Rain, Rain Rain-Isn't this January?

Well, it seems that there is strange weather everywhere. Snow in Arizona, tornadoes in Arkansas, cold temperature down south and it is warm and raining here. I am definately not complaining. I love rain alot better than snow. Poor Larry has been on call for 2 weeks and hasn't had to go until this morning at 4am he got THE call. He was looking on the bright side and said Hey, at least it is warm out. I think he might change his mind since it started raining. Ooops I think this is a great thought but I am not sure that my furry friends are going to do any of this. Even as I am down loading pictures for this post...Maddee came downstairs soaking wet. Nice..... She keeps nudging me with her cold, wet head..If there are any mis-typed words we will all blame her. She won't care.

All the snow is melted. Things don't look too pretty right now.

Here is a picture of one of the couples....He is mad cuz his eyes where closed in this shot. hehe.

Here are the expecting couple. I had laughed when I saw them take the little snippets of wool that I put in there and started their nest. They started building just in time. Yesterday morning there was an egg in the basket.

Later on there were two. So far today no new additions. It was funny though...As soon as I got up I went and checked on everyone. They were all four in the one basket. How funny. By the time I got my camera everyone was up and eating and moving about. I am not sure what she is saying to me. I swear no sound was coming out. I think she was just giving me her "Don't mess with me" look. Too cute.

I spend last night after dinner hooking. I have the border done and I have decided to just continue the green all around the Simplify part. I was going to do another color but I think I will just use the same greens. I hope to get this done today. Cross your fingers for me. I hope you have a day filled with all that makes you smile. See ya soon!

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The little birdies are nesting.

One of the new bird couples are already making a nest. I just think that is soo cute. I was hooking on my rug and thought that they just might like a few snippets of wool to put in their nest. I put some in the cage before work.....When I came home tonight I was anxious to see if they used it....They did. This made me smile.....Does the fact that a bird uses my wool scraps for a nest and it makes me smile ...mean that I should get out more.....? hummmm. That is something for me to think about as I am hooking tonight(rug hooking that is). Hope you all had a good day! Good night.

Meet the new members of our little family

These little birdies are new to our household. I know it isn't the best of pictures. They don't listen too well. I kept telling them to say cheese and they just kept moving and saying something that sounded like beep beep. Oh well, Just thought I would post something else. I tried to leave a comment and I couldn't. It seems like when I save a post and publish it later I have never been able to accept comments then. When I publish a post right away they work fine. Any Ideas at what I might be doing wrong?

Christmas is over.

It has been a nice holiday....but I am relieved that it is over. Here is a shot of Carlee. She had fun helping Larry open his gift..so he gave her the bow. Thankfully she is better now. She was running around with Maddee up the street while Larry was plowing everyone's driveways. As she was running around she stepped on something and cut her foot pretty bad. It didn't stop her however...She was tracking blood a over the kitchen...thankfully wood floors clean up. We had to put a sock on her foot til it stopped bleeding. She is good as new.

She is already trying to figure out how to get to my Christmas presents....I got 4 finches for Christmas. They are on top of the entertainment center til we make another cage. She keeps moving the doors of the cabinet and looking behind. I know she is trying to figure out how to get them....she is a bird dog....it isn't like she can help it right?

I hope everyone has a good week. Lisa

Merry Christmas

I got it all done. whoo hooo. I didn't have any extra time.....but I got it all done. It was a good day. I am still full but I am a little board after my 2 hour nap. I just keep thinking about eating....I just got past the miserable stage. So far I have refrained....no guarantees. Is that how you spell it?

I hope you all had a great day. I think I will go up and do some hooking. I haven't done that in a while. Good night.

I am not ready...Are you?

Well, Here is some pictures of my productive evening Wed. night. I got alot of baking done. This is a tray for Larry's boss.


These are the little goodie bags I made up for the people that work in my department.

They turned out pretty cute for something I did at 2 in the morning. lol

This is one of my thrift store finds. I just thought he was cute.

This was the best deal though. It is so pretty. It has a date on the bottom that is carved into the finish. 1979. It was 3.00. Jackpot. I have got so much more to do yet.....I need to get it into gear and get going. That is if I don't want to be up til 2 am again. (or later) I hope you are all enjoying your evening. That's all for now. Hopefully I can give an update later.

Thank Goodness for a productive day.

Well, I am sure thankful that I was able to get so much done today. I am not finished by a long shot but I am in good shape for tomorrow. I hope everyone had a good day.

I was able to get my shopping done. Gifts are all purchased. Wrapping paper purchased also.
I was able to get the grocery shopping done for Christmas dinner. Yeah, I won't have to go fight the crowds.

I even had some time to go to the thrift store. Found some cute things but I am too tired after all the baking to go upstairs and take pictures. I will have to take some in the morning. I was able to get alot of my baking done. Halleluia.

Unfortunalty, I forgot to make sure I had a clean uniform for tomorrow soooo.....I am hanging out on the computer while it is washing. fun. right? Have a good night.

Boy, I need to get busy!

I have to admit that I have been in a state of denial.....I keep telling myself that I have plenty of time to get all the things done for Christmas. I think I have had a reality check today....Christmas is almost here.....yikes!!!!

I still have all my baking to do, I still have my shopping to do and I have to work on Christmas eve. I think I will have a few late nights. I do well under pressure..lol

Does anyone have a recipe for glazed nuts? I have a ton of walnuts and thought that might make a nice addition to my cookie trays. I have looked on line and didn't get too many ideas.

I hope you are all having a nice week. I was able to spend the evening with Larry and my mom and dad. We celebrated my mom's birthday. It was a nice evening. Talk to you soon.

A few more pictures

Here is Maddee sniffing around the outhouse. This is a shed that Larry and I made out of old wood from a real two seater.

This is outside the back door.

I was able to make swags for all my windows this year. I found the ribbon at the thrift store for 3.oo. I was planning on buying some of the garland that they had. It was 3.00 a piece. I would have had to buy quite a few and just didn't want to spend too much money so.....I went home. I was mad at myself because now I had ribbon but no garland or greenery. I was almost home...kicking myself the whole way when I happened to see something on the curb. It was a rubbermaid tub with a pole sticking out. I turned the car around...What did I find? A huge christmas tree. Jackpot. Now I had to get this huge thing in my car.

I used some old pinecones and some various evergreens that I had on hand. I was happy with the way they turned out. I figured out that I had made 6 swags for the windows, two swags for the gates for our fence, 1 on the outhouse all for under 10.00. I used the tree branches for the dining room table all over the house and I still have more in the rubbermaid tub. That must have bee a huge tree.

this is the other side of the back doors. Look more branches.

Here is a shot of Carlee with one of my birthday balloons. She will roll it around till she can grab the tied end. She carries it all over the house. I just love her. Hope you are having a nice evening!

The Living Room

Here is the beginning of the living room tour. This is the little grouping behind the loveseat. The little house was a gift from my brother and his girlfriend. I have it all sitting on my late grandmother's ironing board.

The little face on this snowman makes me smile everytime I look at him. I wish the picture was alittle clearer.

Here is the big tree in the living room. I have all snowman ornaments on this one. I wanted something alittle different this year so I added some hydrangeas and baskets.

I purchased a snowman ornament like this one and decided to make more myself. Very easy.

I found these little snowmen at the thrift store. I think I should write our names on them. I found the little blue balls at the thrift store( 75cents for all)

This too was copied from an ornament that I purchased then made more myself.

The pile of snowballs was made from styrofoam balls, sand and some patience. I hope you have enjoyed the tour. I will continue the rest of the room next time. Lisa

The tour continues

Today's tour begins on top of my cabinet in the dinning room. This is right behind the tree that I showed yesterday. Just added some pine and some cones...and a nativity.

This is our back door. I tried to take a picture of my cool yard sale finds. They are wreaths I got for a dollar a piece , just added a bow. Yeah!

This is on the wall opposite the cabinet. This is a little desk I got at the thrift store a couple years ago. This is where Larry drops all his stuff at the end of his work day. I just noticed that this picture show our very cluttered closet. Opps. I wish I had cropped that out. lol.

Oh that is nice the quilt hides the mess in this picture. lol This year I tried to use my same old Chirstmas decorations differently. I tried not to put anything in the same spot as last year. I was suprised at how much fun that turned out to be. I really didn't have that many new things this year but it all felt new since I changed things up alittle.

This is my little sewing machine beside our dinning table. I just love this quilt. This was the first quilt that I quilted on my handi- quilter. I was scared to death. I was so afraid I was going to mess it up. I just love how it turned out.

This little santa was a gift exchange gift years ago. I still love to look at it....I hope you enjoyed the tour of the dinning room. More to come..... have a good day. Lisa

Today was wonderful

Today was a day of celebration with family and friends. I was so afraid that the threat of bad weather would keep everyone away......however, we had a great turn out. Today we had a birthday party for Larry and I. My birthday was on friday and his is tomorrow. What better excuse to have people over right? Everyone brought great food to share and we had a very memorable day. I of course forgot to take pictures...the camera was even out and on the table. I just don't know if I will ever get better at this. I am pretty sure I come by it genetically. My mom is the same way....lol. But since it just isn't a fun post without some pictures.....Here is some pictures of the tree in the dinning room.
I was trying to decide what to use for a topper and thought of this pillow that was moved out of the room to make room for the Christmas stuff.

I didn't have enough ornaments so I raided my basement. I just love baskets. This one with the greenish blue was a gift from my friend Maribeth. It is a Boyd's Bear Basket. I didn't even know they did baskets.

It still needed something so I took apart an arrangement of dried yarrow and put it in the tree.

I grabbed a few birdhouses and called it a day.

Just thought I would throw one in of our "little man" He just can't get close enough to Larry. Larry has such patience.

I hope you all had as good of a day as we have had. Try to stay warm......Lisa