Our Backyard, originally uploaded by jordynnmackenzie.

I've been a busy bee in the backyard! It is a wonderful space that is hidden behind our house and sadly rarely used. But I got back there and cut back the years of growth and cleaned up a LOT of garbage and compost that should have been taken away last year... but I ended up with some nice soil out of it so I'm not complaining... too much.

I was planning a party in our backyard/deck area for about month with a friend. The party was for Aidan's 30th Birthday and it was great.

Unfortunately I don't have many photos of the party itself - it was a long night

But you can find nighttime photos of my backyard here and photos of our golfing adventure and a couple cake pictures here.

Golfers note: We are not professionals... but I swear we didn't hold anybody up with our picture taking

My name is Jordy...

Welcome to the first post of my new blog :)

I've just launched my website: www.jordynnmackenzie.com
If you go there you can read my bio and find out where to buy Jordynn Mackenzie.


I'm finally not (too) embarrassed about my messy studio anymore and I took some photos of it.

Last year I moved my studio from a tiny pink room in the back of my house to the third floor attic/living room space.

Here's a couple pictures of my pink studio:




It was a pretty good sewing room in the summer months when I could keep the door to the deck open... and when I kept it clean. But really, it was just too small of a room to make any quantity of anything. When we got our kitties in September of last year, we needed a space for their litterbox and I needed more room. So We bought a new desk for the living room and moved Aidan's computer downstairs. That left a fairly large room with crazy slanted ceilings. A couple of Ikea shelves later, I had a sewing room:


(a panorama - click for larger version)


My machinery: Janome MyLock and Kenmore UltraStitch12

You can see more images of my studio on my Flickr

It took me a while to get the room organized - I have SO much fabric... probably too much. But, I've cleaned everything up and the room is in working order.

And I finally have a place to hang my degree :)