What a weekend!

Well, we finally have our 'new' trailer home.  What a chore!  Went over Wednesday night and looked at it, check.  Drove over Thursday night to pull it out of the pasture/mud hole it was in.  Ha!  After two hours and both Mike's truck AND my truck chained to his we pulled it to high, dry ground.  Both of our trucks are caked in mud and horse manure now.  By the time we got it pulled to dry ground 4 of the 6 tires had lost air/gone flat already.  So, we left it sit where it was.  Drove over Friday night to change the tires.  Took three of us 2 hours to change 5 tires (had to dismount and remount two).  Finally headed home with it.  I have a ton of 'new' stuff to hang up though - old bridles, hames, even a complete harness!

I'm finally able to get started on my customer order now though, not getting home til 10 three nights in a row doesn't let one accomplish much.

I have also finally figured out how to create my saddle pad patterns on the computer!  I found a grid right in MS Works (doh!) that is customizable so I can color in the squares as needed and print out each pattern.  It will take me a while to get all 37+ patterns done though, it's a bit time consuming to color each square but I'm doing it as simply as possible to save some time (and ink).  I'm just glad to finally be able to condense each pattern from four graph paper pages down to ONE page.  Will be so much easier to stitch from.

I was also directed to an online program that will create a cross stitch pattern from anything so I plan to try it on photographs.  Just think - being able to take ANY photo and turn it into a cross stitch pattern for a one of a kind piece of art!  Stay tuned for updates on that.