Look what's blooming...

Irises

The snowball merigolds that I grew from seed in February.


One of my favorites, poppies.

I got lots of volunteer digitalis from a single plant that I put in a couple years ago...

New Pouch

Love the fabric of the bag but not the dimensions. Too short and fat...

House Plans

Just wanted to give you an update on our addition. We're still stuck in the permit process. We finally submitted all the necessary paperwork and gone through the conservation office, the accessor's office and a few other offices at the town hall. We proved that our foundation was adequate and that we are not going beyond our original set backs. Now all they have to do is look over the plans and give us the permits. Hopefully that will be by next week and we'll begin the following week. And I thought that the building part was the hard part...
Above is a scan of what the exterior of the house will look like when all is said and done. Sorry for the poor image quality but I had to stuff an 11x17 sheet into my little printer to get it.
Keep your fingers crossed for us to obtain the actual building permit!

Treated like a King!!

Experimenting with Fabric Baskets

I made this fabric storage basket today with some fabric scraps I had. I like the way it turned out. I need to make it stiffer and I also want to make some bigger ones for storing toys and organizing kids supplies...

Weekend Project

Our long weekend was spent installing this new slider to our deck, well Saturday and Sunday at least. Above is the after image. We left the overhang because that is going to go when we do our addition.

The above pictures are the before images. The window was old and the seals had broken. The window was so cloudy that you could barely see through it. It was time to be replaced. Here we are with the window removed.

This is what it looked like on Saturday afternoon. Needless to say we had a lot of unwelcome visitors (mosquitos) in the house on Saturday evening.
Here's the view from inside the dining area. We thought it would make the room feel smaller but it really didn't, just different.

I can do that!!

I have always seen these cute cotton swim cover-ups in children's boutiques and thought they were so cute but couldn't justify buying them because they're always outrageously expensive. I have always thought that I could make something like it and I did! I actually took a pattern that I found and tweaked it to make this cute cover-up for Nora.