It's My Home

I have been spending quite a bit of my time sewing these days. It keeps me sane.
So here are some of the things I've done recently.

















I love working with stretch fabrics. This was quite a challenge. It's actually a type of "mesh". It's also lined since you can see right through it!

By the Mexican border

A little update with some pics of
my dad & Jean's new house they recently finished building.




















Very spacious!

Just like the surrounding land here in Southern Arizona!

Yes, this is living I must say.































I'm staying here for a week with Roxi their new property monitor. She's quite capable of spanning the perimeter for unwanted coyotes who have been so inclined to leave half eaten deer laying around. The fence around the property has been to the coyotes advantage in cornering, or perhaps confusing the deer.

This is a view of the outside of the house. The front entrance and the garage.

I'm standing in the back yard far enough back to get the whole house in the photo. It's quite a bit larger then it appears in this picture!

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Deviant Art

Apartment Kitchenette

This is a shot of the downstairs apartment kitchenette.















You may remember the infamous bathroom sink located in the kitchen.
You can see out the window now! :)









Add a stove and a fridge and this could very well be a nice area to cook,
eat, and blow dry your hair before work! ha

Hallway & Faux Job

The outlined cupboards here are a sort of tie in from the living room.
The wall color is the same, except I lightened it a bit.














It was hard to get a good shot of the whole bathroom
because it's pretty small. But there's no denying that is as bubblegum pink as I've ever
seen!








The inside of the shower is just the base color. The window in the shower is pink.



I decided to make the colors kind of girlie girl. Thanks to my friend Tina who told me when she bought her own home that she was going to decorate her bathroom as girlie as she wanted because in the past she was always trying to consider the present boyfriend at the time and would make it more manly. Well that sounded too familiar.

Cave Living

This living room presented a new challenge. The room reminded me of A cave before I started.
The ceiling and walls were (are) rounded. Back in the day they plastered on hard wire mesh. So no wood frame, no corners.






The focal wall in the living room. Now when I walk in I know right away there's a fireplace!












This window would make a great window seat! The edge I added on the ceiling makes the room look less round. It opened it up a lot.




I also like the mantle accentuated by two different colors. It seems more regal. This is why the keeper of the castle is above it on the mantle!

The Last Empire: China's Pollution Goes Global

The Link below is an article I came across while on StumbleUpon.com I have felt for some time that we the United States were creating a monster so to speak with our consumerism and insistence on affordability. I am as guilty of this as anyone. Perhaps my posting of this article will in a small way contribute to your awareness of a very real, urgent, immediate situation looming across the Globe. Our Globe.



http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2008/01/the-last-empire.html

My House

This is the back yard. It's pretty big!













We have the upstairs living room with decorative stone fireplace.












The kitchen. The floor in here is something to behold, but it was a wee bit messy so I passed on including it the photo. It looks like Malachite. Yes, very dark green with swirls! Woo Hoo. Perhaps I will change it down the road? Yes I think so.








I will call this the family room. It's downstairs. This would only work if you have a very small family however! ha









This is the actual house Wade and I own. I think it's pretty slick!

My Best Slideshow

The Downstairs Apartment

We have the living room view from the bedroom of the apartment.



This is the "new" front door. The threshold was rotting away and there was at least a 2 inch gap under the door. You can't even tell how much wood putty I built up to make it good as new! Oh, and of course I painted it.

This was quite a handful to prep. Then the first color I painted the bedroom just made it look dirty.

I'm standing in the living room at the far left corner. That living room wall was the one with the masking tape patch job under that upper vent.

The living room color is not this "orange". It's more like a golden tan? I am really happy with the way it turned out.

The New "Nook"

This is the new breakfast nook. It was actually the first thing I painted. It's been stacked with too much "stuff" to get a shot of it till now. :)










I am seriously thinking the wagon wheel mirrors have to go. Mirrors are good. Makes it look bigger, but maybe hold the bouquet?














Unfortunately it's hard to see the windows. Those were quite a project. All the windows are those old style pain in the a-- paint chipping, wood rotting, with the wooden panes inside the frame.








I had to do it! Yes, this is a picture of the same downstairs wall where the masking tape was. Actually it's right next to it. But that's fixed too. What a difference 6 hours of spackeling (sp) and sanding can make!









We are all primed and ready for paint.












I'm flying to Fremont this morning for 4 days to see my honey! Every muscle from my neck down has decided I need to stop using that paint roller for now. When I return I'm going to fire up the paint sprayer since this part has very little taping off to do. It's all going to be one color. (Maybe) Knowing me I'll have to do SOMETHING I'm sure.

One Done & One Place To Put Boxes!

This is the left bedroom. I removed the closet doors to combine the adjacent bedroom. That yellowish wall is the inside of the closet.










After 4 trips to Wal-Mart for painting stuff etc. These were the second curtains I tried.











Here you can kind of see the paint job in the right bedroom. It's the "storage" room while I continue to paint the rest of the house.













Curtain choice number 3. On the 6th trip to Wal-Mart I am finished with the left bedroom.












Tada! This is just the beginning! At least I have a nice room to crash in!

First Patch and Sand

This is the downstairs closet. Switched primers and finally got it covered. Half of this bedroom has never had paint. Or the paint was cheap.










The basic condition of the walls down here. I could literally fall through if I'm not careful. Someone used masking tape and covered it with plaster to fix hole below heater vent








The mighty fine windows! This one is above the sink in the kitchenette. I didn't know "Sharpies" were the new way to blacken out too much light.











Oh the layers of paint from the past.












The downstairs bedroom ready to paint! :) After another trip to Wal-Mart for more spackle and sand paper.....