Project 1 of many

I am currently in the process of making this dress. Unfortunately the image did not transfer from Illustrator to Blogger very well and the result is something very patriotic. The blue is suppose to be orange and the red is suppose to be navy. And if you think my sketch is not quite right, my comment to you (mom) is that "there are no armholes on purpose - it's just one crazy looking pattern piece. " Anyway, I don't know how long it will take me to track down the right fabric. The next time you see this dress it might be done in lime green jersey. . .

As many of you know by now I broke my foot while I was in Missouri working on a project that I can't talk about. . . Not being able to walk around was fine for a while. I admit that it is starting to get a little depressing. Hopefully I will be back at work within the next week (I never thought I would hope to get back to Macys). The other night Kyle and I went to Walmart to get some groceries. . . and I rode in the electric wheelchair. It was a very humbling experiance. Not only was the chair obviously designed for someone much larger than myself (I could barely reach the handlebars when sitting with my back to the seat) but it also makes this lovely beeping sound when you are backing up. It was a very classy trip. I only ran into fixtures about 3 times.

Garden Update

Here are some pictures of the backyard. . .

Mimosa

Perhaps one day I might break down and get a cactus. . . but not yet.

And here are some photos from the wedding:

Flower girls

Lisa's Dress

Newly Weds

This would be my back yard. . .

Well....I was just outside gardening... it is dark out. I heard what sounded like three gunshots. Kyle must have been nearby because I asked him if he had heard and if he thought it was gunfire. He said he didn't think so. Well. . . there are now helicopters with search lights circling around our house. Their lights are coming in our windows periodically. We probably weren't being too smart when we decided to take a drive around the neighborhood to find out what was going on. We saw two cops running in the streets, a ton of police cars and trucks and what looked like a body on the ground with several people stooped around it. Though, i don't think the person was too hurt, becauase we were able to drive past, there was only one officer and their weren't cop cars around that spot. . . I'll keep you updated.

In other news, the garden in the back yard looks great. And I'll be posting pictures of the wedding dress soon.

It's been a long while and I am glad to say that Lisa's wedding dress if finally done. Yay!!!!! I can't wait to show pictures. . . which will be up around May 23rd.

It's hard to believe that Kyle and I have been married for almost a year now. . . it's very exciting, we are going to plant a tree to commemorate!!! Here is one of our projects from awhile back. . .

During this project I realized that the people who built our house did not paint the ceiling. . . so to fix the touchups on the ceiling I just mixed up some drywall mud and painted it over the paint. . . it worked perfectly.

Right now I am working on another project that started one night after dinner when Lisa was here and we ventured out into the back yard with spoons. . . here is a pictures. . .

This project reminded me of the good old days at the farm when Lindsay, Rex and I would head out to the pond and try to dig a tunnel from one wash out to the next. Grandma wouldn't let us use her shovel because she thought we might lose it (or maybe we had already lost it up there . . . . lots of mud fights occured during this process if I remember right), so we snuck spoons out of the drawer to dig with. . . Grandma - I am not sure if you ever got them all back. Sorry about that. Anyway. It seemed like we dug and dug and dug with those spoons and we only ever got about 3 inches in. . . we had about 50 feet to go to finish this tunnel. After we dug the tunnel we were going to try to cover it with cement and put little candle posts in it. . .

Caitlyn

Well I wanted my next big project to be Project Runway, but decided that that would be too expensive and too far away from home. Besides I have enough projects started here. . . I just need to learn to finish them.
The weather here is georgeous! It's about 85 out and the breeze is just lovely. All of our trees and shrubs are in bloom and everywhere you go the air smells like orange blossoms. Which is frustrating because the air is so polluted right now that they (whowever "they" are) say it's almost unhealthy to breath. But anyway, speaking of oranges. . . you've never had an orange as good as the ones in Arizona right now!
My friend Lisa is going to be out here in two weeks for the final fitting on her wedding dress, so I'm trying to get that finished up. We are also suppose to go out to San Diego while she is here, so hopfully that will happen - and *hopefully* we'll know if we are moving to San Diego by then too.
I'll keep you all posted on that and until then. . . good morning, good afternooon, good evening and good night!