Irish Quilt

This is the second Irish quilt that I have made. My sister asked me to make it for my nephew.

I appliqued the critters around the edges and machine embroidered the white blocks in the center of the quilt.

It is a full size quilt shown on a king size bed here.




 The Irish Blessing is in the very center of the quilt.

The first Irish quilt I made was for my Mom and she gave it back to me before she passed away. It is what I consider an heirloom quilt. I also appliqued these same critters on it. But I hand embroidered all others.























I embroidered the last names of both sides of family with maiden names and the counties in Ireland where family came from.

This is the label I put on it.





























These were hand quilted on the solid green blocks.

Trailer Rebuild

 One of the recent project was building our utility trailer.

This trailer had the big holes in the bed when we bought it and we covered them up with a sheet of metal.

The wood was so rotten we worried about the sheet coming loose so we replaced the bed.

When it was finished, Jerry put a sealer on the wood.

Main Bathroom Remodel

We remodeled our main/guest bathroom and love the way it turned out.


First thing we did was take the mirror down to reveal this LOVELY wall paper behind it!!! We had to have the mirror cut down some since the new vanity was taller and longer than the old one.

Took the vanity apart and later put it back together with a solid top to use for patio storage.








There were no cutoff for the water so of course when we went to put them in, one of the pipes broke. Plumber was very prompt to fix so we were not out of water long.






We took the wall out that was between the commode and vanity.














The man we hired to do the tile did a great job. We highly recommend him. He also did our office tile last year.































I noticed he even cut the tiny piece out for around the window sills. Details!

We found the granite top on Craig's List and got the vanity from Lowe's. It is a great match!

 So glad to have our second bathroom back!!!