Hanging it up...

Mom came over the other night and we started hanging some of the pictures. Great! They are on the wall, and one more thing off the floor!  I'm always happy to have Mom help me do this...she is the master at hanging artwork.

 This little chain of birds was hanging out in a Kankakee resale shop and it had to come home with me.

 The quilt is by local artist, JoanE Lipinski. It depicts pond life, and as you know I have a thing for anything to do with the water. Joe gave it to me for my birthday years ago, and I love it. The other piece is one we bought while we were in Hawaii. I'll have to take close-ups of both of these, so you can see them better. They are really beautiful. And I was pleased that they didn't clash with the curtains, because we chose the curtains based on the rug, not the artwork.

A couple more found homes on the stairway. The one on the right is below...

I got it an an auction for a couple of dollars and I've always liked it. The embroidered figures are cute and I love the little poem. I had it hanging inside our back door, by basement steps, at the other house for a while, but there wasn't a great place for it....now I have it right inside the front door as you go upstairs.

Dirty Windows!

I've been washing windows again this morning. You might be wondering why it's taking so long to wash the windows. Well, here is the dirtiest one...yuck!!!!!

 As you can imagine, you don't just hit something like this once, you have to prewash it (scrub!) and then wash it again, and sometimes yet again before it looks decent. On top of that, three of the windows have wasps making nests in them. I haven't touched them, but I'm going to get some of that poison you can aim at them from a long way away. After hearing about Jack (our neighbor up at the lake) dying from a bee sting over the weekend, I'm trying to be very careful. I don't think I'm allergic, but I don't think Jack thought he was either!

Here's the little living room. It's going to be wall to wall sofa I do believe. I'm thinking that could be cozy though...like a big movie-watching nest.

 After I got through working on windows this morning, I walked around to remind myself why I like this little place....look at that nice baseboard and corner block.

 And the newel post...so pretty!

 And the little entry is just like one in a larger Victorian home, but it's doll house size.