Not Much to See Here.....

 

So, I was doing some errands and stopped at my local HL......Look at these pretty trees! OOOOOooo, it's hard to resist, but I managed to resist.

I ordered some cute flannel for Little Dylan. He needs a few receiving blankets. 

And I serged the edges on 4 of them and hemmed one. Serging is so much easier!

This is such nice flannel-heavy and thick, no raveling at all!

I used Guterman top stitching thread in the loopers and it looks really good. Nice coverage.

But it does take more than one spool because there's only 33 yards on a spool!

I also completed a repair on my top down bottom up blind. Remember I told you about them just a couple months ago? Yeah well Iris.

She thought she saw something on the back side-maybe a fly- and climbed up to get it. She tore the heck out of the blind material and it split completely. 

SO I turned my sewing machine sideways,,,,,,,

so I could get the metal rail inside my machine and then zig zagged it back together.

It doesn't look very good.....

But when they're re installed, they look perfect!

Nobody needs to know....until you put the top down!LOL!

It'll do for now, maybe I'll shop for some new sturdier ones!

Iris did try to help with the repairs.....

I don't think they make iris proof blinds. 

Oh and today is this fella's one month day!

Storms, Blinds, Catching Up

 

See Bob there? 

There was  a storm warning a week or so ago, they said we could have high winds so I went out and tied down the deck stuff. See how handy it is to have scarp quilt binding strips on hand? I tied down the smoker and the chairs and bench.

It turned out to not be a bad storm after all-no worries.

I also got new blinds in the front room! Look how nice they look! This was the first one up. 

They required the brackets to be placed differently than the old blinds. It was a smart move to wait until the morning to do the rest of the blinds-that sun beating in in the afternoon was fierce!

THey are wider than the old ones.

And are wood-look. And lucky for me they match the wood-ish trim we already have on the windows.

There! They look good! A really nice change.

See in this picture-the old on the left...and the new one on the right. I ordered from JCPennney on line. They are really a perfect fit.

And outdoors, I pulled the weeds from around the back up generator and put down the stone chips like I used last year in the front yard. 

That looks a lot better, The weeds were just taking over! My gardener has been a little bit busy.

She and her brother came and picked up Hubs and took him to the Blues and BBQ event in North Liberty. 

She sent me these Snap Chats......

Oh my goodness. I had to work and I'm a little bit glad......

So, I think I'm caught up now....next, A FINISH!