Some people 

should not be allowed to create.

Beer Can Holder.

OSU should sue!

Felt Farm

Traced and cut out the shapes for these sweet little animals.

They are a little tedious, so I can only do two in an hour.

Hand sew with blanket stitch,  then stuff them.

I can't wait to complete them all. I have about 4 more to do.

Raegan and Hunter are going to love them.

Milly

Tony

Carrie and Milly

Rudy

And Bob!

Walking into Sam's Club 

THIS MADE ME LAUGH!   

Christmas Present

My Husband got be bungee cords for Christmas.

Wasn't that nice of him?

Sad thing is,

 I look pretty excited about it don't I?

And this is another gift he got me a few years back.

If I remember correctly, it was for my birthday.

Come on Ray, 

dangle a diamond necklace off the handle for crying 

out loud.

He does know me though, I wanted this light.

And the wheel barrel was a gift from my son.

When it's summer, I'm outside. 

Love to work the land!

 I think it's the mexican in me, 

and we are known to be pretty good at landscaping.

My neighbor had of crew of my people 

do a clean up around his yard.

There were like 15 of them, I watched in amazement.  

It was an ant farm, in motion, they were everywhere. 

Two hours later, lickity split, they were gone,

all in one pickup truck.

True story!

Well, maybe not 15....

but there were about 7

Basement

Here is another little project we got into a while before the holiday season. 

Ray insisted on painting the basement we are never in.

And of course we hired it out because of all the rafters.

$$$
No, the cost was very reasonable. I just have a hard time paying out, because I'm a DIY kinda a gal.

But I must say, it was quite a transformation.

This is a before.  

Yes those are black walls!

Our son decided he was going to make this his room at one point, and went through his dark phase. 

 Why he only went half way around the room I'll never know.  

But I have to give it to him, he had a vision, 

it had all black and white art work on the walls. 

 It looked rather modern.

Painting crew.

Sad to see the hop scotch I painted on floor for MY children go though.

Ray was more a clean up guy.

Tim the painter is great and very reasonable.

I never had to pick up a thing.

First thing he did was the rafters,

What a difference. 

Then he patched the holes to paint the walls.

Then the floors

The dark hole on the far end 

is a crawl space under the sun room. 

We ended up putting a neon Chief Wahoo light. 

Perfect fit! 

It's in the last photo.

Here's a couple of rockers we had down there. I applied some stain I already had.

 Again, a perfect match for the room.

There is a small half bath.

Love the pipes                

We went to Ollies and got these 2' square carpet pieces. They didn't have enough of the same so, 
I made a quilt on the floor.

God forbid we get any water down there.
 But if we do, all we have to do is remove only what's wet.

Our son brought home his Danish Modern furniture. 
It completely comes apart.
A regular couch would not make the turn to get down the stairs.  
We went and picked out the fabric to recover.
I'll post that project down the road.


This is an area outside the room. Grandbabies took it over. They love playing down there.

Monster Knee

Here is something I made for my grandson,

I can't take the creative credit for this, 

saw it on Pinterest.

Quick fix for the big hole he had.

WERRRRE BAAAACK!

Happy New Year!

We went awol for the holiday season.

Very busy!

But now we are back, 

and hope to be a little more attentive to our little blog.


Here's a picture of my back yard. 
Perfect winter scene.

Ethel sent me one of you yard too.
She'll have to add it to this post. It was also perfect.