Third house passes final inspection!

Last week I completed the brick work and roofing as well as window placement! This house is now ready for moving in to! Three houses down, only one to go! What a fun project this has been to stitch! I'm down to the last row. I think I will make sure the border matches up before I move on to building the next house. Two trees will need to be planted as well. Thanks for looking!

Breathtaking Sunrise

I was up early this morning before sunrise working...I took a second and turned my head to the east window and this is what greeted me! Is that just mother nature at her best??? You gotta love a day that starts this way!

Neighborhood progress...

I found some stitching time and finished up the willow tree, another sheepie, and on to "building" the next house.

On Wayne's garage front...here's a picture of it technically finished! We still have to have the driveway cement done and the raingutters...but it's done! Wahoo!



Okay...I guess that's all the excitement I have for today! Have a great weekend and I will too!

Spring is Here & Stitching Progress...

I wanted to show you a sweet little bunny basket my friend, Kathy Karchner, needle punched for me. Isn't it just the cutest? I put it among my new spring collection of goodies. The pattern is a Brenda Gervais design, but I don't know what the name of it is. I absolutely love it! Thanks Kathy for such a darling gift and for thinking of me!


Here's my progress on "Little House Neighborhood." I have another house finished and have moved onto the willow tree. I absolutely love willow trees on samplers! I want to have this sampler done before Ms. Cari comes for our spring fling...aka...the cleaning out of our parent's house in April. We're taking a little side trip up to Jill Rensel's for some framing therapy and I want to have it done or close to done so I can pick out a frame for it!

Blogging Slacker..

Okay...I've been slacking in the blogging department lately. I did take a wonderful class from Diane Clements with the Swan Sampler Guild about 10 days ago. At the class we learned the art of reticello...a form of lace making. Needless to say...I didn't have my prestitching done for the class, so spent most of my class time doing that. Here's a few pictures of Diane's finished sampler. The first one is of the reticello part and the other two are the top of the sampler. Diane was a fabulous teacher and is a very patient woman!





Hopefully my life will be exciting enough to add something to my blog at some point in the near future...at least the weather this week has been fabulous! YAY!

D-day, March 5, 2009...

Follow the link below...the house was demolished yesterday morning...Sickening, really...but now we can move forward.

http://www.picturetrail.com/sfx/album/view/21668603

(You'll have to block and copy the link into your browser because I can't figure out how to do a link!) Set it for a slide show and watch the place come down. It was hard but I'm glad I watched. It's amazing how something that takes 5 months to build can come down in all of 60 minutes. I have other pictures of the clean-up process and will post them later. We went last night after the workers left and picked out some brick to use in some part of landscaping in our new backyard. It was surreal to stand in places you'd been for years and not recognize where you really were,but we came back home to our new place and were very thankful for such a nice roof over our heads. Our friends have been dropping by today with cards and flowers...how nice is that? That, my friends, is why we chose to stay in this neighborhood, because of the wonderful people who live around us!

Wayne's garage is really taking shape. He's painting the interior right now, the stucco is curing and will be ready for the color if the weather would permit, then the exterior rock, and the driveway...and he can move in..or shall I say my basement can lose some funky items!

I spent the day stitching at a Swan Sampler Guild class. Our teacher was Diane Clements from Walnut Creek, CA. We are learning the great art of Reticello...(a fancy word for a form of lace). I'll take pictures and post them tomorrow. We had a blast!

4-wheeling fun!

Here are some pictures of us riding around on Scott and Kim's new 4-wheeler. Can't wait for warmer weather! I promise when we get to serious 4-wheeling, the adults wear helmets too.

Papa Wayne, Kenzie, and Brayden

Kenzie all smiles...

Brayden waits patiently for another turn...

Christy takes Kenz for another ride...

On the stitching front...I started working on Little House Needleworks "Neighborhood" again. I have it about one-third done! The next one-third is a row of two houses and a tree. There is just something soothing about this project. I'm really enjoying it.

And here's a picture of my lastest finishes hanging in my family room.