This belonged to either Roger's mom or Grammy and for the life of me I cannot think which. Probably his mom.. It is tiny. I wish I had a picture of something showing the size.
The cup sitting in the saucer is 1 5/8 inches tall...and that is counting at the top of the handle. The saucer is about three inches across.
Just thought I would show you this bit of cuteness.
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And this is something else that showed up that I have watched before. Here is your moment of silliness. For some reason it struck me funny. Have your sound on...
I have long wanted to make a few cards, but just never seemed to have time when I needed them...and other things fill my mind when I do have time. However I have a friend whose birthday is in a few days so I have worked on this for 3 days! Well, let me say I first spent one day on another background...but once I got it together, I did not like it. So the next day I started this one. I had a scrap of fabric in mind for the flower. I thought I laid it aside close to my sewing machine and spend enough time hunting for it to have finished this yesterday and to have started on another.
Even last night, I was actually headed to bed before 1:00A.M. but thought I would glance one more time for it and it ended up being 1:20 before I got in bed. And I still did not find the fabric.
Anyway, it was fun to made...I did have card stock that I have had for years. But I don't have what you would call card making supplies. But I would like to make a few of these if I can ever get a couple other projects done.
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So far, we have had rain both Monday and Tuesday but at no point did it come a downpour. But so far, so good with the drains I put on the downspout.
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I am leaving you with another video I may have shared sometime in the past. I know I have saw it before. It cracks me up.
Tuesday, March 22, 2022
No, I still have not sewn these together. And I still make a new one every now and then. (Remember to click on the photos to expand the view.) When I first started making them I was just going to place them together like this. One flower next to the other...but then I had second thoughts and saw so many ideas that I changed my mind. Add to the ideas I see on the internet, I have come up with one of my own...
The photo above does not contain all the flowers I have made..as you can see below I have a stack of them
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The kids came this past Saturday to celebrate Roger's birthday. It was an early celebration, but if we waited till closer to his birthday Lorelei would not have been here. It was a fun time to have them all here. And also, Lorelei got the rest of her birthday. One thing I had ordered before Christmas but still did not get here till after her birthday which is early February. And a couple other little items that I had ordered about 3 weeks before her birthday celebration, and they did not get here till the day after we celebrated. I had one thing that came in time for her party.
The one thing she had told me she wanted was a stuffed sloth that was almost as big as her. I felt like her eyes just lit up once she saw it, even thought I had sent her a pic when it came. It was no secret that I ordered it...she had showed it to me.
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It was a beautiful day today...as usual, since it was Monday, I took Roger out for a late breakfast. And it was even later than normal.
We came home and first thing, Roger noticed that one of the drains of the gutters was loose from the downspout. After eating, I could not bare to get down on my knees to fix it so I did what I had planned to do anyway. I broke down boxes. There are some supplies I order over and over, that come in good sized boxes. Besides other things that I order on a regular basis. Sometimes they come in bags, sometimes in boxes. I am talking things like vitamins, and other OTC meds.
After that, I tackled the downspout. I got it back on and pray that it stays. It should...I felt like I got it on a bit better. Now to see if that helps about water in the basement. We are supposed to have rain the next three days. So say a prayer that that puts a stop to it. Two of the drains at the end of the down spouts were plastc. One was totally destroyed. And the other was not much better. I got regular downspouts to use to drain the water far away from the house. It has worked well on one corner.
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Well, to a lighter note, I thought maybe it would be fun to revisit one of my old videos of Lorelei. But oh, it is so bittersweet...it is from before Roger's stroke. And she is helping him by painting the outside of a sandblasting box he built. That was probably the last thing he made before he had his stroke. He had built it and tested it enough to know that it worked. But had not really used it on anything he was actually working on.
Remember I was sewing bits of fabric from this little container to make 'crumb' blocks. I did a better measurement of the container. It is 5 1/4 inches long, and 3 1/4 inches square otherwise. Below are the what I have sewn so far...the little coral fabric in the upper right hand corner of the top block came from another container.
Here are two more--that pink strip across the top of the top block came from another container.
Two more:
can you believe there are still more?
And here are the last two:
That was 10 blocks from that little container, other than those scraps I mentioned. And I have at least half enough pieced for half of another block...and still more in the container but they are all just sort of blah and I will be adding more colorful scraps from other containers. This was just something to do to see how many I could get out the container.
Also, all of the above blocks are bigger than 6 1/2 inches square. I have not trimmed them down to size. I was keeping my options open. I might want to make them 9 1/2 inches square. I have not decided for sure. I don't necessarily think they are so beautiful...it is that I love sewing and I get so much enjoyment from sitting and sewing them together.
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Remember I moved my sewing machines to a room of their own. Well, I ordered another sewing table and moved one back to my dining room. There are so many times when I am cooking or just waiting for something that I missed having one of them in here. Plus, it sits in from of windows and so bright and light there. I am so glad I did it.
So last week was very eventful. I told about the flat tire. I did not tell that earlier in the week when it rained and blew, I had water get in the basement again. I checked before going to bed and all was okay, so I do not know just how it came about. I had so much water to get up. It is strange to have lived here all these years and did not have trouble till after Roger's stroke.
We might have a little get in in this one corner, but nothing to really worry about. Now I would be afraid to be gone when it really rains. Though what I could do by being here is more than I know. Those were the bad things.
The good thing is my sewing table came. It came in two boxes, each one very heavy. I kind of walked them in. You know how you stand something heavy one on a corner and move the other corner forward. Anyway, I got it put together. It has the heavy 'k-legs' and I forget what wood the top is made of but it is heavy. It may partly be the metal inserts in it. Anyway, I feel like my machine is safe in it. All of my machines are close to 30 lbs each. I would not feel they were safe on a lot of the sewing tables that are made. Besides the fact that they would vibrate bad.
That is a long ramble....I am sorry to be that way. I just could not think how to shorten it...even though I did leave out some details.
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Below is a video I may have shared before. It cracks me up. You got to follow the conversation....
I got this pic from my daughter tonight...Copper and Delta would not be quiet...so she actually yelled at them to be quiet. (You would have to yell for them to hear you....and what is funny, I have never heard her yell at either one.)
They bark at other dogs. They bark at kids. In some cases, they think they are guarding the house, but when it is kids and dogs, I myself think they are inviting them to come and play. Anyway, it hurt Copper's feelings, so he had to snuggle with his mom.
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It was one of those days here. In fact, it has been one of those weeks. But I will just tell you about today. I got up and got ready and headed out the door to take Roger through the drive through. I had to have the Rav4 in at 11:00 to get new tires. Got out the door, and looked and there we had totally flat tire! I ended up calling a wrecker service that we know and he came and changed it. By the time he got here, and got it changed, it was time for me to head to get the new tires.
We have more flat tires than anyone I have ever known. And we really don't go very many places. I bet we don't put 10,000 miles on a vehicle in a year. Ithink we have at least averaged have a flat every year and a half or so.
I am thankful that we were home and not out somewhere remote. And I am glad it wasn't the new tires.
I don't know what determines what pops up on Youtube, but in my sidebar this popped up. He was just so good...and I think this one shows his humor, too, while still showing what a skater he was! I hope you enjoy it half as much as me. And Roger sure did, too, when I showed it to him. Be sure and watch his footwork... I always loved to watch him, but did not realize how much I missed him...he does on skates that I could not do on just my feet!
It is best opened up to full screen...even better on TV.
