Whatcha Working on Wednesday-in Florida

It is time for Whatcha Working on Wednesday.

However, I don't think Leslie is going to do it today.

She has a lot going on at her place.

She writes about it on her post at

My Country Home.

So I hope some of you will find me here anyway.

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My Whatcha Working on Wednesday will be

stuff I was doing while in Florida.

The first portion of my trip was in Iowa visiting

my dear daughter.

Then daughter Sara went with us to

Florida to visit our son and his family.

That included hanging out and getting reacquainted with

our dear granddaughter.

We had gone to the pumpkin patch with her.

This is the pumpkin that was picked out.

Helmi has to get in the pictures and show it off.
Now she decided to pose on top of it.
You can see my stitching to the left there.
I had brought that along to work on.
It was decided to have Shaylee paint the pumpkin
rather than carve the pumpkin.
Here she is painting the pumpkin.

Helmi watches her paint.

Helmi is still watching and being careful
not to get in to the paint.
Shaylee is wearing a painting apron.

Then I decide to paint with Shaylee.

Here is the part Shaylee did!

She had fun doing it too.

And here is the part I did.

Whenever we talked about the pumpkin,

Shaylee would say

"Grandma and I did it!"

It was so cool to hear her call me "Grandma".

I must say I am not used to that yet.

This was our first time to see her since she

was 8 months old.

Helmi taking a look at how much stitching I am getting done here.

I finished a NOEL block and started the MAGIC block

while we were gone.

Now that we are back home,

I also have other projects in the works.

And this one too!

There are a bunch of other stuff I need to do to.

Like:

Catch up on ironing.

Get back to finishing painting the closet.

Finish other unfinished sewing projects.

And more decluttering which never seems to end.

But first I have to go work.

Perhaps I will have some energy to tackle a few things

after work.

Yesterday I was just too tired to do much.

Happy Wednesday!

~Linnea~

The Procrastinator's Party-Did I Finish?

Melissa at The Inspired Room

is our host for the Procrastinator's Party.

I am going to have a reputation for starting

but not finishing my projects for this party.

But I have a very good reason for not finishing this time

and I will share that with you at the end of

this post.

My project was to finish clearing out and cleaning

this closet and get it painted.

This picture shows were I was

at the time I signed up for this party.

I had already done the big job of getting

this closet almost empty

to get ready to paint.

At the time of this picture above,

I had taken down the rod and shelf on the right,

spackled the holes left from the brackets,

and cleaned the walls.

Here is the first coat of primer not quite

finished.

Still needed to do more around the base

and on the left side there.

Another session of painting

had me finished with the first coat

and starting the second coat of

primer.

Ok, this is when I started having problems

The paint fumes started making me

sick to my stomach.

Even though I had a fan going

for circulation and took breaks from being

near the paint I still kept feeling sick.

Then it got to the point even walking

into my sewing room was making me sick.

I managed to complete the second coat of primer.

But I had to keep taking rest breaks again

and stand in the path of the fan

and have the fan blowing on me while I was working.

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So my friends this is where I am at now.

I still need to paint the yellow color.

But churning stomach was

telling me to wait awhile on that.

Besides we are trying to get ready for our trip

and I don't want to be feeling sick for that.

Perhaps the paint smell will be

gone by the time we get back

and I can try painting the yellow on at that time.

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Once the yellow paint is on,

then I can move on and start creating my

storage for my sewing and crafts

in the closet.

I will be posting pictures of that

as I move along.

With the plans I have,

it will be awesome!

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Thanks for visiting me!!

~Linnea~

Get R Done Friday! Ants and Other Stuff

Yay! It is Friday.

Friday's make me happy, especially if

I don't have to work on Saturday.

It is time for Get R Done Friday

hosted by our lovely ClassyChassy

at Expressly Corgi.

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So what have I gotten done this week?

First I got rid of ants.

We were greeted by ants on Monday morning!

The changing weather sent them in the house.

We had our first rainstorm for the season on Tuesday.

And it was a major one too.

We don't get rain during the summer here.

So B-Daddy put out ant bait here.

And here.

See it is already working!!

But the ants were all over my cereal box.

And inside my cereal too!

Argh!!

Not a good start to a Monday morning.

So I heated up some instant oatmeal in the microwave.

It blew up in there.

Well, not that bad, but it made a mess.

There was still enough in the bowl to eat.

I like to add a touch of sugar to it.

Found ants in my sugar bowl too.

Another argh!!!!

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I am happy to say patience pays off.

The ants have quit coming in.

I think they all went into the ant bait trap.

And they also crawled out of my cereal box too.

Yay! No more ants.

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For now anyway....

I have also been working on my

Procrastinator's Party

Challenge.

The sewing room closet.

Here it is cleaned and ready to paint.

This is how far I got painting the first coat of primer.

See the bottom is not done yet.

Then last night I sat on the floor and finished the

first coat around the bottom edge.

I tell you,

I had a hard time getting up off the floor

after doing that.

Plus I climbed on my stool

and did more around the top and

kind of started on the second coat.

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So that is where I am on that right now.

And....

ta-da!

I have finished the second quilt top.

Notice I said TOP.

The batting, backing and binding are not on those yet.

The 3 B's.

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That is my Get R Done for this week!

What is yours??

~Linnea~

Blue Monday #22-More Crafting with Blue

Monday always seems to come around too fast for me these days. But regardless here we are at Blue Monday again. Thank to to Sally at Smiling Sally for hosting this for us every Monday. That has got to be a major commitment to do this every week without fail. This week I am sharing more things I have made in the past that have BLUE.
When I was taking the tolepainting class in the 80's this was the first project we did. A cute little bluebird. I did this on several things and used them as gifts that year. I kept one for myself too.

I also painted it on a footstool that still gets used a lot.

This cross stitch I made while in college in the late 70's. I believe it was my first cross stitch project. It is a small picture about 3 x 4 inches in size.

I did this one in 1989. You can kind of see the date in the lower right corner. This was from a calendar. I always wanted to do some of the other pictures and never did. Now that I am back to cross stitching I just may get back to it. I just have to find the calendar.

Another one showing the bible verse from Matthew.

And now the update of my current project that I post on the Step by Step Stitchalong blog every Sunday. I am still working on the blue checkered cloth part there.

Happy Blue Monday to everyone!

~Linnea~

Blue Monday #21-Crafting with Blue

Time for Blue Monday again! Seems it was just here and now here it is again.

Where does the time go? Out the window probably. And taking me with it.

Thank you to Sally at Smiling Sally for hosting Blue Mondays for us. Go visit her to see others having fun with Blue Monday.

First up is the update on my cross stitch project for the Stitch Along Blog that I am a part of.

I am finally finished with the bowl and now I am working on the blue checkered cloth the bowl is sitting on. Hooray for progress!

Would you believe I am already hunting around for my next project?

I have a couple in mind I want to do next.

This paper has blue on it. This is my list of colors for my current project. I am actually done with a few colors. See? I have crossed some of them off.

That will help me to ignore those symbols because I am done with those colors.

Crossing off finished colors really does feel good.

The other thing I do is highlight my finished areas on the chart. There is a feeling of accomplishment to see what is DONE. Plus it really helps me to find my place as I am working on it.

I was at my mother's after church when I remembered my daughter suggested I post pictures of the painting project I had done there years ago.

This cabinet is above their stove. When they had the kitchen remodeled I was taking tolepainting classes at the time.
My mother asked me to paint something on that middle section.
This is what I painted. The flowers are blue.
Here is another view. I was trying to avoid the glare of the light.

This blue goose is a gift I painted for my mom. The cloth it is sitting on is a cross stitch my mother did years ago.
I think it has Swedish designs.

This is another gift I did for my mom. This was a class project. I made two of them.
The other one hangs in my house. Except the word 'Welcome' is in black on mine. And harder to see. That is why I did it in offwhite on the one I made for my mother.
She has this one hanging in her entryway.
Another gift for my mother.
Two Amish children. I think this was also a class project.
I always intended to paint another set for myself.
I hope I still have the painting pattern.
Lots of blue for my mother.
Blue is her favorite color.
She has it all through the house.

Happy Blue Monday to everyone!

~Linnea~