Curtains for my craft room

Poppy is all better now and she is her happy self again. It is hot outside already. Poppy has chosen a cool spot, checking out a little ant while waiting for my husband to come home from the airport.
Does she really know that her human Daddy is on his way home? If I tell her "Michael, home." "Poppy waits for Michael." then yes, she knows.

While Poppy is on watch duty outside, I started on my craft room curtains inside. I bought a piece of fabric that has the pattern of these leaves.

I finally able to use up the curtain gathering band from my stash.

It looks better in real life.

Curtains are not popular in Florida and I could not find any net curtain easily. So I use voile instead, also from stash.

Here is my finished project.

I am happy with the result. It makes the room more cosy.

A few photos

In my last post I meant to upload a few photos over the weekend. Then the unexpected happened. We were without water for a couple of days. Poppy injured her paw and my husband had to travel at very short notice. Things are back to normal now. Here are some of the pictures I want to show you.

I am making progress with my crochet.
Took Poppy to the Juno dog beach. Boy, it was so windy. Poppy was on the far left.

Too cold for me to go near the water...and yes, that was when Poppy told me she has done something to her paw.

Don't often have cold and windy days in March. It is warming up though. I know Spring is coming when I see this plant in flowers.

Just love the color.

What's on your work desk Wednesday?

I had a spring clean-up and have now moved back in my craft room. So happy.

I stayed up late last night to look through my stash and selected yarns for new projects.

I am thinking about making these...

More pictures this weekend. Have a wonderful day.

New Year Progress

I started the New Year with a new routine. I travel locally to work now every day. Work is about 3 miles away from home. It is close enough for me to come home for lunch and to take care of Poppy.

On my work desk: My doily is at the half-way point.

My house: After the painter finished painting the outside of our house, he started working inside. I have to empty out my craft room and my craft stuff has to stay outside until the painter finishes the job. I am looking forward to have my craft room back.

An egg cracking expert

New Year day, I gave Poppy a fresh egg as her treat. She used to love this when she was a puppy.

A little while later, I came back out in the yard to check on Poppy and saw that she has left the egg alone. O, I thougth, Poppy has grown out of eating eggs.
How wrong I was...Poppy has carefully cleaned out the egg and left the shell intact.She is quite an egg cracking expert, isn't she?

My Home

In the run up of the 2009 Christmas my husband and I replaced our kitchen floor. Not sure if we have started a tradition, we worked hard with our 2010 Christmas to get our house ready for an overall paint.

This is before:
This is after.

O, the vine is not growing back. No more snakes on the vine, thank you.

My Stash

I have always considered 3 as my lucky number. Well, today is 3rd of January. Let's start the New Year in blog land with three posts in one day.

I was so busy last year in my effort to put my career back on track that my home and my needle crafts have been taking a back seat.

My goals for 2011? Only three simple ones: (1) Spend more time for my home and hobbies. (2) Stop buying new patterns. (3) Using up my stash.

Here is one box of yarns and one box of fabrics. I have 9 boxes all together plus a big basket full.

And a closet full of fleeces.Hope you have a great start to 2011 already.

Happy Stitching.