Sunday, June 28, 2009
A day for scrapbooking
Friday, June 19, 2009
I are not smart
Monday, June 15, 2009
Recollections
We were pretty poor when I was a kid. I remember we sometimes got hand-me-downs from a family with older girls. I was the smallest so I got the hand-me-downs that my sisters had grown out of. My mom was a great seamstress so quite often she made our clothes.
If you'd ever spent time at our house back in those days, this was a common site to see....
Holly, sitting at her sewing machine. And if you are curious about what she is working on, then the next photo is for you.
She made each of us a Holly Hobbie doll and our very own Holly Hobbie dress. As you can see, we were very happy.
I wasn't always happy to have sisters. We had our fair share of fights growing up. Of course if you were the one caught being mean, you had to say the family prayer that night. Have you ever tried to pray when you are being a meany? Not an easy thing to do.
Now that I'm a mom, I look back to the days of my youth and can't help but ask, How in the world did our parents not kill us? I have only 2 and there were days that I thought they might not make it to their teenage years. My mom and dad had 4 girls in 4 years.
I really love these sisters of mine and I treasure every memory of growing up in that crazy house. BTW, I think we are overdue for a get-together.
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
It's OK to scraplift!
My page of Jacob is scraplifted from this page.
My page of Jared is scraplifted from a layout I saved in my ideas folder, but I have no idea who did the original. It was a good way to pass the time.Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Yeah, something is wrong with me
Friday, May 22, 2009
Friday, May 15, 2009
Sometimes I Wonder
Why do I take so many pictures of my cat? Does he even care that nobody can resist his silkiness?
Is ther an unwritten rule that says at least 85% of boxers manufactured should be plaid?
Why didn't we take the cute cake off the outside box it came in before we took pictures? Why did we leave it there for the whole party?
If anyone has some answers, I'd love to hear them.
Friday, May 8, 2009
Ingenious...Totally!
And then it came to me. We had another iron in the house. And I knew exactly where it was. Only this iron isn't usually used for anything remotely like this. It was my step-daughter's flat iron for her hair. I said to myself, "It gets hot...just like a clothes iron." And do you know what? It worked GREAT!
I just kept moving it and squeezing until each little petal was fused tight to the jeans. Ingenious! In fact, I think it worked even better than the times I've had to iron on patches for my kids clothes using a regular iron. I don't think I'll tell her that I found another use for her flat iron. We'll just keep this our little secret.







