Jay’s Life

During a recent foster home visit I met a woman who had done some research on pet foods and recommended to me that I take a closer look at what I was feeding my beloved Happie.

I was feeding him Purina Pro-Plan food, it comes fairly well recommended and is a decent food but since we started him on that food years ago there has been a new development in dog food and the shelves are now overflowing with healthier more natural dog foods.

So today Jason and I went down to SuperPet and spent an hour and a half reading dog food labels in the healthy-food isle. We picked up Merrick Wilderness Blend Gourmet Entree’ dry food. Its made with buffalo, venison and salmon meat, and those actually are the top three ingredients on the label. Its also full of freeze dried carrots, potato pieces and whole peas, as well as apple and blueberries. We’re impressed enough by his reaction to it (he’s never been really interested in food and he was excited about this stuff) that we thought his table needed a setting more reflective of his tastes. (You’ll notice his bowl is licked clean)

You should check out the ingredients in what your pets are eating and re-evaluate. Merrick is coming out with a cat food in the spring, Pandora and Duncan are excited already (they ate the dogs food as soon as his back was turned).

So this is the general idea. Dark grey counter tops with black trim is a really nice look for less than a home depot counter top. Our real-estate agent thinks it’ll add real value to the place… but not until after we buy it, she was sure about that. lol

This is our pretty new tiles, white subway tiles, very trendy right now, I had no idea until watching TLC on saturday and we saw them on every show! So now I’m in style too, bonus!! We even came up with a new Life Lesson for TLC “just because you saw Mike Holmes grout tile doesn’t mean you know how”. We figured it out anyways…at 1:30am in a panic to fix it before the grout dried.

New dishwasher, my personal favorite! And the new microwave cabinet for extra storage and we gained back the cabinet on top of the fridge that was blocked by the microwave before.

So this is the new kitchen! Its not quite finished yet, we still have some minor details to work out….like repainting EVERYTHING because the cabinets are definitely yellowish compared to the white of the new tiles, appliances and microwave cabinet.

We’re really grateful to Glenn for coming down here and designing this for us and really making it happen…AND on such short notice, so sooner did we think ‘mmmm, new kitchen’ did he have plans and room in his busy schedule for us. We look forward to many family meals in our new space!

We also want to thank our friends for coming over to help and for thinking but not announcing how glad they are for having bought new homes from builders. lol

Unfortunately I never got around to taking a picture of my kitchen when it was all set up and clean….probably because the clean part was so rare. But I have ‘before’ pictures from after we emptied all my stuff out.

To my old kitchen I say “screw you tacky fruit fake tiles!” Some people just have such terrible taste. Check out this pic from before we moved in.

This is the disaster we got to work with when we moved in. First thing was to rip out all the fruit boarder, fruit light switches etc. but those fake fruit tiles were a real pain. We replaced the fridge with a fancy new one and replaced the stove with our own. Then we painted all the walls my favorite colour of all time…turquoise!! Yay! We also put in some more modern lighting that was directional and brighter. I’m a big fan of my kitchen and I can’t wait to have more room in it!

Next step: Built in dishwasher, new counter top and MORE SPACE!!! YAY!!!

I wanted to show off these pretty napkins with matching napkin rings and wine stem decorations Alison MADE for me for Christmas!

The napkins are black cotton with embroidered paw design and the rings are braided copper wire with femo draw print decorations.

The wine stem decorations are braided copper wire with femo decorations and matching turquoise beads.

I’ll post with information about how to purchase your very own set ASAP!!

I’m in love with them, Thanks Al!