That Boy!?!?!?!

So AJ is 5 and he may not live much longer than that! Why? you might ask? Because I just might rrrrrr...... I'm sure you can finish that sentence that EVERY parents says in times of E X T R E M E frustration!
He has walked to the local C store which houses a Burger King also, with the neighbors a time or two. It really is fairly close to us -- just up and around the corner. Well, yesterday, he decides that I don't have enough snacks in the house or the right ones. He gets his piggy bank and gets money from it and puts the handful of coins in a ziplock bag. He comes downstairs to me and asks if I could zip it up. I do, not thinking too much of it at the moment -- MY MISTAKE! After a short amount of time, the brain kicks in (and its quiet too) Where's AJ? Wayne looks for him. No where in the house. No where in the yard or in any of the neighbors yard where he likes to hang out. On further examination, he went out the kitchen door to the garage and out the garage door. The little sneak!

I went outside and whistled and whistled. No response. Waynes throws on his shoes and grabs his keys and has this awful feeling that he has gone up to the C store. AJ also has had issues crossing the street this summer -- but thats another story. Wayne heads up there and there he was looking at the GrannyB's cookies! As soon as AJ saw dad, he knew that he was in
T R O U B L E ! ! ! ! !

HE WANTED A COOKIE! and come hell or high water, HE was going to get one!

On the up side, atleast he knew he needed money! and yes he is still alive and pouting and sad.

TEASE!!

Look at this fun group of fabrics!! What to create? what to create??

I know!

How about a new pattern/quilt for Konda from Moose on the Porch!

Yeah! Now thats the ticket!













All cut up and ready to sew, sew, sew!


In a variety of steps!

Thats all folks! or atleast until it gets published! waaahhhaaaaa......

Care to make any guesses on how you think it might turn out???

hmmmmm..

been up to????

When I finally got back in the mood to sew, if I don't have a migraine -- I have had this waiting for me, (along with a ton of old projects for the store that is now closed, opps!) .

I set these embroidered blocks together. This gal is a hoot. She has said that she only has time left in her life to do 3 of these. She hand quilts them!! This is the second one that I have put together for her -- one more to go. You should have seen the first one! The border, sashing material was SATIN!! It was a nightmare -- for me!! She called up her neice (a neighorbor where I grew up) and told her how much she LOVED my workmanship and how beautiful it is -- again! It was all funny.

the finished room

This is how the "large" dining room now looks with the new to me furniture in it. Its a wee bit crowded, but I LOVE IT!

It's wonderful to have a place for table cloths, placemats and all sorts of other hidden away hardly ever used items. AND it is nice to be able to sit on a chair and not having to worry if it will fall on you as soon as the butt cheeks touch. Thats a bonus just right there!

It was like Christmas all over again. What fun!

The birthday boy with his brothers. All are so handsome!

The only thing that he said that he wanted was a "BLUE MONSTER TRUCK".

Scratching my head wondering why? how come? where? and all of those other questions.....

After this gift, he was wanting to go ICE fishing in Salem pond right then and there. Yeah its about 6 or 7 oclock in the brrr flippin dark cold. Yeah that would be -- lets all hurry and bundle up, get all our lanterns and flashlights and rush to the pond -- NOT!!!

Love this -- THE POSE!

Don't ask.?.?.?.?..??.....

Don't know?

Since last August, Kylees birthday, all that he has wanted for his birthday cake was a "Cheese burger cake and fries" cake. So being the good parents that we are, we got him a Cheese burger and fries cake!

So this is the baby, AJ age 5 and is 45" tall!?!?! It won't be long before he is taller than both of his older sisters....

too cute for words

Isn't this just so cute?? The iddy biddy kid table in the middle of such a large room?

This is what I get to put in my large room. Isn't it just absolute gorgeous!!!

Heres a lil peek at the underneath side.

AND this too!!!

Can't Wait.........

Yes its used, ok, VINTAGE and there are some bangs and dings and don't forget about the squeaky chairs, but it is even more nice than the previous table and chairs that I had.

I finally have my table, chairs and buffet! Woot Woot. My dining room that seemed so large yesterday morning, really isn't and it doesn't echo either. I am going to have to do some rearranging to see if I can get some walking room around and to everything. hmmmm

I would love to post pics but one teansy weansy lil problem -- my computer won't read my camera memory card. K that might be a BIG problem. sigh...... If it isn't one thing, it's something else.