It's been an exhausting week!
Got home about 6:00 pm after spending the day crafting in Berwyn.
Then went to PR for groceries, cause I was in the neighborhood.
I should've gone to the Open House at the library, but didn't!
Took my snack there yesterday, took Lana the money she needed for today. She's doing a ribbon swap, and I get 39 yards of the gorgeous stuff! She's my SU lady!
These are the cards we made at the last Stamp Club.
I always make sure to stamp a sentiment on the inside while I'm there, cause she has LOTS!
We also made tags for Christmas!
I figure they're too little for tags, so will be putting them on cards ha!
Here are my finished ATC's.
Here's a close up.
Hope they're not too 'fussy', or too 'plain'!
They needed "at least one embellishment, and fiber/ribbon."
I'm wondering if my heat tool wasn't overworked on these babies!?
The trees are all embossed. Then I cut them out.
The background is the Core-dinations.
I worked up a sweat embossing the old fashioned way, and sanding!
I'm going to get these in the mail next week.
They're due by November 20.
And here's a Halloween card I had started a while ago, and finished up tonight.
I think I'll stamp 'Best Witches' on the inside!
It'll just go in my stash!
Alrighty, that's it for pictures!
I'm having a heck of a time uploading them tonight!
We've been hauling wood all week!
I had to go along a couple times to make sure Ray got girl size pieces!
I loaded up the stove yesterday and got it going!
It's supposed to cool right off this weekend, so it'll probably run until April or May now. shudder
Ray picked up 20lbs. of apples during the week, so will get them into the freezer, and make some apple pie!
My last batch of salsa should be ready to go Sunday, and we'll probably work on getting the woodshed filled!
The kittens are in there, on top of the wood, and one fell down in the wall. I asked Ray if he'd end up outside, and he didn't answer me.....so I hope the little sucker can get out! I'd hate to have to take a wall off the woodshed next year to remove a deceased cat! UGH!
My peeps & I made apple pie at the OFH yesterday.
7 of them!
And as they were cooling the Health Inspector arrived, with a trainee!
I waited until everyone was in the mechanical room, scooped up the pies on a huge cookie sheet and ran them down to the kitchen!
We cook in my craft area; cooking is not supposed to be a scheduled activity.
We are not allowed to do dishes down there.......only one sink.
We do cook, it is a scheduled activity in the winter months, and we do the dishes.
Of course I make the residents that help all wash, and wear rubber gloves, which they bitch about incessantly, and whine cause they washed 'in their room'!
I just tell them, "I didn't see you wash!"
The health inspector thinks the residents cook their own stuff in the craft room! And that's fine.
All the rules and regulations these days, I wonder how any of us lived to be as old as we are!?
Anyhoo, no one was the wiser, and the residents in the dining room when I went tearing through, had a good laugh!
And they enjoyed fresh pie for supper!
I know this cause I was still there after 5:00pm.
We (Chuck & I) are in the process of pricing out a new handi van!
Chuck is a wonderful volunteer, and the chairperson of the van committee.
We have raised over $70,000.00, and our goal for buying is $85,000.00.
Yes kids, a new bus is expensive!
We're very lucky that the Town & County share expenses for the upkeep of the van, the fuel, etc.
It's called Manning & District Handi Van, and it's for seniors in the community, and the disabled.
Better go. Got a little parcel to get ready for the O/S and hope it gets there before he goes to Germany on the 25th!
Ta ta for now!
