1st day of Spring or Summer, is it June or March?

 

I know this is a stitching blog, but I have to start out with the fact that we are consistently having 80 degree days in March and everything is about 5-6 weeks ahead of schedule around here! That and the fact our furnace has been off for a week and we have been leaving the windows open at night too!

I've been missing lately because of work on my craft room and having a 9 day vacation to California. My room is coming along and right now I can only show my desk and wall unit, as the rest of the room isn't finished yet. It's all painted, but I need to get some more things installed and then rehang my photos. Now that the weather is so nice, it's being ignored again!  
This picture is right after painting the purple and green walls. This one is the desk I put together.






I took some ideas off the internet for material storage and ribbon storage. This is my wall unit and close ups of my finishing materials and the bottom is my cross stitch material. If you look closely you can see some of the stitching gifts I have received over the years.

Our vacation was great. Stayed with some old friends for a few days and then headed on to Palm Springs for 5 days. The weather was awesome, the mountains beautiful and we golfed twice at 2 very different courses. I did almost have a heart attack though while sitting by the pool the wind gusted very strongly and the plastic bag I used to carry all 3 projects I took with me ended up floating in the pool!!! Luckily the water didn't get inside the open bag and it blew across the pool to the other side where I could retrieve it!

I did finish my March cottage from CCN,

  
I used some satin stitches and french knots for the sheep.
 I finished Afraid of the Dark by Blue Ribbon Designs

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I know, not much of a stitching update, but really I have been busy with other things lately!

We had a St Pats party last weekend and here's a photo of me and my husband.
No Amberlyn update, I guess as she gets older I'm not taking as many photos....or the fact she doesn't sit still! She has been potty trained and that really makes her seem like a big girl now! Well that's it for now, hopefully I won't stay away so long next time and I hope to have more photos of my room and stitching, of course! Happy, happy Spring to all!!!!