This week has been all about making ourselves comfy in our new home… finally we are close to the end of all the boxes and we are making sense of our favorite things… and finding new ones!
Like this cool deep red tulip that bloomed this week!
and the views coming and going from here just totally rock!
We only had our lights up a month before we decided to sell our home in Florida so they quickly got packed away so they wouldn’t be thought to convey with the house!! lol
The bedroom tv moved to the living room… and the cool vintage cabinet now houses the quilt shop and helps hide cords from the tv and also holds our new sound bar…
WOW that sound is good when listening to Pandora from the TV too ❤
We got paint for the kitchen …
It will really make the valances we bought look good… and we got some white paint for the woodwork too !!!
Then we found this cute shopping cart…
It is just perfect for the dishrags my bestie made for us… and we use regularly at the kitchen sink!
Then lights came from our power company… they have a program to provide you with up to 15 LED 60 watt soft white bulbs… we think these are GREAT! We installed 8 immediately in the living room ceiling fans!!!
And my honey hung my “k” thread spool and bobbin holder….
I made the same valance again for the other window in my sewing room…
I went to the LQS (local quilt shop) … Bless My Stitches in Murphy, NC and got…
a ruler, some glue stick refills for applique time, and some fabric that soon found a purpose…
As a ironing board cover in my sewing room. I just had to have this cute daisy fabric and peachy color seemed right and vintagy at the same time!
I used ALL the fabric they had on the bolt in their clearance section ….
To make the ironing surface cover and… a hat… lol!
No… not an Easter bonnet y’all but a trash basket of sorts…
See…
I used the bag given me at my LQS and made a customized trash basket to hold my scraps and thread tails until I dump them in the “to be burned” trash or for plastic etc… separate to go to the dumpster.
Someone on facebook wanted to know about my ironing board. It is actually a piece of 1/2″ plywood that sits on a wooden stool….
There above you can see the stool and below is a close up of the layers… I used a thick cotton fluffy towel that had gotten discolored so wasn’t being used anymore and repurposed it into being sewn shut on 3 sides into a kind of pillowcase that fits tightly around the board… then measured that with my cloth tape measure and made the outer ironing board cover so I can move it about and flip it over if one side gets dirty or something…
the view AND feeding our fish in the pond every day! They LOVE to eat too 😀 And that water wheel NEVER gets old either… a perpetual water feature that never stops!!!
Daisy loves to go out by the fish and enjoys all the wildlife our new home attracts!!!
We even have a log cabin near us that is very vintage… it was a train engineers cabin when the train came by here…
And also remember to…
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everything looks really good Kathi – I'm sure you are enjoying mountain scenes and higher elevation. I for one would be glad to not have a train go by often – once when camping a couple years ago the route we were taking had us camped near railroad tracks and sometimes they were so busy – I couldn't stand the noise – they were going by almost every 15-30 minutes for hours and hours finally quieted down by evening and I had been wondering how I would ever sleep
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If you had the tourist train coming through, it wouldn't be so bad, because it would mostly be a day time thing and I think it's pretty quiet. However, we rented a place in Bryson City for a few months until we bought our home and we were directly across the street from the train. LOL That's when I learned to sleep with a fan in my bedroom for noise. We never knew when they might decide to fire up the train. I think it would be peaceful in your area and your place would be a pretty sight for the tourists to see. Does anyone do anything with that cabin now? Don't you wish you could buy it? I could just see a quilt shop, a sewing machine repair, a place for retreats and classes…. wouldn't it be fun? Everything is looking great and you guys have made a lot of progress in the short time you've been there. I like the bedroom lights; I would have brought them with me, too!
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Lazy Daisy looks homey and cozy. Good job on the valance and your sewing ironing board. What fun, you made your way to the local LQS.
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Sounds like you guys are getting settled in. The green grass looks so nice. We're still in winter mode here. Can't wait to see what you've accomplished next Sunday.
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Looks like you are settling right in and enjoying NC! I miss the mountains….
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