Nesting and News

Nothing like a little rearrangement of the nest to give you a fresh start in the middle of winter! We moved the furniture around on Saturday and did a sorely needed house-clean up.  The movie-watching room became the yoga room, the yoga room went back to being the guest bedroom and is now also the movie watching room...I mean really, how often do we have guests...not so much.  Then again, how often do we watch movies...not enough time....tv...never.  Anyway, that meant the two comfortable sitting chairs from the movie room, which were never used, got to come out into the dining room, which we now have turned into a nice little sitting room, since we moved the dining room table into the gallery....voila!!!  Here are a couple shots of the now gallery/dining room and the "was" dining room, now a charming, cozy sitting area for reading, listening to music and staring at the river.

I have a whole new lease on life with these "made new" spaces in the house...and with furniture on sliders, we moved it all in no time.  But...this is supposed to be a report on what's going on downstairs in the studio...well, this little number below is going on and going on and going on, as the tiny stitches needed seem endless.  Still a work in progress, but hope to have it finished tonight, although that's probably a dream. And this little book page hasn't told me what book it has come from, so I won't be able to tell you, but I'm sure it will be revealed in time for me post it in my shop in a day or two!

I nearly forgot to tell you the other news...Missouri Bend Studio is one of the featured studios in the spring issue of Cloth Paper Scissors Studios magazine, which should be on the newstands any day.  I got my sample copy in the mail today.  Naturally I cringed at the photos I took, second guessing every step of the way, but there it is...out in the world!

That's it from our little spot in coastal South Dakota, as we like to say, here on the banks of the Missouri River!  See you tomorrow...enjoy the day!