Tolentreasures

First of all, I hope that someone can relate to this story and I am not the only one that something like this has happened to. Today was my 51st birthday and when I made the gynecologist appointment I thought that it was not a good idea to have to go to the doctor on a birthday. This was my one month check-up from the surgery. I did not expect an internal exam so I was surprised when the nurse told me to undress. Well I had ran home from work and changed and slid into a pair of shoes with no socks...sort of clog like things that I had not had on since last fall. When I took them off in that teeny tiny exam room I suddenly realized that my feet stink....now I have this sheet all neatly and demurely wrapped around my body, perched on the table waiting, thinking that I HAVE to do SOMETHING about my feet because when they hit those stirrups, they are going to render the doctor unconscious. So I leap off the table as fast as I can and wrap that sheet around and tuck it in to make a lo...

First let me start by saying that I have been blessed with two of the hardest working 70 something year olds for parents that anyone could ever have. It always still amazes me the energy that they have. Sadie the Cleaning Lady aka Cinderella (as Shawnee called her when she was little because she was always on her hands and knees scrubbing a floor of mine) aka Mom has always shown up just when I need her most and launched into one of her cleaning sprees and this time was no exception. They arrived on Thursday night and "helped" me watch the Princess since I am still not allowed to lift her. Shawnee and Brian had a death in the family so we had the Princess to spoil several times over the weekend. Friday morning bright and early we began to clean and Dad started through a task list that ran every tool from a hacksaw to a bandsaw to a scrub brush. Mom and I cleaned. I still cannot lift so I dusted and organized and she ran the steps washing all the bedding and vacuuming. ...

This is for my great neice in Georgia that I have not met yet. I have seen lots of pictures and she looks just like my sister. My Mom and Dad are going to meet her for the first time next month and this will be going along with them. Dad built this rocking horse for her and I have been working on it for the last few mornings before I go to work trying to get it finished. Please pretend that you don't see the mess in the background. I have been trying not to move it any more than I have to at this point. It is not terribly heavy but I am sure that it weighs more than the milk carton that is all that I am supposed to lift. I have high hopes of finishing it this morning. I have to finish this other side yet and the insides of the legs and rocker...which will require lifting it and moving it.....My Mom and Dad are coming here today and tomorrow to help me get this house cleaned and I need to have it finished so that they can take it home with them. I won't be seeing them again be...

Well now that I have been officially sent back to work, kicking and screaming all the way, I find first of all that I did not get near the projects done that I thought that I would during my extremely shortened recovery and second, my job exhausts me! It is the time of the year, I am sure, this is when we start to get really busy and that is good after the winter but there is so much to do that it is just push, push PUSH to get everything done and deadlines. I keep telling myself that we are just making t-shirts here people, this is not NASA but some days it seems like t-shirts are just as important! The Princess is "riding" the World's Smallest Two Wheeler. I found this at the yard sale last week. It is still too big for her, but she liked Mommy pushing her around on it. I think Grammie might milk the recovery a little longer, that looked like a backbreaker pushing that little thing. Spring flowers popping up everywhere. I love them! And the continuing saga of...

No fancy dishes..just a plastic container and Laurie at Buttons and Lace is the winner! Congratulations!!! Please email your address to me and I'll get your package in the mail to you... Thanks everyone for entering my giveaway. Hope to have another one soon!

Finally I had a day that actually felt productive! I started the morning slowly by finishing the second Philip Gulley book, Just Shy of Harmony, loved it also. I can't wait to get back to the library to get more of them. That will be on this week's list since as of Monday I can officially DRIVE! I have been driving around town, but will feel as though I have wings when I can actually leave town! I worked on some surprise projects that I can't post here and then finished this necklace that I had started awhile ago and had lost interest in it. (in the photography process, I realized that my pillows all need washed...on the list for today!) Finished quilting, grunged it up and framed this piece of quilt for the princess' toy room. And then when I finally sat down to rest last night I worked on this hat and scarf. I did some tidying in my sewing room and blocked and finished hats and scarves and packed them away. I will be starting my third plastic bin of hats an...

Finally I have a pic of the 10oth post giveaway. I will be drawing for this on Sunday so if you have not signed up yet, make sure that you zip on back to my 100th post and sign up for it! Finally also...I have this framed and ready to hang on my next trip to the attic.

Does anyone know? It was full of the knitting needles and crochet hooks in the next picture and I bought everything for $2 at a yard sale yesterday. This is the mystery though. It has a little spout under the handle. I managed to make it to a yard sale yesterday and got some great finds BUT had to have John go back to it and load everything since I am still not allowed to lift anything. Everything is still in the back of the pick-up and I did not want to ask him to get it out last night. He came home from work, fixed supper and then went out and cleaned out flower beds that he knew were bugging me, raked and cleaned out around perennials. What a guy! Not a great picture of the needles and hooks but it it was a good find for the price. Most will be going to the Dominican and a couple I am keeping. There is a pair of small circulars and I want to try socks on them. Finished this little girls purse up. I made one for the Princess for Easter and have one more to make yet. Yesterday, on ...

* About my unintended first full day back at work yesterday, * About the fact that Dear Hubby as wonderful as he has been through all this NOW has decided to work on fixing the problem with his ears that he has been having for several months. This involves a trip to the pharmacy for ear candles when I am left to mind the shop and organize the Little League orders (the most confusing, last minute orders of the entire year) while he lays on the couch in the office with a burning candle in his ear and then I have to put drops in his ear for him, all of which requires more twitching, jerking, wincing than let's just say for example, A hysterectomy?!?! * About how Dear Hubby, wonderful as he has been through all this, ( I have to keep telling you that because he has been good to me) broke a glass of ice water and ice on the kitchen floor in his haste to change and get to the gym in various stages of nakedness...AND THEN decided to clean it up with my nearly new Dyson sweeper as I scream...

I had just settled into my recliner for my afternoon recuperation time. (I actually went to work for the morning yesterday) when I heard this awful, nightmarish noise. Now for all of you bird lovers....good for you, I am not a big fan of birds, bats, large fluttery moths, or the worst...the dreaded HUMMINGBIRD! Most people think that is weird and I am sure that it has some deep rooted issue in my childhood, but whatever it is, I strongly dislike the above mentioned members of nature! Please don't think less of me...I have had my moments that I have been sympathetic to these creatures and allowed them to coexist in my environment. Last year I had a mourning dove nest on my porch in a ladder that I have there and I "allowed" her to stay, however any fluttery creature who dares to invade my inside space is sure to meet an untimely demise. Sorry, they crossed the line, if they are outside where they belong, I will be a pacifist and let them live. So now that we have...

Sheer JOY! To be this young and to have something as simple as a lollipop bring this much joy! I think it was the highlight of his day! Sunday morning I woke up with the idea that I SHOULD have made each of the girls a necklace for Easter. Although shopping is not yet on my recovery list, I realized that I COULD have made them something and that is when I also realized that it is not too late. Off to the craft room at 5 in the morning and before I went to church I had three of them made, after church one more and wrapped them in dishcloths for each of the girls. It was fun to bead again and I think that I will make another to add to the Recovery Giveaway that I am having....make sure that you go and sign up for it. I will be drawing the winner next Sunday.....official jolt into reality day that it is time to get back to the real world. So far...the Recovery Giveaway contains a dishcloth, of course, and a penny rug and a couple of painted pieces and hopefully will contain a lovely pie...

Finished up these penny rugs today, I have had them cut out for quite awhile and had them in various stages of completion. One of these will be in the giveaway listed below. Don't forget to enter! Just post! Also finished this hat for the donation bin...and a couple of dishcloths. I was able to visit with my little boys for a short while today and that was so nice....they were even gentle! and didn't ask for piggyback rides or to play Dancing with the Stars. Maybe they were warned!

Well I had hoped to have pics...but you'll have to be patient on that. Today was a little hectic with my abrupt jolt out of complete recovery and recuperation back into the real world. This is my 100th post giveaway. There will be a penny rug, a painted item, and many other surprises. I guarantee satifaction!!!! Just can't guarantee a picture right at the moment. We are going to sort of title it the "Recuperation Giveaway" I will be sharing the items that I have been making throughout this recuperation time that is coming rapidly to a close. So anyway, here are the rules.....just comment on this post...that's it, that is all that you have to do. How easy was that? Pic tomorrow...I'll try really!

I can't believe that I am at my 99th post already. Watch for tomorrow's post and I'll start a giveaway of some type. I have an idea....we'll have to wait and see how that works. I would like to thank everyone for their comments of support, thoughts and prayers for my recovery. It is so nice to hear from each of you and I really appreciate you keeping me and my family in your thoughts and prayers. I am feeling better every day but it is much slower than I expected that it would be. This really has me feeling every bit of my age....and then some. It has been over 24 hours since I took any pain medication though and for that I am thankful. Tomorrow I go back to the doctor to get the staples out. The car ride could be a mixed blessing though. These are some to the items that I have been working on. They all need blocked, but the iron and ironing board are upstairs so that will have to wait. Shawnee and the princess visited this AM for a little while and she p...

can you actually spend in a recliner? Most of yesterday afternoon and today have been spent in this recliner...can you tell by the mess that I have accumulated around it...it is like a nest for me. Tomorrow I hope to spend some time here... and here.