Found these awesome roses over at http://frostfirepulse.com/
who asked me to be in their blogroll. Hmmm.
Here’s the scoop behind the roses:
Dutch flower designer Peter Van de Werken created this multi-coloured effect by injecting vegetable dye into flower stalks. The pigment is absorbed and travels to the petals where it changes their hue.
Personally, I’d love to get some of these tomorrow, but I’ll enjoy the picture instead.
Finally, winter is showing her paler color! Unfortunately Sean had to drive the 23 miles to PSU as he had a test today. He only has 2 classes on Tuesday and Thursday. From my window, the roads look ok for now and people are traveling by at a normal speed-fast! Bri usually just goes to the closest office in this kind of weather instead of going down the twisty turny roads of Lancaster County.
I have the crock pot on with a Marie Callendar chicken noodle soup mix. I’ll be tasting it and maybe adding to it. It’s a good soup day. I also have the butter and yeast out of the fridge to try making my own loaf of bread without using a mix.
Yahoo-made from scratch-coca cola, flour, yeast and butter-that’s it!
Keep warm and cozy.
I was involved in an Ostara (spring/Easter) scavenger hunt that I told you about a few posts back. My recipient, Dora received her ‘goodies’ over the weekend, so now I can show you what I sent to her. I think she liked them as she’s going to use the little wooden fruit as a decoration, try the egg recipe and write inspirational phrases in the little book.
The frame shows a photo of my forsythia bushes out front, facing east-a requirement of the hunt. What’s special about those bushes is that little forsythia ‘saplings’ came from both my mom’s yard and Bri’s mom’s bushes. I believe that both yards do not have the forsythia anymore. Hanging from the frame is a little dark green bag containing seeds that I have collected from my gardens-cosmos, marigolds and money plants. I decorated the frame and the little book.The newspaper is kinda a collectible as it features the passing of Barbaro the race horse.
BTW, as a surprise, my font was changed to one of my favorites (and I didn’t even do anything-comic sans ms).
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I was sorting papers and found a very yellowed copy of Bri and my engagement announcement from December, ’82. Bri’s aunt had sent it to us over last summer, but we had a few of them already. This was kicking around-so what did I think to do-make an art card! I was going through my Princess Di look featuring short hair with brush over bangs and the Victorian style tops. Town talk is the name of the paper.
Brian and I went to Booth’s Corners Farmers Market yesterday to give me a change of scenery. There must have been a lot of people with the same thing in mind, as the place was crowded. We went to the big store at the end and I got a few cute things-ceramic birds in a nest, crackle finish Easter eggs to hang on a little tree, some candy, that sort of thing. Sean wanted some sesame sticks from one of the Amish booths. I also got him some macadamia nuts as an added treat. We hit Aunt Annie’s homemade pretzels and headed home for church. We did look around some antique stalls on the way out and I got some cute bisque pixies. Four men hemmed and hauled about what to charge me for them (at another booth). I said ‘yes’ to what they said, but I should have haggled a bit. Brian haggled for some VHS tapes that he didn’t even buy. Our final stop was at the Goodwill to drop things off. We did go in and I got some tiny birds in a nest salt and pepper shaker set (that go with the above mentioned decoration so well); a Portal rectanglar shaped poster of moon and stars and some aqua glass conductors from telephone poles. And a book of poetry by Edgar A. Guest from 1916.
After church we went to a Chinese restaurant that we hadn’t been to for years. We probably won’t be going back. The food was bland and they gave Sean the wrong thing (which he wouldn’t send back and hardly ate). Also, their cc machine wasn’t working and we had to scrape together the money for dinner. Either Sean or I felt good today-me around 4am, but him after he ate his breakfast-we think from the Chinese food. He is plum tuckered out over math and chemistry. He is having trouble with trig and may have to get some help. The roast beef is nice and brown as I type this. I need to toss on some potatoes for a nice dinner.
Trivia time-
Booth’s Corner also attracted some of the country’s most famous entertainers. Ed McMahon, Johnny Carson’s famous sidekick, was once a colorful pitchman hawking gadgets in the Market midway. While Bill Haley, of Comets fame, was a popular guitar-playing entertainer. Incidentally, Bri and I lived in the same apartment complex when we were first married that Ed McMahon and Dick Clark had lived in when they worked in Philly.
I left my little collection of Raggedy Ann and Andys up-I may eventually take down the tree. The little fairies are a market find.
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This is a mosaic frame that I made from broken pieces of my grandparents good china as a Christmas gift for my mom. There wasn’t that much left of the china (a few dessert dishes) and I was into mosaics and had this lovely photo of Ruth and Alan. My grandfather Alan died 6 weeks after I was born, so I only know him through photos like this. He use to write short stories and tried to get a few published, but never did. I know if blogs had been around back then, he would have enjoyed writing in one.
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This is for my mom. It’s a photo of her when she was about 2-3 years old. She is actually petting a dog which I had to cut off (this is a scan). She still loves dogs and misses her late pets. I like the verse-‘In your eyes I see everyone that I have ever loved’ by Flavia. I made a few more tonight and will share with you in days to come.
(this one’s for Sean as he is a ‘good egg’)
I was telling you about art cards in my previous post. At 2 pm today I gathered my materials and got to work. It took me a while just to get the cards the right size! I used pretty heavy duty ‘homemade’ paper with gold flecks in it. I also utilized one of my old picture books and cut neat ‘things’ from it. I’ve made 6 already! The first five had the same theme and I will reveal them to you after I share them with my pals. #6 is an old photo of my mom as the central theme. I’m still working on it. I’ll probably give it to her. My creativity faded after a few hours, but I am excited to make more!
On an interesting note, I had posted names of people from my past and actually heard from a woman who I use to babysit in the 70s. She didn’t remember me. Actually her sister must have googled her own name and my post came up. Brian said what did I expect, the last time they saw me they were like 7 and 4. ; )
So sorry to hear about Anna Nicole Smith. I’m curious to see what happened and hope it wasn’t drug related. We stayed at the Hard Rock Hotel in Orlando almost 2 yrs ago and just can’t think of anyone going there to do themselves in. I feel bad for the little 5 month of girl she left behind.
To me you are so wonderful and confusing. My mom is a really lovely woman, but the way she is living right now is very upsetting to me. She loses things like crazy. Early last year it was her cellphone. She swore she left it in my car. Jim, her boarder found it this week under the sofa in the living room. He looked there because my mom misplaced a big bundle of money-and I mean a big bundle! It was my uncle’s stash moola that he told her to get out of his house when he was in the hospital during the summer. Well mom would borrow from it, put money back and now can’t find it. She had a miserable cold to begin with and now she is making herself mentally frustrated. She is definitely bi-polar either really up or really down. I asked if she wanted me to come clean and she said no as she was up until 4 am looking for it. I think she put it somewhere else and forget where she put it. Her vacuum has been broken for almost a month and so that means her house needs attention that way. I have to get her a new one. I can’t live her life, I do what I can to help, when I can, but it’s hard to clean her kitchen for 3 hours and go back a few weeks later and see it in bad shape again. She’ll be 77 in September, so I don’t know if she is able to stay in her big house too much longer. She can’t part with her ‘stuff’ and there is a lot of it.
On to more calming things-my pals over at tribe are artsy folks. We are going to do a few more projects together. The next one will be an Art card trade. These little cards are 2.5″ x 3.5″. They’re rather small, but you have to think in a ‘big’ way I guess. I was reading up on them. I have to make 3 and then I will get three back that are total surprises. I won’t say much about what I’m thinking of doing in case anyone on tribe reads my blog, but I have some neat old books I’ll probably be utilizing for this project. We still have to make a St. Paddy’s day poem (original) to hang up. We all get our turns to chose what to do. My choice was for Valentine’s Day. I found 4-5″ foam letters for the letter of each gals first name (one was wooden as I forgot her the day I was buying them & found the wooden one at Target) and decorated them with ribbon and 3D items. Each recipient got a handmade Valentine that the original poem was glued to. We have one male in the group and he got a decorated card. My verse for him said that may his true love be standing before him on this day without him knowing until this very day. Like meeting your true love on Valentine’s Day. What could be more romantic?
It’s still windy and bitter cold. I am running down to Big Lots for a few things that I need and forgot to get at the store. I’m hoping they still have the string or better yet hemp!
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