Thank you Bobbi Seguin!

Whew!  What a long 4 months it has been.  Thanks to our sweet dedicated realtor Bobbi Seguin for selling our house and finding another one for us!  Thank you Bobbi!  She is certainly one of a kind and we could NEVER have done it without her!  She keeps her nose to the grind even when we are ready to give up.  Just at the moment when we were ready to buy a lot and she showed us a few, we contacted a few builders and were determined the only way was to build a house but then she found a perfect house for us.  I could not even imagine it has a beautiful chandelier in the dining area.  Just the icing on the cake!  This room in the picture will look so different after I take off the wall paper and paint it.  Add the table we made and our decorations.  Can't wait to start!!!  There were a lot of other people looking at this same house and wanting it.  Bobbi who I think never sleeps and never eats but puts in 8 days a week was determined that was our house.  Sunday afternoon we nervously signed the papers and were sweating thinking someone else would get in their bid before us.  An hour and a half later I got the call from Bobbi saying they accepted our bid.  Bobbi deserves far more than the roses I sent to her for putting up with us and our roller coaster ride.  I will forever love the house we have lived in since we were married but I am excited thinking about our move now.  There are a lot of things to do there like paint, remodel two bathrooms, new cupboards, carpet, and did I mention paint?  But what would we do without another house to work on the next 22 years?  I know God has plans for us and it will all work out if you let Him be your guide.  We have looked at endless condos and more houses than I care to remember.  There were mostly houses I never want to think about again!  No description would be fitting!!!  Thank you Bobbi! 

Happy Monday...Happy Fall!

What a beautiful fall with breath taking colors!  With the wind and rain we had yesterday they won't be on the trees long.  We had another very busy weekend working in the yard,  looking at houses, lots and possibly a house to build.  Then off to the wedding of two great people who deserve a lot of happiness.  We needed that night dancing our cares away and talking to friends we have not seen in a while.  We have one more house to look at this week and after about 50 if this one is not "the one" we will build.  I was in crazy mode last week with my mother having tests, inspections, daily appointments and just mind boggling work!  No time to snooze!  When I looked up at my husband sitting in church yesterday and saw his endless adoring smile looking at me I melted into his sweet love.  He lifts me up and heals me.  How can this man love so much?  How can this man God blessed me with to heal my soul 22 years ago touch me and take all my worries away still?  He is one of my greatest blessings.  Happy Monday!  Have a great week!

Fall is in the air!!!

What a beautiful fall!  The weather has turned cold!  Brrrrr!  We have had frost every morning this week.  The trees are turning and I hope the rain does not bring them down before I can snap some pictures.  We are busy as usual and are in the process of getting this house ready for the new owners.  The inspection was completed Monday.  We have found a few places we like but none that we love yet.  Some of the conditions of the houses we look at are just unexplainable!  We have learned to appreciate all the hard work we have done to this house the last 22 years and the houses we look at cost a lot more and of course are in need of a lot of tender loving care.  Why did we decide to move?  We ask that question a lot.  We really wanted to move into a condo and not have to worry about mowing and yard work.  We decided we could not live with all the rules and regulations associated with condos.  You cannot imagine the board can make so many demands.  The list is long and so happy we did not sign papers before we read the association books.  I have never been so busy and so tired mentally and physically.  Our real estate agent is one of a kind and keeps us looking at houses.  She does remind us with her little laugh, "You are homeless."  She is a great person and when we do find that "perfect house" she tells us we will find, I will miss her after spending months with her through this process.  I did manage to finish Christine in the midst of all the chaos.  She is my first Christmas bear of this year.  Have a good remainder of the week and stay warm!

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Beautiful Fall Morning

It has quickly turned cold at night but it is September and fall is in the air.  Beautiful sunny days and chilly nights.  Looks like I will need to add a winter blanket soon.  Cleaned the house this morning and will be off to last minute preparations soon.  Mr. P. and and I are having a garage sale this weekend.  Oh I do not like them but we have been clearing out our house and hope to sell it soon so we must get rid of what we don't need.  No more antiques and prims everywhere.  There are a few left but I decided to de-clutter the house.  Worked in every room except my sewing room so far and there are bins of things I kept that I will have to decide later what to keep and what to disgard.  I hope to tackle my sewing room in the next week.  It will be a long week of tearing off wall paper and painting, cleaning out my craft and sewing closet, maybe...just maybe re-upholstering the love seat, clearing off and cleaning out.  This has to be done anyway so now is the time!  I finished Louise the Mohair Halloween Bear and she will be on her way to California.  When Mr. P. returns from work today I hope he can man the garage sale so I can cut out a new bear.  I hope everyone is enjoying their week!  Bear hugs to you!

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Good Monday Morning

Seems there was a spider who planned to sit down beside her...wherever "she" or I might be in my garden.  Oh what a beauty he was there sunning near my flowers.  So happy he didn't think I was his morning meal and bite me.  I do seem to forget there are those little creatures lurking in my garden  and do not put gloves on before I pull weeds.  I could just see me running through the field with a spider attached to my hand or crawling up my sleeve.  Whatever would I do?  Scream and do a little dance?  Fred thought it was funny after I took each picture of the beauty I would shiver and squeel.  Do I have Arachnophobia?  This guy was big!  Afterward I kept thinking I had something crawling on me.  Creepy!  Do you see the faces on his back?  He is beautiful but yet creepy!  Better to stay away from him!

Fall Is In The Air~

What a beautiful wonderful week!  I have a heavy heart this morning thinking about the people who merely exist and have no joy.  Sad that people become stagnant and without joy for anything.  They are satisfied to be deaf and blind to humanity, bored with life.  Maybe they have always been that way it seems.  "If you have used a PERFECT day in a perfectly useless manner, YOU have learned NOTHING."  That is sad.  We should use every day God gives us to his glory.  The weather is so nice and it is starting to look and smell like fall.  There is nothing like the crisp smell in the air this time of year.  We canned more tomatoes this week and I think that is the end of canning from our garden this year.  I will continue to share what remains.  I always amazes me the beauty of everything around us.  If you truly look at even a tiny moth there is always beauty to behold.  So perfectly amazing!  Even the old dried out shrub that I removed the other day was beautiful in it's own way.  I hope you have a wonderful sweet day full of beautiful surprises.  This is the elephant I finished yesterday and listed on eBay.  Her name is Evette.       Evette eBay link:  Adopted

 

Edna and Mae

Another busy week!  Mae the Dalmatian and Edna the Spaniel were finished and delivered Saturday.  I hope everyone is enjoying the holiday weekend and their family. 
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Zandar The Mohair Zebra

Zandar is off to the Netherlands today!
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Fall is just around the corner!  What a beautiful hot summer we had here in Ohio.  My flower garden and vegetable garden did great and we have enjoyed the beautiful flowers all summer.  We have been canning everything we were blessed with to prepare for winter.  It is always nice to have a stock of pickles, beets and tomatoes on the shelves.  I took a week off from sewing and turned my blue country decorated spare bedroom into a Victorian bedroom.  I painted cupboards, shelves, tables and cedar chest, cleaned, sorted, made new curtains, pillows and the new bedspread arrived and looks perfect.  I recently bought some beautiful antique clothes and they look perfect added to the room.  All the work because of a beautiful antique pitcher I bought at The Boston Road Collection.  That inspired me to make a beautiful place to put it.  It was a busy fun week and I enjoyed taking a week off from sewing.  Now back to getting my orders finished and on to new adventures.  Have a great Labor Day holiday!

It is a gloomy Saturday but still a beautiful day.  We had a nice day traveling to Hartville to The Boston Road Collection to deliver Daniela the elephant and Foster the Giraffe to Brenda.  Her shop is filled with the most delightful things!  I had to buy an antique Victorian pitcher.  It is large and so beautiful!  Can't wait to fill it with roses or an arrangement of flowers.  I am working on the extra bedroom changing it into shabby Victorian.  I hope the bedspread arrives Monday.  I still have a couple things to paint white and antique them.  I also visited Helaine's in the Hartville Marketplace.  Helaine is the sweetest lady and we have a connection since we both sew seven days a week. It is always a treat to talk to her and I LOVE her curtains and beautiful Victorian furnishings.  We enjoyed the day out.  I hope everyone had a great weekend!

HAPPY FRIDAY

I finished Daniela and Delilah Sue for orders.  Today I have 4 more creations to cut out for orders!  I have been painting the barn, doors in the house and finished them yesterday!  Great to have those things crossed off my list.  Canned tomatoes with Fred's help.  This was another crazy busy week!  This weekend we are going to an antique show and I am ready to have some fun!

 

The end of July and a beautiful Monday morning!

Wow~!  What a beautiful morning.  God blesses us every day with his beauty.  Man is the one who messes it up!  I hope everyone is having a wonderful day.  I was busy watching the butterflys in my garden and they were busy too.  Wish I could have my sewing machine in my garden.  That would be a wonderful inspiring place to sew every day.  Even in the winter snow it would be beautiful!  The flowers are at their best right now and wonderful to look at!  Hope you enjoy them too.  I have two elephants finished and they are waiting for me to make them dresses today.  Off to the cutting board to cut out a zebra and giraffe this morning for orders.  Yesterday I painted three doors.  Today if I get a chance I will be painting the front of the barn.  It is always fun to paint and it gives me time to think when I am painting.  One day soon I have to finish the large painting I have been working on.  We have a new stray cat.  He has a beautiful face and tiny meow.  He has a tail that looks like a flag so I call him Flagtail.  He walks so very slowly and you have to keep an eye on him to make sure he is really moving but runs if he is frightened.  We have to laugh at him and always say out loud, "Slowly I walk...step by step!" I hope to fatten him up.  Off to feed the stray cats and have my morning laugh!

Good Friday Morning!

Friday after a day of storms yesterday!  We had no electricity for over 12 hours and it sure makes me thankful for electricity today!  Happy Friday!  Enjoy the weekend!

Three Mohair Zebras.

 

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Ermahgard, Dorothy and Zebedee are on their way to The Boston Road Collection!

The Mohair Bear Ora

Ora on eBay    Adopted

The Friends of Teddy On Line Show is taking place this weekend. The five creations I submitted are Ophelia, Tessa, Angelena, Buffy and Zebedee. www.teddiesworldwide.com

Another beautiful Saturday! Hot and humid but it is so nice. Summer is slipping by. I took the elephant Beulah to The Boston Road this morning and by the time I returned home Brenda called to say she was sold. Great! I am working on a bear and hope to have it finished soon so I can take it to The Boston Road Collection next week. She did say she has it sold too as soon as I bring it to her and wants two more critters... yesterday. I did tell Bailey that he might have to learn to sew. His little Yorkshire paws should be able to hold a needle. He can be my elf sewing in the middle of the night while his grammy sleeps instead of getting me up every couple of hours to go outside because of course he slept all day while grammy sewed. NEW RULE! If grammy doesn't sleep...Bailey doesn't sleep...
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The first day of the Friends Of Teddy On Line Show starts today at 4:00 pm!  www.teddiesworldwide.com  I cannot wait to see all the creations everyone came up with for the show.  I hope everyone is enjoying the summer and will have a nice weekend.  I have been busy sewing, cleaning, taking my mother shopping and to appointments and looking at condos.  Getting rid of things we don't need when I get a chance is at the top of my list.  I definitely need more time for that chore!  I finished Gavin and Zeon and they are on their way to Virginia.  Zeno will be on the way to California and his new mom Lucy.  Today I am finishing Beulah the elephant and she will be at The Boston Road Collection tomorrow.  The next bear is waiting to take her form from my hand stitching.  I hope to machine stitch her some time today.  I am NOT bored and that is a good thing.  I wouldn't be good at being bored.  I think I do CRAZY better!

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Wonderful Daisies Growing In The Yard!

Good Monday Morning!  I hope everyone had a great weekend and enjoyed summer.  It has been HOT here in Ohio.  I love it and try to take it all in to think about during those cold winter days that will come in a few months.  It is great to remember the warmth from the sun when the snow is blowing.  I have been busy as everyone is these days.  I have 5 orders and creations all in various stages to be completed.  I hope to complete a few today!  The Friends of Teddy Bears show is this coming weekend and I am anxious for that!  My 5 are ready for the show.  If you haven't voted for your favorite of the preview this is the link: www.teddiesworldwide.com  Please vote.  Thank you.  Funny thing with all the heat and lack of rain three spots of daisies sprung up in the back yard.  I water my flower gardens and vegetable garden every day and some are not looking good.  I have had to dump several pots of flowers that I carefully fed and watered.  The sun is just too powerful for them and they dwindle in the heat.  Amazing to me to see wonderful daisies growing and beautiful in the middle of the burned out grass.  Sent from heaven to remind us that anything is possible!  I really need that right now and as I look at these little beauties every day God reminds me that no task is too big and he takes care of us every day.  He answers our prayers in His time and we must have patience.  He is always with us and guides us if we allow Him.  Have a great week!