Happiness is...

finding 5 Cashmere sweaters at Goodwill and one really fuzzy Angora sweater all for $3.99 each! Three of these babies were size 3x; the Holy Grail of sizes for sweater felting if you ask me. I will be making wool mittens and the Cashmere will make such a soft, luxurious lining for them. The angora sweater is going to be made into one of these for my daughter for Christmas. The one I am making will just be a really fuzzy version of the bunny and I'm going to do the lining of the ears with a small holiday print fabric and give it a holiday bow around the neck.

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In Loving Memory...

: Nelda Sue Halboth:

December 16, 1937 ~ October 14, 2010

In just 3 days I went from believing that we had

at least few years with her to just coming to terms

that it would only be a few months at best - to being

told she only had hours or maybe a few days to live.

My first thought this morning was to call her and tell her

something funny that had happened yesterday.

{I will miss her}

My mom:

A sarcastic sense of humor

A funny little snicker when she was tickleing my cats feet

She was an awesome cook

Was a registered nurse, but told me that if she had not passed the

test to get into nursing school that she would have been a hair dresser

Married to my dad 47 years

Loved her grandchildren - Nick, Grace and Hank

Knew how to give the best gifts

Loved to work in her flower garden

Was kind

Liked to shop and was good at finding bargains

Loved going to garage sales

Liked antique pottery

Liked toffee

She will be missed by so many people.

I would like to thank Jeanne for being with her and my dad

every step of the way.

Vacation ...From a Year Ago

Just starting on scrapping our vacation to Mesa Verde from a year ago. I am so behind I think I'm ahead!
This page completely scrap lifted from a kit I got from an Archiver's scrapmania night - The Cricut font for the word vacation is Alphalicious and the Mesa Verde font is Songbird.

This one was supposed to be titled Sleeping Beauty but I couldn't make it work so I just went with Sleeping.

Wordless Wednesday...

The multi-hour layout

This has got to be one the longest lay outs time-wise that i have ever done. It took most of the afternoon. Of course I did get side tracked on the computer while journaling but still....

The basic idea came from The Paper Orchard. I love her pages. I pretty much scraplifted this one right down to the title because it was a title that actually worked for this layout. In stead of sticker for the title I used an alphabet from www.LetteringDelights.com - an alphabet called Hodgepodge, I did add more photos because I just gotta cram as many on a page as possible - thats just how I roll.
Anyway, it makes me kind of sad when I look at this layout because my mother is no longer capable of getting out and doing fun things like this and I hope my kids will remember the fun times when she was able to do stuff with them.

Stalking Good Will

Lately I have become a fan of all the blogs out there that take a used piece of furniture and paint it and turn it into something new and fantastic. They have inspired me to do a fiew pieces myself. I started with my daughters head board and dresser then on to a shelf for the kitchen. About a month ago I found this china cabinet at Salvation Army for $95.00. Well, I'm cheap {frugal} and I didn't want to pay that much. I got on the good side of one of the sales people there and she clued me in about when the next 50% off sale would be - I got there right as they opened that day and whoopeee the china cabinet was still there and I got it for $47.50. It's worth that. So the drawers are sanded and primed and now I need to decide what color to paint it. Twice Lovely just posted a hutch that they painted Celery by Krylon and then rubbed a glaze over. I love it and I am doing that to my China Cabinet only using Wythe Blue at Benjamin Moore. Its really not as dark as it appears on their website. I'm just not sure if I am adding too much color to my house but it really needs to be jazzed up its getting boring to old lady looking.
Wish me luck on getting it all done this weekend! Oh, and it's solid wood and made of cherry {I think} and very heavy. My dad will have a cow when he hears that I painted cherry wood instead of just staining it. Yep - I'm living dangerously!