Home Again

Welcome, thanks for stopping by.  I've been missing in action. But oh the fun times I've had.  I went to Virginia to visit my son and his family for 5 days.

My oldest grand daughter made her 1st Communion on Mother's Day and I didn't want to miss it.
She was like a little bride. So excited, so beautiful and so full of love.

 Sky is in the top row at the left end.

The little 3 yr old never wants a photo...

Flowers were beautiful and it was a great day for being outside.  But it seems humid there when I visit.

A gift Sky made for me..Stitching and I now have it framed. It means so much to have the children's art and have them call .  It's hard for me many times to miss so much of their daily events. 

The school carnival on Friday night, more enjoyment outside

Meeting the school bus

 Playing cards and I caught her for a photo !!!! 

Wall of Swimming awards for the 2 oldest girls. They swim all year round

We saw the brightest rainbow one late afternoon, so many awes....my son grilled stuffed salmon for Mother's day, adorned the table with 6 red roses for Helen and I to share. More cards and gifts.We had pizza, after Kumon reading/math one night. Lots of hugs and laughter and a few big tears when it came time to say good bye. 
It will be my last trip there, as they will be moving in August to the very North East.  So will be anxious for my next trip. Just very thankful for this time together.

WOYWW #464

Welcome to all, Wednesday is the quickest returning day of the week.  Can hardly believe how fast this week has gone.  Julia at the STAMPING GROUND hosts our Whats On Your Workdesk Wednesday so hop on over if interested in some indoor fun.

WOW  it's been a turn around in weather 60's  ALL the snow melted and people are celebrating being outdoors, doing a huge variety of things.  Me I'm trying to get into a WALKING mode. The winter weight needs to go.


This top photo is a new purchase...a mug holder...changed up to my washi tape display

  My desk...a mess, under the piles are the makings of my ATC's for our May exchange, if interested in  let me know in my comments. Enlarge the mess by clicking on the photo

Short and Sweet,,,off to shop with my sister.  Thanks for stopping by and for all the kind comments last week   ENJOY a great week.

WOYWW #463

Welcome to all, it's Wednesday the day we share our desks.  Ms. Julia our hostess has info on her blog  HERE....STAMPING GROUND  And today is sharing info on our 9th Anniversary of sharing ATC's  so if you are interested hop on over.  It's really addictive.

My desk: a bit of what I've been doing when  we were hit with 13 inches of snow  High winds and cold temps.  Sorting:

 Above is the desk to the right of my normal one (still covered with ATC bits and bobs) Found these 3 little wire bins, working good for my Unity stamps. I hope to use them in a new project. "Journals"
Mid-May I am hoping to have my Computerized sewing machine sold and a new BASIC one bought and in use.

This photo is my kitchen table... cleaned out a hall closet....rubbermaid full of photos, again sorting by family's, labeling, and putting in manila envelopes. This is an OLD box (forgotten about) of negatives. Looks like from every kind of camera I have ever owned. Remember the "Disc" my very favorite of all time. SIMPLE little round compact negatives ....debating to keep or to discard.

For those of you not Facebook friends  our 1st little baby calf...was born in the barn because my hubby Cares..weather just too awful out, 2 days of blizzard conditions.     Just adorable.

 He was working on making sure all the mechanisms worked on his planter and it got buried.

Some has melted with temps of 40 the past 2 days but 6 to 9 inches forecast for today..April 18, most years he would be in the field a week already planting corn. Not complaining as some areas have it much worse. But I "need" sunshine and warm temps. 

Thanks for stopping by, and for last weeks comments.  Happy WOYWW  kind of day

WOYWW #462

Oh yes, I think Spring has arrived on this Wednesday, the day we share our desks. Our Sunday snowfall has melted and temps are about 50/60's and I am thrilled.  We share our workspaces thru our hostess Julia at the Stamping Ground.

In back of my desk is a large old 7 ft table,  which I love with a  7 ft  bench sitting on top, where I use my paper cutter, Big Kick, store my embossing folders, dies and a few other oddities.  I found some long narrow magnets and attached them to the bench to store some of the smaller dies I use more frequently.

Underneath are  5 plastic storage files with drawers for my supplies and mostly stamps ,sorted by theme, kids, men, birthday etc and some by artist or company.  Selection of drawer sizes vary. Love them. 

Not sharing my desk as it has a lot of little items pending making ATC's and was in a hurry, to photo and leave with DH.  If you are interested in trading leave me a note or email me your current address.


Thanks for visiting and wishing you Sunshine, and Spring like days.

WOYWW # 461

Welcome, where oh where does a week go?  Actually I have been stranded at home for 3 days and didn't realize it was the day to share the work space. Its available for all to become involved by way of our hostess Julia right  HERE

We are back with winter, 4 plus inches of fresh snow, -5 degree temps, school cancellations and the winds rearranging big drifts.  So very ready for "Spring", sunshine and those pretty flowers peeping through the ground.

I've been sorting, organizing, making piles of this and that. Started with seasonal changes of clothes,
easy donations. On to fabric/lace/seasonal decor, glassware, some remaining sons mementos, and the list goes on.  Wondering how things got so out of hand.

The door in back leads to the storage room....the visitors bed is a dumping ground as I sort.  My goal for that room is clear the space and add a table for  sorting, labeling all the photos stashed in a closet.

My desk is partially covered up...actually working on ATC's  somehow I found this Alan Jackson photo while sorting...

Just a note, Easter we went to the movie,  "I CAN ONLY IMAGINE" ....a 5 star for sure.  Highly recommend it.  . Breakfast time here  DH came in from out doors and it sounds like another mess in America. (Tariffs with China, will hurt our farming something terrible.)and a few more fun things added to his work week (baby calves on the way) and (snow to be moved here and in town.). 
Have a wonderful week....

A Week that Was

Our weather has been worse this week than all of winter. 12 inches of heavy wet snow came through our area. We were fortunate, 18 just east of us 30 miles.  Icy roads, and high winds. but the good, we did not lose electricity for very long.

This photo was taken the day before the storm. The ground was just thawing and my DH was digging the hole for our cat Baxter, He made the coffin a few days after he died

                               Some detail on the box...and a small quilt inside that he laid on

                                                             Rest in Peace dear friend.

                            Below is our dining room window, all ice from the east side

                               early morning off our patio on the east side of our home

                              later in the day, the winds and snow kept coming, one big drift

In the distant men were framing up the barn, from the damage of winds a week ago, took out the top east side of this old barn. He uses it yet for baby calves, which will be soon arriving.

 This was Tuesday. starting to put the white tin up.

This was later in the day DONE

And this young good looking man was our tragedy of the week. He was killed in an auto accident last Monday at the age of 44.  My sister is married to a Wingert and this was her nephew.

Needless to say our small community was saddened and stunned. Over 800 people attended the wake, and our huge church was full the next day for his services. His Dad raised 6 daughters and 2 sons as his wife died at the age of 39, with the youngest being 2. Just a wonderful family, who "live" life, support each other, the  community they live in, and give to others. 

For friends away or anyone interested in Deon's  obit it is HERE..a teacher, a nurse  who touched many lives in beautiful ways. 

WOYWW #460

Hi everyone, so glad you stopped by.  Today we share our work spaces over on Julia's BLOG,  I am so glad to be back to some normalcy. 

My desk is in a working mess:

The photo of the desk for these below is GONE...Windows 10  doesn't load same day photos in same folders.  Can't find half my recent snaps.

Our 2 grand daughters on the east coast have birthdays in April, so I have gifts for all 3. Poor Summer would be devastated if I forgot her.  Now have to find a box and get them mailed. However the news report today was their military base had a package with a bomb delivered in the area. Someone inspected it so no one was hurt.  BUT this world of ours is a scary place. 

 Wooden tags for the girls...inside sunglasses...their favorite thing.

 Little note cards for them on their gift of some jewlry

Little tags for them on their Tiara's 

I will have another post within a day or so of our storm, our barn repair, burial, for those of you not on Facebook.  Have a wonderful week and I sure hope you are having SPRING.

WOYWW #458

Hi everyone, so glad to have you stop by. This is a scheduled post for our Wednesday WOYWW, over at Julia's blog Stamping Ground.  Celebrating our grandson's birthday and some time spent with them while they in joy a spring break.

Was a busy desk since last week, lots of fun cards.

 For my sister's birthday

 For our grandson..15years old

 Will tuck a little money behind the wired heart and sign it on this the backside

 For a friend's 40th

 Grandson will be getting a car, and Grandpa will have a little more cash inside card I made.

And this is the workspace        while I was making the Vintage car and below his tag

I love making tags and this was a fun one. A little inspiration on life

Thanks for stopping by, I'm mending..found out left arm has tennis elbow, have an arm brace and not so much pain while healing with it on.  Therapy includes stretching of my neck for compressed vertebrates, helping a lot,  bursitis in shoulder more on that next trip, now ice/heat/advil and  deep massage in the trap/muscle.  Good as new in a few weeks. ! 

WOYWW #457

Welcome, it's good to be back. Partaking in Julia's What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday over on her blog HERE.

Missed last week with lots of "Life" issues, got most of mother's things sorted out, clothes washed and sorted by season, household items etc are still scattered. But I've  been doing therapy each day for neck and shoulders.No doubt from all the loading and unloading that day.  Seems to be making no headway.  Cancelled Mon/Tues as we were having rain/ice/snow/wind storms.  So used "Tiger Balm"  found out about it in S. Korea when we visited . It worked well for an elbow that I hurt in a fall. I think it's helping. 

My desk:

making a card for my niece's husband who is retiring from the military next week. I found this fun deck of playing cards. About Military Men/Presidents, but decided to leave it in tack. My son might like this, possibly some of his office staff involved. Tommy was at Camp David when President Busch was in office.

Standing in line for desk use, are 3 Birthdays, in a few days, a bridal shower, and Easter supplies.

Hope you all have a wonderful week. Thanks to everyone for stopping by 2 weeks ago and your supportive comments.  Mom seems to be doing well in her therapy, but speech is still a problem.