Kitchen Handles and Canada Day

As I sit by the door waiting in vain for my new laptop cord to arrive, I decided to update the blog. My husband told me this morning that it's been three whole days since I posted! Three days! This is from the husband who I am with approximately 22 hours of every day. Babe, you KNOW what happened this weekend. You were there. Nevertheless, here is part one: Canada Day:

We had such fun at my Mom and Dad's for Canada Day. They decorated with lots of red and white-- flags, balloons, etc, and the kids all had Canada temporary tatoos-- along with some of the adults.

(Lily pulled away from me before her tatoo was set. Hers is the artsy version.)

 

There was delicious food, including my grandmother's famous cabbage rolls (I always call dibs on the leftovers) and my sister's yummy cupcakes-- decked out in red and white with letters on them to spell Canada Day. Needless to say, they were a hit with the kids. (Not so much a hit with us once it was clear the sugar high was going to keep them up till 9:30! lol)

We all had to wear red and white, if possible. Q had a t-shirt that came with his subscription to The Economist.

In case you didn't catch it, that's a little economist humour. And this is a little more economist humour:

And this sweet boy, my nephew Carson, turned three on the 29th:

 

What a cutie!

While we were gone there was work being done at home. The pulls are now installed in the kitchen. I love them. I can't believe I'm actually writing this, but we have SIX different kinds of pulls in the kitchen! lol! 4 styles, two of which are in different sizes. My favourites are these metal "thumbprint" pulls on the uppers:

They are dreamy. (Can handles be dreamy?) They were too chunky for the lowers, though, and we wanted handles on the big drawers, so we ended up with this:

 

These are all brushed nickel handles and pulls made by Richelieu. There are different pulls on the island, to distinguish it further from the rest of the kitchen:

 

(A little fuzzy, sorry.)

More kitchen photos to come, as well as an update from the rest of the weekend!

Comments

[Keshet Shenkar]

I remember when my parents were redoing our kitchen--there was much talk of knobs. I love your choices though!

[Cecile]

What a lovely family tradition! Next July 1st, whether I'm in Canada or not, I'm going to do something similar!
And your pulls are indeed dreamy!

[tracy]

Your knobs are so pretty, ok that didn;t come out right teehee.
So happy you had a good Canada Day. Our was OK, I blogged about it. We also tatted outselves out.

[TraceyT]

Your Canada Day photos are so cute. :)

[Eunice]

Yup, dreamy!
LOVE the stone countertop on the island too!!!! Very very dreamy!!!!

We still have our Canada flag hanging from the car :-)

[Barb]

Totally dreamy! I love those handles. They look an awful lot like the ones we chose for our bathroom last summer. :)

(Great Canada Day photos too, btw!)