I am so excited that this is coming to an end. By "this", I am referring to my flooded basement and subsequent gutting and remodeling. The kitchen is the last big part. God really does have better ideas and better timing than I do. I wanted to remodel our main kitchen but when the basement flooded and we realized we were going to have to really fix it, the main kitchen got to take a back seat, again. Fixing it involved completely gutting it down to the studs, jack hammering the floor to install french drains, re-framing, drywall, and new floors. At the beginning of this mess, I was so depressed. I did not want to spend all this money in the basement where nobody would really see it. It was right up there with the new HVAC equipment we had to purchase the prior year.
I honestly did get angry. I did not see how this could be a good thing. I cried out to God and He showed me how silly I was being. This was not life threatening. This was not sickness or disaster. This was a minor inconvenience. This was merely a small bump in the road. But God uses even the small bumps to teach us. He uses these inconveniences so that we leave ALL things to Him, not just the big stuff. Before the demolition had finished and the dust had cleared, we had realized this was a blessing.
The kitchen in the basement would make the remodel upstairs much more bareable. I have some annoying food intolerances so eating out frequently makes me really sick. It became obvious how crazy I had been to think I could go without food for the 4-6 months it would take to remodel the kitchen. God knows me better than I know myself and He amazingly and sometimes miraculously meets our needs.
When all is finished, this kitchen will make a wonderful soap kitchen. I will have storage for all my finished soaps and all my soapmaking supplies. It will also be a wonderful space for my guild to have sit-n-sews without burdening my husband and girls. My girls have finally decided they like sewing and this space is so wonderful for all of us. We all have room to sew and not get in each others way.
Hello. I saw your post on funnel soap on Teach soap and saw the reference to your blog. Now I've spent the last hour reading your blog. I love it. Love the soap kitchen...I'm jealous :) Do you have a picture you could post of the funnel idea?? I'm horrible at swirling and I can't quite picture what you're talking about but I love the way your soap turns out. Thanks
ReplyDeleteThanks! Yes, I will post some soap swirl pics. The "pretty princess" (Smurfy post) soap swirl was an experiment...I just put half in one pitcher and half in the other and poured it into the mold at the same time. I think I like this swirl best!
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