Quilts hung and empty nest.

Official first quilt to be hung in the new house.  Now I have had a couple small quilts up already, but they were put there with tacks for temporary enjoyment.  This quilt is in the bedroom, my Baltimore Cousins quilt, and it fits perfectly above the bed between the two windows.  For the first time since I finished this quilt, it is in a location that allows all the blocks to be seen. 










This is the quilt room with a couple more quilts on display.  The lighting in here was a little lacking, so the light fixtures you see are all new.  They are LED and linked together.  They provide totally awesome lighting.  We installed a gridwall in the closet to accommodate my collection of thread cones and the smaller mini-cones are on racks behind the door.

 

The Mamma dove was having a hard time fitting in the nest with her two babies.  It was hard to see up there, so I am not sure exactly when these two hatched, but based on the size of the eggs, I am presuming these guys were up there much longer than I was aware.  This afternoon I went out with my selfie stick to prepare to take another closer look and the two of them flew off together right in front of me.  

Empty nest means we can now take this light fixture down and replace it with the new one we have been waiting to install when they flew the coop.

Doors and more...

It will take a while to get things situated where they need to be, but little things can make a new home start to feel more comfortable.  I have several quilts that need to find their place on the walls of my new gallery, so tacks and pre-positioned nails are helping my front entrance to look a little more like home.

  Christmas cactus likes the light that comes through the door, and that silhouette quilt might just stay where it is...  it kind of looks like it belongs there.  I am thinking a quilt needs to go around the corner on the wall above this smaller quilt.  That might take some figuring as I have never hung a quilt around a corner before, nor one quite so high up.

I have two back doors, one goes into the garage and the kitchen has a door to the back porch.  My sister sent me a table topper that has ended up... at least temporarily, as a door topper over my washer and dryer.  Those bi-fold doors are new... previously there were sliding doors that somehow just don't belong in front of a washer and dryer.

 I won't get around to a garden quite yet, but my garden art needed to get out of the garage and my porch said dress me up. Seems there is a good breeze that comes through my back porch and makes my wind chimes sing.

One of our projects will be to replace the outside lights as they are all missing their tops.  Of course this makes the birds happy with a nest protected from the sun and rain, and high enough so the wind is minimal.  The close-up here is from the light fixture by the door and I used a selfie stick with my phone to see if there were any eggs in the nest.  Mamma wasn't too happy, but I didn't disturb anything.  Once the babies have flown the nest, these lights are on their way out. This nest belongs to a dove... the other nests around are barn swallows, of which there are many in the neighborhood.