An Adventure

So DH and I are planning a new

adventure!

We have our home on the market,

yes I know,

of all times, right?

It's one of those things, you know,

there's someone

out there who's looking for a home

like ours

in this area,

we hope.

Today is a week it's been for sale

and we've had

one showing, so that's good.

We'll have our first

Open House

on Sunday,

so we shall see.

But in the meantime, we've

been busy

staging our home.

Fresh paint,

organizing,

rearranging,

cleaning,

etc..

Our Kitchen:

Dining Room

Sitting Area

Living Room

Master Bedroom

lots and lots of stuff to

get our home

ready.

This is our first house together

so it's hard to

try and let it go but

at the same time

we're excited about our future

plans and are ready

to move forward.

No matter where we live

it will be our home.

It's kind of exciting

decorating a new place,

although we'll be renting

for a bit

so we can't do

whatever we want,

but

that's

OK,

we're ready to let some one

else worry

about the leak

under the sink,

or the toilet

not working.

And we'll

get to live outside

of a

big city,

and I am a city girl

at heart

so it'll be fun.

We shall see what happens.

On a cute note,

here are my

"kids"

looking so cute

Kahlua was trying to figure

out how

he could

fit in there with them,

but it wasn't happening,

poor baby!

Is Spring coming soon......

Could it be?

Is it really?

Is it a ROBIN?!!!

Around here from what I

understand

if you see a Robin then

SPRING

is around the corner

and that my

dears

is a Robin in my

backyard!

I already have my tulips,

daffodils,

and Columbine's

peeking through!

It makes my heart

pit'r pat'r

I'm ready to run through

the hills

and

SING!

Well, not really, let's not

go to far,

but I am

EXCITED

about

winter slowly

coming to

a close

and seeing life

appear

and color

take

over!

But it is still darn cold out today!

BRRRRR!

Have a great Friday!

Sick and Tired

Since November I have been sick

FOUR times this year.

This last virus, which Doctors don't

seem to know what it is,

has kicked my butt big time!

It took me 15 days to get well,

but to end the virus I

got

PINK EYE!

I thought I was Six years old

all over again!

Today is a good day, it has taken

another week to

feel myself again.

But before I got so sick,

DH and I had another home project.

We went to IKEA,

LOVE LOVE LOVE that place

and we picked out storage.

(one up three more to go)

(you can see what we painted before on the walls, a bright yellow, ugh) 

(finally up now we need to screw into the wall and together)

(this outlet was behind the cabinets and DH did a good job of

exposing it)

(all we have to do now is add the doors, but wait, they were the

wrong size, so another week later we put on the right doors but had

to remove the drawers and redo them, frustrating. Nowhere in the

directions does it say to put on doors FIRST before adding

interior pieces, UGH!)

(while we waited to get the new doors I added all my stuff,

couldn't wait...:) I still have room)

(as you can see one door is missing, we have it but we didn't

realize that these doors needed four hinges, so we ran out, again

NOWHERE in the directions does it tell you how many

hinges you need for these doors....UGH!)

(so we moved our sideboard in front of the window, do you

see my sweet Latte there?)

(you don't realize how tall they are in the store

until you bring them home!)

So hopefully by next week we'll

have our door added

to the pantry.

Our home is lacking in closets.

Love the older homes

but wish they had better storage,

so we added our own.

Two coat closets, a broom closet

and a pantry.

We love it, it has certainly added

something to our home.

Love IKEA but they certainly don't

have the best directions

on their stuff.

But it won't discourage me from

shopping there!

New Handbags!!!

Ta-Da

Finally, it has been completed!

It took three days

to make my handbags.

I'd forgotten how much I enjoy doing

them.

Piecing them together, finding complimentary

touches to finish them

Above is my Blue and Brown soft corduroy

paisley.

Do you like the handles?

Above is my colorful fun spring/summer

bag.

I love the rick rack ribbon, isn't it fun?

And each bag has four pockets

to carry all the

junk

necessities!

Plenty of room!

These are for me!

I have enough fabric to make one

more of each,

so if anyone is interested

let me know.

Hope you liked them!

Sew Wonderful!!

Today I am actually going to get to

SEW!!!

Woo Hoo!

It's been way over due. Some of you may

have read a bit of

my whining on my last post.

I had every bit to whine, the winter is

flying by and I've yet

to accomplish any sewing projects, so last night

I cut, cut, cut fabric and I have

some more to do today.

Since the weather is icky out today,

roads are slick,

and hubby took the SUV to work

which is the car I

drive everyday, then I thought today

would be a great day

to catch up

DH brought my sewing machine in

for me,

it's on the dining room table

ready to go.

So the fabric above is for two purses,

This one below is for purse one:

Love the colors, its a soft

corduroy

and I'll be using dark brown

handles for this

purse

The one below is for purse number

two:

Bright colors with a dark brown

background,

aren't the polka dots fun?

This fabric is for an apron I'm making

for new friends that we

made.

We've been staying with a family

every once in awhile during

our Hindi class,

and she loves to cook so I thought

of making her an apron with the

colors of India,

but I forgot to get coordinating

strap fabric for the ties,

And this one is for another wonderful

friend in TN, a family we stayed

with while visiting.

They are such an awesome couple,

married for many years

and she loves

cooking and entertaining as

well,

the colors go with her kitchen: 

So lots of sewing to do, and I'm

excited.

I will post the finished products.