Dawn Brocco's Life & Design Blog

Almost got the back and back of the 2 sleeves done yesterday on the jacket! Almost, but not quite! But I also finished up the last of the re-seaming on that bedroom wallpaper, washed the woodwork and floor in that room, watered the veggies, weeded the garden and picked peas.

Also searched online for 6" recessed lighting decorative trim kits (ha!). Nice ones we saw in a book that, of course, I can't seem to find anywhere! Also searched for toile wallpaper and toile curtains. I may just keep the kitchen walls cream and insert the pattern into the room via the curtains and placemats, instead of doing the paper, as I *still* need to buy curtains anyway, and we are in a time-crunch. There's 2 pages, both sides, of projects to get done before we list the place. So, adding wallpapering to the list wouldn't be wise.

Waverly has the swags in toile, but not always in the blue, in the stores. There's a shop online I may buy from, instead.

It's hot today - 92 degrees, am working on the super bulky alpaca jacket in no AC, with a washcloth rung out in cold water around my neck.

I need to sit at the computer and work on the next Gazette issue, but my computer/printer room is very warm, as the Xerox Phaser doesn't get turned off. Sitting here too long will give me another headache! Tomorrow should be cooler and less humid, so, hopefully, I can get to finalizing my choices for the issue.

I also have patterns to get into the computer. But at least I got both databases updated yesterday. There's only so much typing I want to do in a given day!

Got the back of the jacket done and one of the shoulder and underarm seams joined (3-needle BO for the shoulder and slip stitch crochet for the underarm). I have some black oriental frogs I may use as closures.

The baby deer were having a good, old time prancing around the house yesterday! They're still spotted and quite frisky. But I haven't seen Mr. Groundhog in awhile, nor the geese...