This is an apron I made from my 90 year old aunts home made pattern. I made it last year and sent it to one of her sisters.

These are some bags I made from a roll of mess that my daughter brought home from where she works. They cut this mesh to fit their machine and throw away the rest. I now have her bring home the roll and I make bags. They make great grocery bags, or beach bags. I carry my work stuff (calculator, date planner, misc stuff. I will sell them two for $5.00 if anybodies interested.

This is the same apron pattern as above just different fabric. I sold it on e-bay last year.

This is a vintage apron of my 90 year old aunts that she made back in the 40's. It's my all time favorite.

This was another one of her vintage aprons. Don't know if you can tell from the pictures, but these babies got a lot of wear. They were perfectly pressed and folded when she sent them to me. I have one other that is still in the plastic and still in the box. I will have to get it out and take a picture of it for my blog.

Finally finished

I started this apron so long ago I can't remember the date. First it took hours to un-pick this pair of Levis ( I did it at night while watching TV). The first time I put about a 8" trim around the bottom of the skirt. I didn't like it but could not decide, because it made the skirt to long. But I un-picked the trim cut it into strips and made cross straps for the back instead of a around the neck.

This is the back shot and will fit a 38" waist.

White Wednesday

I've decided to join the white Wednesday group so I can keep my blog updated. This will force me to post at least once a week on my blog. The first looks like a shell, but it's a budding flower that I took from my neighbors tree.

This is a fish on the bottom step of another neighbor. She has plants that go all the way up her stairway. Every day I walk past this fish I'll call White Wanda.

This is a rose bush from another neighbors front porch. You can see my flash in the window.

This is a Manet painting from the 1800's. I'm reading a book called "Luncheon of The Boating Party" by Susan Vreeland. It's about Renoir and his friends. She brings to life one of his painting and a personality to all the people in the painting (not the one above, Manet is also painter in Paris). I'm not sure the name on this painting, but she's in white.

Another painting by Manet (not to be confused with Monet) This one is called The Balcony. It fits the White Wednesday theme.

Sometimes the hands have to create

I'm not very good at keeping up on my posting to this blog. I'll have to really try harder.
Today I made some hand pins for Halloween. The skeleton Hands I bought for $1.00 at the dollar store and the pin attachment I also bought at the dollar store 6 for $1.00. The buttons, string, ribbons, lace and material are all scrapes I would normally trash. I started with plain and each time I made a new one I added more stuff. I think they came out so cute. I just love them.

A few month ago I got painting bug and painted a sign for my mom to hang in her yard. This is the second sign I've done for her the first one said country garden and she gave it to her sister to put in her garden. So this time I put my mother's name on the sign so she can't give it away.

Engagement Party

This weekend I went with my daughter to her friends engagement/birthday party. She did not know till a few days before her birthday that she would be engaged. He proposed while on a camping trip pointing with his finger to the north star. The ring was on the end of his finger and she totally missed it searching for the north star. Was a fun party with parents children and grandchildren.The finger pointer is the guy with the tongs in his hands,the navy t-shirt and the phone thingy in his ear. His fiance is the girl in the whit pants and the step counter on her arm. The back yard is very big and the patio is in the very back of the yard. She gets in a lot of steps just in the back yard. His mother is in the red shirt and her mother has not yet arrived.

This is the finger pointers best friend. He has been married for many years already. That is his daughter coming to help her grandma out of the hammock. She's having trouble getting up. It's the knees they don't work the same when you hit senior status.She gets a little more help from the sister of the future bride. The best friend is hanging on to the hammock, because he plans to take a nap and wants no one else to claim his very comfortable bed. He's planing to rock himself to sleep in the swing.

More party guests. The girl in the black has just announced that she is pregnant and very excited to start a family. She is a little bit in fantasy land, believing that she will be able to have this baby and continue to travel without any problems. She also plans to go back to work as soon as the baby is born. By the way, she's having a girl.

The girl in the over sized t-shirt is my daughter and now the only one in the group who has not gotten married or started a family. I may never know what it will be like to be a grandma. She is still on the fence about children. My answer to that is "Tick, Tick, Tick"

This is the tallest sun flower in the back yard. It must be 10' tall. The happy couple will have plenty to eat this summer. There are tomato plants, peach trees, grapes, berries, mint, onions, potato's and corn growing in the yard. I really miss not having a yard.

AmVets, Estate Sales & Goodwill

I decided to share a few of my thrifty finds from some of my weekend outings. I love to do Estate sales on Sunday's because they are usually 1/2 price on what ever is left. The bench above I go at the Amvet around the corner from our Condo for $2.95. It had glitter glue and stickers on it. I peeled (yes it peels ) off the glitter glue and removed the stickers, did a light sanding and it now sits in my bathroom. I just love it the way it is, but will someday paint it.

The bucket that holds my magazines is an ice cream tub purchases months ago. When the ice cream was gone I saved the bucket and discovered it works perfect for my mag's in the bathroom.

The glass topper I purchased for a $1.00 at Salvation Army as well as the candle holder, also $1.00. I turned both pieces upside down and the picture below is what I got.

It makes a perfect small candy dish and I didn't even have to glue it to the base. There was a hole in the bottom of the candle holder and the glass fit it perfectly.

The birds I purchased at an Estate sale for $3.00, the letter was $1.00 at Target, the tea light holders are from Ikea $.99 cents for 4 and the shelf I bought about 9 years ago for $13.00. I have two shelves and I put them in my bathroom above the towel rack. I love the look. Now I have to find some new towels.

I've been gone so long

I didn't think it would be so hard to keep up with this blog, but it is. Lately I have been so consumed with the Casey Anthony case that I have spent all my spare time reading all the documents that have been made public. I just can't imagine any thing but a guilty verdict.

Her parents must have a book deal. It's the only explanation I can see for their public display for standing behind their daughter and not wanting justice for their grand-daughter.