I was on the Make A Child Smile website to copy down the addresses of the featured kids of the month. I have been sending cards to these special kiddos since August,1998! I am not happy until I get these cards out. So Alexandra, the webmistress (who I met down in Florida in 2002) put up a photo gallery of the kids featured and those from the past, even the dearly departed children. I hope she doesn’t mind if I show you a photo of Megan. I just love this photo.
Click on the above link to read up on Megan and the other kids at MACS.

I’m not saying I’m a fashion queen, but I do sit up and take notice when they are giving a run down of ‘what’s in style’ on shows like ‘The View’. If you are like me, you probably still have some of these styles hanging around. So here goes:
Animal prints
I would stick to maybe a skirt or a scarf not to over do it.
Victorian
Lacy tops with ruffles down the front or velvet. I know someone who never stopped wearing those frilly tops.
Metallic
shoes, bags or tops with accents. Copper looks really pretty.
Here’s what ‘InStyle’ recommends for the ‘in look’ in the accessory department:
Jet beads
black, shiny beads-they are so cool. I bet you could find some neat vintage jets.
Pom-poms
Not sure about these. They do look cute on the ends of a scarf or hanging from the zipper of a purse.
Chain links
Big links-sorta like what rappers wear. Cute on belts and purses.
Plush velvet
I love anything in velvet. The magazine page shows boots and even a strappy bag in velvet!
Exotic skins
See above-though this page shows snake and crocodile-some faux. I like the python flats.
Fur accents
They are showing lots of bunny fur. I think of my late rabbit Buster. I would have to go for faux.
And also: Anything embellished (we stitchers like this idea!), mini bags (so compact and adorable), stacked heels(I remember these from the 1970s-wonder if they are part of my heel pain in my 40s?), long straps on bags, lace-up shoes (perfect with the Victorian look), fedora hats (cool), wide belts, boxy bags and last but not least bold jewelry-big ol’ everything!

On another ‘The View’ show a woman was saying that Loreal, the make-up company owns Lancome and Maybelline too. I thought that buying from the Lancome counter at Macys was so sophisticated. I could be buying stuff from Walmarts and using my gift certificates for other things!

It use to be that we never really watched football that much. Maybe a playoff game or two. I really shouldn’t say ‘we’. I mean Brian use to watch football on occasion. Then Sean hit about the age of 12 and someone at his grade school really pumped his interest in the sport. So now every weekend it’s either they are watching Penn State or Eagles football. I wanted to know if either of them would go to a flea market with me today. “No, the game’s on” was my reply. Yesterday they were watching PSU football. So I didn’t go to the flea market but to the grocery store (which they had changed around on me). Brian has actually been food shopping with me for the last few weeks, so I shouldn’t complain.
When there are shows on that I like, they put them down. They say that are ‘stupid’ or ‘a waste of time’ (The Amazing Race and Lost both won Emmys). This grates on my nerves.
I have been waiting to get a new bed all year. We only have the weekends and evenings. I have been waiting to go to the Home Depot to look into getting a new kitchen. This has been put aside for a few years now. I can’t do the above things on my own. I’d like to have a new kitchen before I hit the big 5-0 (it’s still a little ways off). I think I deserve it. : )

It’s one of those humid-too warm for October days and it’s been raining since last night. We need the rain, so I’m not complaining, I love a good rain. I use to walk in the rain with no umbrella when I was little. My newly planted bulbs are getting a good soaking, but hope not too soggy a one.
A local auxiliary had a book sale last night and today. If you can wait until the next day you get a bag of books for $5. We hemmed and hawed and finally went over around 12:45 (they close the doors at 2). This time they provided the bags-not paper but plastic. I noticed a lot of the same books from last time, but I did get a flowers and trees of Hawaii paperback-just for the gorgeous photos. I may never get there, but at least I’ll be able to name the greenery of the state!
Brian got a bag of old lps. He’s listening to The Moody Blues right now-Days of Future Past. That group was a favorite of a friend of mine in high school.
Sean is seeing some of his old high school buds this afternoon. Jeff is down from Cornell. Billy is home from a tech school in Lancaster. They are going to visit Scott at the University of Delaware for a few hours.
Guess I will pay some bills and stitch a bit. No cleaning for me today! I went through a whole grocery bag of old papers yesterday. We do need groceries-that’s another option. I don’t know where the food goes in a week when only 3 people live here!

While listening to my favorite radio station-WJBR, 99.5, I heard that Linda Eder was coming to Wilmington, DE. That’s where the Grand Opera House is. I mentioned to Brian I wouldn’t mind seeing her as an early birthday gift and he said ‘if you want to’. He happened upon a brochure at work for the GOH and I decided to go ahead and order the tickets tonight. We are going on Oct. 15th. If you don’t know who Linda Eder is, well she is not only a singer but a Broadway actress. She played Lucy in Jekyll & Hyde. She’s recorded a number of albums and I have a few of them. She is on the order of Barbra Streisand. The first time I saw her was on ‘The Rosie O’ Donnell Show’ and I loved her voice. It should be a treat.
Now get this-tonight I didn’t feel like cooking so we got Taco Bell/KFC. I got out my entertainment.com coupon book and we got B1G1F on Border combos. I was flipping through the rest of the book and wasn’t there a Grand Opera House coupon- B1G1F for a show!! I called ‘just to see’ if maybe I could use it and it was too late. Bri, who is really going to the show for me wasn’t thrilled. So I am on a mission to use $45 worth of coupons from the same book by November 1st when most of them expire to make up for me not looking in the book first. Live and learn.
Footnote from Linda’s site: Aside from music and motherhood, Linda has a lifelong love of animals. She’s taking it a step further with “Trail MIX,” a new primetime television special she created and is hosting for Animal Planet. The show, Trail MIX, teams host Linda with other celebrities who share her passion for horses. “I can sit all day long with another horse person,” she says. “For me, this is pure fun.”
She also just released a CD dedicated to the songs of Judy Garland. I’ll have to get that one (Oz is one of my favorite movies).

Those Breck bulbs better be so worth it! My head nearly exploded after digging 28 holes-half 6″ deep. It had to be near 80 degrees in October to boot. I took a few breaks, but when I was almost finished covering the last 8 bulbs, I had to come in and really let myself cool down. I guess that was a lot to plant in super dry dirt, but I wanted to get the job out of the way. Oh, what I planted-the 5 blue allium and 8 giant red tulips along with some daffodils and hyacinths I dug up from an old garden area. I don’t think I can do all that digging again unless I have help or it’s cooler out. Makes sense doesn’t it? I even took my blood pressure because my pulse was so fast and it was fine but my pulse was like 105. It normally is 83. I do feel better now.
Sean has to go to a 4:30 showing of ‘Hotel Rowanda’ at school. He’s reading the book associated with the movie. I said he should have rented it, but he wanted to be there for the question and answer session afterwards.
He was nice enough to take my mom to an office to get one of her benefit cards that she had lost. It was an 1.5 hour wait in a not so nice area. I sure hope mom isn’t contagious anymore. The cold seems to have settled in her chest a bit.
I got a phone call from the bus company that takes my father-in-law to Atlantic City. When I saw the name on the caller ID, I was startled a bit. My f-i-l called them to ask them to call us because he was going to be later coming home tonight. He needs a cellphone!
Tonight they moved Martha-the Apprentice to 9 right when Lost is on. It was nice to have her on at 8 and then switch over to Lost. Darn!
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It’s not Indian summer until you have a frost and then it warms up again, correct?
Last night I was actually watering the flowers. They still look nice and I can’t let them get wilted-not yet. I picked the remaining 3 eggplants-they were ‘minis’-they never got bigger than 5 inches long. I also picked an armful of green tomatoes. I fried up some of the two veggies and we ate them with some pasta and shrimp last night.
Tonight we got pizza and salad take-out because Bri won the football pool! Yes!
I keep forgetting about the moonflowers. They are too far away from the house. Next year, if I plant them, they are going in closer to a window. One year they did excellent sprawling all around the mailbox! But for me to go and see them where they are now is like trampling through a bombfield of exploded chestnut burrs. I still hate those trees!
My Breck bulbs came yesterday! Urghh!! I complained through email about a week ago as to where they were and they emailed me back and said, ‘they are coming from the Netherlands’ and to expect them around the 15th of October! Zoey got her bulbs (she ordered some of the same ones) a few weeks after she placed her order. I feel my order was expedited because of my email.
Speaking of email-isn’t it a good thing? Sean was just saying he needed to interview two people for an English assignment and he emailed them. When I had to interview people in college, we either went to see them in person or wrote them a ‘snail mail’.
I did pretty good with eBay this past week. I mailed off a bunch of things today. No bids yet on my little Halloween pillows. They do look cuter in person.
Bad girl: I ate Tastykake chocolate krimpets while watching ‘The Biggest Loser’. : (
‘The Amazing Race’ went to York, PA, Washington, DC and on to Virginia. Not Gettysburg as I predicted. Geez, they are following places where we go on vacation. I wonder if they were in DC on a Sunday morning? It didn’t look too busy on the streets. I’ve been to that city enough times to know how terrible congested it can get there. Di trivia-when I was in 5th grade and sitting on the tour bus,I saw Ted Kennedy walk by and was one of the only kids who knew who he was. My mom liked the Kennedys a lot.

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I swear I am not bored! I get on these photo editing kicks at times. Sean wanted to be The Mummy, but I happened upon this shot and thought it was a good one for Halloween. I don’t know if he will use it, but I liked it. One problem-even with the fangs, he’s just too cute to look evil!

This has been ‘posterized’.

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I’m working on another ‘scaredy cat’ one. These all have felt fronts, except the owl which is fabric. I saw the owl in the design and went from there. Hope you like them!