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This Blog was created out of a need to to keep friends and family updated with the progress of our house building adventures. The Build Label will hold all of the house selling and building related posts.  Eventually the Grow Label will hold any posts relating to my attempts at a garden.  The Love Label is where I will be posting cooking and crafts. 

Christmas Tree

Due to very limited space in the apartment, we decided against having a Christmas Tree.   One day, while wasting spending time on Pinterest. I came across several felt tree posts.  Brilliant!  Not only is this Christmas tree toddler friendly, it is also dog friendly.

 

The Tree itself, is cut out from 1 yard of felt off the bolt. The ornaments, gifts, and snowflakes are cut from the squares of felt.   I used Beacon Felt Glue to glue the pieces together. 

All Framed Up

It's been a busy few weeks, so I am behind with my updates, but the framing is complete!  

Starting with the oldest first!   

I enjoyed watching the workers wrap the house, then cut the holes for the windows and adding the window flashing.

The next visit, the house was complete wrapped, and some of the windows are in.  

The most recent visit, the front porch roof has been framed, the houses wrapped, windows in, and the stairs inside were built.  

Inside pictures next time!  I hope you all have a Happy Thanksgiving!

Framing is coming along

Thankfully Hubs and I voted earlier in the day, not just because the lines were long after work, but because it's getting dark so early now that daylight savings time has ended.  We raced up to the site directly after work.

We didn't have much time out on the site, and the workers were still there.

The framing is coming along and the house is really starting to take shape.

The front of the house

The back of the house.

Framing the 2nd floor

I was thrilled to discover that the builders were able to start the framing of the 2nd floor, despite the 3 days of rain from Hurricane Sandy.