Believe you can and you're halfway there. --Theodore Roosevelt

Hello peeps!

Nice to see you!

 

I've been working on the computer for 2 hours!

Not a lot to show for it either!

I wanted to talk to you yesterday, but the battery in my camera was dead, so I couldn't show you what I've been doing!

The Avon is ordered & updated.

I've pinned my little heart out!

Peggy & I are supposed to make a sign for a friends daughters wedding, so must get our butts in gear!

The wedding is in September, which will be here soon enough!

 

I've made 2 of these! One a purplish hue, and the other a sand color.
 

 

They're for the aunts I always invite to moms in June.

So they know when the bus(me) leaves for the Amish Auction Sale in Montana!

 

I leave them blank so they can use them.

One aunt said, "Don't quit asking."

I'm getting suspicious that they just want the cards!

hahaha!

The little 'Hello' cup is clear embossed.

I kept them simple & flat, cause postage these days is crazy!

I think they'll make nice thinking of you cards! Or encouragement.

 

Not sure if I told you about the Thelma & Louise trip I'm going on!?

Anyhoo, my friend stayed with me earlier this week while she took a Cardiac course here in town. (She's a nurse)

This was the note I found Tuesday when I came home from work!!!

 

We had Firepit Friday last night. (3rd one of the season already!)

Also Sunday supper!

Vanessa's a big hockey fan (Ottawa Senators), and wanted her neighbors over that are moving the beginning of June.

Friday it rained so my friends & I went to the local Trade Fair!

That's where businesses show you what they got.

Obviously I didn't win anything, cause no one has called!

I made these One Hour Cinnamon Buns for dessert!

They were awsome, and a big hit!

 

It's lovely out, so when I get off here, instead of making the card I had planned I'm going to find an outdoor project to do at Vanessas!

I got them patio furniture a few weeks ago.
Happy Birthday, and Merry Christmas to them!
Done. The pressure's off!!
Maybe I'll just go sit on said furniture!!
We are going to do work on the fence, make a privacy screen (from the neighbors), and that might be all that's on the list this year!
I don't feel I can stand on a ladder for any length of time yet, so will paint the entry when I can!!

 I can stand to sand the shutters I got to make a screen for the patio!
I've been eyeing up the shutters for months, as they were on the lawn outside my living room window!
I was going to steal them in the middle of the night.
I just asked!
The answer was yes!

My friend P needed a screen & windbreak for her covered deck, so she got the left over shutters!!

Better go.
I bought a bag of baking bananas at the store yesterday, so will make Banana Bread later!

Hope you're all well!
Talk to ya later!

You're on the right path. Just keep going.

Hello peeps!
I'm here, just been working, at my paid job, and the one that doesn't pay!
There will be a lot of pictures, with not a crafty thing (unless painting counts) in sight, so feel free to skip this post!
Ahhhh, and over here when I said this would only take a couple weeks..........
please insert maniacal laughter!

The microwave got installed.

 

There it is with part of the peanut gallery!

 

I tell ya, the "easy 1 person install" microwave almost did us in!

But now we're practiced up for when I get mine!!!

 

Next on the list was ripping out the carpet from the big upstairs bedroom.

 

 

This next picture's a doozy!

PEOPLE,

PLEASE DO NOT BUILD A WALL OVER PART OF THE BEDROOM CARPET!

SERIOUSLY!

 

 

We had about 6 inches X 3 feet we had to try & cut even with the drywall!

OI!

 

I was at the house by 10 am on Saturday.

 I was at the store shortly after 9 to pick up the paint Vanessa picked out for this room.

I also picked up a gallon of ceiling paint;

cause hey, we're doing all this work, might as well paint the ceiling!

The kids went to GP for the day, I was on my own!

 

First I had to take down the ceiling fans....

don't worry, I'm a girl, I shut off ALL the breakers!

This is what I needed to cover up on the ceiling!

 

Not just one painter flooped their roller up there...there's 2 colors of green up there!

 Kalen put in his 2 bits worth by saying,

"Do the closet mom, people don't think anyone looks in there, but they do!"

 

This is what I started with in the closet!

 

The bright green, and someone had started to prime.

Oh look, I'm washing walls with my bucket!

 

Here it is after the ceiling is done & primer on.

 

And said closet:

 

 

 It got painted Monday after work!

This is the 'blue' Vanessa wanted.

 

It's a loooong way from this:

 

And after 8 hours Saturday I came home to my jacuzzi and glass(es) of wine!

 

Navy must not be in this year, cause we can't find Navy room darkening drapes!

V is going back to GP again this weekend, and I've already sent her to Jysk!

Also need some new lights, but I'll watch the flyers!

 

The laminate is going down tomorrow night!

I've had a crash course in Laminate 101;

or Laminate for Dummies whichever you prefer!

Plus the stuff I printed off the internet....I've got this!

Oh yeah, Kalen said, "You've done this before right?"

hahahaha

I've delivered the sawhorses to the garage in town, and the saw, square, pencil etc.

I ordered a laminate installation kit, which is supposed to be in tomorrow!

 

And the glow in the dark orange room that hurts my eyes.......

 

 

it's days are numbered!

 

We also painted the window sashes in that bedroom,

the outside frame, scrubbed the windows, it'll be a whole new room!

I'll take pictures of the laminate!

 

I AM trying to get my moms Easter card ready for mailing.

I am also trying to whip Kalen up an Easter card........

 

The geese are back......

 

 

And I took a picture of this fat little feller when I was driving the handi van last week!

A waxwing I think!

 

In other news, I've been going to the dentist, my 2 front teeth are getting crowns.

I have 2 more appointments.

I wanted to be in the running with Curt for the cheesiest smile! NOT!

 

The yarn eggs have got chocolate in them and are ready to be handed out!

I also put them in these cute carrot bags I found at Michaels with some Easter grass!

 

 

It's supposed to snow tomorrow morning, and rain tomorrow afternoon!

 

Thanks for popping by, and thanks for the emails checking up on me.

 

And all the tests & stuff Ray's been having.

Colonoscopies, CT scans, bloodwork, etc.

The spot on the lung is some kind of stretch mark from when he was sick and had a horrible cough that lasted a month or so.

They're boiling it down to Sleep Apnea, and that folks can be treated.

He's been getting a little more exercise, and feeling a bit better,

and he might have even lost a pound or 2, he's got about 80 to go!

He's doing what he can at the house in town;

he's usually the garbage hauler, but he is going to make a garbage stand for the house!

 

Hope you're all well!

Talk to ya later!

Ta ta for now!