Last Official Duty Day!

Only one more day to wear the uniform after today! Yah! As you can see I am very happy and I did not stay very long but I made the effort to go in uniform so what the heck let's take a picture. Rachel will be here soon! I am so excited!!!!!!!

Addition to new things around house

The hole in my bedroom ceiling where Dave stepped wrong while running cable to my craft room. I wonder how long it will stay this way?? :)

Photo of Puppy and Me!

Garage, flowers, puppies

Here are a couple pictures of Dave's garage, some flowers, and puppies(Ms. Marley)!

New things in the house

We got our new cabinets (not all new just extra ones) and David has put in the large pantry and the smaller one over the new oven. He was then able to hang the new microwave. We are waiting for the company to resend the two that goes on each side of the fridge, Lowe's ordered the wrong size so we have to wait for them to be delivered. The finishes match up okay, the tall cabinet looks darker than the others but I think we can live with it. Once David gets the others in I am going to finish taking down the wallpaper and paint the kitchen a different shade of yellow. Thinking about getting new counter top and doing a ceramic backstop. I will then get the curtains back up. I am going to reverse the curtains that were here to the plaid side. Also going to take down those ugly old wood shutters. The wallpaper is all down in the entry way and at long last Jack has doors for his bedroom!!

Catching up on recent thrift shop/garage sale finds

I haven't shown my latest finds so here they are. Two old mirrors and a picnic basket (mostly a wine basket)all for $7. The four seasons by Metalcraft, these are older and going for about $40 each online, I got all 4 for $10. And my beautiful $10 craft room chair, can you say '70's? I also loaded up on 4 suits (skirts not pants) at the big thrift shop, all from the Le Suit company, 2 of them were $12.99 and 2 were $8.99, they are really nice. All the colors you need, dark red, black, light blue and purple. Got to shop for some nice shirts to go with them now.

Completed Sundress

I had to stop myself because I wanted to keep embellishing this dress but I really need to move on to other projects. I think it turned out really good. This is the first time I have tried any embroidery on a knit, it does not look that good in the back but it is okay. I am going to put a fusible backing along that hem in the back to keep the stitches together and I am also going to glue all the buttons since this is for a 2-year old I don't want them going into her little mouth! Okay on to the next project!

Knitted Sun Dress

I've posted a picture in the right hand column of the little sundress I made for my friend's two year old daughter Clarissa. I am going to add some embroidered flowers over the skirt which is part of the original pattern. The original pattern called for the straps to tie but I think that is a little time consuming for a busy mom and I doubt if they will stay tied so I folded the straps over and closed with a pretty button. The dress is now a pullover dress. I will post a picture once I have the flowers done.