Moonlitstitcher’s eBay page-clickable.
Cute little kits that I had saved to do and decided I didn’t want to anymore. Can’t beat $2.50. There are larger kits for only $6.75. They come with everything you need. You’ll find birds, Mary Engebreit, a train engine, an English cottage and Christmas.
Here’s my gift from Sean for Mother’s Day in May. I ended up with 3 different kinds of hibiscus as you can see. Two were in one pot. I decided to put all three in one pot and have been greatly rewarded with color. I love when all three bloom as once like yesterday.
We all went to Wally World as I needed some more potting soil. I had gone to this upscale nursery in Delaware to purchase one water hyacinth ($3.99-geez) to see if it helps with the algae problem. The man who got it out of the pool for me said I should have an entire pond of them in 3 weeks. I’ve had them before and the goldfish that I use to have didn’t like them much. So at the nursery I bought two more beautiful coleus. This one was huge and needs to be repotted.
Also at Wally World I bought three plants for a new hanging basket for out front. They really haven’t reduced anything there, but I love this one plant that looks like little orchids (I have some in the ground). Bri made me get an eggplant and he bought yet another hot pepper plant. I think he has at least 9 plants! I guess that’s his hobby. : )
Anyone know what kind of bird this is?
We thought it was a wren, but their tails stick straight up. The closest we figured was some kind of warbler. They have their nest over our bay window in the family room.
Brother #2 is over mom’s cleaning out a spare room. He just found a bunch of cross stitch leaflets! When I would buy from this lady at the flea market, mom would buy too (only 25¢ each), so she said I could go through them. I just took a huge bag of them to the Goodwill, nothing great and they were taking up space. As I said in an earlier post, I am selling off a bunch in lots on eBay over at the link on the top, ‘Moonlitstitcher’s eBay page’. Many of these I paid full price for.
Have a great Sunday!!
I was watching Kathy Griffin’s show last night and ‘For your consideration’ is what her new CD is called as she wants a Grammy. She’s so funny and a bit of a potty mouth. Have you ever seen her home out in LA? It’s really fabulous.
Anyway, from my humble little ranch house in the mushroom country of PA. I am listing items on eBay and etsy. Mainly craft books and kits. It’s a hopeless plug, but I see it helps with a lady whose blog I read. My prices are really good too-I swear! If you live outside of the US, I’ll consider you too-but shipping books is pretty high. Check out this gorgeous Mary Englebreit book!
Even the cover is wonderful. It’s all about her and her life and art-lots of art!
And look at this series of art instruction books from North Light:
They are being sold under one auction on etsy. I have some more craft books there too.
Thanks for looking!
(Bri’s car is costing almost $400, so I need my own spending moola-lol)
I was just telling Barbara on her blog that I faced the cold today-26 degrees and colder with the windchill factored in. Carole in Ontario probably thinks that’s balmy. I had to get some groceries in here and take a blouse back. And mail bills off. It’s hard buying food for two instead of three. I make too much and it’s not a pleasant task unless I’m going to Trader Joe’s, but that’s not often. Too far away. We have an empty grocery store here now as the Acme closed down the road. They built a new one near the hub of my town. Come on Trader Joe’s!
Brian just got his blood test results back and his cholesterol is high. His blood sugar was 106. He immediately says he’s not taking meds for it. The doctor didn’t call him or anything. The first thing he needs to do is some kind of exercise. He has a few pieces of equipment in the basement to use, but they are gathering dust. He has bad knees, but his extra weight isn’t helping. I have extra weight too, so now I’m nervous to get bloodwork checked out. I cook with olive oil, we eat a lot of ground turkey, hardly any red meat. Today my back is bothering me from sitting on the living room floor and bending down to put the snowbaby decorations away. I am pleased to say that nests and eggs, and a paper mache bunny or two are making there way into the living room to welcome spring!
I got a used electronic postage scale for a good price from eBay and it’s not working. Won’t weigh a darn thing! The seller is going to see if the part she thinks she needs (called company) is cheaper than what I paid for it. If I had known it was 4 years old, I would have passed on it, good price and all. She’s telling me I should have purchased insurance, but in the paypal check out, she didn’t have it as an add on-option. The box she used barely fit the postal scale box! That surely didn’t help. Hope I’m not out almost $20. : (
Off to watch my Thursday shows and do a little stitching on-you guessed it-the zebra!
…does it take to unplug and plug the modem box? Two! Seems yesterday our signal went from good to nothing. I tried what I had in the past, but it didn’t work. We have two boxes here, as we have the phone over the internet and got the box so we could have a wireless connection for Sean. The phone was fine. Brian couldn’t get it to work this morning so I got on the phone with Comcast. All I had to do was unplug the power cord in the ‘newer’ box. Holy Toledo-it started to work and a lot faster too. So now I know. The wires and cords are such a jumble, I thought for sure something came unplugged or was hanging on by a thread.
Yesterday I decided to list a few things on eBay that I had found in my closet cleaning efforts. I also listed some stuff for Sean, one of which was a 6-CD set of classical music that corresponded with a text book. I sold the CDs right away. I was sorry I didn’t ask more for them now! I have my own 15 or higher piece set of classical music so I didn’t need these too.
I also made some ATCs for a new challenge. I got the idea from Honey Girl Studios. Take your catalogs and clip them to make the cards. I found it was easier to look for say, all red items or candles. I had fun making them and will post soon.
Not sure what to do today, but I so need to go out someplace, so I hope the weather stays ok. I’m not one to have to run out everyday (believe me, I know women around here that hate to be home-isn’t that crazy?) Here’s hoping the weather holds out!
Sean is looking into internship. He mentioned that one of his profs will have one out in California in the redwood area. That would be expensive for us. He did find something locally and emailed the person in charge. I think he should keep his options open and if he wanted to go out of state, then he’d have to save up money to do so.
Have a great day!
I put about that on the van these last three days. Yesterday I went back to the gyn and had a ‘newbie’ midwife. She was really sweet and explained ‘everything’ she was going to do before she did it. I felt young again! She’s the one that called the doc upstairs the day before as the baby she was delivering had an erratic heart rate.
I’m pleased to say I’ve sold a few things on eBay these last few weeks. I packaged them up and off they went across the states and across the county! A guy near here bought a Herman Munster Halloween mask.
I went down to see my mom today and she was not herself at all. She spent two hours Thursday using the weedwacker and she was just loaded with mosquito bites! She treated me to my favorite lunch (chicken salad club) up the road and I enjoyed that. We ventured to JoAnn’s where I left two of my finished cross stitched pieces for framing. I got 50% off, but it was still very expensive. I’ve only had one piece of my work framed all these years, and it was an embroidery I did of Holly Hobbie when I was 16. I guess I’m due for a treat. My mom did pay for one of them. They should be ready in a few weeks.
I came home earlier as mom had been feeling poorly in JoAnn’s and needed to lay down as she felt a migraine coming on. I think I’m going to have to go clean at her place once a week as I didn’t like what I saw. Decorating, I mean helping out at my uncle’s house is too much for her. She runs away from her own mess. I’m concerned with her driving skills too as she got too close to a barrier at a gas station and put a nice dent in her car. I had done almost the same kind of thing years ago at McDonald’s with one of their barriers. My kitty Jade had a seizure and I was upset about that (left her at the vets) and wasn’t careful enough at the drive-thru.
I wanted to tell you about an elderly gentlemen that I think everyone overheard the other night in the restaurant where we had dinner. He was with a young guy, late teens. He was one of the founders of the New Bolton Center where Barbaro the horse was treated last year. He talked and talked and had a sharp memory. When he said he graduated from high school in 1937, I figured he was 88 (correct?)! Wow. I was impressed.
Have a great weekend!
Just to let you know, I’ve been selling a little on eBay since last week and sold a few items! That always gives me the incentive to list more, which I did today. If my posts are short, it’s because I am busy doing something-think moola making!
I found through a search the top video over in my side bar that my estranged brother Don made of our niece Tori (he didn’t spell her name correctly in the credits) singing about her ‘Smelly brother Kenny’ when he was here last year. My brother Ken is doing some excellent guitar playing there. She really can’t think of some stinky things, but I think she’s going to be a good singer (here she was only 7).
Yeah, so the furnace isn’t going to be replaced until Wednesday. The weather messed up the company’s installer’s schedule-boo hoo. I had just canceled my dental appt that day too. I decided to keep the whole week open. Bri has a few more things to move. I can’t as I sprained my right thumb and can’t lift things too well. I had hurt it a few weeks ago and then was replacing my M&M guy on my van’s antenna (stop laughing) and I pressed too hard with my boo boo and made an ouchie again. Get that?
I did get to mail some auction wins today. It took three drives around the parking lot before a spot opened up.
When I got up, I popped a pork roast in the crockpot and mixed up some stuff with the pulled pork McCormick seasoning. I had to stop and get rolls on the way back from the post office. It was really good! I had forgotten Bri had a pork sandwich Saturday night, but he liked my dinner better. Always nice to hear.
One thing I did bring up from the basement was all the clippings from when the Phillies won the World Series back in 1980. I was Sean’s age of 20. I have them in a big yellow envelope and they need to be put in a plastic box. I took the envelope out on the front step and hit it with my duster thingie-yes, it’s very dusty. I got to meet Tug McGraw, the relief pitcher who lived in my hometown. I know there’s a blog post about me getting his autograph. He use to frequent the bar up the street from my mom’s house. Tug was a great guy. If I find anything good in the clippings, I’ll share here. I plan to dump them in a clothes basket to further shake out the 26.5 yr old dust. ; )
Found this about Dallas Green’s managerial record (I see there is a singer with the same name!) Dallas may still live in West Grove, PA, a stone’s throw away and Applebee’s, the restaurant has DG memorabilia including one of his baseball shirts.
Year League Team Age G W L WP Finish
+—-+———–+——–+—+—–+—-+—-+——+——+
1980 NL East Phildlpa 45 162 91 71 .562 WS 1
I was so glad that my Reiki in training pal said she sent me chakras for over the course of 12 hours yesterday as it was a rough day. I do feel calmer today. Thanks Lisa!
The furnace/heater is going to be cheaper than anticipated. The salesman made a funny remark why we shouldn’t get the super duper model, like our house is only worth so much and not like the houses down in Hockessin (probably 250k and up). I guess he wanted to save us money. The new heater is going in Tuesday if all goes well. They got a deposit today. We have a little more basement cleaning to do. What I did a few days ago shows, so at least having repair is one way of getting that area tidied up.
Mom said I can help her sort stuff after pleading with her again. This time I used Peter Walsh’s approach (professional de-clutterer from The Learning Channel)-you hoard because you may need it some day (that’s me and mom) or for memories sake. You have to get practical when you are in your 70s-hold on to what you really love. Mom didn’t look good at all yesterday and I want her to be happier.
So I am pleased with my eBay sales of late. Seems my books are really popular. The barn sale is on again on the 30-31st, so you know I’ll be there as that’s where I bought the lastest good sales.
I had the cat out for his first walk of the year. He was so curious. He couldn’t believe another creature would leave their droppings in ‘his’ yard-he acted so disgusted.
Well, I am making Bri a nice dinner tonight as he’s been neglected of good eats for a few nights. I’m cooking up some steaks and tators. : )
I try not to let cabin fever bother me too much. I have so much I could do, whether it is cleaning, cooking or crafting-ha-the 3 ‘c’s! I’m here fairly warm in my little haven and my fellas have to go out and brave the cold.
A few of the bloggers in my blogroll said they think they need a break from writing here. I think it happens to the best of us. One lady has two little girls and wants to spend time with them and write some children’s books. I am stalled in a way, but with eBay. I’ve been selling there pretty steadily since Aug. ’99. I find when I purchase something to sell, I do a search and there’s always a number of others selling the same thing. This can be discouraging. I have A LOT of things accumulated for eBay. I think it’s time to get rid of most of it. The last few things I tried to sell went over like a lead balloon. I think since I share the computer with the guys, it’s hard for me to hop on it all the time. When Sean goes away, I see me getting into it again or if all is well, getting a part time job.
For me today, it’s stitching on Carol’s NRR which is coming along beautifully and venturing out to the store. I noticed there is a bunch of snow on the roof of the van. I heard you aren’t allowed to have packed snow on your vehicle and I know in the past it’s flown off. Luckily, I have 1/2 mile to go and probably there won’t be anyone behind me. I hope.
Have a great weekend!
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