I'm enjoying my day working on some samplers/pinkeeps...This is a **  Tina Woltman design **...I just LOVE LOVE LOVE it!! I'm stitching on a larger thread count ( Shhhhh!!!! my lips are sealed**** not sharing...I have to keep a few secrets..lol) instead of my usual 28 ct, so the samplers and pinkeeps are much larger....I'm hoping to have a offering of Christmas goodes next week....I hope you all are having a great Friday!!!!

Blessings from the Farmhouse!!!~~ hugs, Jen

Awwwww!!!! Home Sweet Home!!! In the end, the thinset was soooooo thick and couldn't be removed...So the guys decided to remud it to even it out...After a night at a hotel, we were able to come home and Tim sanded it all by hand on his knees...Lucy Blue and Max are still not sure what is going on...It's time for some hardwood!!!

 Hi there, y'all!! I wanted to pop in and let you know things are coming along...No floor pics...I can't even find my cord to load them, so i decided to fall back and post a pic of my halloween tree I had up before the demolition began...I got the ornaments from  Kim McKee on fb...She does AWESOME work!

My house is still a disaster and I'm not sure when it won't be...I can't plan for Thanksgiving or plan for Christmas...I'm really in limbo...I do know it will be a simple decorated Christmas this year...One thing I have learned from this demolition is I love the open spaces...And I have noticed for some time that when I look at magazines the less decorated primitive always catches my heart...So, I'm going to see if I can do it...I know! I know! It's soooo hard because we love so many things, but my house is smaller than my other one...So, I'm planning on a stash area where I can alternate things out throughout the year and not have as much out all at once....I also threw something up at Tim the other day...I told him that if he'd make me some furniture pieces I wanted that I'd try a simpler primitive look....He said something like "I will think about that" or something that made me think he might just do it...I  want a buttery area, a dry sink, a huge cabinet to house alot of my pottery, etc....Yeah, I see a list coming! hee hee! Tim can build...He just doesn't like to...Then, if Tyalor moves out next summer as she has planned after she graduates with her degree I will be making her room into my studio and moving all my work things in there...

Right now, everything is still in the gathering room...My work table, pottery collection,etc....Just everything waiting for a new home when the floor is finished...The computer is now sitting on one of my primitive tables for the moment...At one point, it was in the hallway on the floor inbetween being turned off and on....

After finally getting our stove fixed our dishwasher has decided to die...Both were brand new when we moved in 4 yrs ago...Certainly don't make them like they use to!

And today is Luke's 6th birthday...My baby boy is 6...I can't believe it!! He shares this day with my great great Granny Lankford...She was born on this day in 1899...In about 10 minutes, it will be the time he arrived in this world forever blessing me, filling my heart, and making our family complete!

I'm off to put my feet up for a bit and do some stitching...There is only so much I can do in the house right now until the floor is finished....I hope to be able to have some Christmas offerings ready to offer soon....

Have a blessed day!~~hugs,Jen 
 

Tim picked up the wood flooring today...Oh. my. gosh!!!! I LOVE it!!!! So old looking!!! I will share pics as soon as I can...And the flooring is going down on Saturday!!!! Can you tell I'm soooooooooooo excited?????????????

Hi everyone! I just wanted to pop in and let you know I'm still here...I finally turned my main computer back on tonight...It is still covered in dust and has been shut down since my last post and construction began....If I was on line it was on my tablet, but I hate typing on it...

I'm living on concrete and thinset floors....I have most everything packed up and I just dug my sewing table out the other day...I finished up my last orders and started on some Christmas things in my spare time...Yeah, lots of spare time....That was said with eyes rolling and sarcastically...lol

So, Tim and I removed 500 square feet of ceramic tile all by ourselves....Not one single argument between us the whole time...lol..Now that is LOVE!!! we both felt whipped and cleaned and dusted ALOT...I had body aches I didn't even know i could have...And right after midnight while we were still removing tile Tim wished me a HAPPY BIRTHDAY...I turned 46...

We worked on removing the tile from 10:30 that morning to 2:30, almost 3:00 Saturday morning....I know the neighbors were hating us because we had the power tool going til then with the windows open, but no police officers showed up with complaints...

So, it has started back up since Tim had a business trip and was gone for 6 days inbetween....We hope to get the rest of the quikset up, so we can start laying hardwood on Saturday...I hope it goes as planned...I will let you know... 

I also got ready for a yard sale and finally sold the rest of the old things we've had in the garage the past 4 yrs....I got rid of things I never thought I would....So, I feel like i can mark off a few things on the list....We have things we need to get done before Upward basketball starts in January and takes Tim's Friday nights and Saturdays...

Hopefully I will be back with some pictures of some hardwood.... 

In the meantime, I won't be on the computer much, so please be patient with responses to emails...I'm wayyyyyyyyyyyy behind with not being online... 

Blessings from the farmhouse.....~~hugs,Jen