Cheryl's Garden

I’ve been meaning to post all last week but that didn’t happen. Didn’t get enough sleep or something because nothing got done except a bit more progress on my scarf.

When I mean nothing I really mean nothing, no house work, nothing. This week started off really well with the hubby switching me over to Wordpress which has me ecstatic! wow, even my own chat window. Our main blog over on masongarden.com has had a chat window forever but the old site just didn’t have much AT ALL! Ok, so enough about the update.

Ok, so maybe just one sneak preview but that’s ALL I’m going to say!

The promised yummy/test baking project is a little on hold till tomorrow. There just isn’t enough time in my day to finish up everything I want to do

and the things I have to do before hubby goes crazy with the down stair in an upheaval

because it looks like this

On to happy notes. Last week I had this lovely sock yarn show up in the mail from joining a Sock of the Month knitting club, if you’re interested you’ll have to check it out yourself because it’s a secret

MasonCJ is also getting some new inventory. These glass Ball jars I’ve turned into oil lamps.

Random other projects that are sitting around

This is my first crocheted scarf that I never finished. It’s a shell pattern in a lime green mercerized cotton. Might be Patrons but not sure.

Here is another shell scarf. The photo is terrible. The color is really a forest green more like this picture

Well, that isn’t really a good image either but closer.

I’m off to get some sleep so I’ll leave you with a kitty picture

My craft room is coming together nicely (pictures soon) with the exception of a few missing items the room is on its way to being my favorite room in the house. A trip to Ikea got me two craft tables, a lazy susan that I’m altering with dowels to store my wrapping paper on, and a nifty craft paper roll dispenser that will help protect my tables when doing messy projects. Next month we’ll pick up James table/storage desk system and some wall shelves for the cats to climb all over. The 19″ tv I bought last month now has a wall mount that will be installed soon and I’m looking into a speaker system to play music from radio and ipods and maybe hook into the tv.

“Trouble” started last night when I wasn’t able to find my sewing machine power cord. To be fair I haven’t used my “new” machine since James bought it for me about 3 years ago but I’ve been very careful about keeping everything together. Well obviously it wasn’t enough effort because the cord and the english manual are missing (found the spanish manual but can’t read spanish).

Ok, just started might be stretching it. Budget is tight right now so it’s taking longer than expected to put the room together, which is fine, but now that autumn is here and we have wood floors in the office ANTS are invading my office for NO REASON!!! (not really true, there were some cookie crumbs in the trash can) and now they don’t stick to the single trail around the baseboards. They are crawling over everything, including my photo tent WHILE I’m taking pictures!!!!!! I hate ants with an obsessive need to keep them OUT OF MY HOUSE. A little back story (not that you need it, nasty ants). When I moved from Paradise, CA to the Sacramento area with my parents about 13 years ago ants were taking over everything! The area really is an ant hill so it wasn’t uncommon to have then crawling out of sockets, cracks between the wood and lenolium floors, cracks in the ceiling, everywhere. We had a bug man come out frequently with little change so one day when ants were taking over my clothes closet I freaked. Raide was used liberally (whole can) and everything had to be washed afterward. Ever since then I go a little crazy when I see ants (all over my bathroom counter last Tuesday at 6am, ug). Of course, when I got married and moved out, tmy parents got a new bug man that actually USED THE GOOD STUFF (aka termite spray 4ft up the outside of the house and 20 ft out on the ground).

Over all not a disaster but an annoying week of ants and stuff I can’t find.

On the up side I’ve got a lot of wire-wrap rings for IndenturedMason just waiting for me to work on the pictures. Who knew the hard part of selling online would be the photos and not keeping up with inventory? Also, several of my shell scarves are almost finished and will be ready for the Christmas season. MasonCJ is also close to having more inventory for the holidays. I’m working on hand embroidered Thanksgiving aprons and dish towels, knit dish towels, and pink sea salt.

IndenturedMason is coming along nicely. The store is open and listings are going up frequently.

One very cool announcement was in inclusion of my Pearl and Heart Drop Earrings in a Treasury listing. It will be available to view till tomorrow here: http://www.etsy.com/treasury_list.php?room_id=86378

James had a suggestion: blogging about the making of each of my pieces. I’m giving this some thought and might try a few so keep your eye open for new posts here soon.