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cember 4 november 1 october 1 august 2 february 1 january 4 2012 61 december 5 november 5 october 7 september 7 august 4 july 6 june 5 may 7 progress and plants may ort report bap challenge update and other st ask and you shall receive i finally scrapbooked the cats are adjusting well wipocalypse and bap challenge updates i m baaaack april 1 march 3 february 4 january 7 2011 54 december 8 november 1 october 5 september 1 august 1 july 5 june 4 may 2 april 5 march 2 february 5 january 15 2010 33 december 5 november 6 october 4 september 1 july 4 june 3 may 3 april 7 take the quiz here about me robindefender view my complete profile sunday may 27 2012 progress and plants good morning everyone i had intended to have this post up friday night but just as i sat down to turn the computer on the power went out for the second time in two weeks ugh i hope this isn t going to be a common thing this summer anyhow the power is back on and i can now share all the silly things i wanted to share two days ago um the power has been on since late late friday night i have just been busy since then i had mentioned in my last post that i was going to give sous le soleil another week s worth of work because i felt like i d made almost no progress during the first week then early monday morning i damaged my foot by kicking a stepladder not on purpose i didn t realize it was in the hallway and i ran into it on the way to the bonus room so i spent most of this week lamed up which is a bad thing for housekeeping and physical comfort but a great thing for stitching so here s soleil when i last posted and here she is after one slow week and one turbo week most of the plant motifs you see are unfinished i decided to push through with the green and save specialty stitches til closer to the end of the piece then i changed my mind about waiting i am tempted to keep at her for another week and see how close i can come to finishing but i am also thinking about finishing a pyn pillow from thistle threads in the coming week my lessons for a cabinet of curiosities began earlier this month and i m somewhat motivated to work on something intimidating as a warm up for this class plus the pillow is also on my wipocalypse list hmm guess we ll see what kind of mood i m in tomorrow morning when it s time to officially decide how the stitching week will go my vegetable garden seems to be doing well the zucchini plant has leaves the size of my hand or larger and is now sprouting this giant yellow flowers and yesterday i saw a few little flowers on my tomato plant hopefully the flowers are a sign that vegetables are soon to follow nothing to do but wait and see i can t remember whether i mentioned on this blog that one of the ferns that i bought to use in our wedding ceremony was taken over by purple finches when i left the plant at my sister s house for safe keeping well her fern is now the home of 5 baby finches i bought a new fern which remained bird free and brought it back to my new home after the wedding we hung them on our front porch and for a month they were just pretty ferns decorating our house but earlier this past week i noticed that there were many purple finches circling around it and that there seemed to be a battle for control of one of my ferns and then we noticed that there were often two purple finches perched in our fern yesterday we took the fern down to water it and to be sure we didn t water anything that shouldn t be watered and sure enough there s a little nest growing in our fern one of the eggs is quite a bit larger than the others and it s speckled the others are not speckled what could be the reason for this has some other bird snuck an egg into our poor finches nest or is it normal for the eggs to different sizes only time will tell i suppose til next time i hope everyone has a wonderful holiday weekend or just a great weekend if you re not in the us posted by robindefender at 4 56 am 8 comments labels birds garden stitching monday may 21 2012 may ort report bap challenge update and other stitching thoughts it s time for my monthly tusal update if you want to learn more about the tusal check out daffycat s blog here as i have moved since my last tusal update i have to find a new location for my ort jar photos so i decided to give the birds a chance to admire all my lovely orts in retrospect this may not have been the wisest decision don t some birds find that bits of thread make excellent additions to their nests stay away from my orts little chickadee seriously i am having such a great time watching the birds that gather around our little bird feeder it s right outside the kitchen window along with a humming bird feeder so i can watch them any time that i m doing something in the kitchen i spent a week working on my bap challenge sampler it s not an impressive amount of progress i went from here to here i ve only been devoting about a week a month to this piece i may have to bump the stitching time up later in the year but for now i think i ll stick to that schedule on wednesday i drove over to mom s house for an intense framing session for many years i have not had the majority of my finished pieces framed this happened for several reasons i didn t have space to hang the pieces i didn t have the money for framing and my mom doesn t really love the whole framing 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 b...