Sew much to do...

but so much fun!

Played some more with the March backgrounds for the calendar pages.

Snow is in the forecast and I got a new stencil!

Bizzardy but despite talk of the anniversary of the BIG one in 1966 it is not too much of  a worry.

This week starts with Daylight Savings time.

St. Patrick's Day starts the week off and the winter equinox is midweek.

Palm Sunday darkens down to Good Friday which leads to....

Ressurrection!

Now back to the present and my sewing!

Backgrounds

These are my backgrounds for the month of February.

It is very cold and I don't imagine imagine we'll see anything of warmth until March.

But if any warmth shows up I will be definitely adding it to the pages.

I'll be reckoning up things for winter and getting ready to embrace spring.

It is kinda tricky making a plain enough background to support whatever the month will bring.

But spring always gives a promise of something exciting happening.

Five steps forward and two back

We have a lot of the white fluffy stuff.  The gals in the coop are not real happy and the egg production is showing their displeasure!  They do venture out occasionally but the ducks are mostly out.  Look who is leading mama around now that he has really got his wings!  He can clear the top of the big barn!

The hallway was looking like such a small job that I diddled around with a lot of other stuff before I actually got down to 'doing' it.

I got the old leather trunk cleaned out.  All but a few year books that didn't fit were sent off to DD#1, official record keeper for the family.  I think she'll have a fun time pouring through the old letters and photos during the holidays!

I did make the 12 tags for 12/12/ 12 and that made me rethink how I was storing some things so I did get two more drawers done in the playroom.  All these little bits will make the job faster when I get into that room for the deep clean.  lol

I decided that the hall rug was becoming too much of a magnet for my sloppy coffee carrying on the way to the new computer station in the hallway.  Its also in the road for accessing the chair so I popped it into the Sunshine room and it'll be a cozy foot warmer and car race area!

But the hall turned out to be another digression because this clock needs more modifying as the bottom box to lift it up higher isn't right.  So my Rooster has agreed to another Saturday project.  lol

I want to store all my doll stuff in it.  That got me reacquainted with my 3 girls- Carly who had her glasses broke when dear grandson tried them on and who hasn't seen too well since! Carly, not Josh!  Emily Hanna, who withstands lots of attention, doesn't care for fancy and frills.  Her claim to fame was a 'for real' trip to a real hairdressers for a stylish bob.  The youngest and slightly smaller is Mariella , who for all her sweetness is a real trouper.  She survived a time away as her face healed from terrible black marks that Dutch Cleanser finally faded.  phew!  I am hoping that all the rearranging will postpone their re-entry into the grand kiddies play zone for a while longer.  Out of sight, out of mind?  Well, we'll try at least.

And that cleaned out another drawer!  yippee skippee!

I am up to date on the calendar journal.

The table runner ... :(

The shortbread...  :((   The grand kiddies and I will be making some on the 24th at this rate!  

I shall continue on with the hall makeover and see if we can get 'er done by next Friday!

mmm busy

Another sunshiny day and a great weekend.  Mama duck is still inside the chicken enclosure and her offspring comes and goes.  I'm not sure that mama approves.

I have spent the morning moving more stuff around and mostly out!  The youngest has left home (again) and I am taking everything that isn't mine and the Rooster's out to the barn for its last call before...  dum dee dumm dump!  At least I'm really hoping that will be the case.

I was kinda tired on Sunday so I never changed from my good clothes as I didn't feel too energetic. I was knee deep in gelli plate prints before I looked at what I was wearing.  :(  Not quite the method I had in mind for sorting my closet contents!  lol

But I have made good progress on my calendar journal for November.  I wanted red for a poppy and to use some of my grunge stuff.

The October set were rather more red than orange so I'm just carrying on.

I was on my way to grey and a grunge look but ...

Now if I could find the actual calendar page with my last week's notations for October.  :(  

I did find an old sewing project that could hold me till I get some more oranges for the designated quilt project for this month.  This is a runner and a table topper that is ready for layering and quilting.
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I will also be looking for some fresh green paint chips for the downstairs hallway.

I do have a busy week ahead of me with a trip to the city for sewing club  which will end up being a major errand day and then I have company arriving for an overnight stay on Friday.

Time to get motivated!