And the winner is................

Last day(Mary Ellen officially that is) for sharing snowmen..........will probably try to sneak some in here and there........hope you enjoyed them.
Well a winner has been picked...........Miss Peggy. Congratulations on adopting the two bears and the heart trinkets. Have another item all chosen for the next give-away, not sure when I will start that one.
A good day here......beautiful sunny day, put a smile on my face just to feel the warmth of the sun..........

The blackberry

Aren't these handsome and prim snowfellas? Thank you Peggy for these gents.

Ok, on to the blackberry. I like fruit. I do, but to grab an apple, orange, banana during the day and eat one...........hmmmm, well that's not me. So my delightful daughter started me on this fine habit. Almost every Monday thru Friday I enjoy a beautiful bowl of frozen fruit for breakfast. I truly do look forward to it.........I do. I reach into the freezer and grab the packages of frozen fruit, put x amount of peaches, strawberries, raspberries, (this week we have pineapple too) and my beloved blackberries. It seems that my taste buds run towards the berry family, strong and true.
(ooops, sorry blueberries, I can eat you in pie or tart, but not in my bowl of fruit.....isn't that silly?) Pop them into the microwave........just for a brief time, and then take them out and enjoy.

Soooooo, yesterday I am sitting there at the cool round table that we found.......newspaper, cup of my special non-grown-up coffee and look into the bowl and what do I see..............YIKES

A blackberry with a stem on it.........ok, sadly we in America I feel, expect perfection in everything......especially if we put out cash for it. Me, well I am think I have gotten over this. So I pick out the blackberry with my spoon........now right here is the part that makes me wonder how my brain patterns wander. Would you not think that I would just place the blackberry directly onto the salad plate that held my piece of cinnamon toast.........it's ok to say "YES"......truly................but oh no, not me. I picked up the stem of the blackberry to take it out of the spoon and place it on the plate..........ok, now let's look at the photo again. Can you see it? Oh I hope so, as I just spent almost 5 minutes trying to zoom in on that #($*%&&@_@# blackberry to show you.............show you what..............THE STICKER!!!!! Yup, this beautiful blackberry not only had a stem still on it, but a sticker..........and did it stick me, well of course!!! Now unlike Sleeping Beauty and her famous spinning wheel prick, I am still alive and functioning, but for a few minutes the sharpness of this little appendage popped open my eyes!!!!!

So I took pictures of this little piece of fruit, shared it with you AND also wrote to the company that packaged it...........well I emailed them. Now I use to actually sit down and put pen to paper, but with the price of stamps, I now email. Actually I haven't contacted any companies in a few years...........but I thought they should know...........my daughter laughed........"Do you really think they will answer or care?"...........who knows, maybe, maybe not. I did check closely this morning to the famous bag of blackberries, no stems or little stickers either...........

Ok, so it's not the best post, but it did happen to me and I thought I would share it...........and if I do hear back from the company I will let you know.........

Have a good day, smile if you can..........it's such good medicine for the soul and body.

Cowboys

I couldn't remember if I had used this handsome fella or not...........and to be so brutally honest, I was just to darn lazy to search back through January's posts to see if I had........man, so far this year is starting out rather rough for me...........I have confessed that I am slow, to lazy to look at some of my older posts, computer challenged......oh and as always, can't seem to remember much either...........oh well, honesty is the best policy.......right?I love cowboys. No, not your Saturday night dress up and pretend cowboy, but the real thing. I was married to a cowboy for a long time, and even tho' we are no longer together, he can still turn my head. When someone like me, sees a man dressed in western wear, oh be still my heart!!!!!!!!
Nice pressed jeans, a clean and ironed shirt, good solid cowboy boots, belt or suspenders, maybe a kerchief, but always always a hat.........hats alone will take another whole post. The photo above shows that a true cowboy only gets better with age.........

Either of these fine gents would turn my head......oh not that they are handsome, and to me they both are, but they are dressed so neatly. A cowboy doesn't always have time to spiff up on an everyday basis........trust me, I know. Yet, when a special occasion comes along, or church on Sunday, these gentleman clean up ever so nicely.

A cowboy's morals are steadfast. He will take on any job given to him and will not quit until it is accomplished to the best of his ability.......much to the patience of his wife or sweetheart...............trust me, I've spent a whole lot of time alone and waiting. They truly never look for trouble, but if it finds them, they will face it head on, with courage and dignity. He is there to help a neighbor or a total stranger. A cowboy knows when a woman, child or a man of the cloth is around and will bite his tongue so he won't offend them with his rough language. His vocabulary can be a little slower or not as elaborate as someone with an education from school, but you can trust that it is true..........sometimes painfully true.

A cowboy of any age will make me turn my head; they will make me find my camera and snap a picture; better yet, if I am feeling feisty I will get up my courage and ask to have my photo taken with them..........God love the cowboy.........and thank goodness they are surviving.

Now I just couldn't do this post without including one of the famous Wrangler photos.........

I won't ask if you have smiled today...........if you are reading this, you are smiling........tee hee.

Hey I am going to ask a favor........I am so pleased that I have seven people signed up for the give-away, but if you could spread the word please...........as the closing time is tomorrow at midnight.........thank you

Something useful.........

I went missing yesterday.........honestly, I was still trying to figure out how to work some of the computer sites I found and were suggested to me.........sigh.........yes, I was missing, and it was for the better, as when I was found..........well, hmmmmm, I wasn't a nice lady. I am so uneducated, challenged and I think the best word is scared of these sites.........What if: i lose everything......what if: i freeze up the screen?......what if: what if:. Ok and I do not like to admit this, but if I don't pick up something and pick it up quickly and correctly........well, I have this total sense of failure..........what can I say.......I know myself. I am working on this......I am

I found a cool site for everyone........it's free and I am thinking it could be useful to many of you and for many reasons. It is called http://www.librarything.com/home . You can go to this site and it lets you categorize and catalog your books. You can create a "virtual shelf" with the covers of books you've been reading, or make a list with tags and information about how other users relate to a particular book.

I love this photo.......old books, flowers and a beautiful (what looks like to me) pewter bowl. The Zeitgeist section shows you how books are behaving across the site, with lists of top authors and books, most reviewed books, and more. You'll see users who own the same books as you and find out what they recommended. You can, of course, opt to display your personal library collection on your blog too. I haven't found that one yet......well I haven't listed my books yet.

Truly I don't "have" that many books...........I read lots and lots of fiction and buy them at the second hand book shop. It's a good deal.......I have started a little collections of quilting and jewelry making books, so I am thinking of doing this for them. I think I would like to try and list books after I read them too..........so I remember if I read them. I know, but sometimes I do forget the title of a book..........I do.

Well, thought some of you might be interested in this site.......

I love old books.........and I know this is going to sound funny, but to hold them and wonder......."who bought this and for what reason? Did anyone ever actually read it? How and why did it end up here?" I would like to find some old books that are falling apart.........so if and when I get back to making cards I have them to use on them and then, if I EVER get to make the paperdolls, it would be fun to incorporate some of the old pages into those also. Will have to check around.

Hope your day is going well.........I seem to be behind again.........well spent the week-end and then part of Monday on the computer and that will put you behind, won't it. Hope you can smile today........took Andrew to a play day with his little buddies from pre-school.........seeing the three of them together and being just silly four year old boys, sure put a smile on my face.

Crying out for help............

Ok, I think I have established that I am truly computer challenged..........AMEN. I want so much to be able to fiddle around with pictures and fonts..........add a haze to a picture.......create a banner, learn how to add two of my photos together.........well, ok, I'll start off small.

I remembered that someone in a blog mentioned Scrapblog.com. I went and visited the site today.......oh they have lovely back rounds.......lovely. I could delete the pictures from the one back round that I liked.........I even knew how to insert a picture of mine.........ok, now things are getting harried!!!!! I tried cutting out part of the picture.......nope couldn't figure that one out........tried putting a shape on the picture and seeing if that would give me something unique......nope couldn't figure that out..........wanted to write something on the page...........nope couldn't figure that one out either............left, feeling defeated and unintelligent!

I think I have asked this before...........but I am persistent..........how or where would I find the information on how to "click on a picture and make it available to enlarge".....did that make sense? You know what I mean.......you click on the photo or item and after you click on it, it becomes larger so you can look at it more closely.......

This is how I am feeling right now.........all uptight and stiff............and this is how I want to feel

Alright, I will still have to maintain my "wings" under my arms.....goodness, they are becoming a trade mark now.........people want to see me fly!!!!!

Please oh please, if anyone can help me, send me in the right direction, offer suggestion, give me hints where to look..........please do so...........I am so frustrated......

Oh and I have smiled today.........it was a quick one, but it was a smile..........

Special moments

Sometimes you read something and it just hits you.............this is what happened to me yesterday. I received an email from someone and it had quite a few cute little children stories.......the first one just grabbed me. It is funny, but more than funny, it is sweet. It is a true Hallmark moment............

While I sat in the reception area of my doctor's office, a woman rolled an elderly man in a wheelchair into the room. As she went to the receptionist's desk, the man sat there, alone and silent. Just as I was thinking I should make small talk with him, a little boy slipped off his mother's lap and walked over to the wheelchair. Placing his hand on the man's, he said, 'I know how you feel. My mom makes me ride in the stroller too.'

What else can I say..........

Smile today, if you can laugh or giggle, even better.............

VALENTINE give-away

Valentine give-away...........yup doing another give-away. I like doing them, it's fun to share and each and every time I go to the post office or the little satellite mailing stations, well it's an adventure for sure..............

The following items are not new..........but, they have been treasured and loved and trust me are truly like new. I thought about this long and hard and just knew I had to tell you that they were something that my daughter was going to donate............I couldn't take it. When you see what the items were, well I just grabbed them and said " No way, I want to know that they are going somewhere, where someone truly wants them."...........yeah, sometimes my hormones get waaaaaaaaaaaay out of control!!!!!! So wha-la.........

Not one, but two cuddly orphan bears..........trust me, rather expensive orphan bears, plus a little ring holder and trinket keeper, both in the shape of hearts.........

Will do a random drawing next Saturday, the 31st of January........

Just leave a comment on this give away rambling and you will be entered.........

I really do want them to go to a home that wants them.......

An interview

I think I am like many of you and enjoy the revival of black and white photos and sketches.......just a nice change of pace once in awhile.

Dawnie at http://dawnieslifeifbythesea.blogspot.com/ had an interesting post the other day....she was interviewed and then offered to do the same to others..........I of course waved my arm like some dis-jointed robot on it's last burst of batteries..........not a pretty sight, huh? So here are her 5 questions in the interview and my answers.........

1. How is your family feeling affects of our economy or if not--why would you say its not?

At the present time I don't think we are really being affected in a true sense. No job loss (daughter is an officer in the military and my sil has the type of job that can take him just about anywhere). I don't see them changing spending habits. Me, well the gas alone hit me hard, as I am responsible for the driving for all of the boys activities.......and I pay for gas for the mini-van. I have also not been able to offer to pick up misc. groceries as much as I use to. So I think we are a house divided........

2. What would be one thing in your life that you would consider a dream to come true if it were to?

To find someone to share the autumn of my life. A man that would laugh with me, like to do quiet things, but also enjoy a movie or a meal out. A person that wouldn't mock my opinions, but first would actually listen to them. I am not on a hunt for a partner, but if it were to happen and be a good meeting, I think it would truly be a dream come true for me.

3. What is your favorite part of the day and why?

I am not a ray of sunshine in the morning, but I do like morning the best. Whatever gets accomplished before noon, seems to be better in form and thought. When I was in college I took the earliest classes possible and my staff use to pray that I did their evaluations in the morning too.......tee hee.

4. Post one of your favorite recipes and the ingredients to make it!

This is going to be hard for me, as I just throw this together..........I do stick with a recipe for the sauce, but other than that.........I have no set amount of potatoes or ham to use.........so here goes my attempt at sharing

Ham and scalloped potatoes

WHITE SAUCE

Ingredients
2 tablespoons butter or margarine
2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
1/4 teaspoon salt
Dash black pepper
1-1/2 cups milk
Directions
1. In a small saucepan melt butter. Stir in flour, salt, and pepper. Stir in milk all at once. Cook and stir over medium heat until thickened and bubbly . Cook and stir 1 minute more. Makes 1-1/2 cups sauce.

Now I triple this at least.......we like our potatoes creamy, not glumpy.

I then slice as thin as possible potatoes (I do use a shredder type gadget........took me forever to master it without cutting myself.......not a pretty sight at all)...as many as I think we will need for the amount of people I am feeding.

I then chop up the left over ham. Usually fix this after we have a ham for dinner.......if not, then I go to the deli and but a large chunk of ham and dice that up. I then slice at least one large onion.

I very very lightly grease the casserole pan.....not a whole lot tho'. Pour a think layer of the sauce on the bottom of the greased casserole dish or whatever pan you use, add a layer of potatoes, then onion, ham......some salt and pepper.......I do like to use white pepper, but regular is fine. Keep doing this over and over until everything is used up. If you do run out of sauce, trust me, it's worth your while to make up another small batch......if not, then just pour some milk over the mixture.

350 for the oven

I bake 1 hour covered, then uncover for usually an hour too......seems like a long time, but when I followed a recipe, the potatoes never seemed to get done........all ovens are different, so just keep testing.

This is what I take to some one's home for a death or birth meal, along with a salad and a plate of brownies...........no one has ever gotten sick..........tee hee.

5. Share one childhood memory that always makes you smile and why!

Now you knew it would involve the ocean, didn't you? Each year my parent's would save and save so that we could go to the beach for at least a few days. They would rent a small cabana type apartment.......nothing fancy, as we spent the day on the beach or the boardwalk, used it for sleeping and fixing easy meals. One year, my mum and daddy asked my aunt and my uncle to come for a few days........well they weren't married yet, so the ladies slept together and the men folk slept together and I have no idea where I slept..........I do know that it rained. Oh it rained from the minute we arrived until the day we were packing up to go home..............now imagine, four adults, the sleeping arrangements, a child who normally was content to color or play babies, EXCEPT when there was sea water available...........we are talking some tense moments here ladies. I can remember this as plain as if it happened yesterday..........I was holding my daddy's hand getting ready to get into the car to leave............I jerked away from him and took off like I had a hive of bees in my coveralls..........never looked both ways when I crossed the road, ran down the cement steps to the beach (all the time it is raining) and ran into the ocean. I was laughing and laughing with the sheer joy of being in the water.............I know that I had four scared adults and I am sure that daddy had quite a hunk of his buttock removed by my mum, but I do remember them, since everyone was soaked already, wading with me for a wee bit. Of course we had to drag out suitcases and change.............but golly, it was one of my most daring adventures. The total abandonment of not obeying rules - knowing if I could just break loose of my daddy's hand and run like no tomorrow, I could reach the ocean and be free............I am sitting here right now with the biggest smile on my face.............

Thank you Dawnie, good questions and it was fun to do.............as part of this interview here are the directions that go along with it.........sure hope some of you want to try this:

Here's the directions:1. Leave me a comment saying, "Interview me."

2. I will respond by emailing you five questions. (I get to pick the questions).

3. You will update your blog with the answers to the questions.

4. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the same post.

5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions.

Pretty easy peasey and fun...........hope to hear from some of you.............

Smile, I hope my ocean adventure brought you a smile or giggle.........

Come sit..........

Thank you, Peggy and Diane.......I truly appreciate you sharing your snowmen art with me..........more than anything I appreciate that you took the time to share them.......trust me, I know sitting down and finding the time to do something like this is a gift in itself.

Come on up, sit a spell. Ok, so it's not my porch, well not in real life...........but you know me, I do sometimes live in an imaginary world (and people actually KNOW me there too !!!!) I think I have mentioned before that I love porches.........I know I do love them, or do I love the idea of what they use to represent?

Since I have never lived in a home that had an actual porch.....ooooo, wait a minute, I did.......egads I did. No I really did. It was in my first marriage and let's say that much of that marriage has slowly faded away.......it was a neat porch too. No pictures tho'........sometimes it was so totally loaded with boxes and junque (I love when you spell a word a fancy way and it makes it look better than "junk"). It wasn't open, it had glass windows and only one or two of them had screens (the other windows were always permanently closed), the door had a screen in it for the summer months. So maybe it wasn't a true porch, but it wasn't a room in the house either. Then I cleaned it up and put odds and ends of furniture and did enjoy. Man, I wonder if the people who own it now enjoy it? Sigh, well I wandered again, didn't I?

When I dream and fantasize about porches, I see people sitting there, relaxing, talking, reading, taking naps.......ok, I am seeing movies, huh? But didn't families use to gather on porches? Didn't neighbors gather in the evenings and talk about important subjects like world series, cars, recipes?

I remember as a young girl, that my mum and neighbor ladies would sit on what we called the "stoop". The concrete/cement stairs leading up to the front door. The two of us would sit there too......share some good talks, giggles, serious talks too. There was time to do this..........

I know for a fact in this household there is no time to do that. We have swimming lessons, after school tutoring, homework that has to be done four out of the five nights (2nd grade!!!) one night after school my oldest grandson belongs to a school activity club (which is good for him). We rarely eat dinner before 6-6:30, my daughter doesn't get home EVER before 6:30.......so we rarely see her at the dinner/supper table. Forget the week-ends........384,938, 100 errands, birthday parties, functions, shopping type events have to take place, mass, Sunday school..........there is NO TIME!

So I guess the lack of a porch is a good thing for me.........it would lead to frustration, sadness and melancholy (does anyone use that word 'melancholy' any more?).

I would like a porch, the magazine picture and floor plans of my "someday home" that I have tucked away to look and dream about has a small porch on it......so I shall go look at it, touch it gently and dream.........

Smile friends, smile.........

Laughter

Anyone have any snowpeople graphics, art work or clip art that they want to share? Come on, help an ole' lady out........only have a few more days until the end of January.......puleeeeeeze.......you can send them to me via my email if you like.......puleeeeeze.

Dawnie, I am writing this to you.....at first I looked and looked to see if you had an email listed so I could write to you personally........failed at that Nancy Drew adventure. I then thought about writing to you on your blog, but could just see the looks on the other reader's faces....."what the heck is she talking about?"........ The picture on the top of my blog was taken on my vacation last year to VT and MA. This particular photo was taken aboard a ferry that we took out of Cape Cod to Nantucket. Man I love back east.

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
— Victor Hugo

I know, I know, I am hung up on smiles, laughter, giggles..........it's me, it's who I am....along with about another 167 known quirks and annoying habits..........what happen to that saying "and the truth shall set you free"? I know the truth about my weaknesses and it sure hasn't set me free...I do like to hear people laughing

Come on now, doesn't this picture at least put a wee bit of a smile on your face? Aren't you wondering what they are laughing about? The little girl above , now this laughter is the purest in the world.........the world of innocence and sheer joy in being alive. My oldest grand daughter has the most "start down in the bottom of her tummy and grow and grow until it spills out" laugh that you want to hear. Truly, if you are with her and she laughs, you can't help but either laugh with her or smile at the sound...........

These two pictures add another whole dimension to laughter. The laughter of those of us who have been around the block a few times. Oh I know, some of us are set in our ways, some of us don't catch on to some of the new mechanical things........so what! When we laugh, we laugh. I remember seeing a group of "mature" ladies once at a function........they were laughing and carrying on, I really really wanted to go over and join them.........they were having a whole lot more fun than I was at the time..........

Here is a picture and the small quote that I found with it.

Tough economic times and the perpetual threat of layoffs are gnawing away at our collective funny bone. “It’s a natural tendency for some folks to tighten up during tough times, but we need to lighten up,” warns Joel Goodman, founder of The Humor Project Inc.

When I was working at a certain company we laughed almost everyday........oh trust me, we had our moments of wanting to decapitate each other, but on the whole, we did laugh almost everyday. Times were good. Thinking that there aren't a whole lot of giggles and chuckles coming from some cubicles theses day.

Here is another article that I found..........
A Bombay doctor who says laughter is the best medicine has brought his message to Cambridge.
Dr Madan Kataria advocates regular breaks for yoga, deep breathing, and belly laughs, with or without jokes to prompt them.
He is due to present a seminar on his philosophy at Cambridge Regional College.
Dr Kataria, known as the "Guru of Giggling", told BBC Radio Cambridgeshire that his regimen calls for people to laugh "initially as a form of exercise".
Faking it
"We devised a new method where you can laugh without any humour or without any reason".
He believes the "fake it until you make it" approach helps people fool their bodies into believing the laughter is a real indicator of happiness, which he says offers physical and psychological benefits.
Dr Kataria advocates laughter to relieve stress, strengthen the immune system, and to make people look and feel younger. He has established hundreds of "laughter clubs" around the world.

Ok, so if you have to attend a seminar to learn how to laugh.............GO!!! Do not hesitate to sign up.........sell your treasures items on eBay and go...........almost every situation has humor in it..........seriously. On the one and only time that we all traveled together as a family, we crashed landed, in the middle of winter, with snow up to and beyond our tushes. I looked across the aisle at my then husband, and honest to Pete, his eyes were bigger than hockey pucks. He looked at me and said " I am never going to fly again!" Ok, you have got to know me...........I truly and honestly tried to let it go, BUT...........and so I replied " If the pilot isn't good, you may not have to worry about that decision." and then I started to giggle........well then I started to pray too.......

I know I sign off the same way each and every time I write...........I probably always will.......bear with me............when you think about it, I could be encouraging you to do lots worse things than smiles and laughter...........psssssst, did you laugh yet today?

and the winner is................

Yup, unless I can find more snowmen graphics, art work or clip art I won't last all the way through January with snow people ............sigh..........now talk about pressure........tee hee.
Ok, the winner is..........Jewel.........I will email her in a minute and let her know that her box will be on the way once she sends me an address. Congratulations! I have another give-away ready for Valentine's Day.........just need to take pictures.........this is fun.
Tomorrow starts us back on the ole' grind again..........oldest grandson had Friday thru today off, daughter had to day off..........shoot, it was like a mini-vacation for me. I am thinking seriously about driving up to the outlet stores in our area. Maybe tomorrow........need another set of sheets for my new bed; some new undies too. Thank goodness I know my upper size......I hate trying on upper underwear!!!!
Hmmm, what else do I have to share..........oh, we might have homemade cheese and or beef enchilada for dinner (supper).........those sound good, huh?
Did you smile today? Oh I did.......ooooo, here let me tell you a quick funny today. My daughter is quite conservative. She isn't a stick in the mud, but I think she walks straighter than I do. Any ways, we were in this particular store.......oh shoot, TJ MAXX, and my oldest grandson and I were wandering together and I spotted the hats...........oh my, I found this HUMUNGOUS, flimsy, southern belle, wide brim, Gone With The Wind hat. I put it on and Dan and I started laughing...........told him "Hey let's have some fun. We'll go find you mother and then when we spot her, I 'll put this on and we will act all la-de-da." He thought that sounded fun. We did, she just looked up and said with a heavy sigh " It looks just like you mother." Sigh, well butter my butt and call me a biscuit............what a disappointment............oh well, there is always another day and time to get her.........tee hee.

Not much happening here........

Well I can't believe I am saying this, but I am think I will run out of snowpeople art to share with you before the end of the month.....yikes.........how can that be? Again, this art work was done by Melissa B, whose last known residence was in FL. If anyone knows her and is still in contact with her, could you send her over.........I truly want to share with her how my life has changed....she was so supportive for so long.

Well, there really isn't anything super out of the ordinary going on right now........other than I got up early, dragged out of my bedroom, talked to my daughter and sil for a wee bit, went back to my bedroom, read a few pages and zappo whappo, woke up 2 hours later..........holy mackanolie......I am becoming a sleep magnet!!!!! Ok, I don't look that cute when I am sleeping........trust me, even in my own magical world there is some reality.

When I say that there isn't anything super out of the ordinary going on right now..............I truly and from the bottom of my heart........am not complaining. These types of days in my family are called 'Dick and Jane' days.

How many remember Dick and Jane? Oh Sally, Puff, Spot and Mother and Father too? Man that was some good reading. Dick and Jane days are just no excitement, no crisis, no unexpected drama or adventure. Days that you get up, do your daily routine and go to bed and life was just nice. There is absolutely nothing wrong with Dick and Jane days.........nothing. Truly, if we didn't have Dick and Jane days, how would we know when we were having a glorious, over-the-hill full of sunshine day, or 'gasp' a poopy day..........we wouldn't. So hats off to Dick and Jane.
Hey before I drift off into my Saturday...........has anyone seen that commercial, where the lady is shopping in this quaint little store.......it's almost like a Harry Potter type store..........and she buys hugs, contented sighs, kisses? I love that commercial.......I do. I like the man that is behind the counter..........I want to find that store. Shoot, financially I couldn't probably purchase anything, and why would I, most everything that is being sold is for free, but I would like to go in there and just stand.........ok, back to reality...........

I use to do so much crafting and when I took a bazillion hours and transferred my A files or floppy discs over to my computer, I made a whole folder of the things that I use to make..........I did a lot of stitcheries........here is one of them. In case you can't read what it says

'Follow your heart, it knows where it's going".

I grabbed this piece of muslin out of my material scrap bag (which I gave away to one of my dearest friends........and trust me, she has put that HUMUNGOUS plastic tub to good use) and put the saying on and painted away the little design......shoot I have no idea why I stuck this in here..........but I think I will do that every once in awhile. It would be fun to share some of my creations from long long ago.

Ok, try to smile and giggle today.....