I feel excited and ready to take on the task of making (or finding) a light fixture for over the dining table. Here's some photos that give me hope and much needed inspiration to help me on my quest.
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Sunday, May 15, 2011
Fence Party!
Jacob driving the skidstear!
Our lovely lawn..
First BBQ of the year!
Wheelbarrow assembly
Catchin some rays
Snack time!
JD doesn't let the massive rip down the middle of his jeans get in the way of work! No sir.
Pops & RJ
Helper dudes!
Pros at digging holes
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Privacy!
Finally! We have doors up! Still have to put on the sweet antique door knobs though.
We recycled the doors that came with the house and added on some mdf to give the effect of a 5 panel door.
We recycled the doors that came with the house and added on some mdf to give the effect of a 5 panel door.
Thursday, April 28, 2011
Day Dreaming
Yesterday I had the wonderful opportunity of spending the day at the Island School with a fantastic kindergarten class.
I’ve been to Toronto Island numerous amounts of times but never really took into consideration that this is where 600 lucky people (or so) call home. That was until yesterday of course. The whole small town feel where the bus driver is also the caretaker of the school is incredibly endearing. The fact that the city core is right there, just a ferry ride away and yet feels so removed from the hustle and bustle is so appealing to me.
My hopes of someday maybe calling this little community my home was shattered upon further research.
When a property becomes available, it can't be put on the free market. Rather, it’s offered for a fixed price to the first hundred people on a five-hundred-person waiting list. The list is ranked, so if there are multiple interested buyers, the property goes to the person closest to the top of the list. If none of the first hundred people are interested, the property is offered to people further down on the list, but this is rare. Forty-seven properties have been sold since the system began in 1994.
FIRST you have to get your name on that list. Problem is the list is capped at five hundred, you have to wait for existing people to drop off. About three people get properties each year, and about fifteen to twenty leave for other reasons. After a critical mass of vacancies accumulates, a call for applications is announced, and vacancies are filled by a lottery run by the Trust’s auditors.
It costs $110 to apply to join the list, though you get $100 back if you don’t get a spot. Once on the list, you pay an annual fee of $35 to keep your place. The properties themselves range anywhere from $75,000 to $450,000.
Once you do the math you’re looking at about a 45 year wait.
BUMMER.
I’ve been to Toronto Island numerous amounts of times but never really took into consideration that this is where 600 lucky people (or so) call home. That was until yesterday of course. The whole small town feel where the bus driver is also the caretaker of the school is incredibly endearing. The fact that the city core is right there, just a ferry ride away and yet feels so removed from the hustle and bustle is so appealing to me.
My hopes of someday maybe calling this little community my home was shattered upon further research.
When a property becomes available, it can't be put on the free market. Rather, it’s offered for a fixed price to the first hundred people on a five-hundred-person waiting list. The list is ranked, so if there are multiple interested buyers, the property goes to the person closest to the top of the list. If none of the first hundred people are interested, the property is offered to people further down on the list, but this is rare. Forty-seven properties have been sold since the system began in 1994.
FIRST you have to get your name on that list. Problem is the list is capped at five hundred, you have to wait for existing people to drop off. About three people get properties each year, and about fifteen to twenty leave for other reasons. After a critical mass of vacancies accumulates, a call for applications is announced, and vacancies are filled by a lottery run by the Trust’s auditors.
It costs $110 to apply to join the list, though you get $100 back if you don’t get a spot. Once on the list, you pay an annual fee of $35 to keep your place. The properties themselves range anywhere from $75,000 to $450,000.
Once you do the math you’re looking at about a 45 year wait.
BUMMER.
Friday, April 22, 2011
family heirloom
Today my Nonna gave me a beautiful hand crochet bed cover made by her mother.
Said she was saving it to give to me and that someday I could pass it on.
I adore it.
Grazie Bisnonna.
Said she was saving it to give to me and that someday I could pass it on.
I adore it.
Grazie Bisnonna.
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