AWWW

This is what happens after a long walk, an afternoon of swimming, and a bath. A much needed nap on the couch with a quilt.

Swimming in the river.

We took the dogs to the river again today and let them swim. Tallulah had a blast. We even let her off the leash. She kinda played with a black lab that was swimming after a stick.


Sabueso not so happy about this whole river thing.

Sabueso being forced to have a good time swimming.

First coat of baguette.

My friend Marie (from the quilt guild I belong to) called this morning to offer her services for the shop. I thought she meant for teaching a quilting class, but she meant right now. She said she is very excited about the shop and would love to help with whatever I need. She likes to paint and has done lots of it. We made a date for painting Tuesday evening, but I told her to come on over and at least take a look at what we have done. Anyway, she and her daughter Sammy came over not to just look, but to paint. With their help, we got about 7/8 of the room painted with the first coat of paint. WOO HOO!



Here I am barely half way along the first wall. This is where they joined me.
I don't think the brick will need a second coat. At least the parts that already had paint on it.


Joseph the drywall guy, got the air conditioning vent drywalled in. It needs to be sanded and primed and then it too can get a coat of paint.
Look, we now have a sink in the counter. Yeah!



While the girls painted the walls Robert sanded they "I" beams and got most of them primed. All in all a pretty productive day in the shop. And boy is my shoulder letting me know about it.
We tried a different stain on the concrete in the kids area, since it will be covered with the mats. I like it even less than the red in the office/break room. But, I do love the paint.

Fire Proof

After we finished painting. We went to dinner and a movie. We went to go see Fire Proof. We have liked the other movies made by this church in Albany, Georgia. They are corny-ish, but they have had a great story and message. This one was great. The whole audience got into the movie and there was laughing and crying. Anyway if you get a chance go this weekend and show support for a good movie with a great message.

http://www.fireproofthemovie.com/

Priming the brick. :-(

It was a hard decision, but we finally decided to paint over the brick. Most of it had been painted already and we had tried several methods of removing it, but all of them were time intensive.
And frankly, we are tired of time intensive. So, here is the brick all primed. Tomorrow we paint.



This is the office/break room. Our first attempt at concrete stain. Though I like the color in general it is way too dark. I do like the depth and characteristics of the floor.

Yay the door to the office area is in.

On her own two feet...

...with a little help from her crutches, for a little while longer. Well, it has been 12 weeks since the accident and Megan got the all clear to put weight on her left leg. Yippee!

Time at my sewing machine.

Getting the "It takes a Village" quilt quilted, inspired me to finish one of the other projects I started. Eliza Bliss Esme's baby quilt got pieced today. I was just going to finish the blocks...... hours later the whole top was pieced. I may try to get it on the HQ tomorrow and get it quilted as well. I can't wait to get it in the mail to Cara, since baby Eliza will be here on October 10th.

Mono filament.

I know you have seen this quilt before it was quilted,but here it is again. One of the great things about the HQ training was getting to try lots of great threads. I have been wanting to try mono filament, and thought this was the perfect quilt to try it on. I wanted it to look like wind. Then in the borders I did E,W's which is hard to see in these pictures.
(if you click on the picture, you can see them better) It was really fun, and I didn't break the mono filament one time!!! Woo Hoo! that sure makes quilting even more fun.

Here is a picture of the mono filament so you can see how thin it is.

Figuring out some details.

I think this is what we have figured out for some of the tall wall units we bought over a year ago with Hancock fabric in Roswell. (it's not every quilt shop that has a motorcycle)



This is along the bathroom walls.

I think in this area I will have a crib and some baby fabrics and quilts.

Some cool stuff for the kids area.

Look at these fun, foam, easy to clean floor mats that Robert found. I had been thinking about carpet squares, but I think that this is a much better option.

Another look.

I am so excited about having a kids area. I looked at paint today for it. Yay!