Boreas Cross Stitch

Embroidery Notes

A mere year and a half after I started, I have finished chart #1 of the full coverage Boreas cross stitch painting reproduction. (This is a couple trees on the horizon, since you really can’t tell without context.) It took me a while to finally get the right set up to hold this – it’s

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guest room floor

House Notes

I’ve tagged this DIY, but it’s really not. We paid someone to replace the old, disgusting wall to wall carpets in our three bedrooms. The new floors are glorious. Due to everything else going on, we are nowhere near getting the rooms put back together (there will be some DIY involved – we have to

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back garden

Garden Notes

I ended up doing most of my planting over my lunch breaks in early June. These pictures are from June 12, when I was finally done. I’m still trying to find the time to get the greenhouse broken down and put away, but at least all the plants are in the ground.

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Swiss chard in the back garden

Garden Notes

I can’t win with hardening off. Turns out this weekend would have been great for planting, but it was so cool, I hadn’t put things outside yet. (Plus we were going away, so it just seemed safer to wait for next weekend.) I did pivot soon enough to get the Swiss chard outside, and I

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seedling haul

Garden Notes

Tis the season for wandering around garden centers. I took Friday off to do my traditional wander around Mackworth/Gilsland (trout lilies were sadly gone by, but as you can see from previous entries, it was still a great walk). I went to Broadway Gardens that afternoon, which was only a touch below crazy weekend levels

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