Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Mimi's Blog

Good Morning! I was just checking out my mom's blog and she's finally posted some new pictures of the pool/pool house and some from the Starr's Mill shoot. A lot of my favorites are on there so go check them out!
http://www.georgiarectors.blogspot.com/

Monday, November 26, 2007

Joints, Drizzle and Mileage

We had a serious cold front blow in Thanksgiving day. Our highs have been in the low 50's and in the 30's at night. I'm having a hard time this year with the weather changes. My left hand was so sore on Friday and Saturday it was basically useless. I'm doing much better today but it's one more reminder that I have arthritis (due to my Lupus) and it's only going to get worse as I get older.

The joint pain may be due to the rain we've been getting since Thursday as well. It's been on and off and I shouldn't be complaining since we're in a severe drought, but the dreary skies make me want to curl up on the couch and not move. Sort of impossible with work and 2 kids running crazy through the house. Thoughts of dropping the boys off at Marguerite's and crawling back into bed were in my head as I made my way to the shower this morning at 4:45. Mondays suck, but wet Mondays suck more.

As I was driving to work today (in the rain which I hate), I noticed I have reached 65,000 miles on the Expedition. Holy cow! In one year, I've put on 30,000 miles. I thought you were only supposed to put on 15,000-20,000 in one year. Maybe I should add this to my new year's resolution list...drive less.

BTW - I totally neglected my camera on Thanksgiving. I remembered to take it out while Bumpa carved the turkey and I also took a picture of the yummy food on my plate, but other than that it just collected dust.

Sunday, November 25, 2007

Button Ornament

Sorry Debbie, but buttons are really in this year. I made this ornament in about 5 minutes with the boys running circles around me so they're definitely nice and easy. I think they'll be a nice addition to our tree this year.

Saturday, November 24, 2007

Joy To The World

I made this today while the boys took a nap and Jason was at work. It's an altered hanging canvas.

Wednesday, November 21, 2007

Lovely Fall Days

It's been so beautiful here lately. The temps have been in the low 70's so the boys have been playing outside a lot. Ayden especially likes playing in the leaf piles that haven't made their way into the fire pit yet. Jameson wouldn't stay put long enough for me to get a good picture. He kept ending up as a big blur. Oh well.


Button Trees

We're going with a fun, bright, non-traditional color scheme this year for Christmas. I knew I wanted to make these button trees and asked for Ayden's help with picking out the buttons. This is what we ended up with and I have to admit that I'm very happy with how they turned out. Unfortunately, the medium sized tree is only half finished because I ran out of buttons and JoAnn's needs to order more.

Redneck Yardwork

If one has a massive black walnut tree in one's yard that drops thousands of walnuts every 2 years, how does one go about disposing of them all?
With a shopvac...duh!

It was actually very effective! By God Steve, he is your kid!