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just a few shots around the house.

happy monday!!

post-holiday laziness

i'm so lucky to have today off!!  time to rewind after the busy day yesterday. we had such a nice christmas with two families, a new cat and a new dog to meet, wonderful food, gifts and most importantly it was so good to spend time with everyone.

today i have been half-heartedly working on a couple of projects. i cut out fabric for two quilt squares, but didn't really feel like sewing them together and did a bit of crocheting and thinking about new things to make. i am just starting on the heel of the socks i'm knitting, so that's something! mostly i've been watching the huge fluffy snowflakes fall outside and just enjoying the day.

my niece made me the beautiful star and the plate with our shared intials on it. (we are both JAR's!) such sweet gifts!

i guess i should GET DRESSED, ahem, and get out there and do a bit of shoveling.

happy boxing day!!

LOOK!

the house is CLEAN!!!

we had company on saturday, so most of the day was spent decluttering and cleaning the house.  i swear, we need to have guests once a week so that the house always looks like this...just don't look in my car, because it is full of bags of yarn and fabric.  i need a new wing of the house just for my craft supplies.  i'm sure some of you out there can relate.....

i also rearranged the living room a bit.  i got that green chair at a yard sale this summer for $15.00!  yay!!

and here's a sweet picture of the birthday boy.  rosco turned 13 this month.  happy birthday, rosco!!!!!

lately

not a whole lot going on around here lately.  i went peach picking with two of my cousins which was really fun and such good peaches!!

i'm slowly plugging away at the x and + quilt.  i can't wait til i have time to really crank those squares out!!  i found some sweet prints the other day at the fabric store.  the green polka dot fabric was given to me by my friends kelly and roger who found it at the flea market.  i love it!

we've had some crazy weather this week-HOT and terrible thunder storms! brian and i took a walk this afternoon and found a spot on the sidewalk where the lightening hit and turned the area to glass!  pretty cool!

pretty relaxing day here today which has been niiiiiccceeeeee!  enjoy your sunday!

v

basking in the glow of the bedside lamp.

violet says hi

 

helloooooo.  i'm ready for my close-up!!!

rosco's got the right idea!

dog days, for sure.

sunday

hot.

hot and rainy!

hi! it has been either hotter than hades or pouring rain and thunder showers lately, and you want to put on a sweater.  not very good picture taking weather...

there has been a bird singing REALLY LOUDLY outside of our bedroom window in the mornings. one morning i went out and saw it perched on the top of the roof, singing away, but i didn't get a good look at it. yesterday i was sitting in the yard, between raindrops, and i caught the little devil in the act! it was a yellowthroated warbler, a green-ish grey little bird with a black mask. aha!!! it has a very distinctive song described in the bird book as "witchity witchity witchity witch" (and they should've added REALLY LOUD and incessant!) yup, that's it! damn cute, but damn annoying at 5:00 a.m. :)

happy weekend!

still here!

hi! i'm still here! it's been a bit of a rough re-entry to work, starting the week off with a stomach flu, and adding another day to my vacation(sort of!  that's never suspicious, right?)  i've had no energy all week, but today i'm finally feeling better!

i was walking rosco in the rain this afternoon, with my umbrella, and met a woman walking across the street who was wearing an umbrella hat. i said, "nice hat". she told me it was from china and was used as a sun hat but also worked well in the rain. then she said, "i have something for you", reached into her bag and handed me an oil painting that she had made. she said she was giving them to people with umbrellas. kind of crazy, but also kind of made my day!

happy rainy thursday!

aaaahhhhhhhhhh.....

quite possibly the laziest vacation ever.

no cooking.

no cleaning.

no sewing.

no knitting.

no crocheting.

no alarm :)

some gardening.

some reading.

nice!

vacation!

first day of vacation! i think i will spend today laying low and hanging with my peeps, as the weather is particularly LOATHESOME! hot is not my kind of weather, at all, and it's just too early for this! but enough complaining!

someone on the internet yesterday referred to hostas as "the throw pillows of the garden". brilliant!!!

keep cool everybody!

...and i get my life back

i can say i pretty much got lost in this quilt. i was DRIVEN to finish it! sunday night i finished the hand quilting, and tuesday i found the perfect color to bind it with. you know how you have a certain color in mind, and then you can never find it? well, i went to the fabric store and there it was. a kind of orange-y salmon-y red. thank you kaffe fasset!

so tuesday night i set to work binding the quilt, and , ta-da! it's done!

itch!

the quilt is made up of 4" squares, 20 squares x 22, about 80" x 84". i washed and dried it last night, and i love how it came out all crinkly, especially on the back. due to my "pinning together rush job", there were a few puckery places on the back. but now the whole thing looks wrinkly, so that's great!

i think violet's cooperation today was born of heat prostration (it was almost 90 degrees today!!!) rather than any desire to pose. poor girl!

excuse my color differences. i like that "retro" setting on my camera because it makes everything so soft looking, but the real color is more like the last photo.

now i can do things like mow the lawn and work in the garden...*yay*  (and maybe cook and clean...)

and, so exciting, one more day of work, then v-a-c-a-t-i-o-n!!!!!!!