Vacations over""""""""""

Well my summer vacation is just about over with" we return to work monday. Can't say that I am looking forward to working in a hot kitchen when the temps are in the eighties and nineties.

On a brighter note I am still addicted to working on the grandmothers flower garden.

Have wanted to get out and play around in my garden but the chiggers have been sooooooo bad this year that they are eatting me alive. They seem to like some people better then others. Hubby can be outside all day long and they don't even attempt to bite him. Now let me stick my nose out the door and they have bitten me all over my body. And anyone that knows anything about chiggers knows that they itch for a good week afterwards. It is as bad as getting caught up in poisin ivy. One of my friends from work said she sprays herself with off and that seems to keep them away so I will have to give that a try.

My daughter called and told me that my granddaughter is gaining weight Yessssssssssss we are so happy for her! She is such a cute little thing. Can you tell I am a proud granny? She sent me this picture of her the other day . This is a doll that I made for her two sisters before her, its one of those topsy turvy dolls that has a dolls head at each end, anyway she says that Kaitlin dosen't want to let go of it. She has a very good grip on it for her age. So now that she is getting to the age where she is noticing things I was standing in line at wallmart and this cute little baby doll just jumped into my cart! Hubby asked where that came from and I told him I didn't know it was just there. He said yeah it just jumped in all by itself right? Hmmmmm wonders upon wonders. Anyway it is on the way to my sweet little grandbaby as we speak.

Well I had better go get some breakfast as the tea I drank this morning is wearing thin. take care untill next time.

Do you rememeber Creamsicles?

I ran into a recipe on one of my sewing forums the other day and decided I would give it a try. The man who gave the recipe says he would refund the ingredients if we didn't like it. well there is absolutely nooooooooo chance of that! Let me tell you if you liked the creamsicles you are going to love this one!

Creamsickle Salad1 small sugar free orange jello1 cup boiling water1 small sugar free instant white chocolate pudding mix1 can mandarin oranges8 oz. cool whip1/3 cup sour creamDissolve jello in boiling water, add juice from oranges. Let cool. Stir in pudding to dissolve then add oranges. Fold in cool whip and sour cream.I am diabetic so I get the oranges in their own syrup and feel I can partake of this delicious salad without too much harm.If you don't like this salad I will refund twice what you paid for the recipe......

Busy Week"

This has been a really crazzy week. Babysat Hubbies great grandsons tuesday for twelve hours " that was a very long day. In case you have never tried it three year old twins can reallyyyyyyy keep you hopping. what one isen't thinking the other one is. You have to be come a mind reader to keep track of them.

Wednsday we had to take hubby into Greenville to an orthapedic specialist , thursday we got to relax and friday was Granddaughter Ashleys wedding rehearsal. I offered to press the tablecloths for the reception hall at the church. I think there were about twenty of them. Has anyone ever tried to press tablecloths on a flat table. welllllllllllll let me tell you the wrinkles were not comming out and these table clothes were three times as big as the table. soooooooooooo Hubby and Grandson Steven offered to run home and get my ironing board and iron so I finally managed to get them done by ten thirty last nite. Today its off to the wedding at the beach. She is haveing a relaxed wedding at the beach a veryyyyyyyyyy relaxed wedding. she said to be sure and wear flip flops because the sand at the beach this time of year is sooooooooo hot it will burn your feet if you wear shoes. Hubby and I have decided to wear caprees and shorts along with hawaain shirts as it is supposed to be a hawaain theme. They are only haveing a quick ceremony there because she has always wanted to be married on the beach and then its back to the church for the reception. It is supposed to rain and storm today so hopefully we will miss it. at least for the wedding.

Upon arriveing home last nite I found the sweetest picture of my Darling Grandbabies in Spokane whom I miss terriably. They are holding the pillow cases that I made and sent to them after arriving home from there last month. Check out those smiles ! Don't it just make you wanna pinch their little cheeks!

Time flys

Well since I have been home " It seems like time just flys by. There seems to be more then enough to keep me occupied. In fact I wonder where I will find the time to accomplish it all. I need a couple of more hands .

In the past couple of days I have managed to get three more of the Grandmother blocks finished so something is getting done. Besides that I have been out in my garden pulling weeds .(where do they all come from???????) Then I have managed to tear my sewing room apart once again. I envy people that have huge sewing rooms to store all their stuff. it must be soooooooo nice. Mine is on the small side and every nook and cranny is filled. you would think that this would prevent me from purchasing more fabric but alasssssss I think I am addicted. I purchased one of those three drawer plastic chests at wally world and just managed to squeese in into a corner. That cleaned up all the fabric that was stacked in piles on the floor. Now I am thinking maybe I could get one more and stack it on top. I am soooooooooooo bad! What I really need to do is start using some of this which means I need to get off this computer and get busy. Ohhhhhhhh will add the three blocks that I finished this week so that you can see " I am manageing to get something done to show for my time.

Week after vacation

Well Its been a week since I left Spokane and returned home again. While I was there I visited my girlfriend Judy in her new retirement complex. Very interesting place" She was in the process of teaching some of the women there how to make a Grandmothers Flower Garden. Now I have started one years ago and it is stuffed away somewhere with other unfinished blocks but since I was there I thought why not start one again and it would give me something to work on in the plane. This has been keeping me very occupied in the evenings when I watch t.v. It has solved to problems for me. I am usually snacking while watching t.v. and right now have started on a low carb diet so this is keeping me busy and my mind off of snacking and it is creating some beautifull blocks. The first one is completed so will give you a little preview.

The other think I have been working on is a pin cushion I found while searching the net on the better homes and garden site. I thought this was sooooooooo cute. so I finished it this morning for an addition to my gift box. I already have someone in mind but will not mention any names in case she happens to visit here and see this post.

It won't be long before I have to go back to work as school starts back in the end of August so I am going to try and get as much as I can done between now and then.

If you have read my previous posts you know that I am looking for a picture of a lizzard " I still have yet too see one. I wonder if they tend to disspapear when it gets hot. Its been in the ninties here last week so maybe once it starts cooling down I will be able to get that picture. I sure hope so as I hate dissapointing my granddaughter. Well I am back to the kitchen in my quest for the perfect body. I am going to make some low carb meatballs. Take care and will hopefully be back soon.

Great Trip""""""""'

Just returned home from a three week trip with my lovely grandkids. There are four of them and boy are they cute! There is Daniel he is the oldest and already turning into a ladies man, then there is Kaylee who is going to have to beat the boys away with a stick very soon and who also loves bugs! She has this little bug house and was collecting bugs the whole time I was there. And then there is Kristina" She is the little one not only is she smart but she is the sentimental one. She also loves bugs and I have promised to send her a picture of one of our N.C. lizzards which are normally everywhere you walk. wouldn't you know that just because I promised her a picture they are all hiding from me. Then there is the newest arrival Kaitlin" She is just too cute. Can't tell much about her personality yet " other then the fact that she is beginning to be hooked on car racing with her daddy. When I arrived at the airport the kids had made a sign to welcome me and they were all holding it up for me to see"

Baby Kaitlin Project

Boy you can sure tell I am new at this blogging bussiness. I had a post about my daughter and how she was expecting little kaitlin and she and I had decided to create a baby quilt for her together. and believe it or not I pulled up that partiqular day because I had added these cute little blinking cats to the post and they had somehow multiplied. wellllllll I deleted them and went back to look at the post and guess what? The story about how we had gotten together to create this quilt and the picture of this quilt were gone along with the cats. sooooooooooo here I am again. My daughter kerrie designed the quilt and picked out the fabrics and sent them too me since I live clear across the u.s. from her and I put them together for her. I am including a picture once again. Guess I am going to have to be more carefull about how I delete.

4th of July

Just wanted to wish everyone a Happy 4th" And thought I might post a few more pictures of things I have completed in fabric Hence the name N.C. Fabric Junkie lols

Thought I would post a couple of different bags I have made. There is something so internal about searching for the perfect bag! I love bags the way most women love shoes. Lazzy girl designs have come out with some really cute bags that are easy to construct. I am also so thrilled with all the vidios out now that walk your through everything" It is so great to watch it being constructed right before your eyes. I am one of those people that likes to see the object in front of me" Not much of a pattern type person so all the tutorials are great too.

Another thing I love making are quilts"This one is still on my design wall. One of my problems is that I am always finding new patterns that i want to try before I finish the old ones. so like many other quilters I have several unfinished projects. I have only recently began trying to finish up some of the unfinished projects. One is this table runner which I have down to the stitching of the binding in the back. almost finishedddddddddd. In fact that is probably what I should be doing right now. You all take care and have a great holliday.

Life is Beautifull"

Just wandering around my gardens today thinking that I really need to start dragging out my suitcases to pack . Thought I would leave a picture of the flowers I picked. They always make my day" Hope they will add a little bit of sunshine too yours as well"

What a day!

Don't you just love it when things happen that you haden't planned on" We went to wallmart today to get a few groceries and came home with a big screen t.v. I cannot beleive how much more work it was to carry it in and put together a unit to set it up. Not like grannys old t.v.

I think we are both going to enjoy it though.

Wish I could say that I managed to accomplish a lot of other things today but I am afraid that is the excitement for today. I am however going to post the best picture of alllllll!!!!!!!!!!! My daughter gave me another beautifull grandchild on the 18th of May so she sent a picture of all four of the kids together. I think this is going to be my favorite at least for this year!

Beautifull Day"

Its me again bet you thought I disapeared" Not a chance " I have this lovely little bug in my ear by the name of kerrie" Shes my lovely daughter and she is a good reminder that I need to make a post every so often. She is feeling responsible because she was the one who helped me set this up. So I guess I had better let you know what is going on today. I have been working on two dresses for the latest granddaughter and searching the net for easy patterns to take with me when I fly to spokane in a few day that I can sit down with my grandkids and let them sew!

I think it will be great fun. Have already promised my grandson that we shall cook some great dishes. With all of this going on " I want to be able to get my hands on the new grandbaby and I have come up with a great idea".My daughter has created a sling to carry her in and I am thinking that maybe I could just wear that sling myself and still keep up with the other kids. Did I mention that she is a breast fed baby? Wellllllllll I wonder if she will notice that I am not mommy????

We are on the count down for the trip so have been checking out all the current rules for flying. My girlfriend who is going with me as she has family in spokane also so we thought it would be great if we could both fly together. Anyway she sends me an article on how they are not taking care of the airplanes and all the things that can go wrong. I wrote back and explained to her that we will be soooooo much safer in a plane then we would be in a car that the statistics are in our favor by a huge margin. She wrote back and said she wasen't really worried anyway. ha she was too! I am going to have to stay awake on the flight to keep her occupied I can tell" and this is only my second flight. I kind of enjoyed sitting by the window and watching us leave the ground the last time. It was equally exciting to watch us decending. It is really amazing when you stop and think about this hugeeeeeee heavy airplane flying in the air . It still blows my mind how this is accomplished.

Did I tell you that we have an adopted three legged dog we call tripod? Well we also have a guiennie and the guiennie and the dog have become good friends. They jump all over each other the dog gets the guiennie down on the ground untill you think that he is killing the poor thing and then about the time you can't hold your breath any longer he lets the guiennie up and then its the guiennies turn. He comes at the dog wings and all and jumps all over him. If anyone witnessed these two they would think they were killing each other (we did the first time we saw it) but they are actually playing together. We take the dog for a walk every nite up the driveway to the mailbox. we live on two acres so its a block or so to the mailbox and the highway. The guiennie has taken to walking with us. People are amazed to see him walking along with us like another dog. He dosen't seem to realize that he isen't a dog so all goes well.

O.k. I had better go figure out what to fix for dinner and hopefully get back here soon with some more news. ohhhhhhhh will include a picture of hubby , dog ( tripod) and (pretty boy ) our guiennie. Now anyone that has ever seen a guinnie up close knows that is the furthest thing from the truth but he likes the name so it is what I use.

Patchwork bag"

Hi guys I am back again" Have been busy around here watering plants, cooking , sewing and all the normal things one does durring the day. We have had some excitement today as the lot up in front of us has sold and they moved a home onto it today. We were amazed as the house took up most of the lot. I don't think they are going to have any yard left at all. The piece they are on is 1/4 of an acre but the back part which is in front of us is a creek so it dosen't leave them anything for a yard. There are two other homes down here as we are in a bit of a culdesack I guess you could call it. We are on two acres so have plenty of room for yard and garden. I believe the other two have the same. I have been doing something today other then watching them move in the new home. I managed to get a bag made. A friend of mine (thank you Char) shared her pattern with me . That seems to be about all I have managed to get done today. I had planned on going in and getting something done with my hair but I guess that will have to wait. maybe tomorrow.

Life is Good!

We have started picking tomatoes and cukecumbers from the garden " I love this time of year!I swear that for about two or three months out of the year hubby and I live off of sliced tomatoes and cukecumbers. This year we have added cantelope, and watermellon to the list. Our zuchinni isen't producking yet but it should be soon. Have you ever deepfired zuchinnie??????? ohh you haven't lived untill you try that one. Just slice up your zuchinni dip them in egg and milk then dip it into flour with a little ceyanne pepper and garlic powder added then back into the egg and milk mixture again. Deep fry it untill golden brown yummmmmmmmmm

watermellon pickle recipe

Just received permission to post this recipe from the lady that gave them too me from one of my groups here goes: If any of you get them made before i do" please let me know how they turned out.


Rind of 1/2 melon,
Cut off skin and pink part, then cut in small pieces.
Soak overnight in salt water (1 tbsp salt to 1 qt water)
Drain
Make syrup of 2 cups vinegar, 2 cups water, and 4 cups sugar. Add 1 tbsp cinn, 1 tsp allspice and 1 tsp cloves all in a bag. Boil 10 min. Pour over drained melon rind which has been cooking in water until transparent. Pour into hot jars and seal.

Recipes going around in my head:

Did I tell you that I love recipes too! I wish that I could say I have cooked as many as I have collected but alas that is not the case. I did collect one today that I haven,t heard mentioned in years. Watermellon pickles! Will have to go by the store tomorrow and see if I can find some canning jars. will let you know how they turned out once I get them made.

Another one of my hobbies is gardening and today we have been outside working in the yard. will include pics of the veggies. They are getting so close and about the time they start comming on strong I will be flying off to Spokane to visit my daughter and grandkids. My hubby will enjoy them while I am away and I know that he will call me daily with full reports on how yummy they are!.

New Granddaughter

For those of you who know me" Know that kerrie is my daughter and that she just gave me the most beautifull granddaughter on the eighteenth of may. So yes sweety I will post a picture of the baby quilt that you designed and I made for her. It was a group effort. The very best kind!

Gift pillow finished

Sometime ago I joined a gift making group. It seems like we have groups for just about everything these days. Anyway: I have been making all kinds of things to fill up my gift box. Today I managed to finish a pillow that I had started some time ago. I have this terriable habbit of starting things and getting them almost finished and then they are set aside while I start something new. So I actually feel quite good to be getting this out of the way. I got the scrappy border idea somewhere on the web and love it! Helps me use up some of my stash and I love the look. I will be making more of these!.

Blogging Profile

Everyone keeps telling me how easy this is so I guess it is about time I come into the newest computer age. I convinced my darling daughter to check this out for me and she created one so now I have no exscuse.
I am currently from N.C. and I have ten grandkids and twin great grandsons. Today is our 25th wedding anniversary so we have been together quite awhile for a second marriage. My hobbies are quilting, gardening, embroidery, chrochet and I am recently trying to teach myself to knit with help from some great vidios.
Since it is our anniversary , it might be nice of me to go spend some time with my hubby . will check back here soon.