Out with the old & In with the new!

Don't you just LOVE it when an old project is completed and you can dust off your hands, clear the decks and start something NEW & EXCITING?????? I just finished sewing several of these purses for class samples.........they (and another 2 purse designs that I'm still working on) are for 2010 classes. I wanted to do something a little bit different....these were SO MUCH FUN!!!!

AND.... for the exciting "something new"???? Well.....that would be "Snow Day" coming out in May. I've just gone through all of my Lecien fabrics and chosen my palette........it's just PERFECT for what I have in mind!! The floss will be all one color.........but it's actually several shades of golden taupe with some brown/blue green/gray thrown in for good measure!!! I LOVE the way it looks once it's stitched....sort of like old, faded ink!

Some of the stitching on the blocks is going to spill out onto pieced areas.......OH SO COOL!!!! My fingers are itching to get started!!! It's going to be old farmhouses and barns, covered bridge, general store, schoolhouse, a little country church, a brook with a waterfall, sledders, snowmen makers, and snowy woods of course!! The perfect little town and countryside of my dreams....ahhhh........hope you like it too! I'll give you a little peek as we get the blocks stitched, OK???

Thanks so much for all your well wishes and compliments about the new house! When I started taking pictures I realized how much WASN'T completed and picture worthy! LOL!!! I'll take more as things come together. There was a question about my paint colors....let's see.... for the most part I went with a creamy, french vanilla color called "Cottage White" from Behr. There was plenty of contrast with the white trim & it really stands out. The main living areas are in a little darker, warm linen-y shade called "Warm Scones" from Ace... the white woodwork really pops against it. It looked pretty dark in the small test area I painted but once the trim was added and the whole room was painted it really lightened up.... of course there is nothing but light in there...a MILLION windows.........really, ask me, I know because I paid for the window blinds!! LOL!!!! OH! The blinds!!!! They're like old fashioned roller blinds, but they roll up automatically and don't do that "flip...flip...flip" thing like the old ones... and they are totally hidden when they roll up all the way (had to fight tooth and nail for THAT one!) Then...(this is the good part)...when the blind guy came (NO...he wasn't visually impaired!...you're SO FUNNY!!) he saw the house and asked me if I'd like to see some old blind pulls that he's had stuck away since his father owned the company in the 50's..........I said......YES!!!! Please! They're the old kind with the crocheted ring on the end..........now THIS was just meant to be..........there were exactly enough to do all the blinds in the house! YIPPEE!!!!! .............................now that I've bored you to death!.....................................hmmmmmm........... isn't it about time for another contest??? YES!!! I have to start thinking of something! Keep posted!

xoxox Meg