Friday finishing

Some Austen themed finishes. I’ve listed all these patterns on the Jane Austen Projects Page at the webshop, there is a free bonus offer with the Northanger Abbey design. Most of these are from The Sampler Girl, one of them is a recent free design you can find here. The other, which I converted into a little Mansfield Park keepsake is from Little House Needleworks.

I have 6 or 7 other finishes in the works but really need to spend a fair amount of my time finishing up the unpacking. I’ve pulled out all the essentials, now it is a matter of sorting through things that don’t really have a place and deciding if they are treasures I shall keep or if I should add them to the Good Will pile.

Jerry is wrapping up a 2 month out of town project and will possibly be on a local project for the next little while. That would be wonderful! Tyler likes his new job very much and Amber is taking a week’s vacation in Montana. The pool is open but we haven’t been yet, still so much to do around here and it hasn’t been super warm.

I have been taking so many pictures I think I have more things saved than I can possibly blog about for the next 3 months, I’ll just keep posting.

Thanks for stopping by!

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Rocky Mountain Wednesdays

Trail Ridge Road was open this weekend. I missed the entire 2011 season so it was good to see the high mountains again. I felt a little nervous and the road felt quite narrow, I guess a year in the flat lands of Michigan have changed me a bit. I didn’t enjoy the edges at all, sometimes it’s a sheer drop with no shoulder to the road….Jerry was driving and I was looking away :0)

I took over 100 photos of our drive so I have a few more to show you soon.

Hope you are having a productive week, I’m trying to!

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this & that

Just a few random things. I’m still unpacking boxes. Just came across a kitted up project that I think I will get to work on. I’ve wanted to stitch this for ages. I think I might have taken a picture of this at a local shop, that has now closed, that was adorably finished as a wall hanging. I’ll have to look that up. I need to add this design to the webshop!

I tried a new recipe yesterday. These Raspberry Coconut Macaroons are pretty and tasty, I would consider making these again sometime. I love just about anything with raspberries in it, have you tried the new raspberry M&M’s? YUM!

These American White Pelicans were out for a morning swim today so I stopped to say hello!

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Thank You!

Wishing everyone everywhere a safe weekend!

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I’d rather eat cake

This is a cake I recently baked. It’s not for any special occasion. I baked it because I felt like playing with my decorating tips and eating cake. By the time I got around to frosting this cake it was midnight and I didn’t feel like playing with my decorating tips anymore. I still felt like eating cake though.

I’d rather eat more cake that deal with the toys Ethan insists on displaying on every surface in the house since he has missed them so much, and I rather eat even more cake than face that pile of boxes I still need to unpack!

I am seriously considering baking another cake!

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PS – you may have noticed things look a little strange here, there are changes in the wind.

PPS – cake is really just something you bake to justify eating the frosting you know…

Rocky Mountain Wednesdays

Thank you, thank you for all the nice compliments on my crochet project. I haven’t had time to work on it since Monday, I look forward to getting back to it.

A few more pictures near home. I pass these ladies in the field several times a week, this week it has been several times a day with all the mom-taxi activity. Can you see the prairie dogs in the photo with the grazing cows, the little furry rocks on the ground? I tried to get some close-ups but they are a bit blurry. If you get too close they pop into their little burrows and stay there.

Ethan and I went out for a walk early today. It looks like rain is on the way!

Hoping your week has been a good one so far.

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crochet

Ages ago I bought this yarn to make this blanket. I finally started this fun project late last week. I’m actually starting on my 36th color stripe at this point, it is a fun and relaxing project.

As you can see the back deck is being overrun by clematis. I think I want to cut these back a bit when they are done blooming, I’ll need to look into proper care for these plants, since I’ve never had one before.

This is a busy week for things with the four kids. Lots of to-ing and fro-ing in many directions beginning around 6am. Not sure how much energy I’ll have for crafting and it is way too hot to crochet in my car since the air conked out. It is only 7:06 pm but I’m ready to conk out myself!

I do have a cross stitch project nearing completion, hopefully I’ll find the energy to get that done, it’s a sweet design.

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up close

Ophelia’s toes

A cake I baked

Strawberries I discovered

Roses at Amber’s

Jane sleeping under my bed

Spent a little time playing with my camera today. I’m working on up-close shots, these are right out of the camera as they say, or at least they say something like that. I don’t have photo editing software but I do crop pictures sometimes to create a tight picture of an object, these however are not cropped. They aren’t anything special but I’m having fun looking at everyday things.

I hope you have a beautiful weekend!

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Rocky Mountain Wednesdays

A very gray evening as you can see. Just a few pictures on the drive between my house and Amber’s which takes about 10 minutes. It never did rain but cooled down nicely.

Hope your week has been nice and cozy so far!

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a new week

I hope Mother’s Day was a sweet occasion for all who celebrated this weekend. This year was very different than last year. This year I was able to celebrate in person with all four of my children and Jerry, last year with just 2 of the boys. We had a yummy Chinese food take out feast here at the house. It was good to be at the table with everyone!

When I think back on last year I remember all the encouragement I received throughout the year from blog friends to hang in there. I want to take a moment and thank you all again. You truly were a huge encouragement and still are. Moving is a big job and I really do appreciate your good wishes.

As requested I’ve included a few pictures of Jane from the last day or two. She feels like queen of the castle here. I haven’t told her yet but Yzma and quite possibly Ophelia will soon be invading her space. I hope that goes well, Yzma was queen of the rock when Jane arrived as a kitten, now Jane feels she is the one in possession! Ophelia is happy as long as there is food in the dish.

I framed my Red House Sampler. I love seeing this on the wall, makes me want to sit and stitch but I’m refraining til I’m caught up on EVERYTHING here. I think I might feel I can sit down to a good long, guilt free, stitch by the end of the week if all goes well. I apologize for the very blurry peek at the living room so far. Jerry’s sister sent those chairs home with us, they are super comfy and where I will be doing that bit of stitching. She still has 2 just like them at her house so we match! I would like to get a leather(ish) ottoman for that room.

We had some rainy weather over the weekend, there should be mountains beyond those trees in the view from my sewing chair!

Jane says hello!

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PS. a bit of kid news…Amber has finished her degree (Bachelors of Science – IT, Web Programming) and Tyler just got a job for a company that works with IBM at their facility near Boulder. Happy for both of them. The bad news for my other two, they will be doing school all summer, well some anyway, we have a bit to catch up on, they aren’t really excited about that, don’t know why???