Nada Nada Limonada

In the last 2 weeks I have not stitched a single thing.  Nope.  I cut some fabric for one of my Skill Builder blocks and then promptly left for vacation.  This week I've been browsing all of the beautiful quilts at the Quilt Festival and checking out all of the giveaways at Sew Mama Sew.

And then there's my poor yard:  It needed some major TLC.  I've been planting flowers and trying to prune back all of the bushes.  Whoever did the original landscaping made everything way too close, so it was hard to tell where one bush ended and one began.  I'm not a fan of most of them, but since a complete overhaul of landscaping is not at the top of our budgetary priorities I am making due by cutting them WAY back.  I really wish I would have gotten a before picture, because it's a huge change.

 It took me 2 days worth of naps and evenings to get all the pruning, planting and mulching done, but I'm happy.  My next project is to take care of this lovely hole.  I pulled out a rather ugly bush last summer and then never got around to extending the landscaping out and planting a tree.  That task will finally begin tomorrow.  Thank goodness, because I was getting tired of looking at that oh so attractive plastic and I'm pretty sure my neighbors were starting to give up hope that we would ever do something about it. :)