I can see why my blogger pal Zoey ‘admired’ you a few weeks ago when she first saw you on your new TLC show ‘Take home chef’. If you walked up to me in a grocery store and wanted to cook for me and my fellas, I would probably faint dead away. But you seem to chose woman in the age range of 25-30. What about the glorious women who are a little older in the same age group as Terri Hatcher and Nicollette Sheridan? Some of us have been cooking for a few decades and need new ideas. And why are you picking rich babes like the lady last night whose husband is a race horse trainer? I’m wondering if she has a maid.
Anywho, you are a dashing Aussy and you remind me of my son’s best friend, tall and good-looking. I like that you are a leftie too. So come on out to mushroomland and you’ll have your pick of grocery stores and hopefully you’ll find me!
Big hugs,
Dianne
PS-why is that lady going to spray you?

Today’s SBQ was suggested by Cheryl and is: What do you do with your charts once you’ve stitched them? Do you keepthem or dispose of them? If you keep them, do you organize them in away that is different from the way you keep your unstitched charts?
I just got this in my email today, though I have seen it answered already on a few blogs. I keep most of my charts-that’s if I like them enough to stitch again. I have sold some on eBay and given some away. I’d say most of the things I stitch are in booklets with multiple charts in them, so if I think I’ll stitch any of those, back in one of my crates it will go. I always tell my stitching pals to ask me first if they are looking for any booklet or chart and I will lend it or give it to them.

My plan is to get about 10 or so of the little box hedges and make a circle around the iris and gladiolus garden-for this year. I’d so love to knock down the useless grape arbor you see in the background that is covered now mostly with wild, sticky roses. Phase two would to make a ‘figure 8’ with the crop circle garden. It must be my English heritage coming to the surface as I love the neat look of the hedges surrounding the florals. Something like this:
Update Saturday: Bri and I planted 8 box hedges and need to get about 10 more. They are wee things, but it looks really cute and defined.
I did get to my mom’s today. That woman has too many clothes. She seems to accumulate them like crazy even though my brother and I have both gone through oodles of them in the last few years. I am sad to say I don’t think she can handle living there amd keeping it up in the condition that I saw it in today. I am praying that my brother Don will come up from Florida and help us get it in shape while living there ‘rent free’. Maybe he could save up money for his own home as he’s always lived in rented places and he’s in his middle 40s now. My other brother Ken came to cut the lawn while I was there and I told him we need to get her out of the house as she can’t take care of it anymore. He said no kidding. So it may be another phase in my mom’s life. We’ll all have to figure out what to do and what will be in her best interest. The straw that broke the camel’s back was her getting shingles last year when she was handling her sciatica so much better.

Well this was a fun and cheap project! Sean and I went to Wally World yesterday and of course I had to see what they had in the way of glass and things. I purchased the vase for $2.49 and about three bags of assorted glass at $1.97 each. I used mostly the squiggley pieces and a few round ones to decorate the clear vase. I had the clear adhesive and the flowers. Some are a week old from the grocery store. The others are bee balm, cosmos, hostas, snapdragons and butterfly bush flowers.

I guess these aren’t really mosaics. I just got a book where Sean works and you can make mosaics out of anything from squares of cork to paper. I am really getting inspired.
I am not feeling too great today. I have a pull and have iced it and am waiting for Tylenol to kick in and then I may venture down the now dry road and 23 miles to my mom’s house. Wish me luck.

This is along Route 1 on the 28th. To the left (you can’t see it) is the Brandywine River Museum and to the right is Hank’s Place, a little diner that the cast of ‘The Village’ frequented when they were filming the movie a few miles away from here. This is the road that I take to mom’s and Sean also takes to college. To think I actually planned to go there that day-what was I thinking?

My son and I recently saw you in ‘Firewall’. We thought it was a fairly decent flick, but HF, you look so beat! I think it’s time to take Calista and Liam to the ranch in Wyoming, kick up your feet and retire. I want to reserve in my mind the ‘youthfulness’ of you HF in Star Wars and Indiana Jones. Aren’t you at retirement age anyway-about 63? You will always be on the top pedestal of male actors in my book. I just hate seeing you trying to play the dad to an 8 and 14 yr old. I know, there are ‘older dads’, but in this latest movie, when you took a beating, you damn right looked like you weren’t gonna get up again. Hey, Harry-look at that sunset, it’s waiting for you!!!
Big hugs to you, (really)
Dianne
Preview FIREWALL at www.videodetective.com

Did you feel the earth move? Yesterday I listed 10 things on eBay and today there was one taken away. Seems a Corning ware perculator I found on a white elephant table was recalled back in 1979 by the US Consumer Products Safety Commission. Opps!!! I do research on some items before I list them and I did see others selling the same exact coffee pot a few weeks ago. Guess theirs got dumped too. I did write a note to eBay saying that I had no intention of selling something that would harm my customers. If I had known, I would have not even picked it up. I told Sean it’s going in the garden with some herbs planted in it’s little basket at the top.
I got this as a reply to my second note. I told them I was using the coffeepot as a planter! I will, darn it, I will!
You are correct in that you may list the lid and internals of the pot at
your convenience. I also hope you enjoy the plant you put into the pot
as well, but if it’s a big plant, remember that it might not be safe to
pick up the pot by the handle!
It is my pleasure to assist you, Dianne. Thank you for choosing eBay!