REDnesday and Whatcha Working on Wednesday

It is time for Whatcha Working on Wednesday!

I don't know if I am going to be able to link up with Leslie at My Country Home. When I go to visit her blog I get a malware warning. I have no idea if her blog is safe to visit or not. Leslie if you are

 seeing this post, that is why I am not linked up at the moment.

I am also linking up with Sue at 

It's A Very Cherry World!

I do have bits of RED in this post.

I finally got rid of my big sewing table. Actually it is still on it's side in the family room, but it is out of the sewing room. I decided on these black tables from Target for now. Got two of them to start with for the time being. In the process of getting it set up here. I spy some RED in there. 

 Still in the process of cleaning out the room. 

See the RED bag from The Container Store?

I have been making window coverings for a co-worker.

This fabric he chose is a sheet set. Still trying to get organized too.

 Believe it or not, that chair is RED. Random RED things.

You will notice the second table is set up with the sewing machine on it.

 Working on that window covering.

 My co-worker helped me finish painting the sewing room 

in exchange for making the window coverings.

I am happy to finally have the sewing room all one color now.

Summer Yellow!

 Another view. 

 Moving the stuff back after the paint dried.

I decided to get a third table.

 This is where I hope to work on my scrapbooking.

Helmi hitched a ride when I moved the black case in to the room.

I am hoping this set up will work for me.

It is making the room feel more spacious which was my goal in this project.

See the RED pincushion by the sewing machine. 

 Helmi in her RED dress being lazy while I do all the work.

Silly Helmi!

 Here I have some of my paper storage set up and Helmi 

now has her spot to watch me work.

I am not finished with organizing yet,

 but I am making progress here.

Next is to get the shelves on the wall that I want from 

The Container Store.

In the meantime I am loving the yellow walls.

A dessert I bet Sue at It's A Very Cherry World! would love!

We took my mom out to lunch on Sunday for her 80th birthday.

This was her free dessert. 

Mom took a bite, passed it around for everyone to have a bite.

When it got back to her there was still some left for her to enjoy.

She insisted on sharing!

Happy Wednesday everyone!

~Linnea~

REDnesday and Whatcha Working on Wednesday

Time for Wednesday stuff. Been awhile since I did a post on this blog.

I am kind of frustrated with it at the moment. I couldn't figure out how to get rid of the blogger template I had switched too. Now that I got rid of that, I have now lost my 3 column format. I can't remember how to do that. Can anyone lead me in the right direction to fix that again? If so, thank you very much.

On my other blog, comments are disappearing. I had seen them because of moderation. But some would not publish and now some have plain disappeared. I don't know if I am missing comments now.

Is there anyone else out there having these kinds of issues?

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Today is Whatcha Working on Wednesday with Leslie at My Country Home

and I am going to link in with Sue at

It's A Very Cherry World for REDnesday as well.

I still do some cross stitch here and there.

 

This is a birthday card I finished for a co-worker in June.

Finally we went back to The Container Store recently.

We order online and then go pick it up.

They put our stuff in these neat RED reusable bags.

You can also see the additional shelves we bought.

I start putting them up. Here the bottom shelf is the first of the three I added.

Then another shelf with stuff on it.

and the last shelf before I started putting stuff on it.

Now I can put magazine holders on the floor under the shelf and they fit perfectly there.

Maximizing my space!

This is the lastest of my other cross stitch project for the stitch along blog.

Member of the RED family there.

This last weekend and on Monday I get this bookcase totally emptied out.

See my bear with the RED feet and paws?

I am noticing other RED's in the picture too.

Can you spot them?

Now it is on it's side. Ready to head out the door and on to my husband's truck.

Yay! The bookcase is gone.

It went to a new home at our church in the pastor's office.

He said he needed more space to corral his books and things.

We took that over there on Monday evening.

Now my niece is planning on coming over this coming weekend and help

me set up the two tables I bought and do some organizing so I can

get back to sewing more easily.

My niece is anxious to sew with me again.

I am anxious to be decluttered in the sewing room.

So....What have you been working on???

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~Linnea~

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~

Whatcha Working on Wednesday

It is that time again. I know I have not been posting as much lately on either of my blogs. I hope to get back to that more often now. But I have been busy with different things and work. The dark days make me tired early. But wanted to get this posted anyway.

Thank you to Leslie at My Country Home for being the ever gracious host for Whatcha Working on Wednesday. So let's see....what I have I been working on.....

My niece stayed with us last weekend to finish her project. Here it is all finished. She had broken her wrist after the last time we were together. So this time I had to help her finish sewing the pillows closed. Her name is Elyssa and her sister is Annika. Annika does not know yet what the project is. The girls share a room and these pillows will be on their beds. I think Elyssa did a great job sewing these together. Elyssa has already picked out the next project, but we will wait until she can cut the fabric out herself since it is her project.

B-Daddy and I finally got this shelf hung up. Well, B-Daddy did most of it. I just helped hold it in place. We have had this since the middle of November. I am glad to have it up. We hung it in the laundry room which is where we come and go. This shelf with the hooks comes in very handy as a place to hang our jacket. Before we were draping them whereever. We place our lunch boxes on top of the shelf. Works great. We got this shelf at IKEA. We had to hang it high enough so that a tall person would not hit their head.

I have a start on this piece I was preparing last week. Not much of a start, but a start. I did not post a picture on the stitchalong blog I am a part of. Hope to do one this weekend though. I have Saturday off and should be able to get to some projects that day. I hope so anyway.

So, what are you working on?

~Linnea~