And The Year 2023 Begins!

 We celebrated new year's eve in our dreams, we could not stay awake past 10pm as morning people enjoy getting up early to start the day. And when we awoke, it was 2023!

Bill had been very busy in the lead-up to the year ending & here is what he was up to!

Look to the left corner with the small built-in cupboard that was there when we purchased the house...

Here is another view, it is a popular spot in the winter with the firebox for Baxter & Bridget!

Bill made me this beautiful custom built-in cupboard for all my quilts & afghans, these are just a few from my collection over the years. I'll post a photo again when it is full! 

He was so busy every night after work measuring cutting & creating this beautiful piece of custom furniture for me & my creativity! xXx

Look on the right side of the firebox...he made a welded holder for the firewood!!

The corner of the great room is so customized now & winter has found us, yesterday it snowed!

Here is a close-up of the cast iron owls before everything was painted. I took this photo when Bill was making sure everything was measured right & fit into the space. We found these owls at Louis Open Door Antiques in Chatham a few years back & used them to decorate the log pile. Bill made them so they swivel & I never noticed that they were sitting on a branch until they were detached from the metal bars & placed upward! We've had such great finds at Open Door Antiques!

This is the 'before'. It now has such a great function & is handy for filling the firebox!

This is the 'after', Bill also installed clear acrylic down the side to keep all the bark bits in!

The northeast corner of the great room has great form & function to it thanks to Bill's creativity & his gift to work with wood & metal. He said the metal was so much easier to work with as he understands it more but is enjoying the journey of learning how to make things from wood.

Gary, our London ON friend introduced him to the Busy Bee shop & he is like a kid at the candy store...or his wife in a quilt shop! lol

I played that Baxter was Max from The Grinch! lol

This was the first time Bill had made a cupboard & enjoyed it so much that he's now designing built-in cupboards under the great-room window with a wrap-around cupboard to go under the large TV screen!

He is a talented man in everything he does, I'm so blessed to have him!

I quilted up this 24" pillow cover & will make a pillow out of it for the Praire Meadow quilt. 

The Praire Meadow quilt has now been bound & is housed in the new cupboard!

 

I'm doing the finishing touches to this 16" x 20" Kathy Schmitz project called Frosty & Friends.

I wanted not Christmas on it so I could hang it for the winter months. I'm doing embellishments on each one with beads, embroidery, pompoms, etc...there are thirty of them!

This trio is brought to life, with 27 more to go!

Bill fills the feeders Christmas morning & has the chickadees feeding from his hand again!

You can see we had great weather so far this winter!

This too will pass...

We have such a good life out here on the east coast on the Atlantic, around us wildlife is abundant.

It is quieter in the winter but come spring everything comes to life again with mother nature.

Bridget does not do mornings well, she likes to just stay warm & cozy in her bed.

Baxter is the same way, he's on the other side of her under his blankets warm & cozy.

As we enter a new year everything is fresh like we have a new start with our days, make them count!

Thank you for stopping in for a visit & I hope you enjoyed seeing the updates to Bill's customizing our home here out east. 

Wishing you the very best this year!

Hugs,

Cynthia xXx