The Kitchen Is Still On The Back Burner

I found this one today.  Three things I am liking.  The hanging lights.  The bead board sides and door fronts on the island.  I actually like the sink but wouldn't want one.  We had a bigger model of this in the kitchen I grew up in.  And it marked and stained so much, and my mother bleached it so often, that she wore the porcelain finish off.  Ruined the sink.  Stainless is much more forgiving of careless sink use (not that I would EVER bleach a porcelain sink surface).  Soapstone sinks are very nice but they are flat on the bottom so there is always water in the sink (never completely drained).

I found another yellow cabinet kitchen on Houzz but the site wouldn't let me transfer the photo to the blog.  It had a soapstone sink you could wash a medium sized dog in.  Not Riley.  I liked the cabinet design very much. I'll keep trying to transfer it.

But.... I remain indecisive.  The carpenter put a thought in my head I can't quite shake.  He said "why not buy a smaller, more energy efficient new house with everything you want instead of changing this one which is really too big for the two of you".  In my heart of hearts, I would like a new, smaller house.  This one has too many rooms we never use.

How many of you have downsized to a smaller more efficient house? Do you recommend it????

Today we did errands.  Joann's to buy tightly woven white cotton to make pillow covers for the feather inserts I have for my sofa pillows.  It's not tight enough.  The feathers keep getting out.  It seemed like all the fabric in the store was 30% off, which was okay with me.  I got 4 yards which should be more than enough to do all the inserts I have (in use and in the attic) and it has a bit of spandex in it to make it more flexible for pillow stuffing. The clerk said it could be used for pants. Then Goodwill to drop off things and look around.  I found a wonderful bowl (I am always looking for the "perfect bowl" for oatmeal and soup) and this one seems pretty darned perfect-- and only 99 cents.  If I had only one bowl-- I want it to be perfect.  We'll see.  Then we stopped at the library, the bank and a store where G said they had red eyeglasses frames.  They did not.  Then we came home.

I tried to find a small packet of cream colored wool (cashmere) yarn (@Joann's) with which I can repair about four holes in a cream cashmere cowl neck sweater.  Looks like the front of the sweater got snagged in a zipper. No luck.  I thought I might ask my Readers if any of you have about 2 yards of cashmere wool in cream that you wouldn't mind sending me (selling me).  The sweater cost me only $2 and will probably only be worn around the house or under something else so it's not super important that the weight or color is a perfect match.  I just don't want the holes to get any larger. I can probably add small appliquéd circles over the holes.  But that still means finding cream cashmere or baby wool.  I've never repaired a sweater before.  I think you just weave the sides of the hole back and forth, up and down and hope for the best.