is where the toilet door used to be and now just a wall, really a wasted short hallway which will soon be part of the bathroom area and the man is busy ripping this area apart.......

I am enjoying working on that cal Sophie's universe....

Making my mum some new mittens and scarf for her 90th birthday present with some bendigo wool purple haze mohair ☺

And that sock which I ran out of yarn but have some other which has pink so lets just see how this goes.....

Do you have one of these? It is a portable smoker and the man is real good at smoking chicken ☺ Yet to try out fish which I would love but he does not eat lol

This time he used hickory wood chips 

And yum here are the smoked thighs (skinless) and have just shared one with him and oh so tasty ☺

The rest are now in the freezer for enjoying again another time, we love keeping the freezer stocked with quick ready to eat items ☺

How is your weekend going? Bloody hot here and keeping cool inside ☺☺

See ya again soon mateys xoxoxo

Just a short post ☺

Quick drop in here just to share what I am doing for now ☺

Started the partner for the sock I completed so let's hope I do not take 2 months to make this one lol

Finished some more mittens too

Still working on the Sophie's Universe crochet cal too and enjoying slowly while I spend time wasting/lurking enjoying other peoples wonderful creations of colour on the computer too ☺

The man has done a great job on the new toilet door and doorway is now finished, just tiny touch up's inside the loo ☺

And we got this lovely post card from his girl who we call Missy ☺☺

Thank you Missy and lovely to have a post card from all the way over the other side Venice! Beautiful ☺☺

She has been gone for ages, many many months and we miss her but she is having a wonderful time ☺☺

Hope those of you with snow are keeping warm and for those of us in summer now keep cool

We are about to have a little trip to catch up with our van club which we see a few times a year

Thank you again for visiting my little blog place

xoxoxo ♥♥

Doing a CAL (crochet along) Sophie's Universe and home stuff

Hello again, look I think the crochet mojo has come back.....yay

I have joined a crochet along over in ravelry and main part is on facebook, so feel free to join in  ravelry link free pattern sophies-universe-cal just add to your ravelry queue and is 20 weeks with each release on a Sunday...you end up with a colourful or plain square blanket with instructions later to turn into a rectangle ☺

Or facebook page if interested

Some mittens I have now completed for my son to give to him for his birthday present, with that hat and few others things...HAPPY BIRTHDAY to him today xoxo

Here is the crochet along all started and next to pictures showing the change as I add colours 

Looks quite different with the grey added and rather like a pansy ☺

Almost completing the first 2 parts.....very happy with this

And as an update on that toilet, here is the sliding door all complete with yes a bat ☺☺

View on the other side into loo, with the man now just doing a bit of paint touch ups..

And final photo is of the man burning    flaming the steak edges lol 

Hope you all out there are well and happy xoxoxoxo

The beginning of some changes here

Well look here.....the man getting started on a little change we had in mind...

This is actually going back to how I started my blog when we did the laundry renovation beginning-of-laundry way back in April 2012...so today is on a new start

Needing to move this light switch too

A door on the right is going to be a sliding door where you can see a tiled wall on the right....reason being, the door on the left is going to be removed and a wall will be there instead ☺

Cutting into the plaster on the laundry side of the wall

The man cut through the tiles with a plan to swing it over to this door's side and hey presto we will have a wall instead

Some tiles fell off but that is okay they are still good

Doorway fully cut

Sliding door in place temporarily, but you see what I have been telling you ☺

Moving the tiled wall around

See, all cut through on the toilet side

I did a little bit of helping with moving the tiled wall around and.....

There it is now in place where the old door was, no access from the hallway now, you go via the laundry

Other side of the tiled wall and some time in the future this little hallway is going to become part of our bathroom, which is in serious need of update ☺☺

This section will end up with a wall flush with the wall on the left

And here is that pathetic bathroom lol

We plan to put a bath where the shower is on right ie: extended by changing current toilet door and walling it up....and then basin which you cant see....with a half circle type shower on the right at back wall, with a toilet on the left at back wall.....big changes are afoot ☺☺

But for now back to some crocheting....I have made this hat for my 2nd son for his birthday and amazing how different that green looks in these 2 pictures....

I think he will be happy with it and also currently doing some fingerless mittens too

Any changes happening at your place?

Thanks again for the great comments left here, they really can brighten my day a bit ☺☺

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