IKEA Delivery!!!

Hey, this happened like two weeks ago. I had the new Studio flooring put in and if I haven't mentioned it yet; it needs to be replaced. The quality was awful and it was damaged the first day. We went round and round and finally opted to go with a different company. Oh, the saga and dramas of flooring!

It was pretty and it is pretty. I picked a much darker one. No date on when they will be laying that.

I borrowed the old office chair from my desk in my bedroom. That desk is going and so I nicked the chair. This is the first thing that I moved in my new Studio!!

Then, after I had moved a lot of stuff in the Studio and the men were knocking out the ceiling; our truck from Ikea in Dubai arrived! Yippee!!

A glorious 141 boxes of S C H T U F F!!

The local company that delivers to Oman from UAE only provided two men. I felt so bad for them!!

I got so mad at the ceiling guys because they always leave the screen or 'net' as they call it open. Thank you guys for all the mosquitoes and flies and bugs that entered our home! You can see some of our furniture made it outside!

Whew, almost done!! These are the big ticket items and Waqar was just looking. I tried to get him to do a jig for me but alas, he wouldn't play!

The guys heard me trying to persuade Waqar to do this jig and were laughing!

There is the painter. He is doing these side walls white and then there is a shocking blue. I hope Waqar's vision pans out and it makes me happy to be in here! We put all the furniture in the middle of the rooms as the man was painting and another man was putting up wooden baseboards or 'skirting' as they say here.

Lots has gone really wrong. We have 40 steps from the upstairs to our roof. I have been using those steps for the litter box and for my storage of crafts. Yesterday, it rained so very hard here and before the rain hit; the painter did not tell me he was actually painting. I thought he was prepping the walls. Anyhow, he put all my stuff that I have collected over the years on the roof. He opened the roof door for ventilation, I get it. Not a problem. However....when the rains came, he put a plastic cover over it and was watching the rain. The rain hits hard that side and the water was pouring into the house and running down the side of the steps and falling into the rolled up Persian carpets. WITH GREEN PAINT! Yes, we are painting our hallways green. The stupid fool was just watching my very expensive Quilting frames shipped from America get soaked. All my fabric stash (washed, ironed and neatly folded) that is to go into my new Studio was in plastic containers out there. I made him bring in about 40 packages. I was so mad. I opened the most expensive items, the frame (Hinterberg) and my SEWING MACHINE! The frame is alright and so is the machine but still. Now, he is back again doing the second coat and I am waiting for the rain to start up again. There is so much more but I won't bore you all. So, six weeks into this home remodeling is getting to me! I did assemble a couch on my own though. Pictures to follow....

Thanks for stopping by.

Lots to catch up on!

Thanks to Isra for letting me know that I did not post anything!! I have been having a hellish time with my internet connection. I got a new router and all is well but now the internet does not work in my new Studio so I am in the hallway or typing on top of boxes! So, here we go...

We went to Dubai to Ikea to choose all our new stuff. Love the blue and yellow! I got so excited and got this shot of the kids with Waqar walking in the parking lot towards the doors.

I'm not that savvy a photog so they posed for me, bless them! This embarked nine glorious hours of choosing 13 trolley's and 141 packages of furniture for the Studio; the kid's rooms; the Living Room and the Dining Room! Yeah baby!

Back in Oman last week we started to get rid of the furniture. In the far room, which is the DR, we started knocking out the ceiling. They started with the blue tarp on the floor. Meanwhile, the other men were taking out the furniture. Bye bye you freaking couch! No animosity here! Bye bye you bleepity bleep God forsaken ugly and O L D carpet! Clap clap!!

Well well! There they are! We had been looking for all of Uki's balls! They got caught under the couch!

Eek! Here is my sewing room. We need to get the Studio floor changed as what they gave sucks. More photos on that later. Then, all this stuff goes in the Studio and we can start knocking out the ceiling here and painting and all that!

The other side of my old room. That hideous couch is going to a new home that is yet to be determined! Yikes! I have Ikea shelves for sale! I have five but sold two already. I have three left!

Just so you can see how they are knocking out the ceilings. It gets really dusty and we asked them not to brutally destroy them but to slide them out so as not to emit so much dust. Did they listen?, heck no!

The poor kitties are freaked at all the noise. Especially Peaches. She has really been suffering. The vet told me to bring her to a friends' house or to the vet's for a few days. I have kept her with me. Does anyone know a vet in town that will declaw these two babes?

Now they were in the LR and the ceiling is gone. This is the rubble that needed to be picked up. See how he had to cover his face because of the DUST??!!

Waqar came home just in time to save the Bose speakers. You can see that a lot of smaller furniture is outside. Just today we brought it all in as it is supposed to rain tonight.

That is all from this one day. I'll come back and post more from last week's activities!