Another Week

New Patterns...

All patterns can be found at ZaneyMay's.

Harvest and Sun Flower Earrings, made with seed beads and round beads, using circular peyote stitch.
Beaded Swags Ornament, made with seed beads and bugle beads.
Every year I make ornaments for family and give them on Thanksgiving. I started making these ornaments back in July and just finished them this week.
Friday night went out with the girls from work. Jackie is moving out of state so we had a little going away party for her.

Saturday we were invited out to Carl's place. He just bought more land and it has a pond and places to park campers. It was kind of hard to find, but after stopping an Amish family that was passing in their horse and wagon they knew where it was. LOL! It was so pretty out there I took a few pictures and I also have a video below of the view.

There is a small pond some where fishing to see what fish Carl has in his pond. His plans are to make the pond bigger and he already ordered over 500 fish for the pond.

While Bob and I was out there they caught a few cat fish and bass.

Jon and Nikki brought out their cooker and cooked some deer meat. Sorry I can't tell you if it was good or not, we left before it was done.




Well that was my week, hope you had a good one, until next time.

It's been a few weeks...

New Patterns...All patterns can be found at ZaneyMay's

Ladder Stitch Bracelets, seed beads and bugle beads and of course using ladder stitching.

Diamond Necklace, bugle beads and seed beads, using right angle weave.

Tiny Diamond Ornament Cover, seed beads and bugle beads, right angle weave and netting.

Lace Ornament, bugle beads and seed beads, ladder stitching.

By The Sea Earrings, seed beads and gem stone chips, netting.

By The Sea Bracelet, seed beads and gem stone chips, netting.

By The Sea Anklet, seed beads and gem stone chips, netting.

Ladder Stitch Rings, seed beads and bugle beads and of course ladder stitching.

By The Sea Necklace, seed beads and gem stone chips, netting.

A few more beads...

Camping over Labor Day Weekend. I made my famous Campfire Bundles, recipe here. The place where we were camping had a DJ one night and we went dancing, came back to the campsite very hungry, so I made up some Pineapple Shrimp Packets.
Canned pineapple slices, 1 1/2 pounds medium shrimp, peeled & divined, 1/3 C chopped sweet red pepper, 1/3 C brown sugar, 1 TBS seafood seasoning, 3 TBS butter, softened. Place on double heavy-duty foil a pineapple. Top with shrimp and red pepper. Combine brown sugar, seafood seasoning & butter, dot over shrimp. Fold foil & seal tightly. Grill over medium heat for 10-15 minutes.


Last week I made Blueberry Streusel Cobbler with Blueberry Sauce and served warm with ice cream. This is a family favorite, it was gone in 24 hours after making it. I did get two pieces.

1 pint fresh or frozen blueberries (fresh is best), 1 (14 oz) can sweetened condensed milk (not evaporated milk), 3/4 C plus 2 TBS cold butter, 2 C biscuit baking mix, divided, 1/2 C brown sugar. Oven 325. In bowl combine blueberries, sweetened milk. In large bowl, cut 3/4 C butter into 1 1/2 C biscuit mix until crumbly; add blueberry mixture. Spread in greased 9" square baking pan. In small bowl, combine remaining 1/2 C biscuit mix and sugar; but in remaining 2 TBS butter until crumbly. Sprinkle over cobbler. Bake 1 hour and 10 min or until golden. Serve warm with vanilla ice cream and blueberry sauce. Refrigerate leftovers.

Blueberry Sauce for Blueberry Streusel Cobbler-1/2 C sugar, 1 TBS cornstarch, 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon, 1/4 tsp ground nutmeg, 1 pint fresh blueberries. Combine ingredients in saucepan. Gradually add 1/2 C water. Cook and stir until thickened. Stir in 1 pint blueberries; cook and stir until hot.




Went to a birthday bash a friend was having, it was a lot of fun, seen few people I haven't seen in a while.

Tami and Nikki

Wax Bomb!

And of course Bob and I took Kayden to the Blueberry Festival.

Stitching, I finished a card that I will send to Kayden for Halloween. I am also stitching on Hang Ten by Raise the Roof. I have one page stitched!!! Sorry no pictures of that.

Dancing at the birthday bash.

Wax bomb at the birthday bash. Sorry the video is sideways.

The Gentle Rains

Brought in a relief from the humidity. This week the AC if off and the windows are open. One night it was cold, I had to close a few of the windows and put sweats on.

Argos...

Finding out more and more about my little home town from the FaceBook group. Here is a you tube video that one of the members put together. Here is one from a band from Argos. Below is a map of Argos so I found out where Fremont was. Argos was originally called Sidney. You can read about it here, scroll down to History.

This is the same picture I posted last week of Argos in 1920.This is how it looked when my family moved to Argos in the early 70s.
And this is what it looks like today.
This gas station was where I use to fill up my moped. Gas was $1.00 a gallon and I remember everyone having a big fix about the price of gas. I just paid $3.86 yesterday!!!

Argos was build off the railroad. Tracks all around the town. We lived right by the tracks (in the country) for the first 9 years we lived there. Mashed lots of pennies on the tracks, walked the tracks and even brought out fresh lemonade to the railroad works when they were working on the tracks one summer. My week...

Started off with a new salad, it wasn't sure if I was going to like it but I love it and will be making it again and again. Here is the recipe...Vegetable Salad-2 C broccoli, 2 C cauliflower, 1 rib celery sliced, 1 med green or red (I used red) sweet pepper diced, 1/4 C chopped onion. Dressing-1/3 C vegetable old, 1/4 C vinegar, 1/4 C sugar, 1/4 tsp salt, 1 1/2 tsp poppy seed. Combine all vegetables. Combine remaining ingredients in jar with tight fitting lid, shake well and pour over vegetables and toss.

Water Wonders Pools & Spas

Started restoring this pool. We replaced the lines, put in a new return and a new skimmer.

Wed & Thursday

Kayden came over. Thursday we were playing in the sandbox and he said he was making cake and so I started making cake too. Kayden told me my cake was done. I said "Oh good! I'm going to eat it." Kayden said "NO! Nana, it's SAND!" Then he wanted to make a blue cake so we went to the store and bought a white cake mix and added blue food coloring. Kayden saw the birthday candies and wanted to buy them, so I said sure. My birthday is tomorrow so why not.

Friday I only had to work 6 hours. Bob gave me the rest of the day off. So I went and had my nails done, took a nap and cleaned the house. Bob also took me out for lunch and dinner.

Saturday we picked up Kayden. I wanted to take him on a train ride for my birthday, he loves trains. So we went to North Judson train museum. First we went through the gift shop, it also had lots of pictures of old trains and signs, then we went through all the different trains they had there. But we didn't know until we left that there was another building with more trains in it. We will have to check that out next time.

We rode in the caboose there are seats by the top windows.
Thought I would show everyone that is not from the Midwest, just want it looks like around here. Mylene always have beautiful flower fields on her island, well we have corn.
Saturday night Bob took me dancing! It was fun, the band was called 81/89 and that was the music they played. So I actually knew all the song the band played. LOL!

Saturday before we went to the train ride, I met Shari and picked up my frames from her. Her hubby makes the frames and she paints them. Sunday I did the framing.

They are all hanging up now, except for the three winter/Christmas ones, they are in the gift closet.

Sunday I made baby shower gifts. I have a shower to go to next week. I also made a small beaded ornament and will be getting diapers to go with the gifts.

Kayden singing Happy Birthday.

Kayden on the train ride.

Well, that was my week. Hope you had a good one, until next time.