It's cold again!

I have been cleaning out the carport...and freecycling, and still have so much more to go. I have also been on a pincushion making kick...here are some I made...still need to embellish them...and have more in different stages...geez, how many pincushions do I need? OH...I know, my friends need them too!

....and a little pic of my grand twins and their dog....Kaylin was helping me take the pic.

SEE YA LATER!!!!

Why can't we....

....stop making new laws AND enforce the ones we have? I see a lot of stupid 'new' laws popping up...we are the 'Homer Simpson' nation...DOH!

Confession...and possibly totally inappropriate

There is just no way to say this

except to just come right out with it.

I covet.

I covet my neighbor.

He is gorgeous. and young. and strong. and healthy.

and a STUD.

I want him. I really, really want him.

But he does belong to someone else

and I will respect that.

Pray for me.....and him....we belong together.

Isn't he gorgeous? Won't tell you his name ....neighbors are probably going to put up a wall after they find out how much I play with him when they are gone.

I am waiting on the grand girls to come visit ...they will be here tomorrow and I have lots of sewing to do...but it'll have to wait until next week.

Please pray for Patrick in Iraq, we found out he has to stay for 14 months instead of 7, and he is afraid his girls will forget him. We won't let that happen, but I sure do feel for him.

Something for you

I seem to get on here to announce luscious giveaways...and I have one for you!

Lynn at UFO's, Stash and my life GO there...she is giving away a jelly roll and a gorgeous one at that!

And I am out enjoying this warm weather before the WINDS come!

POP

A giveaway announcement...Corrinne at Heart of Mary, http://pinoyinoz.blogspot.com/
is having a fabulous giveaway...a couple of very nice patterns...

Getting back to normal

It's kitchen cleaning week here...I have a clean fridge and a clean oven...tomorrow...I will work on the floors and then Friday...I am emptying out all the cabinets and re-arranging...I can't reach half the stuff I need because tall people put it away...so I will adjust the kitchen to me!

We had a wonderful Christmas...full of loud, smiling, laughing grown-ups and babies and all ages in between...did I say LOUD?...It has been a hard week adjusting to so little noise...I miss noise and little bodies in my way and under my feet!

Today I made a cover for something I got for Christmas (specially picked out by my DIL, the cover was so easy and I made it in less than 30 minutes...so I still have to hem it...after I decide if I am going to add a pocket and/or embellish it with 'something'. This is the pattern I used

http://sewing.about.com/library/weekly/n011801b.htm I also still need to press it.





THIS is what my cover covers...I finally got one and I will be making bread tomorrow...for the first use of my much coveted Kitchenaid mixer in RED!!!!


...and now for what makes me a NUT...I found some purple fingernail polish that I actually LIKE....not too dark, not too light...just right!

Blinking

I have come to a realization...this blog is a lot like my life...or rather , how I treat this blog is a lot like my life...I know it's here and I like it, and I'll get to it when I get to it...but I want to do it and make it a better, closer friend. I simply get easily distracted AND I am usually not equipped to say things the way I want to say them, anywho...I had a wonderful Christmas, but mine's not over...more family on the way with more PRESENTS!!!!! Yay! I will be catching up with you all very soon...I have some Marine Comfort Quilt labels to finish...say a prayer for 'our guys' too.

Meaning of Christmas

Technology...pffft!

It amazes me how I can disappear for a month...

My computer effed up and then all my kids came, left, and came back...

computer got fixed and the kids are due again...

so after this weekend I won't be on here again but

you will find me hovered over my sewing machine and

hopefully NOT being trampled in the shopping store frenzy.

And now for some of the prettiest babies in the world..

and some of the people they belong to...TA DA!

I think Olivia and Haley are discussing the dysfunctional family!

MY mom and Haley and Olivia...can u believe she's a great-grandmother??

These are the MEN in the family...my hubs, my 4 boys, my brotha, and my daddy.

The Giving Season

A small donation of just $5 buys 2 pair of shoes...WOW!

I think I can do that weekly and not lose a thing.

http://www.50000shoes.com/

The goal is 50,000 pairs of shoes

and I know times are hard right now...but it will make you feel better and

$5 really does make a difference!