Slow and Steady

Happy Mother's Day!!!  I absolutely adore my mom and am so thankful for everything she has done for me (and put up with from me!).  I started making this quilt for her back in October. She loves snowmen and has quite the collection grown over the years. Once completed, this quilt will feature some hand embroidered snowmen in the center of it.  I've finished all the redwork (is it called bluework if it isn't red?!) and am now working on the outside blocks. These are the first I've attempted that have triangles in them...so I'm pleased for a first time go at it.

The plan is to finish piecing this one by July (so that she can get it in time for Christmas!) so i'll post some more about it once it comes together. Until then, know that I was thinking about you today, mom!!

Blooming!

I love spring time...mostly because school starts to settle down (a bit) and I get a chance to do some fun things like update the yard. We had a huge mess of a small forest growing in what used to be a garden but has long since been forgotten about.

Before - Pretty neglected.

So, we started by just clearing things out and building a small retaining wall out of flagstone. We are no where near done, but it looks much cleaner anyways. We did manage to save two small boxwoods (? at least thats what we thing they are) and moved them to either side of the stairs.  

After

Succulents were 1/2 off today! :-)

And since we had an extra piece of flagstone and were lacking in house numbers, I added some to the porch. 

Topped it off with a new wreath for spring time. Like I said, not done yet...but I'm happy with the improvement.