Photo journaling

A few photos from the past week or so:

Here's Roc from the beginning of October.  This shot made the cover of his calendar this year.  My, what a handsome boy!

Another glorious sunrise!

Now, that's a mug of tea!  I decided to get out this big boy and use it (a gift from my sister, Kim) because I hadn't for a while.  I had a hard time holding it up with one hand for this pic-so heavy!

New life for this sunflower-I'm hoping the birds start pecking at the seeds.

We woke up to about two inches of snow on Tuesday-very pretty while it lasted!

Birds!

I made a rug and named it Winter.  I love the color combo of red and white, and also the name Winter.

C.C.-the rug formerly known as Couch Cover and Chair Cover.  There's a lot of polar fleece yardage cut up and crocheted into this rag rug.  Unfortunately, hair sticks to it-just like it did to the couch cover and chair cover.  (You can see the couch cover in the last pic of this post.)

I placed another order of Stickygrams (magnets made from instagram photos), because they were running a special.  I'll give a lot of them away, but I always like to scan a few old photos of my daughter and run them through instagram so I have them for MY fridge. She's age four, in kindergarten, and age two-in the above photos, respectively.  She is 21 now.

Have a great weekend, everybody!

Photo journaling

Oh, the lovely maple leaf!

Sun and star

Hangers-on

Crazy November sky

Hole in my heart leaf

Still hanging on

Dining room corner-that light is 25 years old.  Yes-it's a light from the 80's.  It's an 80's light!

Flavor of the week-mint chocolate chip.  It's coconut milk, sugar, peppermint extract, vanilla, mini chocolate chips, and a little green food coloring.  (Because color makes it taste better!)

Jess loves me!  I just found this note from my niece on my iPod from 50 days ago.  I took a screenshot of it so I could keep it forever!  I love her too!

This morning's sunrise.

Have a great rest of the week, everybody!

Photo journaling

Some photos from the last few weeks:

Took this on my way home from the dentist.

The cows have been in my back yard a lot, lately.

Oh, those leaves!  

Cookies-n-cream!  Ice cream is so photogenic! (Unlike the other food I try to photograph!)  It's just coconut milk, sugar, vanilla in the ice cream machine and then an oreo crumbled on top.

There's a rag ball situation going on.

I've been doing some much needed cleaning and purging.  I cleaned and rearranged this little cabinet.  Story of the cabinet-my dad made this little cabinet for my grandma-for her bell collection. (It hung on the wall.) After she passed, Dad got it back and asked me if I wanted it. I took it and held onto it for years (it was in Larry's shed) before I got the idea to put it up on legs. (I bought a stool at Goodwill and hacked legs off and gorilla glued them on. I painted and distressed it and voila-my little cabinet. I'm so glad I kept it. (This was back when I had far more ambition than I do now.)

Hey there, Cutie!

Snow on my LIVE zinnias!  A first for me-I was excited. Two of my favorite things together.  :) (10-24-13)

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Some new rugs-

I called this one Storm, since the one I made before this-I named Rain.

Then, I ran out of rug-naming power.  This is blue and gold rug.  *Now, First Frost, as named by Mary.*

This is blanket, sheet and t-shirt rug. *Now named Chili by Mary.  Perfect!*

I found a small red fleece blanket that I never used in the closet, so I decided to cut that up to use it for a rug.  That lead me to cut up fleece couch covers that I had made but no longer used.  So, in this rug is:  a small fleece blanket, sheets that my sister gave me for rugs, thrifted t-shirts, and part of a red fleece couch  cover (polar fleece sewn together with the edges cut and tied to make fringe) that I never really did use.                                

That's it for now-have a great week!

Autumnal

I love the word autumnal!

Pink sunrise

I think this would make a great jigsaw puzzle.

I cannot help but smile every time I look outside.

The zinnias are still going strong.

I took this photo of this eastern bluebird through the window.  I love how his head is cocked.  I don't see these birds that often.  I tried to photoshop the unsightly bird poop out of this photo but I could not!

X marks the spot this morning.

Last evening

What a beautiful time of year!

Have a great rest of the week everybody!

Rocco in the morning sun

This and that

Some photos from the past week or so:

I (finally) made a rug and I named it Rain.  :)

I thought that this may be the last bouquet of zinnias this year, but it's not.  No hard frost here yet.

Oh, Roc and his silly faces! Love this mug!

My sunflowers are taking a bow.

Oh, this is good stuff right here.  Pumpkin ice cream.  I added pumpkin to the coconut milk 'ice cream' I make all the time.  I just love that coconut milk.  It takes on the flavor of whatever you add to it.  Oh, I'm a sprinkle lover too!

Oooooo, here's a pretty cornfield near my sister's house.

I took this photo (at bottom of our driveway, looking up the road) with my iPod touch. The instagram filter made it look painterly.  (I forgot my camera at my sister's house, so I was without it for a few days and oh, I missed it so!)

Oh, these fall leaves bring tears to my eyes, they are so beautiful!

Speaking of beautiful-this little beauty turned 16 this week.  (The above photo is Jess in 1998.)  My beautiful niece, Jess-what a treasure, gift, blessing, beautiful person she is!  She is loved by many!

September sunrise

These photos were taken at 6:56am, 7:01am, 7:05am, 7:07am, and 7:17am on September 25th.

The colors of morning are so fleeting!