Tolentreasures

PRICELESS! As they would say in the Mastercard commercial. That is what we had. It was so much fun to get together with these amazing friends that I have been blessed with via the internet. Who would have thought that such a bond could have been created on a computer. I'd like you to meet them. From left to right, Kathy, from Manitoba, Becky from Maine, Linda from Quebec (Punxsutawney Phil, honorary member for the photo op) Lesley from Ontario, Patti from Wisconsin, and me! We were missing Marie, hopefully at our next gathering she will be present also. We shopped and talked and crafted and of course, we ATE! My dear husband acted as the Chief Cook and Bottlewasher for the weekend and I am truly grateful to him for that, it allowed me to relax and enjoy my all too short time with these terrific ladies! Wish that it could have been longer, but if it had we would have had to build some sleep into the weekend, I don't think that I am caught up yet. I have lots of catchi...

As some of you know that visit her regularly..or occasionally, we are having our second Friendly Palette Reunion this weekend at my house. The first one was held in Ottawa in 2007. We are a group of friends that all met on the internet through an internet painting group. I joined in 2004, but most of them had been together long before that on another group. There are seven of us in the group and one is not here. We miss her, but we are persevering. All but one arrived on Thursday via the Pittsburgh airport and we did a few stops in Pittsburgh and then back here. Yesterday was spent in Smicksburgh and a few other stops and last night, they introduced me to altered art. Thanks everyone! As if I "needed" another addiction in my life. We all sat around the table and made these little books for the favors for my daughter's baby shower and what fun it was? They are all different and all so creative! I could not be happier with them....the books and my amazing fri...

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!