Tolentreasures

The question that I kept hearing the last few days, "Do you have any plans for the holiday?"  Well after just coming off of a "holiday" and John having his own smelly, loud NHRA holiday, I really don't have any plans, or not any BIG plans maybe.   Oh,  I have a list, as I always, do laundry, more of those little purses, a little, tiny bit of cleaning, catch up with all the blogs, the normal things, but my big plans for today?  Today is grandchildren day.  At 10:00, I have a date with the two cutest little boys in the world (sorry if I sound biased) to go bowling.  We are then going to Subway for lunch (Tyler's favorite), then we are headed to Aunt Shelby's house to swim with Kendall and Gracelyn.  After that I am bringing Gracelyn to my house for a sleepover and the boys are going home.  Plans?  Sounds like a great plan to me! 

Part of last night was spent cutting and this morning was cutting and pressing.  These are to be the favors for Dianna's baby shower.  Luckily, my Mom has agreed to help out and has about 30 cut and some sewn.  I have not counted what I have cut so far, just got tired of cutting and am now going to start sewing for awhile.  We think that we are going to need around 60 of them. This is the first one.  Actually somewhere along the last couple of weeks, I lost my change purse so the first one was mine. Thirty more to go. I found this table runner in Port Washington and knew immediately that it would make a birthday gift for a friend of mine.  Yesterday morning, I whipped it into this pillow for her.  The stitching on it was so pretty.  it always make me wonder about the person that made it. Well, I am off to sew.  One more day of work today and then the long holiday weekend!  I hope that everyone has a safe, fun holiday weekend and...

OK, really, I am not going to show them all to you so don't zone out now.  I took ninety-two pictures!  There were so many interesting things and I wanted to document it all! I loved the lights on the water, wouldn't this make a great background for something? And while I don't understand architecture, I love to look at old buildings and these two were among my favorites. There were art displays along the river walk and they were made from recycled junk!  Of course that got my attention.   You may see more of those tomorrow.  This one was bowling balls and bowling pins and some other junk.  Of course, I had to find The Fonz! Another interesting tower on a building. This is one of the bridge necklaces.  They were also made from recycled junk. I got a big chuckle out of the wide selection of Cheesehead Attire! These are from our visit to Port Washington and Cedarburg.  What a lovely place!  I would love to go back.  So pretty! This i...

I have had the BEST time, pics to follow.  I have spent wonderful days with my friends, Patti and Mike and they have been the greatest tour guides that anyone could ask for.  Mike is so knowledgeable about the area (other than the bridge necklaces) and I love Milwaukee.  The people are so friendly.  I have wandered the streets alone in the evenings, exploring and looking around, taking pictures like a tourist and everyone speaks that you pass on the street.  I just got back from the FEDEX store, where I shipped all of my dirty clothes home to make room for all the items that I bought here in my suitcase.  So much cheaper than shipping an extra bag home on the airlines, and I really think more reliable.  We leave for the airport tomorrow morning at six and as I walked around the city one more time this evening, I realized that I am sad to be leaving.  There is so much more here to explore.  Photos to follow when I get home!

I have had this fabric since the trip to Ohio with my Mom and friends.  I thought it was time to make it..finally.  I have been procrastinating this for so long because it has been years since I actually followed a pattern for anything. I can't wait to make another one!  Funny event of the day:  First of all it was not when Logan used a whole roll of toilet paper to stop up the bathroom sink, causing me to have to tear all the plumbing apart and scoop and plunge and sift and well...yuck, that was not the funny one.  Actually this one should not be THAT funny, it could have been really bad and could still have ramifications to come.  Logan comes into the shop today, he and Tyler were playing in the backyard and he announces, "I ate some of that fruit!"  Jenn and I race outside to see what fruit he might have found.  The neighbor had laid some rotting fruit on a cement block beside her burn barrel and it was covered with flies and he ATE it....

Hard to believe a whole week has gone by and I have not been to Blogland.  I have been working on several projects.  This tray has been sitting here waiting to be painted for a customer and since Shawnee and I are leaving Saturday for Milwaukee, I figured I better finish it for a little extra spending money. Same with this cake cover.  It was to match the customer's china.  I hope that she likes it. And since I still can't get this new picture loader figured out, these are a little out of order.  These are photos of a sign that also was an order that I finished up this week. And this is the sign.  It is in the basement and I am running there every half hour to get coats of varnish on it. This was a gift for a wedding that I hurriedly painted on Saturday while the little boys watched taped tractor pulls.  They have to be the only little boys around that know that Pulltown USA is in Bowling Green, Ohio.  I see a road trip in the future. And wh...

Just some pics of the decorations for VBS this week.  All of the windows had these vines and animals in them.  This is the entryway to the church and the rainforest diorama that my son-in-law helped me put together.  It is on loan to our church and will be moving on to another VBS later this summer.  The waterfall really works. The set for the play, a camp outpost in the rainforest.  I think I used every green and brown I had on that.  I had to hit Michaels last Saturday and buy those colors to restock.