Too hot too soon. I put up Styrofoam insulation panels in our big lv. rm window. It worked till Sat. I had been able to stay in my recliner Fri. w/ the fan & the portable a/c blowing on me
@ 6pm I headed to the bdrm in my w/c to sit in front of my a/c unit. Allen had sharpen up my new Verthin Prism c/pencils. I got them @ Michaels w/ a 40% coupon. I only paid $2 more for a set of 24 pencils than a set of 12 @ $10. I've wanted these really bad for awhile. They are really good for a crisp o/line. It was the only way I could color the cattails. the lines were to thin to color them in otherwise
My next wish item is some Stampin Up watercolor crayons. They are TOO EXPENSIVE for my budget right now. I tried oil pastels last summer for b/grounds.Too messy for the effect I got.
@ least I got the twins b-day s/bk done & in the file cabinet. Jan sent me the page protectors. Heidi will be able to see the uploaded pages of them on www.littlepapershop.com. I have the descriptions typed in there for her to look @. I can't put them on flickR or Facebook since she is there.Jan is in Michigan right now. Heidi will have to wait till Jan comes back to N>C. either to color copy them or to scan the photo's in .They are pic's of our 1st 2 v/tions we took when we lived in Conn. in the 80's
It looks like "THE HEAT MONSTER" IS HERE TO STAY. I just hope I can keep THE ASTHMA MOSTER" @ bay for awhile. I've been real busy trying to get projects done to beat the heat. all I can do is just hunker down for the next while & ride it out & hope I come thru next Oct. when it's cooler
File pictures
Fluffy
Sunday, June 6, 2010
Sunday, May 23, 2010
Actually on SCHEDULE!!
March was gluten-free baking month. Time to try recipe vs mixes before the heat hits. Ate some of the graham crackers tonite. Getting to bottom of the box.Needed to use up these GF flours since they are so expensive,so the heat didn't ruin them
April was cardmaking month. I have my VT cards done thru August made. I made Mother's Day cards for Heidi,Mom G,2 of my sisters, a set for a GI. I got 2 b-day's cards made to save.I have some summer cards done. I just made up a batch of summer thank U's w/ stamped images I had w/ w/melon's etc.
May's goal was to finish up H&J's s/bk present on v/tions. Now I have to take pic's of it & put it in page protector's. Mending next. H&J's b-day card needs to be done
Cook supper when I get up when it's cool to put in the frig. That way Allen has supper to pull out in the hot house @ nitewhen he comes home.
Net Flicks is about to expire. The l.rm will bw too for me to watch TV for 3 mo's. Lost will be over. I'm losing all my favo. shows,No more Law & Order,W/O a Trace is gone, Numbers,LOST. No more Heroes for Allen.
April was cardmaking month. I have my VT cards done thru August made. I made Mother's Day cards for Heidi,Mom G,2 of my sisters, a set for a GI. I got 2 b-day's cards made to save.I have some summer cards done. I just made up a batch of summer thank U's w/ stamped images I had w/ w/melon's etc.
May's goal was to finish up H&J's s/bk present on v/tions. Now I have to take pic's of it & put it in page protector's. Mending next. H&J's b-day card needs to be done
Cook supper when I get up when it's cool to put in the frig. That way Allen has supper to pull out in the hot house @ nitewhen he comes home.
Net Flicks is about to expire. The l.rm will bw too for me to watch TV for 3 mo's. Lost will be over. I'm losing all my favo. shows,No more Law & Order,W/O a Trace is gone, Numbers,LOST. No more Heroes for Allen.
Battle Plan
100F days are going to hit any day now. I have a summer menu written out in case the heat puts me down to fall back on.The v/tion s/bk will be the last major project till the heat dies down in Oct.
2. Mending pile next! Allen been patient on this. Got to get the machine set up. the pile is in my mission s/bk. I can't drag the box out till I get the clothes out of it.
3. H&J's b-day card needs to get done. I want to try a new idea of sewing fabric & paper on my machine. I got a piece of charming Hello-Kitty fabric from New Zealand I want to make a card with. They both love Hello Kitty!!Again This is a card needs to be done ahead.I was down the week of Mother's Day & Mark H.'s b-day. All Allen had to do was go & take them down off the bulletin board. I never know when my body is going to throw a curve ball @ me.
4 I did get the ceramic S/W Indian piece done for Allen. I need to go back & touch up the branches of it w/ some brown acrylic paint. A year late for our anniversary. @ least we almost had another year.
5. Print out some of the digi's i have been surfing for on the web to color in my bdrm when it gets too hot.I have been looking for free dig's to color to save money. I put them away to make cards when it's cooler. some of the images I want to make for my GI card route.I luv coloring w/ my Prism color pencils. I got some watercolor paper to print some on so I can use my w/color pencils Allen gave me.
2. Mending pile next! Allen been patient on this. Got to get the machine set up. the pile is in my mission s/bk. I can't drag the box out till I get the clothes out of it.
3. H&J's b-day card needs to get done. I want to try a new idea of sewing fabric & paper on my machine. I got a piece of charming Hello-Kitty fabric from New Zealand I want to make a card with. They both love Hello Kitty!!Again This is a card needs to be done ahead.I was down the week of Mother's Day & Mark H.'s b-day. All Allen had to do was go & take them down off the bulletin board. I never know when my body is going to throw a curve ball @ me.
4 I did get the ceramic S/W Indian piece done for Allen. I need to go back & touch up the branches of it w/ some brown acrylic paint. A year late for our anniversary. @ least we almost had another year.
5. Print out some of the digi's i have been surfing for on the web to color in my bdrm when it gets too hot.I have been looking for free dig's to color to save money. I put them away to make cards when it's cooler. some of the images I want to make for my GI card route.I luv coloring w/ my Prism color pencils. I got some watercolor paper to print some on so I can use my w/color pencils Allen gave me.
More PICTURES!!!!!
When I was going thru photo books looking for some v/tion pic's from our trip to Canada I realized just how many pic's we had. There is almost a full book of Niagara Falls pic's. I can't find a/thing for that theme either!! That doesn't include the British fort pic's we went to.There is a lot of Hill Cumorah pic's ,LDS Church historical sites & w/falls in N.Y. YIKES!!! Too much overload!!!Sent the posse to Jan & said help!!! I'm not scrapping all these pic's. That doesn't include the ones to Zion & Grand Canyon
Orginally I was going to do them all & split them up among the kids. Jan thought she would have them scanned in & CD's burned of the pic's & each kid gets a copy. WHEW off the HOOK!! I started these pgs on Feb 14th when Allen went to Utah for Katya's baptism. I just got back to them 3 weeks ago. I told her I still have 75 pgs of my mission s/bk in a box I haven't gotten back to in a year. I need to put journal tags & titles etc. on them. Forest is supposed to get this when I die.It includes 50 pgs of my journal edited & rewritten. I need to get back to it.
I'M SO RELIEVED THIS IS DONE !!! THIS WAS SUPPOSED TO BEEN a C-mas present!!! I had too many projects on the burner.
Orginally I was going to do them all & split them up among the kids. Jan thought she would have them scanned in & CD's burned of the pic's & each kid gets a copy. WHEW off the HOOK!! I started these pgs on Feb 14th when Allen went to Utah for Katya's baptism. I just got back to them 3 weeks ago. I told her I still have 75 pgs of my mission s/bk in a box I haven't gotten back to in a year. I need to put journal tags & titles etc. on them. Forest is supposed to get this when I die.It includes 50 pgs of my journal edited & rewritten. I need to get back to it.
I'M SO RELIEVED THIS IS DONE !!! THIS WAS SUPPOSED TO BEEN a C-mas present!!! I had too many projects on the burner.
It's really done!!!
I beat the heat,yea!! I got the twins s/book project done w/ pic's from v/tions when we lived in Conn. It's 38 pgs s/booked for their July 14 th b-day.
My craft room gets too hot in July to work in it. I have to work ahead for b-days etc in the summer. I have 8 b-day's from May to Aug.
I'm so excited on how the project turned out.The idea hatched about 3 yrs ago.Some Safari paper triggered our visit to Animal Safari in Ontario,Canada. I even found wild animal stickers.The idea was a gift for Jan originally. I had picked up a book of ephemera paper that had vintage like paper in it. I used some of the wood grain pieces for some of the Plymouth Plantation pic's & Paul Revere house.I got some travel paper w/ road maps, road signs etc in a paper packet from a catalogue.I even found some tokens today to go w/ a pg where H&J rode the subway to in Boston.A friend gave me a stash of letters to use for titles,also she cut out some tags for me w/ her Sizzle-it.I distressed some of the tags etc. w/ Ranger's inks.I have been collecting items for this for 3 years. I traded cards for fibers last fall.I just bought safrai brads & buttons from Oriental Trading Post order. I used up a 1/2 jar of Yes glue on it. I got another jar from H&J for Mother's Day.
Now my next job is to take pic's of it to post it.1 problem is the batteries on a digital camera say "low battery" real quick!! I have 38 pgs to photo,both as full 12x12 photo & some of it's interesting pieces.This means the batteries have to be recharged & I've multple photo shoots. I don't know how we're going to do H's part. She wants things digitally etc. Jan sent me a 12x12 s/book to use for both v/pic's & the baby pic's.
My craft room gets too hot in July to work in it. I have to work ahead for b-days etc in the summer. I have 8 b-day's from May to Aug.
I'm so excited on how the project turned out.The idea hatched about 3 yrs ago.Some Safari paper triggered our visit to Animal Safari in Ontario,Canada. I even found wild animal stickers.The idea was a gift for Jan originally. I had picked up a book of ephemera paper that had vintage like paper in it. I used some of the wood grain pieces for some of the Plymouth Plantation pic's & Paul Revere house.I got some travel paper w/ road maps, road signs etc in a paper packet from a catalogue.I even found some tokens today to go w/ a pg where H&J rode the subway to in Boston.A friend gave me a stash of letters to use for titles,also she cut out some tags for me w/ her Sizzle-it.I distressed some of the tags etc. w/ Ranger's inks.I have been collecting items for this for 3 years. I traded cards for fibers last fall.I just bought safrai brads & buttons from Oriental Trading Post order. I used up a 1/2 jar of Yes glue on it. I got another jar from H&J for Mother's Day.
Now my next job is to take pic's of it to post it.1 problem is the batteries on a digital camera say "low battery" real quick!! I have 38 pgs to photo,both as full 12x12 photo & some of it's interesting pieces.This means the batteries have to be recharged & I've multple photo shoots. I don't know how we're going to do H's part. She wants things digitally etc. Jan sent me a 12x12 s/book to use for both v/pic's & the baby pic's.
Monday, May 10, 2010
IN SHOCK!!
I walked into the kitchen Sun.@ 1 pm to discover a quart jar of rust color roses w/yellow centers sitting @ my place mat. I asked Allen where they came from. He said "me". Mr. Analytical is not a romantic. I can count on 1 hand how many times he has given me flowers. NEVER on Mother's Day!!!! In the past he would say "you're not my mother",so I never expect anything from on this day.
Sometimes he really amazes me after knowing him 32 years.
We went out to breakfast @ O'clock cafe. They have a swamp cooler, I can't breathe w/those on in the summer w/ my asthma.I wanted bacon & hash browns for breakfast & didn't want to cook it. Last week I lost,got really stressed out w/ Medco, on deny me 1 of my medication etc. I wanted a trip out of the house to do s/thing fun. It was to celebrate my "new look" .
Next stop was to get my hair cut. Alica couldn't believe me when i told her I wanted it cut off. I said as "short as U can get it". "I can cut it any length" she stated.No, I want it as short as UR's
Sometimes he really amazes me after knowing him 32 years.
We went out to breakfast @ O'clock cafe. They have a swamp cooler, I can't breathe w/those on in the summer w/ my asthma.I wanted bacon & hash browns for breakfast & didn't want to cook it. Last week I lost,got really stressed out w/ Medco, on deny me 1 of my medication etc. I wanted a trip out of the house to do s/thing fun. It was to celebrate my "new look" .
Next stop was to get my hair cut. Alica couldn't believe me when i told her I wanted it cut off. I said as "short as U can get it". "I can cut it any length" she stated.No, I want it as short as UR's
Wigs for Kids
Did a search online to see who I could donate my hair to. Wigs for Kids makes sure UR hair gets to the kids. I grew mine out for disorder where they lose their hair to baldness.
Locks of Love has some problems where their hair is going. Are the kids really getting the wigs that people donated hair too? They have been known to sell some of their hair that was donated. Their power structure seems too big to me. I had been growing my hair out for 7 yrs. This was a once a lifetime shot,i wanted to make sure a girl gets my hair.
I had 18 inches cut off,the longest my hair has ever been.I will post pic's later. I now have a new look for Mother's Day!!!
Locks of Love has some problems where their hair is going. Are the kids really getting the wigs that people donated hair too? They have been known to sell some of their hair that was donated. Their power structure seems too big to me. I had been growing my hair out for 7 yrs. This was a once a lifetime shot,i wanted to make sure a girl gets my hair.
I had 18 inches cut off,the longest my hair has ever been.I will post pic's later. I now have a new look for Mother's Day!!!
18inches gone!!!
HAIR that is cut going to Wigs for Kids.I now have a new look. My hair is tapered. Allen's calls it a "boy cut" To me it means no more hair getting caught in my sleep mask,0-2 tubing,food getting in my hair. It was taking to long to get out of the shower. I have to comb all the snarls out before I get in the shower, &time to put condtioner in it. My scalp has itching so bad w/the heat & I can't get the medicine down to the scalp
another item off my bucket list. It's been 7 yrs growing this out. It took 2 yrs, to grow it out 1 length from a layered haircut. It takes 7 ponytails of hair to make a wig. Now a little girl w/Apchia
another item off my bucket list. It's been 7 yrs growing this out. It took 2 yrs, to grow it out 1 length from a layered haircut. It takes 7 ponytails of hair to make a wig. Now a little girl w/Apchia
Monday, May 3, 2010
A cooler April
We have alot of dust storms coming in w/ winds from 55mph up to 75 mph. It has brought cooler temps. a few times. I take the cool days all they will give me. I even made egg custard 3 more times than normally I can make it. I luv eating it for an early am treat when I put the dogs out to the brm.
I made 3rd batch of granola bars. I tried choc. chips, macadamia nuts chopped up,(got too fine), & dried cranberries. They are yummy. I had to hide the 2nd tin of them in the frig. I ate about most of the 1st tin.
I also tried chocolate truffles made w/ cashew butter ,agave,& cashews. Didn't like the taste of them rolled in cocoa powder. It could Penzeys cocoa pretty strong vs Hershey's
Glaze put on my last cearmaic piece,goes for 2nd firing. It's a southwest Wedding jar I started a year ago for Allens gift for our 30th anniversary. My friend ,Summer helped paint the tree branches. Then this week she glazed the top part for me. I gave her all my underglazes, Sandstar paints & glazes. This way I won't be reminded of what I can't do anymore. Sadly this will be our last time together. Her DH is leaving the Navy after 10 yrs. They will be moving up to Oregon w/ their 5 kids. I will really miss her,the time we spent together,tals on the phone & her kids.
I made 3rd batch of granola bars. I tried choc. chips, macadamia nuts chopped up,(got too fine), & dried cranberries. They are yummy. I had to hide the 2nd tin of them in the frig. I ate about most of the 1st tin.
I also tried chocolate truffles made w/ cashew butter ,agave,& cashews. Didn't like the taste of them rolled in cocoa powder. It could Penzeys cocoa pretty strong vs Hershey's
Glaze put on my last cearmaic piece,goes for 2nd firing. It's a southwest Wedding jar I started a year ago for Allens gift for our 30th anniversary. My friend ,Summer helped paint the tree branches. Then this week she glazed the top part for me. I gave her all my underglazes, Sandstar paints & glazes. This way I won't be reminded of what I can't do anymore. Sadly this will be our last time together. Her DH is leaving the Navy after 10 yrs. They will be moving up to Oregon w/ their 5 kids. I will really miss her,the time we spent together,tals on the phone & her kids.
Google acting up this am
1st it wouldn't let me in.It wouldn't take my e-mail address, made me change my p/word to get here. I hit a wrong key & it wouldn't let me edit my last blog.
I want to do our trip to Ontario,Canada. I have collected alot of items for these pages. I have really cool wild animal paper,zebra stripes,tigers etc, buttons & brad
I also haven't worked on my 75 pgs I started of my mission s/bk. I have to do titles,journal titles & details etc.I haven't worked on this for a year.This is a major project for me. I still have about 25 more pgs to s/bk of my Alaskan part of my mission. I found some stamps on a site selling to use Alaskan items of on my pages.
I also have the twins b-day card to make up. I want to do a Hello Kitty card with s/thing from my New Zealand penpal sent me
It supposed to be 90F Tue. so my time will be limited to working in there very soon. Also my TV watching time will be cut down as the liv. rm heats up. We have been watching NetFlicks when our shows have reruns etc.
I want to do our trip to Ontario,Canada. I have collected alot of items for these pages. I have really cool wild animal paper,zebra stripes,tigers etc, buttons & brad
I also haven't worked on my 75 pgs I started of my mission s/bk. I have to do titles,journal titles & details etc.I haven't worked on this for a year.This is a major project for me. I still have about 25 more pgs to s/bk of my Alaskan part of my mission. I found some stamps on a site selling to use Alaskan items of on my pages.
I also have the twins b-day card to make up. I want to do a Hello Kitty card with s/thing from my New Zealand penpal sent me
It supposed to be 90F Tue. so my time will be limited to working in there very soon. Also my TV watching time will be cut down as the liv. rm heats up. We have been watching NetFlicks when our shows have reruns etc.
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