Day four

This is a photo Jack snapped

of me and my laundry lady and neighbor, Debby.

As luck would have it, our washing machine

died as soon as it filled when Jack was

doing a load of laundry.

Deb was kind enough to wash and dry it for us.

I needed my jammies and yoga pants for the weekend!

Had I known he was going to take pictures,

I would have lost 10 pounds before I walked across the street.

Anyway, everything (even the fitted sheets) was so

nicely folded, we are just going to leave it

all in the basket as it is.

There was some sort of precipitation all day.

the crew worked till 2:00.

this is the front.

another view of the front.

the side

the side, again

another view of the side

and here is the back.  

Every thing, except Barney, will be covered with vinyl.

Look it my sweet princess at the gate.

and, again at  my handsome prince.

(my other handsome prince is taking a nap)

I good day to bake.  

and make a little turkey soup.

I have sewed very little since work started.

This weekend, I will be picking out outside lights,

and new curtain rods for the side and garage doors.

And hoping no more appliances die.

Day three

Well,

it's too late for a before picture.

but here is what things look like at

the end of day three.

I told the young man who is building

the side porch to put a tv cable in

so we could turn it in to a place to 

watch golf and football.

We've been backing into the garage

forever without hitting the little side porch.

TaaaaaaaaDaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!

Here is the new siding.

I love it as much as my new doors.

And here is what's left to do.
The pups are handling this all very well,
but as soon as the crew leaves,
they crash.
we do too.

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.........