CATCH-UP SUNDAY

I know  you are all 'chomping at the bit' to know how my week went--
you, know the week I took off from sewing--
and turned my 'plain Jane' apartment into one of silk and gold!!!

I must say the week went really fast--too fast--
for such a small apartment--
there was alot to do--
and--I am not done--more on that later--
for now--
here is the piece I am most excited about--

Here is what it looks like now--
I seen the quilts piled up in a shelf unit and thought it might look neat
that way in my Secretary--and it does--
it is much much prettier in real life--
and yes I do have a small string of lights on that bottom shelf with a garland of white pip berries!

and I am so happy with this area now-

I finally have a nice place to show off my tea cup and saucers--

and I added the two little black shelves above them for the tea cups that don't have saucers!!
the small picture of the donuts--is crewel embroidery that my Mom stitched many years ago--
it is really the wrong color--but I always have to have hung near my cups !

and here is my desk area behind the old microwave cart where the tea cups are on--
and yes that is a counted cross stitch piece in the back--
this is where I sit and do the counted cross stitch--usually mornings after I eat my breakfast here!

In the kitchen--

I got me a new curtain--I had made 2 for here and did not like either one--
but love this blue rooster one--my other colors in here are the aqua and red--

the red is mostly here on the top of the refrigerator--

and here is the wall next to the refrigerator--
I did that Chicken counted cross stitch a few years ago--
and it took me years to actually finish it--!!
I might change the border fabric on it--???

I kinda think of this wall space as being part of my sewing room--
on that stand is project boxes of things in process--and the sewing table is from that
stand out--
the wall items are what is new--
the rest of bedroom-(bed is next to this stand)
is not done yet--I am waiting on a new bed cover first!!

this is the dinning room area-in front of the big window over the air conditioner--
and those sheer curtains now cover a dark brown folding screen (my bedroom and the
table that holds my sewing machine are behind this screen--
the round table is one that my daughter had on her screen porch--it has a glass top--
if I was rich, I would send the table out to be painted black!!
in the basket on the table is a real live plant!!!!

more plants are in these containers and baskets--
that edge of the stand you see, is where my TV sits and all my computer equipment--!
this area is not finished yet--I have valances to put at the windows--waiting on a bracket,
for the rod yet, and then help to put it up!!

and this wall is now my 'friends' wall--
nearly everything hanging on this wall area was a gift from a friend--
and this is the new area where I cut and press!!
the clip board is for this--

all the directions for cutting--
and there is a lot of pages on this board right now--
as I am behind in several projects between the decorating and waiting on the right
fabrics to come in the mail--

I did get out all my pinks--
and discovered that I really have '3' color groups of them--

So I will probably do '2'  sets of these--
as I did not do the second green colors last month--
and we will see if I do that brighter set on the right side?/?

and the hearts continue--

wanted you to see the ones with the blue backgrounds and the white hearts--

this is the embroider project that I will be working on later this afternoon--
if there is a race on--worried about the weather for it --
as it is Georgia today--

I am down to the flowers now--
and it is hard to see here--
but I made 'lacy' curtains in white for the window!!!

Well--I need to get to work--
hope I didn't put anyone to sleep reading this today!!!!!

PLEASE CONTINUE TO BE SAFE--'IT'S STILL OUT THERE--AND THE COUNTS KEEP GOING UP--AT LEAST HERE IN FLORIDA!!!
LUV, DI

now here is some decorating!!!!!