What's on My Ottoman!

Do you have a 'my chair'? Mine has an ottoman which usually has what I'm working on on it!
Wednesday evening I finished knitting the slippers on the left, they just need to be felted now. They are for our nephew who is getting his 'wings' at Vance AF Base in Oklahoma next week. Tim and I are going down with his parents for all the festivities! No, he doesn't have really big feet, they'll shrink about a third when I felt them.
And laying on the slipper is one finished sock for myself, the second one is on the needles. I'm using the Monkey Sock pattern from Knitty.com. This is the second pair I'm making with this pattern.
And there is also my shopping list! Which is two days old, I hope to get it taken care of today. Have a great weekend.

Bye, Bye, Kids!

Last night I said 'good-bye' to the kids! It was the fund raiser/banquet for Hope Pregnancy Center. They held a silent auction for the dolls, around 30 of them. The bids were started at $50 per doll. The twins started at $100. The auction started before the meal and ended after the speaker. From what we saw the dolls sold for any where from $85 to $500. It was fun watching my two and my sister Deanna's doll.











A co-worker of Deanna's daughter was bidding on hers. Funny thing is that Deanna had named her doll after her own daughter, Heather Lynn. But the name was changed by someone to Heather Grace. The woman bidding on the doll was wanting it for her 7mo daughter, Grace!! And she did have the winning bid, $155. It was meant to be!!!




After the meal I checked on the twins and saw that a couple that I have known for years (his crew did our woodwork in our new house 21 years ago.)were bidding on them for their daughter who wanted them for her children. After a little competition they won with a bid of $250. I was glad to know who they were going home with.






It's tempting to design another pair of dolls for myself. These were such beautiful dolls. (gosh, I look like a dear in the headlights in this pic.)

This is Angie and her dad, Micheal.

Thanks for taking the kids home!!!

Finally... a few cards!

Where have I been?(I ask myself.) I have been trying to get more organized at home and at work. Purging, purging, purging. Feels good, but now I need to take time to make a few cards.

Not much more than a month till our first grandchild will be born. So it's 'shower' time. I made these little cards to send out to the great-gma, and a couple of great-aunts. The stamps are Unity of course!! And I used my first Copics pen. Now I know why everybody says they are the best!

I also have been making some b-day cards for someone who is having a birthday in 33 days! But since she reads my blog I can't show them. I have been sending her a card a day for the 50 days before her birthday. They are more personalized with pictures and crazy sayings like: Close your eyes and imagine(picture of friend and I floating on George Lake on front)....(inside) The sun on your body,

the breeze in your hair, and the feeling of

being carefree young girls again. Now

open your eyes, pay the bills, take

your pills and wash his dirty underwear.

hehe-hehe LOL!! I'll have to post a

few after the big day!!

Well, off to mails these cards!

A WONDERFUL WEEKEND!!

Tim and I took off early Friday morning for a weekend up north!

This is where we stayed!!

This is what we woke up to each morning!

And this!!!

These are the friends we were with!

It was the most perfect weather. Little wind,

60- 70 degree temperature's and no clouds!

Foothills State Forest and Spider Lake Recreational Area have

got some of the best trails. And camp sites. There is no charge

for camping here. (First come, first serve.)

AND there also are NO facilities! That's right.

No showers or toilets......hey, there's the lake and lots of trees!!

Our whole group camped on this beach. With two campers,

two tents, three trailers, eight 4-wheelers, and four vehicle's.

It was getting full, but we did keep room for......

....this!!!

Our nightly bon-fire! They were the perfect way to end our days.

We're looking forward to at least one more

weekend of 4-wheelin' this fall!!

Unity Version!!

Just had to share my Unity Stamp Co. version(on the left) of one of the cards I made at ScrapFest. The one the right is the 'make-n-take'. While making it I knew I had Unity stamps that would work! Voila!! The flower is from their 'Flower Parade' kit and the leaves from the 'Amazing Me' kit. Just a little 'scrapjacking'!

I went to the MOA Friday with my friend Susan! It was ScrapFest '08 put on by Archiver's! Lots of vendors showing their new products and then you get to do 'make and takes'. So we were able to bring home a few cards. It was nice to be able to try some of the tools before you would consider buying them. Also seeing the new papers and some new glues....and then some things really haven't changed that much.

It was such a nice day away.!! Lunch at Famous Dave's. Long Islands! We needed some time to just sit and get away from the crowds.

And while we were waiting in line for one of the 'make and takes' we were right by the Gap so I quickly ran to the clearance rack not knowing what I was looking for. Then I found two pants, tried them on, wooohooo!!! they fit, paid for them and got back to Susan just in time for our turn. $32.98, and one pair is wool!! I think that was the fastest purchase I have ever made. Multitasking is important!! I should have brought knitting with. There was a woman in a m-'n-t line knitting a pair of socks!

Well any way, it was fun and Susan has a more detailed account of our day on her blog!! Check it out here!! One thing she didn't say was that our two hour trip home turned into a three hour one. Twin Cities traffic!!!!! We both prefer the quieter mid-west Minnesotat roads!

Last weekend Tim and I went to Nick and Randi's to help with a few things around their house. First on the list was to paint Eli's room. Nick had picked out the color, a great steel-blue. (The wall color is darker in real life than it shows in the picture.) So Randi and I tackled that room while the guys did a little 'man mall' shopping and installed a few light fixtures.

Here's a picture of the dinning room with its new light fixture. I should have had a before picture, it had the original fixture from 1951, what a great change. The bedrooms, kitchen, hallway and entry all got new fixtures too!! Now it really feels like their home!!

And Randi finally let me take a few 'tummy' pictures!

Her and Nick are so happy, and so are the Grandparents and Auntie Megan too!