Sewing in my castle...

I spent most of the day up in the sewing room.  I just absolutely love it up there.  The sea foam color is so soothing and relaxing.  A very peaceful place to work.  I feel like I escape when I am up there and I am very thankful to be able to climb the stairs right now.  I was working on baby burp pads today.  I got 10 of them sewn and I just need to finish clipping a few of them and they will be ready to be washed so that they rag.  Susie stopped in for a little while today and we had a nice visit.  If you do stop over some time and the van is here, and I don't answer the door, buzz me on your cell phone as I may be upstairs and I have a phone in the sewing room.  I can't see the driveway from up there unless you are at the end of the driveway by the street.  It is really difficult to tell if someone is here when you are up there, and now with people going in and out of the ambulance parking lot, it is a lot harder to tell if someone is in my driveway.  I would hate to miss you!  I also got 7 ponytails, and 9 tissue holder's done last night after my 3 and 1/2 hour nap!  Only 8 more weekends till the flea market starts....YAHOO!  I can't wait!  I am off to finish clipping so that maybe I will have a picture tomorrow for you of baby burp pads!  Have a good night!  Me

Just Buzzin' By Jar

Here is some pictures of a project I finished this morning.  My neighbor asked me to make a gift jar for her.  She is going to give this for a birthday gift.  The girl that will be receiving this gift loves lime green so I added as much of that color to the project as I could with out it being to over whelming.  Debi was very happy with the jar.  She  filled it with candy wrapped in the pastel Easter color's and it looks so pretty.  I shot a closer picture of the top of the jar so you could see it better and also a picture of the tag.  I glitter painted the flowers with an old blender pen, and used stickles on the bee's wings.  The butterfly is made with SU's Butterfly die, and I used the stamp set Just Buzzin By.  It worked perfect with this honey jar.  If you empty out any honey jars and are not going to use them for anything would you save them for me!?!?  This is a perfect project for them.  After Debi left, Susie stopped over for a couple of hours and we worked on some idea's for her mother's upcoming 90th birthday party.  She is going to make the cutest little carrot favor's.  They are adorable.  She also brought along some really cute cards that she made.  We had a fun visit.  I think I am going to go take a nap right now as I am tired out from yesterday.  Have a stampin' good day!  Elaine

What a very long day....but fun!

Wow!  Carol and I had a marathon long day today.  We left here at 6:30am to travel to Marshfield for her appointment with the neurosurgeon.  While she was in her appointment, I was crocheting flowers and finished 15 of them.  She came out around 10:30 and the verdict is that she has to have neck surgery.  She has a disk that split off and is pinching a nerve, causing arm and neck pain, numbness, and increasing weakness in her left hand.  Her surgery will be next Wednesday, the 10th.  Please keep her in your prayers.  We decided to go to AppleBee's for lunch and she 
needed to be back to the clinic by noon so they could run tests on her and get everything done while she was there that needed to be done before surgery.  Carol thought I should take the vehicle and go shop as she had 4 appointments and wouldn't be done until 3.  So I dropped her off and went to St. Vinnies, Good Will and Hancocks.  I got back a little early and was looking at my new book when Carol came out.  I had birthday money from Lenore and Susie and I used Lenore's to buy the book and Susie's to buy the beautiful bundle of fat quarters on the left.  They are called brown works and all coordinate, in chocolate, pink, blue, and cream.  They are absolutely yummy looking and I will probably just gaze at them until I decide on the perfect project for them.  I got them with a 40 percent off coupon.  I was showing Carol the book before we left the clinic and she could not believe how stinkin' cute the pattern's are in it.  There are 25 patterns in the book for clothing for girls and boys, and accessories ages 0-5.  I decided that my up coming grand baby needs some things out of the book and I think I also will make some clothes to sell.  Any how, after we went over to the hospital to do the final paper work, we headed back to Hancock's and Carol decided to buy one of these books too along with some other stuff!  She has the cutest little grand daughter's, and it will be fun for her to make some things out of there for them.  Our last stop was Culver's drive thru for ice cream and I thoroughly enjoyed my cookie dough, concrete mixer on the way home.  We yacked all the way up and all the way back, and I am sure we still forgot to tell each other stuff!  Oh...and I almost forgot to tell you that I found a little ceramic Easter bunny holding a Chocolate Rabbit for Carol at Vinnies.  She really likes chocolate rabbits and thought it was cute.  We blew in here at 6pm...and after Carol left, I washed my face, got on my jammies, grabbed the lap top and was in bed by 6:15.  There was no way I could stay awake, and I kept dozing off, oh well.  I should sleep well tonight!!!  Thanks Susie and Lenore for the birthday gifts....I will treasure them!  Hugs!  Elaine

Yackette's Ride Again!

Hello!  Here is a picture of some more magnets I made to sell.  I made 4 of these.  I didn't get anything accomplished today.  I slept all night, was up a couple of hours and then slept till noon.  My body seemed to be sucking up the sleep from the lack of it.  I feel much better today.  I still wasn't too hungry but my stomach did not hurt today, only had one yuck spell of acid when I bent to pick something off the floor so I think I am over what ever bug I had.  I needed to mail something out late this afternoon so made a stop at Practical Cents while I was out and about and picked up some little things that I am going to turn into pincushions.  Its a new idea I have.  White tags were 75 percent off, and yellow 50 percent off so I ended up with a bag of goodies for $3.00.  I can't wait to get started on that.  Then I made a quick stop to the library and got back here right in time for the Yackette's to start arriving.  We had a really nice time.  We haven't met for months so it was a real treat to get together all though not all of the gang made it tonight, but we had 5 all together.  We went out to Spot in The Woods for pizza and they have really good pizza.  I had not had it there before.  I have only eaten there one other time with Debby from IL, and hubby, and we had breakfast which was very good.  Try it out sometime...you will like it!