Whatcha Working onWednesday!

I can see it has been over a month since I last posted here. I keep hoping I would post something,but sometimes I just find myself too tired to do anything.

My energy level is starting to pick up in the evenings now.

Maybe the longer daylight hours help.

I do have a few things to show you,

but first I want to thank Leslie at My Country Home who continues to do a great job

hosting these meme.

I made this card for a physical therapy assistant student

who was doing her internship with our rehab department.

She was thrilled to get the handmade card.

The above is the picture I shared on the Stitchalong Blog I belong too.

This project is going very slowly. I think the

18-count size is slowing me down. Harder to work on the smaller size.

The other day I did some more work in my sewing closet.

Decided to label my boxes with my labeler.

I think it looks so much better than the green cards I still have on some

of them.

Found 3 more pieces of fabric to iron and add to this stack!

These shoe box size storage boxes I was using in the other closet.

I reorganized those and labeled them as well.

This is another cross stitch project I am working on.

I have made some progress on this one since I last posted a picture of it.

And just this morning before work,

I made this card for a co-worker whose birthday

is today.

Two more co-worker birthdays are

coming up this next week.

Gotta get busy and make two more cards as well

as a 50th anniversary card I want to make.

So, that is where I am for now.

What have you been working on these days?

~Linnea~

Whatcha Working on Wednesday

Boy, it has been over a month since I last posted here. Been busy with different things or not as the case may be. Today is the last day of a vacation. My daughter had come to attend a wedding and her boyfriend flew out to be here for the weekend only to attend the wedding with her. It was so good to have her home with us for a little while. It has been nearly 3 years since she was here last. We have seen her since then, but she has not been here. She had a chance to see her grandparents and other relatives and everyone met her boyfriend. We did not scare him off. Lol!

Then at the wedding she had a chance to see college friends since it was her college roommate that got married. We saw her off at the airport very early this morning. Last night we drove down to stay at a hotel near the airport, which saved having to get up super early to get her there for a 6 am flight.

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So, on to what I have been up to lately. First I want to thank Leslie at My Country Home

for hosting.

I have done more organizing in the sewing closet. The magazine holders are up there on the shelves now. But I don't think that will be their permanent home. It works for now though. Also I ironed and folded a bunch of Christmas fabrics I had. I was surprised how much I had!!

Here is a close up shot of the fabrics. It is a start on sorting out my fabrics. I still have more to do. As a matter of fact I am prewashing a couple of more pieces I found that were never prewashed. So I will be adding those two to the stack when that is finished.

I did an alteration for a gal at work. Shortened a dress for her and used what I cut off to make a headband tie for her. She was thrilled with that idea. I have to shorten one more for her and will do a headband thing the extra fabric on that one too. Did not take a picture of the first one. Maybe I will with the second one.

I continue to slowly stitch on my piece for the stitch along blog. Here is the latest update I did for that last Sunday.

The backstitching helps the window frame to stand out more. I hope I make more progress this week. So far I have not. Tomorrow I go back to work. I only work for 5 days then we go out of town again. We are the delegates from our church to a convention. People enjoyed our report from the one last year it was voted for us to go again. We enjoy it, so everyone said to send us.

This year it will be in Reno. Last year it was in Fresno.

Happy Wednesday to everyone!

~Linnea~

Whatcha Working on Wednesday

Time for Whatcha Working on Wednesday.
Thank you to Leslie at My Country Home
for hosting each week.

I am using the larger font because I am finding it hard to read the normal font. Hope it helps for some you who also have a hard time.

So what have I been up besides being sick?

More on my sick stuff on my main blog if you want to find out more.

Last week I posted that I had painted the shelves for the sewing closet. Well, guess what I am posting about this week?

Yep, they are in the closet now. Yippee!

See? I, I mean B-Daddy, put up the shelves where I wanted them.

The spacing is strange looking, but that is how I wanted the spacing to be to accommodate my stuff.

I have the shelves partially organized here. I am still not finished with putting things away. But it is a start. Since I am staying home sick on Wednesday. I am hoping that I am starting to feel like doing something around the house. Today I did load the dishwasher and ran that. Not much of anything else though. Now that I am on antibiotics perhaps some of my energy will come back.

I did manage to do some stitching on my teddy bear picture, not a lot, but I am nearly done with the green leaves. Only have a little more to do on that part. Here is the picture.

That is all I have for this week. I hope to have more to show you for next week. I am really hoping to have my energy level get better so that I feel like tackling some of my projects.

I have too many to do and not enough energy or time.

Hope you all have a good Wednesday.

~Linnea~

Whatcha Working on Wednesday

I have fallen way behind in posting these days.

More on that in my main blog. But here I want to show you a few

things that I have been up to.

Besides working a lot and being very tired.

Thank you to Leslie at My Country Home for hosting

every Wednesday.

I have also slowed down on my sewing and crafting.

Hoping to get in the mood to tackle my projects again

with gusto. Hope it happens soon too.

I have so much to do!

We were able to get to The Container Store and

get 3 more rows of shelves.

Here they are up with another row of books added up there.

There! I added more stuff to the new shelves!

Looking pretty good so far.

Here is a close up of the pattern boxes.

This may not be their final resting place.

But I needed to empty the bookcase they are sitting on.

No, the bookcase is not empty yet.

I am getting there though.

I covered these boxes is gift wrap and made the labels.

I think it is prettier than the boxes that way.

I may somehow cover that Bee Sweetees box too.

Right now it is holding some of my card making supplies.

This is the update on my Stitch Along project week before last.

Did not do an update this week.

That is what I mean about getting back to my projects.

I did make more progress on this one though compared

to the last time I posted.

Hope all is well with everyone.

Happy Wednesday!

~Linnea~

Get R Done Friday!

I am finally posting here again.

I have some Get R Done stuff to show you.

But first thank you to ClassyChassy for hosting

Get R Done.

You can find her at Expressly Corgi.

This week is the last episode of Get R Done.

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For gift bags just the right size for gift cards,

I decided to make the Itty Bitty Poochie Bags I found

at Mode Bake Shop.

Aren't they cute?


I made four of them for my nephew and nieces.

I stuck a gift card and some candy in each one.

They were a big hit.

I might make some more to have the ready for next year.

I have enough materials to make a few more.

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I am still working on my sewing room closet.

We have gotten more done on it!

I gave my husband a new cordless power drill for Christmas.

It worked great for putting up the top track for the shelves.

The I attached the first two rows of shelves.

That is all we have gotten so far.

Then I went through two boxes of books that were originally

stored on the floor of this closet.

I filled the two shelves with the books I wanted to keep.

Found four duplicates so of course I put those in the donation bag for the library.

I went through the rest of the books and decided to keep 17 others.

The remaining filled a paper bag to also be donated to the library.

The two boxes got cut down and put out in the recycle can.

So that was a little bit of decluttering for me.

Woo hoo!!

I have gift cards that will buy me three more rows of shelves and the needed

supplies to support them.

I will fill one more with books.

Then that should bring the height of the shelves down to a more comfortable height for me

to start storing my sewing and craft supplies on them.

My painful shoulders keep me from reaching up for things easily.

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So, what have you gotten done?

~Linnea~

Whatcha Working on Wednesday

I missed it last week, but I am back today with

Whatcha Working on Wednesday.

Leslie at My Country Home is our wonderful host.

Thank you Leslie for hosting.

I am still working on A Christmas Wish BOM.

This is the fourth one.

I have decided I am not going to get them done for this year.

So I will just keep working along on them in 2010 and

finish them for next year.

Currently I am stitching on the HOPE block.

It is almost finished.

I sometimes wonder where others do their stitching.

I do my cross stitching at this table.

I have a good light to shine on my work and

there is more light coming from above too.

I don't usually carry my cross stitch around with me.

But I do carry my other stitching like the BOM

in the first picture.

I frequently work on those in the car, during lunch at work,

and worked on it during a concert the other day.

I did have this sewing machine in the living room,

but it is now too cold to sew in there.

The sewing room is in transformation right now.

So I moved it to the other side of the table

from where I cross stitch.

Works quite well for right now.

My birthday present was getting the materials needed

to start putting up the shelves in the sewing room closet.

The ones on the left there will hang on the right side

of the closet.

Those two boards go above the shelf I already have.

I need to spray paint them white,

but it has been too cold and damp to do that these days.

Waiting for a warmer dry day.

We also got that step stool there.

It will be stored next to the dresser when not in use.

I hope to start putting them up this weekend if not before.

I have received a gift card from The Container Store

for my birthday also.

That means getting more shelves. Yippee!

I know getting shelves is not a glamorous gift,

but that is what I wanted. :-)

Here is a peek at something I am working on.

Some of you may be able to figure out what it is.
Here is where I am on my current cross stitch project.
I did some more green. And you can barely see some
white I did at the top of the pink hearts which are
also hard to see.
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So what have you been working on lately?
Happy Wednesday!
~Linnea~

Get R Done Friday!

I can't believe it is Friday already!

The week has flown by.

I have spent most of it being very tired.

But I do have some finishes to share.

First I want to thank

ClassyChassy at Expressly Corgi

for hosting for us.

I finished this card I had been working on last week.

Then I also finished this card this week.
It was for a couple at work who had gotten married
the week before Thanksgiving.
They also brought their baby.
It was my first time to see her.
She was wearing the dress I made for her too!
It is always cool to see the babies wearing the outfits I made
for them.
Several of the co-workers have brought their babies to work
in the outfits I made.
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That bookcase I am working on clearing out.
Not done yet, but I am getting there.
Takes time to figure out where to put everything.

I got that skirt hanger to hang my bags of strips.

They are hanging in the closet next to the dresser where

I can find them.

So what have you gotten done?

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Happy Friday!

~Linnea~

Get R Done Friday!-The Closet

I am joining ClassyChassy over at

Expressly Corgi

for Get R Done Friday!

Go on over an see who else has gotten

something done this week.

I have been working on this closet.

I finally finished painting it!

The rest of the room still needs to be painted.

You can see the white walls outside the closet there.

Then I took this highboy dresser that has been hanging out

in the living room and put it in the closet.
Then I started going through some of these
containers and moving some of the stuff
into the drawers.
This is how far I have gotten.
The two top drawers are still empty.
I have yarn stored in the bottom drawer.
Then crochet cotton in the next.
Third drawer up has embroidery hoops
and other things related to stitching.
I have unfinished projects in the third drawer from the top.
And I am still deciding what to use the two top ones for.
I also want to add two more shelves above the one that
is already there to use that empty space up there.
The long wall on the right will have shelves from
The Container Store.
I hope to start getting those soon.
Then on the long wall on the left
I will use for hooks and things
to hang flat things on the wall.
I look forward to the day when I finally have it all organized.
I sometimes wonder if I will ever get there.
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Happy Friday!
What did you get done this week?
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~Linnea~

Whatcha Working on Wednesday

I am very late posting for

Whatcha Working on Wednesday.

But I was in a hurry to get to work this morning.

Better late than never!!

Leslie at My Country Home is our lovely host.

This is my progress picture for the

Stitch Along Blog.

Won't be long now and I will have the whole

pink area done.

It will be cool to move on to other colors.

I am also getting back to painting the closet in

the sewing room.

I had started this project during the

Procrastinator's Challenge

in October.

But our trip and the fumes from the paint

slowed me down.

This is the shade of yellow that I have used

in the sewing room.

But I have not painted the entire room yet.

To many things in the way.

Getting the closet done will help.

This is part of the master bedroom closet.

That is where I store a lot of craft items.

I want most of my craft things to

be in the sewing room.

Not in our bedroom.

This highboy dresser that is sitting in the living room

will go in the closet.

Then I get to decide what I am going to store in there.

This mess is in the living room still.

Stuff I took out of the closet in order to paint it!

I have a major organizing job ahead of me.

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So, what are you working on?

And have a great day!

~Linnea~