tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5286243333871340312024-02-18T21:50:40.146-06:00Shell's Specialty of the DayEveryone needs a place to call their own. What a better place to vent and share feelings with myself & others about the things I'm most passionate about, my: Lord, family, hobbies and just whatever pops into my head. Join me as I walk through days or months or specific activities. There is never a specific path that I follow--just the feelings or ideas of the day. And as you can tell, I don't always remember to return to the blog!Shellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12431914667614125696noreply@blogger.comBlogger112125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-528624333387134031.post-21512355891738443662020-01-21T23:42:00.000-06:002020-01-21T23:42:03.033-06:00My Craziness Update<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Last I checked in to chat, I had just said it was possible (maybe not probable or attainable, but POSSIBLE and DOABLE-if you really work at it) to complete 30 BOMS--working on one each day of the week. Well, I technically, I still maintain that that is true. However, how many of us really have the time to work on 1 BOM a day? Oh and did I mention that there are BOW--blocks of the week--as well? Now I must really be mad. So here are the ones that I have currently decided that I might feasibly actually get finished starting with the ones started in 2019 that I was working on or planning on working on previously.<br />
From <a href="http://fatcatpatterns.com/" target="_blank">Fatcat Patterns</a>: Flakey Friends 2, Gnome Grown, Hen Party, Penguin Cheer, Purr-tastic<br />
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Of all the FatCat Patterns, I believe this one is the one I have the most completed on (and it isn't the oldest pattern of the many that I own). I have of the friends fused together waiting on an appropriate background. I have 3 more I've traced and cut the pieces out --ready to be fused. Now I F I could just get back to finishing the rest of them!</div>
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I tried really hard to do both the Gnome Grown and Hen Party as the blocks arrived. But I got myself bogged down in the lack of sufficient background fabric. Not that I don't have plenty of fabric, I just didn't have anything I wanted to use for these two. I finally got the chicken wire fabric I wanted for Hen Party--but never went back to it. Shame on me.<br />
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From <a href="http://adventurousquilter.yolasite.com/" target="_blank">Adventurous Quilter</a>: Adventures in Science, African Advenutres, and Australiana Adventures.<br />
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I'm not the Science nerd in my family, but I have a couple of grandsons that I do believe will be very involved with it in someway in their future. Plus, I really like the look of this quilt. The first block, the microscope is already finished and it is now waiting on February to arrive for the next block to join it.</div>
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The first block was the vase with 4 of them to make. That was my "assignment" for myself last Saturday and I'm pleased to say I completed all 4 of them.</div>
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This quilt is not a BOM, but one I started out helping to test stitch. The grand children and I both have fallen in love with it so I've decided to try to finish up what I started with as my test stitching. There were many of us that started this as just a test for Marianne Jeffrey, the designer. But we have all decided to try to finish it as a full quilt I think. I currently have one of the koala, kangaroo and bird finished--only 2 more of each of those to finish, then the other pieces of the "quilt puzzle".</div>
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And from <a href="http://ajpadilla.com/" target="_blank">Angie's Bit's n' Pieces</a> Fairy Friends, Kitchen Sayings and Sue's Christmas Chores.<br />
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I have the first block, the Fairy House all done and ready to sit and wait for the remaining Fairy Friends to come visit the house.</div>
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I have the first saying, My Kitchen, My Rules finished as of tonight.</div>
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Angie's sister site <a href="https://appliquegarden.com/" target="_blank">Applique Garden</a> has a few I'm interested in and will at least collect the patterns for. I don't know if I'll get around to doing them or not.</div>
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One I've been working on since August 2019 is <a href="https://stitchinheaven.com/" target="_blank">Stitchin' Heaven</a>'s Celestial Stars. I am so far behind on it, that it isn't funny. But I am determined to keep these BOMs going with just a bit of work here and there on them to get them done. After all, they weren't all created in their entirety in one day, why should I expect to just start one and continue on it until it is completed?</div>
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Of course, this doesn't include any of the sew-along(s) with <a href="http://ilovetomakequilts.com/" target="_blank">Pat Sloan</a> that I've either previously collected the blocks for or I'm currently collecting the blocks for. Whether it is last year's BOW (I think) of Out of This World and Main Street (was it?) or Our Neighborhood, or this year's Traffic Jam, Out West, or Childhood Games (or whatever else she may throw out there). </div>
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I do like to try to continue to get better at my ability to piece quilts--not real crazy about sampler quilts, but if there is some theme to them that is workable, then I like to try to do them. This is one reason I like doing Pat Sloan blocks-quilt ideas and have started with <a href="http://patternsbyjen.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Patterns by Jen's</a> 2020 Monthly Color Challenge BOM.</div>
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Of course of all the techniques in these different quilts, I do love to paper piece. I won't say that I'm necessarily any better at it than I am at piecing or applique, but I do enjoy them all. And there isn't anywhere I like much better than getting my paper piece ideas from than <a href="http://fandominstitches.com/" target="_blank">Fandom in Stitches</a>. And they have a brand new Quilt Along (QAL) beginning tomorrow that I'm definitely interested in. Kingdom of Hearts QAL. Now, it may be just like the Rankin Bass QAL, the many different Harry Potter based/themed QAL they have had, the Hocus Pocus, the Princesses, Lord of the Rings, etc, etc, etc that I seem to be really good at going to go get the blocks and save them but never seem to get around to making them. But one day, when I have absolutely nothing else up my sleeve to do (hmmm I wonder when that will be), I will begin one of the MANY quilts that uses their wonderful patterns--or maybe I'll finally get around to finishing the super heroes and princess quilts I started for my grandchildren or maybe the Hogwarts quilt for my daughter, or the Incredibles quilt for the family. Oh but those Works in Progress (WIP) as most quilters call them (I on the other hand renamed it out of a brain fart, CRS moment, to Projects in Progress-PIP( and those Unfinished objects, UFO's (I think I like how Jennifer of Sew Hooked thinks of them as they are still works in progress, not just unfinished) is a completely different story to deal with at a later time.</div>
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IF anyone happens to be reading these meanderings of mine, I'd love to find out what your plans for BOM's and which ones you'll be working on (who knows, maybe I'll join yet another one!). Leave a comment below to let me know what you're doing!</div>
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Shellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12431914667614125696noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-528624333387134031.post-24029405152728836932020-01-10T00:27:00.000-06:002020-01-10T00:27:12.158-06:0030 BOMs = a Block a Day to Finish?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I don't know about anyone else, but I seem to be compelled to sign up for most any BOM I come across. It doesn't matter if it is paper pieced, traditional piecing, I even signed on to a hand embroidered BOM. Am I crazy? I haven't done hand embroidery since I was 10 and that was way too many years ago for me to remember how to do it, let alone do it so it's pretty. I sign up for mystery BOM's as well as those I know what the finished project will look like.<br />
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I've always had a theory that if you work on one block a day each day during the month, you can feasibly complete 30 BOMs. Well it sounds like a good theory. The problem has always been I get 1 or 2 blocks finished (if I ever actually start working on things) and then I stop. I never get any further. It's not that I don't like the patterns or the fabric I've chosen. I just get lazy and stop. Then life happens and I never get back to it.<br />
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Well this is a new decade and I figured I try something new. I thought I'd give it a shot as to each of the BOM's I'm signed up for, I'd work on 1 each day. Shouldn't take more than an hour or two at most for most of the blocks to be completed. I surely can get 1 block a day from one of the BOMs. But how was I going to insure that I did this?<br /><br />
Well, it seems like many of the online quilters that have either blogs, sponsor their own BOMs, or are you tubers (or all of the above) seem to be tooting the horn of the quilter's planning calendars or have made their own. Well, I'm a cheapskate--and I know that what I start doing now is likely going to fall to the way side in the not too far future--even as good as my intentions now are to continue with this plight. So I have NOT purchased a specific quilter's planner or organizer. I've listened to you tube videos from some that use bullet journals (tried that last year--lasted 1 1/2 months). I've looked at the different spread sheets and other organizational papers some bloggers have developed and are sharing. And here is what I've gleaned and currently am thinking of doing--well have started doing.<br />
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First I've started a list of all my current Projects in Progress (I call it PIP for short). Whoa that's a lot of PIPs!! Holy Cow? How do I add in my PIPs with the BOMs I've signed up for? I don't think there are that many days in each month. I guess I'll have to start doubling up at some point.<br />
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Second, I made a list of things I want to do, want to start--or that need to get out of my "dead" pile of things to be finished and get back into the PIP stage at the very least. Hmmmm that list isn't exactly short either. Oh MY! I really need to get some serious mojo going and get some strong motivation and get moving on these things.<br />
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Third, I made a list of UFO's. Many of these have been hanging in my closet for at least 2 years. I know this because 2 years ago is when I just totally lost all interest in most everything, stopped sewing and embroidering, stopped quilting, stopped just about everything. So I have a closet full of quilts in various stages of completion. Some (most) need to be sandwiched and quilted and then bound. Others just need to have the quilting finished and then bound. Still others are still in the block stage or at least in rows and I have never been finished putting them together. Well that batch of quilts has to be finished up so I'll have room for the new projects to hang until they are quilted and bound.<br /><br />People say to make a goal for yourself of finishing 1 or 2 UFO's a month. Can I really do that? It doesn't seem like something that would be a hard goal to accomplish--only looking at 1 UFO at a time instead of all of them at once. Seeing all of them at once seems like to daunting a challenge to ever get any of them completed.<br />
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Well maybe if I just do a little bit here and there I'll eventually get the PIPs to a finishable stage. The UFO's (that I haven't even made out the list past #1 (because I can't bear going to look at each one and figure out why I never finished it and I don't want to see just how many are actually there!) should be a manageable thing to take on, however, I just don't have the mojo for that right now--maybe next week.<br />
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So this is what I've started out with. I've done the January block from <a href="http://patternsbyjen.blogspot.com/">patternsbyJen.blogspot.com</a>. That one was fairly simple to accomplish--a simple pieced block all done in yellows. And all of the blocks in her BOM will be a different color based on birds--how fun. I have the first block finished of the Scientific Adventures BOM from <a href="http://adventurousquilter.yolasite.com/">adventurousquilter.yolasite.com</a>. This one took a bit longer as it was paper pieced. But so much fun! And tonight I dove into the process of applique blocks for 2 different BOMs from <a href="http://ajpadilla.com/" target="_blank">Angie's Bits and Pieces</a>. I have the house finished for the Fairy's BOM and I have everything transposed from paper to the heat n bond (paper side) ready to press onto fabric and continue for the Kitchen Sayings BOM.<br />
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Since I have basically just started this idea of trying to do something on one of the BOMs each day--I'd say I haven't done too badly in the last 3 days. I will have to return later to add photos of the different pieces I've completed--as my computer is acting really stupid tonight and is not letting me access any of my files--not to mention it is moving at the speed of a sloth tonight.<br /><br />So how are you handling all the projects you have going?</div>
Shellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12431914667614125696noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-528624333387134031.post-40161306343828863982020-01-08T02:40:00.000-06:002020-01-08T03:11:41.400-06:00Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Blog!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
OK Now I am not the most computer efficient, computer literate person in town, but I generally can find my way around things. So I came back to my blog here way back when thinking I would start trying to blog again. And lo and behold, blogspot had changed to blogger and nothing I had could be found and it wouldn't allow me to post. Instead of being persistent, I just started another blog--crazy right? Same name, different host (?). So for 2 or 3 writings (I doubt there were any more than that) I could be found at <span style="background-color: white; color: #006d21; font-family: "roboto" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">https://shellsspecialtyoftheday.blog. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "roboto" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Now if that isn't crazy enough, I just by chance happened onto this old blog. So what to do? Keep both? Put the same post into both? I mean it really is a crazy idea of having 2 blogs by the same name. And I don't keep up with either one of them. I could say I will do better this year, but we all know in actuality that probably won't happen.<br /><br />Anyway, I've been fixing holes in the knees of my grandson's jeans. Well, more specifically the oldest ones jeans that have now been handed down to cousins and brother. But the oldest is the roughest thing on jeans I've ever seen. Luckily, those coming behind him are not--so they get the now fancied up, Grandma designer jeans! 😂😂 Thanks to some really good stabilizer, a piece of fabric behind the hole and under the stabilizer, I have been able to machine embroider designs that cover these holes.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "roboto" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Yes, yes, I know that having holes in the jeans is supposed to be "in style" and they are the latest and greatest to buy with holes already in them. And in all honesty, it was much more fun getting holes in your jean on your own instead of paying the big bucks for holes already put there! But this grandma (although I am not OLD, just blessed with 10 grandchildren) just goes crazy when the boys wear these jeans with holes in them to school or heaven forbid try to get out the door to go to church in them! But then again, that was how I was raised. And thanks to great designer/digitizers like Dee Lamb, the Mad Crafter on Etsy; the Disney designs found on my machine already; designs I did myself; and I believe BFC Creations is the designer on one of them, my grand children have some great looking jeans to go to school in.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "roboto" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Not too bad to wear are they? Personally I think they are great! Maybe I'll put some on my jeans even though they DON'T have holes in them! Let people wonder if they are covering holes or if they are there for decoration.</span></div>
Shellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12431914667614125696noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-528624333387134031.post-27190648001978565682016-05-11T15:41:00.000-05:002016-05-11T15:41:50.397-05:00Challenges!!--Some are small and Some are ART!!!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I've only been in one quilt guild--as I'm still a fairly new quilter. But I love my quilt guild and have no plans of leaving it. So don't get me wrong there. And I know many quilters that belong to not just one but 2 or three guilds. Some belong to more than one because each guild "fits" a different nitch for them. But it seems that most all guilds have some sort of challenge that they propose to their members at one time or another. Whether the guild/society is a local group, district, state, national or international group there is always a challenge that is involved. It may be once a month, once a quarter, once a year. I was looking at some of my favorite blogs this morning and <a href="http://tweloquilting.blogspot.com/2016/05/art-with-fabric-blog-hop-day-3.html" target="_blank">Tweety Loves Quilting</a> Art with Fabric Blog Hop - Day 3 <br />
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For AQS, there was a Challenge that involved art and artists, the <b>World Painters Challenge:</b><br />
In 1995, a group of twelve patchwork lovers in various regions of Japan formed the Nihon Heritage Quilters Guild. This group participates in an annual quilt challenge, and every few years, the challenge is extended to include other nations. The World Painters Challenge began in 2013. A list of 30 world-famous painters was chosen, and that list was given to a group of quilters from Japan, France, and the U.S. One painter was assigned to each of 30 quilters in each nation, and each quilter was challenged to design and execute a piece of fiber art either representing a work of their painter or making a design of their choice in the style of that painter. This exhibit is designed to compare the techniques and styles between the nations in representing the work of each famous painter. This exhibit will be touring the AQS Quilt Week events in 2016. Linda Steller and her sister, Ginny Steller, became the US coordinators of the World Painters challenge in 2013.<i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><br />
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I don't know what impresses me more, the fact that so many of these could pass as the artist's work that they represent or that they look like art or that the art is actually quilts! And if you could have seen these pieces of art up close and personal it would have really blown you away! The talent that was displayed in these art pieces was just mind blowing! As the old saying goes, "I want to be able to quilt like this when I grow up!"<br />
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To see more art quilts, be sure to check out the <a href="http://tweloquilting.blogspot.com/2016/05/art-with-fabric-blog-hop-day-3.html" target="_blank">Art With Fabric Blog Hop Hosted by Alida by tweloquilting.blogspot.com</a> <br />
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Shellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12431914667614125696noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-528624333387134031.post-40689229278875426342016-05-06T13:54:00.003-05:002016-05-06T13:54:41.528-05:00A Simple Woman's Simple Life (?)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="color: red;"><span style="color: blue;">Do you sometimes feel like you have nothing worth blogging about?</span> Do you feel like there isn't anything to say? <span style="color: blue;"> How about using these thought provokers to get you started.</span> You can then keep either add to it or use as is.<span style="color: blue;"> I have borrowed this idea from </span><a href="http://hohnstreiterrific.com/blog/2009/08/24/a-simple-womans-daybook-3/"><span style="color: blue;">Amanda </span></a><span style="color: blue;">(and I thank you for it as I used this back in 2009 and am pulling from it again as brain starter for myself.</span> Sometimes I need that little bit of help to get me started, and this is perfect to do just that.).</span><br /><br /><a href="http://thesimplewomansdaybook.blogspot.com/"></a><strong>Outside my window</strong>...it beautiful and quite warm--but not as warm as usual for this time of the year here, it's only 67 degrees as I sit here and write this around noon. For us that is quite cool for this time of year. We're usually over 70 by noon this time of year usually mid 70's at least! So to say the least we're enjoying this weather. Of course, we're enjoying the sunshine even more than the cool temps as we've been inundated by the rain over and over and over. We had sooooo much rain the past few weeks that there is no where for the water to go.<br /><br /><strong>I am thinking</strong>...about family, dance costumes, quilt challenges, grandchildren, vacations. (NOT necessarily in that order!) <br /><br /><strong>I am thankful for</strong>...my neighbor's dog getting out of their fence last night so that they had to go looking for it. Sounds strange doesn't it? If they hadn't had to go look for the dog, then no one would have ever (or not as soon) heard my step mother who had locked herself out of her house in her back yard. Her fence was padlocked from the outside so she couldn't get out of the fence either. So she was literally locked in her back yard. So she just stood in the backyard yelling for help. The kids were out looking for their dog, heard her and knew that she was related to us and came to tell us that she was locked in her back yard. So we were able to call her daughter who had a key to the house to let her back in the house.<br /><br /><strong>From the kitchen</strong>...I have a love hate relationship with my kitchen right now. I love the fact that the men in the family cook for the family right now. YAY me! And even though they generally do the dishes, I hate the fact that they don't clean the counters or the sink afterwards. I also hate the fact that we have these little bitty sugar ants or some sort of ants that last year we discovered they were coming from behind our outlets in the kitchen on one side of the kitchen. Now they are coming from the other side of the kitchen. Of course that is the side with all the appliances and all the "stuff" that seems to get piled on the counter. So yes, that's why I'm hating my kitchen. This time of year they always show up. They eventually disappear, but until they do, they drive me crazy!<br /><br /><strong>I am wearing</strong>...a green tshirt and blue lounge pants--my daily uniform!!! I rarely get out of lounge pants and t-shirts anymore! They are so comfortable and unless I'm going out somewhere I rarely get into anything else! I love being retired!<br /><br /><strong>I am reading</strong>...Wedded Blintz by Leighann Dobbs.<br /><br /><strong>I am hoping</strong>...for so many things, that there is no way to categorize them. I guess my biggest hope is that the interviews that Jan and Dave had with Margaritaville went to this week will pay off in jobs that they will both get and enjoy. And if they don't that this will be a door that God has closed and that there is another door that is waiting around the corner to be opened for them that is the right one for them. Dave has decided it is time to go back to work. Jan is needing to go back to work to care for her children.<br /><br /><strong>I am creating</strong>...costumes for my grandson and the other boy in his dance classes for their recital in June and more pressing for their dance pictures this weekend (yes as of tomorrow morning!). In all there are 2 safari outfits and 2 tuxedo style vests, pants and shirts with bow ties. I'm also getting ready to be working on our guild's challenge that is a geometric challenge. The fabrics are all to be geometric prints and is to be a finished size of a charity quilt for our NICU or CASA that we give quilts to. It doesn't have to be geometric design but can be. I have chosen my design, but it is one I've never made before and don't know if I will be able to make correctly by the due date (of course, as long as I get it done they will be happy even if it is late). There is a Lion King Challenge that I have seen that has a short due date that I've seen online that I'm seriously considering (although I've never submitted my work for viewing by anyone other than our local guild so I'm really having to think abou this. But I would so love to make something dealing with the Lion King! Maybe I'll buy the fabric, make it and if I get it finished in time to mail, then I can send it if I feel it is acceptable to be seen.<br /><br /><strong>I am praying</strong>...for so many friends that have had medical issues lately, those that have missing children that have been posted on facebook, our cat that we found out yesterday has extensive mammory cancer that without doing extensive testing and surgery is no way of knowing if it's in the lymph nodes and further. But because she is 19 yrs old, there is no reason to try to do surgery as long as she is not hurting and is still getting around on her own. She might not make it through a surgery. And it wouldn't be guaranteed to extend her life. So we are going to let her live out her life as is.<br /><br /><strong>Around the house</strong>...the house is as crowded and disorganzied as always. Of course with 5 adults and 4 children in one house, one wouldn't expect it to be much eles. Well, I'm sure most people would think we'd have to be extremely organized--but with that many different adults trying to take care and control of things, it just doesn't work that way. And the things that I would have organized, someone else comes along and changes my organization to their ways and then I can't find anything. After awhile, I give up. And all in all, we just have WAY TOO MUCH STUFF!!!! One day we'll get things back to the way it should be. Or at least maybe we'll at least get the grandkids to start picking up after themselves. That would at least help!<br /><br /><strong>One of my favorite things</strong>...my sewing room. I've changed it so many times. I've changed rooms, changed machines, changed tables, changed, changed, changed. I won't say I'm done changing. And I definitely won't say it is done with it's organized status yet either. But at least I'm closer to how I want it. I now have Brother Scan-n-Cut 2, Brother Innovis 2800, my Brother 400SE, my Janome Serger, Artistic 16 SD machines all in the same room where I can get to all of them easiily. I have cutting and ironing stations available on both sides of the room. and I have an extra table for cutting full patterns out instead of just cutting quilt stuffs. Awesome, Awesome, Awesome!!!</div>
Shellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12431914667614125696noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-528624333387134031.post-7011279292940184262016-04-23T16:56:00.000-05:002016-04-23T16:56:02.157-05:00Another {almost full} Month Has Passed By Us<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmX83ofMzsWJZICCzvO7ZDmQ2yu3Pk-wDx1YtIVkxb6YIyVbxbX_cWBrtQkROhJ5NYO8UUmfncSwmZ56FuHIqCAGbK0kcEEy7WhqVtnA_a5we7iYOhLh2YrD71W6tiID6udRaOhiGGu7hk/s1600/FB_IMG_1460822448468.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmX83ofMzsWJZICCzvO7ZDmQ2yu3Pk-wDx1YtIVkxb6YIyVbxbX_cWBrtQkROhJ5NYO8UUmfncSwmZ56FuHIqCAGbK0kcEEy7WhqVtnA_a5we7iYOhLh2YrD71W6tiID6udRaOhiGGu7hk/s320/FB_IMG_1460822448468.jpg" width="180" /></a> Well apparently things are not going to cooperate with me with these pictures today. So I'll just type around them. The Tutu here was another project I had going that kept me from doing much quilting. My adopted granddaughter turned one this last weekend! I found this adorable design at Hooked on Applique with the Birthday Princess Tiara Numbers and embroidered it on this for Seraphina's first birthday. She is SUCH a cutie pie! And she's definitely our little princess, so she had to have her own little tiara!<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikBohb-euyUTHEgn_EDKZOhvFc2l1ZiwnY9GXDDvG0RL4UutSIV5f17cfKot8OwMUz3FlVNgxmtwiQC4fHNVpl1nnqhYrsxXGPyiIk-0nqTLhxNoiZ8QssyYCoIAQXpk7DNOT56P3j3pWV/s1600/20160412_191201.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikBohb-euyUTHEgn_EDKZOhvFc2l1ZiwnY9GXDDvG0RL4UutSIV5f17cfKot8OwMUz3FlVNgxmtwiQC4fHNVpl1nnqhYrsxXGPyiIk-0nqTLhxNoiZ8QssyYCoIAQXpk7DNOT56P3j3pWV/s320/20160412_191201.jpg" width="180" /></a>In our Quilt Guild we had a fun challenge that was given to us in February and it was due the beginning of this month (ok, so not all of us got it finished at the beginning--me included). The challenge was for us to <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Choose
a song title</span><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">and make a wall hanging (9 x
12) no bigger……..We will guess your song title</span> . The fun of all of this was to make it so that it wasn't totally obvious, but obvious enough so that you could guess it! <br />
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So do you think you can guess the song titles of these famous 1960's tunes? I have to say, I didn't even know songs for some of them. I did know the song for the others, but didn't get the the title without a couple of clues--it isn't the obvious answer that you think it is.<br />
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Our guild meeting is Tuesday night again and we're hoping to have more to share theirs then. So, hopefully I can share all the answers then. Mine is in the bottom right hand corner. I have the binding now sewn on and the label printed, just not sewn on yet. We are going to keep all of these together for our 2017 quilt show. Seems strange that we just finished our last quilt show in October of 2015 (or seems like we just finished it) and here we're already planning the next one!<br />
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Our next challenge is due in just a couple of weeks and I know I will not get mine finished by our first Business meeting of the month. Everything is to be geometric. Geometric fabrics and then a geometric pattern. <br />
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Mine will definitely be that. I've chosen a pattern I've never attempted to do--it's on my Bucket List of patterns I've always wanted to try to do and have NO IDEA how to do it! I've always love the Tumbling Blocks or Baby Blocks or whatever the majority of people call them. I sent Dave to take the grandababies to their other grandparent's house last weekend and he came home with all kinds of Fat Quarters in an array of colors! Not only that, he brought me the backing fabric as well--crayons in all the colors to match all the FQs! So.....since then I've been "googling" and reading and YouTubing all there is I can find on Tumbling Blocks and Baby Blocks. I think I might be able to do these fairly easily. If you haven't heard from me in another year, you'll know I either pulled out all my hair and threw away all my machines and gave up quilting altogether, or something worse happened! LOL<br />
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In the meantime, it is also getting close to the time dance pictures are about ready to be taken for my grandchildren. And since one of my grandchildren that is dancing is a boy, guess who is making his costume? Yep! I'll be making his and the other little boy in the class along with him. Gee, seems I remember doing this for my son and the other boy (now young man) that was always in class with him through the years. So I have 2 tuxedo pants and vests and long sleeve shirts and bow ties to make and 2 safari shirts and shorts to make. No sweat! After all, I have until May 7 to get them done. The worst part will be finding buttons to match the colors of the shirts!<br />
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Until I'm back here again to give you an update on my latest projects--y'all just Keep On Stitchin'!<br />
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Shellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12431914667614125696noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-528624333387134031.post-79425946994998294092016-03-31T03:01:00.001-05:002016-03-31T14:23:14.281-05:00It's the End of Yet Another Era<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Well, apparently, it's the end of yet another era. I really didn't think I was going to live long enough to see the end of this era. But apparently I have. What era is that? Let me start out with saying this:</div>
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<span style="color: #990000;">Hancock Fabrics </span><span style="color: black;">is closing. Now that doesn't mean a lot to most people. But, for someone like me, who has sewn since the age of 4; followed behind her Momma through every imaginable fabric store in every state we visited and every country we lived in and every one we traveled through; drug my children through countless numbers of fabric stores and either rode them in buggies or sat them at the catalogs while I looked through fabrics (or fought with them telling them they couldn't get all the fabrics that they wanted on that trip); drug my first husband begrudgingly through the stores; and have to figure out who's going to find the most fabric to bring home between my me and my second husband in the stores now; having one of the few fabric stores in our area close down is a very big deal. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">We used to have a Jo-Anne Fabric and Craft store as well. But it closed down a long time ago. The two stores were less than a mile away from each other. And you know what? No one cared! Because people that were looking for fabric would go to both stores! We bought from both stores! People that buy fabric at Hancock's now, also buy at Hobby Lobby across the parking lot. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">But that isn't why they're going out of business. They have been in bankruptcy court trying to reorganize and searching for a buyer who would keep them open. Has been a long time coming. Like you<span class="text_exposed_hide">...</span><span class="text_exposed_show">, they've been our "go to" fabric store for years. We moved to the MS Gulf Coast in '77 and I've been a customer ever since. Have friends who went there with their moms as children. Definitely the end of an era. Will keep you posted as I hear. Wish it were better news to share with my sewing friends.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Well I guess we'll be making more trips to Jo-Anne Fabric and Craft Stores in Mobile or Slidell or Metairie. or we'll be spending more at Coastal Sew and Vac and at the Fabric Dock and Block Therapy. I don't mind paying the bigger bucks on quality fabrics after all, Jo-Ann's isn't that much cheaper now days and we certainly have to drive farther, but we certainly don't get the sales we got with Hancock Fabrics!! <a href="http://l.facebook.com/?u=http%3A%2F%2FFabric.com%2F&e=ATM6ZHSZDqkc-__r8K532L8sGEts1dVCx3uQkNTHKmYc3thwsNxQkpjr4VU_ZQ" target="_blank">Fabric.com</a>, <a href="http://l.facebook.com/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fe-quilter.com%2F&e=ATO7iBFOitTFxa4nFVdw5c5GEZ2WCYSqHmeqSat4G8D7gdPtI2WKVatWkwwgEA" target="_blank">e-quilter.com</a>, <a href="http://l.facebook.com/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmodafabrics.com%2F&e=ATOKZzcUHIK5sZYyO6uA5N6VS300Gk9U3a32B-bMWlF9wFiRiB3r1P7UY5c0jA" target="_blank">modafabrics.com</a>, and so many other fabric stores online, I guess you'll be seeing more and more of me and other quilters! As for my costume sewing needs, well, I will continue to head to Jefferson Variety Store in New Orleans!</span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">But you know, you can't FEEL fabric when you buy it online. You can't PET fabric online. You don't know the quality and the softness or if light shines through it or if your autistic grandson can touch it without his skin crawling when you buy it online! Don't get me wrong, I buy LOTS of fabric online. But you can't see TRUE colors online. You have to take the word of the people that the colors really go together; or that your colors on your computer are true; or the colors in their pictures. If you get all the fabrics from one fabric line, then YES you can be assured that fabrics will go together. but if you shop like I do, well, not too many people shop like me I guess. I shop all over the place. I grab one or two fabrics from here and there and everywhere and then grab 3 or 4 from across the room and then come back and go back and forth and grab a few more and yes they'll all be cottons and yes they'll all go together in one way or the other--or will eventually. But you can't really do that by looking at little swatches on a computer screen. And you really can't do that looking at a 4 x 6 inch smart phone screen.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">So yes, it is the end of an era of being able to go into the big box store of fabrics that are reasonably priced, decent quality fabrics. Hancock Fabrics may not have always had the high end, top of the line quilting cottons, but I've never gone wrong with them. They may not have had the highest end velvets, satins and other bridal and specialty fabrics, but I've made some very special prom dresses and bridal gowns and bridesmaids dresses from there. I couldn't begin to count the number of Halloween costumes I've made over the years for my children and grandchildren and other people's children; and that's not even including costumes for Mardi Gras skits I've made. I've outfitted numerous church plays, musicals and dinner theaters and banners with fabrics from there. And how could I even begin to calculate how much I've used to make charity quilts for our guild to give to the NICU and CASA? How would I begin to calculate how much I've used to make clothing for my own children, my grandchildren, for myself, for others over the last 35-40 years? </span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">I've become so accustomed to sewing without having everything I need already purchased knowing that Hancock's is just around the corner. I know I can always just run down and go get what I need. If they liquidate and leave, where will I go to get that thread or zipper pattern or button? I don't want to have to drive the 45-60 minutes to Mobile or Slidell or the 1 1/2 hours to Metairie, LA. I've gotten used to going in and just walking in and seeing the new fabrics, talking to the staff and feeling the fabric. I won't be able to do that anymore. So yes, it looks like we must say good-bye to yet another era.</span></div>
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Wow, it seems like forever since I've been on my blog--wait it has been forever. It's been so long since I've been on here, that they've changed it from blogspot to blogger! I didn't even know how to log into my own blog! I've had so much happen in the last few years. More grandchildren born. Children that have moved out of my house. Children that have moved in. <br />
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I still sew for our Mardi Gras krewe. My husband and I spent a year as king and queen of our krewe. What a great year that was! My DH and I made almost all the court costumes. There were only two of them that we didn't make. We made the collars and trains and capes. Needless to say, there was a year of planning and sewing and building and constructing in the making of all of this. Was it worth it? Yes. Will we ever do it again? Not together. It took a toll on us emotionally, mentally, physically and definitely financially by doing this at the same time. But we loved our year as King and Queen.<br />
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Since the last I've logged in here, I have joined a quilting guild in our area and have once again become and avid fan of quilting and even more, I have fallen in love with quilting and color again. That doesn't mean I do it any better. But I've had lots more practice. And for the lovely woman that once just cut me to the core and stopped me in my tracks for what I thought would be forever from quilting with her words of telling me that I was just a "wanna be" quilter. I have realized (after almost 10 years) that she actually did me a favor! <br />
All of the capes and trains in these costumes were not done the traditional way of just gluing things on and then gluing sequins on. Instead Every cape and all 15 feet of my train and 17 feet of DH's train were appliqued and then quilted before gluing sequins and rhinestones to them. <br />
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In addition, I have since then made many crib size quilts and 2 queen size quilts that have been made to completion and quilted. Now that doesn't include how many tops I've completed that I've never quilted, all because that line kept going through my mind--you're just a 'wanna be quilter." But remember I said it turned out to be a favor? <br />
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Well, I figured out that EVERY quilter is a "wanna be" quilter. Why do I say that? Because every quilter wants to be a better quilter. They want to learn more, they learn new techniques, they want to learn new ways to do old things, they want to learn the new Modern Quilting and Fiber Arts. So YES every quilter is a Wanna Be Quilter. So I'm now proud to say that I'm a Wanna Be Quilter! Or I should say I'm Proud to Say I'm Proud to Want to Be a Quilter, I'm Proud to Be a Quilter! I may not be perfect--only LOTS of practice will get me to where I will ever even get close to that. I may not be great--all quilters consider themselves to be worse than they really are. Have you ever heard a quilter tell you all the faults in their quilts? We all do it! We know where all the faults are, but no one else can see them. Everyone else sees the beauty of the work, not the mistakes or your oops. Besides the Navahos and the Amish believe that only God is perfect so no human can make anything perfect, so they cannot make any anything perfect. So even if anything is considered perfect that they are making, they purposefully put in one mistake so that it won't be a perfect piece of work.<br />
Here are just a few of the ones I've made in the last 2 years. This is by no means all that I've made. I forget to photograph most of them. Most of the ones I make are for charity quilts that go to infants in our local hospital NICU so that some infant will be wrapped in love or go to CASA children that will be able to have a quilt of their own that can never be taken from them. It will always be theirs to be able to offer them a small means of love and comfort when they need it. So yes, I am a wanna be a quilter to be able to make something that can provide love and comfort when there isn't a pair of loving arms that can offer it for them.<br />
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Shellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12431914667614125696noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-528624333387134031.post-19189416641484114942013-11-07T08:57:00.002-06:002013-11-07T09:03:18.707-06:00How Time Flies!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I just rediscovered my blog. OK I know that sounds crazy. But it has been an absolutely wild year around here! Yes I promised pictures of the duke costume from last year. Do I have any pictures to show from it? Hmmmm that's a loaded question. I'm sure I took them--after all, it was my son-in-law I made the costume for. Do I know where the pictures are? Now that's a totally different story.<br />
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All in all, they turned out GREAT!</div>
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This year, my hubby and I have been elected King and Queen of this Mardi Gras krewe. We have been working what feels like non stop to make not only our trains, collars, and costumes. We have also been working on the costumes, capes, collars and headpieces of our court members. Unfortunately, you'll have to wait until after Mardi Gras to see any of it--as we're not revealing what they'll look like until then. If you're lucky though, I'll remember to come back and show you! </div>
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I really am not the best blogger! I get side tracked too easily and just don't remember to come back to it. And because I don't log into my Google account very often, I don't even see the blog to remind me. I just seem to have too many distractions in my life.</div>
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Of course 2 of those distractions are my beautiful grandsons that live with us. Watching them grow and develop is such a joy. They are joined by 5 other distractions--their cousins and the remaining grandchildren. We recently were told that there will be an 8th distraction added to the family. I haven't been told of when the proposed due date will be, but maybe we'll have more of an idea by Christmas when grandbaby number 8 will make its presence known.</div>
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Speaking of Christmas, can you believe that it will be upon us so soon? It is so hard to believe that stores are already fully stocked with Christmas decorations and some are even playing Christmas carols already. Really???? Whatever happened to November? Thanksgiving? Are people really no longer thankful for what they have? It's a shame that people just take everything they have for granted. Although, I have to add myself to that mix. I get so involved with activities or just the daily run of the mill things we all do, that I forget to be thankful.</div>
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The roof over our head, the food we eat, the clothes we wear, we just take for granted that they'll be there. We all tend to forget or turn a blind eye to the fact that people around us do not have homes, do not have food to eat, do not have new (or sometimes even clean) clothes to wear. Our subconscious mind tends to hide that fact from us on a daily basis. If we don't see it, then it doesn't exist. But it DOES exist and people all around us are not blessed with the comforts we're all comfortable with. I'm not just talking about those in third world countries or in foreign lands, I'm talking about the people that walk the same streets, go to the same schools or businesses, live near us. There is a bridge that is less than 1/2 a mile from my house that is known to "house" people. Some of them are quite content to live there and chose a life without all the personal comforts that a materialistic society brings upon itself. But most that come and go from under the bridge are those that were forced out of their homes for one reason or another. WE, as a society need to learn not to turn a blind eye towards them; to be thankful for what we have; to not take for granted that we'll always live in a house that is furnished with comfortable furniture; we may not always have the ability to have electricity, water, and gas for our comfort; we may not always have a loving friend, spouse, family member who will help us and love us unconditionally that will stand by you no matter what. Wow, there are so many things that we can be and SHOULD be thankful for. We just don't think of all that we have that we could lose in an instant. Someone on facebook started the 30 days of thanks--that each day during the month of November, you write what you're thankful for. We should be thankful EVERYDAY of the year. We should remember to not just ask God to help with everything, but to THANK HIM for all that he's given us.</div>
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Shellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12431914667614125696noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-528624333387134031.post-31513441170728018112013-02-01T14:20:00.000-06:002013-02-01T14:34:31.839-06:00Has It Really Been a Year?Hello one and all followers--and any lurkers as well! <br />
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Has it really been a year since I was last on this blog? I don't know how time flies--and not always when you're having fun. But seems like the older I get the faster time flies by. But what a year it has been!
I went great guns on the website--that is until the server would no longer let me in! There were so many new designs that I digitized and put on the site. But alas life got in the way and I have yet to figure out the balancing act of business owner, Mom, Gramma, cook & bottle washer. LOL But that is neither here nor there. I guess the biggest thing I forgot was ME time and this blog is part of that ME time! I will say that I'll be dilligent about getting this back to normal postings. However, I can't say that that will necessarily be the case--no matter how much I want it to be so. I just forget to get to the computer. I can't even claim to have been a loyal follower of the blogs that I follow--can't even claim that I've been lurking! I can honestly say that I haven't looked at anyone's blogs--and for that I apologize. I know that all of you put hard work into your blogs!
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All of that being said, let me say that this has been a busy year! My dearest hubby and my best friend went to Walt Disney World for a week then followed that week with a week long cruise on the Disney Fantasy! Oh what a wonderful 2 weeks those were! We had so much fun and met some amazing people--not to mention the wonderful characters that we love to see in the wonderful world of the mouse! Being able to spend those 2 weeks in the fantatiscal world of Walt Disney's visions was awesome. Coming home from such a great trip was rather depressing getting back into the "real world" of having to cook and clean for ourselves!<br />
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However that feeling didn't last too long as 3 weeks later we were back on the road again to Myrtle Beach, SC for my All Class Reunion. Now most people would wonder what kind of school would not have a specific class reunion, but an All Class one instead. Well, I am proud to say that I'm a military brat! And our school, Zweibruecken American High School does not limit its class reunions to just one class or to just those that actually physically graduated from there. Every 3 years there is an All Class Reunion held in which anyone that attended the school during its existence is considered an alumni! It was wonderful to meet so many old and new friends that I haven't seen in almost 30 years (or has it been 30 years already?)!! What an amazing weekend with amazing people!
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I returned home to prepare myself for yet another back surgery--this time on the upper portion of the spine as opposed to the lower portion. I must say that all has gone exceedingly well with this last surgery and I'm quite pleased with the result. Although I am starting to feel like one of Star Trek's Borg units! :) But so far I have to say it has all been worth it.
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I'm so blessed that my husband can be part of the creative team that works on things and can help with the cutting and detail work!
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That being said, I will close this for now. But I did want to let you know that I haven't forgotten y'all and I'm still alive and kicking!Shellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12431914667614125696noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-528624333387134031.post-87438855977994245142012-01-08T10:21:00.001-06:002012-01-08T10:23:35.804-06:00It's Official, I'm the new owner of Embroodles!OMG, It has been SOOOO long since I've been on here. So much going on and so much to share with y'all. First of all, I am no longer teaching--after having the second back surgery in 5 years (third major surgery in those same 5 years) I have left the classroom. I've been making my way back to the world of the living slowly but surely. <br />
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Second, my partnership with the owner of Embroodles has turned into me OWNING Embroodles and Kim is starting up a new website for her clip art! Of course, we are still partners as far as we are concerned, but legally, now I'm the owner of Embroodles and she will be the owner of her website. So I will be incorporating Embroodles and the work I'm doing there to share with y'all. Of course, any of you that own embroidery machines are more than welcome to come browse the website, join our yahoo group and in general just come be creative with me. Y'all will be the lucky ones to see digitized designs before they are put onto the website. And of course, you know I'll enjoy getting your feedback on any/all the designs that I'm working on or that will be going on the site. So be sure to check out Embroodles website at <a href="http://www.embroodles.com">www.Embroodles.com</a> or by going to our <a href="https://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Embroodles/158077047548442">facebook page</a>!<br />
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Oh and before I forget, all of you that are my normal blog buddies that already have websites of your own, if you want to give me any helpful hints and advice on how to keep from going crazy or how best to get your site noticed by even more people I won't turn away from listening to you! This is an established site, one that I've been working with the owner and she and I have considered ourselves partners since almost the beginning of the site. So its not like I know nothing about the site--but I've never been the one in charge of RUNNING it. Of course, I'm going to ask Kim to continue helping me for a little while; but I don't turn down suggestions without listening to them first! ;)<br />
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I'm sure there is LOTS more to say and to start looking for things to show y'all--been so long since I've been here, maybe I need to reintroduce myself! Maybe y'all forgot me!Shellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12431914667614125696noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-528624333387134031.post-23190548750204447322011-07-14T22:38:00.001-05:002011-07-14T23:15:56.294-05:00Distractions!I have wondered so many times about being diagnosed as an adult ADD case. Have I ever been diagnosed? Have I ever even seen anyone to diagnose me? No! Do I really think I'm one of those with adult ADD? Not really, I think what happens is that there are too many distractions in life and I apparently don't have enough focus on any one thing to stay on task. I'm sure there are many that will understand this.<br />
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It goes along like this: I go to the kitchen to get a drink. I see a stack of unread mail and go to open it---not getting the drink. Take the mail into the office area to read the mail--seeing something on the computer screen blinking. The unread mail gets put down and the computer is checked. Oh great, I have mail. Open the email inbox, see something of interest I go to that web page. That site makes me think, "Ooooh that is so cute, bet Kim and I could come up with directions and digitized design similar to that for the website." Let's check yahoo to see if she's online. Yep, chat for a bit, show her my idea taken from website idea. I have completely forgotten the mail, email, the drink.<br />
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Chat a while longer, start testing designs for her. A needle breaks, go get upset at machine, walk out of the room and find a sock the cat that has drug up the hallway. Go down the hall and pick up the remaining laundry and go to laundry room. On the way, see dishes in another room that were never taken to the kitchen, go back to that room to get the dishes. See a new computer game that DH has put onto that computer. Sit down and start playing the game (forgetting the dishes). Get bored with that and head towards the living room. Oh great, one of my favorite shows is on tv. All right, its a marathon. Get totally wrapped up in it.<br />
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The dogs come up wagging their tail and woofing. "Do you gotta go outside?" Take the dogs to the back door and let them out. Gee the table never got wiped off last night. Suppose I should do that. Go to kitchen and realize, I'm thirsty. Go to get a glass from the cabinet and there are none there. Empty the dishwasher, reload it. Go look for other dishes. Hmmm, wasn't I in here before to get these? Take them back, finish loading the dishwasher. Take the dirty dish rags to the laundry room. Hmmmm, why didn't I start this load earlier? etc., etc., etc., etc.<br />
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Seems like I have this kind of thing happen all the time. I have this "to do" list that is so long it could probably wrap around the house several times. My "I want to try that" or "to be made" or "make or find a pattern for this" list is even longer! I go to "research" or find a tutorial or pattern for something and then I find blog after blog to read through and find fabulous ideas for everything but what I'm looking for. <b>Distraction</b>: fabulous blogs from awesome "normal" people that write about their passions and share their knowledge with others. Is this distraction a bad thing? No, but it does keep me from doing what I intended to do in the first place.<br />
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I have an extensive stash of fabric. I decide to straighten up the stash and try to organize it a bit better. While going through the fabric I hit the <b>DISTRACTION</b>! And what exactly would that be? "Oh look, how cute that fabric is!!! That would be so cute as a ______ for ______." Now all I have to do is find the pattern for it. Is that a bad thing? Well, it isn't IF you find the pattern, put it with the fabric and put the rest of the fabric away. But that rarely happens--at least not in an organized fashion.<br />
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I start going through the patterns looking for something specific---and <b>DISTRACTION</b>: "Oh this would be cute, I forgot I had this pattern. OMG this is adorable, when did I get this? That would be so cute for.... Oh and this would fit.... I really need to find the right fabric for this." Now when you have so many patterns that you have them sorted by category and then sizes (who cares which company its from) and you have enough to fill an entire filing cabinet PLUS some, its easy to forget patterns that you have. Or when your children haven't been toddlers in 20 years you forget what baby and toddler patterns you have. So you start going pattern by pattern pulling out the ones you think you want to make "NOW." So much for looking for "the" pattern for the particular pattern.<br />
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Now I have a ton of fabric on the table because the "other stuff" never got put back up. I have about 10 patterns I want to make "NOW" sitting on the table. I look at the mess and try to figure out what I'm going to do now. I sit down in my sewing chair, swivel around to the computer and <b>DISTRACTION</b>: I see a really cute quilting pattern that would be awesome for..... But I'm not really a quilter. I play around at putting things together. Maybe I can watch the Quilting Quickly section .... and find an easy way to do that quilt. Oh that is awesome. That's so quick and easy. But if I make it will .... really like it? Probably not; but maybe I could make it and if they don't like it I could always give it to someone that really needs it. Now what fabrics would look good put together?<br />
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While at the computer, Kim buzzes me and says she has some new designs that she needs tested. Oh what a cute idea for a baby bib or bib and burp set. I've got the diapers already, I think I'll go ahead and test on them. The tests are always almost perfect if not perfect the first time. I'll just find the fabric to make the coordinating bib with. What's this? Is it another <b>DISTRACTION</b> I see coming my way? Ah, yes it is! Now I have cloth diapers and onesies sitting out on the table, too. What was it I started looking for in the first place? <br />
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I've forgotten. And there is another full day of not getting anything done--but I have tons of ideas. Guess I need to write some of these ideas down before I forget them altogether. Now where did I put the last "working" notebook? Oh yeah, its on the shelf. Which one is the current book? and OMG its yet another <b>DISTRACTION</b>! I start looking through the ideas books. Oh yeah, I remember when we started working on this embroidery set. I wonder if Kim and I ever got this set of designs finalized and finished? I wonder which hard drive these designs are on?<br />
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And I wonder why I never get anything finished. I wonder why I start looking at things a month or two ahead of time for the grandbabies "events" and never get anything completed on time (if at all). My children think I'm a horrible grandparent because of this trait. And I probably am. I procrastinate and then I have all these DISTRACTIONS that get in the way. Oh and we haven't even talked about the daily distractions of doing laundry, dishes, normal housework (oh yeah, that's how this all started) and then of course there's the "One-eyed Monster." What you're not familiar with the one-eyed monster? Sure you are, most people call it the TV! Y'all excuse me while I go find another DISTRACTION to keep me busy again!Shellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12431914667614125696noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-528624333387134031.post-19736391908832894252011-07-13T21:40:00.000-05:002011-07-13T21:40:50.739-05:00The day of OMG's!Lordy, Lordy, Lordy, what a day! I just don't know where to begin even! The daughter of a friend of mine (her children and my children grew up together) that just had her first grand child--although the baby decided it was time to be born, baby Emma was still premature and mother and baby are in separate hospitals. Poor Rachel had not even seen Emma yet the last I saw on fb. OMG I can't imagine having a baby and not being able to see or hold her.<br />
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One of our best and dearest friends from the Krewe of Harlequin died last night and we did not find out until today. What a way to start the day--learning that a dear friend lost the battle of his time on earth. I've cried off and on all day from that. OMG I can't imagine how our krewe will be continue with court costumes as it has for the past 36 years. OMG is this why he kept trying to get DH and I to be there for all the cutting and making of head pieces, and court costumes last year? Did he know that he was possibly training the next ones to be able to continue with this for future years?<br />
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Today marks the one week mark of when I had back surgery--with a total of 50+ staples in my back. The three drains are gone--they were gone of course before leaving the hospital. I was admitted to the hospital on Wednesday of last week and released on Saturday--with my trusty muscle relaxers and pain killers in hand. I've actually done quite well. I'm able to walk most of the time without my walker and have gotten to where I'm only taking 1 pain killer in about 12 hours (unless it gets excruciating) as opposed to the 2 every 4-6 hours that they were prescribed. OMG how it hurts to stand or sit; and even more so to lay on my back.<br />
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My 21 month old grandson came over and found the tile and grout cleaner that was used to clean the tile and grout in the living room today. Only thing is, he found it by picking it up and spraying it in his face! We spent a panicked 10 minutes with DH standing in the shower completely clothed trying to flush DGS's eyes and skin with water; Trying to find the poison control center phone number--finally had to put poison control center in computer search engine to find a number to call. Why is it that the number that should be most prominent on a chemical is the number not listed ANYWHERE!!! Spent the same time trying to calm DD who thought her son was being drowned--because he was screaming so much with us trying to flush the chemicals off him. Did I mention I just had back surgery 1 week ago and I'm not supposed to be doing anything "normal" like bending, twisting, lifting, etc. and I couldn't think of ANYTHING but making sure this baby was ok. My second DD who is "due any time" was trying to calm the sister down, calm the grandson down, get me to go sit down, trying to find the phone number, and she feels like crap and is so ready to have this baby--but the baby keeps saying she's not ready yet.<br />
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I got up this morning and found all the plates that had been stacked up last night and were sitting in the kitchen on the counter were NOW on the floor--upside down with 2 of the 4 plates broken. Thank you animals that think that they are my dishwasher! OMG how am I supposed to get this cleaned up? I HATE having to rely on someone else to do everything that I've been doing all this time. I hate having to wake up DH just to tell him, "um honey, we have a problem, our plates from last night are all over the kitchen floor--can you go clean it up?"<br />
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My paperwork from the school office was never submitted for my retirement paperwork to go through! OMG this is like less than a month before my retirement is supposed to be finalized and it was never submitted!?! And of course the people in the office that have control of this are on vacation, out of the office or just ignoring the phone calls. Did I mention I've just had surgery and can't just hop in a car and go take care of this?<br />
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It has felt like there were so many more OMGs for today; but I don't know how many more could you fit into one day? I appreciate y'all letting me vent! I will be back (hopefully tomorrow) with all the "stuff" I'm currently working on! Until, hopefully no more OMGs for the day.Shellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12431914667614125696noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-528624333387134031.post-28633848358686617942011-06-04T06:23:00.000-05:002011-06-04T06:23:21.295-05:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"></div><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hilarious! Growing up without a cell phone </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you are 36, or older, you might think this is hilarious! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When I was a kid, adults used to bore me to tears with their tedious diatribes about how hard things were. When they were growing up; what with walking twenty-five miles to school every morning.... Uphill... Barefoot... BOTH ways...yadda, yadda, yadda </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And I remember promising myself that when I grew up, there was no way in hell I was going to lay a bunch of crap like that on my kids about how hard I had it and how easy they've got it! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But now that I'm over the ripe old age of forty, I can't help but look around and notice the youth of today. You've got it so easy! I mean, compared to my childhood, you live in a damn Utopia! And I hate to say it, but you kids today, you don't know how good you've got it! </span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1) I mean, when I was a kid we didn't have the Internet. If we wanted to know something, we had to go to the library and look it up in the card catalog!! or pull out the encyclopedias!! </span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2) There was no email!! We had to actually write somebody a letter - with a pen! Then you had to walk all the way across the street and put it in the mailbox, and it would take like a week to get there! Stamps were 10 cents! </span><br />
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<span style="color: lime; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">3) Child Protective Services didn't care if our parents beat us. As a matter of fact, the parents of all my friends also had permission to kick our ass! Nowhere was safe! </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">4) There were no MP3's or Napsters or iTunes! If you wanted to steal music, you had to hitchhike to the record store and shoplift it yourself! </span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">5) Or you had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio, and the DJ would usually talk over the beginning and @#*% it all up! There were no CD players! We had tape decks in our car. We'd play our favorite tape and "eject" it when finished, and then the tape would come undone rendering it useless. Cause, hey, that's how we rolled, Baby! Dig? </span><br />
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">6) We didn't have fancy crap like Call Waiting! If you were on the phone and somebody else called, they got a busy signal, that's it! </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #274e13; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">7) There weren't any freakin' cell phones either. If you left the house, you just didn't make a damn call or receive one. You actually had to be out of touch with your "friends". OH MYGOSH !!! Think of the horror... not being in touch with someone 24/7!!! And then there's TEXTING. Yeah, right. Please! You kids have no idea how annoying you are. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">8) And we didn't have fancy Caller ID either! When the phone rang, you had no idea who it was! It could be your school, your parents, your boss, your bookie, your drug dealer, the collection agent... you just didn't know!!! You had to pick it up and take your chances, mister! </span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">9) We didn't have any fancy PlayStation or Xbox video games with high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600! With games like 'Space Invaders' and 'Asteroids'. Your screen guy was a little square! You actually had to use your imagination!!! And there were no multiple levels or screens, it was just one screen.. Forever! And you could never win. The game just kept getting harder and harder and faster and faster until you died! Just like LIFE! and if you lived in the country like me you didn't even have an Atari 2600!!.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">10) You had to use a little book called a TV Guide to find out what was on! You were screwed when it came to channel surfing! You had to get off your ass and walk over to the TV to change the channel!!! NO REMOTES!!! Oh, no, what's the world coming to?!?!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">11) There was no Cartoon Network either! You could only get cartoons on Saturday Morning. Do you hear what I'm saying? We had to wait ALL WEEK for cartoons, you spoiled little brats!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">12) And we didn't have microwaves. If we wanted to heat something up, we had to use the stove! Imagine that! </span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">13) And our parents told us to stay outside and play... all day long. Oh, no, no electronics to soothe and comfort. And if you came back inside... you were doing chores! </span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">14) And car seats - oh, please! Mom threw you in the back seat and you hung on. If you were lucky, you got the "safety arm" across the chest at the last moment if she had to stop suddenly, and if your head hit the dashboard, well that was your fault for calling "shot gun" in the first place! </span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">See! That's exactly what I'm talking about! You kids today have got it too easy. You're spoiled rotten! You guys wouldn't have lasted five minutes back in 1970 or any time before!</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Over 40 Crowd </span><br />
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</div>Shellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12431914667614125696noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-528624333387134031.post-32799766856967017232011-03-05T13:53:00.003-06:002011-03-05T16:09:32.451-06:00What is 50 years?Fifty years....half a century....half a lifetime....a drop in time infinite....a <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">mere</span> spec of time to God....an entire lifetime for some....an <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">unachievable</span> goal for others....today....a birthday....an anniversary.....gold.....old....young.....What is 50 years really? <div><br /></div><div>Fifty years ago, computers were huge machines that took entire rooms or buildings to house that processed information at a mere fraction of what man could do with pencil and paper and yet look at computers today. Computers can access information from across the world, across space, across the years with the flick of a button---or as in the case of i-pads and i-phones, with just the touch of a screen. They can fit into the palm of your hand, into just the smallest of microchips that can transform so many things into a working computerized system. Who would have thought 50 years ago that the computer would be a personalized object that so many people now feel they can't live without?--and I'll admit, I'd have a hard time doing without one.</div><div><br /></div><div>Fifty years ago, we had mostly stay at home mothers who were there when school got out at the end of the day. They wore aprons and cooked home cooked meals that were on the table about the time the man of the house got home. Those same aprons wiped away tears, washed skinned knees, dried wet hands, and accepted flour from the evenings dinner rolls or dessert. Moms were able to use a kiss to "heal" skinned knees and elbows and sent their children back outside to play. They weren't worried about where their children were--because they were always within calling (by mouth, not by phone) distance either outside or at a neighbors house. And she knew all the neighbors. Do you know all the people that live around you? on your block? I certainly don't.</div><div><br /></div><div>Fifty years ago, people had kitchens with ice boxes (now called refrigerators) that held ice cube trays that had to be emptied and refilled with water. People had milk delivered that was then put into the refrigerator. Grocery stores were mom and pop owned operations and you could have groceries delivered to your door. The refrigerators weren't mini computers with TVs inside the door, ice, water, and maybe even your favorite beverage delivered through the door. The food inside the refrigerator didn't hold foods that were processed to death--they were fresh from someone's garden or from the local butcher.</div><div><br /></div><div>Fifty years ago, going to a fast food restaurant (or any restaurant for that matter) was considered a huge deal and was a special occasion. Now we stop by this place or that one on the way to work for coffee, another for a quick bite for lunch and because everyone is too tired to stop and cook, we go out for dinner. And people wonder why we're such an unhealthy and overweight nation. It doesn't take a genius to figure that one out. All the high carbs and high fats that you get from all the prefixed meals, no more playing or walking---after all, we drive around the corner to see friends instead of walking and all our game playing involves the thumbs and fingers--and we wonder why we can't lose weight. If we had to work the fields (even small ones) to tend our vegetables that would feed us all winter and until the next harvest, if we played outside and walked everywhere, we might not have to worry about what we ate. Sure our parents, grandparents and beyond ate real butter, eggs and bacon and fried foods in pig fat. But they also did more physical work in a few hours each morning (let alone all day) than most of us do in several days worth of living. They didn't have to worry about high cholesterol and fatty arteries----they worked it all off and there was nothing extra to store.</div><div><br /></div><div>Fifty years ago, we had party lines and you had to wait for someone to get off the phone to make your call. And chances are good there was always someone listening in on what you were saying. Oh wait, 50 years ago, not every household had a phone. Well, I suppose you could say that now. After Hurricane Katrina ripped through the Mississippi Gulf Coast, many people never bothered to have "land" lines reconnected. After all, everyone in the family had access to or actually had their own cell phone number. We carry the little phones around with us like they were gold. We can't seem to get off of them. We play games on them, talk to people on them, use them as our walking rolodex, listen to music on them, watch tv on them, watch videos on them. Phones went from just a simple means of talking to someone that wasn't in the same building with you to a way of connecting with the entire world through them.</div><div><br /></div><div>Fifty years ago, John F. Kennedy was President of the USA. We've averted the Cuban Missile Crisis, participated in the Korean War, endured the Vietnam War, lived through the Cold War, and have been involved in the war against terrorism that I wonder if will ever end. And now there is talk of another Korean War and a Civil War in Libya. We've seen good presidents and bad--I won't say which were which as each person has their own opinions on who was/is good and/or bad. Was it the person that made it good or bad? The congressmen/women we elected that made him good or bad? The circumstances they were in office under? I wonder, if the same presidents were President during a different 4-8 year period than when they served, would the same outcomes have occurred? Makes for an interesting debate topic--one I'm sure my son-in-law could debate for hours--I just don't feel like debating.</div><div><br /></div><div>Fifty years ago, a handsome young chaplain was stationed in Korea while his beautiful young wife was in Lakeland, Florida giving birth to an innocent baby girl. A lot has occurred in the last 50 years. People have come and gone. Musicians have changed music--or in some cases just borrowed the old stuff and made it new for the younger generation. We've put a man on the moon and brought him back. Space may still be considered a foreign and ominous "place"; but it isn't nearly as foreign as it was 50 years ago. Cars have become bigger or smaller (depending on the design style), faster, sleeker, less classy (in many cases), and more fuel efficient--after decades and decades of being fuel guzzlers. The beautiful woman who bore that innocent child spent 69 years on this Earth before meeting her maker. The young chaplain? He's still a chaplain--and has been for the better part of his life. He's ministered to young and old and will until the day he meets his maker--of that I'm sure. The innocent baby girl? Well, she isn't nearly as innocent and knows a whole lot more now than then. She's grown up and married and gave birth to three wonderful children. She has divorced and remarried the second man of her dreams---dreams aren't always what they seem when they are first dreamed. In doing so, she also got two more wonderful children. She's had the privilege of watching all five of those children grown into young adults--watching each graduate high school and watching three marry and getting pictures from the fourth wedding. The youngest has introduced his (latest) dream girl to her and hopefully is taking things slowly as they are both still very young. She's had the privilege to see two of her three grandchildren and the fourth grandchild is due in August. This same woman who started out so innocent and protected has grown up through so much of a changing world. She's graduated from high school and college and earned her way in the world teaching very special children for 25 of the last 50 years. She's had joys and pains--as all of us that have lived 50 years have done. </div><div><br /></div><div>Fifty years, I used to think of people that were 50 as being OLD and joked about them being over the hill. Mom used to say that when she got to be 50 she would no longer age--she would spend the next 50 years counting backwards. Well she didn't get to 0; but I'm so grateful for everyday that I had her with me (us). Fifty years--seems like a long time doesn't it? To a small child 50 years is forever from now. For a college graduate, it is the time that they will spend working and hoping to retire at some point. To the 87 year old father of the woman, it seems like just yesterday he had his daughter placed into his arms upon his return from Korea. </div><div><br /></div><div>To me? Today seems just like any other day--its a day I can spend with my loved ones and family members, a day I can receive well wishes from friends I've known since junior high school or to ones I only know through games on the social network. Today, is my 50th birthday. No big surprise that I made it to 50 I guess. We're living in an age where it is rare for people not to see their 50th birthday. But still, I feel like its somewhat of an accomplishment that I've made it this far. I'm blessed beyond imagination through God's love and hopefulness in me and people in general. I've lived in so many places and experienced things that only could be experienced because of Dad being in the military, me being married to one man for almost 20 years and my being married to another for 7 1/2 years. </div><div><br /></div><div>Our experiences in life--good or bad-- are what makes us. And the past 50 years worth of experiences are what makes me ME! There are things about me that some don't like. Guess what--there are things about me I don't like either. But there are so many more things that I hope people do like about me. If not, I'm not going to try to be molded into someone that fits into someone else's perfect mold of who I should be. I am Me, I can't be anyone else. Whole or broken, with or without the different pieces of my personality, my being, my ME-ness--I am who I am. </div><div><br /></div><div>Now I am starting on the next 50 years of experiences. I wonder what new things will be achieved in the next 50 years. Hopefully, I'll be around all 50 of those years to find out. So, who among you will join me for the next 50 years of experiences? Will you be someone I experience new (or old) things with? Will you be someone that just passes through my life unnoticed? Will I be someone that just passes you by unnoticed? Who knows. But we have the next 50 years to experience it together---one way or the other.</div>Shellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12431914667614125696noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-528624333387134031.post-27874533336770924582010-02-19T15:53:00.005-06:002010-02-19T16:12:08.872-06:00New site and AWESOME Give Away!I don't usually toot other peoples horns; but this horn really should be tooted! The new site is the DIY Dish and it is giving away not 1 but 2 sewing Janome sewing machines (1 is an embroidery machine) Check out thier <a href="http://www.thediydish.com/2010/02/welcome-to-the-diy-dish/comment-page-53/#comment-2751">video!</a><br /><br /><br /><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 214px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5440079483639903442" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-Nc0Zz1niTdMxiB6zXEIn2gC3a9DBG7oPb05-VsRGuRx2r9TxsMRhgmVYBqvqzMDlg3hpmVyQkIsMPrzViQP45ihqFKKJ80EneOOBVb7TSMRajz0x317GygQ9h4obLp34ltVM8nHT-Jln/s320/diydishpromo.jpg" /> In their own words:<br />What is the surprise? Well, <a href="http://www.thediydish.com/?page_id=2" target="_blank">we’ve</a> been “dishing out” some of the latest and greatest DIY projects in sewing, crafting, scrapbooking, home decor, kid projects, machine embroidery, hand embroidery, and more! Take a look!<br />It’s a brand-new series of videos — it’s free — and it’s going to be a whole lot of fun! Join us!<br />To celebrate the launch of this new show, our friends at <a href="http://janome.com/" target="_blank">Janome</a> are letting us give away TWO (yes, TWO!!) dream machines! Someone is going to win the <a href="http://janome.com/index.cfm/Machines/Embroidery/MC350E" target="_blank">Janome 350e EMBROIDERY machine </a>and a second person is going to win the <a href="http://janome.com/index.cfm/Machines/Sewing-Quilting/DC4030" target="_blank">Janome DC4030 SEWING machine</a>! Now how cool is that?!Shellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12431914667614125696noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-528624333387134031.post-71586604167014810292010-01-27T08:10:00.013-06:002010-01-28T09:39:41.452-06:00Dinosaurs<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiknwUaiF2LOADXTUYREHTq8B4SERytz7LR2YO2CkdSGJiq97L0RL8Q2d_yKkeLvLVgFwgsBkXOp_glKH8kAPc3Dme0qPbW1CLHD7lPG8K8rLudiaaaIOuSEl2946rgXxGIGy3GSlHj-ma8/s1600-h/IMGP0811.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5431787655567239762" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiknwUaiF2LOADXTUYREHTq8B4SERytz7LR2YO2CkdSGJiq97L0RL8Q2d_yKkeLvLVgFwgsBkXOp_glKH8kAPc3Dme0qPbW1CLHD7lPG8K8rLudiaaaIOuSEl2946rgXxGIGy3GSlHj-ma8/s320/IMGP0811.JPG" border="0" /></a> We've been talking about dinosaurs this month in my class. We have learned so much about our prehistoric friends. Its amazing how much the film industry has tainted our vision of these magnificent creatures. Do you realize that many of the dinosaurs did not all live in the same time period? Did you know that the idea of cavemen running from dinosaurs is all fictional? There were NO cavemen (or any other men) on Earth while the dinosaurs were roaming around! What's more amazing is when you take the height or length of these creatures and compare it to things in today's world. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj12dKRIzSLaN8mLmZfddk_N7Kw7y-geHrZJ2anMsoj-Rs9y2535DF_NhlS9DgpWl8MWhBz-L23S8bVF8lvfMiruNoIeQ_OzaaaivTXtvUM3K8C4Q_LSoKwcrHVRKJvL5Y8A1ABR63TVU9Z/s1600-h/IMGP0817.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5431792636762450002" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj12dKRIzSLaN8mLmZfddk_N7Kw7y-geHrZJ2anMsoj-Rs9y2535DF_NhlS9DgpWl8MWhBz-L23S8bVF8lvfMiruNoIeQ_OzaaaivTXtvUM3K8C4Q_LSoKwcrHVRKJvL5Y8A1ABR63TVU9Z/s320/IMGP0817.JPG" border="0" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlf6YzcUv-GyMn_4wnunxTAn5ijXbC4e1k-nrYbeITyWApUng95E_gR-WxvMF6crIkm18TAE7Pn8yuzbtFGsiA-J-tslhBj3Uv6p48vzKm-lVqBbCEciyslLNrG0eQkudQ_4gofJOYgJ1w/s1600-h/IMGP0808.JPG"></a><br /><br /><div><div><div><div><div><div><div></div><div>Did you know that the great Woolly Mammoth weighed 3 tons? That is as much as all the steel and concrete in the Washington Space Needle, a full grown adult hippo, or a HUGE truck! It was as tall as many trees (15 ft. tall) and as long as a Morey Eel or a Hammerhead Shark (11 1/2 ft. long). I wouldn't want to see him in a dark back alley! LOL But then, none of the dinosaurs were very small. Even the Pteranodon had a wingspan of up to 33 feet! That is bigger than the width of my classroom. </div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj552w8t1-Vcf7RI4Qtp0qKQ4d_bPug8E8XWijBN5iuEZVF9jTW-DLvREvV-I9UD7D_zJ_XZuvNYeffsLqBDeMvtHKN2g5zjOhzuOV2vf7_lKMaO1NJmL3HaMlywRv2NEMeBLCMrTu5Wllz/s1600-h/IMGP0816.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5431793268306970530" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj552w8t1-Vcf7RI4Qtp0qKQ4d_bPug8E8XWijBN5iuEZVF9jTW-DLvREvV-I9UD7D_zJ_XZuvNYeffsLqBDeMvtHKN2g5zjOhzuOV2vf7_lKMaO1NJmL3HaMlywRv2NEMeBLCMrTu5Wllz/s320/IMGP0816.JPG" border="0" /></a> <div>But I think what is more amazing to me is the size of their brains in relation to their body size. One of the largest dinosaurs, the Stegosaurus weighing in at 6,000 pounds, 30 feet long and 9 feet tall had one of the smallest brains! The brain was only the size of a walnut! Imagine having to function, let alone live with a brain that small when your body was so huge! I imagine that they would not know much more than pure survival instincts--how to eat the plants around them and how to move as fast as they could when a carnivore was in the area!<a href="http://www.notimeforflashcards.com/2009/02/we-dig-dinosaurs.html"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5431788384018650050" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCo00d0A6RnoQAojOF_eeznF3KRuF223S4atoX5zOyBFqJojOM8fOmA44R1Bv3viAaI9EJzo8H1RIBq2OY0Q6FUxPEaHU0MaLzycHIKVGpq9wsDEbbCGH2dgRRFSwcOAeLf4YonhZZv7Hj/s320/IMGP0810.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /></div><div>As usual, we've come up with some really cool crafts to go along with this unit (I apologize to those of you with young children for not keeping up with the past months of crafts we've done). Of course, if it weren't for the awesome folks on the web and other teachers and mothers, I would not have found these neat things to do. I'd like to share a few of them here that we've done (and the links back to where I found the original ideas if I can find them again!).</div><br /><div>Ok, so I have scattered them within the post again as opposed to putting them all at the end--breaks things up a bit that way!<a href="http://www.dltk-kids.com/Crafts/cartoons/mrex.htm"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5431788047591884290" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 240px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLpC1rphU9nl3-Rx4_px30Nb8A_a2bL2uq3pmAISrfnPeHr_5IM_lb-PHKFsYTFOkDz0nHU0tz17i411NHFQaDTPhX7-crUAEqJXQfCPJVG-e7GkKSlP2JhquR5WDXwHXC1ZRd7N9dSXQH/s320/IMGP0809.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /></div><div>1) The picture at the top of this post was simply done with sponges and dinosaur stamps. The dinosaur stamps I got from <a href="http://www.orientaltradingcompany.com/">Oriental Trading Company</a>--they have a big supply of ready to do crafts and "junk gifts" for kids or parties. </div><br /><div>2) The picture of the Triceratops was done with an outline of the Triceratops that I found in a children's coloring book. I put the outline on construction paper and then covered the entire area with glue. I then used colored sand to sprinkle over the glue. Shook off the extra sand and allowed to dry. Warning: The construction paper will begin to curl as it dries, so using a tag board probably would have been better for this project.</div><br /><div>3) The picture of the Great Woolly Mammoth (yes its hard to tell that's what it is) is a picture of a skeleton a man somewhere in the northwest has. I had seen an idea that utilized glue and paint. I wasn't real sure how it would work--but it turned out (in person anyway) really cool. We covered the skeleton with glue and allowed it to dry overnight. The next morning we took tempera paint and painted over the entire thing. The paint showed darker on the areas that weren't covered in glue--and brighter on the glued areas.</div><div> </div><div>4) Our Stegasaurus came from an idea from a stay-at-home mom and her idea for teaching dinosaurs to her toddler. It was a spur of the moment idea for this mom at <a href="http://www.notimeforflashcards.com/2009/02/we-dig-dinosaurs.html">No Time for Flashcards </a>. Instead of using clothes pins, we used craft sticks that we painted and cut/broke into varying lengths and glued to the back. We finished it off with a googly eye glued to the head.</div><div> </div><div>5) Tyrannasaurus Rex came from the DLTK's Crafts for Kids dinosaur section. It includes the templates to print out and color. We sponge painted ours and glued the templates to tag board. We used craft sticks in between the front and back to keep it stiff. I guess we kind of goofed by only putting one leg on the bottom of it, but it just didn't look right to us with both on there! Oh well!<img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5431788580219351954" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 240px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBC97bA0G5MJw6qud_WErTuEESatmY_7nOKQzxITxpQi9w8ZVP-zxszJznibKO-_6YNT7XzleKYhkskfzw142hlT0UwHDMpkx-0E-htlcQqMNuE8FoBdyUdcm6RuWvF7J2d5_Y36a-0-HI/s320/IMGP0812.JPG" border="0" /></div><div>6) The Pteranodon was one of the last projects we did; but it was also one of our favorites. This is definitely a craft that will take lots of supervision of younger children and may take lots of adult help as this craft is made from two milk jugs and hot glue! Danielle at <a href="http://www.daniellesplace.com/">Danielle's Place </a>has so many neat things to see and do. We use her ideas many times throughout the year. But for our lessons on dinosaurs this was an awesome art project. She provides the templates and shows just how to draw it on the milk jug and how to put it together.</div><div> </div><div></div><div>My assistant, Micki, and I hope that you have enjoyed seeing our projects. And if you need more information on dinosaurs, go to <a href="http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/dinosaurs/facts/">Enchanted Learning</a>--they have many more craft projects and fact sheets on SO MANY more dinosaurs than we even knew existed!</div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Shellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12431914667614125696noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-528624333387134031.post-64796835192662995972010-01-26T07:32:00.003-06:002010-01-26T07:44:40.388-06:00Drama, Drama, and More Drama!First let me apologize to my followers for not keeping up better than I have! There has been so much going on in my family that it seems I just haven't been able to catch up! And it doesn't seem to be slowing any--if anything, the month of January has sped things up to the nth degree!<img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5431041808933278770" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 280px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgK-0_14_mH1CORXNKKHSh7c49pzZAja14RHF9po3TC-Z7ER6w9c6bebIOvEO-UfoksfyQARrBCD7dBlesGGxQa2PI_RSb-t0ox3x9G49DbqF3Ilv5jFae0Qxw6kMXgnupRjKW8CuzM0jDI/s400/IMG_9663.JPG" border="0" /><br />As you can see, my daughter had her baby in September--and what a cutie he is!!! She was the maid of honor at her sister's wedding January 15. We had everyone here except for one son--he had just made 2 trips in December to come to Mississippi (once for Christmas and once for his Dad's wedding), and couldn't come on such short notice again in January. There is another grandchild due in March--Dave's son's wife is pregnant. So that will be 3 little ones added to the family in a year! The youngest (and tallest) of the children will be graduating in May from high school. Oh and let's not forget that baby Austin and his mom moved to Utah right after her sister's wedding--then called and told me she had gotten married!<br /><br />In the mean time, I've been trying to get things sewn--including the crib bumper guard railing (which unfortunately I don't have any pictures of), a larger than baby size quilt for Austin, curtains for the house, a couple of dresses for my granddaughter and 18 tunics for a local high school band, complete with trim and fringe. <br /><br />So you wonder why I haven't been blogging much? There just don't seem to be enough hours in the day. That doesn't mean that I haven't been keeping up with all of you. I may not always comment, but I do lurk and read through what you all have been keeping busy with. <br />To all of my dear blogging friends in Australia--Happy Australia Day!Shellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12431914667614125696noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-528624333387134031.post-36611736884975331342009-09-09T07:57:00.003-05:002009-09-09T08:57:31.945-05:00Hen Parties!My Dad used to say that any gathering of a bunch of women was nothing more than a hen party! Nothing but a bunch of <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">squawking</span> old hens! <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Hee</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Hee</span> Well, I guess that is true in most respects. But you get a bunch of ladies together for a baby shower and you get lots of squawk, ooo's, ahhh's, and squeals! Janyce's two baby showers were no different! The one held this last weekend brought in old and new friends alike as well as family (well adopted family).<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzf9iBQUWzTEHpYtXf92gjLv05WKVnzNk96nS629EiluMN1pR_N_bPdOA5cLWfitMP5gIEmLxfJJfzxbCfqrguwmXjLPHmN9kha3u4QAMcg_QM1PI4aLtTuqcMnkH_eD_yzGD1-d-YBGqJ/s1600-h/IMGP0241.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5379454591978014866" style="WIDTH: 240px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzf9iBQUWzTEHpYtXf92gjLv05WKVnzNk96nS629EiluMN1pR_N_bPdOA5cLWfitMP5gIEmLxfJJfzxbCfqrguwmXjLPHmN9kha3u4QAMcg_QM1PI4aLtTuqcMnkH_eD_yzGD1-d-YBGqJ/s320/IMGP0241.JPG" border="0" /></a>You remember Forrest from the last post? This is Uncle Tony's Mom, Momma Yvonne. Like I said, we just adopt family to add to our family. You see that Forrest is just as comfortable in Momma Yvonne's arms as Uncle Tony's. <div><div><div><div> </div><div>My Dad's wife was not able to come, but she and Dad sent this adorable Adopt-a-Bear. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9q-k2W4mWkpgDaq2WhPT5Ztbnf8u6nf6sEpanXgv5avcmIGkktIKBooTLJgPZc4uPHsOk1voj4FsUhaJ9Ej-aqt1863aeG5UrsN465uxjW7AFgSCM4WXxpzw_fjpOw2TFCh5ZfbIBIu0T/s1600-h/IMGP0297.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5379454611760580018" style="WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9q-k2W4mWkpgDaq2WhPT5Ztbnf8u6nf6sEpanXgv5avcmIGkktIKBooTLJgPZc4uPHsOk1voj4FsUhaJ9Ej-aqt1863aeG5UrsN465uxjW7AFgSCM4WXxpzw_fjpOw2TFCh5ZfbIBIu0T/s320/IMGP0297.JPG" border="0" /></a>This bear is sooo soft. Scott, my son-in-law, has started sleeping with him so that "it will smell like Daddy" before baby Austin gets it. This wasn't the only adorable creature that showed up at the shower. There was also an alligator, a dinosaur, and I think I saw a frog, too! Good thing all of these are STUFFED animals. The house could get just a little bit scary if these were live critters! LOL</div><div> </div><div>This shower allowed me to give a beginner lesson of cake decorating to Athena, our other daughter. She's been asking for me to teach her how to decorate cakes. I should send her to classes at our local cake decorating classes; but her work schedule makes it difficult to do so. So I have taken this opportunity to teach her how to star a cake. That was one of the first things I learned after icing a cake. Of course, her Dad had already iced the cake, so I couldn't use that experience as a learning experience for her. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjp6cRnhHhVS5m-thHT5m_mulwc-UmZRBgHUbZt1KjrlylcQYnLMheZCut69uR_cRlyFiisoFMTxZRMZaJkQeF-4l2dnAgrXsq8V67Akrso7e7WzvIPXeD2ud6hxDtaDffsxFLRxlodVyuT/s1600-h/IMGP0236.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5379454585450329234" style="WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjp6cRnhHhVS5m-thHT5m_mulwc-UmZRBgHUbZt1KjrlylcQYnLMheZCut69uR_cRlyFiisoFMTxZRMZaJkQeF-4l2dnAgrXsq8V67Akrso7e7WzvIPXeD2ud6hxDtaDffsxFLRxlodVyuT/s320/IMGP0236.JPG" border="0" /></a>I started her out starring the duck. The she took her yellow stars and alternated with my orange stars for the borders. I think she did a pretty good job for the first time that she's ever done anything with a cake decorating tip! I added the duck prints and writing and blue dots on the borders. We used frosting to glue plastic baby pins to the sides and the rubber ducks to the top. And, Voila! we have a rubber ducky baby shower cake!</div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpqElF6OeluJYdYohrjG9PnCeKifpV3aOA2vEuOX4xbMVtjOT9EfqJfTNQOf1a_mGblGKtE8O6qrgHzNZHo_HMJdAaiGHorrhbAayudopTd4DuccbNmHfrLGdnCY2-k9NzblPE_AYQLknF/s1600-h/IMGP0246.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5379454601944839330" style="WIDTH: 240px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpqElF6OeluJYdYohrjG9PnCeKifpV3aOA2vEuOX4xbMVtjOT9EfqJfTNQOf1a_mGblGKtE8O6qrgHzNZHo_HMJdAaiGHorrhbAayudopTd4DuccbNmHfrLGdnCY2-k9NzblPE_AYQLknF/s320/IMGP0246.JPG" border="0" /></a>This was also my first time to attempt making a diaper cake. I used size 2 Huggies, toys, a hygiene set, some baby t's and of course, rubber ducks. It isn't perfect and finding toys that are small enough was kind of tough. But all in all, I think it turned out kind of pretty.</div></div></div></div>Shellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12431914667614125696noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-528624333387134031.post-84607382709216054642009-09-03T14:42:00.003-05:002009-09-03T15:15:17.227-05:00Family is Great!Family is great even when they're not REALLY related! As an Air Force brat, I've often seen my parents become the parent or grandparent to many guys (and women) that were overseas and away from their own families during the holidays. I've seen them take in my friends and never minded when they were called mom or dad by them. So I guess it is only natural that I carry on the tradition.<br /><div><div><div><div><div><div></div><br /><div>People have asked many how many children do you have? I never know exactly how to answer them. Sometimes I just say alot. Other times I say, "well I gave birth to three and got two more when I remarried, so I have five." Other times I just say five and let them wonder how I got through life with five children. But there are other times, when I want to sit and really think about it, I come up with a LOT more than five. I always had girls and boys at the dance studio that I was always a backstage parent with that I called "my kids" (and still consider them my kids even though they're all grown up now. There were the kids on the swim team with my daughters that always came running up and called me Momma that I considered "my kids." And of course there are all those friends of my children that spent as much time at my house as their own and my kids were the same way at their houses. Those young adults I still consider as my kids. Then when you add in the folks that are so close to us that they ought to brothers or sisters to us---well that adds up to a large family for an only child!</div><br /><div></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-UrmHMK25jU61vVjdSef4LY_WAvOORqwYx3bXF1bTo3LaA-O-NSKUy7__GrAT9PB9TNWUTyCRy8qvM3mCI8ueTdIofWEpNSANaOeZ0oIhol7yqcd-jOpznsNqzspvyt8mMGR05cyZNr3e/s1600-h/IMGP0234.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5377335425921830562" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 240px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-UrmHMK25jU61vVjdSef4LY_WAvOORqwYx3bXF1bTo3LaA-O-NSKUy7__GrAT9PB9TNWUTyCRy8qvM3mCI8ueTdIofWEpNSANaOeZ0oIhol7yqcd-jOpznsNqzspvyt8mMGR05cyZNr3e/s320/IMGP0234.JPG" border="0" /></a> Currently, there are three of my husbands Navy buddies that are considered family. I am Aunt Shelly to their children and they are known as Uncle Mike and Uncle Tony to mine. And the third??? Well, he's just a youngin' himself, so the girls call him their older brother Vince. Uncle Tony is currently in his last days stateside before going to the forbidden land in Iraq. Well, I call it forbidden as I can't imagine anyone actually wanting to go there. I'm sure there are plenty of people that consider the US as forbidden land; but I really am not fond of any of our friends and loved ones going over and spending the necessary time allotted there. Anyway, Tony is currently staying at the house with us--giving all of the kids that are still in the area a thrill as Mom (or someone) cooks dinner most every night allowing them a chance for a free meal.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtb_Uj2uHRAj6AxVy0wAz9QbN6Yt7TBhTzeC5Zn4puw9pWTHJRV9fbeFZCiSWfnTH-lvHRv6kx2-SAU88VO35SXW53ofqQwqPiz9M7C7_WNyxUYz9mUsUvreJ_pXRyxcQvneQOs-ohAyXz/s1600-h/IMGP0232.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5377336907247079186" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 240px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtb_Uj2uHRAj6AxVy0wAz9QbN6Yt7TBhTzeC5Zn4puw9pWTHJRV9fbeFZCiSWfnTH-lvHRv6kx2-SAU88VO35SXW53ofqQwqPiz9M7C7_WNyxUYz9mUsUvreJ_pXRyxcQvneQOs-ohAyXz/s320/IMGP0232.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><div></div><br /><br /><div>One of Buggy's roommates has a cutie of a son, Forrest, that I have "adopted" as one of my grandchildren. I am known as Gramma Shelly to him and even his Dad has begun to figure out that Gramma Shelly and Grampa Dave really consider Forrest as much a grandchild as we consider Kahli and Austin and baby Roberts our grandchildren. Buggy and Teri (Forrest's Mom) decided that since Uncle Tony was home they just HAD to have this little army camo hoodie set for Forrest so Forrest and Tony could have pictures together. Well, Forrest didn't take long to wrap Uncle Tony around his little finger--and even though he didn't want to have his picture taken, tell me he isn't enjoying the time with Forrest! Yeah right! He loved every minute of it!</div><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJNl0KbjuIlOMtuYN6N9uYexMjsEXQRmV06iN4PxUlm2kcTyXAi7UJsidQdn63QajtHNiAFOVKojc9qaoq7yBIzPuTqmJTDgPjJMAvSHqOtd3vE1AaoMWd-lySZDiOpmAbMDfzXcBVZqg6/s1600-h/IMGP0235.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5377337048848332210" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 240px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJNl0KbjuIlOMtuYN6N9uYexMjsEXQRmV06iN4PxUlm2kcTyXAi7UJsidQdn63QajtHNiAFOVKojc9qaoq7yBIzPuTqmJTDgPjJMAvSHqOtd3vE1AaoMWd-lySZDiOpmAbMDfzXcBVZqg6/s320/IMGP0235.JPG" border="0" /></a>And do you think that they could have gotten much more of a better mat<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh76eRmnOwen4eAXt6fRDATVTCIUWZUNBW5ftT49imitDuD11mMUxzqLTuebJUnhfziXt2iv0MKhJOiUaFgwVbA5Vw5srNbdfgTyvAOn0buRSrqtSv1ihXQVTTdQ_3XP1BecxyrEqg8gvDv/s1600-h/IMGP0235.JPG"></a>ch for Forrest to wear? I swear there really is a baby inside all that camo somewhere! Oh, and can you see why Forrest likes Uncle Tony so much??? He's finally found someone that has as little hair as he does! No matter that this child's true relatives live away from him, he knows that he has family here that love him, too.</div></div></div></div></div></div>Shellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12431914667614125696noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-528624333387134031.post-70138838319168172162009-08-29T18:03:00.014-05:002009-08-30T22:32:55.155-05:00The Crafty Side of Things<div><div><div><div>Ok so its been awhile since I have shown the crafty side of things around what I've been doing. No I'm not showing the house yet. Instead, I'm going to show some of the things I've been doing at the school. We have been talking about sea life for the month. So everything is built around the sealife theme.<br /><div><div><div><div><br /><div><strong><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375526113757154114" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhO6OWF7PysuvpoYNAB2N5dIU8DV3_d4CDb_T0Nk5R216IFyvnxIf2pXLXSvjaJSQuvLsBt06rEupbetl8dDUPbvr04F9fQ02Oylcu8SMqB46jh6jkfK60ZaoplM0CVTff71sGOR27g3Ghl/s320/IMGP0206+R.jpg" />Paper Plate Port Hole: </strong>For this, we cut out the inside of a paper plate. Painted the outside with brown paint and then hot glued brown buttons to it. It could be done in greys (or any color you want you port hole I guess) as well. We attached the sticky backed precut sea life foamies to blue construction paper. To make it look more like we were looking through glass into the water, we covered the construction paper with saran wrap. The back has a rectangular piece of thin card board glued to the back to make the whole thing a little more sturdy. We then took pop tops from drink cans, slightly bent them and hot glued them to the cardboard so it can be hung with ease.</div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEib9gfct_8ohcDXL3aeprC4NQzRbAZ2xD7e7KxJfh_7doJif9hbh4KTlsv3vAjztS2RBAHuNtd4rH2ctQ2sikKrTbcOEvzL52WA5W1Ht4-8cknHpMaYR-LznO-KZu-I1knvhdT6Xydg9qr5/s1600-h/IMGP0208+R.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 296px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375527791769785906" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEib9gfct_8ohcDXL3aeprC4NQzRbAZ2xD7e7KxJfh_7doJif9hbh4KTlsv3vAjztS2RBAHuNtd4rH2ctQ2sikKrTbcOEvzL52WA5W1Ht4-8cknHpMaYR-LznO-KZu-I1knvhdT6Xydg9qr5/s320/IMGP0208+R.jpg" /></a><br /><div><strong>3-Dimensional Sea Star (NO they are NOT Star FISH):</strong> This was one of the easiest projects we did--I won't say the messiest as we had a LOT of messy projects this time--but definitely one of the easiest. This is sea star that was printed from one of the preschool coloring book sites (no I don't remember which one) that we then cut out. As sea stars are not flat, we took a cotton ball and glued it to a piece of construction paper. Then we glued the cut sea star over it, making sure that all around the center of the seastar was down around and sealed over the cottonball, giving it a puffed up middle. Each leg also glued down. Glue was then smeared (yeah, that's the fun part, you get to smear it with your fingers!) to cover all of the area in white (ok so some of ours didn't cover completely). We sprinkled (NO, we POURED) a light-orange colored sand over the glue making sure every bit of the glue was covered. We tipped it over so the excess sand could be reused on the next one and VOILA--a sea star, complete with the texture somewhat resembling a real sea star.</div><br /><div><strong><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirBjPB1NEW13NtLAaiRY8GHNzOp4WXhyphenhyphen71eVh6yY397O7gl7Y9Ax13lMp8_eQv1yS0PpdO6rclckls4GNB2O-KuUV-gqfIPwbAPmE3OadwyfQG1Ou90gKyL7c3iT72u_IkSfB7TElQzmtO/s1600-h/IMGP0209+R.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375530180725813538" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirBjPB1NEW13NtLAaiRY8GHNzOp4WXhyphenhyphen71eVh6yY397O7gl7Y9Ax13lMp8_eQv1yS0PpdO6rclckls4GNB2O-KuUV-gqfIPwbAPmE3OadwyfQG1Ou90gKyL7c3iT72u_IkSfB7TElQzmtO/s320/IMGP0209+R.jpg" /></a>Fish Bowl:</strong> This is another easy project. And as you can see, again it uses paper plates (No, I didn't take stock in paper plates). We painted the backside of the paper plates blue then cut them in the shape of a fish bowl. We painted green and orange squiggly lines to make it look like grasses and coral. Along the bottom of the plate, we spread glue and sprinkled colored sand for the bottom of the fish bowl. Unfortunately our glue didn't dry properly and it didn't turn out as we'd hoped. Now for the fun part--as we enjoyed eating as well as glueing the next pieces to it. We used colored, baked goldfish crackers, whales crackers and the Finding Nemo jelly candies. We glued them onto the plates (as well as ate some of them). After covering all with saran wrap you have a fish bowl that you don't have to worry about finding dead fish floating at the top the next morning.</div></div><br /><div></div><div><strong>Paper Plate Sea Turtles:</strong> Once again, with this <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKwO26axTqIgEy1i-EXs3ccZzgbOs50rHvR88MfahamgGper3CxHcLlm4Oxjml-zBkarpjERirEWML0-Z5zhjWXvlZiDJgzhMFRYPsrWUkAdTfINN5ywF-JzWkVhgJuA6Uy7W9Hfhyphenhyphen7YjP/s1600-h/IMGP0211+R.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 318px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375951087044224066" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKwO26axTqIgEy1i-EXs3ccZzgbOs50rHvR88MfahamgGper3CxHcLlm4Oxjml-zBkarpjERirEWML0-Z5zhjWXvlZiDJgzhMFRYPsrWUkAdTfINN5ywF-JzWkVhgJuA6Uy7W9Hfhyphenhyphen7YjP/s320/IMGP0211+R.jpg" /></a>craft idea we started with two paper plates and thin cardboard cut roughly into shapes that resembled legs, a head and a tail. The cardboard shapes were hot glued to the inside (the side most people eat off of). The second paper plate was then hot glued on top of the first plate and cardboard pieces. The end result should be that of two plates bottom sides out with cardboard pieces sandwiched in between them. We painted one side totally green, the plate and all cardboard pieces. After it dried, we painted the other side so that everything was green. After everything is thoroughly dry, we got glued precut foam pieces to make somewhat of a symmetrical design (and no two of ours were alike just as it is rare to find two sea turtles with the same markings) to one side of the plate turtle. Gluing on googly eyes was the finishing touch this turtle needed to come to "life" for the students. They loved being able to pick out the colors and shapes for their turtles, not to mention painting them. I don't know if we have any green paint left in the bottle--but there was plenty all over the tables and disposable aprons they wore! </div><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYMCBH19ztoK5q5WvRhTTJ_cdddDKHLrX6kYcpTjeUlGYXCpSc5a7KbtX2B4PIM9h8kZID9A-z5gbfM8l9AvCSVqQg0Jtmq-qDZgKK-fphReZ6jKLsQqO7m9b-ceJvJ9xLdFfXGNlRdk0b/s1600-h/IMGP0215+R.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375953501818986226" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYMCBH19ztoK5q5WvRhTTJ_cdddDKHLrX6kYcpTjeUlGYXCpSc5a7KbtX2B4PIM9h8kZID9A-z5gbfM8l9AvCSVqQg0Jtmq-qDZgKK-fphReZ6jKLsQqO7m9b-ceJvJ9xLdFfXGNlRdk0b/s320/IMGP0215+R.jpg" /></a>On to the the next project, and final one using paper plates for this unit, the <strong>Paper Plate Crab:</strong> This picture does NOT due this cute thing justice. The legs and claws were from a preschool site (no I don't remember which one). It originally had a body and face that the legs and claws were to be colored and glued together. Instead we painted both sides of the legs and claws and the bottom of a paper plate red. After everything was dry, the paper plate was folded in half. The legs and claws were then sandwiched in between the folded plate and all was glued together. Once the glue was totally dry and we knew the legs would NOT fall off, we glued fluffy red pipe cleaners to each of the legs to give them a little bit of depth and some texture. In addition, we took red leaf shaped "sequins" and glued two onto each claw. Once again we glued googly eyes to the paper plate and drew on a mouth with paint. We had used LOTS of glue on the legs so it took several days (in our humidity) for the legs to dry where we could hang them up. Just be aware of that in case you don't have somewhere flat to lay it until it dries.</div><br /><div></div><div><strong>Shoe Fish: </strong>I think I lied earlier. This was the <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-89CJloPCey-wNaSDVGfn2pgkUlPka0jAqOxD_wbFcgHwv4Y8bLscxv97Nts3gB2yMSMRIWe9hOPoIHVcz5xJ50lv-Ux3DcaKh96BF4-uj5xlO7ZDy-bDfFf9GT13RZoq6SLUPQLOFc0m/s1600-h/IMGP0216+R.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375955867994713490" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-89CJloPCey-wNaSDVGfn2pgkUlPka0jAqOxD_wbFcgHwv4Y8bLscxv97Nts3gB2yMSMRIWe9hOPoIHVcz5xJ50lv-Ux3DcaKh96BF4-uj5xlO7ZDy-bDfFf9GT13RZoq6SLUPQLOFc0m/s320/IMGP0216+R.jpg" /></a>EASIEST by far of all the projects we did for the month. This simple fish is made from a tracing of the student's shoe. Trace the shoe onto construction paper. Cut it out exactly to the shape of the shoe to begin with. After it is cut, then decide where the mouth will be. Cut a v-shaped slit for the mouth. Then cut the heel into the tail fin. Make it the shape you want for the fish. from the remaining construction paper that was cut from originally, make fins and glue to the body of the fish. Use any scrap construction paper to add "distinguishing marks" to the fish. Glue on a googly eye and the shoe print is now a fish!</div><br /><div></div><div><strong><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHJyz9YDybN34SCP3v_9-S1y1spZt8v9lomfrTqyEw-LBtxILlojINVZ8xBYqP7UacdCgsBrvSBOFcTwxvoPP4dd4L0znFRqueA1x536sdSJptSBpoGIMncTUv0g9cw6PrJn39OxJ27ZDK/s1600-h/IMGP0217+R.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375958929148627042" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHJyz9YDybN34SCP3v_9-S1y1spZt8v9lomfrTqyEw-LBtxILlojINVZ8xBYqP7UacdCgsBrvSBOFcTwxvoPP4dd4L0znFRqueA1x536sdSJptSBpoGIMncTUv0g9cw6PrJn39OxJ27ZDK/s320/IMGP0217+R.jpg" /></a>Coffee Filter Fish:</strong> This craft was made by simply coloring a coffee filter with wash off markers. Be sure to cover as much of the coffee filter as possible with color. Also (as a word to the not so wise like me) be sure to have SOMETHING UNDER THE COFFEE FILTERS when coloring!! The coffee filters are thin enough that even the washable markers go through and will leave marks on your table. Luckily they ARE washable so they come up fairly easily. After they are colored, sprinkle with water--do NOT soak them totally or the color will fade out completely. The colors will meld together into very unique patterns. Allow to dry overnight. Once they are totally dry, begin cutting the coffee filter into a fish shape. We didn't use a pattern so each of our fish were different shapes. Use the left over filters to make extra fins, designs on the fish, or save to use when you need colored tissue paper for a collage later. Glue on a googly eye. We covered ours in saran wrap on both the front and back as they are working in our building and we have come in to find water has dripped and changed some of our art projects. As these have already been "water bled" on purpose, we didn't want any more water getting on them.</div><div></div><br /><div>And for the final project that I'll show, I have saved our favorite project for last.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDcZv3yEq7_A8JZ9fs3C8qgNuK5zWpls7M77iyzPUuG4ges_TK-t0tJSApqcA48koXydoJlz1VGn6vQ0GlQ-E-yxKXDGM-6oI1BWYJP_TRSO0Xm1btcEwKSKizAI_Bf8qveX9z4XVByi7m/s1600-h/IMGP0213+R.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 240px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375961793976319474" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDcZv3yEq7_A8JZ9fs3C8qgNuK5zWpls7M77iyzPUuG4ges_TK-t0tJSApqcA48koXydoJlz1VGn6vQ0GlQ-E-yxKXDGM-6oI1BWYJP_TRSO0Xm1btcEwKSKizAI_Bf8qveX9z4XVByi7m/s320/IMGP0213+R.jpg" /></a> It may not be the cutest; but it could possibly be termed the most original of the works we did. This one did not come from another teacher nor a search through the internet. My assistant and I came up with this one on our own. It is our version of <strong>Jellies:</strong> This jelly <strong>(not jelly fish, as they are NOT fish) </strong>started out as a full piece of newspaper that was painted and allowed to dry over night. The next day, we took a second full sheet<strong> </strong>of newspaper and filled it with torn and crumpled up pieces of newspaper. We pulled the corners in and tucked in all the sides and then bunched them tightly in the middle. that was then all taped together securely. The painted newspaper was then placed over this and the corners were brought together and then scrunched together over the first layer of newspaper. Again it was taped securely together. Crepe paper streamers were then cut into lengths of about two feet. We used two shades of pink and two shades of yellow. Each streamer was cut down the middle in half (well approximately--we weren't real accurate with things on purpose). These were were all glued randomly around the bottom of the newspaper . We made sure that several pieces covered the area we'd scrunched up so that it was hidden. Once hung, they resembled jelly blobs with their "stingers" floating in the water. The breeze that comes through our hallway's end door helped with the "illusion" as the crepe paper streamers gently fly on the breeze.</div><div> </div><div>This is a general idea of what it all looks like when hung in the hall. Of course several of the things were hung on the wall as well. But this is what people see when they first come into our end of the hallway. Hope this gave some of you that have little ones an idea of ways you can help teach them about sea life.<strong></div><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 304px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375962224521170866" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUapHbmrCWPL_BSm7Y9u4ee25p82S9o1B5Ge1OxIEcEySHby4m7nB7OPtbyVwo7BpkrClHA4ZxH70_1n36CVslVttfdaiyGb5dmQClMw3s906SXVRvlurmmAUXGDnzDs8_zhbQbmpNfxZf/s400/IMGP0212+R.jpg" /></strong></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Shellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12431914667614125696noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-528624333387134031.post-10013785650899174852009-08-27T13:48:00.003-05:002009-08-29T12:30:14.374-05:00Field Trip to IMMS-Marine Education & Research Center<div><div><div><div><div><div><div> </div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtdC3viQVgtsLDxCEsN8_Jbym7cNvxVSTPj0hAqCJNUz1n7EDK-ZVCAqJBOSNobR6ftDbCM5b60g82whvK0CGvh4oTVsaZzfkGAIkK45WSIqZbt6AbjPMTScH40ivXYHtM7p-1vONLvah8/s1600-h/IMGP0101.JPG"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 240px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375433455719744690" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtdC3viQVgtsLDxCEsN8_Jbym7cNvxVSTPj0hAqCJNUz1n7EDK-ZVCAqJBOSNobR6ftDbCM5b60g82whvK0CGvh4oTVsaZzfkGAIkK45WSIqZbt6AbjPMTScH40ivXYHtM7p-1vONLvah8/s320/IMGP0101.JPG" /></a><strong>Outside my window...</strong>It is cloudy, it was raining earlier in the day and down right storming in the morning--threatening to ruin a great day. Yet the rain cleared and left us with just a cloudy day so we were able to go on our field trip.<br /><br /><strong>I am thinking...</strong>that today was one of the best field trip days I've had with my class. I've had some great field trips; and this one is up near, if not on the top, of the list. <br /><br /><strong><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 206px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375435967469595970" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPXmXkrojPUA5K1yPdiRfp_jbfMooJG0AiCbeUV1RfNsd0Lb3CjazQURVAjmL4IQ7RfRFI7TW0qlRbUslzUNoJkhyphenhyphen8iNOayPxHtw2Q9jxtPaG2kdiasHDMCE3hqSwgQSoIwPDfQPZ4VZrV/s320/IMGP0171+CR.jpg" /></strong></div><div><strong>I am thankful for...</strong>the paid workers and </div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFI_O5iGaE36yUcfBdDJhymFPAJ5IEKZ0odkbkpQuhVR3CVszXCGPJL7Rfe4HUk65l7FcSAk03eZcAI33aPZ3Mu27_dc8eBFnh346iIlBgLIEaBPzeBuAPCL1wQgVIcaJc9ePgDAn6J7CK/s1600-h/IMGP0149+CR.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 296px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375433906793592946" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFI_O5iGaE36yUcfBdDJhymFPAJ5IEKZ0odkbkpQuhVR3CVszXCGPJL7Rfe4HUk65l7FcSAk03eZcAI33aPZ3Mu27_dc8eBFnh346iIlBgLIEaBPzeBuAPCL1wQgVIcaJc9ePgDAn6J7CK/s320/IMGP0149+CR.jpg" /></a>volunteers that work at the Institute for Marine Mammals Studies Marine Education and Research Center. Those folks are AWESOME. They took my special needs students and gave them a field trip experience that was one that was so great. They treated them similar to general education students and at the same time were patient and ready to do things WITH them. <br /><br /><strong>From the field trip...</strong>our students were able to see and touch (in some cases) hermit crabs, blue crabs, horseshoe crabs, seastars, shark teeth, shark & dolphin skulls, sawfish saws, sea life fossils, and so much more. They were treated to a big (theater size) screening of Bill Nye the Science Guy & Mammals. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinhREAh-vAcVwgEQGs9sdF6saUk2tO8G52gEmHUO7bHRaNuj-z5nYtJMtKnwFvkflzZIEO3bBE-tidP3aADLVYKxc9FSaHy8vqKmFXVW4V3cJXj37NzNdtm8xupRUdluUAiCbOZt0x_9wf/s1600-h/IMGP0125+R.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375433573881705522" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinhREAh-vAcVwgEQGs9sdF6saUk2tO8G52gEmHUO7bHRaNuj-z5nYtJMtKnwFvkflzZIEO3bBE-tidP3aADLVYKxc9FSaHy8vqKmFXVW4V3cJXj37NzNdtm8xupRUdluUAiCbOZt0x_9wf/s320/IMGP0125+R.jpg" /></a>They learned how a sick sea turtle was nursed back to health and then returned home to the sea. They were able to play touch screen games including games that taught about sea life, recycling, the food chain, and the coral reef.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirFQk_1NKfolesv4pV1z9v0Ai7ZkTv8oYLhHxnq4IAO3erLS-jrgqhFuZWWQf1fS0qjRk9G967QKLwJSE2-zlc67WSqyXMZODHPbRcK7YeSsFEzeyz9DKXJU6IOs-OnZUMTG031eE_ojCL/s1600-h/IMGP0170+R.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375435511481277970" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirFQk_1NKfolesv4pV1z9v0Ai7ZkTv8oYLhHxnq4IAO3erLS-jrgqhFuZWWQf1fS0qjRk9G967QKLwJSE2-zlc67WSqyXMZODHPbRcK7YeSsFEzeyz9DKXJU6IOs-OnZUMTG031eE_ojCL/s320/IMGP0170+R.jpg" /></a><br /><strong></strong></div><div><strong></strong> </div><div><strong></strong> </div><div><strong></strong> </div><div><strong></strong> </div><div><strong></strong> </div><div><strong></strong> </div><div><strong></strong> </div><div><strong></strong> </div><div><strong></strong> </div><div><strong><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGKYOunoEurh5OS-6sLEtcIMdNiNQebtVfabBgnOZhX7d6KDN-5cJe3UeSCfAO7Ah4BjFIgY4a43fjW4IY7pVBP6_hmxgBd_DzFstL_bSKgXWbTIjw2amrxGq4znkcygi7nIjZIBhP57AA/s1600-h/IMGP0203+CR.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 306px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375434403633214786" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGKYOunoEurh5OS-6sLEtcIMdNiNQebtVfabBgnOZhX7d6KDN-5cJe3UeSCfAO7Ah4BjFIgY4a43fjW4IY7pVBP6_hmxgBd_DzFstL_bSKgXWbTIjw2amrxGq4znkcygi7nIjZIBhP57AA/s320/IMGP0203+CR.jpg" /></a></strong></div><div><strong></strong> </div><div><strong></strong> </div><div><strong>I am wearing...</strong>a goofy grin and my field trip shirt. Two years ago, we were going on a field trip and I wanted all the kids to be dressed in the same shirt so that they would be easily recognized as being with my class. I used an iron on transfer paper and made a design that was put onto shirts for the students and then I made smaller images that went on the pocket of shirts for the staff and frequent chaperones (people like my DH that goes on most all of our field trips to help us out, or parents that go everywhere and do everything with us). I pulled those shirts out of the (virtual) mothballs and wore it today. My assistant and my husband wore their shirts as well.<br /><br /><strong><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxveDriUiw9ODJYkYXjYtuxo6IB4QvYseV2YfxFS2z6_rcSE-Nf0O9FtIXugb6Qkf9KB2hPYG9p_X-PSibTcoQZLE4_6xulSInruEyhCX2kJe38kJOcFnPFwM5zXRNFFcUYbK3acfaSBh4/s1600-h/IMGP0114+CR.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 262px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375434829827289346" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxveDriUiw9ODJYkYXjYtuxo6IB4QvYseV2YfxFS2z6_rcSE-Nf0O9FtIXugb6Qkf9KB2hPYG9p_X-PSibTcoQZLE4_6xulSInruEyhCX2kJe38kJOcFnPFwM5zXRNFFcUYbK3acfaSBh4/s320/IMGP0114+CR.jpg" /></a>I am reading...</strong>up on a few fish that we saw today that we'd never seen before. For instance, have you ever heard of a sea robin fish? Their fins appear as if they're flying when they're swimming and it almost looks like they are walking as across a sandy area. I have found out that they are thought to be part of the flying fish family as their tail fin will make the fish appear to jump out of the water when they are in shallow water. But the actual scientific classification does not put them into the same family.<br /><br /><strong>I am hoping...</strong>that my students enjoyed this field trip as much as I did. I know that there were several times when the staff and volunteers of the center were watching us trying to figure out who the "kid" really was--is she just a kid or is she the teacher? Hmmm, I'd say the answer is BOTH! LOL I'd hoop and holler when the students got answers right or would touch things. I was the one with all the excitement as we went from one exhhibit to the next. Even though my students don't always show their enjoyment and enthusiasm (like a lot of other people I know as well), I certainly hope that they felt as good about this trip as I did. I know that the 3 chaperones that were with us, the bus driver and my teaching assistant all loved the trip as much as I did. So that only leaves the students. Unfortunately, there's not really a way to determine if they had a good time or not--as a post trip evaluation. Besides, they were all so tired when we got back that I think they were all just sort of zoning. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2c_L6Su543S1INqNIk_6tz32YoDaVogp2NpT6tLtQ-ZYPazcBO2k3-yFy7g2AW6WZweAruuV6SDfN9OK1_s4cscSOJukhX4YyiLwb0HNrphoOY2UdQwIAZVs4LpnluzyMDIs52jRe9wgr/s1600-h/IMGP0192+R.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375435865950430994" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2c_L6Su543S1INqNIk_6tz32YoDaVogp2NpT6tLtQ-ZYPazcBO2k3-yFy7g2AW6WZweAruuV6SDfN9OK1_s4cscSOJukhX4YyiLwb0HNrphoOY2UdQwIAZVs4LpnluzyMDIs52jRe9wgr/s320/IMGP0192+R.jpg" /></a><br /></div><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375436118068658434" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkLK2ukuSC3IFdcWvX3-kjCgGKZ_fDNYDufJeC1ngMMqn01ZqiZ-PBC32MUVm61bKRQb3zuyPcQ_b3AoAVYhMRKByFRY7771bbAK948N5MEpJ2gnXvHZX5Nm89pIMd2zd465MPrwoiLz8a/s320/IMGP0195+R.jpg" /><br /><strong>I am creating...</strong>a picture slide show or maybe I'll put it into a power point file all the pictures that were taken so that I can share the experience with the students' parents and other teachers so that they can see the fun we all had. I am also trying to write up an article for our local newspapers that will provide exposure for the Education and Research Center, exposure for our school, and some good words for the folks that helped us out so much today.<br /><br /><strong>I am praying...</strong>that our school/school district will have enough funds to allow us to go on more field trips throughout the year. Field trips can provide experiences that nothing else can--not even virtural field trips. They have the sights, sounds, smells, and feel of things in a particular environment that you can't always describe or teach.<br /><br /><strong>One of my favorite things...</strong>the discovery of this new Marine Education and Research Center!! </div></div></div></div></div></div>Shellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12431914667614125696noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-528624333387134031.post-81341062892831909122009-08-26T08:02:00.004-05:002009-08-26T08:53:22.011-05:00A Simple Woman's Journal Entry--or is that a Woman's Simple Journal Entry<span style="color:#ff0000;">Do you sometimes feel like you have nothing worth blogging about? Do you feel like there isn't anything to say? How about using these thought provokers to get you started. You can then keep either add to it or use as is. I have borrowed this idea from <a href="http://hohnstreiterrific.com/blog/2009/08/24/a-simple-womans-daybook-3/">Amanda </a>(and I thank you for it. Sometimes I need that little bit of help to get me started, and this is perfect to do just that.).</span><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;">For Today...August 26, 2009</span><br /><a href="http://thesimplewomansdaybook.blogspot.com/"></a><strong>Outside my window</strong>...it beautiful and hot...my dogs and my "adopted dogs" (the ones that showed up on Saturday and we haven't found their owners yet) are enjoying the almost cool air. Its under 75 so that's cool for this time of the year in the mornings.<br /><br /><strong>I am thinking</strong>...about a lot. Babies, babies, babies, babies--in the grandbaby format!!!! 'Nuf said!!!<br /><br /><br /><strong>I am thankful for</strong>...the ability to love my friends and family without worrying (any longer) if they love me back or not. That has been hard for me to do. Previously, if I loved them, I felt they should return the love--even if they don't show it. I have finally (ok so I'm slow) figured out that I don't have to have them love me back for me to love them.<br /><br /><br /><strong>From the kitchen</strong>...hmmmm I think I better clean the kitchen before I start cooking in it. Since cooking last night only involved the heating of chicken nuggets, maybe I should actually cook tonight. Then again, maybe not! LOL<br /><br /><br /><strong>I am wearing</strong>...green--or as my youngest son used to call it for years Geen, Mommy, you're wearing Geen!!!! Green scrub pants, lime green top, and my most favorite of all shoes (well at least the ones I wear the most--guess that makes them my favorite) New Balance tennis shoes. I wear them to work, I wear them to go shopping, I wear them most all the time that I'm not at the house where I can go barefooted!<br /><br /><br /><strong>I am reading</strong>...Swimsuit by James Patterson<br /><br /><br /><strong>I am hoping</strong>...for so many things, that there is no way to categorize them. I guess my biggest hope was answered yesterday when Dave was hired for a great position at the new Best Buy! He begins the new job Sept 12 and his current job ends on Sept 9. There is a possibility that he will be able to continue (especially during holidays and big sales) on a part time basis at JCP.<br /><br /><br /><strong>I am creating</strong>...the bedding set for Gigi's baby! I have the bumper guard about 1/2 way finished. As we are down to 40 days until the due date, I suppose I should get my butt in gear and get it (and all the other things that are planned for the new little one) done!<br /><br /><br /><strong>I am praying</strong>...for healthy pregnancies and babies....for a new satisfaction with Dave's new job...for a good day at the IMMS on our field trip tomorrow...for so many things.<br /><br /><br /><strong>Around the house</strong>...we are working hard to get the remaining boxes unpacked, find room for things that we really NEED to keep or feel we HAVE to have and de-clutter and get extra junk out of here. It seems the more we try to de-clutter and throw things away, the more things we have come in or acquire in one way or another.<br /><br /><br /><strong>One of my favorite things</strong>...is my <a href="http://www.blogger.com/www.directtv.com">DVR</a> !!! OMG what a wonderful device. The ability to record shows (ok, no biggy, you could always do that with VCRs), to pause a show in process to go grab a drink or a potty break, to play the same show picking up where you paused instead of missing the "good part" of the show! is the greatest!!! That way we don't miss anything in shows we're watching and NOT taping! Awesome, Awesome, Awesome!!!<br /><br /><br /><strong>Here is a picture thought I am sharing with you</strong>...<br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374264661728703666" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9qvQqYMSvkg75Fah0E1SaWaVWKCFHF1ir7zw1M3vRtj1jTcI14rapdmD8WSdmmYwaxFMiyBIc3wbmNT01U2vg-4GS2WaXADSTmPW_6f1Ptt_yyQyBNvx5rO7LCktzF3NGuEkFsxY-XuWF/s400/P8130333.JPG" border="0" /><br />It may take hand over hand assistance, but who is to say that our special students shouldn't be allowed to do things that our general education students do? Pouring a carton of milk (8 oz.) is easy for most of us and most of our children. But teens like this young lady get as, much if not more, out of the experience of cooking as her "normal" peers. I am so thankful for my teaching assistant, Micki. She and I have a wonderful class; but our class would not be half as wonderful without her!Shellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12431914667614125696noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-528624333387134031.post-21822969768425798132009-08-10T14:39:00.002-05:002009-08-10T15:05:09.722-05:00An Untimely Choice For MeAt the beginning of this year (was it really 8 months ago--yes it was 8 months ago to the day no less!) I had made the decision that I was finally going to get my butt in gear and start making all the quilts that I see so many others make and I was going to be as good at it as my mother and grandmother were. I was all gung ho about making the 3 different quilts I was starting. I was working on them diligently.... and then.... well..... the excuses started... the time ran short... the patterns wouldn't cooperate... the people were supportive and I never looked back to see how many complaints I got about my block being the wrong size... I never went back to finish the "Make it up as you go along" quilt.... I got through the first couple of months of the calendar quilt and...... well there hasn't been anymore done on it or any other quilt. I look around at all the blogs that I started following (YES, I do still lurk and read them, just not daily as I did before) and I see these absolutely beautiful quilts that have been completed by so many. I see crafts and ideas and organization coming out the wazoo! Yet I haven't seemed to be able to take any of the ideas, the creativity, the organization and do anything with any of it! So I have discovered that I made an UNTIMELY Decision back in January. I have realized (and should have realized this 8 months ago) that I don't have the discipline, determination or dexterious skills to handle one let alone three quilts at this time, nor any time in the near future. <br /><br />I have some baby blankets--as I refuse to call them quilts as I cannot quilt and no longer claim to even be able to piece them together--to make for my 3 grandchildren and one precious child that I call my adopted grandchild, Forrest, that doesn't have any grandparents that live close to him. I will be putting fabric together or sandwiching batting between fabric in the attempt to make these blankets; but I refuse to call them quilts. Others may, but I will not. <br /><br />In the event that my life finally finds a point in time where I can slow down long enough to focus, concentrate, and become disciplined enough to complete projects; then I may once again take up the endeavors of learning to quilt. To all of you that have been a part of my brief quilting existence and hopefully an even longer blog life yet to come, I thank you for using the blogosphere as a means of support for those of us that can't do what you do, being there giving your ideas freely, sharing your creativity, allowing us in on your organizational hints, and for allowing us to view a glimpse of the lives of true quilters. I will continue, if allowed, to follow your blogs and your daily triumphs and occassional defeats. To those of you that have become true quilters...my hat is off to you and I profess my adoration for your skills.Shellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12431914667614125696noreply@blogger.com0