What a Week!

Around the House

Patio blocks at one end of the house on the backside. They were never put in right and as you can see they have settled and water would run to the house instead of away from the house.

Bob pulled them all up.

I power washed them.

Then Bob dug out the dirt and put it around the concrete porch and we planted new grass seed. We still need to finish this project.

I also powder washed the house. It did take a lot of the black scum off, but it didn't come as clean as I wanted it to.

During

After

A Few Things For Myself
I made a few things for myself this week.
Earrings, necklace, bracelet and ring.
Ring and bracelet.

I hope to get the patterns up on Etsy next week.

Goodies in the Mail

I was RAK by Pam E. Thanks so much Pam, I love the scissors and the material.

Then I won this kit from Donna's Blog. Thanks Donna W.

ETSY

Want is Etsy...it is a place where you can buy and sell, handmade arts and crafts, vintage and supplies. Everything I show in my blog about Etsy is in my shop and yes, you can purchase it from there. Click links in this post or look to the right.

This week new additions...
Green & Gold Ornament Kit

Topaz & Lime Green Ornament Kit

Diamond Beaded Ornamnet Pattern

Diamond Beaded Ornament Kit

Catch the Waves Bracelet or Anklet

Other...

My little turtle Moore died. I am not sure what happened to him. I was very sad.

On facebook I found an old high school friend. Found out she lives across from us through the alley. She also told me about a job lead, (always looking for a part-time job for the winter) and she cross stitches. She was looking for snowman cross stitch patterns so she came over and went through a few of my stash piles. I think it may have been a little overwhelming. LOL!

I applied for the job and Got It!!! I start next Tuesday.

Bob and I did 22 quart bags of corn and I think we will be doing more tomorrow. I am swapping with my Mom corn for green beans.

Signed up Dylan for his Junior year in High School. It is so hard to believe that my baby boy only has two more years of school.

Hope you all had a good week and enjoyed your weekend.

Weekend and Kayden

I finished the glider/rocker! I think it looks a lot better. I also painted my tin for the ILCS tin class. As you can see the paint isn't that good. I have bubbles and a mix color.

Saturday Shari had a stitch in. This is what I made for lunch. Thanks so much Shari. I had a great time. It was great to see Katie, Annette and of course you. Thanks for the Jelly.

Kayden and Bob. Kayden at 3 months this video was a few weeks ago. He loves to kick now.

The second video is Kayden at 4 months. This is his new trick.

Stitching and Sewing

Friday I stitched up this tin topper for the class at ILCS group. I will be adding material to this tin. Have to go through my material, I hope I have something that matches.

Sunday I thought I would make my own cushion covers for the glider-rocker. This glider was my Grandma Cummins. I have had it for years and the cushions were falling apart. This was the first try as you can see I made the back cushion too small so I had to start over. I was going to toss out the first cushion, but then I thought (this is all new material, I shouldn't be tossing it out) and I came up with another use for the too small cushion. We are using it when we need to change Kayden on the floor. That way he has a little cushion to lay on.

The below picture is the second try, which looks alot better, if I do say so myself. It is on the front porch and I plan to paint the glider white. I have the primer, paint and gloss finish. I also plan on making different covers to change with the seasons.

Craft-Computer-Office Room

I finally did it!!! Organizing my stuff. :) The first two cabinets I bought, books, patterns, kits, beads, finishing items, buttons, charms, pillows, cross stitch material. Needed one more cabinet. Two just wasn't enough! LOL!

Mill Hill beads. Bought this container at Jo Anne's for $15.00. Found the same thing at Wal-Mart for $9.00. Could have kicked myself for getting them at Jo Anne's!

Rainbow Gallery and Kreinik threads.

My DMC collection. I now have my rayons with my cottons, which will make it easier to pull rayon when I want to change things up. :)

Cabinet #3! Sewing material and other sewing items, frames, threads and beads.

Another trip to get one more container. This is all of my magazines. I don't have a lot, but now they will be easy to find.

Now for a look around my Craft-Computer-Office Room... Three cabinets and containers have finished seasonal cross stitch pieces in them and one for Dara's scrapbook items.

Computer-Office area, with a few cross stitch items that need to be fixed.

Sewing area has two places for the cats to hang out. Container has cross stitched seasonal pieces in them. I still need to work in this area so I can sew and repair a few things.

When I get a new dinning table, I plan to bring in the old table for the craft room.

The Move

Where do I start...

Friday March 28th we got the key to the new house.

Started cleaning, walls, floors and moved in a few things. My friend (Kim) from work was kind enough to come over and help. She was a lot of help, she came over Fri, Sat and Sun. THANKS SO MUCH KIM!!!

Friday night Dylan and his friend Dakota wanted to sleep at the new place so we let them. Bob, Dara and I stayed at the old place. The boys thought it was so neat, they had fun, of course we had to bring the tv over for them with his game systems.

Saturday we started moving everything. Bob's friend Tod came over with his truck and they moved a lot of heavy stuff. I was busy still cleaning and we were stacking all the boxes in the craft-computer room. Dara and Dylan had to clean their own rooms and get them organized. Dara did great, Brandon helped her some. Dylan's room was liveable and I let it go until the following weekend. He was gone Sunday April 6th and I redid his room. I thought he might be a little mad, but when he got home he said "Thanks Mom" and gave me a hug. Finally I did something right?!? LOL! There are still two pictures I need to hang up for him and we need to find a place for his collection of knifes and swords.

Bob moved the computer and the beds before I was ready. I thought we were moving them on Sunday and he moved them on Saturday. Sorry ILCS group that I wasn't around on Saturday and couldn't check in on Sunday like I had planned.

Sunday Tod and his girlfriend came down and moved more things over with their truck. They got all the big stuff except for the washer and dryer. Bob moved them Monday after work with Brandon's help.

Sunday night looking for everything before I go to bed to make sure I know where things are before I have to go to work Monday morning. Couldn't find my night bras or my working bras. It took a while but found them before I went to sleep.

Other compilations that happen with the move...

Water-trying to get the water off at the old house and in our name at the new house. They won't let me shut off the water in the old house, because it was in Bob's name, even thou all the checks that paid the bill was in my name. Grrr!!! Finally after the 2nd or 3rd trip I made to the water company, they let Bob call in to make the changes.

Comcast won't come out until April 14 to hook us up at the new place. Bob kept calling them and finally they said they could come out on April 11th. Living with out the pc I did have withdraws. I missed all my friends in my groups. I even had a dream about Shari and Karin. The only tv station we could get in was NBC, if I had to watch one more "Deal or No Deal" I think would be in the nut house. LOL!

Bob got the washer moved Monday and it and the dryer won't work at first. It is getting late at night and we had to get clean laundry for the week. I am having a fit and he said give me a few minutes and he had everything going. :) Thought I was going to have to go to a laundry mat. :( YUCK!

The first week after the move I was trying to get 5 to 6 boxes empty every night after work. The second week I slowed down a little bit and put a few stitches in Sarah Small Finished Exchange and started Mylene's. Sarah's is almost done, but ran out of 907 and picked that up yesterday. Mylene's is just over halfway done.

Comcast was to be at the house Friday anytime between 10 am and 1 pm. So, I went to work for 2 1/2 hours. Told work that I had an appointment and left it at that, they didn't ask any questions, this is the first day that I had missed any time, since I start the first week of Dec. 2007. Stopped by JoAnn's to get the 907 dmc I need to finish Sarah's SFE. There were only two customers in the shop, counting me. I ran in grapped the dmc and up to the counter and no one is around, hit the bell 3 times, still no one. Found someone working and told them I was in a hurry and I have dmc 907 and handed them 50 cents and I walked out. Had to get my car to the shop, the breaks they fixed a few weeks ago were making noise, and get home before comcast showed up. What a suprise Comcast was waiting on me when I got home, they were early!!! But it took them forever to get everything done and the guy made a mess in Dara's room and didn't clean it up. GRRRR!

I still have a lot of boxes to empty, but when my Mom called the other day for a conversion from Anchor to DMC I knew where that was. LOL! The craft-computer room is now organized boxes and in my bedroom (even through I have a large closet there wasn't a clothes rod or any shelves in it) and a small area in the upstair hall way. I took pictures of the house Satruday when we made our first trip over here and they are in my photo alubm. I forgot to take pictures of the back yard and we also have a small garage. The house is 103 years old and most of the wood hasn't been painted. We really like it and most everyone that has stopped by to see the place really likes it too.

Last Saturday it was nice weather here, so I did some yard work, cleaned the back area and have all the leaves bagged, but spring clean pick up isn't for two more weeks, so the bags are by the garage until then. It took just a little over 3 hours to get the back yard cleaned up. Brandon helped a little and Dara very little. LOL! Sorry I haven't taken any pictures of the backyard yet. But I do have a few spring flowers coming up.

Last night couldn't find my camera. I looked everywhere that I could think of and asked everyone in the house if they had seen it. Finially this morning when I was walking by the cabinet in the living room, for some reason it was saying "look in here". I opened it up and there was my camera. LOL! :)

Dara is doing really good, next Sunday is the Baby Shower. I have almost everything ready.

OOPs! I almost forgot the best story of them all. Sunday morning I was the first one up and was on my second cup of coffee when Dara came down stairs and said she thought she heard a mouse in her room. She told her Dad, but we was sleeping and told her to deal with it. I went up to her room to check it out. I couldn't find anything or that anything had been in there. Then later that day around 10 or 11 Dara started yelling. I was in the upstairs bathroom and ran in her room to see what was going on and she was screaming BAT-BAT! I looked out in the hall and it looked like a bird to me. So, I told her it was a small bird. Dylan comes out of his room and says, Mom it is a bat. I was going to close her bedroom door when it flew in her room and Dara is still screaming. We get down on the floor as it flys around I crawl out of her room and I was trying to get her to come out of her room with me, I was just getting ready to close her door with the bat in her room when it flys out. Just then Bob comes up the stairs and grabs the broom in the hallway and hits the bat. It goes down and he asked me to get a glove out of Dylan's room so he could pick it up. So I find a glove and toss it at him. Bob goes to pick up the bat and it flys down stairs. I go back to Dara to make sure she is going to be okay. Bob has to hit the bat again and he gets it out of the house. A few nights later we was a bat flying around in the bat yard. Could it be the same one???