Had a great vacation!

DH and I took a well deserved Alaskan cruise.  The cruise left from Vancouver, BC, Canada sailed to Ketchikan, AK and then docked in Seattle, WA.
It was 4 days longs and felt longer.  I have to return to AK again soon.  So much beautiful sites still left to see.

On another note.  I daydream all day about sewing. I have one week off of school at the end of this month and plan on taking off more days of work so that I can focus on sewing something.  Finger, Eyes, and Toes crossed!

A Plan to do Better!

Some of you may know that school has really consumed all the time that I've ever had to sew.  Since that's the case it can't stop me from dreaming about things that I would so love to make.  So my plan is fill this blog with all of the time that I have to dream and even daydream, and whatever else crosses my mind.

Nothing excites me more than European sewing patterns.  I am a HUGE fan of Burdastyle (formerly known as Burda World of Fashion) as well as Knipmode.  Burda prints in English and Knipmode prints in Dutch.  Not at all that hard to read and if don't understand anything I can translate it online or with my app.  Any hoot, a lot of my ramblings will be about these pattern magazines.  

My birthday is in more than three months and it would be nice to sew a birthday dress.  We'll see how that goes.  I also have time at the end of June where there is no school for one week so I plan to include NO work along with it so that i may try to sew something.  I’m not going to get my hopes up but hey a girl can only dream.  

As I start this new blog one week after the 4^th anniversary of blogging.  Hopefully I can fill in some of the gaps that I had the past 2 and a ½ years.

Can you believe it? I actually have progress!

I know I should be ashamed! it's been a long while....

Nothing and a lot has happened since my last post earlier this year.  As i posted back in April I wanted to have my room redone.  We started the renovation of the room by packing and moving furniture.

Here is a picture of  the room once it emptied out, the site of a photo before it was emptied out would have been too horrifying, lol!

As you can see from the photos above, the walls are gray with a yellow stripe going across the top (not my idea).  This was my husband's office and i just moved right in without doing any painting of any kind.



Now here are picture after we've painted the walls, taken down the blinds and pulled the carpet.  The floor still has the padding on it from under the carpet.  Also you can see that I've painted the bay window area.

This last photo is the flooring down.  At the time of this photo Hubby was 99% done and I was just so excited that I had to take a photo right away.

So hopefully the shelving will be going up this weekend and i can get started unpacking and also getting Hubby started on the next project which will be building my table.
I'll post the ideas that I have narrowed down.

Hope to see you soon!

-CA

Blog Anniversary

On yesterday there were two special things that happened.  Mother's Day and the third anniversary of my blog.

Had a great Mother's Day.  Just extremely tired from the busy weekend and got to a long time childhood friend.



Not going as strong as I would like but cheers to a better year!