Flower beds are a changing.

Last Sunday we worked on the front flower beds. The old over grown shrubs have been taken out and replaced with some smaller ones. We planted some grass along the edge that had been changed. Not sure if the clumps of ornament grass is going to perk up or not. If not we will try again. We have plenty of that. Marlee is checking it out. Most likely thinking...Did I pee on that today?
Here is the other side. I have a coneflower planted and some black eyed susans.

I just love the little step ladder we found in the trash. I have little pink flowers planted in the log and around the base of the ladder. However since the hard rain last night...Not many pink flowers open this morning. I put the ladder there to hide the hose and vents and other ugly stuff. I am going to put a metal bucket on the top of the ladder and see if it conceals more. If not we are on to plan B. I have a chicken crate/coop. I think if I stand it on end it might conceal more. Stay tuned.

Larry and I made a little house out of some windows from a trash find. The roof was made out of the screens.

Here is it's new home. We took out more overgrown shrubs out of the island on the side of the house. Larry has changed the edging and has grass planted.

Here is the view from the side street. The left side is mulched but the right side just got weeded on monday night. Took out a ton of lillies by the gas meter. Just put on a few. They should cover it up soon.

Hope you enjoyed the look around. Today's agenda is to finish my rug, re-do the front porch with some new thrift store finds, Maybe finish the porch swing and chairs. Better get going. Have fun with whatever you have to do today. Don't forget to smile! Lisa

A new project

On Sunday, Larry had to work on an emergency job, so I decided to do something fun. I started a new rug. I picked up the pattern when I was in Berlin, Ohio. I love Marlene's patterns. I told myself I would try to get it done in a week......
I worked on it Sunday evening and alittle on Monday nite. I should have taken a new picture. I have all the sky done and the legs and face of the sheep done. I have been working on the ground. I had a lot of brown worms to use up so I decided to do brown on the ground instead of green. I might have to re-do the legs though. They are not showing up much against the brown.

I hope you are having a good night. Make it a good weekend. Lisa

What a Relief....

I finally created something....I can't believe I haven't posted anything since mother day. I just have been going thru a dry spell. Not working on anything exciting. Until yesterday. It was my day off and I was determined to do something. So I got out my thrift store find(of a few months ago) hehe. It was a 5 yard piece for 5.oo. It is hard to tell but the background is a light yellow.
I decided to make cushions for my porch swing.

These are the cushions that I got at a garage sale a few years ago.

Here is the finish. I like the way they turned out. Not sure how long they will stay pretty. There is now cover or roof and I can't wait for the dogs to find them.



The blue fabric was also a thrift store find. Three yards for 3.00. The swing was on the curb and we brought it home and painted it. I made pillows for the swing and cushions for the wicker thrift store chairs. The set of chairs were 5.00. I just love this thrift store. I hope you have been creative. It sure makes you feel good....doesn't it?

Next on the to do list...on a sunny day....is to paint the shutters. I founds a nice brown that I think will look nice. Til next time. Have fun and enjoy the things that make you smile. Lisa

Happy Mothers Day

Thankfully, I got the little wall hanging done in time. I had my mom and dad over today for dinner. She liked the little quilt. I was afraid I wouldn't get the last of the quilting done in time. I always wait til the quilting is done before I put on the binding.....until last night. hehe. I put it on last night and then finished the quilting this morning. Thankfully, it turned out okay. I was happy with it. Sorry for the picture quality. It looked much brighter in person. This was made using the twister template. It was so easy. I just used the left overs from a charm pack. I think I will make another but try to make the pinwheels separate instead of touching. We'll see.

It was a beautiful day here in Ohio today. Finally a day without rain. Yippee. We had dinner outside....a fine day. I hope you enjoyed your day today. Have a good week

Some more sewing

Here is a little pillow I made for my mom. She dog sat for me one night awhile back when Larry and I went to Michigan. I thought a cute little pillow would be a nice thank you. Just needs stuffed.
Here is my little quilt made with the little twister template. Here is what you start out with...

then you use the template and cute out blocks....twist them and then...

You have a bunch of pinwheel blocks withour any work at all.

Now all it needs are some borders. I have been putting this off for months. It was soo easy.

I hope you are having fun with whatever you choose to do tonight. Thanks for stopping by.

Some things checked off the to do list.

I have been looking for some kind of towel holder for our master bath. I didn't want to normal kind...I wanted some kind of a drying rack instead. So a while back I found one. Yipee. The only problem was that it was missing some of the racks/sticks. So on sunday Larry took it apart and rearranged them so you would never know that any were missing. I am happy with the results. I think an old feed sack of something would look good on the empty one. Well see.
I finally got the binding sewn on my rug. I was alittle apprehensive about putting it on the floor with 3 dogs and a husband in the house. hehe. I thought I might hang it up in the living room. Not sure if that is going to be it's home yet. I think it still needs something. As you can tell by the dust on the chandelier....Spring cleaning hasn't made it to the living room yet. Look at that dust. What I want to know is who disturbed the dust layer anyway? Now it is really noticably. hehe

I have been doing some hand stitching in the evening. I have really enjoyed it. I have found that the key to "me" getting anything done is to get everything like thread, pins scissors etc all in a basket all ready to go. Then I will actually get it done. I plan to get another pile of stuff ready today.

Before work I decided to cut up some of my latest thrift store wool. Now it is all ready to be felted. Not sure if I will work on that today or not. We will see. It is still windy and rainy here. I just can't believe all the rain we have been having. Gee wiz....enough already. I hope you enjoyed stopping by and that you are having a good day. Stop back, Lisa

I have a feather question.

This last batch of baby birds seem different. Their feathers are full on their wings, chest and belly however, they are bald on the back of the head and on their backs. I see the dad picking at them alot but I don't know if he is the cause or if they are lacking something in their diet or something. Anyone have any ideas? I was going to take the dad out of the cage but he seems to be the one that is feeding them the most. Not sure if the mom with step up or not. I am quite sure that I don't need another decision to make. Do you know what I mean? I hope you are having a good night whatever you are up to. Lisa

Where does all the time go, anyway?

Here is a shot of our little patient. She was running after a rabbit or something and ran into a live trap our neighbor had in his back yard. They were chasing whatever it was so hard that she didn't even see the trap door sticking out. Larry said he saw them both run down the neighbors driveway and around the back of his house then heard a loud yelp. He ran over to see what was going on...Maddie came limping around the corner of the neighbors house and when she saw Larry she just stopped and held up her front leg. So he carried her home and tried to see what was wrong. The vet said nothing was broke but they found the puncture spot on her shoulder. She is on an antibiotic and a pain pill. She just lays around when she isn't limping. I just feel so bad for my girl. She had a rough weekend. How was yours? P.s. what do you think of her haircut. lol. She looks so funny laying on allllll the dog beds. I had piled them up to run the sweeper and before I could put everything back in its place she had found her spot. Well, the babies are really growing. Here is the last post I did on them. Their birthday. hehe

This was a shot of one this morning.

Here is the other one and a shot of the mom.

Here they are together. I also have one more baby that looks just like these two in the other cage. I wasn't able to get a good shot of it this morning.

I hope you are all doing well. I spent another evening at the chiropractor. I think the decompression might be helping. Well I am off to finish up our taxes. I just can't believe how behind I am with things this year. I just can't seem to get my act together.

I am going to Berlin, Ohio on wed. with my mom and her best friend. I am pretty sure that is exactly what I need to get my act together.....At least it can't hurt right?. Have fun y'all Lisa

Here is the mama sitting on the nest/basket. She is the one one the left. One of the babies is sitting next to her and the other two sitting on the branch are the babies too. It is fun to see their colors change. The one cream color one is changing alot now. It's little cheeks are turning orange. I think it will be a male but it is alittle soon to tell for sure.
Here is Carlee checking out the new quilt I found at the thrift store on wed. I think she approves of the purchase. I started to scold myself for buying another quilt cuz I didn't even know what I was going to do with it. However, I have an idea to use it as a cover for the hammock out in the yard this spring. That is one of my goals this spring.....to actually have a place to take a nap in the nice spring breeze. Don't you think I will dream some nice dreams on top of this one? I do.

I thought I would show off my little surprise from this morning. I got to see one of my new batch while it was hatching. I couldn't believe it....I looked in and thought one of the eggs looked cracked.....then it registered....It is cracked.....I ran and got the camera and got to see this little guy arrive. There was already one that had hatched. That is the head in the middle. You can just barely see the new baby's little head under the shell.

I was really cute to see it move around with the shell stuck to the top of it's head. I don't think he thought it was very funny though.

Unfortunatly one didn't make it in the other cage. It was on the bottom of the cage tonight along with one of the eggs. So in the other cage I have two hatched one to go. In the cage shown above I think I have four babies and five eggs left. Jeepers. I am going to have a pet store before long. I hope you are having a good evening. I think I am off to bed. One more visit to the chiropractor and my arm still going numb and now I have a nagging pain in my shoulder blade area. I just know I didn't have this pain before I went to the doctor. Now it is worse than any numbness ever was. I hope I won't feel so discouraged in the morning. Thanks for stopping by. Don't forget to say hello. Lisa

Here are a few more pics from Lake Farmpark Quilt show this year. I thought this one was very nice. I can't believe she didn't win anything for this one. Once again, not sure of the name. I know I am a bad blogger. I think it might be in a later picture.

She did so many different quilting designs. Just beautiful.

Anchors away.

I wonder if there are any pirates on that ghost ship?

Just lovely. Now I should get out the little quilt top I got at the thrift store wed and put it in my handi quilter and see what I can come up with.

By the way, I have received alot of questions about the baby birdies. Out of the ten or eleven eggs she laid I had four babies. They are doing great. I am having a hard time getting a good picture of any of them. They don't sit still..... But both pairs have layed more eggs. 5 in one nest/cage. 9 in the other. As of Sat. night after work I had 1 baby in one cage and 3 in the other. Oh my.....But I am having fun watching them. Have a good day. Lisa

I can't believe it has been so long....

It has been so long since I have posted anything. I have been checking up on all the fun blog that I love so much but when it came to mine.....I just didn't have anything to say. Then it got worse. Nothing that I had to say was good enough after such a long silence. I decided to stop being such a dork and just type something. So here it goes.

I haven't been up to much over here. I've been having trouble with my arm going numb for a couple months now and finally decided to go to a new chiropractor. The took a bunch of xrays and I have been going 3 days a week for about an hour and a half each time. I think that is the main reason for my absence in blog land. I don't have that much free time after the doc's. This is my third week. Not a whole lot of improvement yet. But I am hopeful that soon things will improve. I thought I would throw in a picture of a quilt for fun. We went to the Lake Farmpark Quilt show awhile back(2 or 3 weeks) They had a featured artist that was just incredible. This is hand quilted and hand appliqued. I will try to go thru my stuff and find the program and give her credit I can't remember her name right now. ( might be able to zoom in on the picture). I know that was pretty obvious. I am not sure if I should be driving today . hehe. Hope you have all been well. Lisa

Too many things to do...not enough time

This is one of my newest projects that I have started. I often have more than one going at a time but right now I have a ton of things to finish. But I am going to try to stay positive. hehe. Isn't this a wonderful pattern. I just love it. I worked on it a couple of nights so far. I have some of the house blocks ready to blanket stitch the windows and doors on.

I thought I would give you an idea of the colors that I went with. I think I am going to iron on the pieces that are ready and put the floss and stuff in a basket and take it upstairs so that when I sit on the couch I can have something ready.

This is a pattern I got a couple weeks ago and didn't want to wait to start it. Go figure! I think I am going to use a more pink than red wool for the geraniums.

This is a blurry shot of some of my new thrift store wool finds.

Here are a few others. I just love the blue plaid. What a deal...a long skirt for 50 cents. Yippee

Here is a shot of the babies. I can't wait to take out that basket and wash it. The bird poop is all over it. I was able to wipe off a bunch(after this picture of course) but it needs some work. It is funny to watch them all try to get in there together. The darkest one is the youngest. He just got out of the nest for the first time on Friday.

I tried to get a shot of the babies. The one in the middle is the last one out of the nest. He is sooo little.

This one has such pretty coloring.

Here they are on the bottom of the cage. They are all eating on their own now. The parents still feed them once in awhile but it is fun to see them imitate their parents.

If they would only sit still once in awhile so I could get a good picture for once would be really nice. I won't hold my breath for that one.

I hope you are all having a wonderful weekend. I hope you will get a bunch of things done on your list today. Have fun!