Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Vintage Christmas Trees



My mom and christmas trees
in the 1940's.

Thursday, December 10, 2009

more SNOW DAY fun


Wednesday, December 9, 2009

SNOW DAY!!

Monday, December 7, 2009

Remembering mom.......


She would have been 86 years old today.

Friday, December 4, 2009

A-DEP

My daughter showed me how to do this with my camera when we were decorating the tree. I set my camera on A-DEP and then rotated my camera back and forth.
Pretty cool, huh?

Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Happy FIRST Birthday Liam!

We love you
through and through.
We love your top side.
We love your bottom side.
We love your inside
and outside.
We love your happy side,
your sad side,
We love your fingers
and toes,
your ears
and nose.
We love your hair
and eyes,
your giggles
and cries.
We love you running
and walking,
silent
and talking.
We love you
through and through...
yesterday, today,
and tomorrow, too.

We love you Through and Through by Bernadette Rossetti

Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Happy Thanksgiving

Monday, November 23, 2009

I LOVE Lucy!

My mind forgets things as I'm getting older, but I will always remember this episode from my favorite TV show as a child. If you are my age, you will remember it too!
For the rest of you, have a good laugh!!


Saturday, November 21, 2009

Heart in a tea cup

The bottom of my tea cup!

Thursday, November 19, 2009

Remembering Patience Fisher

My little friend, Patience Fisher
would be four years old today.
She went to heaven
after a pool accident
this summer.
Join me in praying
for her family.

Sunday, November 8, 2009

1964 Apron pattern




I found this delightful pattern
in my mother's stash
and made one of the options
for a bridal shower recently.
The red fabric is from my mother
and the patterned fabric is Anna Maria Horner.
I made two really fun potholders
that matched the apron
and quilted them,
but forgot to take photos.
The last photo shows a peek
of the corner of one of them.
Very fun to do, but interesting to see
how pattern directions
have changed over the years!

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Block Party Quilt Along Giveaway!


Over at Block Party
they're starting a quilt along
Click on over to learn
how the quilt along will work
and to enter the giveaway.
I really want
that painted bird fabric!

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Dewdrop?

Our school writing assignment:
Write a poem from a photo.


A shimmering dome
Of fragile existence
Condemned to slide
From its temporal perch.
A lost civilization.
Atlantis, on the back of a leaf.

by jane


Monday, October 26, 2009

Reluctant Reader Reads


FOUND Margaret Peterson Haddix Book Trailer

Book Trailers from COS Productions | MySpace Video


My eleven year old daughter is a reluctant reader.
THIS new series has totally captured her imagination.
The video gives a preview of BOOK 1 ~ FOUND.
BOOK 2 ~ SENT just arrived in the mail.
Guess what my little girl is doing on this cold, rainy day?
She is curled up in a chair READING!

Sunday, October 25, 2009

Candy Bags

Followed this tutorial to make fun candy bags for my grandboys and daughter.


Saturday, October 24, 2009

Happy Birthday Julia Ruth!


Happy Birthday to my firstborn daughter,
26 years ago today!
I am blessed beyond measure to call this delightful,
Godly young woman my daughter, sister, and friend!
 

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