Tolentreasures

Finished up these tags this morning. They are just tags from Staples and I am not sure what I am going to do with them yet. More of the candy canes finished up also. If you have never made these, they are so easy. I find the candy canes at yard sales. These are wrapped in my old living room curtains first and then scraps of fabric. A little bit of greenery and some stars or jingle bells, sprinkle with Diamond Dust and they are finished, A few smaller ones. I had Kendall all day and the boys in the morning. They played with the Play- Doh for quite awhile. They really enjoy that. After the boys left, I took Kendall to see her Mom at school and take part in their Halloween party. The kids all loved having her there and it was nice for me to see Shelby's room. I had not been there yet this year and she has a new classroom since last year. I painted this tree this evening. It is for Hallelujah Night at our church. The game is to knock Zaccheus out of the little openi...

They just seem to go hand in hand for me. I wake up with all these ideas and I have to get up and act on them. I feel pretty sure that I will be feeling the results of this about suppertime. I painted these quite awhile ago and never got them finished. Finally fired up the glue gun this morning in an effort to stay in the basement and not wake John. Some stuff that has been laying around and did not escape the glue gun this morning. And these pumpkins that I picked up last week at Michaels for .99 each. I have three more that need finished. I found all these crows in my stash, never know what you even have until you dig. And now for my gross story of the day. John and my MIL have these friends from where they used to live...used to live in something like 40 years ago. There are not many of them left, thank goodness, but the ones that still come to visit can be real characters. Sometimes their visits are quick and painless, other times they just leave me shaking my head. Y...

Sunday evening was spent "helping" Gracelyn carve her pumpkins. Her favorite words of the evening were" ooey -gooey" and "happy day" SHE did not mind sticking her hands in the pumpkins. Bath and five more readings of Put Me In The Zoo, after arguing for The Cat in The Hat and losing that argument, she was off to bed. Yesterday morning, I took the morning off from work to take Tyler and Logan to get their pumpkins. Loading them both in the car, when they INSIST on fastening themselves in takes forever! Where do they get the independent streak so early? Six pumpkins, two mini pumpkins, a bag of apples, two candy necklaces, chocolate candy, a gallon of milk, two stops, Logan telling everyone he is going to be Mario (no one else really understands him) and an argument with Tyler over how I was not going to buy him lottery tickets as he tries to grab just one little dollar for a ticket, we got home, brought all six pumpkins in to the basement and Tyler...

Just some more items, finished for our open house. I am in the usual, "how much can I get done at the last minute" stage that I always got to before a big craft show. The paint is flying and my mind is working overtime. There is a whole box of these 2 x 4's cut in the basement. They are leaving rapidly! And all these pieces of scrap 1/4 inch plywood. These still need jute glued on them. And another snowman door. I am still doing some knitting. I have a few scarves started and finished a hat for Kendall and am starting another one because I don't think that the first one is going to fit her. Movie Critic Corner: John and I watched the movie Gran Torino last night. It is a Clint Eastwood film and I am not a huge fan of his movies. I wanted to watch Mamma Mia for the 5th or 6th time (he has not seen it yet and refuses to...I think if he could be guaranteed no one would ever find out he would...but then I would post it here and...well I digress) If you can ...

Finished these items this week, still cramming for the open house. The middle of this is chalkboard paint. I'd like to get a few more of these made. And more snowmen... Thursday evening I had to do a "favor" painting that I have been putting off. A man had brought some slate to me late in the summer and wanted a stone in front of his house painted with his name on it. I have been procrastinating that job for over a month. I finally ran out the other night after work and got it finished. It really didn't take that long...why do I do that? These are pics from on the way home from there. I forgot, of course to take a pic of the stone once it was painted. Wish that I could have got a clearer pic of these birdhouses. They are all along this road. And these little friends stopped to pose once I almost hit them. This bush is in my MIL's yard. Every year it just glows with color. And these mums started from this little start of a plant that I had years ago. ...

Where does the time go? Life seemed to kick into high gear this last week, coming home from New Orleans, still not having my computer up and running at work, all those green peppers, and oh my gosh...our open house is just weeks away. Saturday I buckled down and got lots of painting finished. The fifth checkerboard. Sure hope someone likes these...or five someones. Some more snowmen items. Still need to put the finishing touches on these, some greenery, homespun, and tags...and oh yeah, where is that little bulb thingie for the percolator? Really primitive old sled. And some star items. Tyler's new favorite toy at our house is my camera. He gets lots of interesting shots. I managed to grab it long enough to get these shots. Logan just loves Kendall. He wants to hold her and have her sit by him. Sometimes Kendall doesn't seem to want to be loved by Logan though. That is what this expression tells me. This is Gracelyn after the insomniac night..doesn't she loo...

There is a twice weekly auction here that sells produce from the Amish. Fun to attend, but really cold yesterday morning. Jenn has been making this wonderful dipping mustard that we all can't seem to get enough of so yesterday AM, we positioned my MIL at the shop, (John had left for camp for the weekend) and we headed out to hopefully find more hot peppers for her to make some more. The thoughts are that she can sell it at the open house we are having...if we don't eat it all first. Ever heard of auction fever? I have experienced it a few times, but have stopped John in the middle of it many times. Jenn is confused with what the auctioneer is saying and I say, "It is no problem, you just have to pay attention...watch how this works." Seventy one dollars, eight boxes of green peppers (and that was after I begged off taking SEVENTEEN boxes) and a full car later, we laughed about that statement. We did also buy three boxes of tomatoes, five pecks of the hot p...