Mar3

Looks what’s at the Flower Show!

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Someone from my hometown owns these critters! I hope I can see them in person at the Flower show! The theme is Ireland, but the dinosaur exhibit got ‘best of show’. Dinosaurs!

From the PFS site:
Who thought the Flower Show could be so…ferocious? These life-like dinosaurs are the same ones used on a promotional tour of the popular Jurassic Park movies and now they’re here at the Pennsylvania Convention Center.
Theresa Rowan of J. Franklin Styer Nurseries says that designing a prehistoric playground for these creatures was a far cry from Styer’s first Philadelphia Flower Show exhibit over 100 years ago. Says Theresa, “Back then, it was just an arrangement of mums!”

Mar3

Mom stuff

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Did you feel the earth move today? I hopped in the van about 11:30 and went down to my mom’s to do a few things for her. Things that I feel bad that she couldn’t do for herself. One was putting the handle on her new vacuum cleaner. It took me a few minutes (remember I don’t read directions), but I got it. She got one of those bagless ones which is not good for someone like me with allergies. I donned a dust mask and went to town-after spraying all over with Lysol and Febreze. I had to empty it about 6 times as it had been a while since the place was vacuumed. She also wanted me to hang up a new phone, but a connector piece was missing. Both the wall plate and the phone only had spaces for those little snap in pieces. I put a slipcover on a chair and then had to leave. I had brought her half of a lobster salad sandwich. I had gotten baby lobster tails for Christmastime and never cooked them until yesterday. It was good! I think she enjoyed it. I also brought her a 8 oz can of coke which seemed to brighten her up a bit-sugar overload. I got to talk to my Uncle Don too which made me feel better. He sounds okay, a little tired but more like I expect him to sound. And mom really liked my Art Trading cards, especially the one I made for her. She said she can see why I like doing them. She showed me all the little watercolors she’s been doing from her watercolor a day calendar. I can see her getting better each day. I was glad to see her being creative.

I dropped by my brother’s on the way home with Roald Dahl books for Tori and a few other things I found in the room I am trying to turn into a craft area. I told them mom didn’t look good and her appetite was terrible. My nephew Kenny who is almost 11 is as tall as me now! Tori was cute and gave me several hugs.

When I got home, we went to church, picked up disgustingly big burgers (am feeling that!) and settled in for the night.

I talked to mom and she said she had cleaned off her end tables in the living room after her shower. I sure hope she gets her strength up so she can go to the Philly Flower Show sometime this week. That’s a lot of walking! Brian’s dad isn’t well either. So much to worry about.

No photo for ‘salty’ as call I could think of was pretzels and my jar of sea salt. Sorry!

Mar2

Wheel of lunch

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Krazy Dad, over in my sidebar is so clever and you don’t know what to expect from him next, especially this ‘gadget’.

My lunch wheel
So next time somebody whines about where to go to eat lunch (or dinner), I’m going here and spinning the wheel. We haven’t even eaten at some of these places, so awesome!

BTW, the lady on Who Wants to be a Millionaire right now is from nearby Landenberg and she was up to $16K but lost all of it but $1k. I don’t know her, but I live less than 6 miles from her (I mapped her name and town). Someone from Kennett Square was on Jeopardy a few weeks ago and she made the local paper!

Mar2

Got green on the mind

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I saw these cute old graphics on a CD I just purchased, so I decided to do a few St Paddy’s day cards. The one on the bottom was also a graphic (the peacock feather).
St Paddy’s Day ATC

That is metal across the one card! The other card has a piece of cross stitch fabric on it.

Below-I have this pretty mesh fabric with iridescent threads, so I thought I’d add that.

Peacock feather

Mar1

Cats do like dogs!

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Nancy sent me this photo (part of a series) in an email this morning. The email showed photos of these 5 dogs and a cat who were rescued from a hurricane and placed in a car. My favorite was this one. The photo before this showed the orange tabby cat making it’s way over the front seat to the group of dogs in the backseat. Ahhhh.
Cat and dogs cuddling

Mar1

Bri and me

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Sean took this with his cellphone camera. We went up to the restaurant in the next town and had dinner this past Saturday night to make up for not going out on Valentine’s Day. I have kinda puffy eyes. My sweater has some bugle beads on the bodice part and it’s 3/4 length-not bad for $7 from Walmart! ; ) Oh-here’s the photo from last year! As you’ll see the new curling iron I got this past Christmas did wonders for my hair!Valentine’s Dinner a little late

Mar1

In a quandary

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I really need to see my mom one of these days. She has been sick for over 3 weeks and I haven’t been down to her house to do anything (the weather hasn’t helped). Thinking about going makes me a bit tease. My sinuses and throat are really bothering me this week. The problem is mom hasn’t really done any cleaning for that length of time. I did gather up some dust masks because I really want to go! I guess I’ll resort to taking allergy medicine which I hate to do. This always happens to me at this time of year from the forced air heat and not getting out in the fresh air.

Sean and I were out yesterday on a whim. I had stuff to drop off at the Goodwill and I wanted to go to Michael’s crafts while Sean was in Old Navy. As soon as I hit Michael’s I got the ‘drip’ ‘drip’ and then the flow in my throat. Not fun. It was like a hurry up and look around and that’s not what I wanted to do at all. I should always have water on me. So I got some neat paper, stickers (that look like old postage stamps and some with wording on them); some varnish and ModPodge and glitter. Actually when I left the store and we went to Trade Joe’s, TJ Maxx and then The Olive Garden, I felt better. Probably they were using glue or something that bothered me in Michael’s.

So I’m up in the air. I miss mom so much and she’s sounded so sad. She never asks my brother to help and he’s within walking distance of her house. I feel this is so unfair. My other two brothers never call and she hasn’t heard from the one in Florida since November. He’s mad at me, why take it out on mom?

So I hope this ‘cottonball’ effect lets up. I really feel like my sinuses are stuffed with cottonballs. That was a good choice for my Photo Hunt picture this past Saturday-like I had a premonition!

I hope you all are feeling chipper.

~Update~Mom doesn’t want me to come down as her 750 mg a day antibiotic is making her feel terrible and she wants to rest. If she’d eat more, that may help. I told her to drink an entire bottle of water when she takes it at dinnertime. I was looking at last year’s late February entries and the same thing was going on- I hadn’t seen my mom for a few weeks and my sinuses were bothering me. I just used the miracle spray-BioAllers Homeopathic nasal spray and it helped a lot.

Feb28

Amazing anchorman

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Bob Woodruff
Someone who fits in that ‘tall, dark, handsome… and smart’ category is anchorman Bob Woodruff. I think we were all concerned about his well being over the last year since his near fatal injury in Iraq. Half his scull was removed (not sure if it was saved or that he has a plate in his head) and his jaw was severely injured. Last night there was a tv special on him and I was glad to see him (I had seen him earlier on Oprah also) along with his wife Lee. He made a pretty amazing recovery, looking much like his old self though his peripheral vision is messed up and he had to relearn a lot of his vocabulary. He wants US citizens to sit up and be aware that there are many soldiers that are injured and have had similar injuries to his. Bob went around to many of these young men. Of course their lives will never be the same. One man’s body was just crippled and he lay in bed with a tube in his throat but you could tell he was talking with his eyes. Others are trying to get help with therapy and it’s hard for them to find it in their area.

So I have a new hero in Bob. I wish him and his family (along with wife Lee they have 4 children) well.

Lee asked the doctor if Bob would still love her and he said they never forget who they love and he was right.

Feb27

Some gifties

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Since Dawn received her gifts, I thought you’d like to see what I made for her:

Snow lady for Dawn
She loves snowmen, so I stitched up a snowlady! The snow is clear beads.
Cat embellished photo album
She likes kitties too. I used my trusty old desk calendar yet again! Nothing goes to waste. See Cos on there too?
And last but no where near least is this beautiful stained box with the top that was stitched and finished by Becky—->

I won it!

She filled it with lovely floss and I always need it as I stitch a bunch for charity. The funny thing is I call Sean my ‘good egg’ and made a ATC for him with that expression. He is my only child. ; )
I absolutely am thrilled to pieces and love it! Thanks for picking me Becky!!
A beautiful win from Becky

Feb27

That warm fuzzy feeling

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After Heroes was over last night, a new show came on called the Black Donnelly’s. I tried to watch it for about 20 minutes and couldn’t get into it, so I switched over to find the Oprah Winfrey special about the all girl school she opened in South Africa. I was totally mesmerized by those sweet girls and how happy they were to be able to go to the wonderful facility that Oprah built after 5 yrs in the planning. The last photo that was shown, was Oprah in the middle and surrounded by a sea of smiles (every single girl!) teared me up big time. Oprah said that ‘all the girls are like her daughters’. This touched one girl whose mother left her when she was 4. I can see many lives changing now.

Oprah and the girls

This special will be rebroadcast on Saturday, March 3rd so check your local listings.

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I’m doing a little ‘me’ pampering tonight-I couldn’t get a hair appt until 6 tonight and I called a week ago! Cruella DeVille and I could be sisters! I guess my stylist is getting too popular. I plan to shop at a local office supply place for some art card supplies (I’ve made 32 ATC now) and then go to Subway to pickup dinner so I don’t have to cook and run out the door.

My mom is still unwell. She said she was wheezing a lot last night. She has a doctor’s appt at 3. Wish her well as this is about her 3rd week of this illness.

I went and started a new cross stitch project when I have two looming deadlines. Not to worry, the house round robin is nearing completion as I need to finish the garden area in front of the house. The bee and flower for Love Quilts is fine-the poor bee needs it’s wings! I’ll put an updated photo above soon. What I started was a heart shaped design filled with butterflies. My mom gave me the two packages of DMC linen floss for Christmas and they both came with free designs. The fabric I am using is from Sugar Maple-a blend of pinks, greens and a little yellow and blue. It’s a cashel and very nice to work on.

It’s in the 40s today, so down right tropical. Go away snow and ice! Bri almost fell in the driveway this morning as it must have done something during the night.