SAL Progress

This is my progress on Prairie Moon - House That Jacks Built II. I did some stitching on it this weekend I don't see the house yet....
Nothing much happening here in my corner of the blog world. I hope everyone had a great weekend. I am seeing all the Craft and Fall Shows everywhere. Puts me in a Fall mood.
I am also stitching a Cricket Collection design. If, I can remember I will try and take a picture of it tomorrow. It is a cute skeleton design.  When I organized the craft room, I found all my stitching that needs to be finished into things. I also found all my WIPs. I need to get to stitching on them too.
That is all I have to report for tonight. Till tomorrow.....

Oh, What A Tangled Web We Weave.......

 Oh... What a tangle mess they weaved! This is how they came out of the tub. I have been doing some more decorating today. I think they took up yoga while boxed up... They are so skinny...
Thanks for the kind comments on my decorating. I am trying to get all the clutter under control.

 This is my dough bowl of my small stitching. I need to do some more punch needle. I just love the Boo Pumpkin Man.

 I got this Witch's Hat on clearance a couple of years ago. I put it over my shade of my floor lamp.

 This is my little side table beside my stitching chair. I have the box and pillow Terri made for me for the Halloween Exchange. I love it so much.. I have all my stitching most haves in the box.

 Some boxes I got from Hobby Lobby at the end of Halloween last year. My Halloween dance couple is from last year. He has a bottle  cap top hat and she has a bow..

 This is one of my trees. I am going to put pictures of Josh and Zoe in the little empty frame. Just need to maybe get that done this week.  Maybe.......

 Here is where the Skeleton Crew ended up hanging out when they got untangled.  They like hanging around the craft room...

Here are some pictures on the craft room that I finally got under control. I bigger space.. but, I still need more.

I had just finished making the memo board. It was an old frame I had around. I sprayed it with gloss black paint. I used a big piece of Styrofoam and covered it with the black check fabric. I added the ribbon for some color..
Hope you enjoyed seeing some of my space. It seems I get one room done and another one needs to be organized. We keep changing minds on Trailer #1. We say we will rent and then we change our minds. Right now it is empty..I have bought paint to paint some rooms.. Just not into it right now....
Oh... Don't look at the stuff outside that door in the next to last pictures!!!  That is yard sale stuff. I will be taking it over to trailer #1, until time for the sale. I also have the other curtain at the trailer #1. I just didn't want to go get it today.. Tomorrow it will be hanging up.
I hope everyone is having a great weekend!!   Till Later.....

A Little Halloween Decorating....

Just a little decorating going on. I still have much more to do..

 Vinnie Vampire looking out from his coffin.

 

 Just some framed cross stitch

 

 Little end table

 

 Cupboard with decorations

 

 The bulb blew in my ghost lamp on the bar...

 

 I need to get a tablecloth to go on my table...

 

 Skeleton and his buddies.

 

 

 Who is this??? Trying to get my attention....

 

 It is Willie Loomis!!!   He is spoiled rotten!

I think he is sticking his tongue out at me!!!  lol   He is!! 

and... This is where I will be today. I am sore from cleaning and organizing. Taking the day off and just going to stitch and relax..

Off to make some lunch.. I am also watching the Stephen King movies all day on AMC and then tonight the debate.

 



Week 5 of SAL

Move along, move along, nothing new to see here folks... lol That is so right. See that half of a pumpkin? That is it for this past week.
Just pitiful I tell you!!  I need a good kick in the get-a-long,
I would have posted earlier, but my internet was acting up and would not let me on... 
I have been working everyday in the new craft room. I painted the old room today and got the bed put up and the chest with hutch put in there. I will get the Fall and Halloween decorations out tomorrow for sure. I had to pack up the summer stuff today in tubs. 
I will try and have pictures of the rooms by the end of the week...
Stay tuned....

Show And Tell ......

Hello Everyone!  Thank you for all the comments on my gift from Terri for the Halloween Exchange 2012.  I am still is awe!  I keep sitting here looking at the box and pinkeep.  I just love them..
My exchange person was Robin at : Threads Of Memory Blog. http://threadsofmemory.blogspot.com/2012/10/haunted-halloween-exchange.html  She received my package, so I am sharing a photo of what I made and goodies.

I stitched the Blackbird Design Trix Or Treat from the same named booklet by Blackbird Designs.  I used the called for hand dyed floss and trimmed it in black chenille. I added some snacks, coffee and hot cocoas, purple scissors, floss bobbins, 40 count linen, and some of that chenille trim. I forgot to take a picture of the inside . I borrowed it from Robin..

I used some Halloween scrapbook paper to line the box. I also printed the Halloween Exchange Year and my name on the lower left of the lid.. I glad she likes it.  I really enjoyed this exchange. This has only been the 3rd exchange I have done. I hope to sign up for more in the future.
I am stitching today on House That Jack Built II! I gave up on moving and organizing today. I am resting.. I have to wait for DH to get home to move my computer desk anyway. 
I have a funny tale to tell. Hubby bought Grandson Josh a bike pump.. He has always went and got one in Walmart and walked around with it.. we always made him put it back.. Well, Poppa decided to get him one and his mom has caught him trying to air up bike tires and all their balls.. Well this morning, he is playing in the basement. DD hears a BOOM! A Loud Boom !!!  She heads down the stairs calling his name!  He doesn't answer....  She gets down the stairs and he is standing there, his Dollar Tree Blow Up Skeleton is laying about 10 feet away from the tire pump with a big hole in it shoulder!  lol  He finally says, " I was trying to scare you." Yep that is our Boy!  Blew Up the blow up skeleton!  lol 
Happy Halloween from the Blew Up Skeleton!  I see another trip to the Dollar Tree in my future.....

 

 



WOW WOW WOW !!

 Look what came in the mail today!!!   From Terri!!

 The suspense is killing me !!!  I have Josh with me today, his sister Zoe had a doctor's appointment. So, you can imagine he was all about the package!!  lol

 Terri is so wonderful!!!  Look at all the great goodies!!!  She is so sweet to send things for the 2 grands... Josh already grab up the Frankenstein magnet board. Frank has a beard and hat as I type this.

 Terri made this beautiful pin keep. She said it was a freebie from Teresa Murgida of crocettandofralepesti.blogspot.com. I will have to check her site out!  It is so cute!!  I love it Terri!!! I love the Sewing Box!!! It will be beside me as I stitch!! 

 Look at all the goodies inside the box!  It is like Christmas!!   I love the Halloween Fabrics. The scissors are so cute! With all the sewing goodies and eating goodies, I will not need anything more through Halloween!

I can't believe the charts!! and guess what? I did not have any of these charts!!!  Thank you thank you Terri!!

The linen is a Dixie Samplar original hand-dyed. The name is Butterscotch. It is Beautiful!  The picture does not do it justice.
The kids are both together now. They are on a sugar high and playing with all their goodies! Thank you for thinking about them Terri!  They are having a fun time.
I keep going back and holding my box and pin keep. They are so pretty!  I thank you, Terri, I have really enjoyed this Halloween Exchange!

I wanted to apologize to Denise about The SAL. As you guess... I did not post a picture yesterday. I fell asleep around 5:30 pm and did not wake up till this morning..  I had not even picked it up to stitch on it this week.  I have been so busy will all this moving around. I am almost finished in the craft room. Is a little bit of how it is coming along.

I found out not everything will fit in this room. I will need to leave my craft book and magazines in the other room. I have a shelf in the closet that they will need to stay there.. I will also have to leave the Sizzix and all it's dies in the closet too.
Having to close for now.. Grands are climbing on me and wanting my attention.. Till Later....

Mobile Home Makeover #2 - Still In Progress

We went across to trailer #1 this afternoon. We loaded up a 16 foot trailer and the back of Hubby's pickup for a landfill run tomorrow morning. We should have just loaded the big ol dump truck and used it. We have 1 more load to do after this one.  Then I start painting and we start fixing it up.
I promised pictures of the outside of Trailer #2. When we first started working on it.  Remember This One?

 All we had done was put in the new windows. I also have a new front door, and a porch, and a metal roof, and underpinning, and it painted, and siding, and shutters.... lol  You get the picture...

As you can tell by the tools and the 5 gallon bucket of paint, it is still a work in progress. I guess you can say I live out on the porch.. I sit in the rocker and rock away.... 
I don't know what I will do with all these ferns this winter. I have 3 Queen Ferns.. I don't know what I need to do to winterize them. I would love to try to keep them alive through the winter..  The hanging ones I can handle them.. I have a place to store them and I know they will shed some this winter.
Does anyone know what I can do with the Queen Ferns. They are in pots and buckets. There is the one hanging, but it is in the original bucket it came in. I take it out of the hanging basket when it rains so it can drink... It has doubled it's size this summer. 
Cross Stitch News - I am mailing out my Halloween Swap/Exchange in the morning.. I decides so last minutes changes.. Glue gun is heating up here at 10:53 pm.. How is that for working down to the minute?  lol  I hope my stitcher friend loves what I am mailing out to them!  I smell glue heating!!  Till Later....