Tolentreasures

The announcement in church this morning was truly a rural moment. I am going to change the names but you will get the idea. The pastor announced, "Wendell and Norma White would like to announce that they have lost two white faced Herefords that escaped the pasture yesterday, if anyone sees them please phone .........." That announcement actually topped the one from a month ago of "The men's banquet will be held at the local Sportsmen's Club on Wednesday night, all the men are encouraged to bring their shotguns" You just can't beat Rural America! And just a few more pics of Kendall. Don't you just love that hair? Her Aunt Shawnee had the comb out and was styling away today. Such chubby little cheeks for as tiny as she is. The Princess was in the hospital to see her new cousin today and was totally fascinated with the "Baby" They are so cute together, such opposite in hair color.

Our little bundle of joy made her arrival exactly one month early today. Shelby's water broke last night and she went to the hospital. They induced her this morning and finally at around 3:00 this afternoon they decided to do a c-section. Her name is Kendall Jae and she weighs 6 pounds 1 ounce and is 19 1/2 inches long. You can't see it from this pic, but she has tons of dark hair. I got to hold her for a little bit before I left the hospital at 6 tonight, then was off to a graduation party and now am off to bed. We are so thankful that she is here and both mom and baby are healthy. More pics to come!!!!

I managed to finish this the other night and it left here via the post office this afternoon. Wonder where it is going? Worked on this a little bit more... And started yet another one.

As usual, I have way too many projects started. It is the Crafter ADD kicking in for me. I see these things and I just have to start them so that I won't forget what I wanted to do with them. Thank goodness we have Knitting Night tonight. One of these projects..or two is going with me and hopefully will come back home finished. I love these colors but what a pain this project is becoming. This is an experiment in knitting with cotton fabric, a little tricky but it is working. This works up fast and I am hoping that I can finish this tonight. Amazing what a new blade in the rotary cutter will do. What was I waiting for? I bought this roll of fabric at the flea market at the beginning of May and made a little pact with myself that I would not buy anything at June's flea market unless I had finished and put to use everything that I had bought at the previous month's. (This pact does not apply to yard sale and Goodwill purchases in case the you are reading this my dear

The shower is over and back to "normal" life again. Dear Hubby says that life for him has not been "normal" since I married him and that he has accepted that it will not be, but I think that it is going to be more calm now. Of course we do have Bible School to get ready for now...... These are the items that I made for Shelby for the nursery. They were such pretty colors to work with, I still have a few more things that I would like to get done for her, one is a painting with the baby's name but since she won't tell us that yet, it will have to wait until after the little girl arrives. This is all the verses to Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star, who even knew that there were more verses...I did not. I printed them out on vellum and decoupaged them to the canvas. I found this old frame at a flea market and the brown velvet trim worked out perfect for her room. Shelby and I had switched vehicles a few weeks ago and when I got mine back, the tailgate was ful

The best of both worlds would describe what we have... Thursday afternoon my daughter, the Princess and I went to Pittsburgh to the Strip District to get supplies for the shower tomorrow. I love to go in Schorin's for all the tablewares. They have such a great selection of plates and cups and tablecloths and placemats in about any color and it is so well arranged and the people there are so friendly! I love the hustle and bustle and energy of The Strip District, sometimes it ALMOST makes me think that I could live in the city, however..... This morning a friend of mine introduced me to the Produce Auction that the Amish have in Smicksburg, Pa and I realize that the country is the place for me. There is something about standing in that open air auction building bidding on flowers and produce realizing that this is part of your "culture" in the country that I could just not give up that makes me realize that although I was born and raised in the city, I think that

These are some of my first attempts at "altered art" or I think that is what you would call them. Am I right? They will be the centerpeices /prizes for my daughter's baby shower on Saturday along with a plant on each table. They are to coordinate with the favors that I had such amazing help with. http://tolentreasures.blogspot.com/2009_04_26_archive.html Hopefully I can get the other seven done before then...and what a mess this all makes, my painting table has NEVER looked so bad, thankfully no one goes to that part of the house except for John and I . As I was sitting in the gynecologist's office at 1:30 yesterday I thought...what is my age? I had Gracelyn in the morning to get ready and out the door and although it did not seem that long ago that my kids were little, I really have to think to get her and I ready and everything packed and out the door by 8 in the morning. At that point I feel OLD! I took her to watch the boys while my daughter and step-daugh

This is the bedding for my daughter's baby nursery. I have been working on items to match it for the last few days every chance that I get. When the last baby was born, it seems as though I had so much more time to prepare and make things for the nursery, could it be the addition of another baby has taken so much more time? I don't like to keep going back to the surgery, but it really has taken a chunk of time out of spring. I am really enjoying making things for her though and even if I don't have them all done by the shower this Saturday, I still have a little over a month before the baby arrives to finish some of the other items that I have in mind. Meanwhile, the Princess is upstairs sleeping away. I have never kept her all night that it did not turn into a non-sleeping event for both of us. Usually she fights me to go to sleep and fights me to stay asleep. Last night I laid her in the pack and play at 8:40 and by nine she was fast asleep and has slept all night

My daughter had her sister and I to her house this morning for a Mother's Day craft project. She had everything laid out and ready for us to start working. Of course, Gracelyn had to help with the dirt! And help her Mommy. Shelby, with Gracelyn and Sadie, Shelby's baby is due at the end of June, another little girl to even up our grandchildren to 2 boys and 2 girls. And these are what we made. They fill in....if I take care of them right and make a sphere of flowers. Some pics of flowers around my yard. Love the smell of these, I had to pick a few and put on my painting table. My favorite, wave petunias! Love the colors in these dahlias. And now I am off to "Paint til I faint" Have to finish up all the stuff for the new baby's nursery....will post pics AFTER the shower next week.

How did my life get this crazy? An entire week and no blogging!? I think that the whole recovery thing caught up with me at work and home and since I could no longer use that as an excuse...well let's just say I had a real reality check! I got seriously chewed out by a customer and while he was not entirely right in his accusations, I realized that I was slacking a little, but hey I did have surgery, that excuse was not really working for him though, so I realized it was time to crack down and clear things out and work some longer days. Enough of that moment though. I have no creative items to show for two reasons. The only things that I am working on are for my daughter's shower gifts for this Saturday and she reads this and I want everything to be a surprise and two...the camera is at work for taking pics of items that I needed artwork for....back to the cracking down at work thing...but it is Saturday and I am leaving it all there for the weekend anyway. Fun events of t

Gayle had posted and asked for a before pic of the books. These are just paper mache books that I find at Pat Catans. I have not seen them at any other craft store though. They are inexpensive paper mache books. The ones on the left are a little larger than the favors and the ones on the right are the same size as the favors but they are a little smoother and the inside paper is lined. I know that Pat Catans is a more regional shop but I would think that any shop that carries a big line of paper mache would have them. They are all in the .50 to 1.50 price range. I keep one in my purse all the time for little notes and I use one at Christmas for my Christmas shopping lists. Another HUGE thanks to Kathy and Patti for bringing me more yarn for the Haitian ladies. I did not get a chance to go through it at all this week, it has been so hectic, so this morning I finally took it all upstairs and looked through it and will now go back and pack it into the yarn closet. Everyone has

Just a few close-ups of the little book favors for the baby shower. A couple of bigger journal books for prizes. Shower invitations I love to make floral arrangements and did these with some grocery store bouquets and some wildflowers and greenery and flowers from the yard.