Happy New Year!

How can it be possible? It is two months into the new year, and I see that the last post was from last September!!! I have been so remiss in my duties. Well, I will try to remedy my lax ways and keep up with posting better this year! Nothing like starting New Year's resolutions in mid-February!

So, here's what's new with me...



Joe and I have started repainting the inside of the house! And we picked out the prettiest colors... I just love green. And don't you fret, we repainted the ceiling too. We had to take down some pretty awful 80's track lighting and it left a nice dirty halo where it was. Yuck.



Next, I'd like to whitewash the brick fireplace. Despite what this picture looks like, the lighting is a little low in the living room at night and the big dark fireplace makes it look even darker. Besides, I like how whitewashed bricks look.

Here's what's new a the espresso stand:


I f i n a l l y got the permanent menu boards made and put up. Man, that took forever... I meant to have them up within six months of opening, and that was a year ago! Despite the delay, I'm very pleased to have them finished and love how they look.

Over the holidays, my parents helped me get up the new awnings over the windows. Another super delayed project, but again I'm super happy with how they turned out and they work very well.

And just in time for Valentine's Day, I got my red heart lights strung up yesterday.

Happy Love Day everyone!

XOXOXO

Ye Ol' Urban Spoon... give it a whirl.

You can even post on here how much you just love your espresso drink that I make you... and how wonderful you think I am ;)

Dreams do come true....

This one has been lingering since high school, when Janet and I cooked up a plan to buy a sailboat, name it the Dawn-Juana, and sail it to warmer climes.

Well, that was over 15 years ago, and we finally just this summer got to climb on a boat together! My second time on a sailboat and Janet's first! This long overdue outing was to celebrate Janet getting married over the winter. I was hoping to have time to plan a wedding shower, but alas, being too busy prevented that... so this was a post-wedding celebration/gift.

Down on the river....

My first overnight camp out this summer, actually the first one in years I think. Good people, flowers, fire, fish...

Moving along at a snails pace...

I thought I'd have this done mid June when I first got started on it... But apparently I wasn't taking into account that I work ninety-plus hours a week, and the evenings right before bed just don't hold enough time or energy to get moving very fast... But here's where "we're" at now. I say we because I'm trying to make this a team project, recruiting whoever I can from my family and friends to help me ;) ... Big thanks to my brother, mom and boyfriend for all the help up to this point!







... and then they were blue!

Spring flowers and unknitting...

The turtle-neck on the sweater was too 80's I guess. Of course my crafting sensibilities bristled at the suggestion of cutting the neck off this sweater and stitching it to keep it from unraveling. To my delight the sweater was knit from the bottom edge up to the neck, so I could just unravel it :) It came out picture perfect, thanks to my stubbornness.

The thing dreams are made of...

I recently came across a 1948 Spartan Caravan for sale. Needless to say, I was instantly smitten and thought I needed to purchase it to turn into the home of my dreams. Alas, after a first visit, I realized this caravan would take many thousands of dollars and thousands of hours to turn into something worthy to be called home.

Oh Blue Goose, I sure hope someone with sufficient funds and time finds you to return you to your glory days...