What a wonderful day it is! The weather isn't very warm, but I love the Fall weather! It means more time for crafting!

Although I have gotten quite a bit done this summer while we were camping. Here is a blanket that I did for a friend's little boy. This was still a gift for their adoption, but it was a year and a half late. But he loved it anyway!

It didn't take nearly as long knitting it as I thought it would. But I kept at it pretty steadily, so that helps.

I was pretty impressed when the nearly six year old recipient identified it right away as a Spiderman blanket!

My Favorite place in the house!

I finally took some pictures of my new scrap room. It is definitely still a work in progress, but slowly it is getting to where I want it.

 This typewriter was given to me by my Dad. I love it and I think it makes a nice addition to my favorite room.

 This shelf was made for me by my Dad. He always did such an amazing job with his woodworking. I will treasure this shelf always.

 My TV corner.

 My storage cubes that I bought at Michaels.

My Cricut cabinet.

I really need to do some more organizing in this room. I guess maybe it will always stay a WORK IN PROGRESS!

Way too Long!

I can't believe that I have been such a slacker with posting on my blog. Life got in the way, I guess. But I will try harder to post more often now that I should have more time!

I haven't been doing a lot of scrapbooking lately either. Basically kept my Scrapbooking club going. But I did a layout this weekend (after camping), and I am quite pleased with how it turned out.

The page is very simple, but I think quite elegant.

We went camping this last weekend, possibly for the last time this year. I will miss it so much! Summer is always so short around here. But I sure enjoyed it while it lasted.

I went to join our daughter and grandsons at the roping event that our son-in-law participates in. I got some really nice pictures of the roping and of course, of the boys.

 Not sure which world this little guy is in!

 I guess chocolate cookies and playing in the dirt are a good combination. At least to get dirty in!

A cute little cowboy!

Thanks for checking out my blog and I will try to keep up a little better!

january 23,2011

Winter Wonderland

The beauty yesterday was breath-taking! Everywhere I looked, it was a winter wonderland! Even weeds were beautiful.

On another topic, our house was being shingled yesterday as well.


I can see the end of the contruction crew's job there and the beginning of our work. Hopefully right after New Years we can start working on the inside. I can hardly wait! I know it will be a lot of work, but so worth it in the end. I walk around in the house and picture how it will all be. Such a new experience for us.

The house has a SHAPE!

This is a side view of the front of the house...the front porch!


















The back of the house.

















The front of the house from the north-west corner.















Front of the house and garage from the north-east corner.



This is getting REALLY exciting! The house has a SHAPE! The front middle section of the house roof will have two dormer windows on it. Totally just for looks! A ranch-style house needs dormers, I think!

December 6,2010

The house has been progressing quite nicely the last week or so. The walls are almost all up on the house. It is starting to look a little bit bigger....when it was just the basement, it looked really small. Now I picture where all my cabinets will be and it seems to be a lot of cabinets. But that will be sooo nice!

It still seems unreal that this is our house! we had been dreaming of building for so many years and now its really happening!