Slipcovering Again

I don't know about where you live but here in Minnesota it feels like fall! so for my next Hog Shed project I went with this beautiful fall fabric for Septembers Slip covered Chair! I love the way that it turned out and the throw is as soft as it looks!!
What a fun chair for a cozy Cottage this fall.

Starting at the Begining

OK so I am determined to figure out how to knit again! I see all of these wonderful things that you ladies are making and I want them all!! I used to knit when I was a girl and had my grandma at my side to help me when I got stuck, but now I'm on my own except for one friend that I see about once a month so maybe if I get stuck I will have someone to help me out. so for my first project I started with the first project in t he book. I love the yarn and cant wait till it gets a bit cooler so that I can wear it with my favorite fall jacket.

A Settee for Sara

Back from my little "working Vacation" and much needed family time in Sunny California, I am back in the work shop full force with a fun Project for a very Sweet family. A Slip covered Settee in a fun mix of fabrics which include a Ralph Lauren Quilt along with a washable leather and a nice muted red quilting cotton for the trim and pillows I just love the way this one turned out!!! I hope they like it too!

Back From a week long Summer Vacation with hubby and The kids dropping in at will.
We had a wonderful time and are ready to get back into the swing of every day life.
We had a cabin on the lake where we were free to swim, bike, boat, fish and EAT!
Lots of fun but its always nice to come home. Yeah, it doesn't look like he's working just too hard right?

A Little Amy Butler Comfort

Well here is my Latest Project for the Hog Shed. So here's the deal.... Country Living Magazine is going to be at the Hog Shed on June 11th and 12th Taking Lots of Pictures and do an article on the shop, so I wanted to have something done that would catch there eye. and after looking at all my books and magazines from Country Living it became very obvious that they have seen pretty much every possible variation of a slip cover!!! so maybe a little Amy Butler will get there attention. I Hope I hope I hope !!!
I am Happy with it and am glad that I am done with it. Now on to other projects. I will keep you posted on when they tell us the article will be out all I know is that it will be sometime in 09. Other then this we are getting ready for our middle child, Autumn to Graduate. Only 3 more days of school!! and enjoying beautiful weather !!! I Love it and it's getting harder and harder to be in the shop working on Slipcovers.

Happy Mothers Day

Happy Mother's Day Mom ( this is my Mom ) Hope your day is special and I wish that I could spend it with you.

The Guest Cottage ( 3 Season Porch ) is ready and waiting for you

The trees are working on getting there leaves and should be fully dressed by the time you make it out here.

This Week

I think that this week promises to be a busy one and as I look at the weather it looks to be nice so that will help! I would like to get down to the gardening center and pick up some plants for the front of the house and work on getting the porch cleaned and organized for summer relaxing and Mom's visit ( its the summer guest room) . .. Finish the couch that I'm working on for the living room pick a chair to redo for the living room and possibly a new table for the dinning room, get mothers day gifts finished and shipped! oh ya and get some things listed on eBay hence the picture of the purse!! new pattern for summer. I'm finding it hard to concentrate on work when I am wanting to get my house freshened up for summer. oh well we will see how far I get!

Something "new" for the house

Well here it is and yes I know that I doesn't look "new" but hopefully it will when I'm done with it! This is a couch that I found at a garage sale a couple of weeks ago for 20.00 and it's a sleeper sofa to boot! this is one of the projects that I had on my to do list for this spring. I sold my last living room sofa and chair set at my fall garage sale " cause it was old and very uncomfortable and have been using the sofa that goes in the porch throughout the winter, well it's almost time to get the porch in order so I was in need of a sofa for the lining room. I love the shape of this one so I will be slip covering it and Viola " new" living room furniture I hope to have it finished this week!

Ballet Dude

Well here he is... This is my Son Shayne's new passion, Ballet! He Just started lessons this year and is loving it and is one of the most graceful dancers I've seen. OK maybe I'm a little prejudice but for his first year of dance he really shines. You can just tell when he is dancing that he really loves it.

Competition was a bit disappointing for him this year as they did not win any big metals but I think the judges were into more of the jazz and tap numbers and they were really fun to watch I have to say. I think Shayne's group was the only ballet number. I asked him if he would consider doing a jazz or tap number for the next competition and his reply was NO WAY! I'm doing ballet again! OK OK, sorry I even mentioned it.

Something for Summer

When we first moved to Minnesota we bought a 5 acker hobby farm where we decided we wanted to garded something I've always wanted to do but never really had done before luckly my husbands family were big time vegitable gardeners so he procded to put in three huge vegie garden that I was happy to help with but my favorite part of the whole experience was learning to can from the farmer neighber