Happy Monday after Mother's Day weekend!

Another Monday morning and it is a cold one here.  I am ready for warm weather!  I hope everyone had a wonderful Mother's Day.  I spent time with my family had a great day!  We had a lot of good food and it was a lot of fun!  My grandpuppy Miss Daisy even came to visit and she keeps Bailey busy chasing her away.  She now weighs 50 pounds and that is a big Sheltie!  Poor Bailey only weighs 6 pounds and 4 oz.  He remains leader of the pack and can still make her run away afraid of him.  They are too funny!  We continue to work on this house as usual.  I haven't been doing a lot of sewing and I need to return to my creations.  Last week we got our new entry doors and flooring in the master bath and laundry room.  Yippee we are finished with flooring!  Lots more work to do and we have been so busy outside taking down pine trees and shrubs, replacing them, tearing down fences and building new ones.  There are still pine trees and shrubs to take out but it is getting there.  We have to build an enclosure for Bailey too as I have seen several foxes in the back yard by the lake.  Miss Kitty has been staying outside more now too.   I love where we live and it is at the end of the town so we have a lot of woods and wild animals.  Our neighbors across the road are by the fence  eating grass.  They moved them last week so they are close now.  They are too cute!  I love cows!  I will have to take my camera when I go to the mail box and snap their photos.  Back to work this morning and I hope everyone enjoys their day thanking God for all the blessings he richly gives us!
This is a picture of my mother at a young age.  HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!

 

Good Monday Morning!!!

I hope everyone had a great weekend!  More rain here but as the saying goes, "April showers bring May flowers!"  We will have some beautiful flowers!  I have been working in the yard when it isn't raining.  Digging up shrubs and 23 rose bushes.  Planting shrubs and lilac bushes.  We have been working on this place for 4 months and it is looking like home now.  Next week the floors in the laundry room and master bathroom will be down.  I have one more bedroom to paint.  Our new entry doors are waiting to be installed I hope this week.  Fred and I constructed a fence last week beside the sidewalk and I painted it Friday when we had a break in the rain.  Now to put the caps on the ends.  We found a nice solar cap and I cannot wait for the rain to stop to see how it looks.  Fred put up the new entry lights and they look great!  I hope I will be working on the giraffe today painting spots.    Have a great week!

 

Good Monday Morning!

The weekend flew by and it is Monday! This morning I am painting the laundry room and I hope to do some sewing. Is everyone enjoying the warmer weather? I hope it is warm where you are! Put my Prim Olde Spring Katt on Ebay. I love to make bears, pups and furry critters but I need to make one of my extreme prims occasionally. Love prim! I hope everyone enjoys their week! Olde Spring Katt on Ebay: http://www.ebay.com/itm/300891163102?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649

 

Have a Happy Thursday!

Good Thursday Morning! Looks like the weather report is for more rain today. Better get your mud stompin' boots on! I have been working on a giraffe this week, working in the yard,  and making a prim bench for the bathroom. Wood working gives me a great feeling of accomplishment and takes me back to the sweet days of my childhood. I always enjoyed spending time with my grandfather watching him make benches and tables. He would give me the scrap wood to form my creatures. Funny how some cuts of wood could be a dog, bear or wild creature not known yet to man. Those were great times and I enjoyed every minute with my grandfather. He taught me so much and I still miss him! Have a Happy Day and enjoy every detail of it!

Happy Friday!!

It is Friday already! Time certainly does fly. I guess when we are busy it flies even faster. This past week we have been giving the guest bathroom a make over. I previously cleaned with Clorox top to bottom, painted the walls gray and painted and antiqued the vanity, put up a new oval mirror I painted and antiqued it. We started last Friday and thought it was going to be a two day job taking off the old flooring and putting tile down, grouting it and putting in a new throne. No such luck. Every inch of the old flooring was glued. Scraped, patched, sanded and primer took days. Then put the new tile down and grouted it the next day. The new throne was next and it was an American Standard. They use to make them in nearby Salem but this American Standard was made in Mexico. First of all the tank had a big crack down the back so it was returned for another one. New tank on and it seemed to be fine. Last night the seals started leaking. Fred could not fix it so off today to buy another throne, (NOT American Standard) remove the broken one, return it and install the new one. I cannot wait to scrape off the flooring, patch, sand and primer the master bathroom. Then new tile and grout. It is three times as big as the guest bathroom. At least we already installed a new throne in there. It will have to be pulled up for the flooring job...bummer! While I was telling Fred I would like to put a roof over the deck and basement entry way he very nicely said, "You should have married a contractor!" Working on a giraffe when I can this week. This is a picture of my sweet grandson. I hope everyone has a great weekend!

Josephina

I hope everyone had a Happy Easter!  It was a wonderful day for me as I was able to be with my family at Blake and Mindy's house.  We had so much wonderful food!  Blake and Mindy are expecting their first baby and it is nice to enjoy this time with them.  Baby Bailey and his sister Daisy were cute.  Bailey is Blake's dog but he has lived with me for his 10 years of life.  Daisy his baby sister lives with Blake and Mindy.  She is a Sheltie but weighs 47 pounds.  She is afraid of 6 pound Bailey.  He barks at her and she runs only to come back for more.  It is funny to see!  They are always a hoot!  We enjoyed the day!  Fred and I worked all weekend on the guest bathroom.  What a large job that room turned into.  Poor Fred!  Every inch of the linoleum that was in there was glued.  He worked all day Friday getting the top layer off the floor and then scraping and sanding to remove the backing.  Some of the wood was pulled up so he patched, sanded, patched, sanded and then cleaned and gave it a coat of primer.  Yesterday we put down the tile.  Today when he gets home from work we will grout it.  I am hoping Tuesday evening we can put in the new commode and put the woodwork back on the wall.  We were thinking it would take 2 days at the most.  Dreamers we are!  We love this new house but everything we do seems to be a major project! I managed to finish CoCoMo Josephina Jo's dress and will be listing her on Ebay today.  She is 32 inches tall.  I am working on a giraffe when I get a minute or two.  Enjoy your week!  Think Spring!

Happy Friday!!!

Happy Friday!!! This week was a busy one and they all seem to fly by. Spring? It will be here and I will be twice as happy because I had to wait on it. The birds have been busy for weeks building nests. I hope they do not have any eggs in those nests yet. We have 24 degrees this morning and it is snowing. I worked on Josephina this week when I could and she is sitting there this morning waiting for her white dress to be finished so she can play with her paints.  I did catch her spilling some paint on her pinafore yesterday so she is sitting in time out now.  After she is grungy she will be ready for Ebay.  Her dress is almost finished so she should not have to wait long. I love to make the larger bears. They can sit just about anywhere. I hope everyone has a great day and will enjoy the weekend!

Have a Happy SPRING week!~

Happy Monday!  We have had a day of freezing rain here in Ohio.  The first day of Spring will be the 21st and I hope that magically switches us to SPRING weather.  I finished Agnes the Alpaca Easter Bear and she is on Ebay.  Have a great week and think SPRING! 

 

Looking for Spring!

Happy Friday!  It has been cold this week and I am looking forward to warmer weather and SPRING.   I worked on Magdalena and will be taking her to The Boston Road Collection.  She was a fun puppy to make.  She reminds me of my grand puppy Walter who is a Boston Terrier.  He is so sweet.  I still have painting to do and when I am sewing I think I should be painting, cleaning out the basement or garage, and there are still boxes to open.   I can't imagine it but the other house did have two more rooms than this one does.  Now they are here with no place to put them.  I could make more shelves and cupboards to hold them.  I don't want to make my boys think I have too much junk so I will hold back and limit my "junk" as they call it.    My mother is like my boys and has minimal decor.  She throws everything away!  My father was from Kentucky and oh did he love to keep everything!  He would always hide it in the attic of the garage from my mother as he whispered, "You never know when you might need this little ditty."  He did have his "little ditty bag" he called it and had pictures of my boys and other things that made him feel good when he looked through it.  Off limits to my mother as she thought it was his inhaler he had in there.  So when she tells me I have too much "junk" I always tell her to think how I feel when I have two people fighting inside.  One telling me to get rid of everything and the other saying I might need that some day.  Fred just smiles and tells me I work hard to keep the house looking good.  He is the smartest man I know!  He learned that strategy almost 23 years ago.  Have a great weekend!

Good Monday Morning!

Good Monday Morning!  I hope everyone is having great spring weather!  It has been beautiful here with warm temperatures.  I am ready for SPRING!  We had a busy weekend.  Fred's birthday was Friday and we celebrated the day together.  He turned the big 60 and sure doesn't look his age.  He is a great husband!  I finished the bunny Adeline and listed her on Ebay yesterday.  She is the second Easter Bunny I have made this year.  Have a sweet week!

http://www.ebay.com/itm/300874146152?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649 

Snowy Wednesday Morning

We woke up to snow this morning and it is beautiful, peaceful and calm.  March is a month of a mixed bag of weather.  The report is showing rain tomorrow.  I would rather see the snow but I am anxious for spring to see if there are any spring flowers planted in this yard.  Birds singing and sun shining in the weeks to come will be so welcome and gives us a new refreshing of life and it's miracles.  Our back yard looks so peaceful and calm this morning blanketed in the fresh snow.  This is the scene from the window by my sewing machine.  There are six deer who frequent the lake sometimes stopping in our yard before running into the woods.  I hope everyone is having a great week.  Think Spring!!!

 

Good Wednesday Morning!!  Looks like more rain and maybe snow here.  I am hoping there will be some sunshine mixed in there too!  If you don't like what you have in Ohio stick around.  Some days we get it all in one day!  Ohio weather isn't boring!  Finally taking a breath here and seeing the results of the last two months of working on this house.  I still have two rooms, the outside entry, shutters, the stairway, basement floor and maybe the garage to paint.  Lots of scrubbing with my friends Clorox and Comet has been in my daily routine.  It is lookin' good and feeling like home!  My poor Bailey was very sick Monday night and had to go to the vet yesterday.  He is getting back to normal today but thinks he still should be held.  I think he is working it for all he can get.  He loves to be held.  Poor baby.  It breaks my heart to see him not feeling well.  I hope everyone enjoys the week and think SPRING!  I have listed Ambrosia on Ebay and this is the link:  http://www.ebay.com/itm/300867997260?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY

It sure is looking like spring.  There have been two little birds outside my bedroom window working on a nest this week.  Is it too early for nests and baby birds?  Maybe not.  They are busy so that gives me hope that the old critter in Pennsylvania, Phil is right this year.  I have been painting.  I have been painting for more than 6 weeks now and I am hoping I will have it all completed soon.  Everything is looking so bright and clean.  We still have a lot of work to do and when spring arrives I will be outside working too.  I have gotten a chance to get back to sewing and I am working on a bunny and a bear.  I hope everyone is enjoying the day today and you have someone special in your life to spend it with.  Happy Valentine's Day!

Snowy Monday

It continues to snow and it is beautiful!  Love it when the sun shines through the snow softly drifting down from the sky.  Looks like a beautiful snow globe!  I am busy as usual painting and sewing.  I planned to paint the bathroom today but my hand decided I better give it a rest.  Not too much rest though as I will be sewing.  No time to dilly dally.  I have taken weeks off from bear making and I will have to get back to it soon full time.  I have two in the making along with curtains and 6 chair pads for the dining room.  It was a nice weekend and we enjoyed the Super Bowl yesterday.  I thought you might like this picture of the three pups.  It gave me a chuckle and I hope it gives you a good Monday laugh to start out your week.  Have a great week!

A Snowy Friday!

I hope everyone has enjoyed the week and  you are looking forward to the weekend.  It is a snowy day here.  Beautiful!  Sorry if you have to drive in it.  I can now post pictures so I thought I would put the "after" picture of my dining room since the floor was installed.  The installers did a beautiful job!  I finished decorating for Easter this morning.  I have boxes of prims and antiques for our spring garage sale.  Without a family room now we have to down size more.  I hope everyone enjoys their weekend and if they are traveling in the snow be careful!  Tobias, my sweet son in SC, be careful on the roads.  They are expecting freezing rain today!

MOVED!

Another beautiful morning!  Looks like the two weeks we were moving WAS winter.  With a blizzard the roads were closed and we were trying to get to the old house to be there for the movers at 8 am in the morning on December 27th.  We made it and they were great movers.  Richard's Moving Company in Winona moved our furniture with about 15 inches of snow on the ground.  Our neighbor Ed was always the best neighbor and he plowed out our drive so the movers could arrive.  When we arrived at this house a just as kind neighbor had plowed out this drive.  We are so thankful for wonderful people!  Movers put most of our furniture in the garage and after our 24 loads with cars and a truck we brought mostly my "junk" to this house.  Poor Fred.  It snowed every day and we were so weary from hauling 4 or 5 loads every day.  I did have 2 yard sales to get rid of my things, didn't I?  January 2, after cleaning the old house from top to bottom we brought our two last loads in the sunshine from there.  We kissed that great house with a lot of memories "Goodbye" and headed to our new house.  I started cleaning this house on December 20, and haven't stopped yet!  I won't make any comments but...???  I have cleaned and scrubbed every room from ceiling to floor with Clorox and Comet. Some rooms I scrubbed the ceilings 4 times.  Just think what smoking does to a person's lungs when we can see what it does to our surroundings?  Carpet scrubbed twice in every room thanks to my sweet son Blake who came every day to help scrub and paint while he was on vacation.  What a wonderful help he was!  Thank you Blake!  This is a work in progress and we have progressed.  Decided to tear out the carpet after cleaning didn't help.  Our new flooring will be installed in the dining room, kitchen, hall and our bedroom.  Painting those areas were first on the list and they are ready.  I still have more painting to do inside and outside.  At least it is starting to feel like our house and Fred and I always say to each other, "As long as we are together it is home."   More to come when the floor is installed and I can move the remainder of the furniture in.  As my wonderful husband reminds me, "One bite at a time."  I am a little late but HAPPY NEW YEAR!  (For some reason I cannot load a picture now."

Merry Christmas!!

Looks like snow for Christmas! I know my grandson will love it when he visits. I finished my doll but have not found a name for her yet. I used an antique doll head and antiqued it further. Her body is made from cloth and her legs are wooden dowels inside the cloth and attached to the wooden base I made for her. The clay I bought this time did not work as well so instead of my own creation for her face I used the antique head. Her pinafore and hat are antiques. She was not pleased with the dress I made for her so I made another one. Dolls can be tempermental it seems. I am working every day on the new house to prepare it for our move. There is a lot of work to do there and Blake has been helping me since he is on vacation. How did I get so lucky to have such a sweet loving son? He never stops until the job is done! I hope everyone has a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!  I hope this time of year is a reminder of all our blessings we each have.  This is a giving time of year and we should extend our loving giving hearts to every day of the year.  God blesses us with many gifts and Jesus the greatest gift, is the reason we celebrate this Christmas season.  With all the sadness in the world around us it is sometimes difficult to find happiness.  Our hearts break for the 26 people who were killed this past week.  What a sad and difficult time for the families of those little children and educators who died.  I pray for the families.  Sometimes our difficulties seem endless in our own lives but there are always others who suffer more.  Have a great week and celebrate Christ's birth every day.