Can I take a mulligan on this weekend?  No?  OK, well I'll just do a little venting here, then.

( Read about my wild weekend! )

I'm still here!  I just haven't done much that worthy of picture posts or even chatting about, really.  This time of year is always tough for me in terms of being motivated to sew.  Holiday prep, fall yardwork, and the urge to just cuddle up with my animals when the temps cool off wreak havoc with all my good intentions!

Sewing: I made a quickie ( Read more... )

I'm here and alive!  Sorry for the radio silence for the past...oh geez, the past month!  Yikes.  Well, I can honestly say it's been a bumpy transition from OMG-get-the-house-in-order to holy-crap-amazing-vacation to blah-back-to-real-life.  My ability to just roll with the changing situations reached its limit and some stuff (like posting here) ( Read more... )

As promised, some before and after photos.

( Read more... )

The kitchen-facelift-project-that-never-ends just keeps on rolling.  The walls are fully painted now and I've moved on to the cabinets.  I decided I wanted to dip my toe in the water before I jumped, so I started with a base cabinet that has three drawers and is separated from the other cabinets by the dishwasher.  I did it the 'right' way - I ( Read more... )

So, this is what's going on at my house:

( Read more... )

Those of you who are on my Facebook have probably seen this already, and if so sorry for the delayed double post.  I just didn't have it in me to make two posts at the time.  Last week we made the decision to take Jack to the vet for the last time.  His tumor had invaded some of his lung space and it was making breathing hard sometimes.  He wasn't ( Read more... )

I've decided this is the year to expand my vegetable garden.  The spot it's in right now just won't hold all the plants I want to grow.  So over the last couple years, I've been slowly working toward clearing an area at the end of the yard for additional growing space.  Due to some trees in the neighbor's yard, it won't get quite as much sun as my ( Read more... )

Surgery went well. There's a 90% chance the cancer didn't spread. They'll know that for sure once the pathology reports come back. They had some trouble getting her pain under control at first, but now that they're ahead of it Mom's doing great. She can be up and walking around tonight, and they plan to discharge her tomorrow morning around ( Read more... )

( Details, mostly not-gory... )