What's Happening

We have had lots of work going on at our house the last couple of weeks. We had to have all of the coating on the bricks stripped off and a new coating put on. It took 6 days of pressure washing to get the all of the old coating off. This is what the bricks look like with the coating stripped off:

-and this is what the new coating looks like:
Now they are starting to paint all of the trim and siding to match the new coating on the bricks. I will be glad when everything is finished.

On a sad note, we lost our 12 year old kitty, Byron, last week. He died from liver failure and we miss him very much.

Baby Things

Since I am about to become a Grandmother for the first time, I have felt the need to make baby things. Since we don't know yet if the baby will be a girl or a boy, I have tried not to be too gender specific in the things I have made so far. My niece however is also pregnant and she already knows that she is having a boy, so some of these things will be going to that little fellow. The bibs are made from washcloths with a crocheted edging around them. The baby blankets are flannel with  a crocheted edging around them.