For My Dear Aunt Sis

This beautiful Gardenia is for my Aunt Sis who passed away on Sunday. When ever I would talk to Aunt Sis she always asked about my Gardenia bushes. She was amazed at how large they were, being 10ft wide. She was the last of my Mother's sisters. My Mother and both her sisters passed away in their 80th year. My Mother was the eldest, she enjoyed many stitching type crafts such as hand quilting that she had learned at the side of her grandmother my Grammy Armstrong. Mother also enjoyed Knitting, Crocheting and playing cards. My Aunt Kit was the middle daughter, she enjoyed plastic canvas crafts, playing cards and Bingo. My Aunt Sis was the baby of the family, she was not a crafty person, she enjoyed gardening, playing cards and Bingo. When talking with my cousin she said her Mother has gone home to her maker, she is joining her Mother and Sister's, now the Pinochle Game can begin. Rest in Peace dear Grandmother, Mother and Aunt's, I love you and will miss you all. Watch over us and keep us safe.

I WON!!!

Meet Jingles, Chuckles, Snowball & Twitch from Lavender Wings

Can you believe it I actually won something at the Needlework show. The first evening of the show I spent just quickly looking at the wonderful designs and also making a mental note as to who I needed to fill out a door prize entry for. I figured I had lots of time as most of the vendors have a drawing at the end of the show. BUT there were a couple that were doing a daily drawing, so I filled out my entry and hoped for the best. The next morning I was checking my email and there was a notice from a shop called Lavender Wings, I WON a door prize. Well you can imagine my surprise, I had just posted that I never win anything and here I am a winner on the first day. I had chosen a cute design of four handsome men, snowmen that is, they are so cute. Jingles, Chuckles, Snowball & Twitch are the names of these cute little guys. All the designs on this site are wonderful, it was hard to choose one. Oh and best of all Linda told me I could enter every day, Keep your fingers crossed for me and hopefully I will win again. Kind of hard to decide which design to try for, I really like one called Buddies, it is a polar bear giving a ride to his friends who happen to be a snowman, and a little penguin, so cute. Oh and than there are the Halloween designs, these are wonderful too. You just need to stop by her site (Lavender Wings) at the needle show. There is also vendor who is giving away a complete line of their floss. Wouldn't that be great to win, how many squares for our charity quilts could be stitched from that prize. Oh and one of my World of Charity cross stitch friends won yesterday. We did let the rest of the ladies in our group know that the show was in full swing, hope they all get a chance to stop by.

I have a quilt to cut out for WOCS tonight, I also am packing a bag of material, ribbons, and lace for Jenny. She belongs to a group that makes little toys and than they leave them in a place where a child might find them. The toys are wrapped and have a note with their story. What I have packed for Jenny should keep her busy for a long time, that is when she gets to feeling better, she had cracked a tooth and had to have it pulled and now she has one that needs a root canal.

As for my yard sale this weekend, I had cancelled it due to the threat of rain on both days, next weekend is already planned out, so I don't know when I will have my sale. I really need to get rid of some of the stuff in the garage and make some money to help pay for a new heater and Air Conditioner unit. Anyone good with AC and will work really cheap??

The Fall Needleworks Show

I must admit that tonight I have spent most of my evening at the Needleworks Show. So many designers, so many wonderful designs. I have only scratched the surface of the show. First I do a quick look which takes hours, than I will go back and take a more in depth look at the shops. Needle Delights (my local shop) has a booth at the show, Kathy has her beautiful quilt pattern cross stitch designs there, Oh and one of the most important things to do while at the show is to sign up for all the contests. I love contests, I don't win, but it is still fun filling out the entry form and adding my favorite items from their shop on the form. Well, I can dream can't I, ONE day I will win something. Melanie has won at the show before and last year Sean won, but never me, Maybe this year I will win something, anything, even a skein of thread would be nice, just to say I won it. After the show look for my review on my favorite designs and shops. Have fun at the show, just follow the link
if the link dosn't show go to needleshow.com and click on the general section and have fun

October is here

My favorite time of year has finally arrived. In the evening there is a little crispness in the air. There is fall festivals being held most every weekend. Yard sales can be found almost in every block and Halloween is right around the corner. There is tons of Apples, cider and pumpkins in the stores, and spooky graveyards are popping up in neighbors yards. Which is my reason for this post. Sunday, Melanie, Heather, and Kyle came over and they with the help of their grandpa dug out the Halloween decorations in the shed. Melanie strung or should I say spun spider webbing over the arch, the porch and the doorway. Kyle and Heather planted a man in the flower bed but I think he is trying to escape because I see his legs and arm and his skull. There are pumpkins, spiders, ghosts and lots of skulls all over the front porch. Looks like a spooky halloween, thank you Melanie,Heather and Kyle, I love your decorating style. Can't wait to see what you do for Christmas. But really, it was fun watching the kids think things out as to how to decorate and how to get their ideas to work, they did a really great job.
Then they played with the puppies, Heather laying on the couch with the little white one under the covers with her, Kyle on the floor with the black one attacking his feet, Puppy pulled his sock off and bite his toe. I took pictures but Heather said she didn't want to see them on the internet, oh well, guess she will have to stay away from my blog this time, because the pictures are to cute not to post, sorry Heather.
I did hear from Jenny, she has been dealing with a house full of sick children. She said she is ready for a childless vacation.

Thats about all for now, enjoy the pictures.

FALL

Fall Weather is on its way, at least as Fall as we get in Florida. It is turning a little cooler which means the AC is off and windows are open. It also means that I will be able to get some of the outdoor tasks completed. And best of all it means that I can decorate for Halloween. Now I don't have many items for Halloween because for years we never saw a child trick or treating in our neighborhood, but two years ago children started visiting on that spooky night, Last year I added more decorations and we got more little goblins and ghost searching for a treat. So this year we were at the Florabama auction house and there was a couple of boxes of new Halloween decorations and we got them, I am not sure what is in the Halloween box but this weekend It will be pulled out of the storage barn for decorating. I am hoping the grand kids come by so they can do the decorating, of course if Kyle has a hand in the decorating I am sure it will be gruesome.....

All pups are all doing well, Sissy's litter now have their eyes open, and Mariah's pair are cutting those sharp milk teeth and starting to eat puppy chow. So far we have three that are spoken for and a couple coming over Sunday to look at the pups.

As for me, I have been making more lap robes for Century Care Center using the CCS squares Melanie and other members of WOCS sent to me. I finished two patriotic quilt tops last night and tonight I started on another one and I made the fronts for 5 bags plus I made a eyeglass case. All these items will be going to the Century Care Center at Christmas, WE are just trying to bring a little smile to special seniors.

Week three

Proud Pop

A Happy Dad

Family Portrait

Mariah's puppies 3 weeks old

Sissy's puppies 1 week old

Mariah's pups turned three weeks old on Monday, it is amazing how fast they are growing and changing. They are now walking, although they are still a little unsteady on their feet. I bring them out in the living room to get them used to a different surrounding, and the other dogs. They of course are the center of attention when they are out and about. The little white one sticks close to her mom or me she is not very adventurous. The black puppy on the other hand is off and exploring anything she can. She will get off the rug and on to the hardwood floor and her little legs just slide out from under her. She has learned that she can scoot backwards when this happens and get back to the rug. Today I did make a discovery on the black puppy, seems she is a blue eyed girl, she has a very deep blue color in her eyes. The white puppy is a brown eyed girl. Mariah does what she has to with the pups, she cleans and feeds them and than she is out of there. Most of my time is now spent opening and closing the door to the puppy room for Mariah.

Sissy's Pups will be one week old tomorrow, they are growing fast too. Sis will now leave them for a few minutes at a time to make a potty run, this morning she even came into the living room to visit with us for a few minutes.

Ebay: Once again I am getting things ready for eBay, I spent last night organizing and photographing items that will be listed. There is a lot of things that will be placed up for auction, check out seller seanandbc on eBay and bid, bid, bid. I am hoping to get the listings on today or tomorrow. Most of the items listed this time are craft items, such as pattern books, special floss, kits, sports cards and some misc items.

I am also getting ready for my annual garage sale, it will be the beginning of October. Jenny said she has a lot of items to put in the sale as well, not sure yet if Melanie will also be adding things, but it should still be a good sale.

and than there were 4 more

I finally got Sissy to go out side and while she was away from her whelping box, I went in and took some pictures of the new arrivals. The two on top of the pile are the boys, a Silver Merle and a White one, the Tan one and the White one being used by the boys as a pillow are the two girls. They all seem to be doing well, and are gaining weight daily, you can tell by the big bellies.

Mariah's two pups are so plump, but they have mastered holding their fat bodies up on their little legs, they try walking but are still a little unsteady. They are starting to growl and bark, won't be to long that they will be up and terrorizing the rest of the crew.