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| More rag bowls too-yada, yada, yada. |
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| Crazy color combinations-but I say- just about anything goes. Yada, yada, yada. |
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| If it's not nailed down-I'm gonna use it-yada, yada, yada. |
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| I'm wondering if you all are getting bored with all the talk about rag rugs.?.?.? (But, but, but-I'm kind of addicted!) |
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| I know Rocco is. YAWN! Now-that's one big pie hole, wouldn't you say??? |
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| Oh Christmas was good this year, as it always is. I received framed (surprise) portraits of my daughter, niece, and nephew from my sister, Jodie. Beautiful! The cute HOPE sign was from my sister, Kimmie. And I will never fight with my plastic wrap again. My neighbor gave me the Wrap Master and the Wrap Master Foil! Cool! |
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| Kimmie gave me this fabric basket with my name on (love it!), along with some pretty cotton yarn. :) |
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| Mom crocheted us girls coasters. So cute! |
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| My niece, Jessica, made me the 'pandora' bracelet (gorgeous!) and Kimmie gave me the lovely earrings. Larry's cousin gave me the pottery bowl. (Love!) I received thrifted pillowcases and sheets from Kim. One of the sheets is already a rag ball, but I'm not cutting into this pillowcase. It's too nice. :) |
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| This lovely star wreath is from my daughter. Sweet!!! I also received money and much more. I must have been a good girl this year! |
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| I made this rug yesterday and it's going to a friend. |
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| Someone likes to invade my personal space, ahem! That's okay-I'll forgive him. :) |
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| Rocco was the only one that was willing to be photographed on Christmas! We had a great Christmas here, and I hope you did too. |
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| I've had these polaroids of my little Hopey lying around for a while now, because I knew I wanted to scan them and put them on the ol' blog, and miracle of miracles, I hadn't misplaced them yet! So I doctored them up a bit and here she is-my Hopey of Christmas past. Yes, all smiley for the camera, before she knew that obscene gesture she's been so fond of the last couple of years. Oh, how I love the Hope of Christmas past, the present, and the future. I'm so glad she's mine! Have yourself a merry little Christmas! |
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| I've piddle dinked around long enough making rag rugs. It's time to put the rag balls and crochet hook away and time to start cleaning up this joint. I made this little green number for my downstairs bathroom. How do ya like that vintage (80's) wallpaper??? I actually don't mind it much. It's only on the bottom half of the wall. |
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| And I made this crazy one for the kitchen. |
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| This is under the pencil tree. There are a few more gifts to add to the mini-pile, but this sure doesn't look like much, does it??? I guess gift cards don't take up much room-haha! Have a terrific Tuesday! |
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| Today I cut up some thrifted wool blazers (and a sheet) to make more fabrics bowls, while watching the Gilmore Girls and fighting a headache. Blech! |
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| Also-tomorrow, December 19th is my 23rd wedding anniversary. All I can say is WOW-it's really hard to believe I've been married that long. One more thing-did you know my husband was once Amish??? No, no, just kidding-he was not Amish! It just looks that way! |
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| Do you want your home to smell like Christmas? If so-fill a pot with a few inches of water, drop in your citrus peel of choice (today I'm using clementine and grapefruit), and add a good sprinkle of cinnamon. Simmer on low and your house will smell wonderful! I did this last year also. I think it was the first time I used Mr. Le Creuset, my splurge last year at this time. And I've found it's pronounced lay crew-say not lee crew-set from seeing the commercials for it on PBS. Da!-I should have known better-it's French! Ah well, I know now. You know Le doesn't get used much-he's quite little! He's mostly just eye candy that sits right there on top of the stove. But he's so beautiful and I really do enjoy looking at him every day. :) |
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| A gingerbread muffin/cupcake with cream cheese frosting. From a box and from a can-but very good, nonetheless. Have a fantastic day! |
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| Yes-that's been me-snug as a bug. In my little corner, watching episode after episode of Gilmore Girls while making rag rug after rag rug. It's been fun, but I'm soon done. For right now, anyhow. There are gifts to wrap! |
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| I finally did some dishes last night after stacking them up, day after day. I thought it was time. When all you have left to use is baby and measuring spoons, it's time to do the dishes. (The above rug is 100 percent stash fabric-no sheets. I'm starting to run out of good colors of sheets, believe it or not.) |
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| The above rug, I'm not quite sure if I like or not. I may end up frogging it. Hubby's cousin is 22 years old and moving into her first 'real' apartment and on Facebook I told her I was giving her an apartment warming gift. I asked her what her favorite colors were and she said pink and purple. If I chicken out on giving her this one, I have another that has pink and purple in it that I can give her. |
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| Here's my little Rocco caught on deer cam-somewhere where he shouldn't have been. Ahem! ********************** Thank you for all the lovely birthday comments! I think I'll print the comments out to keep. The post will show up in my blog book which I will get made at the beginning of 2011. Yesterday (my birthday) I received a phone call from my mom at 6:42am (I was up), which is the time I was born! (I try to do that with my kid too. 5:35pm was the time she was born, in case you were wondering-no need to worry about getting her out of bed, hopefully!) I also received a nice email from my dad. I got many more birthday wishes from others in the form of phone calls, emails, texts, facebook messages, and of course bloggy comments. Thank you again! And I got to stay home while it was snowing and blowing outside. It was a good birthday! |
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| I've been crocheting my little fingers to the bone making rag rugs. I'm amazed at the amount of fabric and sheets that I am using up, after wondering if they would ever get used at all. It's really satisfying using it all up, like emptying the shampoo bottle or eating all the leftovers. :) |
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| And here's my little Rocco, aka Snow Puppy. Every rottie that I've been around LOVES the snow-just like me! I hope you are having a great day, wherever you are. ******Don't forget to check out the post below, where my sister hijacked my 'blog'.****** |
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| I've been busy with crocheting rag rugs and I tried my hand at a crocheted rag bowl. It was quite simple. I just crocheted around and around adding a few stitches here and there (just like you do for the rugs) for the bottom and then when I was ready for the sides I stopped adding any stitches and the sides just kind of grew up! And there's a funny thing with the rugs. When I first start making them-I don't think they're going to look right. In other words-they're a little bit ugly. But as they grow, they get prettier and when I'm done and throw them on the floor-I likey. I likey a lot! Have a wonderful rest of the day. |
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| This is where I'll be today and no, I'm not sick. (Very thankful for that!) It's a little snowy and cold today and I have no other place I need to be. There's really no other place I want to be at the moment, actually. :) But don't worry, Rocco will make sure I don't get too comfy. He likes to go out and play in the snow for a while, then come in and get warmed up, and then go back out and then...I think you get the picture. |
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| When I showed my small amount of Christmas decor last week I neglected to get a photo of my daughter's awesome Christmas stocking. I remember wanting an awesome stocking for my daughter because us three girls had awesome stockings when we were growing up. I wish I could get a picture of mine, but it's buried in the attic somewhere. (Note to self-dig that stocking out sometime!) They are hand made have our names knitted right into them with a Santa Claus on and his beard is really soft and fuzzy and seems to grow! Anyhow, I knew of noone that could make me a stocking like that for my own daughter, BUT-my lovely friend Jessie B. came through with this beautiful stocking for my Hopey before her first Christmas and I didn't even ask! In fact she made many people in our family their stockings-Patrick, Jessica, Ryan, Megan, Sammie?, Luke?? Thank you, Jessie, for this family heirloom! The stocking beside Hope's is a granny square one that I picked up at Goodwill (of course!) last year for Dukey. This year it will be Rocco's! |
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| It's a rag rug! |
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| It's a rainbow! |
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| It's a rainbow rag rug that I made for someone spesh for Christmas! I'm really pleased with how it came out. This rag rug making stuff is FUN!!! :) |
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| Oh, has he grown. Rocco (left) and his brother, Jasper (on right, in-law's pup). Shhhhhhh-don't tell, but I think Rocco's prettier. |
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| Oh, I LOVE this Santa cross stitch. Goodwill. Last year. 15 cents. He was a little dirty, so I tea stained him. (In other words, I dabbed him with a wet tea bag.) |
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| I really love this too. Goodwill. A couple years ago. 15 cents. Solid wood. Love. |
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| I'm really sorry if you are sick of looking at my 'grace' picture, (goodwill-a buck fifty), but I wanted to show pretty much the rest of my wee bit o' decorations. Boxes and tin-Goodwill. Cheap. Have a good night (or morning)! |
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| The empty jars on my windowsill were starting to look mighty lonely. I thought they could use some winter berries. I remembered seeing some reddish-orange berries along our back road. I thought about hopping in the car to see if I could find them-then I remembered it's hunting season and I didn't feel like getting shot at today. So instead I ventured to the basement to find some fake berries I knew I had somewhere down there. |
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| Tada-a winter windowsill! I thought adding water to the jars made the berries look less fake. I think it's pretty darn pretty! PS-It's lightly snowing here and I'm loving it. :) |
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| Today I was trying to clean up the dining room. You couldn't see any horizontal surfaces for all the junk that was on them. And the dust was so thick! (It's because of the birds and because I don't like to dust!) I'm STILL not finished cleaning this little room. I keep getting distracted by this here computer. |
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| I never know what to put on this sewing table. I decided to go with stacks o' books and plates. I thought maybe they'd be easier to dust than the usual stuff I put on there, but I kind of doubt they will be. |
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| These plates are about a third of all the ones I had in my flower garden. I brought some up from the basement to wash for my 'stack'. As I was washing them they smelled an awful lot like my dog. Dirt! |
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| I think the plate on top is so sweet. :) |
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| I fixed up a little Christmasy centerpiece too. I think my girl bought me those candles when she was in elementary school. In other words-a long time ago. I never used them till now. I can just hear it now, when she stops in on Friday evening-S'bout time you used those! |
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| Normally I only light candles on the stove. I'm a chicken and I don't want to burn my house down. Oh, but these are so pretty lit, especially in real life. I don't want to blow them out, but I guess I must-you know-before I burn the joint down! I hope you have a lovely first day of December. :) PS-It snowed and I was happy! |
