still here...

and still been busy.

since i posted all about the sunroom project last year, i'll start with an update of that. we put in a new floor this weekend, and i also took the opportunity to reorganize and clean out some of baby girl's lesser used toys from the space. we've still got the exercise equipment out there, but hey, what are you going to do?

behold: shiny new floor!
isn't it pretty and shiny and nice looking? i still can't get used to it (and neither can the dog...he keeps slipping around on it since it's so much slicker than the old pine).

and this is my new(ish) craft cabinet, which is actually able to house the majority of my things. i never got around to putting shelves etc in the old one (which i'm not sure it could have handled in the first place) but i love love love my new one. it holds all my paints, craft books, sewing machine, fabric, beads, and various other odds and ends. sawheet.
and it also holds part of my sweet birthday present from aj, kristi and olive bean:aren't organized craft supplies pretty?

and now on to some of my projects in mind/in progress:

this is the fabric which will eventually turn itself (magically) into a blanket for finn. i copped out and bought the pre-quilted fabric, but hey, i'm willing to accept my limitations. but since i am totally in love with my new sewing machine, who knows? maybe the next project will be an actual quilt. but i also hate measuring things, so maybe not.


and i've had this project in the works for an embarrassingly long time. it's my hope that by posting it on here i'll shame myself into doing more work on it. it's eventually going to be a mini children's book. as you can see, it's about a little orphan kitten, and he's looking for a family (spoiler alert: he finds one). but i've gotten a grand total of one and a half pages done, so, you know, i'm whipping through that.
and i do have a couple of other painting projects that i'm in the middle of and a couple more on order, but i'm not going to post about them yet because they deserve their very own entry. it may take me another year to get it on here, but hopefully not.