Custom Order for Sally!

Ah, last weekend I was a vendor at a small quilt and fall festival. It was such fun talking to all the people walking by. One very nice lady by the name of Sally ordered one of my hooded scarfs. So today I am posting pictures of it just so you all can see what I do!

I am told they are Japanese Carp

Summer is almost over and I am so sad! I miss our two week trips to the lake. But hubby is just to sick to take them any more. So my boat sat in the driveway most of the summer. But Sunday Ray (daughter #3) wanted to take a few friends down to the river for the day and asked if I would take them. Daddy won't let her drive the boat cause she drinks too much! lol! So Saturday afternoon, we washed the boat off real quick, packed a few snacks and fixed a cooler. We were all ready to go! Sunday morning D & J who are sisters got lost coming to the house so we got out of here a little later than usual. Our third friend was our son's ex girlfriend and she went also.

So, they drank, swam, ate and partied all day. I was the only sober one in the bunch. But at least I got out and got some sun.

We told D & J that if we got going fast enough that the fish would start flying. I think they thought we were joking until one almost hit J! lol! I call them the flying fish, but I think they are really Japanese carp. I have been told that the vibrations from the boat get them jumping out of the water. We ducked all day but it was a hoot! At least I didn't get any in the pontoon and have to throw them back in. I still haven't checked the sides to see if I have any dents.

We stopped at Smitty's and ate lunch outside. D & J were done after that, so we took a quick swim and pulled the boat out and came home.

The End!

It wasn't free!

So my daughter is shopping in Walmart one day. Browsing around in the vitamins, she is approached by a tall thin man. She looks up into the face of this young man, who is clean shaven and dressed in a suit.

"Would you like up to ten free dinners? All you have to do, is listen to me talk for about 15 minutes."

Now the bells should have been going off in her head, but she is related to me, so I will forgive her.

"What?" She is the brightest of my bunch.

"You can bring your whole family and have dinner at (I will not mention the name of the restaurant). You do have kids? They can eat free."

Now daughter is really interested. She can feed all four of her kids and her stepson for free! So of course she says "Sure." She takes her ticket and he moves on.

So she calls me. "Hubby doesn't want to go with me tonight for a free dinner. You want to go?"

I told you, we are related! "Where we going?"

So she tells me her little story and I respond with what she wants to hear. I didn't really want to go listen to this guy but I like mexican food and IT IS free!

We get there and this place is small. Bells should have been going off, but now I'm curious instead of wary. We go in and they ask if we are here for the lecture. Oh Boy! So they escort us back to the little room in the back with about ten tables in there. At least we weren't alone, half the tables were already full. We had only three of the boys with us. The two girls were home and one was sleeping. She has a bad habit of taking a nap at 5 in the evening.

We take the big table in the back and this tiny lady comes around with a sheet of paper to be filled out. They want to know how much you hurt. Well, hello! I spent twenty five years working in a hospital. I hurt all over! lol! You try lifting 300 lb people up on an x-ray table!

I finish my little questionaire before daughter and look across the table to see what she has checked off. She hurts more than me and she is considerably younger. I laugh.

Thin man walks in and starts hustling around. Talks to tiny lady and starts setting up his chalk board and plugs in his light to show x-rays on. I am beginning to get the picture now.

The room magically fills up with lots more families and he decides to talk. I instantly can not stand him. He talks to us like we are all fifth graders and incredibly stupid.

" Hi, I am Dr. Baylard and I am here to talk to you about your health. Have any of you been in an accident or had a fall? Does your back hurt anywhere? Raise your hand?"

We all raised our hands. We raised them a lot during his little speech. He asked a lot of questions and we answered with our little hands. He even took my grandson and showed my daughter how to check for scoliosis. Of course, he was a little off. But so is the rest of my family! lol! Then he moved on to show us what a normal x-ray of the lower spine looked like. Then he showed one with scoliosis. It was more hand raising time and dumb looks.

Then tiny lady collected all of our papers and gave them to him. He started with me in the corner. I am sure he loved the fact that my left leg is shorter than the right.

"Were you ever in an accident?"

"When I was a kid." I wanted to tell him the time I got hit by a car. But I really wanted to get rid of him. I wasn't about to tell him about the motorcycle accident when I was sixteen and how I bounced across the road on my butt and didn't even tear my pants.

"How did you hurt your back?"

"Lifting people for twenty five years. Pushing wheelchairs and stretchers." I don't like to give too much away.

"Do you think you should have to live with this pain?"

Now I am looking at him like he is crazier than me. What does he want from me? I know my back is screwed up and will stay that way. "I have narrowing of the spine between L-4 L-5 and L-5 S-1 and it isn't going to change."

"But do you think you have to live with that pain?"

"I've lived with it for years and I don't pay much attention to it unless I can't move."

"Would you like to live without it?"

I'd like him to go away now because he is really irritating. But he is one of these guys that will sit there in your face until you give him the answers he wants.

I sigh. Okay, I'm stuck here. But I will have to tell you more later as I have to go take a shower and go to the chiropractors this morning. See ya later!

I'm so Bad!

Yes, I am! I have been procrastinating! My poor blog is suffering from lack of communications. But it has been a crazy month here. My Charlie was sick with cancer and we have been babying him. He's my first and probably my last cocker and we finally couldn't watch him suffer any more. I had to take him to the doggy doctor and put down. That was the hardest thing I ever had to do. I know it sounds strange when I worked in a hospital for twenty five years and have seen a lot of humans die. I just keep telling my self it was the humane thing to do. It still doesn't seem right around here and I just hope that he is happy running thru God's fields.

Well, I have been playing around with cotton piping and strips of material. Darling daughter has been making baskets to sell but I can't do what she does because it takes me too long and I get bored. I made one basket her way and it took me a week. I don't think anyone wants to pay $600. for a basket! lol! So I was at the fabric store one day and ran across a really cool book showing how to make baskets using your sewing machine. I thought, I can do that! So I bought it, and started making hot plates. Then I made the hubby a coaster. But dummy here couldn't figure out how much piping she was using, so I tried cutting 4 1/2 yards and sewing it up. It didn't quite reach the size I wanted for hot plates so I tried again. But this time after I hit my mark for a coaster I stopped and measured how much I had left and now I know what I need for those. I'm not too bright some days, well most days anyway! Now I have all these ideas.

After a week of hot plates (which I sold most of at the Peach Festival) I got brave and tried making a basket. Ohhhhhhhhh, was it pretty! And yes, I am proud of it! It was the only basket that sold at the Festival. And yes, now I am all fired up about making more. But I did run into a small problem, I ran out of cording. So I cleaned out the local places that were reasonable and I couldn't get anymore from them. Good thing hubby has a brain. He suggested I get online and look around. I found a good place to buy in bulk and am now waiting for my big order. Good thing these come on spools for easy storage. I am saving the empty spools. I am sure someone will come up with a good idea how to recycle these too! lol!

Well, dang! I am out of time today! I have to be at the chiropractors in an hour and have yet to take a shower. Oh, yeah, that's a good story. I gotta tell ya that one tomorrow! lol!

Nightmare at the Lake

My thought and plan was to get up in the morning, hook up the pontoon boat, throw my coolers in the van and leave. Of course my plan was all wrong. I had told the kids I wasn't working hard on my birthday so I told them they had to do the packing. But again, I had to go pick up Rach and her two kiddies, come back and load firewood in the back of the truck, go to C's and get her kiddies bicycles before I could hook up the boat. Then we had to put all of the suitcases, tv, food and coolers in the back of the van before we could hook up the pop-up camper to it. By then I was grubby and needed a shower but I figured I could get it at the lake after unloading and setting up.

My son-in-law had been working on their motorhome for two days. Their fuel pump had gone out and they had to order one. So he was going to pick it up at one and put it in. Of course that didn't happen on time either. So here we are sitting forever waiting for him to get done. They had been packing for days. It is amazing how much of your house you pack just for a four day vacation. But then they packed for seven and Rach packed for three and I packed for all of them and me. Hubby opted out of this little trip since we weren't taking our RV. Gas is just too high to take it since it only gets nine miles per gallon.

By four in the afternoon we still weren't on the road. So much for leaving early. Ray came home from work and we talked her into going with us since they cancelled the races and she didn't have to work her second job that night. So she threw a bag together and we all sat for a while longer. We were trying to figure out how to get her home Sunday as we were staying til Tuesday when our truck driving son said he was going too. So he threw a bag together and said she could ride home with him.

Five came and went and we were still sitting there. Ray and Rach decided to call their sister and see how the progress on the motorhome was going. Fuel pump was in but now the carburetor was not acting right so he had to work on that. Ray and Rach took the van and the pop-up and left followed by truck driving son. I waited for son-in-law and daughter to get the RV going so I could follow them and make sure we all got there.

Six can and went and I was playing online bingo by now. Ray called me from the road. They had stopped by and checked on the progress of the RV. Not good. I was informed I had the diapers and the clothes in the back seat of my truck so I needed to leave. Oh, and we picked up Cara and Button. So at six thirty, I left pulling the boat by myself. I stopped to check on the progress of the Rv. Still no good! Now my daughter was playing online bingo. She couldn't do anything to help so she was sitting and waiting. I left at six fifty all by myself.

Happy Birthday to me! Happy Birthday to me! It sure was a quiet trip all by myself. I took my time checking the boat often to make sure the tires were okay. We had such a time getting the boat ready in the first place. Some one had broken two stems on our tires and we had to get that fixed. Then the motor wouldn't start, so hubby and son-in-law took the boat in and had it overhauled. I stopped at the Shell station right off the exit at the lake and put in $75.00 in gas. It still didn't fill it. By the time I got to the camp ground it was dark. I pulled the boat out of the way with two tires on the road so eveyone could go around me. I wasn't about to try to put the boat in the water in the dark. That was going to wait until morning.

Ray and Rach were chasing babies when I got there. I reminded them I usually kept both of them two days a week and had a quiet laugh. They were trying to drink beer and take care of children and found out that just didn't work. So I took over Cara, since I was the only one she wanted. I finally put her to bed around eleven.

The phone woke me up around one and son-in-law, daughter and their three boys were on their way in to the camp ground. So we got up with the flash light I had packed and helped them back in. They set up with our help, put their awning out and went to take a shower that I never got.

All right! Vacation at the lake had started!

I woke up hot since we had to turn the air down for the babies. Son had started a fire already. He had gone next door and got his sisters flat griddle and was cooking bacon already. He is sometimes a blessing in disguise. He cooked bacon, sausage, fried potatoes, pancakes and eggs for all of us. We ate breakfast and put the boat in the lake.

Button, who is 12 was in seventh heaven. He's my little fisherman. He can do it all by himself. He can fix his own rod, bait, catch, take the fish off and put it in the net. He even knows how to put the catfish on the stringer. He helps keep the boat clean, put out the minnows over the side, throw anchors and tie down the boat. Grandpa taught him how to filet fish so he even helps me there. He has learned how to wash the filets, and how to freeze them. He is good at cleaning up afterwards.

We have to fish in shifts as I won't allow too many at one time on the boat. So I missed the first trip out. I decided it was a learning experience for son. He had never driven the boat before. You would think why? Well why was because we never trusted him with it. He is reckless and dangerous at times. So I let him take the older kids out and told him to stay in the cove where we could see him. It was a hoot! He took his sisters cooler and we called him and told him to come back so we could switch out. He couldn't find neutral to start the boat and we watched him float around for awhile. Ray thought she was gonna have to swim over and get it for a bit but he finally got it started and decided he didn't like to drive. So Ray took them out for a couple of hours while we played with the little ones and did dishes and cleaned up.

I finally got to get on my boat late afternoon. Ray, Button, TJ and Tim went with me. I took them to one of my favorite spots up the cove to fish. We puttered up there in the no wake zone and had been fishing for a while when my phone rang.

My son-in-law was on the phone and I couldn't hardly understand him. He repeated himself twice when I finally understood "CARA IS NOT BREATHING!"

"CALL 911!" I slammed the phone shut. I turned to the others. "Get the anchors up, Cara isn't breathing."

Thirty seconds later we were out of there. I didn't care if it was no wake or not. I put the boat in full throttle and we got out of there. All I could do was pray. I had no equipment to work on her. I told Ray call back and tell them to start CPR not even knowing if they knew how. Ray called and they said she was breathing, so I told them to hold up. Button was so upset, I thought he was going to throw up. This was his baby sister we were talking about. We hit the bank running. I left the boat to Ray and Tim to tie down.

Cara was laying sideways on the picnic bench on a folded up towel. Her mother was almost poor cold water all over her. She said Cara had been hot and she thought maybe she was running a fever when Cara rolled her eyes back in her head and started convulsing. They had called 911 after my call. Cara was a limp rag laying there but I could see her little heart beating. I was debating on whether they should just get in the car and head for the hospital in the next town when the park rangers showed up. They tried to put oxygen on her but she raised her hand and tried to fight it. Next thing I knew, there were at least 15 vehicles skidding in full of people to help. We had park rangers, fire department, ambulances all there in a few minutes. They took my limp baby and put her in the ambulance and we followed them out to Franklin County Hospital. Momma went with Cara. They stripped her in the ambulance and wrapped her in a blanket.

We went straight into a room with her at the hospital. They tried to take her temp but couldn't get one. Cara had not opened her eyes yet. She was slightly blue until they got the oxygen on her. They got Tylenol down her with a syringe and took her blood pressure. Next they took blood for a work up. I held her arm so she wouldn't jump. I have had plenty of practice doing that. Then they carried my limp baby down to x-ray for chest films. I explained to my daughter what they were doing so they understood why. Half an hour later, they tried for another temp and got 102.3. They figured she hit at least 104-105 before she began to seizure. They pushed another doze of Motrin at this time. Before they finally got her temp down, she had a total of five doses alternating Tylenol, Motrin. Cara finally opened her eyes at 9:15. We finally left there at 11:00 with her. We had instructions to call her physician for a follow up and for them to call the hospital for the rest of her blood results. They couldn't find anything wrong with her other than the fever. What a night!

We went to Walmart for Tylenol and Motrin. I picked up some Pringles as she was starving! She ate those until we got to McDonalds and she stuffed herself with chicken and french fries.

We went back to the campground and I sat outside by the campfire. No one else was up. I took the time to thank the Lord for helping us and prayed he would watch over all of us.

One more bad day and we were all going home.

Sunday was better, but of course we watched Cara like a hawk. It was overcast and windy so the boys fished off the bank. We cooked and ate and played. Finally late in the afternoon I took the boys out in the middle of the cove and let them swim. Ray and Tim left for home and our camping trip got a little quieter.

Monday was good. The sun came out and we packed up a lunch and all went to the beach to play. We took Cara's medicine with us. She was her perky little self, back to normal. She had a good time and got quite brave walking thru the water. They played in the sand and I took her bottoms off and washed the sand out. She likes being naked, but then she is only two! lol!

We had our usual fire that night and cooked our usual marshmallows and watched the starts in the sky. I thanked the Lord again.

Tuesday we packed up. You think we got home? Eventually! lol! Son-in-law had a leak in the gas tank. We found that out at the Shell station when we were trying to fill up. We sat for an hour at the picnic table in the shade. I had to stop twice because I didn't put the cover over the boat and my gate flew open and the strap around the top came loose. I was so glad to be home!

Think Positive!

That's my motto for the month of July! June was a really busy month and not all that great. But here I am getting ready to tell you all that happened that was good and bad. Maybe I should have titled this, the good, bad and ugly! lol!

Savannah Lee finally got here on her uncles birthday, Saturday, June 21st. She is a cutie! Looks like she got her grandpas' chin. I had to leave the day after she got home from the hospital, so we haven't had any time to bond. I'm getting to that soon!

My bowling buddies and I left for Detroit early Monday on the 23rd. It was an all day trip. We stopped several times at rest stops, for gas and lunch. We were almost there when we spotted the wineries. We managed to shop at two before they closed. So we added a whole box of wine to all the bowling bags and luggage. We got to the hotel around 7 that night, checked in and headed to the airport to pick up our fifth bowler who opted for flying in and out. She didn't want to waste time playing with us! lol! By the time we got out of the airport, it was heading on ten and we didn't know where to eat. It was going to be a late dinner. So we decided that since the casinos were open all night, we would go there. So another ten miles down the road, in the middle of Detroit we found one. After finding a decent parking place, we roamed the casino for food. We opted for a fast food spot after looking at the prices of the buffet. I just couldn't eat a big meal by then, so it was salad for me and I took over half of that back with me to the hotel. We took showers and got to bed by one in the morning.
Day two, we bowled team. We bowled bad. But so did everyone else. It took me to the third game to hit my average. I just looked at it as a warm up for tomorrows' doubles and singles.
Day three, I left part of my thumb in the bowling ball during practice. Thank goodness, Mary had liquid skin in her bag. I put everything into the first three games. In fact, I think maybe we have a shot at some money. My singles sucked. But at least it was over!
Our beloved Cardinals were in town and of course we had reserved our seats for the game. We wore our Cardinal shirts and took the jibes in style. We had a great time, even in the rain. We met loads of lovely people. Hooked up with three young guys from Canada, that were young enough to be our sons and we laughed all night. They were so nice and funny! They even walked us to our car to make sure we would get back to the hotel.
Day four, we ate breakfast, packed the car and headed home. I got home around five that evening. Hubby and I missed each other, so we talked a lot that night. I didn't bother unpacking my suitcase as I was leaving for the lake the next morning or so I thought.

Lake Trip.............to be continued.

Birth and Death

Today is my granddaughter Camerons' birthday. She turned 15 today. She is a gorgeous girl, just full of life. Of course, she is busy, busy, busy. I spent most of Saturday running her from Masonic Temple to Masonic Temple. She looked great in her gown! She was installed as Senior Princess Saturday afternoon. I always love watching the ceremony. She just smiles and smiles. Makes my day.

But I also got a call from my husbands cousin telling us that Uncle Bill passed away this morning. He has been sick for awhile and we all knew it was just a matter of time. So Uncle Bill, where ever you are, I know you are happy and free. I want to tell you how much you will be missed but I understand that you are in a better place. Your faith, your love of life, will always be remembered.

God bless you.

Yart Sale!

Well I joined the Yarters yesterday. I have marked down everything in my shop 50%! So if you are interested in buying any of those darling clothes for your dolly just come visit me and buy lots and lots of outfits really cheap! I will leave these items marked down until June 21st when they will go back to regular price. Come shop with me!

www.everlastingcraftycre.etsy.com

See ya Soon!

Who lost two children?

That was his next question. I turned and looked at darling daughter. "I have," she said quietly.

He said, "I see bookends. Like one was early and then maybe your last child."

"No, it was my second to last pregnancy. I lost my very first child and the second to last."

He pauses for a moment and looks at her. "Did you have a sick child? Something was wrong with one?"

"My last pregnancy. My daughter had a heart problem."

He waves his hands in the air and says, "Well the last child you lost says you need to stop worrying about her. She is fine now. She took care of that for you. She was with her the whole time. In fact, she is her guardian angel. She says the pain in your side will go away if you quit worrying about her."

Darling daughter didn't know what to say apparently, so she said sat quietly.

We sat in silence for about a minute before he spoke again. I studied him while he closed his eyes. He seemed to listening to something or someone. He would open his eyes and stare between the two of us with this glazed look. His eyes almost looked cloudy and you could tell he was somewhere else. Sometimes during the reading, he would take his left hand and rub his knee. Other times, he would rub his two palms of his hands together or pinch his forefinger and thumb together and rub them. I particularly liked how his ears seem to drop an inch when he was in this deep trance of his.

"There is a woman walking up. She says she is sorry she didn't make him grow up. She says she is sorry you had to do that." We both know that is Joyce, darling daughters mother-in-law.

"She died young. She still walks the long hall sometimes. Does that make sense to you?" He looks for answers.

"Oh, yes," darling daughter answers.

"She says.............was she married? Is his father still alive?"

"No, she was divorced. His father is still here." We know we are going to get confused again at this point. lol!

"Well, is he living with a woman?" he asks.

"His mother."

"She says she has tried pushing women at him but he won't cooperate. She wants him to have a relationship." Now darling daughters father-in-law is a fairly young man. I can say that since he is only a few years older than me. He takes very good care of himself and looks at least ten years younger than he is. He is into lifting weights and living a very healthy life.

"Where is your father?"

We look at each other. I know where my father is, but not her father. That's another story.

"Whose father?" I ask.

He looks at darling daughter. "I don't know," she says. "And I don't care anymore," she adds.

The glazed look comes over him again and he stares between the two of us. I am wondering if her daddy is on the other side. He looks at me.

"Do you know where he is?"

"No, I am not sure he is even alive." Now I really want to know if he is, so I am listening very hard at this point.

He shakes his head a few times and stares between us again.

"I see a man, I just don't know who he is."

He pauses again and stares between the two of us. Finally he looks at darling daughter.

"You don't want to know," he states. This was not a question.

He stares again.

"That's it," he says. "They are all done talking. I am not getting anything else. You know you can find out easily enough if he is around. But you don't want to know, you don't want to know."

Well, dang! I want to know now! But we thank him and we get up and leave. I feel kind of let down now at the end. I still haven't figured out how I feel about him. So, I will leave it at that and just accept things as they are. For now.

"Now lets hold hands," he says. We reach out to each other without a single word. I'm game! I tried to hear what he was saying, but since my hearing isn't always keen out of my left ear, all I heard was a bunch of mumbo jumbo. He had his head down almost as if he was praying. I, of course was watching him. Darling daughter had taken her cue from him and was also looking at the floor. After about a minute he sits up, lets go of our hands and stares between the two of us. I had the urge to turn and look but I knew I would not see a physical body so I didn't bother. Then he picks up a yellow legal pad and starts writing. You could have heard a pin drop in that room. He stops, stares ahead and then writes some more. I watch him write 75 and underline it a few times.

"I see a small dog. He has come up and sat between the two of you."

Great! Which dog is that? I have had many dogs over the years, so no clue. But he does get better.

"Two men are walking up. Wait, a woman. She wants you to know she is better now. " He reaches towards his hip and asks me if she had an illness there. Well, he was reaching for his left hip and she had fallen out the back door and broke her hip. Somehow, I wasn't surprised. Then he went on. "She wants to thank you for taking care of her. She knows you went back and forth. She also wants you to know she's glad she went before she lost it and went crazy." At this time he touched the side of his head. I laughed. My mother was diagnosed with a brain tumor when she was 49 and her youngest sister had alzheimers. I am guessing the back and forth meant I was in and out of the hospital with her all the time while trying to take care of my six young children and lonely husband.

"Do you know what that means?"

Mr. Man had given instructions not to talk much or we might interrupt the dead and he might miss something, so I gave him a short "yes."

"I see two men. One of the men is sitting in the back, in a chair. He is very quiet." I think of my father, sitting quietly with his legs crossed. "He is holding a glass, not saying anything at this time. Maybe it's tea." I'm picturing a short highball glass with whiskey and water.

"The man wants to thank you for letting him stay in the house. You could have put him on the street. He wants to thank you for taking better care of him than his own family." Mr. Man ask me if this is my father. Mr. Man looks confused. lol! Welcome to the club.

"No, " I say. "That is my step-father."

"Did he pass soon after someone? Like a short time after your mother?"

I look at darling daughter because I'm not sure what a short time is. Step Daddy died about four years later. Darling daughter looks at me with a blank look. "I don't think you are talking about them." I stuttered. Mr. Man is really confused by now. So am I.

"Lets go on. Who's Edward? I see an Edward." Well I don't know who Edward is! We have such a large family how could I know. My mother had ten brothers and sisters and three half siblings! I have cousins older than my mother! Between first, second and third cousins, there are over 250 of them and I doubt I know more than 10 of them. And only one I actually talk to!

Now my face must have said it all because Mr. Man says "I think that is a middle name. Yes, Edward is his middle name." Thanks, I am thinking, that sure helps alot. I shake my head (don't know why) as if to clear it and come up blank for an answer.

"Lets go on. Sis, did you lose a young woman around 30? Did you lose your sis?" I lost my sis but at birth I told him. "No." he says. No what I think? "No, this isn't her. "

Then he explains that sometimes when he opens a door others from the spirit world sometimes get thru that aren't related and aren't suppose to be there. I can accept that.

"The man wants you to know he is happy that everyone is enjoying going in and out of the house." Which house? We have our house, the rental property behind us. My darling daughter just moved into my step mom and dads house. Which house? Who is this man?

Mr. Man starts drawing. "The house is sitting in the front with a big yard behind it." So now I am thinking it is the house darling daughter just moved into six months ago.

"He wants you to know he is happy that you all split up the money and are happy." That's a subject I like not to dwell on. Good thing I am easy going and don't hold a grudge. Okay, now I know this is my father.

"I see someone passing soon after a loved one. He grieved himself to death." I'm still thinking about the house and money and missed this one. Darling daughter caught it and explained it to me on our way home. He was talking about my father grieving himself to death after my step mother passed. She died in February, he died in August of the same year.

"Did you miss his passing?" No, I didn't. "Were you gone?" I went to get my brother from the airport.

"No, I was there. I walked in, put my hand of his chest. " I said, "Daddy, Larry is here." Daddy took one last breathe and scrunched up his face and died.

Mr. Man says, "He was already gone before you got there. He didn't want you to see him pass. His spirit was already in the spirit world."

No reaction from me! I was just thinking how my dear brother had to be dragged down here.
I had called him that morning and said I just couldn't do this any more by myself. That dad was in hospice and it was just a matter of time and Larry needed to be there. Of course he hee haws around and says his wifey poo doesn't want him to come. I lost it! Put her on the phone, just put her on the phone! Then he got scared! He shoulda been. I was ready to put my foot up a few azzes and move em slowly. He says, I'll call you back and tell you when to pick me up. He knew better than to cross me at that point. I had just become my mother.

"He wants to thank you for taking care of him. He says you took better care of him than he did of you." Lets face it, I take care of everyone. No surprise there, but I was surprised he admitted it. My childhood wasn't bad but he was gone a lot. I'm not one of those kids that was damaged or at least I don't consider myself so. Daddy drove a bus during the day and worked as a bartender on the weekends.

Least I bore you longer, I have things to do today. So I will finish this story tomorrow, maybe!

Do the Dead Talk?

Now after two drinks, one slushie something with rum in it and a flask of sex on the beach, (wish I was there!) I was beginning to mellow. Mr. Man shows up and promptly goes inside the house. Oh yes, I forgot to mention we were all sitting outside on the patio around a round table, smoking and drinking except for darling daughter who is looking at dirty magazines of men. But we won't go into that.
By now I am shoveling that slushie in again. It sure was tasty but I did notice a slight buzz around my head now. Mr. Man walks back outside, lights a cigarette, and starts talking about animal totems. Darling daughter hides the magazines and starts making a basket. I'm swatting at this big gigantic horse fly. He seems to like us, not so sure Mr. Man does. So since he is killing time, so do I and I light a cigarette too. Somehow, I can not seem to stay focused on Mr. Man's totems and lose interest and start looking at his nice white teeth. I notice how straight they are. Apparently my interest in his teeth made him look at me all that much more. The sun is going down now and those teeth seem to gleam at me. I was beginning to wonder just what was in that slushie.
He talks and smokes for almost half an hour. I just smoke with him and shovel slushie. Then he asks who is related to who and says that the ones who are related will go together as he doesn't know if he can get the dead back for the second person if we separate. Once they leave, he says, they do not come back. Okay, that makes sense.
Now he asks who is going first. Everyone looks around the table like now they are scared. So, of course I pipe up and say we will. By now darling daughter has her small basket done so she gets up and follows me, who is following Mr. Man.
Mr. Man goes thru the screen door and I wonder why the handle didn't fall off for him. He must have that magic touch. Good thing I didn't touch it again. I already had to hunt it up the first time it hit the floor when I went to the bathroom. Silently we filed one by one thru the living room, down the hall and into a small bedroom where he had set up. Our hostess went to get another chair as she had allowed for only two people to be there. Mr. Man went in first and sat down at the far end of the room as if there was a far end. It was a tiny bedroom with bunkbeds, a dresser and a small table. I am surprised we all fit in there. There was no room to shut the door but then everyone else was outside. On the table in front of us, he had lit a white candle. I noticed it had been used before and was half burnt. I wonder what he does if it runs out in the middle of a sitting? In a line next to the candle were crystals of various sizes and colors. I didn't think to check how many as he started moving them around to suit himself. On the left of the candle he had set up a tape recorder. So here we sat in this little semi circle, Mr. Man, me and darling daughter. He asked if we had ever talked to the dead before. Well, hell no! That's what I thought, but being the polite little lady, I replied, hmmm no. I can't believe darling daughter was so quiet. You can't wake the dead.

Isn't this fun? I am going to continue this tomorrow! lol!

Our little party

Once in a while my darling daughter really comes up with some good ones for me. She kept this a secret until she was sure I could go with her. Her friends from work decided to have a man who talks to the dead come to their home and do a reading. I guess that is what you would call it. Since I have never talked with the dead, I really didn't know what to expect. But I will tell you how that day went.

We were suppose to leave at 2:30 to attend a sex party. You know, the ones where they sell all the sex gadgets and items. But darling daughter was pokey and had just got out of the shower when I got to her house. So I sat and watched her piddle around for awhile and then dry her hair. She packed a bag so she could make her baskets. Now mind you, we are suppose to be there at three. We didn't even leave the house until after. This is a fifteen minute trip, so I really wasn't worried about being late. I hadn't planned on buying anything anyway. I was driving, so we headed out. She said get on the interstate (I didn't know where this chick lived) so I did. Then get off at Mousette lane. I did. She said hmm, go straight across (thinking it was the frontage road) I did. I wound up back on the interstate! lol! So, we get off at the next exit. She says turn around and go back. I say we can't turn here? I didn't hear her say go under the bridge and turn. So I turned (U-turn) and wind up back on the interstate. By now we are laughing uncontrollably. We go down to the next exit and get off. By now I need gas, so she gets on the phone and I start looking for a station. She calls her friend for directions who of course is not going to the party. I find a station and try to pump gas only to find out I have to go in and prepay. Think they have a problem with people stealing gas? lol! The whole time I am doing this darling daughter is on the phone. She directs me to the house of the lady who ISN'T going and we end up in her driveway. Then we get the the sex lady's phone number and call her. So now we have wasted 45 minutes and gone no where! She calls sex lady. We get directions. It is after 4 by now and as we head for there pyschic lady calls us. Says bring chocolate milk and cigs on our way. Also bring our swim suits, they have a pool and hot tub. I'm hot, she's hot. We look at each other and say screw the sex party.

Okay, so she half lied when she talked to sex party lady. We did get a phone call, and we did go check on Dad (when I got my suit and towel). We just cruised on by the sex party and went to her house where she got her suit. Of course she had bought a new one and never tried it on, so we wasted some more time while she checked herself out in the mirror. It passed so we went to my house and gathered my suit and towel. Okay, now you think we are ready to go to the pyschic party. Wrong! We need rum so we got down the hill and stop at the liquor store. Okay, ready? Wrong. She's hungry, we haven't eaten all day. McDonalds is right down the road, so we are sitting there in the drive thru behind 5 other cars. So we talk. Lisa isn't going, do you think we should call her other sister and ask her if she wants to go? Oh, yeah, she has no phone. So we get our food and turn around and go back to my house because sister lives right behind me. Sister says, thanks but no thanks, I am staying home to watch the ballgame and relax.
Okay, it is now Lord knows what time and we are getting punchy just from trying to get out of our own area.

I ask her do you need to stop and shop anywhere? She laughs! We hit the interstate and she drags out the mapquest directions. By now I have turned over the car to her. I am already tired of driving. Directions are quite clear. I look at total mileage and say 81 miles! I need a fuzz buster. She drives good but she drives fast. So we start on our journey. Now the man is going to be there by seven so we are busting a gut getting there. We did good except when we got to the country road. They have no numbers on their mailbox. We had to turn around and go back down the road after a phone call. But of course that wasn't easy either and she wasn't getting any reception on the road, so we had to find a place where her phone would work.

Woohoo! We found the house. I needed a drink. A couple of them. We actually got there before he did and I got em! Okay, I gotta babysit soon, so will finish the party after while.

It is Hot Outside!

I was suppose to go fishing today but it is just tooooooo hot! So I cleaned my house, checked my store. That was a mistake! I went shopping instead! lol! I bought a niddy noddy. I could have made one but why go to all the work? I am really ready to take on the next step. I plied my singles the other day. I actually was impressed at how well my first efforts turned out. I have them rolled into balls while I wait for my niddy noddy. According to their instructions I can put the whole thing in water to relax my yarn. Cant wait to see how this turns out.

Then Friday, I took the dogs to the groomers and stopped at Michaels on the way home. What was I thinking? lol! This is a week for spending. I bought a book on felting. Good thing we have a new store opened. My daughter put it in her name and we call it cozycorners. We are going to put all our crochet, knit and felted projects there. I have two dozen flowers to take pics and list yet. Should be doing that today but I want to watch the ballgame.

Yesterday was a busy day. My poor old dog has a large lump under his throat and up his face. I called my groomer and she said she didn't see it Friday. So I called my vet. Well, excuse me! I have been going there for years. Apparently, they didn't think it was an emergency, so they told me they could get him in Monday. That didn't fly with me. I started calling people and finally got him into another animal hospital. They were going to aspirate it, but then they got blood return. I was hoping for a cyst, but it doesn't look that way. They took three slides of blood and shipped it off to the lab for examination. Then he started talking about how he does chemo of five other dogs. Hmmm. That didn't sound good. He also made the comment about if it was cancer in his lymph nodes that there is never a good prognosis for it. We should have results no later than Thursday.

I have had physic readings before but last night, C and I traveled 81 miles to a party. The guest of the party specialized in talking to the dead. Since I have never had that type of experience, I decided to go. I got to hear from both my parents, step parents, aunt, uncle and someone I didn't or don't think I know. Was quite interesting.

Okay, game time. Cya later.

Woohoo! Summer is here!

We had graduations, dances, craft shows, birthdays and weddings this month! I think I need sleep! No time for sleep! I have to get crackin'! I have joined showme team at etsy and we are working hard to get our team started. We have a webjam site if anyone is interested. It is a wealth of information on us. Come check us out. We also have opened a store in etsy. Come see www. ShowmeEtsy.com. I have some new dresses out!

I also got my drop spindle out and finished making some yarn. Now I am hooked. I just ordered more roving this morning. I can't wait until I get it. I am thinking maybe making a purse and felting it. I haven't felted before (except by accident) but I think I can! I can!

Any one want to buy a 1978 motorhome, Class A? Just let me know and I will give you more details. Hubby has finally accepted the fact he isn't going camping any more. He just can't take the heat and humidity.

Okay, I will try to be better this month and list more items and post more posts! See ya soon!

Managing my day.....

is always a chore. There just isn't enough hours in the day.

I have all these ideas and can't seem to get them out of my head and into material form with all of my commitments. My day starts early with getting grandkids off to school and watch any where from one to two small ones from two down.

But I did manage to win 7th place in the Granny Bowl Tournament. I won a whole twenty five dollars! Woohoo! Hey, don't knock it! I was surprised I even placed! Our best bowler came in 12th and our second best bowler, .............. well lets just say she had a bad day!

I need to make a list today of things to check into. My daughter wants to change our business name and make it shorter. Which is okay, but we can't find a name we like. Then we have to change it with the tax people. Of course, then we would have to have new business cards made up. We can't change our etsy name, so we would just have either just put it all in edit form and then make a new store and relist or just let it all expire. Of course then we have to hook up the new store to our paypal account. Then if we get propay............ well you get the idea, the list just keeps going. Is it worth it?

We are doing a one day show with four other shops in our street team. This is going to be held in Tower Groves Park, St. Louis, Missouri. The one date we have is June 21st. We are doing a mock set up the Saturday before just to see how it will work out. Of course we do most of our shows in the fall and winter since we knit and crochet. But my partner and daughter has been make flower pot pens which she has been selling at work. They will be our one and only item we are putting in the June show. Crossing our fingers and praying that we haven't invested all this money and time into something that won't sell. If the bank is any indication, then we should do well. Or at least break even.

Between Cara trying to sew (she's two), I have managed to get a few more outfits out there on Etsy. You can see them at www.everlastingcraftycre.etsy.com I just need a few more ideas for them. I also need to try to list everyday. But getting that done with babies hanging on my hip is hard to do. By the time they go home, all I want to do is take a bath and sleep.

Doing laundry now, I hear the washer buzzing at me. We have another bowling tournament this weekend. The team is leaving Saturday morning and we won't be back until Sunday afternoon. I am going and counting this as a vacation. With the price of gas as high as it is, I doubt whether we will take the RV out of the yard. I do plan on taking the pontoon out on weekends though. I might have to learn how to tent camp all over again. Hubby won't go. He has such breathing problems that he can't hardly sit on the front porch without huffing and puffing.

This must be my ramble day!

Where did this month go?

I seem to have lost a lot of days this month! lol! Let's see, we've had colds, the flu, company, more flu..............hmm. Okay, I think we are past that now. So lets move forward.

Well, bowling is now over except for the tournaments we are attending before next season. If fact, I am bowling my first one this afternoon. It is called the Granny bowl! Appropriate for our team, since almost all of us are Grannies! Our team name is Change-A-Comin' which should say Change-Is-Here! I swear! We all have hot flashes!

My cousin and my aunt came up from West Plains this week. It was great seeing them as my hubby has been feeling so bad this last six months, he hardly leaves the house. My 87 yr old aunt is in better condition than he is! They stayed only two days but it was great! My cousin had taken my quilt tops back home with her last time she came. She knew a lady that would do my quilting for me. I can make tops, I just don't have the patience to hand quilt. The lady who quilted this one for me, said we did a great job putting it together.

Seems like I have been making more doll clothes and trying to come up with more ideas. I still have not finished my doll closet. I just haven't felt like painting. Lets hope I can get to that in a few weeks. I have been giving away my hangers as free gifts when I sell Blythe clothes. I need to make more of those too. I am out! I have revised my skirts and made them fuller. The last one was maybe a little too full but it still looks good. It is hard to get all that gathered and in the waistband but I did it. My crop top pattern is easy to make and looks great with the skirts. I will post that picture separately from this post.

Okay will get some coffee and brb!


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Keeping busy.........

with family and business is more than a full time job. I think it would be easier to go back to a real job! lol! But I think that is out of the question anymore. I thought retiring I would get to create, create, but it's more like change diapers, change diapers. Not that I don't love them, but I thought I was all thru with that! We are now on a new phase and I think that this one will take a lot of work. My youngest daughter brought home a magazine listing all the different types of learning disabilities. Of course we have been concerned that our darling Cara isn't speaking as much as she should at this point. She actually has been backtracking instead of increasing her vocabulary. Since her older brother had speech problems, I wasn't so worried but it is now time to face the truth. She actually has many of the problems they describe. I think that after her next visit to the pediatrician they will give us ways to help her. But for now, we are trying things like holding a block up next to your mouth and saying the color, such as green, green. She thinks we are funny and laughs at us. Hopefully, she will start to copy. She understands everything you say and has just started nodding yes or no. She points to pictures and you can ask her where the bird is and she gets it right. She gets most of them right. She just doesn't talk.

So last night, I played hooky from bowling (tired) and went to the book store for some help. The magazine recommended signing. I couldn't believe what all is out there on the market! I wound up buying three different books on signing. I took one to my daughter so she can start with one, and I kept two for me. I even bought me a book. Soapmaking, but that's another post! lol!

Well, Cara liked the picture cards and watched us as we made the signs and said the words. We will start small and slow, but better a start than none. We will see, time will tell. Will keep this alive so I can see how she progresses.

Sometime....

This morning I have decided to take pictures of my new invention. I started this about three weeks ago but it is going very slowly. But that is my fault. I actually am still in the planning stages. I decided that Blythe needs a clothes closet and am in the process of designing one. I was going to make one completely from scratch but found a small box with handles on it. So far, I have managed to put two coats of paint on it. But it looks like I need to touch up a few small places on the bottom. Hopefully, no one will want my attention this am, and I can get this done. Then if the all goes well, I can start stenciling tomorrow. I have no idea if this will actually work, but I figure if I like it, I can use it to hang my own wardrobe. I have got the bugs worked out of my hangers. They actually look very nice compared to my first one.

Right now it is 4:14 am and I am trying to wait patiently for Charlie to come in. Charlie is our darling Cocker who is getting up in years and seems to constantly want to go outside. It's almost like getting up with a baby! At least I don't have to change diapers.......yet! lol!

Yesterday, my sister in law, daughter 3 and I went shopping most of the afternoon. We spent almost four hours gathering up supplies for the other half of the duplex. Next weekend, we are going to gut my sons kitchen. Hope he likes microwave food! But when all is said and done, he will be updated into the 20th century. I didn't realize just how bad it was until I walked next door and looked at what we finished in January. He doesn't work as fast as his sister. She takes after me and he takes after his father! lol! But he has a week to paint the ceiling, take down the shelves and pack up his pots and pans from under the sink, or whatever he has down there. He was still groaning when I left him yesterday. I know that unfortunately, when he starts the ceiling he has to go all the way thru with it, into the living room. He has to take the two ceiling fans down and he says he is going to take the deer heads down. I guess that now he is going to be a father for the first time at 40, he is going to try to make his home look more like a home than a hunting lodge. All I can say is about time!

We packed my truck up yesterday with cabinets, countertops, sink, plumbing, paint, stain, flooring tiles. Oh yes, another complete overhaul. What I am afraid of, is after we get all this done, his ratty refrigerator is going to have to be replaced too. We found a pretty good deal on a stove for him and we made him meet us at the dealer and pick it up. Right now all our goodies are stored in his sisters basement next door to him as his side is completely full of who knows what! I don't even want to look!

So here is our agenda for the next few weeks. Gut the kitchen, paint the ceilings, texturize the walls, paint them with kitchen paint, so they are washable. Put splash guards up behind the stove area and under the window. Put in new tiles, put in cabinets and bolt them together. Cut the sink area in the new top. Clamp it down, put in the new faucets and hopefully get the plumbing done without leaks. Oh no, I forgot about redoing the woodwork on the window!

Hopefully, we will get the cabinets stained tomorrow. I'm not working on it on Easter!

Hmmm............I guess that is today now!

Yesterday

I finished up two little outfits for my Blythe doll. Hopefully they will sell. Then I brainstormed about what to make next. I am scared to post my new thoughts as I am afraid someone will steal my idea so I will wait to post them. I am breaking out the clay today though as I made a test project to see if I liked it. So laying in bed this morning, I worked out the gliches and think I can now proceed.

But if anyone has any ideas what I can do to improve my dresses or add or take away anything to make it better, let me know. Any ideas or suggestions are quite welcome.

Oh, the weather outside is frightful!

6:16 am and I am wide awake. The weather has brought us lots of sleet and freezing rain. The driveway is a white sheet of frozen wonder. Gorgeous and dangerous at the same time. I actually had to go outside this morning and take my daughter to catch a ride to work. I am so glad I retired and don't have to work (at least away from home).

This weather started yesterday but my sable will go in anything, so I get to be the designated driver for the compound. I even went out last night to my weight watchers meeting. So disappointing, they didn't show up! It was only my second meeting and I was excited to see how much I have lost. Since my retirement, I have gained over 20 pounds and I refuse to buy new clothes. It has to come off. Being from a medical background, I don't like diets. So of course, I choose a new way of living. That's what it is all about. I really like the flex point system. I even managed to save enough points so I could have a few spoonfuls of peanut butter. I love peanut butter! lol! I started straightening up the basement so I can get my exercise equipment moved around. I feel like over the years I could run a gym in my basement. No excuse for me not to move more. I use to love it, but it seems I have fallen into bad habits and turned my energies into other things. But I know that if I want to change, I have just got to get myself down there. I am not much for going to gyms, takes too long to get there. This way I can walk the treadmill in my jammies! Maybe I will get my laundry done while I am at it.

Well, I should keep my mouth shut. I jinxed myself. I told my sil that I don't think there will be anymore grandkids. I can't see D having anymore, he's got a 19 yr old son. B will never marry, S won't have any, she's 42. T is a lost cause. C is finished (thank God!) R1 hasn't grown up enough and she's 34 (she doesn't need any children) and R2's hubby got fixed! She has two, a boy and a girl. But last week R1 was having a few too many glasses of wine, blabbed to me that B's girlfriend is 4 1/2 months pregnant! They could have told us at Christmas but no one said a thing. Now I only have a few more months to make baby blankets. Geez! What is wrong with this family. We already know we are getting a girl. The girls are now almost even with the boys in this family!

I am a very hands on granny. I am fortunate enough that my children live close. In fact B lives about 100 feet away from us, in our rental duplex. You would think I would have known before this but he didn't say a word and I never just pop in (well almost) without warning. But now I wonder if I will get to kiss and cuddle this one as much as the others. We shall see. I have been gathering baby clothes for a week. Seems my house is full of clothes, the babies outgrew. Little Lil was a nine pound baby and she had clothes she could never wear, so they got a bathtub full of goodies yesterday. There were at least 6 onesies that had never been worn. I sent back at least 6 receiving blankets, and another 4 heavier blankets. I filled the tub with outfits that had been barely used. Lots of baby gap, old navy and carters. R2's Lil is a designer baby! lol! Now Cara, who is 23 months old likes it all. She had a ton of clothes, but I didn't know about the new one, so I sent them all home to C. C is getting her own box of stuff together.

Cara has some buntings she never worn, I know they can go. Cara had spent the first 6 weeks of her life in Childrens Hospital with a heart condition and a lot of her clothes never saw the light of day. When we finally got her home, the weather had changed and she never wore them.

Well, off of that subject. I cleaned out my craft room the other day and found that I had six projects I had not finished. That was unacceptable! My limit is three! So of course I have spent this week finishing things. I had cuffs for big boys, so I finished two pair of those. I had a skirt to a christening gown, that Lil didn't get to wear. That's another story. I turned that into an adult skirt. Fits R1 nicely. I can't decide whether I need to put a fabric skirt under it or just have her put some tights on and model for me so I can get some pics. Then I finished a stocking cap I had on my needles. I had part of a sweater I was making for me done. So I finished the sleeves and put it together, but it was too short. So much for trying to follow a pattern. What was I thinking? lol! So of course I added on to the bottom, made a border and added a little color to it. It just looked so drab all in blue. I put some mustard color to the border and then decided to add it to the bottom of the sleeves. Seems the sleeves are a little long, but it looks good. Now I can't decide whether I want to keep it or sell it! Last but not least, I still have to finish this apron. Maybe today will be that day. Maybe not!

I tried to take a nap yesterday, but the phone kept ringing. So I layed there designing in my head. I want to make a hat to go with a couple coats for my Blythe doll. Trim the coats with fur. Add some ladybug buttons on the one hat. If you can't guess, I didn't write this down yesterday, so this is going to be my reminder list. I think I am going to make a purse and add a ladybug on it too. Then I had bought some twine the other day. I want to make some soles for sandals. I have been tossing around the idea of using my cloth strips and crochet the top piece that goes across the foot. I am thinking it would be more comfortable than yarn. I want to make ties from both sides so that it can be adjusted to fit easier. And since I don't like floppy sandals all the time, I have to figure out how I want to do the back of the heel. Still wheels at the moment.

I do wish this weather would get nice. I need to get the camera out and go to work. I haven't added anything in over a week to my store and it is stale as can be in there. I laid out a few items on the footstool. They have been there for a week. It has been so drab here I just don't get good pictures in this weather. My house seems to be too dark and I have yet to make a light box. My list could go on forever! Omg!

My cousin finally got back from Florida. We are suppose to spend some time together before she goes back down to her home. She lives about 4 hrs away from me, but we are like sisters and are quite close. She is making a quilt using her deceased husbands clothes. Hmm. Now I am not sure I would want his shirt laying over me everynite, but to each there own. Got me to thinking though. She does quilt. I have two quilt tops done, but I have never watched anyone quilt and I want to learn. I just might go down there this summer, take my tops and have her teach me. Of course I will take my own machine with me. I don't know what she has, but mine will do everthing but wipe my butt! lol! Hopefully today, we can go out for lunch, and go by the fabric store. Maybe I should make a few baby quilts before I tackle that king size one. The big one has over 1000 squares in it. It is sooooooooo gorgeous. Wah, I should finish it!

Enough of my rattling, time to go to work. Or go back to bed!

That dang ole Flu bug!

It has not been a good two weeks around here. I can not believe how sick this family is. Seems that we just like to share everything. My kids and grandkids have runny noses, coughs, and fevers. They just keep passing it back and forth. Right now Miss Cara is in my bed, running a temp. Poor baby! We gave her some motrin, wiped her down with a wet rag. (she won't let me put her in a tub of tepid water) . So it is going to be a long day. I am lucky I get to do some work on this blog today.

It is also a wonder I have anything done. I designed a new outfit for my Blythe doll but my kids say she looks like a hooker. I am still trying to decide what else I want to do with her. Maybe I will post a pic of what she looks like right now. But today isn't a good day, as it is rainy and cloudy. I really need to make me a light box. Well, I have to cut this short now. I hear a whiny child. Gotta go/

Are you ready for Valentines Day?

Well, I'm not! lol! I never am. I don't need the chocolate and hubby can't have the chocolate, unless it is sugar free. Plus I am just too tired to do anything for it. Not that I don't love him. I must. Or I still wouldn't be married to him after 36 years.

But I am worn out. I figured I haven't slowed down since Thanksgiving. Holidays and working on the rental property has just about finished me off. I hardly have any time to myself or for my love of the arts. I have to say we have knocked out the majority of the remodeling and am down to finishing touches. We had carpet laid last week. They did three bedrooms and the living room. Gorgeous stuff! Makes me want to work on my house! NOT!

But here are a few of the things I have down in the last few weeks besides home repairs. I like them. Hope you do.

I am so aggravated!

Well, I had started out saying good morning, good morning! But that all changed after I had written for a half hour, posted a pic and was getting ready to write some more when Netscape kicked me to the curb. Lost it all! Sigh! So now I get to start all over again. Great! My memory, not being what it use to be, has already forgotten what I said! lol! Oh well, here we go! I am waiting for the sun to pop out today. Drinking coffee, looking out the window between the slats of my dirty blinds. I should be cleaning my own house, but noooooooooooo! I get to go work on the rental property later. We have spend two weekends now scraping, sanding cleaning, repairing and probably will spend another month in there. We have yet to pull up carpet and tiles and do floors. I'm hoping it all works out soon. I am so tired. I don't know if it is this crappy weather or this crappy cold. Probably both!

So yesterday, while I am patiently waiting for my work crew to show up, I decided to take some pics of my lovely Blythe dresses. I had made these months ago. No clue why I never put these on my Etsy store. Of course lately, I just think I have no clue period! lol! I put a few new ones out and low and behold! Two of them sold within 15 minutes. I just regret to say, I lost the pattern for the purple outfit. Seems my 22 month old granddaughter has happy fingers lately and everything disappears. So I think this will be a ooak. Have a look, and enjoy!

Lets make Doll Clothes!

I have been working on making my own patterns for the Blythe dolls! I have some half crocheted and with skirts. Some are all crocheted. I am hoping to improve on this line and take better photos. Here are just a few. If you find anything you like, let me know. You can reach me at www.everlastingcraftycre.etsy.com.