NEW FOOTSTOOLS FOR THE HOUSE

On our way home we passed by the hardware store inside Starmall to buy some plumbing materials that Jun would need this weekend to fix the kitchen sink, change the p-trap as it may be leaking. He also bought us a new shower...yipee! My daughter would be so glad! Then, as we were getting near the cashier, I saw the foldable footstools at 50% off! I had been eyeing the said stools for quite some time now since I saw them about a month ago siguro...but they cost about 250 for the small ones and 350 for the big one, but now that they are being offered at 50% off, I immediately decided to buy some...after all they're only gonna cost less than 500 for two small and a big one for my room. Yipee! I know they're not the hofa ones that I would've wanted but close enough so they would do...

NEW PURPLE BEAN BAGS

Last year, around December, my sister offered to me some purple bean bags on sale. It was currently being sold thru internet shopping at PhP1200 – 1500 depending on the material of the bag. But my sister (who works for an inet shopping company) was able to get a discount and so she offered me the deal for just 1K. Well, I have always dreamt of having my own beanbag – my first encounter with it was a red make-believe leather number in my uncle’s house at Fort Bonifacio. It was inside his air-conditioned bedroom and whenever we are allowed to enter his room, I always make a beeline towards the beanbag and savor the softness and coldness I encounter while ensconced within the beanbag’s folds. Then, once again in my father’s old condominium in Makati he had his own black beanbag but this time it was made of a soft material that felt more like getting buried in sand – I knew then my love affair with the beanbag wasn’t over and I just had to have my own someday. And that day finally came when my sister offered them to me on sale pa---yipee! In fact, I went out and bought two--- one for myself and another for my daughter. I can just imagine myself enjoying lazy afternoons reading a book and dozing off and doing pretty much nothing else. Oh thank God for small favors like these…!

MY DAUGHTER'S CABINET UPDATES

At long last after one month, my daughter’s cabinet is finished! Well, of course he is only able to do the cabinet during weekends and sometimes at night he does his sanding and ‘masilya’. He started the cabinet on January 20, it was a three-day weekend then and by the time we went back to work he was finished sanding the wood and had already assembled the cabinet. The next weekend (January 28-29) was BP time so there was not much work done. Then, the following weekend was our time to stay at home (February 4-5) and he was able to finish painting it with primer paint. (pics on the left and right)






Then, the next weekend (February 11-12) was our BP time again though before we left we already bought paint in the color that my daughter wanted – lilac. So it was only on the next weekend (February 18-19) that the hubby was able to start the paint job and when we got back from our weekend sleepover at Sofitel - surprise! surprise! The cabinet’s finished! What’s even more surprising is that he has started doing my cabinet too! Thank God for giving me such a handyman like my husband!

A NEW PROJECT – TV RACK FOR THE NEW TV!

After about a week of rest, the hubby once again embarked on a new project – this time to construct a new TV rack for the new TV, but of course! The old one just won’t do since we would have to remove the top shelf just so our new 32-inch TV would fit in the old rack. He started making the rack yesterday from leftover wood that he scavenged. And today, he finished assembling it and had even painted the cabinet with white primer before he came in to dinner tonight. I guess he’s getting quite good at it because he seems to need less time to accomplish the cabinet itself. It helped, too, that he used a mechanical saw to cut the wood into the size that he wanted. Aside from being quicker, it was less strenuous than using an ordinary saw. Well, here’s a picture of the cabinet. He planned to paint it black but we still have to buy the paint. He also wants to install glass doors for it, but we have to find where to buy it and have it made by someone else coz he sure doesn’t know yet how to make that kind of a door, will provide more updates soon…

THE KITCHEN CABINET IS FINISHED!

Here are just some updates on the hubby’s cabinet-making project. After three weeks of sawing and sandpapering and hammering the cabinet mostly at night after eating dinner and also during weekends, he was finally able to complete the cabinet construction including the plywood at the back and the cabinet doors which he had a bit of difficulty making. Then after another week he finished painting it and so here’s a picture of the cabinet and how it looks inside the kitchen. I thank God for my husband for being a true handyman around the house. In all we spent just something like 2K for the wood and the paints, such a cheap amount to spare to create something so beautiful and useful. If I were to buy something like this at a furniture store, I am sure it would cost so much more than that!

NEW CABINET PROJECT

Today, I was surprised when the hubby arrived after buying some wood and begin another cabinet project for the kitchen. Last year, he started to make a cabinet for my son (I think it was around July) but when he had a huge gash on his right hand that required more than ten stitches (while he was playing with the cutter), I guess the hubby had a bit of a trauma and had refused to do anything at all that was related to carpentry. Well, that’s just what I thought we never really talked about it though. He just stopped making anything wooden after that.

Well, that was until last week when I mentioned to him that the kitchen needed some redecorating, for instance, we need a new cabinet so that I would be able to fix some of the things that are just stocked underneath the sink – like the turbo broiler, the rice cooker, the blender and some pots and pans that are longing to be displayed. I wanted some new cabinets for under the sink too but I don’t think we already have the money to commission someone to do that for us. So I guess I’ll just have to wait until we have more money to spend. Meantime, I am thankful that the hubby has returned to carpentry once again and this has kept him busy puttering about in the garage with his tools and his paints. He keeps me awake in the afternoons with his banging and his electric grinder but I’m happy I would have a new cabinet soon.

Here’s a picture of the cabinet he made for my son last year. And the cabinet he has been doing for the last 2 days … I will post more pics once the kitchen cabinet is completed!

SHOPPING FOR THE KITCHEN

We needed some new items for our kitchen like a new dish drainer because our previous one was bought about ten years ago…when we moved here to Bulacan and so expectedly the plastic cover had become quite brittle and broken in a few places and hence provides no protection at all to the dishes inside. I would’ve wanted my dishes to be organized inside built-in kitchen cabinets (something like the San Jose Kitchen cabinet system)… but alas I don’t think I have that kinda money to buy such cabinets just yet and so I had to settle for the next best thing…

We found the dish drainer from Orocan at the SM Homeworld, they were on sale so the price was something like P999.00 from a previous price of PhP1200, I think…We also bought a new rice dispenser with a 25 kilos capacity because our old dispenser could only hold 10 or 15 kilos and so most of the time the rice left in the sack would be infested by rats. Finally, the hubby decided, too, to replace our old thermos since the one we had been using couldn’t keep the water hot for an entire day so we had to heat water again if we wanted to have another round of coffee in the afternoon. We bought a few other knick-knacks like some black bowls and some water jugs so our total bill amounted to about PhP4,000.++ The clothing allowance we were expecting since early January is yet to be given to us so I used my credit card for the meantime – thank God for plastic!

NEW FENCE FOR THE HOUSE

Over the weekend, the hubby and a few relatives (Kuya Ric and Rely) came over to start work on the fence…he renewed his loan from Pag-ibig and from it he got around 17K, just enough to start buying materials for the fence like steel rods (for the posts and flooring), cement, hollow blocks, gravel and sand. It was supposed to be just Jun and Kuya Ric but just our luck that Rely (our pamangkin and Ditse’s eldest son) got into a fight with his wife and so he took off bringing a big bag of his clothes with him. And so he provided a much-needed extra pair of hands so that the fence construction will go along smoothly. You see, what I really wanted was to have a small bedroom constructed on top of the garage/extension but our budget was quite limited. In fact, the 17K would not be enough so that the hubby had to take out another loan (from their office COOP fund this time) since we had to pay a teeny bit pa for labor and food of the workers while they are working. But all the expense is just OK…at least we’ll be able to get a bit more privacy and even security with the construction of our new fence…the only bad thing was…all our plants were destroyed!!! See that small shrub on the right side? They tried to move it to a different location but made the mistake of not including a bit of soil when they took out the plant and so some of the roots were cut…and it withered and died after just a few days so I guess we weren’t meant to have a shrub like that – sayang! We just trimmed it and shaped it a few days ago and then it died lang! Even the palmera (the plant given by Mama when we moved in) had to be sacrificed because the tree itself lay on the path of the left wall…oh well, I guess that means we just have to plant new ones na lang… there’s still some space left pa naman on the left side of the house e…