Autumn in my Garden – Finished
I have some small house updates but i’ll put those off until tomorrow because last night I finished up Autumn in My Garden!!! pattern by Mirabilia. She’s on 40 count thread, stitched 1 thread over 2.
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Autumn Progress – one page to go
Of the 4 pages I’m down to the last one! Just her head and 2 leaves left to stitch (plus the simple border). Here’s an updated picture! I’m excited – I really enjoy picking up this piece in the evenings and find it hard to put down!
Autumn in My Garden progress
I’ve made a bit of progress on Autumn in my Garden – the bottom half of the piece is completed and rolled – working on the jacket of the maiden now. Lots of leaves to stitch. Here’s a look at the bottom before I rolled it…
Master Bedroom
This weekend we finished up the master bedroom. Of course we have a few small things to do like install the ceiling fan and make shelves for the built-ins but mostly it’s done and we are moved in! These pictures are from Saturday morning before we finished up a few more small things and moved …
Royalty ABC
I will do the house blog update tomorrow – but the big news is that we moved into the master bedroom this weekend! It’s done! Last week however I finished up a piece that I had started back in 2010 – it is a class piece from Celebrations that Jeanette Douglas taught. I made 1 …
Mother’s Day Surprise
Last week while I was in CA for work, Ryan worked on my Mother’s Day surprise – our bedroom and most specifically our closet! The hard part, sanding, priming and sanding trim was all done when I got home Friday! We spent the weekend trading off painting time and kid playing time – getting the …
Front Porch Progress
Ryan has been working hard on the front porch (with help from his dad!). The framing is finished up, the roof is zipped (zip system including tape). The soffet returns have to be framed out still – probably this weekend. We’ve also picked out our decking material (Trex) and color (color was a tough one …
Front Porch
Now that the master bedroom floor is done and it’s just painting left the focus switched to the front porch. We are adding a front porch to protect the door and match the dormers. The first step was digging some 4′ deep holes for footings and filling those. Mark and Ryan spent a few …
Stitching – Autumn in my Garden
I’ve hit a milestone (finishing the pumpkins) with a large piece i’m stitching lately called Autumn in my Garden by Mirabilia. I’m stitching this on 40ct fabric so it’s 1 strand of thread (dmc) over 2 threads and includes some beads. This piece will have companion pieces for each season but I started with this …
Staycation Master Suite
It’s our annual April vacation where the kids go to daycare and we stay home and work on the house – coincides with our birthdays. This year the focus was on the master suite (just a few more weeks and we’ll have our own room!). Monday was Alex’s birthday so we did a family fun …