tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58540389395960324802024-03-19T03:26:37.764-07:00My Sew Sweet StudioBeverlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08676849110885205835noreply@blogger.comBlogger362125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5854038939596032480.post-42084307071917440312018-10-30T21:10:00.002-07:002018-10-30T21:13:33.234-07:00BOO!!<br />
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It's been so long since I have posted to my beloved blog, I have forgotten how to use it. Bear with me as I really have missed this outlet and plan on posting more often. It will be a learning process all over again.<br />
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We need a new computer, but right now I just had a tech come and help me update this one so I could load pictures from my phone.<br />
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I'm starting with the decorating of my entry way. Lots of inspiration on social media led me to think I wanted to decorate it for Halloween before I do my traditional Fall and Thanksgiving. Also two years ago, I made a Halloween bench pillow that just sat on the bench by itself because I had no other Halloween decorations.</div>
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I really struggled for a couple of weeks. I shopped and nothing seemed right. I finally decided on a black and white scheme as the pillow has a lot of black and white. Then there is my white wicker bench and white shelf. But nothing was working or coming together. Then my friend <a href="http://myretiredlifeontheprairie.typepad.com/">Suzanne</a> said something that really resonated with me as I was just not coming up with anything. She said "It's because you don't like Halloween". Well, I guess she knows me better than I know myself. I was loving seeing all the clever Halloween decorations on social media, but they just weren't me and my entry.</div>
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I found this Black and White throw on Amazon really cheap! It's scratchy and not cozy at all, but perfect for my bench.</div>
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This little quilt I had made a couple of weeks earlier was perfect for over the bench and added some much needed color.</div>
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Now when I went shopping I had a plan and it all came together. I found a few things at Hobby Lobby and some at Beverly Fabrics. The rest I just shopped from my own stash.</div>
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This wall is directly in front of the door when you open it. The bench and shelf is back to the right of the door. I usually have blue and white dishes here, a welcome sign and a couple of pictures, so I tried to use the nails that were there. Decorating around our alarm system is a challenge.</div>
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Mr. SS put this shelf up for our first Christmas in the house, so I always decorate it for the holidays.</div>
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I found this at HL and have always wanted a Gather sign. I will use it after Halloween somewhere else in the house.</div>
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I had the white pumpkin and think the polka dot one came from Marshall's. I planned on using gauze on the shelf, but forgot to pick some up, so used a fabric I had. I always like to add a candy jar so I have something to put another bow on.</div>
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Love this sequined black pumpkin and not sure why I picked up the jar. I guess I was getting my spooky on or trying. </div>
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The checked plates were from HL.</div>
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You will find this little bear and chair in my house somewhere at all times. It's very sentimental to me, and I just change his bow accordingly.</div>
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One of the things I love about my bench pillow.</div>
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So, Boo, a black cat, fabric called Spooky Delights (used for the little quilt), a black pumpkin, a spooky black crow on a jar and a lot of Black and White checks is about as spooky as this girl gets, but I am so pleased whenever I look over at this corner.</div>
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Beverlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08676849110885205835noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5854038939596032480.post-55347159992303467932017-02-14T09:25:00.000-08:002017-02-14T09:31:18.936-08:00Happy Valentines Day<div style="text-align: center;">
It seems the only time I post any more is on a holiday. I had so much fun decorating for Valentines Day, I wanted to take pictures and post so I have them for inspiration next year. My table decorations were inspired by my longtime good friend Suzanne.<br />
You've read about her many times here. She is the retired owner of my favorite quilt store Strawberry Patches. She moved to Kansas last summer and I miss her more than I can say. We have been friends since college. She dated and married a high school friend of my Mr. SS's. We married these friends the same year, had our baby boys about the same time, cooked, sewed and shopped together. She has been my inspiration for most of my adult life in more ways than decorating and sewing. Her love and zest for life, her determination, courage, and strength have always been a shining light. I could go on, but let's get on to Valentines Day. Love you, Suzanne.<br />
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This is a glance at my hutch. There are a few Valentine's specific decorations, but mostly just everything I could find red and white in my cupboards.</div>
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The three tiered stand is new and I found it at Home Goods. I love it because it looks like tart pans and fits my country farmhouse, cottage style. Again, most everything here came from my cupboards.</div>
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Here's another view.</div>
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Suzanne had posted her 3 tiered stand and cookie jar on face book and I totally copied. Who knew it would take so long to place each cookie in this jar. It won't take nearly as long for them to come out. </div>
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See the scrabble X O. They were given to my by a good friend Ruth.</div>
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A little dark, but this decoration sits on top of the stand and was made at friend Sandi's house last year. She is sitting on a favorite thing of mine, a wooden spool.</div>
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On to happy days. We celebrated Mr.SS's birthday with all but one of the grands on Super Bowl Sunday, as we always do. The one missing is our college boy, Kyle who now lives in Oregon. The young man with the dog is our Drew's new friend, Evan and our new friend too. My son's old 1958 red pickup was not only seats on the tailgate for football watching but my favorite photo prop.<br />
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Hoping to post next about our weeks of camping. Mr. SS has been on a job in Ventura since before Christmas and we have endured many rainy days in a campground, but you know how I love my little blue trailer.</div>
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Beverlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08676849110885205835noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5854038939596032480.post-66037557121679336052016-12-08T21:48:00.000-08:002016-12-08T21:49:59.926-08:00A Busy, Fun Day<div style="text-align: center;">
I got to start my day doing things I love, canning and baking.</div>
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I made 12 jars of Apple Butter and 16 loaves of pumpkin bread.</div>
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Some of them are being gifted tomorrow, some later.</div>
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The house smelled so good. Imagine...cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg times two. In the oven and bubbling on the stove. </div>
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Then at noon, my sweet DIL Lialani came over to give me a pedicure. This sweet girl has been doing this for me for at least 7 or 8 years. She does a wonderful job and it makes me feel so pampered plus it's about 1 1/2 hours of good catch-up time for us.</div>
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Just when I thought it couldn't get any better, my Mr.SS came in with a surprise. I didn't think we had any roses left on our bushes, but he found 5 late bloomers. Two red, two lavender and one yellow. The lavender ones smell so, so good. As he always does when he brings in roses, he said "Will you accept this rose?" He knows my obsession for The Bachelor. (I know, not a good thing to reveal about me, but I do watch)</div>
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Merry Christmas everyone.</div>
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Beverlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08676849110885205835noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5854038939596032480.post-5028529621644983622016-11-13T19:01:00.002-08:002016-11-13T19:01:41.243-08:00Sunday Afternoon with a Few of My Favorite Things<div style="text-align: center;">
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This past summer, my son built cabinets for my sewing/office/laundry room. I had been using folding tables and plastic containers for quite a while. Later I will do a post of the before and after of this miracle makeover, but for now, I'll just show you what I did today.</div>
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I unpacked a box of toy sewing machines that I have had for a long time. At one time I had at least 20 of them, but with each of the last 3 moves, I pared them down to just 6. These have been in storage for 6 years. It was fun getting them out and cleaning them up. They are anchoring my little vignettes.</div>
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I wanted some open shelving to display some of my favorite things. These are L shaped. You'll see the other part later. </div>
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The top shelf has the sweetest little book about the button boxes or tins we all grew up with. My grandma had a Cigar Box, but my Mom's were in the little Apple tin can you see here. She never threw away a piece of clothing without pulling off the buttons.<br />
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Besides a little toy machine, this shelf has an old jar of threads and vintage needle cases among other goodies. The small vintage metal trunk holds all of my embroider floss.<br />
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My bible on the right, my hand sewing basket, a picture of my oldest granddaughter and the little pin cushion that was given to my by my Aunt Lola the last time I visited her before she passed away. <br />
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Now the other half of the L shelves. Just some pretty fabric, books and more button jars.<br />
I have a lot more button jars and baskets. Someday I'll do a post on my buttons...oh my!<br />
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My little black Singer and an old machine that isn't a toy, but it is a hand crank and is dated 1883. My friend MariEllen gave me that one. As you can see, these are up on top of the cabinets.<br />
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This is the first little toy machine I bought. I got it at an antique store and paid way too much for it. Then I discovered I could find them in flea markets for a lot less. But it is a treasure because it was my first. The button tree was given to my by my cousin and has a lot more buttons than it looks like here.<br />
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So after my knees couldn't take anymore ladder climbing I settled down to working on a project I started 6 years ago for my then 6 year old grandson, Cade. It's going to be finished this year for Christmas. His room is still red white and blue and I think the stars are still age appropriate for a 12 yr. old. I'm backing it in Red Minkee. He loves Minkee pillowcases and gets a new one every year or so, so I know he will love a quilt to match.<br />
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Its a twin size. I only have 4 more rows to go. It's very labor intensive, but fun. I've never been good at "scrappy" quilts, but have enjoyed this one, probably because it in my favorite colors.<br />
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Mr.SS is still working on the front of our house. Maybe I'll have more progress to show you next time. We put wood blinds up on the inside this weekend...now that was an accomplishment too, but not one of my favorite things to do. Haha!<br />
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Even though we are having an Indian Summer (Is that politically correct?), well we are, with temps in the high 70's and even 80, fall is in full bloom around here, at least inside the house anyway. Not many leaves have changed on the outside, though.</div>
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The nights are a little cooler, so I put flannel sheets on the bed and added a blanket. Nothing I like better than clean flannel sheets.</div>
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Changing my hutch out with the seasons is one of my favorite things to do. I love the warm colors of fall and had fun with the few decorations I have. I say few, because I literally had almost as many tubs for fall as I had for Christmas until we moved from our bigger house into the <strike>RV </strike> Small Cottage. Now I have added a few things back into my collection of fall fun, since now we are really in a small cottage </div>
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I still had my all white decorations in the hutch, so some of them stayed. I like the sparkle of a little white with the fall colors. Well, let's face it...I just like white. </div>
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The mirrored window was placed there to cover up some nasty holes. It was just a plain window until Mr. SS got a hold of it. He added a shelf on top and a window sill and knobs on the bottom. Just to the left is the door going into my Sewing Studio/laundry/office. The plan is to take the "window" down and put up a sliding barn door. It took me a while to make that seem like it was Mr. SS's idea. lol</div>
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A few candy jars that my grand kids head for when they walk in the door.</div>
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One of my treasures here is the tiny postal scale that my friend Gail gave me. I love it because it's little, but also because I worked for the post office in my younger days.</div>
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A few more decorations...thinking about Thanksgiving now.</div>
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You can barely tell, but the platter is a vintage milk glass turkey platter that I treasure.</div>
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The plate on the bottom right is the last thing my sister made and sent to me before she passed away. It is a pretty fall scene with fabric under glass.</div>
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A cute fabric pumpkin I made at Strawberry Patches a couple of years ago.</div>
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My table setting with the newly added Pioneer Woman Amber Goblets and Cowgirl Lace Flatware.</div>
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Coffee Table with a Dept. 56 Church and my white Pilgrims and Turkey. Mr. Pilgrim suffered a broken neck in our last move, but a little super glue and he remains a part of this little vignette.</div>
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I haven't changed this display for years. It was all Home Goods purchases and they used to have a site where you could post the way you used things you bought from them.I posted a picture similar to this. So many years ago before I was a blogger, I started following my first blogger ever from that site. <a href="http://acottageindustry.typepad.com/">Tracey from Notes from a Cottage Industry</a></div>
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Okay, here's my entry bench. I put a pretty fall fabric and vintage buttons on the back of my "Boo" pillow, so it went from Halloween to Fall with just a flip over. I did the little embroidered pillow last year.</div>
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Last year a friend, Sandi, had our friendship group over for some crafting. We made this fall button picture.</div>
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The same evening we made this garland. She had printed vintage Thanksgiving cards and we glittered them, strung them and added the torn strips of fabric. It was a fun fast project. I love having it hang in my entry.</div>
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That's all for fall inside. I did a little decorating outside too, but we are still in the construction phase there, so not too much to share.</div>
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Speaking of construction, the outside of the windows are trimmed out and columns started on both sides of the garage door and at the far right end of the house. Today's progress doesn't show yet. Electrical had to be run in the attic for the lights that will go on the columns. It's a dirty job, but someone has to do it. Thank goodness for my Mr. SS.</div>
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Besides sewing for my business, I have done a couple of other big projects during the month of October.</div>
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I really haven't done any Halloween decorating since my boys were growing up. I love Autumn, Fall and Thanksgiving decorations. and I usually just do those. But, this year I saw a couple of patterns that inspired me to maybe do my entry bench and shelf with a touch of Halloween. This is one one of the patterns. It is a large bench pillow and since I have done the spring one, you can see <a href="http://mysewsweetstudio.blogspot.com/2015/04/happy-easter.html">here</a>, I already had the gigantic pillow form made for it. </div>
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I had all the fabrics I needed in my stash, except the background white with black polka dot.</div>
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I did it all hand applique with blanket stitch, then hand and machine quilting and binding like a quilt</div>
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so it took me a long time, but I finished it in time to take a picture for today. lol Well I'll have it next year so I can do my little entry way corner in what I will call "soft" Halloween.</div>
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My new sidelights next to my door let in light and I love that, but it kinda spoiled my photo op this morning.</div>
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This is the end of the pillow you can't see in the other picture. It's also my granddaughter, Drew's birthday date, so that is one of the reasons I liked this pillow design. Another is the cute candy corn flowers with vintage black button centers.</div>
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I also found this cute pattern on Facebook and really wanted to make it this year for my corner. It is small and perfect for the wall behind my bench. You can find a link for this and the pillow pattern on my Facebook.</div>
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The fabrics used for that cute little quilt above are from Anne Sutton of Bunny Hill. I found some at my local fabric store, Cherry Berry Quilts, and some I got from Shabby Fabrics on line. It is a sweet little collection, not scary Halloween and the bottom orange is more a tangerine, I can use with other combinations.</div>
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I didn't get this one made, but am all set for next year. That's the way us quilters do things sometimes.</div>
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Since I mentioned my granddaughter Drew above, thought I would show you her picture from her very first formal a couple of weeks ago. Happy 17th Birthday Drew.</div>
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While I am on the subject of birthdays, yesterday was my middle son's birthday. Happy Birthday Eric.</div>
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I won't say his age, because it would hint at how really old I am. This was taken a couple of years ago.</div>
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One more sewing project finished this month. Worked on yo-yos for this for longer than I want to admit, but this was for my cousin. I should do a tutorial on yo yo quilts. It really turned out a lot nicer than some I've seen. I learned a lot.</div>
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Last, but certainly not least. I posted this on facebook, but wanted to put it here too.</div>
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The view from my porch yesterday afternoon.</div>
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Once again, it has been awhile, hasn't it? Everyday, I think about something I want to blog about and somehow the day goes by and I haven't. Well, today I was taking pictures of our front entry and decided it was time to sit down and journal the changes on my blog. I've put some things on Facebook about it, but this is a little more detailed.</div>
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This is the only before picture of our cottage I could find. As you can see the front door is not centered under the portico. I have wanted it moved since the first time we looked at the house. When Mr. SS decided to move it, I suggested that we add sidelights as long as we were changing things. Well, things went kinda crazy from there. That is typical of us. We are fixer uppers at heart and knew from day one, that the front of this house was going to change. You can't see them, but there are 4"x4" in posts at the front of the portico.</div>
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From the inside after door was removed.</div>
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The out side. The top of the portico had a ceiling right above the door. Mr. SS removed it and started designing.</div>
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He cut out the opening for door and side lights. Wow, it really opened up our entry. Loving it already.</div>
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Framing it all in.</div>
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Door back in and all trimmed out on the inside.</div>
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We did not change the size of the portico at all, just subtracted and added to make it look so much more prominent. He removed a paneling to expose that area under the roof line. The center brace and beam were already there, but he added the two pieces of wood.</div>
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Now bead board and two columns have been added to the wall surrounding the door. The 4x4 posts have been wrapped and trimmed. Every thing already looks so much bigger.</div>
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Bead board and a center beam was added to the roof of the portico and it is primered.</div>
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The ceiling with bead board and our new little chandelier. It only has 3 lights and lots of little crystals. At night the crystals sparkle on the all that shiny white paint. It is so pretty.</div>
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We still have to paint front door and are leaning towards red. Our last house had a red one, and I never tired of it.</div>
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As always, I am feeling blessed</div>
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I really have been trying to post more often, but it just seems there is something always going on and time gets away from me.</div>
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I had great inspiration today to do a post about my granddaughter Lexi and her 8th grade graduation.</div>
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Lexi (Alexa Marie) is the 2nd daughter of my son Brandon and his wife Olivia. They have 6 total - 5 girls and one boy.</div>
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Last summer the whole family decided they would home school. Olivia was a trooper and did the work to home school a Kindergardner, a 2nd grader, a 4th grader, a 6th grader and Lexi who was in 8th grade.</div>
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Drew was in HS and wanted to continue there.</div>
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Two weeks before Christmas they all voted to go back to school except Lexi. She wanted to continue being home schooled. They were connected to Valley Oaks Charter School and she loved her time there too.</div>
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A few weeks ago she told me about her graduation and that it would be held at the Fox Theater downtown. She wanted to make a dress for it. So off we went to my favorite quilt store Strawberry Patches(ok, another blog post coming up about my happy place) to find fabric. I have taken the girls there since they were little to pick out fabric for special dresses and that's where Lexi wanted to go.</div>
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She has made a few things and started on her own, but needed help last week. I went and picked her up and we sewed at my house. I don't have to do any of the sewing, I'm just there for support if she needs it.</div>
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She wouldn't look up because she didn't have her makeup on. At 14 that consists of Mascara.</div>
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She tried it on and it is perfect. Again, I couldn't get her head because she didn't do her hair. She is so beautiful without makeup and her hair done, but try to tell a 14 yr. old that.</div>
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So today we went to graduation. I wish I could have gotten a picture with her in it of the Marque. This theater has been refurbished and is an historic part of downtown Bakersfield.</div>
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Right after the program in the lobby. She made the little jacket too because she couldn't wear sleeveless in the ceremony.</div>
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Our family always goes to Rosemary's Ice Cream Parlor after special events, so sister Drew got some pictures of her for me. I love that the decor matches her outfit. She will too when she sees this.</div>
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Did I tell you she did a professional job on this dress with side zipper, pleats and insisted on hand stitching the hem. (yep, she's her Mamaw's girl)</div>
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This girl is amazing and she knows just what she wants when it comes to sewing and wants to design her own clothes. She can sketch a picture of what she has in mind. You can't see it here, but the waistband has writing on it. She knew she wanted fabric with writing and there was no changing her mind. it was the perfect combination.</div>
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Again, she had something in mind and I helped her change the pattern to fit her design. I didn't sew a stitch on this. I supervised only.</div>
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She is a ballerina and loves dance. She just found out last week she would be "on point" now which I'm told is a big step up for a ballerina.</div>
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As I come to the end of this story of Lexi, I think I should feature each of my grands, one at a time as they all are so special in their own way.</div>
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I know it's almost over, but I wanted to wish all of you a Happy Mother's Day.</div>
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Hope you got to relax and enjoy family as I did.</div>
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Mr. SS asked what I wanted to do for Mother's Day. Besides spending time with family, I wanted to go to church. Because two grand boys play travel league baseball, we miss a lot of Sundays going to church.</div>
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As much as I love the games, I was happy to attend church this morning.</div>
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Then home for a late breakfast and a little <strike>napping </strike> relaxing, and over to our youngest son's house for an early dinner and family fun. Middle son and his family were there too. I was happy to get a call from my oldest as he had to work.</div>
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As soon as we got there, we got escorted to the back of the property to meet new members of the family.</div>
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Camy has two, Romeo and Juliet</div>
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Brooke on the left with Penelope and Emmy on the right. I'm having a senior moment and her little friends name just slipped my mind.</div>
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These two are pygmy goats, but Camy's will be quite big.</div>
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My youngest, Brandon has a new toy to work on in his back yard. Because I am a lover of all thing vintage and red, I got to have my picture taken with the 8 grands that were there. So this is my Mother's Day 2016 picture.</div>
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In 1956, on my 10th birthday, my Dad, Mom, sister and I left Illinois to make our home in California. We traveled in a 1956 Red and White Ford pickup pulling a Red and White 42 ft trailer.(I have a picture of that truck and trailer somewhere, but couldn't find it tonight.) Brandon's truck is a 1958 Ford. I guess it won my heart not only because it is red and vintage, but because it reminds me of a time long ago.</div>
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<br />Beverlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08676849110885205835noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5854038939596032480.post-35420674730323288212016-05-02T22:48:00.002-07:002016-05-02T22:48:46.692-07:00White on White<div style="text-align: center;">
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Right after Easter, I put all my Easter decorations away that I had in my hutch and the few things left were white. It was too early to start my Red White and Blue decorating that I do before Memorial Day and leave until after Labor Day. I kept looking at the white and it hit me...White on White. I have a board on Pinterest with that title so I searched it and got some ideas. </div>
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I was headed out the door to shop, Home Goods and Hobby Lobby when I thought, silly girl, I bet you could shop your own house, cupboards and storage and come up with enough to decorate that small hutch.</div>
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So that's what I did.</div>
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Here's what I came up with without buying a single thing.</div>
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I have to confess, I have a massive collection of vintage linens too and I searched through a tub in the garage and found so many white ones I had forgotten I still had.<br />
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It really helped that Mr. SS changed the back of the hutch to white bead board before I decorated for Easter, so the stage was set.<br />
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I still have some of my Milk Glass collection, so of course I pulled it all together from other places in the house<br />
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It isn't all white. I used some glass too. There are vintage white hankies tucked under the lid of a Crystal jar. A small glass cloche has a dollar store white candle in it.<br />
The plate and creamer and sugar are Sweetheart Milk Glass. They are the only pieces I have of that.<br />
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More of my Milk Glass pieces including a short cake plate that is usually on the center of my table.<br />
The small vintage pitcher is Royal Crown Ironstone with Wheat on it. It has a million hairline cracks in the surface, but I love it.<br />
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The Milk Glass Rooster is from Martha Stewart a long time ago. A Crystal vase and another Dollar Tree candle and glass holder. There are about 12 large napkins in the basket that were Martha Stewart from Kmart almost 20 yrs. ago. They are pique and really stained, but perfect folded for display. I love the little Milk Glass Bowl with the lace design around the edge.<br />
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More lacy napkins folded and hanging over the edge of a crystal bowl.<br />
The Milk Glass candle is new and given to me by some special friends on an antiquing trip. There is a tiny milk glass chicken on a bowl in front of the platter. I bought that in the 70's at a World Softball Tournament in Wisconsin. I didn't even collect chickens or milk glass then, but we were so poor, it was probably the only souvenir I could afford.<br />
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This is probably one of my favorites. An ironed and folded stack of different size white hankies just tied with a ribbon.<br />
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All in white, it gives my hutch a bright cheery spring look until it gets ready for the longest decorating season of the year. (Red, White and Blue)</div>
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Oh, almost for got to say, I had all the white put together and it just seemed blah. It needed some greenery to add to that springy feel.</div>
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Keeping in my spirit of not buying anything new for this display, I pulled out a bag of the little clover like small pieces of greenery and placed it around everything.</div>
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To add a little color here, I thought I would show you my first edible strawberry out of my little strawberry patch. I've had some other tiny ones that ripened but got mushy before I got to them. These went on top of my yogurt this morning. Yummy!<br />
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Another spot of color on the center of the table. Probably my last full bouquet of Sweetpeas. First the wind blew them down from the lattice and the the two hard rains we had beat them up pretty bad. They had a good run though. Can't wait for next year.<br />
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Just got home from our five day trip to the coast. All unpacked and ready for bed. But first a quick post to document a really good trip.</div>
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We left Monday morning pulling our little blue and white trailer headed for the coast. Golfing for Mr. SS, sewing for me, and whatever we wanted to do in between.</div>
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We had just passed a big truck (I have to close my eyes when we do this...no I literally duck my head)</div>
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I heard a loud bang and then flap, flap flap. Then Mr. SS caught on to my panic as he looked in the rear view mirror...yep a flat tire.</div>
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He pulled over and worked for over an hour trying to loosen the lug bolts. No luck, bless his heart. It was 90 degrees out and both our freshly showered bodies were dripping in sweat. </div>
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He said, we just had to drive slow as we still had 3 good tires. Yeah, that made me feel better.</div>
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God was with us, we put on our flashers and drove slowly to New Cuyama. We always stop there for lunch on our way to the coast.</div>
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We pulled up in front and went in, asking the waitress if there was any place in town we could get a tire changed. No, there wasn't. Everyone in the place was just kinda staring at us. I was about to cry, when a young man who was sitting with a group of 4 men stepped up and said. We can take care of it for you. Follow us to our farm about a mile from here.</div>
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Whew, I said to Dennis, can I stay here where it's cool and get a diet coke. Sure, he said and off they went.</div>
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Then I kinda panicked and thought, what if they kidnapped him or something. He didn't have much cash on him as I carry that, but we have that big red truck and our pretty little blue and white trailer. </div>
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My mind was running wild. So I called one of my sons and expressed my concern. He said just call him...oh why didn't I think of that. He was on his way back and tire was changed. Those nice men would not even take a penny for their help. God was with us.</div>
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This is what our tire looked like in the back of our truck. The wheel wasn't even damaged. God was with us!</div>
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We are responsible RV'rs. We have roadside assistance, but it would have taken hours for them to get to us. I could just hear the phone call, "You are in New What?" </div>
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Now another hour and we were ready to head for the coast once again.</div>
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WAIT! We weren't upset enough to have lost our appetite. You have to know Mr. SS to know, he does not miss many meals. So we ordered. When his came...no fries? Forgotten the tire already. "Where are my fries?"</div>
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My salad was perfect as is.</div>
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Tuesday, Mr. SS golfed and I made more curtains for the trailer. Not a good picture, and they didn't turn out like I planned, but I like them. They were supposed to be pinch pleated with covered buttons on the pleats, but the pattern I used was way too full even though I had made adjustments, to do the pleats and buttons.</div>
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I used the same Pam Kitty fabric i used on all the smaller windows. I just wanted the ones for over the dining table and sitting area to be different. This picture shows the ones I had already made.</div>
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We BBQ'd the second night. Our first BBQ of the season. Guess what we had. Yep...hamburger with all the fixin's. They tasted sooo good.</div>
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Wednesday we went to Grover Beach to see our friends that live there. Carol took me to a Farmers Market close by. This is just some of the goodies I got. Those shelled sugar snap peas are the best. They are good just as a snack or in a salad, but Mr.SS won't eat them that way. So the next night we BBQ'd chicken and I made brown rice and a salad. I threw some of the peas in the rice. So, so good.</div>
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After we left our friends house, we drove to San Luis Obispo and had lunch at the Apple Farm. Then we drove to Morro Bay and on a little north to Cuyucas. It is the cutest little town right on the beach. I called it a sleepy little town and Mr. SS asked what that meant. I said no one is in a hurry...NOT. We were slowly driving by a place called Brown Sugar Cookie when a truck honked and raced around us. Guess you have those people everywhere. </div>
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We had read about an RV park there on the side of the hill overlooking the ocean. We loved the place and are already planning our next trip to the coast and staying at Bella Vista.</div>
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Tomorrow it's back to normal. We are off to Irvine to watch our Kobi play Volleyball and Sunday to Taft for baseball. I also have to squeeze in making a sweet 8 yr. old a birthday dress in the next two days.</div>
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<br />Beverlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08676849110885205835noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5854038939596032480.post-63184055147789454292016-04-11T23:12:00.000-07:002016-04-11T23:23:49.639-07:00Our "Retired" Life<div style="text-align: center;">
Almost two years ago we bought our tiny cottage, thinking we would slow down and ease into being semi-retired. NOT! Life has been busier than ever. Now, mind you, I'm not complaining. I love our life. </div>
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Besides both of us working, we try to keep up with all the grands and their activities.</div>
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At the moment, that is two playing baseball, one swimmer, one playing volleyball and 4 dancers.<br />
The highlight of my weeks right now is having our college grandson, Kyle come every Tuesday and Thursday between classes for dinner. He will probably go away to college next year, so we are enjoying this time with him.</div>
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I saw the perfect sign on Pinterest for us.</div>
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Besides the kids activities, we have been trying to fix up our tiny cottage a little at a time. I really wanted a Carriage House garage door, but after pricing them, decided a paint job on the one we had would have to do for a while.</div>
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Mr.SS finally painted our metal aluminum door white.</div>
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You can also see our new white security gates. That area was open before...I feel much more secure now.</div>
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Plans are in the works for a whole face lift for the front of the house. A new front door and sidelights have been ordered. I will follow along with that process soon.</div>
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We enjoy our roses and always have a bouquet for the table. Mr. SS just brought these in yesterday.</div>
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We work in the yard quite a bit. Besides the roses, I have a couple of flower beds and some strawberries planted. I still can't get on my knees, but with help from the grands and Mr. SS, I am able to keep them up.</div>
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My favorites are these Sweet Peas that just come up by themselves. They smell sooo good.</div>
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One of two Azaleas. They bloomed at different times.</div>
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For my part of being semi-retired, I got one of the biggest orders ever ready to mail to Four Tiny Cousins who I still sew for.</div>
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This was done in a week. I had taken the week before Easter off, so I had put myself in a bind. I didn't even have it mailed yet and received my next order. I'm thankful for the work, though and will sew as long as they need me to. I still do sewing for others too, so I just keep trying to work it in. It's not uncommon to see me sewing on buttons or any other handwork I can do at ballgames.</div>
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I showed you the dress I made for Emmy Lou, but just now got pictures of her wearing it. Her big sister Drew took these for me. I found the perfect sandals on Amazon to match.</div>
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Still our cute Emmy Lou in her birthday dress and shoes.</div>
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Tomorrow, I get to go pick up granddaughter Lexi and take her to <a href="http://www.strawberry-patches.com/">Strawberry Patches</a> to pick out fabric for her 8th grade graduation dress, which she is making herself.</div>
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I'm going to get fabric for a birthday dress for Brooke. Same pattern, just different fabric.</div>
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Then next Monday, Mr. SS and I are taking our little blue trailer to the coast for a few days, so we can pretend we are semi-retired. He'll golf and I'll be sewing on Brooke's birthday dress and maybe some curtains.</div>
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It's been two years since I have had all 10 of my grand kids for a sleepover, so after checking with the Moms, I sent out a group text to the ones that have cell phones and invited them to stay Sunday night after the Easter dinner at my son's house. I really didn't know if the 21, and 19 yr. old would still want to come to a sleepover, but they did and we had so much fun. I only have one extra bed, so we had kids all over the house in sleeping bags.</div>
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The girls watching Princess movies.</div>
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After a big breakfast, they played outside. After bribing them with being able to do a goofy picture, I got them to stand still long enough for this one.</div>
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After a big lunch, the Moms picked some up and the two older ones drove home to Tehachapi.</div>
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Whew!! Mamaw needed a nap! But who knows if I'll ever get them all at one time again. Emmy is 6 now, so along with the others, I think she will remember this time. (Says Mamaw with tears in her eyes)</div>
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This is our traditional place to take Easter pictures every year in my son's back yard.</div>
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Our dinner table for 26 set up under the tree house.Bouquets of roses are from our garden. You can't see them but there are twinkle lights strung</div>
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all over which, when the sun goes down, remind me of the TV show "Parenthood".</div>
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Tonight as I am getting ready for bed after a day spent cooking desserts and salads for tomorrow's Easter dinner at my youngest son's house, I'm feeling a little teary. Everything is ready for tomorrow. Food is cooked, I cooked and cleaned up from a big Lasagna dinner for my friend MariEllen from So Ca. and my BIL from Nevada. I've laid out church clothes.</div>
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But I haven't taken time to think about what tomorrow is besides a family gathering. It's Easter, Resurrection Day. My prayer tonight is to take time from my busyness to be thankful for what Jesus did for me and to realize the miracle of him rising from the grave.</div>
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I don't usually get so sentimental on my blog, but that's just me tonight.</div>
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Okay...on to my blog post. This cute little lop eared bunny came from my DIL, Stefani's shop in Tehachapi.</div>
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It's a wonderful shop full of treasures, furniture she has re purposed, jewelry, accessories, and loads of home and garden decor. It's called Bliss Interiors and it is a lovely shop. If you get a chance to stop by, you will love it. She is on face book too, so look her up. </div>
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I had a real treat earlier this week when one of my other DIL's, Lialani brought Cade and Kobi over. While Lia did my pedicure (oh what a treat that is), the kids washed my windows inside and out. They had never washed windows before and after listening to me tell them how I like them done, they did a fantastic job. Look at that smile. They also helped me clean up the patio and get it decorated and spruced up for the weekend company.</div>
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Kobi wanted a bouquet of roses for her room. We have the most beautiful roses this year. They are huge and smell so good. </div>
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That lavender one is all our favorite. It has the best fragrance of all.</div>
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Today, Lexi and Mr. SS cut roses for all the center pieces for the tables tomorrow. I'll get a better picture tomorrow. We had tons of Narcissus this year that didn't bloom much last year and later they added some to the bouquets.</div>
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Mr. SS found this bunny at Home Goods. At first I didn't care for it too much because it doesn't have a face, but it is solid wood and Mr. SS thought we should have it...mmm...that man and his love for wood.</div>
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Now, I have kinda fallen in love with it along with Mr. SS.</div>
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Wishing you a blessed Easter Day!!</div>
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<br />Beverlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08676849110885205835noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5854038939596032480.post-20719284791201256982016-03-16T21:26:00.000-07:002016-03-16T21:26:04.950-07:00A Little Gardening and a Day with Emmy<div style="text-align: center;">
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Last year I posted pictures of our backyard full of roses and flowers that showed up without me doing much other than weeding and watering.</div>
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Our front yard is another story. It had 4 Rose bushes, 2 Camellias, 2 Azaleas and 2 very old trees. </div>
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Nothing bloomed last year because Mr. SS "butchered" (his description) them all. This year we had a few Camellia blooms and this beautiful Azalea .</div>
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We didn't plant any color last year because Mr. SS wanted to landscape and put in sprinklers. Well, that hasn't happened yet...he's designing now, but I just wanted some spring color, so we decided to put everything in pots, so they could be moved when he tears up the whole yard.</div>
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We had kept some of our landscaping decorations from the big house. Much of it stored on the side of the house. I had really forgotten what I had. Here's one of the benches and bunnies that were begging to be cleaned up and brought back to life. The Elysium in the background comes up on its own.</div>
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Another forgotten bunny and yellow pot on our front porch table.</div>
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I did buy this window box new at Lowe's. It was black and when I asked the garden center guy if they had any window boxes, that's what he showed me. I said "No, I want something cute." You can imagine the look I got. Anyway a can of spray paint and I'm okay with it.</div>
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An old fountain that had fallen apart. It used to be 3 tiers, But Mr. SS managed to put it together enough to use it for a planter.</div>
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Two more dirty pots came back to life and adorn the front walk.</div>
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Another bench, bunny and a couple of potted plants. I still have a couple more bunnies. Did they multiply over on the side of the house? I don't remember having such a "thing" for bunnies.</div>
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There was already a little flower bed around one of the big trees, so Mr. SS planted some flowers in the ground. He said, "No matter what I do with the landscape, that tree's not moving."</div>
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Now for my day with Emmy.I got to pick her up from Kindergarten and bring her home with me for a little one on one time. In case you have forgotten, she is the youngest of our 10 grandchildren and quite the character. She just turned 6, but acts more like 16,</div>
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except when it comes to picking what she want to eat and drink out of. I have a drawer with all the baby dishes and she just had to have a sippy cup...silly girl.</div>
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She got to have her favorite Mac and Cheese and Strawberries.</div>
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She noticed all the new flowers out in the front and asked if she could water them. Well of course...these days, I can use all the help I can get.</div>
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She is such a joy. We also had some reading time, blowing bubbles time and some just good being silly time.</div>
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I pulled up some pictures on the computer of her helping me in the garden when we lived in her back yard.</div>
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She was only 2 here. She's 6 now. Where does time go?</div>
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Feeling blessed with a fun Spring day with Emmy</div>
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and a home with a yard to plant flowers in.</div>
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<br />Beverlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08676849110885205835noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5854038939596032480.post-69010941830457056662016-03-08T22:32:00.001-08:002016-03-08T22:32:49.925-08:00A Couple of "Honey Do's"<div style="text-align: center;">
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Mr. SS doesn't like lists, but if I gently suggest something I need done, he'll usually surprise me and start it when I'm not here.</div>
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That's what happened Sunday afternoon. I had emptied my hutch getting ready to put up Easter decorations and left to check out Home Goods. When I came home, he was painting beadboard in the garage.</div>
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Last year, I showed the backing for the hutch I had done on poster board with a Pam Kitty fabric. You can see that <a href="http://mysewsweetstudio.blogspot.com/2015/02/a-little-valentines-sewing-and.html">here</a> . I still love that and can still put that up when I want to, but I think the white bead board will really show off Easter and Spring decorations better.</div>
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We're going to be gone for a couple of days, so I won't get to decorate the hutch until I get back, but I'll be showing it off as soon as I do</div>
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Here's the other little "Honey Do" I had for Mr. SS. I got this lamp at Hobby Lobby with a coupon. It's really cute and just the right size for where I wanted to put it, but black with a tan shade and a brown cord just doesn't fit in my kitchen.</div>
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So, I asked Mr. SS if he could change the cord to a white one and I would paint the lamp base. Well, he changed the cord and painted it for me.</div>
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All I had to do was add a shade I already had. It's one of the chandelier shades from our big house. I covered 9 of these and have a couple in the little blue trailer. Sure glad I saved this one.</div>
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Here it is in the little corner of my kitchen.</div>
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See, the black and tan just wouldn't have the same effect.</div>
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Yes, I still have pink cabinets and pink grout. For now, I just decorate around them and someday, when I gently suggest it, Mr. SS might surprise me and start our kitchen remodel.</div>
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We are off tomorrow on a little road trip with our friends Dave and Gail to Temecula. Gail and I will get some antiquing in and Dave and Mr. SS will be golfing. Fun times with friends.</div>
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Last year it was fun seeing our yard start to bloom with color that we didn't know we had. I still loved seeing that this year, but I was most excited about a few things we planted, trees. A Silky Oak, and a Meyer Lemon that aren't really picture worthy, and 3 fruit trees.</div>
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This is a nectarine and even though it is usually me that gets excited over first blooms, the fruit trees are Mr. SS's babies. He was counting the first blossoms and now it is covered with them.</div>
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The peach tree, not as covered but pretty anyway. The plum didn't blossom, so guess we won't have plums this year.</div>
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Our first rose. There are buds all over the others, so I'll have lots of roses to come.</div>
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These are our prettiest Daffodils. I think the row of them we have need to be thinned as there are more plants and not so many blooms</div>
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Poppies come up everywhere. Last year I pulled most of them thinking they were weeds. I knew better this year.</div>
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My Sweet Peas are my favorite. Last year I pulled most of them before realizing what they were. This year they are abundant. We sit in the swing on the other side of the patio and swear we can see the sweet peas grow. They are vining up that lattice so fast. Can't wait til they bloom.</div>
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Mr. SS replaced the weathered lattice with new white. He knows how I love white. Don't tell him, but I think I liked the weathered ones better. I saved them and will use them in the garden somewhere else.</div>
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One of the best signs of spring is the weather being warm enough to eat outside. Our first dinner outside this week with our oldest Grandson, Kyle. He goes to college here in Bakersfield, but still lives in Tehachapi, so 2 days a week he comes over between classes and has dinner here.</div>
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We love every minute spent with this handsome 21 year old. He weeded my flower beds last week as my knees won't allow me to anymore.</div>
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Finally to my sewing project earlier this week. Our youngest grand turns 6 on Monday and she still loves for me to make her dresses. I showed you the fabric in the last post. Mr. SS asked me what I love most about sewing (since I seem to be doing that all the time). I said that I love fabric and turning a flat folded piece into something pretty is just so fun. It could be a pillow, a quilt, or any number of things I make for my home and others, but a dress that makes a little girl squeal has got to be the best.</div>
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I've got to hurry off and get ready for a swim meet for Drew, the high schooler and a basketball game for Jack the...athlete. He is so much like his Papaw...a story for another time.</div>
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Wishing you a great weekend, a happy Spring and as always,</div>
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Last week we found out Mr. SS's sister who lives in Oregon was really ill. I packed our bags while he was at work and we left to make the very long trip. After spending the night in Sacramento with my cousin, we left early the next morning. It was not to be a fun trip like the one we took almost exactly a year ago to Washington and Oregon, but as we were driving and feeling anxious about what we would find at the end, we couldn't help seeing evidence of God's Glory.</div>
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We both felt the peace He was giving us as we drove through northern California and then on to Oregon.</div>
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This is Mt. Shasta. I had a hard time getting a picture as there are so many tall trees, but with patience, I found an opening and snapped this.</div>
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In Oregon (of course, because it doesn't rain this much in California) we hit some really heavy rain, but as it cleared God showed us a beautiful rainbow. It was a full half circle and actually a double one, but the second one barely shows. At one point it seemed to drop down on the highway right in front of us.</div>
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A little later as the sun went down, the clouds cleared up enough for us to see this. I wasn't patient enough with this picture, though because as we passed a small body of water, the sunset was reflected as a mirror image on the water. I said to Mr. SS that I put my camera down too quickly. Just goes to show, you gotta keep it ready when there is so much beauty all around.</div>
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With out going into too much detail, Sis was not doing well at all, but the blessing was that she knew we were there and even though she couldn't talk, we knew she could understand much of what we said.</div>
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After getting home, going to a basketball game and two baseball games, I had to get to work.</div>
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I had started some chair covers for a friend that were way overdue.</div>
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This is one of her chairs. I had 4 covers to do.</div>
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I finished them this morning.</div>
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They are made from a painters drop cloth. I have read and seen so much about using theses for slipcovers and curtains, but have never used one before. If you are okay with a distressed look and some flaws in the fabric, it is and inexpensive way to go. The weight and off white color is great too.</div>
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This is the picture my friend, Sally gave me. I had to do the back a little different because of the way her chair was made, but I think they came out pretty much the same.</div>
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Soooo, this afternoon, I got to go to my favorite quilt store <a href="http://www.strawberry-patches.com/">Strawberry Patches</a> and get a pattern and fabric for a birthday dress for sweet little Emmy Lou, who will be 6 on March 7th. She came running up to me at the basketball game and was counting off the days til her birthday. She said she wanted me to make her a dress, so, I sew.</div>
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I've made this dress before for a model, and she saw it and loved the bows on it, so that's what I picked, I went with this peach for something a little different from my favorite reds and blues.</div>
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These are for a great niece that wants a purple and blue apron.</div>
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<a href="http://www.strawberry-patches.com/">Suzanne</a> showed these on facebook a few weeks ago, so while I was there I got some "just because" they are cute and it's almost Easter. I haven't a clue what I'll make, but I'll share here when I do.</div>
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Lastly, I bought a piece of flesh colored fabric to make a doll. Right before Christmas I went on a hunt for a pattern for a doll to make. I finally came up with this book. I don't know when I will have time, but I just know I want to make a doll. Suzanne and I started out making dolls to sell. Funny thing, in my Internet searching, I came across a vintage pattern (probably 1975)on Ebay for the doll we made. Wish I had a picture. We made the doll and different clothes and sold hundreds of them.<br />
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<br />Beverlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08676849110885205835noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5854038939596032480.post-13848611671846287622016-02-14T18:40:00.000-08:002016-02-14T18:41:23.981-08:00Happy Valentine's Day<div style="text-align: center;">
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We are in the middle of a three day baseball tournament for grandson Cade in Fontana, but it's still Valentine's Day and I couldn't resist just a quick post.</div>
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Before I left home, I snapped a few pictures of the little bit of Valentine decorating I did.<br />
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A couple of treasures. The framed picture, my friend Sandi made. Hope you can read it. The heart in the background I got last year from Suzanne at Strawberry Patches at Bernina club.<br />
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I made one pillow for my white wicker chair out of some of my favorite Pam Kitty stash of fabric. <br />
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Three pillows I made for my friend Sandi a few weeks ago. She still had some Pam Kitty fabric from pillowcases I made a couple of years ago for her., They are so happy!<br />
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<br />Beverlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08676849110885205835noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5854038939596032480.post-89453567107849337162016-01-01T17:40:00.000-08:002016-01-01T17:41:44.103-08:00Welcome 2016!!<div style="text-align: center;">
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Happy New Year!</div>
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Another year has flown by and I haven't posted much or visited other blogs as much as I like to.</div>
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I have really missed all of my friends whose blogs I follow and I have missed the joy I get from posting on my own blog.</div>
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There, I said it...JOY! About a month ago, I decided that would be my word for the year 2016.</div>
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Some friends and I went on a shopping trip to Fallbrook to the Vintage Marketplace. </div>
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About half way through the isles of vintage treasures and handmade items, I spotted this:</div>
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I looked at it for a long time, but finished walking through and exploring in the booths. I just kept thinking about that sign and how much the word "joy" meant to me.</div>
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As we were finishing up and getting ready to meet back at the entrance, I knew I just had to go back and see if my "JOY" was still there. It went through my mind, that I could get Mr. SS to find an old cabinet door and I could make this for myself. Okay...only for 3 seconds, then I knew I just wanted to buy this one.</div>
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The young women whose booth it was in said she had made it and when I saw a baby in a stroller next to her, it reminded me of all the craft fairs I had done as a young Mom (with my friend <a href="http://patches.typepad.com/">Suzanne</a>) trying to earn extra money for our Christmas gifts or other "necessities"</div>
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It gave me great "joy" to buy it from her.</div>
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Now, with a loving husband, 3 great sons, 3 sweet DIL's and 10 grandchildren, I have a lot of joy in my life.</div>
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I also have many caring friends and other family who bring me joy.</div>
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I have a home full of joy and great neighbors.</div>
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My sewing brings me joy, not only the sewing I do for fun, but my job of sewing for an income is a joy for me.</div>
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But, by choosing the word "JOY" for my word this year, I want more. I don't want it to just be about me. I want to bring joy to others. I haven't quite figured that part out yet, but I want to.</div>
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I will be praying about it.</div>
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In the mean time, as I sit here in my trailer on the last night of our week at the coast, I am thanking God for all the JOY in my life.</div>
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Wishing all of you who read this a year filled with JOY!!</div>
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<br />Beverlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08676849110885205835noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5854038939596032480.post-76464941696531289102015-04-04T22:29:00.001-07:002015-04-04T22:30:09.597-07:00Happy Easter<br />
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Are you like me and saying to yourself, it can't be Easter already? Wasn't Christmas just last week?</div>
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March seems like the fastest month ever. We had a busy month around here. A birthday and a trip to Washington and Oregon took up the first two weeks. Then March was gone and here it is April and Easter.</div>
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The birthday girl, Emmy turned 5 this month. She is our "baby" but is so grown up. When asked what she wanted for her birthday, she told her parents she wanted new baby chicks. If you have been reading my blog for a while, I have often called her the "Chicken Whisperer" because she can catch, hold and cuddle the hens when no one else can. Well, she got 27 new baby chicks for her birthday and yesterday she showed them to me. The all have names and she knows each one of them.</div>
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When she told me that's what she wanted, I told her I was really glad she still likes me to make her dresses.</div>
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Being the precocious child she is (and 5 going on 15) she said, I said dress not dresses....OK!</div>
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I have no trouble getting her to pose, we had a fun morning in the yard and I probably got 20 photos, but I'll stop now. You got the idea.</div>
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I took this project to Washington for handwork in the car. I blanket stitched it and the stitches aren't too even, but I got it finished and put together when I got home. It sits on the bench I have in my entry way. </div>
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I really enjoyed making the flowers. Of course I've done lots of yo-yo flowers, but had never done the others before. It's always fun learning a new technique. They would make cute hair bows for my girls...hmmm.</div>
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I finished off the back in my favorite way, by over lapping and adding vintage buttons.</div>
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The pillow is 38 x 18. I made the insert and literally had a wrestling match on the floor trying to get the pillow inside. Mr.SS thought it hilarious, but didn't offer any help at all.</div>
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I did a little Easter decorating using a few favorite things and some vintage linens and tablecloth.</div>
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I love my little lambs. I have had them for many years.</div>
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This little bobble head rabbit was added this year along with the metal shelf. The rabbit came from the dollar store. Amazing how something so <strike>cheap</strike> inexpensive can make me so happy. The metal shelf came from HomeGoods and was a pretty good deal too.</div>
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Thought since tomorrow is Easter, I would leave you with this picture again. Wishing you a Happy Easter and a blessed day with church, family and of course lots of good food.</div>
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A Photo of my yard!!</div>
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Several years ago, before it was my yard. </div>
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My neighbor gave this to me the other day. He took it from his side of the fence. If only it could look like this again.</div>
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When we moved into our small cottage in late August, everything was dead and even the 30 plus rose bushes looked sad. After a little water, we were able to get many nice bouquets of roses before winter settled in. But there was no sign of any thing else.</div>
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Now with the warm weather the flower beds have been taken over with weeds, some over 2 feet tall.</div>
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As we are clearing out the weeds and trying to prepare for spring planting, we are finding a few surprises.</div>
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Reaching up for some of the early spring sunshine, we have found a few of:</div>
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these,</div>
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and several of these,</div>
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and a whole bed of these (please ignore the weeds),</div>
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and lots of these.</div>
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As I was weeding this flower bed, and after I had pulled up some of these sweet pea vines, my neighbor said, Emmet had sweet peas growing all along that old trellis.</div>
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Opps. Well luckily, There were a couple I hadn't pulled out yet.</div>
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We'll see what happens with those.</div>
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A little of these purple pretties too.</div>
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After 2 days on my knees, one of my knees went out and I had to keep it propped up with ice for a couple of days while I watched my sweet Mr. SS weed a few more of the beds.</div>
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He wanted me outside with him to "cheer" him on, he said, so he hung my favorite wicker swing.</div>
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Now that my knee is better, I will start weeding the rest of the beds tomorrow, a little at a time. Can't kneel, so maybe I'll just scoot around on my bottom. (I know, not a pretty sight), but I have visions of what used to be:</div>
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Before I go, I have to wish a big Happy Birthday to my granddaughter Kobi.</div>
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She turned 13 today and her wish was to go to Olive Garden with her Mamaw and Papaw.</div>
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Could we be any more blessed.</div>
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Last year, my friend Sandi bought a panel and the fabrics to make a quilt she wanted to throw over the back of her couch for Valentine's Day. Actually she got enough for 2 of them(one for me too), but I only got hers done for now.</div>
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She and some other friends came over and we had a sewing day. I sew, they cut, press, pin and we all laugh a lot and eat a lot.</div>
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This was one of the projects we worked on.</div>
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The panel is from the Pam Kitty Love collection last year. If you have followed me at all, you know how I love those Pam Kitty fabrics.</div>
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The blocks all look like vintage valentines. The back is very romantic, don't you think?</div>
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I love sewing the binding on the back by machine and it looks like top stitching on the front. So quick.</div>
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I machine quilted around the borders and sewed buttons down the center to tie it off.</div>
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My machine quilting skills are limited, but using my walking foot it came out pretty good.</div>
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The Pam Kitty border is actually the selvage. But it is so cute we left it on. The other side says Kitty Love, I think.</div>
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When I took my Christmas decorations down, I knew I wanted to do something different to my hutch.</div>
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There is a story to this hutch. In our previous house, we had a large white hutch that my son and husband had built and I had a table that sat 10. When we moved into our <strike>RV</strike> small cottage, we gave them to our son who has a family of 8.</div>
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When we recently bought our <strike>old </strike> new little cottage, we had no furniture at all. This hutch was our wedding present to our son and his wife. It was just sitting in their garage so they offered it to us. It fits just perfectly in our little dining area as does their first table and chairs. ( I will show you those later, I have big plans that includes a can of paint)</div>
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There was a solid door off to the right that Mr. SS removed and we have now removed the glass doors, replaced the wood shelf with glass and added a light.</div>
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I thought the back of the hutch was too dark, so I was going to paint it white. Then Mr.SS suggested bead board, but that still wasn't what I pictured. Then, I decided I wanted to put fabric on it and it took me a while to decide which one. This Pam Kitty (I know, what else) fabric with recipes on it seemed just perfect. It lightens things up and adds some interest. I cut pieces of heavy poster board to fit and covered it with the fabric. It is just sitting up there, so I can change it any time I want.</div>
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I don't have a lot of stuff, but I found enough red, white and glass things along with a few Valentine things to fill it up.</div>
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Here's a close up of the fabric.</div>
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And here it is all finished. Those two top drawers are going to be replaced with wire baskets soon.</div>
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I like it so much, I think the red and white will stay even after Valentine's Day. </div>
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Happy Valentine's Day!</div>
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It's been a dreary, gloomy, foggy January so far. I need to be out pruning roses and cleaning flower beds, but this weather just makes me want to hole up in my sewing room. So, after getting my house back together after Christmas, I have done a little sewing. Since my blog name sorta suggests I do some sewing, thought it was time to post a little about that.</div>
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Actually, the first two little dresses, I did before Christmas. I showed you the fabrics and patterns, but never got around to showing you them finished. They were both for <a href="http://www.strawberrypatches-com/">Strawberry Patches</a> for models.</div>
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Patterns and fabric available on SP website.</div>
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This one is "Penelope" by Olive Ann</div>
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I didn't get a picture of the next one, so I <strike>stole </strike> borrowed it from <a href="http://patches.typepad.com/notes_from_the_patch/">here</a>. Hope you don't mind, Suzanne.</div>
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It is also an Olive Ann pattern called "Butterscotch"</div>
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The fabric is Pam Kitty Garden, the new line just out.</div>
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I'm so thankful that Strawberry Patches gives out my name to people wanting sewing done. This is a cradle pad. The sweet grandma wanted two mattress pads and 4 sheets made for it.</div>
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It had been a long time since I have done nursery sewing so thank goodness, I kept my reference book for instructions.</div>
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This book had a 1982 publishing date and I have used it so many times, it is falling apart. It's a good thing I never get rid of stuff.</div>
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A couple of weeks ago, at church, I noticed how my bible cover was falling apart and knew if I didn't do something soon to save it, the pages would be coming apart too. I have other bibles, but this is my devotional one and I have written in it and read the devotions since 1990. So I dug out some denim scraps from a Goodwill dress, some hexies I already had made, and robbed my vintage pearl button jar.</div>
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I even had a little scrap for a pen holder.</div>
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The back needed scraps to cover some unsightly seams.</div>
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Then I made little pockets to fit over the front and back cover.</div>
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Of course, I used Pam Kitty Morning scraps for it, still my favorite fabrics...ever.</div>
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These are the fabrics I will be using to decorate my laundry/sewing room. Last spring, I decorated a table for our "Buttons and Bows" luncheon at church with these. I have a ton of them. The aqua looks good with my paint color and the button fabric is so cute for a sewing room. the red is a dot(it's hard to tell) and a Pam Kitty Morning fabric...of course.</div>
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These baskets were black with white liners for my laundry room in my last house. It took about 3 cans of white spray paint to transform them for my new laundry room. There are four of them and four little cubbies for them that Mr. SS built on the laundry side of the room.</div>
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I've lined two of them and am working on the other two today.</div>
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Still sewing for <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/fourtinycousins">Four Tiny Cousins</a> and made 18 of these last week. Nine vests for them are on my sewing table too.</div>
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Then with this chilly weather, I spend some time almost every day or night cuddled up under this quilt that I am hand quilting.</div>
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So, I sew until it warms up and I can get out and do my gardening...hopefully a little warmer weather this Saturday. No ball games, so guess I'll tackle those rose bushes...maybe.</div>
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Sunday, we drove down to Cal State Long Beach (UCLB) to watch a cheer competition</div>
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That is Mr. SS's Alma Mater and we both grew up and met in Long Beach, so it's always a little nostalgic having a reason to return.</div>
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Lexi (one of our youngest son Brandon's daughters) is the one in the back row, center of the screen. We were so high up, I couldn't get a good picture of them. She is in 7th grade at Rosedale Middle School. There were 160 teams there. We watched about 90 of them and really thought her team was among the best. (Grandparents can be a <strike>lot </strike> little prejudiced though) I guess the judges thought so too, because we found out later that night that they took 2nd overall. GO!! ROSEDALE BULLDOGS.</div>
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We are so proud of you Lexi!!</div>
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Monday, Cade (my middle son Eric's youngest) invited me to an event at his school called "A Walk Through California" All the kids in his class dressed up as character from California history. Cade is a Gold Rush Miner. They studied hard to learn about California and were split into teams. Here he is in the "expert" chair and answering questions.</div>
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Cade and his teacher. Guess teachers get to dress up too.</div>
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Mom did a great make-up job on that beard.</div>
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Anyway, I learned a lot too and found myself trying to answer the questions along with the kids.</div>
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So proud of you, Cade. (Love my little Mini-Eric)</div>
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Okay, totally off subject, but have to share this:</div>
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Mr. SS brought the mail in this morning and laid this on my ironing board. Because we had moved, I hadn't expected to get it in the mail. Even when I worked at Strawberry Patches and taught classes there, I always got excited to get the newsletter in the mail. All work stopped, I grabbed a fresh cup of coffee and sat on the couch under my favorite quilt and read it from cover to cover.</div>
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One of my goals this year is to take a class....</div>
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Hmmmm...which one to choose??</div>
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Well, guess you'll have to wait and see because I can't make up my mind.</div>
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You can find the newsletter <a href="http://www.strawberry-patches.com/">here</a> on Strawberry Patches website.</div>
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Maybe we can take a class together.</div>
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