book I'm reading, maybe it's the economy, maybe it's a simple justification, but I found myself patching sheets today! They are really cozy and fit the mattress nicely, and......it removed any guilt over what the mailman brought!
book I'm reading, maybe it's the economy, maybe it's a simple justification, but I found myself patching sheets today! They are really cozy and fit the mattress nicely, and......it removed any guilt over what the mailman brought!
Posted at 04:36 PM in Books, celebrations, Quilting | Permalink | Comments (4) | TrackBack (0)
Mixed emotions going on here. We finally got a car for O. She's had her license for months, just not the car part. While I am doing cartwheels inside over the idea of no longer having to play taxi all of the time, my stomach is also doing flips at the thought that they are growing up! Not to mention the fact that they are on the road!
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This year has been a very good year for me. I have grown in ways that I could not have imagined, and I feel so blessed to be able to continue on a path of growth. I am anxious to see if 2009 will bring more of the same. Oh, I hope and pray that it does, I don't want to be stuck ever again! I have a few pictures to share of what we've been up too.
Posted at 04:47 PM in celebrations, In the kitchen | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)
I have been in the party prep mode lately. I wish that I could manage to simply clean house when company is coming, but I seem to have some sort of disorder that does not allow that. I always seem to find myself creating more of a mess by doing some task that has been nagging me for ages, that will be completely unnoticed by the guests. This time it was filing papers and dealing with mounds of things that have been in the mound shape for quite some time. Okay, maybe that did notice, and maybe they noticed the dust and dirt, too, but the best thing about friends is that they really don't care! My Second Saturday Sew Sisters came over for our Christmas party this past weekend and it was so much fun. We have been meeting the 2nd saturday of each month for 7 plus years now, but the bank that we had been renting was having renovations and we missed the last 2 months, so it was super fun to catch up with everyone.
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One thing that I love about the fall, other than Thanksgiving, is getting out our fall/winter dishes. I am a dish lover, and could find myself with multiple sets if allowed. So to offset the limits of how many sets I can store, most of our dishes don't match. The exception being in the fall. Several years ago, we were at an estate sale and I came across a set of dishes that I knew I could love for years to come. Very natural colors, each plate depicting a different barn/house/building. All of the trim was in brown, which I love. I happened to flip a plate over and it was made by Johnson Bros. and called "the Friendly Village" so I figured that it was meant to be mine. The girls came into the room of the sale and began choking on the thought that they would have to eat off of such ugly plates. They were pushing every button that they could, trying to get me to not buy those dishes, when in walks the owner, yep, it was a living estate sale, oops, for them! Fortunately, she had not heard their comments and went on to tell us about her adventures of collecting the set of dishes and her memories of having family meals from them and so on. They gradually came to appreciate what something so ordinary can mean to someone, and agreed to occasionally eat from the dishes. As time goes on, I believe that they, too, will come to appreciate the memories that are talked about over our meals served on those very dishes. So it was a very good time unpacking them and getting ready for the long days ahead and home cooked meals served on coordinating plates.
Posted at 04:42 PM in Around the house, celebrations, thrifting | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack (0)
I must say, I am the luckiest girl in the world. Not only does my husband support my creative adventures, he buys me cool gifts while I'm gone! I thought that it was generous enough that he let me be gone over our anniversary (22 years, yea!), but he gave me this awesome colored pencil display case when I got home
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That's how I feel I have been moving. The above are inchies that I have made for a swap, Animal Parade is our theme. I'm also working on some plushies for trading, too. It has been hard to get going in the mornings with the sun coming up later and later. But it makes it easier for me to enjoy moments like this.
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And Oh how time flies! Both of the girls are now in high school and it is so hard to believe. Look what a difference 4 years can make.
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