The new look

I have almost finished the redo of the bedroom.  I say almost as I had planned to add some swedish weaving embellishment to the blinds but alas, that yarn is back in Ontario and I have been unable to find it down here.  That likely means it will never actually get done.  So having said that I had promised a couple of people that I would send pictures so here they are. 

This is the old look.  Nothing wrong with it, came with the unit.  I needed a change.

 

I bought a the new duvet cover and two sets of sheets.  I used the second top sheet to make the blinds and toppers

 

This appears a little plain in the picture.  Can you see the coat hooks on either side on the wall?  Well that is filled with robes etc. which fill in the space on the wall.....

 

Since I went with the narrow topper I had enough material to do a topper for the patio door in the AZ room.  We put this door in 3 years ago and I still hadn't gotten around to doing something.  This is just up temporarily.   The end product will be less deep, have a black out lining and they WILL have some swedish weaving embellishment on the front!  (I have already started that, some nice cactii with new yarn that I purchased here.)

Now enough of this, I must get out and walk.  It is a beautiful day, sun shining.  Although when I first got up it was 9c here humidity 76% and 9c humidity 76% back home as well.  What's with that!

November 25 2011

Well this is the start of my blog.  I thought this would be a good way to keep in touch.  I hope as I go along the site will become easier to do.  Right now I am just fumbling along.

I thought I would start with a couple of pictures of our homes.

 Here is our home away from home in Mesa.

Here is our home in Ontario.

Now I will add one of Don and myself.

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This was taken at the Grand Canyon in October of this year.  See me gripping onto the railing like I might just magically flip over the railing or something?

A little fund on the tennis courts earlier this week.  See it's not all hard work!

Yesterday was Thanksgiving.  We invited two other couples over for dinner and had a great meal with contributions from all.  I am still stuffed.  Great  fun with  a great bunch of people.  If I had known I was going to start this blog,  would have taken some pictures.  I was too busy eating to think of it yesterday!