Ladder envy

I have to tell you I'm in love.

Have you ever seen such an assortment of ladders?

I love them all.

The small and the tall.

All the stuff they brought to work is pretty cool.

But I love the ladders the best.

We got a peek at the siding 

and we love the color, still.

We are having a roof put over the side entry.

A few more feet out (and a few more $$$$$$) and we could have had a carport.

This is the new front door, all framed up.

 Might be hard to tell from this picture, 

but it is pouring down the snow and has been for 

an hour, now.

So we have even more to watch out the new front window.

My two sweet sofa supervisors

and my best girlfriend

and I are enjoying a fire

and all the activity.

Wish you could be here.

Carrs under construction

here were are

temporarily relocated in the bedroom

Had to move on while they took out the windows.  this is

the front bedroom without a window. 

(check out the old front door)

in progress installation of front living room windows.

an inside view of the new front windows.

an inside view of no bedroom window.

back bedroom, no window. 

kitchen.  no window.

back bedroom, with window.

first glimpse of new front door.

here it is again.

notice the old garage door.

a closer look.

 side door is in.

garage door is in.

front door from outside.

front window, again.

front door from inside.

I didn't get photos of the garage windows

or the or the basement windows.

there is some trim work to do on the inside of the

doors.  the rest of the work will be outside.

it is supposed to rain and snow tomorrow.

but we have clean new windows to watch it.

sewing saturday

Every other Saturday, 

I sew with the most amazing group of women.

We all bring whatever we want to work on and something

to share with the group for lunch.

Yesterday, we made little dresses for Africa.

I don't fancy myself a garment maker, but this 

pattern required only basic sewing skills.

look how beautiful!!!!!

The height of sewing sewphistication is having

pins that match your fabric.

Mystery seamstress holding up her little dress.

Mystery seamstress holding up my little dress.

I wish I would have taken more pictures,
but I was sew busy sewing.

 These sewing Saturdays are the sweetest days!

I am so blessed to have found these women who are
sew special.

what i'm up up to

this is how my studio looked when i

started working, yesterday.

where did all this stuff come from?

the day started with pulling out a few stitches from this little

quilt i'm working on.

i'm planning on doing some free motion

quilting on it, just getting up the courage

because i really like it and don't want to mess it up.

bored with this for the moment, i decided to experiment

with this granny square block. 

i was so happy with it,

 i spent the rest of the day cutting a million and one 2.5 inch squares to make a

50 by 60 inch quilt. all the blocks will be different. 

i also baked a pumpkin pie, and make chili. 

my two best boys held down the sofa for me.

good help is hard to get.

this morning i am planning to bake cookies and 

neaten up the studio.

this afternoon i am making

roast beast and jack's daughter and granddaughter

are coming for dinner and hopefully some 

crafting.  i have an idea for something

we can all make together (even jack).

we'll see how that goes.........

catching up

My beautiful little girl

loves snow

this little dog makes me smile

she is always happy

and always has a smile on her face.

and here is my handsome boy.

cuddled up in about $200 worth of yarn.

the bud light dog

resting on my scrap vomit quilt 

(not yet quilted, but stay tuned)

my scrappy trip around the 

world in progress. 

2.5" squares.

a future quilt.

Jack peeping over the top of

a quilt I'm quilting.

the handsome Harvey.

You could look at this cat's face 

forever. 

He sends his love.

snow

We get so excited about snow,

around here.

when snow is predicted, 

Jack watches the weather channel

like a kid tracking Santa on 

Christmas eve.

The pups love the snow, too.

Daisy runs around barking and trying

to catch the flakes on her tongue.  

Right now, she is trying to get Jack out of bed

so he can go outside and watch her.

Well, look who's coming over to play, today!!!!!!!!!

I will have warm biscuits ready

when he arrives.