Three photos. First, the bathroom we saw in a photo on line and decided to emulate. Next, what we ended up with. Finally, a photo of the double vanity in our new master bathroom

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Today the back wall of the dining room was removed (and the sliding glass door turned 90 degrees so it will exit onto a deck). This joins the addition to the original house ( Read more... )

Or rather, one photo from this morning that shows how the new porch will completely change the look of the front of the house, and a graphic that shows the colors we've picked for the exterior.

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It's taken me a few days to get these latest pictures because it was just too unpleasantly cold and windy outside for me to want to go out and take them until yesterday afternoon. The roofs of the garage and the addition have to tie in to the roof on the existing house, which led to the unhappy discovery that under the still-perfectly-good ( Read more... )

The exterior walls for both the addition and the garage are done. The rooms in the addition have basic framing. This morning the trusses went up on both sections of the work. It feels like things are really moving along now!

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You should be able to compare these two shots to the previous entry in order to see how things are now beginning to change fairly quickly (allowing some delays for April showers).

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The former hole in the ground at the back of the house is now enclosed in various forms of concrete in order to become the crawl space below the addition.

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Two pictures of the back of the house: one taken last week before any of the work started and the other one from yesterday afternoon when the excavation for the addition was completed. [No concrete being poured today after all, since there are 2-3" of snow on everything this morning. But temps go right back up to the 50's tomorrow and the next ( Read more... )

For comparison purposes, here are some photos of original Anglo-Saxon jewelry and jewel-ornamented weaponry. First one is a sword hilt from the Staffordshire Hoard; second is the museum-piece brooch.

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These are photos of the event tokens I made for an SCA event that I was the autocrat of (think con chair) which took place last weekend. The event had an Anglo-Saxon theme, so the red tokens are in the style of the Staffordshire Hoard/the jeweled work of the Sutton Hoo find, and the bronze tokens are in the style of an 8th c. Anglo-Saxon brooch ( Read more... )