Sunday

 I did have a finish this week. My cross stitch had the last few stitches taken in Take time. I'll need to figure out how I want to finish it off but the stitching is completed.

It was an early wake up today for the F1 race in Baku - 7AM our time for 3PM their time. The dog is impatiently waiting on his walk. Look at that face! I'm stitching on the peels on the last String of Beads block. One peel down, 7 to go!

The front room finally got cleared out yesterday afternoon. Well, the Victrola and a telescope are in the middle of the room under a sheet. Emily and I did the first coat of what we could reach without ladders late evening. I did the edge work with a brush while she used the roller. The dark maroon wall (that I have hated for 14 years) is nearly gone. The model home we bought had lots of accent walls, and all were maroon. Greg is taking over my office area and decided to keep the table I had in there as my desk (my old kitchen table). He ordered me a rising office desk like we got Emily last year for her room. It will fit nicely against the front side half wall. The hand quilting frame will be in there as well. Aidan's racing and flying gear set up is now in his room - I have yet to go see how crowded it is in there.

I've been drawing different patterns into this triangle space to figure out what I want in there. I think I have settled on the green spot. We will see if I keep it hand drawn or make a template for it. Everything is stuffed into the sewing area of the finished garage area next to my old office. I can't get in there yet, but maybe by tonight.

I have a couple of hst's stitched for the next shoo fly block. Plenty of things to keep me busy this week.

Greg is going with Em for horses today (it is 50 minutes away now and she is not comfortable driving herself there yet). I've signed up for another cookie decorating and topper class this afternoon. I'm hoping some painting happens at home while I am away this afternoon! 

Nothing too special planned for our 19th anniversary today. I did get a pretty bunch of fall flowers handed to me yesterday. 

Linking up with Kathy and the Slow Sunday Stitchers.

Slow Sunday Stitching

 It has been a productive week. Progress was made on the cross stitch, although I realized I had used the wrong color for the ocean area, so that had to get taken out and restitched with the light blue. Oops! 

The project was at this stage last Sunday.

It is now at this stage today. Yesterday was the fix day of pulling out the blue and replacing it with the correct light blue.

This is the difference in the blues. I had fixed and redone the top grouping here so you can see the difference.

Today I'm heading to the new barn with Emily to watch her ride. It is about 50 minutes away now but has more challenging horses for her. No cover on this one, so back to sweating in the full sun. Let's hope the rain holds off until after her ride. When we are home, Grandma is coming up for her delayed birthday lunch with us a restaurant of her choice. Then, I hope to have the family finish the screen fixing on the back porch. Yesterday, we got it a little cleaned (that bottom part gets so moldy and dirty and yucky in Florida and I don't sit out there in the heat!). The screen on the door got fixed and one of the windows in my bedroom that the dog ripped up years ago. After watching Aidan learn, I did the other 2 inside in my sewing area. It was dripping sweat hot out. Hopefully we can get the 2 big screens finished off later today. He has one cut out, so we will see how that goes. Maybe one today and one tomorrow? The kids and I are off school and work for Labor Day tomorrow. We will see.

Linking up with Kathy and the Slow Sunday Stitchers.

A few photo's from this mornings routine. My morning walk with bear - right as the sun was coming up. The clouds make a pretty picture with the pinks and orange on them.

After sniffing up our normal route, he added an extra bit this morning and I let him. 

After we get home, we walk out back and check on the girls and give them a scoop of treats. They are laying between 3-5 eggs a day for us. All are happy and they got some run around outside and get bugs yesterday afternoon after a rain. Perfect time for them to go explore.

Seems the girls alarm did not go off, so good thing I woke her up 20 minutes before she wanted to leave!