I've started a new blog that I will be sharing my crafts on. You can view it at http://www.karenskraftkorner.blogspot.com/. I hope that you will all stop by often and add your comments. Don't worry, not that you were, but I will be keeping this blog up along with adding to our family and friends recipe blog, http://www.kitchens2kitchens.blogspot.com/.
I think I'm finally getting the hang of this blog thing, so fair warning...I even put the pictures on my Kraft blog all by myself.
Danny and Brandy are moving the end of the week. B's email is up and running again.
Joyce had an ectopic. Read more on their blog.
You can read about the flood last week on Dave and Gina's blog and draw all kinds of pics in you mind about that one. Thank goodness, Dave and Lani were able to get everything fixed and the carpet is drying out nicely, for which I'm very grateful. With the fans that have been running to help speed up the process, basement temps have been a little on the cool side and have raised the decibel level. I left them on for the first couple of nights, but gave in and turned them off when I went to bed so I could sleep. I continue to run them when I'm at work but, like I said things are drying out.
The tulips are finally blooming and I must say that they look stunning! I know that they won't last long, but they sure are pretty now.
We're supposed to have temps in the 80's this weekend. I guess, the snow is finally over for the season, however, this is Utah and we never know from one minute to the next just what Mother Nature has in store for us, and it did snow over in Park City yesterday. We had rain and a lot of wind on Sunday night.
This will be a very long week for me. I worked yesterday (12-17), today 9-17, tomorrow 9-17, Thurs 9-17, Fri 6-18 and Sat 6-18. Haven't done that kind of a week since before Christmas. It does not sound fun to me!
For those of you who don't know, I've pretty much decided that I'll be quitting at the Speciality Hospital by the end of the year. If my insurance wasn't through them it would probably happen sooner, but with more surgery coming up before the end of the year I pretty much have to stay there.
I saw Dr. Cook at work today and I told him that I'd see him in Oct for all of the pre-op stuff. Plans are to do the surgery in early Nov. With any luck I'll be feeling better by the holidays. I would hate to celebrate the same way this year as I did last.
I hope that you all have a great rest of the week.
13 May 2008
Another Blog...
12 May 2008
Look What Came in the Mail!!!
I won this cute little pillow from Charity http://www.vintagethreads.blogspot.com/ . It's just darling and hangs on the doorknob of my spare room. I love the colors! Thanks, Charity!
She also sent these cute little appliques and tag!
And this fun card complete with silk flower, button center, and BLING! The pics aren't so great and certainly don't do justice to all of the fun, thoughtful goodies sent.
Once again, Charity, THANK YOU!
I've been working on my QAL (Quilt A Long) with Amanda over at http://www.crazymomquilts.blogspot.com/. We're on week three. I have my first two blocks done and will be doing block #3 tonight and working on the setting blocks this week. There's still time to join in and Amanda makes the tutorials very clear and easy to follow, especially for someone like me that would rather look at pictures than read directions. Hopefully, pics will be posted in the next few days. Until then, quilt on;)
01 May 2008
May Day
Happy May Day to all:)!
The first tulip has finally bloomed! It's just beautiful and there's the promise of many more to come. At last count...I counted 126 buds!!! I can't wait for the color!
Today on the way to work I saw icicles, that's right, icicles hanging off of the lower branches of a tall pine. They were really kind of cool (no pun intended) looking. I figured that the sprinklers must have been on early in the morning and as the water was dripping from the pine needles it was just cold enough to form the icicles.
On one of the blogs I read, the writer was writing about memories and had shared several of her memories by starting out with the phrase, "I remember...". So, I thought I'd follow suit...I remember dancing the May Pole Dance, on May Day, when I was in third grade. We had long streamers of crape paper that were every pastel shade available. They were attached to the top of the teatherball poles on the playground and as the music played the whole class bobbed and weaved around their respective circles. I remember some of the poles looking a lot better that others. The one I was on was one of the ones that didn't turn out so well, but the colors sure were pretty, none the less. I remember when we lived at 3008 Karen Ave. in Long Beach, CA doing my part of the yard work. My assignment was to mow the front yard and clean up the ivy there. I also had the south side of the house to clean up. That's where the camellias and baby tears grew. To this day, I still love the way baby tears look and think it a shame that for as pretty as camellias are they have not scent. I also remember getting mad at my mom one day after school, when we lived at 7935 Ring St., in Long Beach, CA, about what, about what I have long since forgotten, but I needed to blow off some steam so I went out in the backyard and weeded the whole rose garden and cleaned it up. I remember, again when we lived on Ring St., getting up early on Saturday mornings before anyone else in the house was awake (Saturday's were chore days and we did not get to sleep in) and baking cookies and cakes and making jam and pie with the fresh peaches that grew on the lone dwarf peach tree that grew in that same rose garden and my pet camellian, that I bought at the Pomona Fair, sunning himself on the rose bushes. The only way I could find him was to look for his red "leash". When I bought him the "leash" was very short, only a couple of inches of red thread. I thought it needed to be longer and so the day after I got him I got into mom's thread tin and found just the right shade of red thread to match the "leash". I gave him an extra 3+ feet. By being so generous it made it very difficult to untangle him from the thorny rose bushes when I wanted to hold him. I finally came to the conclusion that he needed his freedom and so the "leash" was removed and he was set free. To my amazement, he hung out it the rose garden for several weeks. I think it was because of the endless supple of aphids that were available there. One day I could no longer find him and figured that he had move on to somewhere else. Thinking I'd never see him again, I remember thinking that I had been able to keep him alive a lot longer that anyone had expected. Well, much to my amazement, several weeks later who should I find sunning himself on the cinder block wall in the backyard, but my pet camellian. I was sad to see that part of his tail was missing. He looked really cold, in fact, he looked frozen so I took him and put him in an old can that I found and moved him to a warmer spot on the fence. I thought he would thaw out a lot faster with the warmer location and the can holding the heat longer. That was the last time I ever saw him. Hopefully he went on to live a long and happy camellian life. I also remember the dress I wore to the Pomona Fair that day. It was one that my mom had made for me. My mom made most of my clothes in those days and I had many dresses because girls had to wear dresses to school then. This dress had many shades of lavender and purple and pink flowers on it with green leaves and vines running through it. Today the fabric would be described as a medium size calico print. The background was white. The skirt was full (one that passed the spin test) and the sleeves were short cap sleeves. I think it may have had some lavender ric rac on it as well. Funny how ric rac is making a come back.
Wow, that was easy, and it seems a little amusing to me how one memory lead to another and the memories that they led to. Try it sometime...it's quite fun.
The first tulip has finally bloomed! It's just beautiful and there's the promise of many more to come. At last count...I counted 126 buds!!! I can't wait for the color!
Today on the way to work I saw icicles, that's right, icicles hanging off of the lower branches of a tall pine. They were really kind of cool (no pun intended) looking. I figured that the sprinklers must have been on early in the morning and as the water was dripping from the pine needles it was just cold enough to form the icicles.
On one of the blogs I read, the writer was writing about memories and had shared several of her memories by starting out with the phrase, "I remember...". So, I thought I'd follow suit...I remember dancing the May Pole Dance, on May Day, when I was in third grade. We had long streamers of crape paper that were every pastel shade available. They were attached to the top of the teatherball poles on the playground and as the music played the whole class bobbed and weaved around their respective circles. I remember some of the poles looking a lot better that others. The one I was on was one of the ones that didn't turn out so well, but the colors sure were pretty, none the less. I remember when we lived at 3008 Karen Ave. in Long Beach, CA doing my part of the yard work. My assignment was to mow the front yard and clean up the ivy there. I also had the south side of the house to clean up. That's where the camellias and baby tears grew. To this day, I still love the way baby tears look and think it a shame that for as pretty as camellias are they have not scent. I also remember getting mad at my mom one day after school, when we lived at 7935 Ring St., in Long Beach, CA, about what, about what I have long since forgotten, but I needed to blow off some steam so I went out in the backyard and weeded the whole rose garden and cleaned it up. I remember, again when we lived on Ring St., getting up early on Saturday mornings before anyone else in the house was awake (Saturday's were chore days and we did not get to sleep in) and baking cookies and cakes and making jam and pie with the fresh peaches that grew on the lone dwarf peach tree that grew in that same rose garden and my pet camellian, that I bought at the Pomona Fair, sunning himself on the rose bushes. The only way I could find him was to look for his red "leash". When I bought him the "leash" was very short, only a couple of inches of red thread. I thought it needed to be longer and so the day after I got him I got into mom's thread tin and found just the right shade of red thread to match the "leash". I gave him an extra 3+ feet. By being so generous it made it very difficult to untangle him from the thorny rose bushes when I wanted to hold him. I finally came to the conclusion that he needed his freedom and so the "leash" was removed and he was set free. To my amazement, he hung out it the rose garden for several weeks. I think it was because of the endless supple of aphids that were available there. One day I could no longer find him and figured that he had move on to somewhere else. Thinking I'd never see him again, I remember thinking that I had been able to keep him alive a lot longer that anyone had expected. Well, much to my amazement, several weeks later who should I find sunning himself on the cinder block wall in the backyard, but my pet camellian. I was sad to see that part of his tail was missing. He looked really cold, in fact, he looked frozen so I took him and put him in an old can that I found and moved him to a warmer spot on the fence. I thought he would thaw out a lot faster with the warmer location and the can holding the heat longer. That was the last time I ever saw him. Hopefully he went on to live a long and happy camellian life. I also remember the dress I wore to the Pomona Fair that day. It was one that my mom had made for me. My mom made most of my clothes in those days and I had many dresses because girls had to wear dresses to school then. This dress had many shades of lavender and purple and pink flowers on it with green leaves and vines running through it. Today the fabric would be described as a medium size calico print. The background was white. The skirt was full (one that passed the spin test) and the sleeves were short cap sleeves. I think it may have had some lavender ric rac on it as well. Funny how ric rac is making a come back.
Wow, that was easy, and it seems a little amusing to me how one memory lead to another and the memories that they led to. Try it sometime...it's quite fun.
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