Really February!?!

February started normal, boring and cold. I two new pattern to show. Hot Air Balloon Ornament #3, made with seed beads.




And Let's Dance Necklace made with seed beads, fire polished beads and round beads, using right angle weave and netting. First picture is a close up.

Found a new place to sell my patterns Craftsy. They have all kinds of patterns, sewing, quilting, jewelry, crochet, knitting and they do classes there too. Check it out it's really neat.

I did a little crocheting...I made a shrug, well two of them. The first one I made was too small, I followed the pattern for a women's small, but it is a child size. So I made another one. Which you could see the yarn better, it is a cream color with specks of color through out, very pretty. The pattern is a freebie from Bernat. Top picture is from their site.

Then I made a couple of Flowering Vine Scarves by Red Heart, another freebie. I have eleven made, for Christmas gifts for co-workers.

I also made one for Hayley, Dylan's girlfriend.

Cross Stitching...Yes!!! I finished Hang Ten by Raise the Roof Designs!

Sweets...It's been a while, I was sick the beginning of February for about three days I couldn't eat anything, but then I started feeling better and had to have something sweet and I found this recipe Chocolate Berry Pie. Next time I make it I am going to use chocolate melts instead of chocolate chips and raspberries instead of strawberries.

Classes...I did two classes at the gallery, one beading class and one crochet class. The beading class I just had one person sign up, it was my high school teacher, the one that came last month. This time we were making the Little Hearts Bracelet. Class started at 6 it was after 9 and she was only half way done with her bracelet. She couldn't remember what she had just done. I thought I was going to pull my hair out!!! It's just repeating 3 steps over and over again. It's a good thing she was the only one in the class, because I couldn't have helped anyone else.

The crochet class went much better.
Moving...Somewhere between the scarf I made for Hayley and the pie, our landlord told us we had to move out. We only had a contract for one year and never sign another contract, but we were there for almost three years. So, we started looking at everything (in our poor man's price range), for rent, for sale, even apartments. All surrounding towns and even a few up in South Bend, but most of them (in South Bend) were in really bad areas. Just when I was breaking out with that nervous rash I get, February 14, (Valentines Day) we looked at a house that was for sale by owner, just a sign in front of the house, nothing in the paper. Bob found it because he took a different route home from work one night. Feb. 15th we put a down payment on the house and started moving in. I call it my backwards, hillbilly house. ;) It is a modular, but when they set it on the foundation they put it on backwards, so the back of the house faces the road and the front of the house faces the backyard. As you can see in the picture it needs a LOT of WORK! We decided to start with the cheapest rooms (bedrooms).

This is the back of the house that faces the road. When you walk into the door you are in the laundry-kitchen area. The sliding glass door takes you into the dinning room. All the houses I have lived in before the front door is the living room or formal room.

It has the open concept, kitchen, dinning and living room. I love the fireplace. The window with the drywall in front of it, we had to replace before we moved in, it was broken. I have tossed out the ugly light.

Here is our bedroom, it is very small, but we don't watch TV in our bedroom, just sleep. I didn't get a picture before we tore out the walls. The walls were panel, torn up and looking really bad, the doors were broken also. We gutted the walls, ceiling, replaced the window. The window was too big for the room, once you set a bed up you would be in the window, (old window in first pic).

New window and walls, we also replaced the insulation, brought it up to grade and we put insulation between the rooms-sound barrier.

Picture looking into closet, before we put up the drywall in the closet.

After-closet.

When we were hooking up the washer and dryer, we had a few problems. So we torn out a partial wall and a small pantry. The pantry faced the frig and you couldn't open the frig all the way.

As of today our bedroom is painted and I have bought the wood trim, doors, etc for the bedroom and the stain. Once that is up it will be carpet and closet rod and shelf, then we will move our stuff in.
So, I am knee (butt) high in boxes, a lot of things went to storage and my craft stuff is all packed.
I have canceled my next two beading classes for March and April, but will still do the crochet classes. I can pick everything up locally for those classes.
Until next time, hope you and yours are all well and happy.
Can't wait to see what March brings, SPRING!!!