Good Morning. Wow November 28th....another month almost gone and there is so much to do to get ready for Christmas! I have made a bit of a dent in my Christmas shopping but I'm not finished yet! I hope next week I can get more or the rest done......fingers crossed!
We use our sunroom as a dining room and have never had a light out there. My dream is to have a long and narrow chippy farmhouse table and mismatched chairs but for now I have my round table and chairs.....not enough to seat all of us but I have another old table whose sides fold out that I can use out there too. Anyway........I looked online for a fixture from Home Depot and Hubby picked it up. Here he is trying to find the wire he had fished in a long time ago....it wasn't that easy of a project. (please ignore that ugly ceiling...what we thought was a bad drywall taping/mudding job turns out to be plywood....how do you mud that????? Again, my vision is shiplap ceilings and the two narrow walls but that will happen another time 😜)
Here's the fixture....I hate it! Never, ever pick out something like this from online! It likely won't last....once I can get to the store and pick out a different one this one will come down and if I can sell it, someone will get a great deal. It was supposed to be rubbed bronze like the rest of our fixtures but it's black and it's not big enough. But there is light in there now and that's a good thing!
I've done a bit of sewing and stitching most of it I can't show because they involve Christmas gifts for friends who read this blog. 😃 But here is a baby quilt that Kim quilted for me....isn't it AWESOME??????? I got the binding on and it's ready to gift. The baby is due any time now (Dec 4th I believe) so I'd best get it wrapped up and delivered!
A super simple runner for our dresser....it was supposed to be a Zig Zag one but I cut the points off so it would fit! 😆 I had it laid out on my design board, and should have taken a picture, because when I sewed it together it was not in the right order....but I was frustrated and finished it anyway!)
Then I decided to throw caution to the wind and wash and dry this denim rug at home.....I cleaned the lint trap every 5 minutes!!! This is an OLD project!!!!!! A course we had in High Prairie years and years ago! I had finally sewn the strips on one day and it sat waiting to be taken to the laundromat......well it's done now!
Picked this little monkey up from her daycare one day and brought her home for a sleepover.
Nap time:
Goof ready for bed:
After her time here she got sick....strep throat again! She wasn't herself while here so I wondered if she was coming down with something.
This past Monday she went to her very first movie at the theatre with her Mommy and Auntie Amy (Frozen II of course!!!)
Stitchers.....I'm offering this warning especially if you have pets. Our small (well she's very overweight but 'small') chihuahua has had an awful cough....like she's choking on something but she never throws it up. I have an appointment on Monday for both chihuahua's (Phoebe for a different issue). We were watching a vet tv show and she had a chihuahua on there with a cough and after having an X-ray, showed an enlarged heart which chihuahua's are prone to get....so we are getting Pixie checked for that.....because of this cough. The dogs get a small treat every night.....around 8:30....and when Pixie had hers all of a sudden she was scratching at her face and was very agitated. She has had some teeth removed so I thought the treat had got caught in between some teeth. I couldn't feel anything and her mouth started bleeding and she was acting super weird and I felt something kind of pokey by her jaw up towards her eye/ear. I called the vets office and although he didn't sound concerned, asked if we wanted to come in that night or wait until morning. It has started to blizzard (and I mean you couldn't see far in front of you!) and Hubby wanted her in that night so off we went.....crawling along at 50 kms/hr. The vet is out in the country about 20 minutes from us....I don't know how long it took us to get there. Once we were there, the vet was looking, couldn't see anything (Pixie's tongue was blue!!!!) and was almost going to send us home until he felt the poky thing. He said that definitely is something that shouldn't be there and upon looking in her mouth one more time saw what it was......a needle!!!!!!!!! He ran to get a needle with sedation, told us not to let her move much and we waited for her to fall asleep. But she didn't so had to be put right out......and he removed the needle with thread attached. To say I felt HORRIBLE is an understatement!!!!!!!! The vet said it was a good thing we brought her in. When I stitch, if anything drops I pick it up right away. What I am thinking is the cats pulled it out of my pincushion and Pixie proceeded to gobble it up. A pincushion will no longer sit on the table beside me! Back to the cough.....Pixie has had this cough for a long time.....months and months. Since she's had this removed, she hasn't coughed so who knows how long ago this happened. We are still going on Monday to have her heart checked out but if you are a stitcher, do NOT leave needles around. Here are the two of them yesterday.....I knew she felt better when I was eating my lunch and she came to see if I would share:
Pixie is the black one. Her face on the affected side is a bit swollen and her bark was a bizarre sound yesterday but I heard her barking at the cats this morning so she is on the mend there too!
And here is crazy Archie and the way he was laying the other day:
Goofball!
