stalled, but still working

after some computer issues (and a new computer, incidentally) i'm finally getting around to posting the photos of the work in progress that is our sunroom. unfortunately after all my excitement of getting things moving, my father seriously messed up his back and things have screeched to a halt. very disappointing. but this is the progress we have made thus far:

behold, the hole in the wall!!!

and here's the outside, where we've stripped off the siding in anticipation of our new door.

this was a very cool find...the bottom half of the wall was apparently part of an old barn door (you can even see where the hinges used to be). it was obviously once upon a time red, but it's faded to a very cool pink. i think i'm going to try to use it as a project board or something over my desk.

we changed our plans and decided to use an existing beam for part of the framing of the door, so we had to cut a teensy bit more, and look what we found then!

it's part of the old door hardware! i'm not sure exactly how this hardware was supposed to function on the door (the little dot in the middle is the old keyhole which someone put a blob of plaster in...i will be digging that out) but we couldn't have cut it more perfectly if we tried! we just barely missed cutting the metal bits, and i was very excited when that popped out of the wall. i think i'm going to put it in a black shadowbox frame and just hang it as is...talk about found art!

so that's where we stand at the moment. i haven't had to much time to work on too many crafts lately...i sold my gypsy necklace on etsy, which is very exciting, and i worked some more on baby girl's blanket and then realized i had messed up the pattern so ripped everything out again. boo. but i've gotten a couple more rows done the right way and am back on track.

ttfn!