Laundry Stitching

I finally finished my laundry room cross stitch. It seems like it took forever. My next stitching is an easier one of a scarecrow lady. I framed and hung the new cross stitch over the laundry machines.

Rudolph in July

For this Rudolph day I'm watching The Happy Elf. We had HD Tivo installed yesterday as a fun Christmas in July gift. It's been so long since we had Tivo we are happy to have it back. In order to off set the cost I cut our phone plan. That will force us to use our cell phones more, but that's good because we pay too much for those and don't use them enough. I made some gift orders last week and they should be arriving today. I'm well on my way to finishing up Hubby's gifts. I can't wait for the Houseworks plan to start. I just hope it cools off here. I can't work in this heat.

New Things

I picked up this crazy looking cat and I put together the colander on the left.

I just got the little cow calendar on the right.

I got this cute shelf in Maine on vacation. It was unfinished inside, but I stained it. I also got the cow on the bottom shelf at the same place.

June Rudolph Day

Looks like June Rudolph Day is a bust. I didn't do anything Christmasy. We're half way to Christmas now. I'm doing pretty good. I have a few gifts and even wrapped a few. Our vacation and Anniversary is coming up soon so I'm focusing more on that for now. I've also been working on decluttering the house. That's slowed a bit lately too, but still chugging along. Hopefully I'll have some more ideas for Christmas by next Rudolph Day. I might make a fabric scrap wreath for Christmas like the one I just made for the 4th. There, a Christmas thought :)

4th Of July Wreath

I saw the idea for this wreath in Woman's Day magazine. It's supposed to be cheap to make, but I don't have any scrap fabric so I had to buy a bundle, but it's cute and different for the 4th of July. I think I might make one for Christmas too. We'll see.

Bath Update

This is the upstairs medicine cabinet, but it's exactly the same as the downstairs one was. We added the knob ourselves.


This is the upstairs cabinet and it's the same as the downstairs was too.
This is the downstairs sink cabinet now painted white. I used Gripper primer and semi gloss white.
I think it came out pretty good.

This is the new downstairs medicine cabinet. It's a little fancier with the crown molding on top and it's a little bigger than the old one. We even got a new light.

Some More Light

I got a matching light for the kitchen so that all the lights in the area go together now. I added some berry rings to the hall light and the dining light. I will change them for the seasons.

The new kitchen light matches the pattern on the witch's hat over the sink.