George Strait

George Strait, The King of Country Music! 57 number one hits! Had to watch the special that was on TV last night! He was good and so were the many performers that were there with him, for his Award  "Artist of the Decade". I just didn't care for the outfit that Taylor Swift wore, with that nasty silver halo on her head, please don't tell me she thinks she can sing like an angel, could be I don't think she can sing at all! Other than that the show was great.

Holiday Weekend

We worked in the front yard, for the holiday weekend, our son came over to help us,we pulled out the bushes last summer, its an old picture nothing changed, just the bushes got bigger, they were almost to the bottom of the windows, and I hated going out there to trim them, was hard work getting them out, they planted them the year I got married, 37 years ago! The picture might be a bit dark,it was the only one I found. We are putting in some smaller plants! I think it will look much cleaner, when we get finished. We have a big wine barrel going in the middle of the house, I am hoping to get a rose tree to put in it, and then rest of the plants. We need to get the rest of the black fence put in, just had that there so the mulch wouldn't get into the grass, a roll or two of sod, some solar lights, so I would think we have another weekend of work a head of us! That is how we spent the holiday weekend! Will post another picture when we are finished!

After the bushes came out.

Work from this past weekend.

Cup and Can Cozy

I made some Cup and Can Cozies from Kwik Sew the pattern was free, and I think I am going to make these for my family Christmas gift this year! Make each family 6 and give it to them with their favorite 6 pack, of course the kids will get pop! I have enlarged the pattern to fit the large bottle of water that I like to drink, being that each company makes a different size large bottle. I like the one with the wide month opening. I am going to work on a pattern for the small water bottles. This is what they look like.

     

    

I had made a few to give to my girlfriends husband for his beer cans. I never saw a man get so excited about can cozies! Of course I didn't make his out of this fabric.

                                 

Weekend Get Away!

Our weekend get away was great, something we all needed! I needed to see my friends, our friends from Texas, met us at the Ozarks, where we stayed with our friends that live in Camdenton, MO. On our little road trip. we ran across this sign on IL Route 72 . We had a travel budget, so going there and back we ate off the dollar menu at McDonalds! You got to love it! The weekend, always seems to end too soon, we always leave on a Friday, and come home on Monday, so we have Saturday and Sunday. We bring food with us so the expense isn't just on one person, and fast to cook, so us girls aren't in the kitchen all day and night! Gas was cheap in Camdenton, Missouri $2.04 a gallon, we left Chicago, and the price was $2.75 a gallon. I'm very glad that they live in the middle between us, 7 hours for us from, Chicago, IL and 8 hours from, Frisco, Texas.

We talked, played games, a new game that we played was " Apples to Apples " this game had us all laughing, we played this game all day taking breaks for dinner and to stretch our legs! Our friends from the Ozarks are in the middle of doing their landscaping for their house, they have a big job a head of them! They had beautiful trees by their driveway, over the 3 years that they have lived there, the trees have died, they had just cut them down on that Thursday. I am going to miss them and their fall colors!

I could sit on her deck all day and watch the birds, in the area, Humming birds, Woodpeckers, and the Blue Bird of Happiness! The Missouri State Bird.

My Stitching

My stitching had suffered this past weekend, I need to catch up and get what I need done! The Wedding gift is coming along well, I am making progress on it.

Have a good day!

What's New!

I am still working on the wedding gift right now, hoping to have it finished by next weekend, I need it for shower gift on June 7th. 

We are going on a short little trip this weekend to visit friends in the Lake of the Ozarks, MO we haven't seen them since last October. So today I will try to get everything ready for our trip, I have a few sewing items I want to finish today, to bring with, who knows how far I will get. No motivation lately! 

Our little Isabella will be having her heart surgery on June 4th, she was born with a heart anomaly known as right atrial isomerism. This is her second major surgery, not counting the smaller ones in between, her first heart surgery was a couple of weeks after she was born, and then last year around this time, was the second. We are hoping that after this one she won't need anymore for a few years, but this surgery also brings on all the heart meds that she will have to take the rest of her life. So if you can spare some extra prayers for her, this surgery is going to be a bit tougher than the last few. Plus yesterday David came over for Mothers Day because he had to work on Sunday, Bella didn't want to go home with him, she wanted to stay with me, so I told him to leave her and come back after Amanda got out of work. She has a mind of her own and when she wants to do something she does it no matter how many times you tell her NO! We were going outside I told her to take my hand going down the stairs, she couldn't wait for me, started down her self, she told me she was a big girl can do it on her own! Well, she fell down the last 3 steps, thank god she didn't get hurt, between her crying and mine, it was a sight. I felt so bad, they are never going to let that child stay with Grandma again! We called them up and told them, that she had no broken bones a little black and blue mark on her cheek. I am getting a bit to old for all this! Miranda came home from day care and was very happy Bella was still here,

they rode their bikes, and learned how to pedal themselves, they did not want to put them away, and come inside.

Went to a baseball game!

Saturday afternoon, after I got my weekly shopping done. My niece called and wanted to know if Andrea and I would like to join her at a Chicago White Sox game, she had 4 tickets. I haven't been to a baseball game in years!  Andrea needed to get a babysitter for Miranda, but Grandpa Joe, said he could do that!  So we went to the White Sox and Texas Rangers game! We had a girls night out!

 

We had a good time, 

The White Sox Won! They had Fireworks after, seemed just like the 4th of July, but it was a bit chilly! 

Didn't make the goal I set

I didn't get my cross stitch done, that I set the date for, that was today, and I just didn't make it. I did make some great progress on it. I am setting another date for the end of the month. Next week I won't have too much time to stitch. I have some sewing that needs to be finished so next week is for sewing! The wedding gift is coming right along, it seems to be going fast since it's all back stitching. I need this finished by the end of this month also, so I will be able to get it framed and have for the shower, on June 6th. Sad to say I didn't work on my personal sampler.

Isabella

My Isabella will be going for her heart surgery soon, she has a heart anomaly known as right atrial isomerism. This is her second major surgery, not counting the small ones in between. This little girl has gone through so much in her life already. My son and DIL said this one is a bit more stressful than the last one.

My Princess Ragamuffin

My Princess Ragamuffin, got her first hair cut! She didn't like anyone to comb her hair, when she did, she took the pony tail out and let her hair fall all around her face! That is how she liked her hair! That is how she got her name Princess Ragamuffin! On Saturday, we took her to get her hair cut, her first hair cut, I thought Andrea was going to start crying as it was coming off! She didn't want anything to do with the cape around her neck! So she had hair everywhere, She looks so cute with her hair cut! We now can comb her hair, and leaves the one pony tail in! Even with out a pony tail it looks good! She looks beautiful!

My Personal Sampler

I want to have this finished by August of 2012, to give to my husband for our 40th Anniversary! It has something in it  that we both enjoy, from our wedding, the sign that was behind our car, to the sports that he likes, his love of trains, to my love of taking pictures, stitching and covered bridges, to our children, to our  grand daughters and Harley our dog. I am working this in 16ct Aida. I had other fabric in mind, but what I wanted and what I could afford was another story.  This is from: Nouveau Encore Designs  http://www.nouveauencore.com

This is what I have done so far.

Wedding Gift

This is a Wedding Gift for my dear friend whose son is getting married in July, I want to give it to the bride and groom at the shower, that is June 6th. Their favorite color is red.  This was a freebie from San-Man 

UFO

This is another UFO that I found that needs to be finished by May 8th, not much time, but I don't have that much left to finish. This was a freebie from: EMS Cross Stitch

A Finish that took me close to 9 years

I started this for my daughter about 9 years ago, everything was working fine....until I started putting in some of the beading, when I found a big mistake, I missed 3 rows across and 3 down, so the beading did not match up, I put it away, I was getting to mad, to work on it. Every once in a while I would pull it out, work on it  again not going near the area with the mistake, and put it away again. This year I told myself mistake or not I am going to finish it! I had to recount the web so that it would line up and finish the bead work! I wanted to give it to Andrea for her birthday in March. Well I finished it, I didn't have time to get it framed, so that is next. This is Earthdancer from L & L 

Working my way around...

I am trying to get everything I want on my blog. On Monday I want to post a few pictures from my sampler I am working on, it needs to be done for my 40th Anniversary, which is in 2012. Think I have enough time? I am working on a wedding gift, for a dear friend of mine, her son is getting married in July, this is from a freebie from San-Man. It only has 2 colors, I am doing it in 2 shades of Red, the brides colors. Till later

This is new to me

I never done this before, this is the first time, I set this up in October, but never did anything to it. Now I am putting words down to post. So give me a few days to get this set up.