Felt better than I have in awhile so I worked on my dishtowels ans finished several pairs of earrings to sell!
I have a knot on my knee and couldn't exercise, though. Les got off Predinisone the weekend and woke up with swollen hand Sunday, doctor told him to take more.

I put out I was taking orders for Family Tree pendants and now have over 10 to make! A good friend from when we went to Jr High is coming over and we are going to have a girl's night and she said she would help me, She is also selling some of her earrings cheap and donating the money to me, I think that is so sweet!
Charli had to make some jewelry since I was. She made a bracelet and I let her put ear wires on paper clips so she made 3 pairs of earrings. She was proud!
David Richitelli, a boy I went to school with, passed away this week end. I am not sure what he died from but he was in hospital 3 times, near death twice and had major surgery all in 2011. He just turned 51 in December.

I talked to Jeremy Thursday night about 36 minutes! This time he and I talked the most instead of Les and him because we talked football, LOL! I guess I need to keep up more with the Panthers for him, ;). Got the flyers for the craft show I need to get padded out asap, I am going to have to do a few heating pads because that is want she put down on them...

An interesting day today, Charli was playing outside with Pop and Cora, fell, and had a severe nose bleed. I was laying down with Ames when he came and got me because blood was every where, so I got it stopped and after a while she calmed down to play with Cora again.
I posted some earrings on Facebook, I need to do well at the craft show next week since Les will be out for a few weeks.

I had a nice time meeting Elaine, Douglas and Abigail at IHop tonight. They were so glad to see Charli and she was a good girl and ate well.
I am not past 250 SwagBucks! I need to get a lot more if I want to send Jeremy an Amazon gift certificate! I am pretty good at thinking about the daily poll and like doing them. I finally found they send things to my inbox I can do to earn more.
I am very sleepy and ready for bed. Les went to dentist today and Gina went to Dr Vaughn and both did OK.
It is now 6 months since I started CellCept so I hope it will start working soon!
Oh I got Charli a skirt made today and got $25 for selling earrings.
I am about to fall asleep so good night!

crafty sites

http://vickiehowell.blogspot.com/2010/02/i-love-to-create-zipper-embellished.html
http://www.craftstylish.com/item/45111/how-to-make-a-magazine-reed-box/page/all
http://www.craftstylish.com/item/39555/how-to-make-dangly-earrings-with-magazine-pages/page/all
http://howaboutorange.blogspot.com/2009/06/recycled-magazine-coasters.html
http://howaboutorange.blogspot.com/2009/10/make-gift-bow-from-magazine-page.html
http://littledishy.blogspot.com/2008/08/how-to-make-gift-bags.html
http://alittlehut.blogspot.com/2007/05/recycling.html
http://www.fleetingthing.com/index.php?section=2&sub_section=13&page=15
http://artsyville.blogspot.com/2010/04/cut-and-paste-necklaces.html
http://artsyville.blogspot.com/2009/01/creating-colorful-journal-pages.html
http://michaelcreations.blogspot.com/2010/08/paper-beads-tutorial.html
http://images.search.yahoo.com/images/view?back=http%3A%2F%2Fimages.search.yahoo.com%2Fsearch%2Fimages%3Fp%3Drecycled%2Bcrafts%2Btrays%26b%3D481%26ni%3D20%26ei%3DUTF-8%26xargs%3D0%26pstart%3D1%26fr%3Dush-mail%26fr2%3Dtab-web&w=267&h=200&imgurl=drummbellina.typepad.com%2F.a%2F6a01157114783c970b011570251db0970c-pi&rurl=http%3A%2F%2Fdrummbellina.typepad.com%2Fdrummbellina%2Fsaving-money%2F&size=54KB&name=Recycle+and+re-u...&p=recycled+crafts+trays&oid=4b5cd93967429ca326d42482d6217cf6&fr2=tab-web&no=498&tt=3930&b=481&ni=20&sigr=11q4vkcvd&sigi=121vut379&sigb=142gakj9o&.crumb=w.gVc7VQTpq
http://deedabbler.blogspot.com/
http://cosaverde.com/store/laalicia/
http://mynaptimecrafts.blogspot.com/2010/05/toilet-paper-roll-wreath.html

I honestly believe God puts people in our lives at just the right time! I took Les to work and went to get my Carolina long sleeved T shirt I wanted from Palmetto Treasures (ON SALE) then I went to see if something I wanted from Hancock was still there and since it was not I sat looking at patterns when Dee Cobb saw me and sat down. We started talking about the earring class tonight and she told me her car was cutting out so I called Les and he said bring it to him. I followed her to the Zone where he found the battery cables were just loose Advance had looked and told her they didn't see anything. Then we went to the class. It was fun!

Cute hat ideas
http://www.makeit-loveit.com/2008/11/simple-fleece-snow-hat.html
http://www.makeit-loveit.com/2008/12/another-hat.html
this is cute, too http://www.anniesattic.com/detail.html?prod_id=76330&source=GGCROBB
http://www.makeit-loveit.com/2010/10/looking-for-modern-bird-studios-250.html
scarf
http://www.makeit-loveit.com/2009/10/simple-fleece-scarf.html
http://www.makeit-loveit.com/2010/01/gathered-flannel-scarf.html

Here is Ames with the soft blur hat I made him, I am planning on getting more colors and making a few since Gina likes hats on him and he is quickly outgrowing what he has.

I saved all my bracelets from Self for 2010 just to see how many I ended up with, 13, it seems like a lot when I put them together! I spent hours trying to get ahead of the spam at 3S, it is so bad it is in the gallery! I don't know why they keep it open if they are not going to maintain it! I can still delete most of it, Barbara is on medical leave and I guess no one is taking care of it.

The snow is sticking with us, I saw some melt off the neighbors roof but it stayed in the mid 30's and will drop and refreeze, Trey and Gina both were off and I talked to an excited Charli! I am sure she had a great time with her Mommy and Daddy.

I finished up a little red hat and started one with an eyelash type yarn I bought on sale but I hate working with it because it is so hard to tell where the next stitch goes!

I finished up a set of calendars for Bobbie, today, that makes 30 pages so far this year, also I am using the guide in the back of my Bible and am up to Gen 11 reading through the year.
Had a very nice time with the babies today, held Ames most of the time :0)
Today would have been my Nanny's 94th birthday, she was wonderful, could look at something and make it. She quilted, crocheted, sewed, and was the best cook I ever knew. She also was serious in Bible study, she had an allergy to nylon so rarely made it to church but her Pastor Phillip came to the house for her and Aunt Doll. She loved Oral Roberts and is the one who let me borrow Corrie Ten Boone's book The Hiding Place. I spent a good bit of time with her. She made aprons and sold them to the women she worked with at the mill and was a cloth hoarder, LOL! I know I have a lot of her in me!

I am so glad Gina got the 'crafty gene'! She , Trey and Charli made a gingerbread house, complete with the family on the back!
Very busy trying to get the church calendars done! Four down, eight to go!

Another GREAT Blog!

Les can talk today BUT gout in hand and it is swollen. Had so much fun playing with kids today, Charli is so funny! She sings Crazy on You by Heart, now WHO could have taught her that song?

Charli wore her Princess dress when she came over today, I love her imagination!
I have 9 crafters so far for my Craft Show! I need to count the tables at church and see if I can add 1 more or not. That really is good since I got it approved last night! There will be FUDGE, gift baskets, hair bows, jewelry, lighted wine bottles and bricks, birdhouses, painted gourds and items and my heating pads. We are also having baked goods. I also am getting an ad free on the radio thanks to Les who knows the guy!

Susan Terry gave me this machine and I am so thrilled about it! I will really be happy to learn to use the embroidery part! I might even learn to like sewing with this!

I ended up selling 5 sets of my heating pad/covers, 1 taggie blanket and several earrings for a total of $155 sales so that's not too bad! I am going to do more shows in the next weeks hopefully with my sisters. I have warned people what heating pads I don't sell will be Christmas gifts, LOL!

Went with the kids to see Megamind and Red, at the Drive-in, had a ball, Charli sat with us until she got sleepy, she spend some time putting change in speaker cover, I told Les we would have punished our kids but thought it was funny with her! She stopped when I asked her too and tried to get it out but said her fingers were too fat, LOL! She also spilled M&Ms on floor but Les will just have to vaccuum! <3>

My MIL helped me at my booth today (she is sitting) she sold 2 scarves, I did better with 3 heating pad sets, 1 jewelry set and 5 pairs of earrings. Several didn't sell anything so I did pretty well. I pray we will have lots more luck tomorrow!

Charli wanted to come to my house but I stayed almost all day there, I told her I would see her tomorrow. She is so imaginative! When I kept her yesterday she said the boys from Big Time Rush, Carlos and James, she told them to sit beside us and she 'cooked' them a meal. She then said she wanted to marry James and when I did the 'Here comes the bride' music she started to prance around, she really makes me so happy! I think she likes them over Justin =0)

A few more art quilts

I started feeling a little better today, slept a lot, cross stitched and watched TV. The doctor's office said all the tests were fine including uric acid so no gout!
These are most of the quilts now, they really motivated me!

More Art Quilts and rambling

Here are more of the art quilts and a close up up my favorite one.
We took Charli with us to the Picnic and singing tonight at church. She enjoyed it.
For the last 3 days I have been in a weak phase with no energy. I am getting ready to go to bed already and it is not quite 9PM. I will get my blood work tomorrow to find out is I still have gout. I usually eat chicken and beef liver when I feel like this but it will make my knees hurt worse. I will just wait to hear what he says and it is allergy time so my coughing is very bad at night and my ribs and back hurt after that. Sounds like I'm complaining but really just trying to keep up with things here. I really am blessed!
Two wonderful men from Mama's church (I grew up there) Roy Pinson and Dan Adams have cancer that is very serious, Dan is in Hospice. Also a 15 Year old girl Lauren Kittles passed away this week end of cancer. I know of two teens laying in hospital beds, one, Scotty, in a coma since his Christmas Eve car wreck (on life support) and another, Ryan, paralized from the shoulders down from a swimming accident. My son-in-law's Dad had his bladder removed this year and his tumor is back so I do feel blessed! Yes, I have only 41% lung function but I can go to church and even walk through Wal-Mart and play with Charli and...
Yes I finally made pages with PSE4! I still have to switch to my old program to do text because it is so much better but I scrapped this week end, the first time this month!
I do face the fact I won't live as long as my Grandmother and maybe not even as long as my Mom but that makes me think about the way I live. I plan on giving a lot of home made gifts for Christmas and leaving my 'mark' and if anyone knows me they can say "I know she is in Heaven because she lived it" I just hope I don't go before seeing more of my family that way.

Art Quilts

We took Charli to the Museum a couple of weeks ago to see a Robot exhibit and I saw these quilts. I love art quilts! The Sunbonnet Sue made me think of my Nanny. She and my Aunt Doll made several of them! I will post more later as I took a lot of pictures of them.
My Photo program is still down and so still no scrapping but doing other things to keep busy. I am working on Seth's Cross stitch stocking and got a lot done yesterday. Les is cutting grass and I am going to close the computer down and work on it now.