I am a
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What Flower
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This was the year of the vampire and the cute little pink Minnie Mouse.
We still feel that our son makes a great Eddie Munster, even to this day!
Sweet sleep, dreams-full of candy.....C&G Design
I picked up a truly marked Bradley doll the other day and I'm chomping to share it. I'm thinking she is of the "Southern Belle" series, and although that's enough to know about her, I'm still researching her name.
The Bradley doll (click to see the yellow safty pin dress) company made the wide eyed, stockinette, or boudoir dolls from 1954 to 1984 when the company was purchased by Hasbro. They originally started with the diminutive features, like the ones shown on my doll.
I'm so lucky, another thrift store find. C&G Design.
The Prisoner is a spy, sci-fi, psychological thriller where a un-named government (?)worker resigns from his position only to be gassed, kidnapped and contained to a mysterious village, assigned the name of number six. The opening credits have the main character driving a Lotus through the streets of London which Mr Mcgoohan insisted on. Number six tries to escape his imprisonment by running to the beach (end of the world) and "Rover" the big white sphere is always there to bring him back! No matter.
With episodes like meeting ones alter ego and having a show down for Number 2 (Who is number 1!) or being in the center of the village playing chess with human chess pieces, "The Prisoner" will have you wanting more.
Last night the elementary school had their annual Halloween party, there were some really cute costumes like a Twister game (One of madame's close friend) she had a short skirt like blouse with large Twister dots on it and the word "Twister" imprinted on the lower hem. One little girl was a cupcake, she had a white layered collar (overlapping and larger on different sides) made from felt with a brown pocket like shirt (starting under the arms) appearing like the ripples of the cupcake paper and a felt cherry pinned to her head, so cute! Madame, who is a fan of Tim Burton, went as the corpse bride, so simple for me this year. Her gown has sleeves with the same strips of fabric and so does the bottom of the gown, no one recognized her! Good!
"Did you know we have to have Halloween and Thanksgiving first!"
Prim and Whimsy Gals, a collective site for crafters, hosted a Halloween give-a-way with 9 winners, 9 winners! I threw my comment in because all the prizes are wonderful, they are donated by the people who support the site.
The camera doesn't pick up the sparkle from this rare gem but it glistens in the light, it has a lot of fire and depth to it's appearance.
It also shimmers with red. C&G Design
Let us not forget that today is Raggedy Wednesday and it being "Raggedy Wednesday", it's time to reveal the recipient of my 500th post give-a-way.
I entered everyone according to what was ruled in the post introducing this give-a-way, some were entered 3 times, some twice, and some once. (Even Debbie was entered as a follower! She was nice and opted out as she won the last give-a-way).
My gourds were a HUGE disappointment, and that was about all that was huge about them. This picture is pretty but the gourds grew to three quarter the size of my pinkie!
And the Maximilian sunflowers were 999,999 short. I planted them late though. Every stem had a flower so I guess that was better than nothing. I picked them all for the dining room table, I didn't have the heart to let the frost get them, they were very pretty.
September 20 was the weekend we started to pull vegetation, the beans to be exact as they had expended all their strength. Veggies were still growing in other areas of the garden.
We spread the good soil from the potatoes, I'm not sure we will use the tire method next year or not but if we do we will start over.
This area is about one third the size of the garden but since I can only get my husband's help on the weekends this time of year, we decided to do what we could. He tilled it all under, the newspaper shredded and buried itself really easy, we have decided to newspaper the entire garden next year, no weeding!
The little people went on vacation to a warmer place, closer to the sun, my attic, HA!
At the time of tilling, the cherry tomatoes were producing like gangbusters, I had a hard time keeping up and let some of them go.
We pulled the tomatoes and what didn't fall to the ground got hung upside down in the basement for further ripening. Most all the rest of these were a slight size bigger than a egg and some were tough, what's with that? I found slicing one that it had alot of inner core instead of seeds. Humph.....
And this was what we got for the remaining squash, my one pumpkin is in the back of the right row, I ended up pitching it because of a bad spot. My husband and I believe that when we filled the holes under the mounds with manure, we had more shavings and chips than the manure. We found this the hard way by sinking into the ground after everything was pulled, our guess is to much air space in the dirt. Funny, we did the same for the tomatoes and they thrived and didn't have any sinkhole. Live and learn. My surprise on this day was the large cuke I found hiding!
More cherries.
I decided, after eating tomato sandwiches everyday, I really needed to can what was getting to soft to keep, I know my mom and my employee wanted some but it was spur of the moment, I say that because I canned alone for the first time.
Although about the time these we freezing in the sink, I really wished I had a set of extra hands!
There was a lot of little ones.
Success! After the last time we decided to can the tomatoes with tomato juice, much more appealing to the eye. I'm so proud of myself!
Finally, after everything was pulled, dead or frostbitten we moved the burn pile inside the gate, we felt the ash would do it good since the tomatoes were planted on the prior burn pile and did well. Trouble was...we really needed to keep it small otherwise it would melt the orange fencing. Not a problem and not a problem to start a fire on this deary day, one of the perks in working with heating oil, it seems you get plenty of waste oil!
It was my job to supervise and feed the fire, thank goodness the water was right there as the wind picked up and made me a little distressed. Tartarus laid about eight feet from the flames but decided better of it after he saw me move the chair outside the gate, it got warm and too many sparks landed on his nose! Warm on his ole' bones and it didn't seem to bother him.
The veggie bed is the only place to burn, we burned a pile back in the spring and although we had sprayed water on the tender hemlock branches, the heat still got to the needles and turned them brown. I guess the tree trims will be the start of the springtime pile. No more burning outside the veggie bed.
Some of this wood is from the tree house that had been in the play yard for years, most of it being logs that took awhile to completely burn because they were thick logs. I'll save the story about the tree house for another time as it is still in the play yard.
That's it for now.....even the grass got bit. C&G Design
Another game today, we will have a junior varsity game at home and guess who will be wearing a back number? He is so ecstatic! So much so, there was a grade check for eligible and since Babe had a few assignments to do, he was on the "no play" list Friday, staying up until midnight last Thursday night to get it done is enough said! A need in three classes became insignificant compared to running as a back.
Good morning everyone!
This is one of my upholstering projects, it will be my second time restoring it. I have no idea of the age because it was another Goodwill find, I really wasn't looking for a chair at the time because I had no room for it, but the poor guy that was in charge of keeping the floor in the store organized was tired of moving it. Maybe as a joke he offered it to us (while lifting it again), for $1.99 and we foolishly took him up on the offer. I recovered it with this lovely pinkish rose fabric and placed it in the office for my employees to sit on when they arrive for their workload. Big mistake. Heating oil service technicians don't always stay clear from soot and over time the arms and the left wing became too stained, too quickly. I have another pink ribbon/rose fabric picked especially for to new cover on this chair.
I love these pillows, I made them all except the satin one, my mother in law made that one for a Christmas present. The little black one I crocheted about 20 years ago, it was a first attempt at the pineapple pattern. I goofed it, the pattern is supposed to lay flat but instead mine curled like a hat. So the plan changed and it became this adornment for the black velvet. At the time I was so proud how vintage it appears, today it is vintage! I also had to pry it from Madame, I didn't realize she had it until I was mentioning it's location to my hubby.
I made the brother and sister dolls too, they sat in the dining room until they lost their spot to another doll! Moving my collection around is what I do. C&G Design
Last night it was in the low 30's and high 20's for a outside temperature, seems like winter is arriving rather quickly.
Everyone seems to be having crisis right now, my son is being inattentive to his classwork and giving a "sleepy teen" attitude. Okay. I'd be wealthy if I could figure a cure for it.
My son who has been playing the center position (player hiking the ball) for 9 years has just moved his position number to a full back, who-hoo! He has wanted this for along time coming. Last varsity game he was sent in as full back (player who clears the hole for the ball to be ran thru or the player actually running the ball for "down the middle yardage")
