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aming process all that much i mentioned in my last post that my parents are photographers which also means that they are able to provide me with a large selection of framing options for a far cheaper price than your average consumer can find but now that i ve got this nice big house to fill up with stitching i feel like it s time to put some of these beauties on the walls we started by dragging out every single stitched piece of mine that we could find this in and of itself was a bit overwhelming as mom had finished pieces both mine and hers stashed in several places in the upstairs of her house much of our work is hidden under piles of class kits and stitching models etc etc it took a while to find everything once we had a nice big stack of needlework we carefully measured the size of each piece and wrote it down on a master list i forgot to bring my camera with me which is a shame because you might have gotten a kick out of seeing that big pile of stitchery just waiting to be framed we also found two christmas ornaments one large pillow and a needleroll all waiting to put into their finished form the ornaments and needleroll have come home with me to be worked on here at my house after we finished with the measurements i selected a half dozen or so pieces to be the first to receive their frames we spent another hour or two picking out the frames for them dad has ordered one of the frames and will hopefully order the rest when they return from connecticut later this week next week i will return to mom s house for a training session in pinning no not pinterest pinning the linen to mounting boards so that each piece will be smoothly stretched across it before going into the frames sigh i m not really excited about learning how to pin but i will learn and i will do it because the end result will be worth it sigh so hopefully i will have photos of one or two beautifully framed pieces sometime next week followed by many more in the weeks to come having been inspired by this week s trip down memory lane i ve pulled out some of my patriotic finishes and put them up around the house i figure they can stay out from now through september 11th and be perfectly appropriate right anyway i only took a photo of one of the pieces before i sat down to blog so that s the last photo that i ll share with you today i have a fondness for stitching sheep don t know why i just do so here s an oldie but a goodie i spent my stitching time this past week working on sous le soleil but i don t feel like i stitched very much there were just so many other things going on so i m going to keep working on soleil this week til next time i hope everyone has a beautiful crafty day posted by robindefender at 6 15 am 5 comments labels bap challenge stitching tusal friday may 18 2012 ask and you shall receive a few of you have asked if i m going to share wedding photos on the blog yes of course i ve just been rather slow about it the sheer number of images to sort through is overwhelming one person also asked if i was able to keep the proofs from my wedding so here s my little secret my parents are professional photographers my godparents are professional photographers the wedding photographer is a family friend so of course i m keeping the proofs and the memory cards well my parents have the memory cards rather than overwhelm this post with a dozen or more photos i thought i d start by setting the scene the wedding bling the wedding flowers i love roses the ceremony location note the potted flowers in buckets in an earlier post you saw them transferred to hanging baskets where they now live on our front porch the centerpieces as made by myself my sister and sister inlaw the bubbles with tiny tags created and attached by myself and my sister the groom doesn t he look adorable okay that s half a dozen photos enough for today mostly because i got tired of sorting through the pictures i ll share more soon though til then hope everyone is having a lovely day posted by robindefender at 9 02 am 6 comments labels wedding thursday may 17 2012 i finally scrapbooked after almost 6 months away from scrapbooking well except for the shopping part i never really behind on the shopping part i have finally gotten back it and gotten a few layouts done i used national scrapbook day to push me to 1 get the bonus room into some semblance of organization and 2 get my scrap on on the organization front a great deal of progress has been made but there s a lot left to go i had more scrap and stitching product than i had storage space in the old apartment now i have the room but i am still in the process of acquiring the storage units that i need hopefully i ll have the room arranged completely to my liking by the end of the summer on the scrapping front i have seven layouts to share yuppers i am definitely back in the groove i am still working for the perfect place to take photos of my layouts there s plenty of light in my new room but the layouts seem to come out way too dark i ve tried to lighten them up to better capture their true appearance first up and my favorite from the batch is a layout about a trip alton and i took to death valley back in 2009 i guess i like the color combination it was a great trip which began with a girls only visit to las vegas and ended with several days exploring the area with my honey loved it this next layout is a quick simple one showcasing a photo of my maternal grandparents and uncle working on the farm i m not sure exactly when the photo was taken but it s probably from the late 60 s or early 70 s and finally there are a few more layouts from my neverending egyptian album when i last blogged about our vacation we were spending our time in aswan and exploring lake nasser with these new layouts we pick back up from the visit to kitchener island and head south in a small motorized boat i think we sailed about 25 miles from the border of sudan and maneuvered amidst the rocks and rapids of the first cataract on the river nile the birdlife here was beautiful at one point we could see caravans of camels some of them resting on the edge of the desert on the shore of the nile and others loaded up and walking along narrow desert trails it was surely something to see our boat pulled up to the shore and we had a few short minutes to walk on the yellow sands of the desert a few of us dared to take our shoes off and wade into the nile it was refreshingly cool and amazingly clear and clean looking especially considering the amount of trash we had seen floating on parts of the river earlier in our trip from there we cruised on and eventually docked at a small nubian village we were greeted by several young girls trying to sell us wooden dolls i bought one because i thought they looked so cute we were taken to a local family s home where we had some tea and then they brought out the nile crocodiles apparently many nubian villagers rescue the baby crocs from the river keep them in their homes until they are larger and better able to protect themselves in the wild it was really something to have the chance to hold one in my arms yes its little mouth was tied shut for my protection but it was still awe inspiring it was getting later in the afternoon and as we left the village the camels were coming home for the night have you ever seen a string of camels come swaying by on their way home for dinner they are very focused on their route and don t pay too much attention to anything in their way including tourists it made for some interesting moments so that s it for my new layouts next post will either be some more honeymoon photos or some stitching photos i m not sure which yet i did finally pick up my wedding proofs this weekend there are only about 800 of them i don t know how i m ever going to choose which ones to scrap which to get bigger images of etc etc maybe my next post will be wedding photos who knows tee hee til next time happy crafting everyone posted by robindefender at 10 47 am 2 comments labels california egypt family scrap project vacation monday may 7 2012 the cats are adjusting well i know i should be sharing more honeymoon photos or wedding photos and i will but today i wanted to share some photos of some of the cats instead everyone seems to be adjusting pretty well to their new home princess likes all the windows that i open every day she watches the birds plots her escape to the outdoors and enjoys a sunbeam or two spike has discovered that the living room chairs are very comfy especially when they are covered with a beautiful handmade afghan knitted by my cousin kristy scout on the other hand prefers alton s office chair and then there s lucky he likes the kitchen window i think he is the perfect decoration for it don t you i have decided to try my hand at vegetable gardening there s a raised bed in our backyard last week i dug out all the weeds added some fresh compost and put in some new plants there are zucchini tomatoes two kinds of lavender and cantaloupe i have no clue what i m doing but so far none of them have died finally i leave you with a photo of the live plants that i used in the wedding these lovelies are all now happily growing in baskets along the porch rail and the ferns from the ceremony are hanging on the front porch as well next post i think i ll be sharing what i did for national scrapbook day til next time happy crafting posted by robindefender at 3 24 pm 6 comments labels cats gardening friday may 4 2012 wipocalypse and bap challenge updates most of this stitching actually all of it took place before i got married i was just too busy to take the time to post updates on my blog things are calming down now i m finding time to stitch again and i m really looking forward to scrapbooking all day long on national scrapbook day first up my wipocalypse progress i have been working on reflets de soie s sous le soleil de la lune in my last update i was slogging through an endless field of green grass i am happy to say that i have finished the grass and moved on to more interesting things here s where i was at my last update and here s where i am now not only is the grass done but all the dark green in the border as well and i ve added a vase and a pair of pretty blue birds you can read more about the wipocalypse challenge on measi s blog here i also had a little time to work on my sampler for beckybee s bap challenge you can find her blog here i ve been working on the gyrafa sampler from sanq magazine here s where i am now this last section has been attacked by frogs and the frogs have destroyed my desire to work on the project this is just a temporary setback i ll be back to my dear giraffe in a couple of weeks i m sure meanwhile saturday is going to be all about the scrapbooking well the crafty side of the day is going to be about scrapbooking my husband and i are planning a walk to the local farmers market there d better be fresh strawberries followed by the debut of our fancy schmancy waffle maker then it s gonna be all about the scrapbooking happy national scrapbooking day posted by robindefender at 8 53 pm 10 comments labels bap challenge stitching wipocalypse tuesday may 1 2012 i m baaaack hello everyone i am officially returning to the land of blogging i am happy to report that the wedding on april 14 was absolutely beautiful at least from my point of view the weather was gorgeous the site was gorgeous my husband was gorgeous you get the picture and speaking of pictures i will be posting some but there are something around 800 wedding photos to go through so it might be a while in the meantime i do have a few photos from our honeymoon that i am ready to share we left for oahu two weeks ago today much cheaper to fly on a tuesday and we really needed that resting time between the wedding and our trip to rest and pack what a beautiful part of the world we were greeted at the plane with beautiful fragrant leis i went into the bathroom immediately after receiving my lei and heard a voice from a nearby stall i smell a bride is there a bride in the bathroom although i knew that meant she could smell the fragrance of plumeria wafting from my direction in retrospect that is a really awkward question to be asking in a public bathroom our hotel was in waikiki across the street from the actual beach after having dinner at the local hard rock cafe what can i say i m in love with their haystack chicken salad we wandered along the beach gorgeous right we walked around for a bit then settled in and watched the sun set it was so relaxing and yes very romantic the next morning we headed to pearl harbor we were up bright and early to make sure that we got tickets turns out we didn t need to be up quite so early because it wasn t all that crowded pearl harbor is really a beautiful place in some ways that makes the horror of what happened on that december day all the more stark in my mind it must have been so tranquil until the drones of the japanese attack planes filled the air we watched a short film about the attack walked through several exhibits about what was going during that time period and what led to the japanese decision to bomb pearl harbor and rode the boat out to the arizona memorial we chose not to pay to see any of the other museums from pearl harbor we drove into downtown honolulu we visited iolani palace where i got a fabulous up close view of the queen s quilt no photos allowed but i did buy a small book lots of detailed information about the crazy quilt we also wandered around chinatown buying our lunch from a stall in one of the open markets a little grotty but quite tasty one of the places that we walked by was the state supreme court does anyone else start humming the theme to hawaii 5 o when they see this we finished our first day with a short scenic drive up tantalus drive it was an amazing tropical drive up the mountainside topped with a beautiful view of the valley and diamond head crater a good first full day of our honeymoon well that s about it for today i realize that i ve missed both the wipocalypse and the tusal updates for april since very little stitching was done i think i ll just save what little updating i have for may s regular days for updating i started a new project yesterday new project for a new marriage that s my rationalization i m going to be working on la d da s spot the cat for the next little while i don t have a job right now so i m focusing on trying to put our house in order there are boxes everywhere the kitchen is almost completely arranged but that s the only room that s close to done unless you count the downstairs half bath which i don t and my poor craft room is jammed full of boxes i need to get it at least half sorted out so that i can do some scrapbooking this weekend in honor of national scrapbooking day we ll see if that happens til next time happy creating everyone posted by robindefender at 5 53 am 6 comments labels hawaii travel newer 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