Always needing a project

Seems my whole life I have had to have a project to work on or a book to read...

I can't think of a time I have just sat still and done nothing....well, except visiting and driving

- things like that yes, one has to be not multitasking 😏

The basement is FINISHED...the laundry room the last of it.

We painted the walls and floors, put in a couple cupboards/counter and Doug put up a hanging rack for me.  It certainly isn't a fancy laundry room but from what it was for years it is good enough for me.

Before/during demolition

No that isn't laundry in the baskets...

it's all the rags and sheets we use for dropcloths when painting

After

I do plan to make curtain for the front of the shelves

After the basement project we tackled the outside...normally we get loads of mulch but

it needs to be taken care of right away and so this year with no help from the boys we bought bags of mulch and it worked out great...we didn't have to worry about the weather.

But first we bought a new tree for the end of the house to replace a large bush that outlived itself.

This is a 'Louisa' Weeping Flowering Crabapple

Not sure if you remember but we planted all new shrubs last Spring

They're still small but are coming in really great this year, we're really pleased with the 

Holly bushes especially - 

We had to replace two burning bushes that were under these windows

so we decided on two Holly bushes like the ones in the front.

This week I started on the dining room getting the walls painted below the chair rail.

I kept the same color as all the trim because I like it and because I didn't want 

to paint ALL THAT TRIM a different color....then I started the stenciling.

I'm loving it and I like that I decided to put it just along the openings and not in the center of the walls.

Stencil is from MB Historic Stencils

In the evenings when I get to relax I work on my rug hooking

This is a pattern I've had for 4 years now and just getting to work on it.

This is my current finish one - finished hooking anyway,

now I need to block and bind it.

Thank you for visiting me again

Karen

Please pray for our country

Getting ready for Fall ???

Yep, making things for the upcoming October show here and one needs to be

a season or two ahead of the game!

Doesn't much bother me though because last week and already most of this week has been cool and rainy so making Fall and Christmas just seems right...so sad!!!

Anyway - I was busy this week making pumpkins and gingerbreads.

The pumpkins are painted and now some need to have faces sewn on them - not one of my finest crafts to do but much needed.  Last Fall we found many pumpkin stems and also purchased quite a few at the gourd farm in Lancaster, PA - I'll hot glue them on the pumpkins along with some excelsior moss around the base of the stems.

I made different gingerbreads this year from last years - I found a Jackie Schmidt pattern

in and old Mercantile Gathering magazine.

I hope mine turn out as nice as hers

In the evening when I'm not crafting things I do my punch needle.

I bought this pattern from a friend on FB - the design is taken from a Fraktur Peacock hooked rug from the early 1800's - it is becoming one of my favorites that I've done so far.

It's rather large (6-1/2" x 9-1/2")

so not sure what it will be mounted on - possibly just framed or on a pillow.

Last Saturday our youngest son Brett and our oldest grandson Jesse came to help Doug spread some topsoil (if you could call it that!!!) in the lawn...this year our lawn looked horrible - lots of bare spots and in the terrace under the maple trees the roots are so bad they are pushing up and all the grass is dead - so he bought 3 yards of topsoil and out of it there was about 1/3 of it that was TOTALLY HARD CHUNKS.

Doug built a sifter so they could sift out the bad - it was a long hard day for them but they got it done...now let's hope the seed takes (it rained like crazy for two days after that).

Isn't that just awful waste? Doug complained when he went back and all they said was

"we're trying to fix the problem" - I don't think so!!

Before they spread the seed though they helped lay the flagstone path - Doug and I ran out of time when we planted the new shrubs...oh I forgot to mention that the week before this Doug and I dug out 13 old shrubs and planted 16 new ones! Now everything looks so small and bare but it doesn't take long for them to grow.

I guess that's about it for me this time around...

nothing real fun but it's what's happening here at home.

Thanks for stopping by

Karen