I’m about to move on to the dressing room, but here’s a peek at the new and improved toilet room. A proper before and after post with closeups of details will follow once I have the decorating buttoned down!
Dawson City
Shopping in Dawson City
Today, I went out shopping for frames for the toilet room pictures (can’t believe I forgot to pick those up down south!!!). I went into stores I’ve never before entered and their names just got better and better as I went along:
-Aurora, our full service office supply store.
-Peabody’s, our full service photography shop.
-the Dawson City Trading Post, which is a page right out of the Gold Rush era. They have all manner of late 19th century gear available, plus modern camping equipment. I wanted one of everything! 😀
-Maximillian’s Gold Rush Emporium, filled to the brim with books, toys, tee-shirts, and sundry items.
-The Raven’s Nook, which sells jewelry, sportswear, and souvenirs.
and, my favourite
-The Dancing Moose, which is your quintessential gift shop.
Found lots of frames, but none in the sizes I need. I guess I will need to hold off on the big toilet room reveal. 😀
Grateful for Hot Water
Blech. This summer has turned out to be just as rainy as was most of my winter on Vancouver Island. And it isn’t exactly hot out, either. But there is one joy in this damp fogginess: Every time I hear the water heater kick on, I smile and start to count down the time left till my next HOT shower!
I have to confess that I’m still reeling from shock that the water heater is indeed fixed and working perfectly. There hasn’t been a single hiccup with it since I changed the control board. That said, I’m not likely to take it for granted any time soon!
Waiting For Frames
Well, the toilet room is painted and the new curtain is up! I just need to find a couple more frames for the artwork and then the room will be done! Home Hardware has the correct sizes, but I want to see what I can find at the thrift store first. I found one perfect frame at the dump, so I’m optimistic that this won’t end up being the costliest part of the toilet room makeover!
No sneak peak; the room’s too small for that. 🙂 I’ll just say that it’s nearly perfect and exactly what I dreamed it would be.
Feeling Like the Weather
Bah.
I have been off Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons for a couple of weeks, so I decided to wrangle for tomorrow morning off as well, giving me my first full day off at home since I arrived in Dawson. I was pretty psyched to be off at 2 today all the way to 11AM Thursday morning and had a whole list of things that needed to be done.
Of course, I woke up with a sore throat. I don’t think I’m actually sick but rather in need of some rest. So, I put on a couple of movies I borrowed from the library and did something that only happens when pigs fly: I sewed. I don’t do sewing machines, so the project involved several hours worth of hand stitching after several hours worth of pinning and cutting.
This used to be part of a bedsheet and will soon be gracing the window of the toilet room:
just a teaser…
The print has grown on me since I bought the fabric way back in Campbell River and it just so happens to perfectly match three of the colours I bought in Whitehorse. So expect to see more of it. 🙂