I Heart My Sister!

Something Sweet In The Mail

What a wonderful surprise I found in my mailbox a few days ago!  Something sweet from Alaska that made my heart sing!

My beautiful sister and I love puzzles and sis has an uncanny way of sending me something special just when I need it the most.  It never fails, if I'm a little blue and feeling a bit low, voila, a little something to brighten my day and cheer me up! 

So a few days ago, here is a big old package in my mailbox, and with a little shake, well it was pretty clear it was a puzzle.  But like I said, I had been having a bit of a down in the dumps couple of weeks and without even knowing, she had sent me just the perfect little something special at just the exact right time.  But honestly, it's that special Gemini bond we have together.  I'm completely convinced that our Gemini radar can send out signals to each other. 

Well, needless to say, when all those wonderful hearts popped out of the wrapping...well, my heart was lifted, my eyes were misty and it made me so utterly thankful that I have this gentle, generous, loving spirit that I happily call sister in my life.

Thanks Moty for always being there!  I heart you!



Cold And Rainy!

Brrrrrr!

Yippee, it's feeling like winter today. We have been having a real roller coaster ride this winter. Tempertures up, tempertures down. What a ride. 45 degrees one day, 75 degrees the next. Last year we had a real winter, it was a cold blast from up north that lasted a good long while, with a hard freeze that lasted 4 straight days. Now I'm not saying that I could handle real winter any longer having lived down south here for 15 years but it's nice to have a small reminder of what it was like in the good old days when I lived up north.

I hope everyone out there is having a peaceful and good Sunday. My heart and prayers go out to everyone in Arizona this morning after that horrific shooting yesterday. What a sad and monstrous thing to happen. No one deserves this sort of unspeakable act to happen to them.

Oh, good news, I guess I did take a couple of pictures of the wallhanging I made for Pego, our groomer. It was in the early stages of being piece together. Here's a look....

Cute little bandanna fabrics, and like I said earlier, when she got tears in her eyes and just couldn't stop touching it and saying how cute it was, well, that was truly the best Christmas gift I got this year. 

Well, I guess it's time to get my day started. I'm hoping I can finish up those two necklaces I started. If you'd like to see them, please stop by my Etsy shop, The Beaded Garden and take a look see!  :-)

Have a wonderful day!

Another Year Come And Gone

Whew!

Where does one begin? All I can say is it just goes by too darn fast and the older I get...UHG, the faster it goes.

So here we are in 2011 already and I barely remember what has happened between my last posting and now. Isn't that just the saddest thing? :-)

Oh well, I guess it's time to start anew and see what this new year has in store for this old gal. 

Well, the kids are doing great. That would be my Mikey and Molly and if you look through some of the older posts you will see their sweet little face in the pictures I've posted. They just got groomed by our lady that comes to the house to pamper them and I had made her a quilted wall hanging with fabric from all their little bandannas that she puts on them after their baths but darn the luck I didn't even think to take a picture of it to show everyone how it turned out. Anyway, she loved it and she actually teared up and that just made me even more thankful that we have our Pego who loves my little dogs and is so gentle and good with them.

Oh, I did do something new and was quite fun, I made a lens at Squido if you would like to take a peek and check it out. It is about one of my favorite collectibles, Wee Forest Folk. I've added some cute little fun facts about mice, and even a couple of polls if you would like to add your vote! If you love to blog about your favorite things, your passions in life, or anything under the sun, you probably will love making a few lenses of your own!

I've also added some new jewelry to my ETSY shop. I've had a great creative streak going for a while now. It's a wonder how I can go for months without the least little spark of imagination or creativity and then bingo, I have a million ideas come flooding my brain up with so many ideas that I have at least two or three or five things going at once! Of course that's a total Gemini thing. In fact right now I have a quilt underway, 2 necklaces and a cross stitch I'm working on! Yikes!  :-)

I'm LOVIN' my Nook. Right now I'm reading a library book on it, The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown. I just got a free Nookbook from Barnes & Noble too! I always loved the feel of a book in my hands, the paper on my fingers as I turned the pages, but you know what, the Nook is so easy to hold it does make reading a bit more enjoyable for me. And they have a new Nookcolor out...pretty fancy!

Well dear readers I need to step away from the computer for a bit. And hopefully this time I won't be gone for 6 months! :-) See ya soon and happy new year!

Here A Nook, There A Nook, Everywhere A Nook Nook!

Nookie Love!

What can I say?  I love my new Nook.  I got this for my birthday and it is a wonderful new addition to my library.  I think Barnes and Noble did a bang up job on this sweet little eReader.  It is sleek and gorgeous for one thing and is easy to hold which thrills me because nowadays it's getting just a little harder to hold a book with these old fingers for very long.  And with an Android operating system inside, it can give us endless possibilities to make this eReader one of the best!  Android also gives the Nook a great way to turn your pages.  Actually, the Nook gives you two ways you can turn your pages, you can use the little forward or backward buttons on the right and left hand sides of the Nook, or you can  swipe the 3.5 inch color LEC touchscreen just below the the eInk display screen.  Shweeeet!

Nook and Nook Cover

Here is my cover I got with the Nook.  I love this cover.  It has two small clips that keep my Nook safe and sound inside and the front cover folds back so it is out of the way while you read.  It is a nice color gray and has the Nook  on the front and the little blue tab at the bottom, when you flip open the cover you see the Nook 'n' inside.  It has a suede feel to it and does a good job of protecting my Nook from dust and grime.

The reason I chose the Nook over the Kindle, Sony and other readers out there is because, first I really did a lot of researching and looking hard at the features they had to offer.  I must admit, I was going to get the Kindle when the Nook first came out.  In fact my beautiful sister who devours books like most people devour peanuts had asked me what I thought about the Nook when it first came out and if I thought it would be best to get the Kindle or Nook.  Well, I had not heard of the Nook until she had mentioned it so I took a look-see to find out what all the hubbub was about and after I weighed the established Kindle against the Nook my thinking was, go with what works...the Kindle.  We talked about it and I got the feeling that perhaps my sister was wanting the new Nook a little more than the Kindle.  The Nook has some wonderful features that you don't get with the Kindle but seeing the Kindle is pretty tried and true we both agreed that was the way to go.

Sis got her Kindle for Christmas last year and she loves it.  I'm thrilled that she is happy with her reader.  Me?  Well I waited.  Not because I thought the Nook would get better over night, I know it takes time for new electronics to get the bugs out and it's usually better to wait until a version 2 would come out to get one...no, I waited because I am sorely behind on my reading, which by the way frustrates my sister to no end!

Well, low and behold my birthday rolls around and I had been keeping my eye on the Nook reading different forums about the Nook and the reviews were looking better than I expected and it had a pretty impressive software upgrade which sounded prettty darn good.  So after all the reading and seeing how favorible it was and looking at all the features that you can get the Nook that you don't see on Kindle, I went with the Nook. 

In fact one of the best features of the Nook is, if your library has Overdrive where you can download books and audiobooks to your computer, you can check out ebooks (my library allows an ebook a 21 day loan) and download them to your computer to your Adobe Digital Editions and then put that book on your Nook.  You can charge your Nook from a wall socket or USB cable from your comupter.  In fact the book I'm reading now is one from my local library.  Very cool.

Something else the Nook allows you to do is purchase ebooks from quite a few other book sellers, such as Kobo books.  You can actually download files from your computer and add different wallpapers and screensavers to your Nook.  I'm not sure if the Kindle does that too, but it is a very nice way to personalize your Nook.  I downloaded some very cool wallpapers and screensavers from Nook-Look.

A Bit Of Whimsy From Groucho Marx

All in all, the Nook is pretty user friendly.  If I can figure all this out in such a short amount of time, anyone can!  And there all kinds of forums out there to help you out.  They really helped with some great tips in case your Nook freezes up on you.  Mine did when I first got it, I didn't panic because I know most all electronics gadgets will do that sometimes...so first thing I did was look up 'nook freezing up', and voila there it was, all kinds of good advice from some very nice people out there lending their help.  I found several very easy fixes.

Nook In Charge Mode

Ok, I hope I haven't gone on too horribly long about my obsession with my new gadget.  I will say this one last thing that changed my mind from the Kindle to the Nook, the battery.  You can replace the battery in the Nook and with the expandible memory that the Nook allows with the micro SD expansion slot you can keep unlimited amounts of books on your memory cards!  So with the 3G and Wi-Fi enabled reader to top things off (really, the list of comparisons are here at Barnes & Noble Nook ) you will see why I chose this eReader over the others.

Well Dear Reader, I will now step down off of my Nookie soapbox and just say that cross my heart and hope to die the Nook has made reading fun again for me!  Adios until we meet again! 

Jumping Jehosaphat...It's June!

And Time Marches On!

Well, the last time I posted I think I made a promise to tend to my blogging garden a bit better than I have in the past.  And what do I go and do...I have gone and done exactly what I said I wasn't going to do in the first place.  Ugh!

Dear Reader, if you are indeed out there and perhaps have even found a fondness of my blabberings, and every once and a while follow along with me on this path of schizophrenia, I am sorry for my lack of 'follow through'.  Please believe me when I say it was honestly unintentional neglect on my part.  But neglect it was, so here is a little something that has happened in the mean time.

My little girl Molly was playing with her brother Mikey in the back yard over a month ago and I heard the most awful sound come from my poor little girl.  There she was standing on three of her four legs with the left rear leg up and shaking so hard it almost knocked the wind out of me.  You see, I was never blessed with human children so I'm one of those pet owners that adores my babies as if they were real babies!  :-)

So anyway, took her to the vet, her knee was in bad shape...now I have no idea how that happened with her just wrestling around with her brother but after a couple of weeks on pain meds and her still not really using it or playing with her brother and acting shy and, well it's hard to explain, but you just know when something is not right.  So the decision to have surgery was in place and let me tell you, it really was one of the hardest things to do.  First of all because, well, I'm a horrible nervious nelly kind of mom to begin with and when it comes to those two little precious puppies, I will lose my mind when something bad happens to them.  I about died when my Mikey got a bee sting...oh my gosh, you would have thought the sky was falling until I finally firgured out what had happened and went online to see what I could do before I took him to the vet.

Anyway, back on topic please!  :-)   So my girl goes in for surgery and when she comes home, let's just say, honestly, I can not put into words the pain in my heart when I saw that precious little dog with her oversized cone on her head and the staples in her leg and how happy she was to see me even after I had given her to those people to cut her open and grind down her bone, put pins and stictches in her knee and then staple her up.  And of course along the way...well actually it was just two days that I took her back to the vet because I thought for sure I had crippled her for life!  It's hard not knowing exactly what to be looking for or what to expect.  All this time during her recovery I was sure that she would be lame because of some horrible thing I had let her do, or something I should have done that I hadn't.  

So, long story short...oops, too late for that I'm afraid, even though I can tell she isn't putting her full weight on her leg, she is doing pretty great.  You know, when you take them in there and they tell you it will be 6 to 8 weeks for recovery, well that isn't true.  My vet said in all truth it will be a good 6 months to come to full recovery.  I still think I may have done a few things wrong like walking her a little too much in the beginning but she seems to be doing just fine.  Playing with her brother, jumping up on the couch and jumping down without any effort or pain.  She favors that right leg but each day I see a little more improvment so now I've finally allowed myself to exhale and give my girl oodles of hugs and kisses for being so sweet and good and brave for all she went through.

Happy June y'all.  It's been horribly hot here already.  Too early of a start for summer, afraid that means we have a real cooker coming in store for us this year.  Thanks for stopping by and taking a few minutes to spend with me!  Hope to be talking to all of you real soon. 

Spring Has Finally Sprung!

Hello Spring!

Well, well, well...the frost is finally off the pumpkin and it is starting to warm up down here after a winter I though would never end.  I guess after living down here in the land of eternal summer, my poor old bones have acclimated to 100 degree tempuratures.  So this winter was quite a reminder of what life was like with a very real hint of winter weather.  I just can't imagine what it was like for everyone up north after being away from  having to battle the cold and snow that I had so lovingly enjoyed when I was living up there all those years ago.  And I must say, even though I can't imagine living up where the winters are long and hard, I still miss them.

We had a hard freeze for four straight days here and through it all, while most all  my plants succumbed to the bitter cold, I had one little darling of a plant that was in full bloom the entire time of the cold snap.  These little Johnny Jump Ups have been reseeding themselves since my loving Alaska Master Gardener sent them to me so very many springs ago.  She had sent me a bevy of seeds to see if they might grow down here for me.  I had gotten a few of them to sprout that first spring except for the Poppies she had sent.  But one of those packets of seeds were these sweet little Johnny's and they have been with me since the very beginning.

So for your viewing enjoyment here is my first touch of spring that has fearlessly survived all winter long.

Sorry for being away for so long.  I hope to make more frequent and hopefully fun and interesting posts.  Here's hoping your spring is coming up as colorful as mine!  :-)

 

Happy New Year!

Hello 2010!

Wow.  All I can say is, boy am I getting old!  Honestly, I remember a time in my life that the idea of my living to actually see the year 2010 was inconceivable!  Ah, to be that young again, that devoid of the reality of being at the end of your life instead of the begining.  Please don't think me morbid, it isn't that at all, it's just ruminating on what has been and what new enlightenment may lay ahead.  It's just that being young has a unique quality of a sense of timelessness.  I remember getting older each year on my birthday but not really comprehending that I too would one day be, well...old.  Perhaps I should say it this way, getting older.  Which on some days is really not that bad at all!  But I do believe that, dude, youth is totally wasted on the young!  ;-) 

When I was young and watching the Jetson's on TV with all the futuristic gadgets and gizmos, I guess in my childhood naivete, never in my wildest dreams did I ever think that I would be able to see so much change in my life, so many ground breaking and history making times and innovation and to actually witness history.  I mean unimaginable history making events.  I'm glad I have though, glad to be able to sit here blogging and perhaps having someone clear around the world reading my musings about, well, not much of anything!  :-)  So, Happy New Year everyone!  I hope you are safe and sound and somewhere warm.  Even here in Texas we are getting that Artic blast and it brings back memories of what winter was for me back in the day! 

It's grooming day for the little dogs but don't tell them that!  They are quite happy being scruffy and smelly, go figure!  They always look so good and smell so great and are just so cute after their hair cuts and baths, unfortunetly, it doesn't last very long.  In fact, after their spa treatment they go out in the back yard and head for the first smelly thing that their noses take them to and roll in it!  Yikes!  So wadda gonna do?  It's a dogs life I guess!

Well, it's about time for our groomer to come so I will close this up for now.  Adios until we meet again. 

Let's Do The Time Warp Again!

Lost In Time

Time to do a bit of catching up!  First of all, I hope everyone had a very merry Christmas and that it was filled with lots of holiday cheer and wonderful memories!

My season 5 of Lost came so I have been having the best time rewatching each episode and I must admit, it has been such along time since I had last seen it that it has been a true delight to once again see so much that I had forgotten about! 

So, perhaps I will continue on with some of the more fun and interesting things that has made me hooked on Lost!  I promise to try to keep it fairly short and sweet although if I had the fortitude and time I know I could write volumes on this amazing series.

Kudos To An Astounding Fusion Of Talent

I think I would like to start by saying something about the abundant talent of the actors that bring our story to life each week.  If they did not possess such keen talent and chemistry, no matter how invovled and rich the story is, no matter how twisting and mind-blowing the fertile imagination of the writers who have taken us on this journey is each week, without this extrodinary cast, I'm pretty sure I would have abandoned this epic and groundbreaking series not long after it started. 

I may be wrong on this, I may have continued on but it is without a doubt that each and everyone of the memebers that have brought this tale to life has made me laugh out loud, or has caused me deep sadness and brought me to tears.  There are a few that have left me scratching my head, is he a good guy or a bad guy.  The talent of this cast has given us characters we love to hate, characters we just love and even a few that we weren't really so sad to see killed off!  Sorry Nikki and Paulo but you had to go!  The episode of their dimise was priceless!  I thought it was presented with a wonderfully wicked tongue in cheek twist of their death that was befitting the people they were in life.  Especially Nikki.  Man, did she have it coming!  :-)

I would love to list all of the individual actors and who they play.  I'm not going to do that, not now anyway.  I know this will sound horribly silly and naive but the characters on this show are so real to me right now that if I seperate their real life name and their character's name it destroys the illusion a bit for me.  So for now I will keep them in their roles of the Oceanic 815 survivors.  The Losties.  And as much as I would like to name a few that are my favorites, I just can't do it, there are so many unique characters in this show that it is impossible for this old Gemini to have a few favs!  Each and every one of them are special, even the newest members of our group.  And, I have a feeling that when the writers created some of these roles, they were never meant to be more than just a bit part for one or two episodes.  But because this show is so lush, we viewers wanted to know as much as we possibly could about each one of these characters.  Sorry Nikki, again, not you!  :-)

I guess it was the way they had set up the premiss.  The intricate criss-crossing of characters, the spiderweb of numbers and patterns.  Even the specific names of our Losties that have related to scientists, mathematicians, philosophers, and then, of course we were given cleverly hidden anagrams and other easter egg clues that were the icing on the cake to all of this mysterious journey the writers have led us through.  So, when someone new has been presented to us, although they may have been intended to be no one of importance, we will look at this new person with anticipation of them being yet another piece of the puzzle in the riddle of the island with a delicious new back story for us to learn about.

So needless to say, I know the writers and producers will try to give us an explosive last season....but for me, I really do not want this to end.  I honestly have an empty feeling starting because I know I will never see these charaters and the incredible actors that play them, again.

Thank you gentle reader for continuing on with me.  I know I was going to head in another direction but if I don't capture what is in my head at that very moment, it will be gone forever.  So tonight is my thank you to all the people involved in making this one heck of a odyssey for the last 5 seasons of Lost!

Let's Get Lost Together!

Accolades And Admiration

Decisions, Decisions. 

I'm having a hard time deciding whether to continue where I left off, which would be the best, but it's so tempting to switch gears and take you down another road of accolades and admiration for an incredible list of extrodinary spiderweb of crisscrossing paths that would lead our Losties ending up together on the mysterious island that may or may not allow our group of survivors to leave unscathed!  Is it Destiny or Happenstance?

Let's stick with a few more introductions.  Here we go.  We left off with Claire.  A beautiful Aussie lass that gave birth on our island of intrigue.

Here's to you Shannon and Boone, stepbrother and stepsister. Shannon, seemingly selfish and spoiled, a little misunderstood and then transformed by the love of another Lostie.  Boone, wrapped around his stepsister's finger.  Becomes John Locke's pupil.

Here's to Bernard and Rose, husband and wife.  Rose crashing to earth with the Losties, Barnard crashing to earth with the Tailies.

We now will embark on our Tailies. 

The surviors of the tail section of flight 815.

Here's to you Ana Lucia, police woman who becomes the leader of the Tailies.

Here's to you Mr. Eko, brother of Yemi.  Warlord, Catholic priest, church builder.

Here's to you Libby, psychologist and Hurley's friend.

Here's to you Cindy, Oceanic flight attendant, missing person, Other.

These are some of the flight 815 surviors.  There are more and if you are interested in finding out more about the passingers of Oceanic Flight 815 please click here go to Lostpedia.  Everything Lost is right there at your fingertips!  Great stuff!  Wonderful details of all 5 seasons of Lost! 

If perhaps your curiosity is peeked and you are thinking of watching the show from the beginning I think I would watch first and maybe check out Lostpedia later.  There is a lot of information and I would hate to ruin some of the more surprising and memorable moments of the show.

Sorry, I need to stop for now.  I need to attend to other things, ugh, but I wanted to be sure to keep you posted for now and I'll be back as quickly as I can!

Lost?

I'm Lost For The Last Time

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It's hard to say goodbye to an old friend.  This friend has given me five seasons of incredible eye opening scenarios, intriguing thoughts of time travel, adventurous journeys through jungles, a mysterious moving cabin on a mysterious invisable island with a just as mysterious man named Jacob.

Head exploding physics, math, electromagnetism and oodles of quantum this, casimire that and of course the Valenzetti Equation.  Philosophers, mathamaticians, scientists, mad men, heroes, strong fierce women.  The Others.  The Hostiles. The good guys, the bad guys and most important, a man of science and a man of faith.

This genius show treated it's audiance like viewers with brains.  It was courageous enough to show us that a TV series storyline didn't have to be wrapped up in 60 minuntes.  It was a brave new way of giving us a look at a living, breathing, moving book.  And I couldn't wait until the next chapter that would ultimately give us more questions then answers!  Each week was breath takingly surprising, delightful, exciting, romantic, silly, sometimes teary eyed sad and always always rewarding.  A story of flawed people finding a different path.  A path that just might lead to redemption.

And now, sadly, this is the last season of this phenomenal odyssey created by J.J. Abrams.  My hat is off to Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof for giving me my monies worth.  Well actually, I would have loved these last 3 seasons to have had full 22/24 episodes instead of only 16 episodes per season but I'm a greedy lostie junkie, so sue me!  :-)

Goodbye Flight 815 Survivors

Goodbye Jack Shephard

Surgeon / Tortured Leader / A Man Of Science

Goodbye John Locke

Kidney Donor / Co-Leader / A Man Of Faith

Goodbye James "Sawyer" Ford

Con Man / Smart Ass / Fearless Hero

Goodbye Kate Austen

Fugitive / Tough -Tender / Torn Between Two Lovers

Goodbye Hugo "Hurley" Reyes

Cursed / Blessed / Heart Of Gold

Goodbye to all of you that made this fantastic voyage on an enchanted island such a joy to watch each week.  Dear Reader, if you have not watched this show, I gently urge you to at least check it out for yourself.  I'm an easy one to get lost in the fantasy of a book or be pulled willingly into the drama of a good movie and I admit, a good yarn like Lost will swallow me whole.  So if you are the type who enjoys something that doesn't always end with and easy fix or all the answers, this could be right up your alley.

Here's to Sayid, a once torturer with a tender heart who became a warrior to save his friends.

 

Here's to Charlie, a reluctant junkie that crashed to earth on flight 815 and ended up sacrificing himself for the safety of the woman he loved.

Here's to Jin and Sun, a story of love, betrail, forgiveness and loss.

Here's to Walt, son of Michael, he is "special" and the owner of Vincent.

Here's to Michael, Walt's father, a man who would do anything to get his son back.

Here's to Claire, who gives birth to her son Aaron on the island.

Well Gentle Reader, I'll have to leave it here for tonight.  As much as I would love to continue on for all eternity about all things Lost, I'm going to have to call it a night.  Thank you for taking this voyage with me through the imagination of some very talented people who brought us a show like none other, and I hope you will continue on with me as I give a salute to more of the magic that made Lost so unique.  Good Night!

Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow!

Hurray For The Weatherman

Just as he said it would, it snowed!  This ol' Wisconsin gal is one happy camper!  It has snowed a couple of other times since I've been down south here but this one looks like it's going to add up a little bit more than the other times and stay a bit longer too as the tempurature drops today.  And let me just say, I don't mind a cotton pickin' bit!  I think my Favorite Little Nag up there on the moon (Alaska) sent this down to me just to make me happy.  She does things like that, it's those witchy witchy ways she has!  :-)

So, on with the show. 

Snow!

Molly trying to duck between the snowflakes.

Palm trees in the snow.

A little snow packing along the fence.  Very cool.

Snowflakes, Ligustrums and a very white lawn.

Asparagus Fern

Assorted plants...Aloe, Cactus and snow covered Daylilies

And last but not least, my hubby's favorite cactus.

Well, that's about it for now.  Today is going to be one of my most favorite days of the year!  Now I'm off to do some beading to make something pretty to put into my shop on Etsy.  Shameful self promotion...Ya'll come and have a visit at my little shop, The Beaded Garden.  I have a beautiful Christmas Angel Necklace that you just might like!  :-)  Have a Scooby Dooby Doo of a weekend!

Dog Grooming Day!

That Can Only Mean One Thing

It means it's been 5 weeks since my last post.  Ouch!  So here I am to add a few words and maybe a picture or two!

It's getting darn cold down south here and to my absolute delight we have a very good chance of snow falling tomorrow.  So if we are so lucky to get that very rare substance I'll definitely have the camera out and snap a few shots to post.  It would be just a bit more delightful if it came closer to Christmas but for me, hey it's snow, so bring it on!!!  Hurray!

Just Another Halloween Tidbit

I know we are well past Halloween but  I had made a necklace for by sister about three years ago.  It is orange and black with goo-gobs of beads and some very cool sterling silver charms.  Well, sis had one of her incredibly wonderful parties for Halloween and she wore it.  Unfortunatly a couple of the charms fell off so she sent it back down here to have me fix them so I figured while I had it here I would show and tell. 

I had a blast making it and it turned out just like I planned.  So here is a look at My Favorite Nag's Halloween necklace.  Hold on to your cowboy hats, I went a little camera crazy!

That's all folks!  Hopefully I'll have a little snow to show you tomorrow! 

Happy Halloween

BOO!

Just showing off my little Halloween treats!  Here they are all pretty from just having their hair cut and all dolled up with their Halloween bandanas! 

Have a wonderful weekend and may all your trick or treat bags be overflowing with goodies! 

Garden Girl

SHE'S DONE!

Hurray!  I'm am so thrilled, she is lovely and it's hard to give her up but I have placed her on Etsy so someone who loves her as much as I do will find a nice spot for her in their home!  I'll post a few pictures of the finshed pictures of her later on, but you can always go to Etsy and see her at my store, Lillypie @ Etsy.

I hope your weekend was the best!  I'm off to find a new and exciting project to start!  Opps, I guess I need to focus on that glorious cross stitch I need to work on so badly.  Maybe I'll just crack a book and relax for a while.  Oh dear, oh dear, what is this schizophrenic gemini girl to do?!  :-)

Nag! Nag! Nag!

She's At It Again!

Well little sis is at it again. So I had better get my rear in gear and make up for too long of a quiet spell. So here is an update on Garden Girl, she has a few new lampwork flowers on her and she now has her sweet little face!

I thought seeing I was showing yet another picture of this doll along with so many others of her, and probably a few more when she is in her full glory, I might just as well show you one that I had made for my dearest little nag and the best sister and friend a girl could ask for. She helps me to be a better person and I'm thankful for that every single day!
Halloween is her favorite holiday. Christmas is right up there, but Halloween has a special place in her heart. So for her birthday, which is exactly 3 years and a day after mine, I made her a Sister of the Night Flight. I can well imagine the two of them riding their brooms and cackling in sheer delight as they cast ink black silhouettes against a glorious full moon!

Unfortunately I didn't use the macro on my camera for these pictures so they are not very detailed. I sure did have fun making her and bringing her to life. So here's to you Cynderella.

Happy Halloween!