Happy Birthday Deborah....may the next year for you be the Best yet.
I Love you baby girl.
Mom.

Painting In Progress

Ok, so last night came and went...but I finally made it in here tonight.
Since I've not been able to write anything in here...for quite awhile...
or post any pictures to Flickr...I've been busy and have gone an' torn out my living-room carpet, did a run to the dump, and then started priming the living-room walls. Well, I've slowly...and when I say slowly, I mean slowly...have been priming the living room walls so I could paint and put in my hardwood floors. (the wood is in a pile in the middle of the kitchen floor - see below). I'll tell you what though...my dogs have not been happy campers....for one ...the couch is covered in plastic, so they've had to use the floor. (poor babies). Ok, so there's the before picture of my living-room up above:
(It's a bit small and crowded, but comfy).

Here's the living-room today:







And here's the pile of 'living-room floor' in the kitchen:

(...this was the easiest for me to install by myself)

The flooring is Pergo and is suppose to be indestructible to dogs.
(lets see how it stands up to three of 'em -
I'll let everyone know in a year or so).

Wow....how time flies by (when things have gone haywire).

The last time I posted....everyday life was just cruzing right along.....Then....then, in the same day (no, I don't remember which one), my car broke down and then.... that same night my computer crashed. I'm not going to go into a lot of how I got it all fixed, because both are fixed and I can get on with life now. Tonight I'll come back in and post some pictures and the where-with-all's of what I've been up to.
Thank you to those who have been coming by since I've been MIA.
Until tonight then......

My apron is finished

Yea, it's done! Now what to do? That's actually a stupid question. I've got a million projects to finish up around here. An' It's only going to get harder as the sunny days come on.

About my sewing room? Yes, it is as cluttered as it looks....and no, there isn't much I can do about it.....not right now anyways. (I've also posted this photo in the group of "My junky messed up living space" at flickr....it only seemed right). Ever since I inherited my Grandmother's and Great Aunt Jane's 'sewing rooms', mine's never been the same. In this picture you can can see two of my sewing machine's, one covered and the one back on my 'beading' table. The one's you can't see are the Treadle and the 'Stradivaro' (which is in the shop right now getting a tune-up). Then there's the one I have in another bedroom that is sadly missing it's bobbin cradle. It is also a combination of a treadle and motor run machine. OK, so does that make it 4 now? (I thought it was 5.....I know that dang thing is around here somewhere - I'm laughing out loud at that statement).

Ok, about projects....(yes... a new one). I've got all of these beautiful vintage fabrics that were handed down to me, and I've just decided on a project for them. Those of you who have Kaffe Fassett's book 'Passionate Patchwork'... look on page 13. That antique quilt is what I've decided to make with all these vintage pieces. It's a beautiful antique quilt and all of those fabric's in that quilt are so close to what I have in this pile. I've heard it said that keeping fabric's in plastic bags quickens the rotting process....because they need to breath. I've been keeping mine like this because of the dust around here, (I have a long dirt road behind me and keeping dust out is impossible)...plus the dogs, there's always dog hair somewhere. So...making these pieces into a quilt like the one hanging on that door seems to be the perfect way to go. I don't think they would look good any other way.
I'll post photo's of it when I get started.

Note: About these photo's and their color....one was taken during the day (apron) and the other during the night. I've tried changing my camera settings every which way, I've taken a picture in every single setting I have on this dang thing..... but it always come's out the same. Sorry.