Warning! Quilt Content!

LOL I thought I should warn y'all that I actually did a little sewing! :-) I have been hurrying to the house to paint during the day, then hurrying home to work on my July Schnibble at night. Finally~ I got it together! I just hope there isn't any paint on it! LOL I used my stash of oriental fabrics because I just couldn't think past the name of July's pattern- 'Joy Luck'. Tomorrow is the Schnibbles parade, so be sure to go to Sherri or Sinta's blogs for the show! :-)



At the house today, the 'floor guy' got the hardwood flooring in the family room. I thought it looked so funny all taped up~ he didn't want to have to dust the kitchen. LOL As we were leaving, he was busy sanding the floors to get them ready for the stain. (I forgot my camera today, so took these shots with my cell phone, sorry for the blur :-/


I'm off to put my tootsies in the air and look at the magazine I got in the mail today~
Until next time~
Happy stitchin'!!

Working Away Over Here!~

No time to play. :-(
But I know the work is going to be so worth it! DH and I have removed all the wall paper from the family room, bathroom and kitchen. Whoohoo!! Today we were going to scrub down the walls to get ready for priming and ...yuk! The bathroom washed up great. The family room? No matter how much, hard, or often we scrubbed, it still felt sticky. :-/ We tried everything we had along with us and were not happy... and hubby wore a hole in his cloth. So we called it a day and came home. We'll try again tomorrow.
This is the family room. The kitchen is behind me with a nice big counter separating the two areas. Out the door and you are in the backyard patio. I didn't take a photo of the kitchen today because we had someone refinishing the floors and didn't think he wanted to be on my blog. LOL

These are the before shots of inside the cottage. They had the desk and cabinets built in. I'm keeping those. They also had a wall of shelves... many were stained and spotted. They got removed today. :-) I'll have 'after' photo's next week. :-) Sorry the lighting is bad in this one~ but did you notice the sky light? :-)


That's all for now~ Sew a seam for me! I miss my machine! :-)

C'mon In!

Thank you for all your well wishes for our new home! We are so excited! But before we move we have wall paper to remove and painting to do. Today we looked at paint chips~ so many choices! :-o I've never really lived somewhere where I could paint to my heart's content, usually we had to paint it back before we moved, so I just opted not to bother. Since this is our 'forever' home, I can add a little color! :-) And I'm nervous about that! :-o


When you step in the front door and look to your right, you are looking into the living room and dining area. This isn't our furniture, I took this photo when we were still house-shopping. The other shot is from the dining room back to the front door.


If you look up~ the stairs in front of you and on the left will take you up to a nice big storage room, a full bath and 2 bedrooms. Can't you see a quilt hanging from that rail? :-)



I also need to give a little shout out to Sandra of The Cumberland Island Quilt Chick. Sandra takes great photo's of her island home and shares them on her blog, as well as her quilts~ and she is working on a real fun one now! Stop over and say hi. ;-) She had a little fun a few weeks ago where she asked her readers to guess what she was working on. I had been looking at patterns only the day before, so I had a good idea of what she was up to! ;-) I was correct and she sent me some of her patriotic stash. Sandra, do you have any left?! :-)) I was tickled pink because my own stash had dwindled to nothing. I am looking for the perfect patriotic pattern now to make a little wall hanging for our entry~ the wall at the base of the stairs. Do you have any good ideas for me? Thanks Sandra!! :-) I also love the photo you used for your note card. :-)


That's all for now~
Hope you are having a great weekend! :-)

A Few More Photo's~

Thank you all for your well wishes on our new home! I am really looking forward to getting settled and having 'a place for everything'! We have a bit of work to do before we move though, that is why my CGQC goals are about stripping (wallpaper!) ;-) and painting. We also hired someone to refinish the hardwood floors in the kitchen and entry. Hopefully that work can start next week. ;-)
This is the back of the house~
We love the covered patio! It has 2 skylights and the opposite side is open to the yard. It will be perfect for enjoying an iced tea. :-) Or relaxing with a good book. :-)


If you stand at the front door and look to the drive, this is what you will see. We have a small winding private drive with lots of flowering shrubs along it. Looks like I need to do some pruning soon. LOL :-)


Come on it the front door!~ we'll look around a bit inside next time. ;-)


Have a great evening!

Our House..

♫♪..is a very, very, very fine house! :-)) ♫♪♫♪

I've been keeping a biggie secret from y'all for the past month. :-o Not sewing a lot because it is hard to sew with your fingers-crossed all the time! But this afternoon it became official! Whoohoo! :-) We are now the very happy owners of~


which comes with~



a quilt cottage! :-)

We have a bit of work to do before we move, but we aren't moving far~ maybe 20 minutes away. We want to refinish the kitchen floor, remove some wallpaper and paint, and fix a few things in the cottage. I'm giving myself about a month to get everything done. :-)


So my Charming Girls Club Goals for the next 2 months?

1. remove wallpaper :-o
2. paint!
3. keep my sanity by sneaking in some stitching when I can. LOL ;-)

I know those 3 are going to keep me plenty busy!

Until next time~~
Happy stitchin'!!