Flor on the Floor

Hooray!  The Flor is down and arranged.  We love it.  I think Pepper loves it the most.  It is just the right amount of color for our mostly-neutral living room.  I love that we could change the colors later without much cost, or we could switch up the pattern.

I have been working on my quilt, which will probably be completed within the week!  I have been very busy at work the past few weeks so not much else it getting done at the house.  I need to finish painting the bathroom, and then patch & paint the office so David can get settled in better with his fancy desk.

David and I also took some time last weekend to do a little fitness photo shoot!  It was fun, but a lot of work for just the two of us.  Here is a sneak peek:

More to come after David works with the images!  Stay tuned for finished quilt pics.

more flor

Our tiles have arrived!  We bit the bullet and ordered our Flor tiles to make a living room rug.
While we were in Chicago, we found a Flor store and got to look at more things up close & personal.  This was helpful for me since all we had were the tiny samples.  They also had a "look what our customers did" board.  This was GREAT for getting ideas!  Online and in the catalog they have sample patterns and ways to customize your own rug.  Somehow this wasn't quite doing it for me.  It was awesome to see what real people did in real houses.  So David snapped a pic of one idea I really liked.

Here are our tiles!  Pepper is in love.  More pics to follow once we decide on color/pattern/placement!

pillow party

I have a lot of sewing projects lined up, and I am excited to tackle them now that most of the major housework is done for this year.  I bought some fun new fabrics when we found a Crate & Barrel outlet on our trip to Chicago a few weeks ago.  Then BAM.  I broke my sewing machine.  I didn't know what to do with myself!
I took the machine to a repair shop, and the unfriendly old lady at the counter quoted me $90-$130 to repair it.  I said I was not ready to put that kind of money into an old machine, and that I could probably by a new one for that (or splurge a bit more to get a newer & nicer one). She promptly replied "NO.  Can't buy one for that." Alright then... I know exactly where NOT to go if I ever need repairs in the future.
Luckily, my parents have a machine at home that they are not using.  So we swapped out our machines and I am back on track.  I made 2 small pillow covers before my machine broke, and I made 3 on Monday when I got the new-to-me machine figured out.  Hooray!

I had also been working on hand-beading a little boudoir pillow for when the bed is made nice & pretty.  The beading took a long time, but it looks really good.  I tried my hand at a piping/border for this one, too.  I will need more practice with that for sure.

Next sewing project: attempting a tiny quilt!