Tolentreasures

Halloween Festivities at our house were last Saturday Night. With it brought these little goblins. Buzz Lightyear on the far left refused to leave his costume on. And Strawberry Shortcake was not fond of her beautiful pink wig. But, the fact that we got them all together for a photo was simply amazing. Then the kids, all the older ones that is, called JWS and I to the kitchen for an announcement. My first thought? Who is pregnant now? They told us to go to my car and it was the start of finding our Christmas gift. There was a gift bag with a rhyme that sent us to our church, where the next hint and a pic of the entire family sent us to the local watering hole. Church to Bar?  Have to know our kids. At the bar, the barmaid put a bag up on the bar. In it were two IC Lights. and another rhyming clue... that sent us to the fairgrounds where we found another bag with another rhyme and a bottle of Heinz Ketchup. The clue there sent us to our business where we found another rhyme and hand

Not the apple tree, Not this tree that has not lost it's leaves yet, Not the gerber daisies, And certainly not the burning bush. Not the snapdragons, or the marigolds, and certainly not these hearty mums still perky as ever. Not the petunias, or the beautiful fall leaves, or this little guy and the impatiens wondering what happened to fall.... And most assuredly... NOT ME!!!!

I am giving this snowman pan lid, and a few other surprise goodies, on my Tolentreasures Facebook Page.  All you have to do is click on over there. HERE Or on the picture, if I did it right, and "like" my Facebook page. I will be drawing it this week.

And when you are in a hurry!  Yesterday was like every other day this week. Hurry and get my REAL work done. Hopefully get out of work early. 1.Deliver signs and flyers to Smicksburg 2. Rake Leaves, 3.Supper, 4.  Paint and finish all the last minute projects for the Open House. 5. Drop into bed. At step one, this happened. Double Parked Amish. See that back fender? That's my car. See that horse. He or She (I didn't check) Has me parked in. Logan, my helper for the afternoon, who was also excited about getting on to Number 2 on the list, comes to inspect. "Yep, Gramma, we are stuck here." So, we talked about the horse, what big teeth it has and so on. Until the wagon that the horse was pulling was empty of fall mums. And we could get on with our day. Hey, not every day you get in an Amish traffic jam. Well, maybe not you. Around here it is a daily happening. I want to thank everyone who has been stopping by and commenting. I love all of your comments and love to

Ok Back up a month. I started Weight Watchers again. A couple of years ago I joined and was pretty successful at it. Then life, an operation and some other stuff happened and I didn't go back. And slowly (well not EXACTLY slowly) I gained it back. Well some/most of it. But I am not going to bore you with that whole month. Wednesday night, let's start with that. I have WW meeting and I buy some of the oatmeal and these little candies. Cappucino And they are good, Really good. I eat a couple on the way home from the meeting. You can have six for one point. That's a lot of sweet! Thursday AM I try the oatmeal. It is also good. I pick up Kendall for her weekly day with MaMa. I have a couple candies. Go to work. I have a couple more. Noon Thursday. Not to be indelicate, and so many of my posts involve poop... But let's just say that much of Thursday afternoon was spent in the bathroom. Lots of Thursday afternoon. Take Kendall home at 6:30 and the 20 mile drive back home is

Just like cramming for a test, I have been cramming to get things done for the Open House. I work at it all year... why do I do this every year? Sewing and painting and more painting, and more sewing. And this was my big oops this week. I painted this then got the idea to put a handle on it. Found an old leather belt and promptly attached it... completely CROOKED! I then had to sand it down and repaint the face. Dumb, Yes!

Photos from the weekend!  It was a great time, time with my Dad, so many old memories, made some new friends, and made some new memories. Part of our work crew. This was Sunday at noon, we were all getting a little tired! Photos of the Blue Streak. Saturday night we rode it. I even got my 79 year old father to ride it! New parts and old parts. So great to see it being restored. We did a lot of leaf raking.. most of it in the rain and cold! Love this sentiment! And I even managed to get some projects done for the open house. Not much to do in a hotel room when you wake up at five in the morning... So I crafted! Almost done with the 40 or so of these that I cut out! Some stockings and mittens. And these pinwheels.  I can't remember where I got this pattern. I would love to give the person credit. If anyone knows, let me know and I will post the link. They are pretty quick and easy to make. And finally finished the pumpkin pillow.  I know it has a price tag on it, b