Happy new year! 2020 was certainly a year none of us will forget. I look forward to this new year filled with promise and potential. I shared a little bit in my last post about the vision issue...
Wowza. It has been a long time since I have posted. Here it is, the last day of the strangest day of our lifetime, and I couldn't miss the chance to make an update. What did 2020 look lik...
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So, 2020 has certainly turned into a year none of us will forget! Like everyone else, I have been holed up for the last three months. I have gone through the "organize and purge stage", wh...
http://www.dejongdreamhouse.com/2020/06/quilt-138-happy-scrappy-colors.html
Hi friends! I had grand plans to write a big long blog post today to reveal my first finish of the year, and a very personal one at that. I am very happy to announce that my epic 2019 quilt ...
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Happy New Year! Is anyone else looking around for the flying cars we were promised on the Jetsons ? As fun as that would be, I'm glad we at least have robot vacuum cleaners ! We enjoyed a qui...
UPDATED 12/31/2019: It's the end of 2019 and how did I do? Well, I made the fewest amount of quilts this year than I have since I started quilting--just 16 --but I also moved, so I'm giving...
http://www.dejongdreamhouse.com/2019/12/2019-goals-updated.html
In 2014--a year after I started quilting, and a few months after our high school exchange student returned to the Netherlands--we welcomed our first university student. We loved having Maris...
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In 2018, I was part of an online quilting bee hosted by Blossom Heart Quilts. My month to be queen was December, which is always dangerous because quilters run out of steam at the end of...
http://www.dejongdreamhouse.com/2019/12/quilt-135-hidden-gems-of-menlo.html
2019 is quickly coming to an end. The conclusion of the a year is always hectic with Thanksgiving, Sinterklaas (Dutch Christmas), D's birthday, and Christmas. By the time we get to the last ...
http://www.dejongdreamhouse.com/2019/12/quilt-134-jacobs-world.html
Merry Christmas from the de Jong Lake House, which is quickly becoming our new Dream House. It's not the house of which we lovingly and painstakingly designed each inch, but it is where my l...
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Happy December, it's the most scheduled time of the year! In our family, December is especially busy with Sinterklaas (Dutch Christmas) on the 5th, our son's birthday on the 9th, and then ou...
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As they say in my native Minnesota--Uff da!! November flew by with most of my time and energy going into taking care of my rock star mom, who had bilateral (both) knee replacement surgery th...
http://www.dejongdreamhouse.com/2019/11/one-monthly-goal-november-2019-update.html
I'm so excited to share that I have finally finished my first quilt at the Lake House! My new Vesper View Studio is still getting unpacked and organized-my One Monthly Goal--but an impromptu...
http://www.dejongdreamhouse.com/2019/11/quilt-132-hannahs-good-fortune.html
2019 is winding down and the Lake House is starting to feel like home, and maybe, even like our new (and improved) dream house. I'm still putzing away in the craft room, but I do have a plan...
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Autumn is my favorite season. I love changing leaves. Our new lake house is surrounded by trees so I've been looking forward to seeing their fall foliage. They have not disappointed me. ...
http://www.dejongdreamhouse.com/2019/10/one-monthly-goal-october-2019-update.html
The time has come. I have unpacked every box and have mostly organized everything on the main level of the house. It is time for MY ROOM! We moved into the de Jong Lake House in June, and...
http://www.dejongdreamhouse.com/2019/10/one-monthly-goal-october-2019.html
Oy vey! It feel like it's been forever since I have been blogging and sewing regularly. May was a long time ago. That's when we were bought the de Jong Lake House and began the process of se...
http://www.dejongdreamhouse.com/2019/10/one-monthly-goal-september-2019-update.html
Hellooooooo!! Remember me? Things are finally starting to settle down her at the de Jong Lake House . Most of the (indoor) renovations are done, the majority of boxes are unpacked, we spent ...
http://www.dejongdreamhouse.com/2019/09/one-monthly-goal-september-2019.html
Summer is officially upon us and we are officially moved into the de Jong Lake House . There is chaos everywhere because it is impossible to unpack when the kitchen, mudroom, pantry, and lau...
http://www.dejongdreamhouse.com/2019/07/one-monthly-goal-july-2019.html
If you've been following this blog since the beginning back in May of 2011, y ou might remember that this blog started as a way to record the building of our new home, which we called the de ...
http://www.dejongdreamhouse.com/2019/06/introducingthe-de-jong-lake-house.html
I should be getting my new sewing studio set up, but it's a rather overwhelming mess, so I will procrastinate a little long to share one more quilt I finished before we left the Dream House ...
http://www.dejongdreamhouse.com/2019/06/quilt-127-long-arm-minnie.html
My OMG for June wass to pack up the craft room in the de Jong Dream House If you haven't seen it in it's glory, you can take a tour here . Depending on how you look at it, my June One...
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Well friends, the end is near! We are just a few days from moving out of our beloved de Jong Dream House and into the de Jong Lake House. D has graduated from his beloved elementary school ...
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Back in 2013, I was talking to a few moms at my MOPS group about preschool options. One mom told me about a hidden gem that I hadn't heard of before. It's a community choice school, which me...
http://www.dejongdreamhouse.com/2019/06/quilt-130-omigolly-miss-jennifer.html
We are t-minus 10 days from moving into the Lake house and t-minus 5 days of D's elementary school career. Lots of crazy going on around here. I'm checking lists of lists of lists to try to ...
http://www.dejongdreamhouse.com/2019/05/quilt-129-theos-milestone-quilt.html