Handcrafted Christmas on Main Street

In the midst of my remodeling and moving, I must remember that Christmas is coming and coming very quickly! Forget my decorating the new house for fall, we're going straight to Christmas!

Last year some friends and I created "Handcrafted Christmas in the Cabin" and sold our handmade creations in a quaint little cabin that my father built. It was a great success and LOTS of fun! This year, someone is living in the cabin and I have a store on Main Street in Burnsville, so I have decided to do a one day "Handcrafted Christmas on Main Street".
I do sell Christmas crafts all year in my store, but this will be a special day with refreshments, a gift certificate drawing, and lots of new Christmas items that we'll be making for your gift giving.

I know it's a bit early, but I wanted ya'll to mark your calendars and plan to visit Privies & Prims on December 12th!

more "surprises"

When the contractor took the old toilet out today, the floor was rotted underneath it. Sooooo glad I decided to redo the bathroom!
Please keep us in prayer. We are supposed to move in this weekend and we may have to move in with mom and dad for a few days. Us and our 3 little dogs. :) Since mom and dad don't want 3 dogs, we need your prayers for quick finish!

Will add more photos tonight.

Doreen

We've Got Bittersweet!!!

If you're looking for fresh bittersweet we've got it at Privies & Prims in Burnsville, NC. Get yours before it's gone!

New renovation photos!

Don't know where the days have gone, but we're ~supposed~ to move in our new house in a just a couple days and boy oh boy is there still lots of work to do!!!
The bedrooms are being painted today and the new laminate floors put in the living room and bedrooms so we can move in this weekend. I gave up doing the painting myself cause I was just too darn slow! Decided to redo the existing bath with beadboard and I took out the glass shower door.
I still don't have internet at home and they even trasferred my home phone line yesterday, so no home phone. Soon we'll be camping out!
I'm becoming a regular at Home Depot as we never seem to get everything we need. That wouldn't be so bad except that Home Depot is 45 minutes away. Tonight I'm going to Lowe's which is only 30 minutes away. I ~thought~ I would be packing tonight, but there's materials to buy so the contractor has them in the morning.

Here's some photos. I've journaled right on the photos so you'll know what's happening. I'll take some more asap.
Enjoy!

delay posting photos

Verizon has graciously shut off my internet and turned it on at the new house a week early! No computer there yet, so that's not helping me any. :(
I'm on my mom's computer just for a few minutes and can't post photos cause I don't have the camera with me. I've got some new photos, but it will be a day or so before I get them online.
Stay tuned!

Day 1 of the remodel~unwanted surprises!

I was at my store until 5:00, so I didn't have much time at the house today. The contractor found some unwanted surprises. I expected some since it's an older house, built in 1962. The previous owner died a year ago and I'm pretty sure it was respiratory problems. After uncovering all the mold, I am not surprised that he had problems. I am SOOOOOO glad that we had to tear out the carpet or we wouldn't have found the mold.
Tonight my son and I tore out carpet and took up some of the carpet tacking. The smell in the house is very bad.

Tomorrow night I'll finish taking up the carpet tacking and shovel up the black stuff in the bedrooms. And, tomorrow we're wearing masks!

big day is finally here!

The long awaited day is finally here~I am now a homeowner once again!!!

Two years ago I sold my house and moved into a rental that was supposed to be for 6 months while I looked for another house. That was 2 years ago and we're just now buying another house.

This morning was the closing. I left the lawyer's office 5 minutes before I had to open my store, so I haven't even been to the house yet. But, my contractor is there and already starting on the remodel. That's important since we have to move next week and there is LOTS of work to be done before we move in.

I've posted a few photos for you to see what the "before" looks like and I'll post photos as we move along with the much needed improvements! We'll start tonight with ripping out the smelly shag carpet. :) It's being replaced with laminate.

Stay tuned for prim updates!