have yourself a merry little christmas

We've got a few hours before the holiday festivities begin over here and I thought I'd run by and wish you all a very Merry Christmas! Hope this finds you in the company of all your dear ones, feeling joy and much loved.

We went out to dinner last night for Christmas Eve and had a lovely time at Shojin. They are so fun and charming there for special days of the year - when we went on our anniversary they took a photo of us holding a heart wreath and last night they gave us holiday stuff to wear for another photo. While you're eating your meal, someone prints out the diners photos and places them in a handmade card and presents them to you after your meal. So much fun!  And as if that wasn't dear and special enough, they gave us a present of a string of lights and darling origami boxes to cover them.

I chose the xmas tree headband and hubby chose the santa hat. gah! I take the worlds worst pictures. 

 

I leaned in so we'd be closer together in the photo and I look like a hump back whale (or a narwhal with the tree on my head LOL!) with turkey neck hahhahahha. Hubby is holding my hand but the result of my moving closer makes me look like I have no arms - and no one told me I put the headband (at quite a jaunty angle, don't ya think?!) all the way at the back of my gigantic noggin (with hair enough for a family of four, mind you!), with a wee Christmas miracle, most of the tree made it into the photo.

Wishing you the merriest of holidays (and better photos!)
and much joy and abundant good health in 2014!

 

god jul

My husbands off for his holiday break and we've been having fun over here. Saturday we went to hubby's BFF's annual Christmas party and Sunday we went to the Swedish Christmas Fair (at The Shrine in downtown L.A.), then had lunch at our new favorite Shojin (the downtown location for the first time) & then raced over to Carson for a Dickens Holiday Celebration at the International Printing Museum. On Monday we saw "Catching Fire" at the theater ... we've got a long list of movies to catch up on!

I could have sworn that I bought a boat load of stuff at the Swedish Christmas Fair because my credit card was shooting sparks teehee but found out I hadn't come home with nearly enough for my feather tree and our Swedish Christmas we had planned! But then I've got plenty, so it's all going to work out.

Sharing some Scandinavian cuteness this Rednesday!

Please join in on the Christmas Rednesday fun with Melody at Brown Gingham Creations!

what should I do with my Barbie stuff

This is the contents of one of the many boxes I found at my parents house after my father passed away in 2011. Not sure why I had two headless Barbie's LOL. I am determined to get out from under the remaining boxes (so close and yet so far!) and want to find this stuff a new home. I also have another two or three Barbie cases and one Ken case, with stuff in them.

I apparently played very hard with my dollies ... so nothing is in great condition and this batch was left in an open shoe box for more than 45 years and exposed to the elements.

I know a lot of you sell items on Ebay, etc. and I was wondering what your advice would be? I'm thinking of selling the dolls individually (I've read that people will purchase dolls just for parts, so even if the doll isn't in great shape, portions of it may still be of value to some intrepid soul) and the clothes, accessories, etc. all together.  Or should I just give it to the Good Will and be done with it?

holiday home tours online

I'm so loving seeing everyone's holiday decorations on their blogs. And I've found two holiday home tours online going on so far, so much fun. I'm sure there's more out there ... please let me know if you know of other blog holiday happenings. 

If you enjoy seeing homes decorated for Christmas and/or you're looking to be inspired, I know you'll enjoy these blogs participating in holiday homes tours.

The starting spot for Jennifer Rizzo's Deck The Halls 2013 Holiday House Walk is here, beginning with her own charming home. (go to her home page to find links to the participants for days 2 thru 5)

And the starting spot for the Home For The Holidays 2013 All Things Home tour is here. Sorry, I'm not quite sure who is sponsoring this one, or where there is a master list of all the participants - follow the individual links if you can't find the complete list either. 

Switching gears ... remembering Nelson Mandela today. What an amazing human being, such a bright shining light in the darkness.  

"For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others." (From Long Walk to Freedom, 1995)

hope you had a nice holiday

(my husband and I are obscured by my cousins friends harumph! LOL)

Did you have a nice Thanksgiving?  We did!

Don't know why the second group photo is blurry???
It isn't when I look at it in iPhoto??? Very weird.

pilgrim peeps

Cross stitch chart  freebie, Give Thanks, from The Primitive Hare.

Happy Thanksgiving!

remembering

(source)

November 22, 1963.

Fifty years ago today, I was nine years old and the day began like any other day in my nine year old life. A school morning, seemingly unremarkable and then my favorite subject "lunch time", followed by playing on the playground after lunch, before returning to class for the afternoon. 

If you lived close enough to the school, you were allowed to walk home for lunch. And so it was that one of my classmates went home for lunch on that ordinary morning and returned with the news that our President had been shot and killed. 

I can remember that we were very upset and called our little friend a liar.

Funny how selective the memory is. I have no memory of our teacher or Principal talking to us when we returned to the classroom after lunch. And I can't remember if we just proceeded with the rest of the school day, as usual? Or if we were sent home?

I don't remember anything my mother said to me when I got home from school. I know that sometime after I was home from school that day, my father came home and said to me, "You will never forget this day. You will remember it for always".

I remember seeing so many of the images on television those first few days. Walter Cronkite. Jack Ruby shooting Lee Harvey Oswald. The line to see the casket in the rotunda. Little John John saluting. The entire country in shock, grief and mourning.

And as my father had foreseen, I have remembered it, always. A day that changed our lives forever as individuals and as a country.

Remembering my father today also, tomorrow would have been his 95th birthday.

gobble

gobble gobble. It's almost time to wish you a Happy Tofurky Day, can you believe it?!  Where has the time gotten to?

Stitching and reading away over here ... dastardly old cold bug won't let go of me. achoo sniffle sniffle. cough.

Hope all is well with everyone, happy Sunday!

be like two fried eggs

"You got to keep your sunny side up, up
Let your laughter shine through, do stand upon your legs
Be like two fried eggs keep your sunny side up ..."
~ from the musical "Good News"

Choosing to be like two fried eggs over here hehe (after the initial shock and nervous nellies have had their way with us and now subsided) and be optimistic! My mantra is all is well, all will be well ... which seems to have some kinks to be worked out as I woke up with a mean old sore throat, in the middle of the night yesterday and now have a head cold and feel awful. Drat drat drat. WAH!

And I've fallen off the wagon on my pledge to not buy any books or magazines - Hello, my name is Sally and I'm addicted to books and (holiday) magazines! Not pretty I know, but there it is dear friends LOL.

I wanted to mention two books - I just finished "And the Mountains Echoed" and loved it, especially the beginning, so beautifully written, it made me cry. And now I've started "The Night Circus" while laying around like a limp noodle and am finding it so charming and entertaining. 

Dreaming of holiday crafting over here! I found an old wooden bowl of my mom's and hoping to fill it with cross stitch small's for all the various holidays. Hoping to start on some for Thanksgiving when I feel up to climbing on the ladder to get down my floss boxes that I stored at the top of my shelves like a complete nutball.

My husband is well on the mend, yippie! Thanks again so much for all of your care and concern, prayers and good wishes and friendship.

Happy weekend to everyone!

confusing results ... back on the roller coaster

argh argh argh! Guess it was too much to ask for this to be over, huh?!

The surgeon called with confusing information. He told my husband that the pathology results show that the cancer was more aggressive than thought. 

For some reason they don't understand, the biopsy and MRI results did not show that. 

That means it could reappear somewhere.  He told my husband that he has a 40% chance of recurrence but that he is optimistic that all will be well. 

So shocked and unsettled ...

too pooped to post

Sorry to be so long in updating but I'm worn down to a nubbins and too pooped to post much of a blog post. The two and a half month build up of worry and stress has taken it's toll and I have zero energy.  So just letting go and giving in and enjoying reading and napping and eating curative chocolate LOL.

My husbands surgery went very well HURRAY HURRAH!  Now we wait for the pathology results of the "suspicious" area on his MRI - hopefully we will hear tomorrow, Thursday. His surgeon believes all will be well.  Keep those fingers crossed!

 

Thanks so very much for all of your care and concern and healing thoughts and prayers, we so appreciate it and all of you. Please know you are so very dear. 

today's the day

I can't sleep, woke up at 3:20. Drat drat drat. And it's going to be a very long day - my husbands surgery isn't until 12:15 and will last about four hours. 

I so appreciate all the great blogger energy and healing thoughts and prayers coming our way. 

Thank you so much for your kindness and friendship!

sixteen years

Yesterday was our 16th wedding anniversary (January will be 20 years we've been together). We picked up our old selves and went out to dinner at our new favorite restaurant - a vegan sushi restaurant. I had read how fantastic their Downtown location is for years and they finally opened a spot on the West Side near us.  YIPPIE! 

They're having a Halloween tasting menu during October and so we decided to try it. Pumpkin Tempura, Pumpkin Soup, Pumpkin Sushi, and Pasta with Pumpkin Cream Sauce. Yummy!

When dessert time rolled around, all the servers came over to our table with our desserts and a candle had been placed on one of the plates to celebrate the occasion.  Then they told us to hold this heart-shaped wreath and that they were going to take our picture.  We weren't sure what was going on??

When we were done with our dessert, the servers came back with the card at the top of this post, with our photo in it. So much fun! Very sweet.

We're hoping for a quiet weekend. 

My husbands surgery is scheduled for 12:15 Monday afternoon and his surgery should be over about four hours later and then post op can take another few hours.  We need to arrive by 9:45 that morning, so it's going to be quite a long day.

distractions

It's hard to get through the days over here. Between my husbands approaching surgery this coming Monday and losing our doggie, George, I'm a mess. I move in slow motion, getting practically nothing done. So overwhelmed.

I can easily get lost in silly stuff on the internet for hours. Halloween bar cookie recipes. Halloween cross stitch patterns. Linky parties filled with Fall and Halloween decor, etc. entries.

Pumpkin Spice M & M Brownies from 

What Does She Do All Day
sound easy and yummy.

Orange and Black Cookies and Cream Magic Bars from
Hungry Happenings
look tasty and sound like so much fun.

The Little Stitcher
created this most darling witch silhouette pattern
and it's a freebie for all of us!

Wishing you a Spooktacular Halloween!

georgie is not going to make it

One year ago this very morning, we drove down to meet two senior Golden Retrievers who had been dropped off by their owner at the animal shelter to be euthanized and rescued by a GR rescue organization. We came home with two new best furry friends.

Two months later, we found out dear George had inoperable cancer. He has met and weathered all other setbacks like a champ, outliving the specialists dire forecast for him by ten months.  He has been the sweetest and best boy, bringing us joy every moment the past year.

But his cancer and this current challenge has proved to be too much. He cannot hold down food or water or his medications. 

I am sitting by his side, rubbing his dear and noble face and crying endless tears.

We will love him and cuddle him today and tomorrow we will say goodbye and let him go ...


Thank you so very much for all of your kind words and prayers for Georgie!

update on georgie

(gracie and her georgie at the doctors)

Georgie didn't want to eat much this morning ... he only ate a cup of food but I thought I'd be able to get him to eat more later. He seemed alright at first but then he refused to even eat the chicken I offered from my hand, which he's never done before. So we called the doctor and were able to get an appointment just a couple hours later for 12:30.

The doctor said he looked like a very unhappy doggie. He said that Georgie was severely dehydrated and nauseous. He wasn't sure of the cause and said he didn't know if he had a virus or an infection or if it's related to his original cancer, or what???

He said for us to leave Georgie and they would give him intravenous fluids to hydrate him and a mega dose of IV anti-nausea medicine and that they would also do more xrays and see if they could determine if something had changed about his original mass they found back in December. 

His blood work from Thursday, came back normal - nothing wrong with his kidneys, liver, etc. And nothing more learned about the new suspected mass. The doctor said that from the standpoint of his blood panel alone, Georgie appeared to be a very healthy doggie ... but we know that's not the case.

He's rebounded before so we are trying to remain hopeful --- but we also know he's been one very brave and strong doggie and fought back against a bad diagnosis for a long time already ...

Thank you so much for your sweet comments and praying for our Georgie!

please think a good thought for georgie

Well, whoever thought up the old adage when it rains, it pours, sure knew what they were talking about.  Sheesh. 

Georgie had seemed to be a bit better following his recent illness.  But then yesterday he threw up several times in the morning and I had to put on my big girl panties and put aside that I don't feel well and that I have severe arthritic pain in my thumb and run him to the vet.  I had to drop him off since the vet had no openings and I felt too wobbly anyway and remind myself he was in the best of hands.

We went back to pick him up after eight o'clock last night - the vet having done lots of xrays and blood work and finally having time to talk to us and tell us what he thinks is causing Georgie's nausea.

Heartbreakingly, he believes Georgie has another tumor, either on his pancreas or on his liver - there's a new mass on his xrays.  The blood work will make it clear which organ. We should have the results tomorrow, Saturday, and also find out what, if any, treatment can be done for him.

October 7th will be one year since we adopted George and Gracie from the rescue and October 7th will also be 10 months since George was diagnosed with terminal cancer and not expected to make it more than three or four days.  

If we know anything, we know Georgie is a fighter. He is one big, sweet, funny, loving, fur ball and he hasn't wanted to leave this life yet.

Please think lots of healing doggie thoughts for our George.

Thanks you guys! xo

hunt and peck

How are you doing? Hope you've been well!  We've been having the loveliest of days here, gorgeous blue skies with not a single cloud.

My husband's sick and I feel a bit under the weather too.  And on top of a cold, I'm all creeky and ouchie over here --- my right thumb joint is killing me. The past two days it's been so painful that I can't drive, or hold a pen to write, or a book to read, I can barely open the doggies prescription bottles, etc. WAH!  But I can type,  well, I can hunt and peck so I can whinnnnnnnnnneeee LOL.

My thumb has been giving me momentary flashes of discomfort the past year but now it feels like when I had my frozen shoulder in 2007-2008, like the joint is frozen and immovable.  ouchers!  I've tried heat, I've tried ice, I've done thumb exercises, tried Tylenol and Ibuprofen.

And I was so looking forward to doing some stitching on my new Halloween cross stitch patterns from the Primitive Hare ... look here and here, aren't they cute?!

I adore Notforgotten Farm and she has a Halloween freebie chart here.

I love this time of the year, with all the excitement and fun of the holidays. Are you dreaming of crafty fun too?

october 21st

So sorry for not updating earlier! I am going at a snails pace these days and not accomplishing much.

On the eighth day of waiting, the surgeon finally called my husband with his MRI results. He said there is something suspicious on one side and that he believes sooner is better than later for the surgery. He also told my husband that he's not in danger but good gosh ... WAH!  So very scary!

So my husband will have his surgery on Monday, October 21st. We won't know until the Friday before, what time the surgery will be --- so frustrating, but I guess that's the way things are at teaching hospitals???

Georgie is doing fine, turns out he has bad reflux and he also had a bladder infection. 

We still haven't received the final results for Gracie - it's been quite a ride this week with her. I came home from my first support group meeting Thursday and found that she had chewed her dew claw off and there was blood all over their doggie bed.  sniffle sniffle SOB. So I had to run her over to the vet's lickety split and since she was there, they moved up the secondary test they give for a definitive Cushing's result, so we wouldn't have to bring her back today for it as planned. 

Rather feel like I'm losing my mind ... trying to remember to breathe ...

Since I am buried underneath a mountain of stuff over here, I have placed myself on a no purchases diet, oh yeah sure bwhahahhahha - but I just ordered myself some fun Halloween crafty stuff, to hopefully lose myself in. 

Miss you all, hope you're doing well! 

waiting

We haven't heard from the doctor yet regarding the test results. WAH! My husband called the office and was told that the results have been entered in the system and that the doctor will call him but the office personnel didn't know when that would happen.  So we're waiting ...

And George is a bit under the weather today and has me concerned. He's now been with us nine and a half months longer than they said he had left.

He only ate a little more than half his food this morning and I ended up feeding him by hand for some of it. He's been eating really slowly this week, but eating all of his food though, every day up until today. He's also started a new thing of drinking tons of water this week. (He is wagging his tail and playing catch today.)

So tomorrow we're off to the vet.

Gracie also has a problem ... they ran a test for Cushings last weekend but they didn't take enough of a sample (GRRRRRRRR), so she has to be tested again tomorrow.  

I wanted to stay by Georgie today and have been going through notebooks of craft patterns, templates, etc., that I've clipped or printed out over the years and merrily tossing most of them in the trash.

I am embarrassed to say that I may be personally responsible for the demise of the forests due to all of my printing out of unneeded junk from the internet. 

Good grief. 

My mission is to keep only what fits nicely in our (tiny, egad) home ... I know, I know, but a girl can dream, can't she?! 

Wishing you and yours a lovely weekend! 

dutch postcards

 

A wee bit of red for Rednesday ...

two charming postcards from the Netherlands 

that I found in my mom's things - postmarked 1968.

Joining in the celebration of red with Melody,
at Brown Gingham Creations.

test today

My husband is having a MRI test today. The results will determine how quickly he must have his surgery. Please think a good thought for us this morning. 

Thank you for continuing to show up here and for your kindness and friendship.

cancer support community

Oh my gosh, I just went to Orientation at the most amazing organization, Cancer Support Community. 

I've been plagued with terrible anxiety and panic and migraines since my husbands diagnosis and even though I haven't been to one of the support groups or other phenomenal resources available yet, I left feeling lighter already. Certainly this is one of the places where angels dwell. Everything is free ... support groups, individual counseling, yoga, pilates, zumba classes, art classes, on and on. All free for the cancer patient and family and care givers.

I felt as if my best friend had given me the biggest bestest warmest of hugs, squeezes and smiles.

party like it's the first official grand opening welcome back Rednesday day!!!

I've got a little bit (alright, a really teeny tiny bit)
of my brothers childhood red to share 

for this weeks first official outing of Rednesday.

Hope you will join in the fun with our hostess Melody

 at the all new and fantabulous home of Rednesday Wednesday,
Brown Gingham Creations!

Rednesday has a new home

Dear Melody, of Brown Gingham Creations, is the new host of Rednesday. Hope you'll welcome her and join in on all the RED fun.

I'm sharing a darling Holly Hobbie plate from 1974, that belonged to my mom. 

Please forgive me for sharing Christmas things with you, I sincerely apologize for doing it hahhaha! When I was at the hair salon on Saturday, my stylist told me that she had seen Christmas decorations at Costco ALREADY!  I nearly fell out of my chair.

Happy Rednesday!

I loved to iron when I was little

I loved this toy presser so very much when I was little. I'd push the button, over and over again, delighted to see the roller spin, again and again. I probably drove my mom half crazy with it.

I was grinning from ear to ear when I found it in my parents things and had to push the button, again and again hahaha. Only one of the leaves stays up now but I think that's pretty good since it's about fifty-five years old.

This morning I put it in the box for the Good Will - I just walked by the box and I want to snatch it right back out of there LOL.

Joining in the Vintage Thingie Thursday fun at Colorado Lady, first time in a long long time! 

happy birthday to my hubby!

 (source)

Can I hear some singing out there? Because it's a big one! 420 in doggie years woof woof!

The man of the hour wants to go see a magic show for his big day treat. I've never been to one before, have you?  It's part magic show and part theater play and has been a critic's pick here for months. Hoping it pleases the birthday boy!


Thank you all so much for your continued kind thoughts and comments, we so appreciate it! We went for a second opinion this past Wednesday and will go for a third this Wednesday. Well, it's actually a second consult/opinion, about the laparoscopic (robotic) surgery - to see which surgeon hubby prefers. 

Thanks again!  Hope everyone is enjoying their summer!

 

hope you had a great National S'mores Day!

(source)

I don't know where I was or what I was doing while everyone else was roasting marshmallows over a campfire and breaking up a Hershey's bar and putting them on graham crackers but I've never eaten a S'mores!  Another rite of childhood I missed ...

So when I read on Friday that yesterday was National S'mores Day, I thought YES!, time to try one. I still can't say I've had a real s'mores but I can tell you unequivocally that I sure do love Cheesecake Factory's S'mores cheesecake. Yessiree.  Oh my.

things are feeling a little bit lighter around here

Thank you so much everyone for all of your kindness, sweet words, healing thoughts and prayers. I greatly appreciate it and you!

Well gosh, we are on quite the winding road. 

We saw my husbands primary care doctor yesterday and it was very helpful.

From what the Oncologist said last Friday, we were under the impression that the traditional surgery sounded the best. Now after speaking with my husbands doctor yesterday and being told that 90% of his patients these days have the "robotic" or laparoscopic surgery, we are now more interested in it.

Ay yi yi.  Up down all around. 

So the appointment scheduled for a second opinion tomorrow (with a doctor that does the traditional surgery) has now been cancelled and next week we will see one who does the robotic surgery instead. 

The good news is that my husbands primary care Doctor said again that "we caught it early" and there is time to figure out what we want to do and he was very reassuring about post operative effects - which the other doctor had freaked my husband out. He also stated that he believed surgery to be the best choice.

We are getting all of this input from people who know of someone who had radiation and "they're doing just fine" - but they're regular people/lay people passing on this info - regular people who have no idea if the people they know had the same degree or type of cancer involvement as my husband - and yet give their opinions and recommendations to him. One went so far as to get pissy with my husband, when my husband told him that his Urologist told him radiology wasn't the best/most safe option for him. For him.

GEEZ LOUISE!

Anyway, we had a spot of fun on Sunday - went out to breakfast and then ... 

We went to the Quilt Show in Long Beach and I did a wee bit of Retail Therapy hahhahahha. Tried to keep a lid on it this time but did come home with some holiday fabric and some more buttons. Cannot resist buttons.

And after lunch at CPK, we went to a fun exhibit at the Long Beach Museum --- about dog houses.

(source)

(source)

(source)

Thanks again, so very much for your concern and friendship!

results and options

I can't believe that it's only been about 24 hours since we went to the doctor to hear about options. It feels as though a week has passed. The moments since have felt so heavy, so overwhelming.

We were told how tumors are graded from 1 to 5 and that my husbands biopsy showed mostly 3's but that he does have an area with 4's. Due to that, surgery and removal is his only option. We were told that my husbands PSA numbers are low enough that it won't have spread.

My husband has the choice of "regular" surgery or "robotic" surgery. Surgery will be in about two months - the inflammation from the biopsy must calm down first.  

We will visit another doctor on Wednesday for a second opinion. 

Thank you all very much for your kindness, support and friendship, it means so very much to me.

that low down dirtiest of dogs, the nasty old C, has come calling

We just found out a few hours ago, that my husband has been diagnosed with cancer. We go to the doctor Friday morning to hear all the details and see what the options are.  My husband said the doctor sounded upbeat on the phone but needless to say, we are utterly freaked out and devastated.

So just a heads up to let you know that I may fall silent and not be around here (or I may be around all the time for comfort or distraction ... who knows?!).

Thank you very much for your friendship and care over the years!

A Favorite Thing especially for you Claudia

For much of my life, I went to Saturday matinees with my mom at one of the many playhouses in Los Angeles to see live theater. I shared a bit about it last weekend as my favorite thing too.

Yesterday my husband and I went to see Val Kilmer in Citizen Twain, about Mark Twain. The fun began even before the play did ... Val Kilmer came out into the audience in his Mark Twain attire and did funny bits and interacted with the audience for five or so minutes before beginning his performance. Everyone was taking photos and my husband took a tiny bit of a video of him dancing with an audience member. (Sorry we have old phones and it's very poor WAH!)

We had especially great seats for the performance (all seats are very good at The Kirk Douglas) ... we were in the third row center and the seats in front of us were unoccupied, so it was wonderful.

The play was a lot of fun, having some unexpected contemporary references thrown in. I don't know if my mom would have enjoyed the updating, but I did.

And afterward ... I don't know if yesterday was special or not but, Val Kilmer came back on stage and while his makeup person took off his makeup, he answered audience questions.  He also told us that  his mom was in the audience and pointed her out in the second row and he told us how he had lived nearby many years ago.

So it was a very delightful experience and as always, memories of my mother tugged at my heart.

Joining Claudia in A Favorite Thing at Mockingbird Hill Cottage.

silly old bear

Sharing a bit of Winnie the Pooh today on Rednesday. All gifts from my mother to me ... a vintage Winnie the book, a mini Winnie from a teddy bear show, a Winnie mug from Sears and also some Christmas ornaments from Sears long ago.

Joining in the Rednesday fun at Cottage Sweet Cottage.

books books books

We're chugging along over here. Yesterday I went through (er, some of ... ) our bookcases, determined to find some, if even small, sense of order. We gave away a bazillion boxes of my parents books but apparently I still managed to bring another gazillion home with me. ACK! 

I wish I had taken a before photo, but here's the current after.  Four big boxes of books removed from these shelves and they're still overflowing.  All the shelves of paperbacks, are two deep.  WAH! I am pledging to cull this mess further and adopt a One In, One Out policy. 

(whisper whisper we have two more rooms of books too ... I know, it's frightening!)

I discovered I have FIVE shelves of cookbooks and I seldom cook these days ... good grief. Hope springs eternal, I guess LOL.

In between bouts of organizing and cleaning, I've been having fun looking at the participants of Mary Ann Moss's online class SEWN!  I want to join in and play along sooooooo bad!  And I just might! 

And I just noticed it's time again for the very fun blog hop, Where Bloggers Create at My Dessert Cottage. Have fun oooohing and ahhhhing and being inspired by all the great creative spaces!

Happy weekend to everyone!