Simply showing off

My favorite surprise since I've moved here to Boise is that we got a knock on our door with a special delivery. Woo hoo! My cousin, Sylvia, who lives in Boston, had sent us a changing pad to transform yonder dresser into oh-so-convenient changing table. I set it up and got it screwed into place, and then to try it out, I decided to buckle one of my cats into it. I grabbed Toby and strapped him onto the changing table.
He didn't seem to notice.
He stayed there the rest of the afternoon, and now that's one of his favorite spots to hang out-- although he doesn't buckle himself in for some reason.

Toby is really a sleek, adorable cat. It's just that in pictures, all you can see is the angry green eyes glowing out from a black hole. I promise he's not that mean in real life.

And this corner of our house (this dresser with the blank walls and empty space all around it) is the baby's nursery. We still have some work to do, I guess.

I finished this baby quilt a couple days ago. Here's my horrible confession: I made it for a friend who is also having a baby girl shortly after I am. However, once I finished it, I decided to keep it for myself. Mwoo ha ha ha ha! I'm so evil and selfish.

But it's so cute!
Most of it is made of scraps from other projects I've made.

And then if you look at this bottom picture, you can see the way-cute flowers I quilted into the plain section. See, that's why I decided to keep it. I've never made anything cute through actually quilting designs into the fabric, and since I really liked how it turned out, it's mine.

And then today we have company coming to visit us. I should probably get dressed and clean up the house a bit. But that hasn't happened yet. What HAS happened is that Howie kicked over a glass that shattered all over and behind the kitchen table. So I got that all pulled apart and swept up. I decided to vacuum off the dining room chairs, but the vacuum wasn't working so well. So I pulled THAT apart. After cleaning out a couple parts, it still wasn't working so well, so I decided to rinse out the filter.
Boy, was that dumb.
I think I'll just leave the house how it is (dining room scattered throughout the house, vacuum parts scattered throughout living room) and just pretend not to notice when they come.