tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-83003658765518098102024-03-13T22:11:14.982-04:00"Gone North" ...... to that PlaceGO NORTH....
to that Place...
- Where your feet up on the porch rail, means a book in your lap....
- Where sunrises & sunsets are "Must-see" events....
- Where good company is always present, even when walking alone....
- Where the beauty of what God has created, brings rest to your soul....
Find that Place....
Go there often....Kathy@ Gone Northhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15044063883582389498noreply@blogger.comBlogger33125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8300365876551809810.post-43878668567940540112012-02-20T23:30:00.000-05:002012-02-20T23:30:57.552-05:00LOVE to Create...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> I Love to create... Love DIY....</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"> I love texture & color...</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">There are few things I like better than</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"> to see a piece of fabric & know exactly what </span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"> I will do with it.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"> I love to repurpose a piece of furniture...</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"> There are SOooo, so many projects in my head</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"> So being the bad blogger that I am, </span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"> Does anybody care?? : ) </span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"> Nothing fabulous.... </span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"> Just stuff that needs to be done at the Cottage</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"> to make it liveable</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"> A four day weekend.... </span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"> 1 coat of primer, </span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">3 coats of paint</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"> Doors are done....</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"> Another coat of paint in a bedroom...</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"> Filled in a MILLION nail holes & a final coat</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"> of paint on the crown molding</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"> While the guys did a LOT of this..</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"> (well, this one got thrown back.... </span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">out </span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"> of season & not very tasty, I am told :) </span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"> So doors are done.....</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"> Another bedroom D.O.N.E.</span><br />
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</div>Kathy@ Gone Northhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15044063883582389498noreply@blogger.com28tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8300365876551809810.post-3561338321552142122012-02-14T21:49:00.000-05:002012-02-14T21:49:06.794-05:00MIA once again... (or just neglecting this old blog thing )<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> With some fairly good reason</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"> "Sometimes", said Pooh</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"> "The smallest things take up </span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"> the biggest place in your heart"</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"> This sweet thing is not yet 2 weeks old & he has replaced just about everything that I once thought </span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"> was important. : ) </span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"> Our very 1st grandchild.... </span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"> & everyone was right, there is nothing like it.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"> A sweet pic of my parents...</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"> Now great-grandparents </span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"> And there was a few weeks</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"> in the sun before Baby S. arrived....</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"> (so nice to get warm & stay warm for a bit )</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"> nice huh? : ) </span> </span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"> And I will leave you with something little </span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"> I have been working on in between</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"> Remember ?? your grandmother's</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"> dining set </span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"> After</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"> I'll show you the entire set, soon... </span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"> </span></div>Kathy@ Gone Northhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15044063883582389498noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8300365876551809810.post-71991330357253196482012-01-09T00:55:00.000-05:002012-01-09T00:55:37.381-05:00Where in the World??? (have I been?? : )<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Oh MY... It has been a LONG time since I posted...</span></span></span> <br />
<span style="color: #660000;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You Know... LIFE....</span></span><br />
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<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> <span style="color: #660000;"> My last post I said </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="color: #660000;">that a Baby was coming... </span></span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="color: #660000;"> well that will happen in just a few weeks..</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> & we are getting excited. </span><br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> This past May we put an offer in on a lake house... & what a LONG summer of waiting...It was a re-po & what a LOT of hoops to jump thru & paperwork to finally take possesion, just before Labor day.</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-PkPSd5Enul8/TwpeJnfZZeI/AAAAAAAAAZU/xW_7Hgs8YYQ/s1600/cottage2+007.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240px" rea="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-PkPSd5Enul8/TwpeJnfZZeI/AAAAAAAAAZU/xW_7Hgs8YYQ/s320/cottage2+007.JPG" width="320px" /></a></div> <br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And Boy was it a M.E.S.S.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> (pic taken as we had started to take off light blue wallpaper off dark, dark paneling )</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Did NOT know how much work this was going to be...... </span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> But it is coming together......</span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-PidnFvXwbtg/TwpvZvbSXcI/AAAAAAAAAZs/hVvEsynokpk/s1600/cottage+3+017.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240px" rea="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-PidnFvXwbtg/TwpvZvbSXcI/AAAAAAAAAZs/hVvEsynokpk/s320/cottage+3+017.JPG" width="320px" /></a></div><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> Getting there.... It now has white crown molding & floor moldings, new carpet & furniture.... pics soon.... </span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> We have just started staying there... (We have another place, just a few miles away, so we would work all day & then go back to the other place at night.... It is much nicer being all at one place, while working )</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> It has 2 floors, each with a kitchen, living room, bedrooms & baths... The top floor is almost completely done & I will be sharing before & afters, soon....</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> SOooo that is what I have been doing instead of blogging... : ) </span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> And there was a fair amount of travel.....</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> There was a week at Mackinac Island, here in Michigan</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> Another week in Upper Michigan.... </span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> giving the Michigan tour to husband's business associates </span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Yes, voted the most Beautiful place in the US by Good Morning America </span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> Then a trip to Colorado</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> Then the Holidays happened & I did a lot of these again</span><br />
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<div closure_uid_suedr0="117"><div closure_uid_bdwqh1="107"> <span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> My Family....</span></div></div><div closure_uid_suedr0="117"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"> I have not said much about my family </span></div><div closure_uid_suedr0="117"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"> on here before....</span></div><div closure_uid_suedr0="117"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"> </span></div><div closure_uid_suedr0="117"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"> My 3 sons.....</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-C7ONAN7zKeY/TkCi7TJKw8I/AAAAAAAAAYU/M7Iebl7fZMM/s1600/AUG+4+044.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" naa="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-C7ONAN7zKeY/TkCi7TJKw8I/AAAAAAAAAYU/M7Iebl7fZMM/s320/AUG+4+044.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div closure_uid_suedr0="117"><span closure_uid_suedr0="151" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"> <span style="font-size: small;"> (hate this pic of me, but love it of the boys )</span></span></div><div closure_uid_suedr0="117"><span closure_uid_suedr0="151" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"> </span></div><div closure_uid_suedr0="117"><span closure_uid_suedr0="151" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"> And they are married to 3 lovely girls </span></div><div closure_uid_suedr0="117"><br />
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<div closure_uid_suedr0="173"><div closure_uid_bdwqh1="109"> <span closure_uid_suedr0="174" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The one in the middle of this pic</span></div></div><div closure_uid_suedr0="173"><span closure_uid_suedr0="174" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> is our oldest, Michael.</span></div><div closure_uid_suedr0="173"><span closure_uid_6mo7ey="126" closure_uid_suedr0="196" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"> Michael is such an interesting guy.... </span><br />
<span closure_uid_6mo7ey="126" closure_uid_suedr0="196" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"> </span><span closure_uid_6mo7ey="126" closure_uid_suedr0="196" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">He is an</span><span closure_uid_6mo7ey="127" closure_uid_suedr0="196" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"> engineer for his real job.... </span><br />
<span closure_uid_6mo7ey="127" closure_uid_suedr0="196" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"> BUT has so many, many hobbies </span></div><div closure_uid_suedr0="173"><span closure_uid_suedr0="196" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"> & they are all extreme</span></div><div closure_uid_suedr0="173"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XXA2owIejyw/TkCl-bOU48I/AAAAAAAAAYg/OdY6oL7FM5g/s1600/AUG+4+045.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" naa="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XXA2owIejyw/TkCl-bOU48I/AAAAAAAAAYg/OdY6oL7FM5g/s320/AUG+4+045.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div closure_uid_suedr0="173"><span closure_uid_nk12vf="107" closure_uid_suedr0="198" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"> Yes, look closely, that is him kayaking, </span></div><div closure_uid_suedr0="173"><div closure_uid_nk12vf="106"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"> over a large waterfall... Yikes!!</span></div></div><div closure_uid_suedr0="173"><span closure_uid_suedr0="201" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"> </span></div><div class="separator" closure_uid_suedr0="220" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bBTMMcMWhfk/TkCnNqGaVYI/AAAAAAAAAYk/nM1lGDdqk3U/s1600/kiteboarding.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" naa="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bBTMMcMWhfk/TkCnNqGaVYI/AAAAAAAAAYk/nM1lGDdqk3U/s320/kiteboarding.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"></span></div><div class="separator" closure_uid_suedr0="220" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" closure_uid_suedr0="220" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">He does extreme skiing & snowboarding</span></div><div class="separator" closure_uid_suedr0="220" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span closure_uid_6mo7ey="128" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">He buys & sells tractors & </span></div><div class="separator" closure_uid_suedr0="220" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span closure_uid_6mo7ey="128" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">boats for a hobby.</span></div><div class="separator" closure_uid_suedr0="220" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span closure_uid_8ojfs0="106" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">He & his wife have lived in Mexico for a year,</span></div><div class="separator" closure_uid_suedr0="220" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span closure_uid_suedr0="223" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">they went to Africa a few yrs. ago, for a month,</span></div><div class="separator" closure_uid_suedr0="220" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span closure_uid_suedr0="223" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">just to kayak the world's biggest river. They have hiked all over. </span></div><div class="separator" closure_uid_suedr0="220" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" closure_uid_suedr0="220" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">He does hunting & fishing in a big way.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-GRJ6zy4fVY8/TkCrM9lBjsI/AAAAAAAAAYw/re3LQ-LTUxg/s1600/michael+buck.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" naa="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-GRJ6zy4fVY8/TkCrM9lBjsI/AAAAAAAAAYw/re3LQ-LTUxg/s320/michael+buck.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"> He seriously never sits still</span><br />
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<div closure_uid_suedr0="228"><div closure_uid_8ojfs0="107"> <span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Picture above... Michael & Carrie in London.</span></div></div><div closure_uid_suedr0="228"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"> Middle of the night, in a London airport, on the way to Hungary... a few hours to kill.... don't waste them in an airport... go see something... : ) </span></div><div closure_uid_suedr0="228"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"> </span></div><div closure_uid_suedr0="228"><span closure_uid_suedr0="232" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"> </span></div><div class="separator" closure_uid_suedr0="270" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YoiGsmYB6yM/TkCwVMXrLJI/AAAAAAAAAZE/wRn_zW9NCH4/s1600/Salida%252C+Co+067.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" naa="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YoiGsmYB6yM/TkCwVMXrLJI/AAAAAAAAAZE/wRn_zW9NCH4/s320/Salida%252C+Co+067.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" closure_uid_suedr0="270" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span closure_uid_suedr0="275" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">( I had to take a pic for him in front of Jerry Garcia's home in San Fransisco :) </span></div><div class="separator" closure_uid_suedr0="270" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" closure_uid_suedr0="270" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">Michael was burned pretty bad last week</span></div><div class="separator" closure_uid_suedr0="270" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">He was riding & tinkering with a seadoo & it exploded</span></div><div class="separator" closure_uid_suedr0="270" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span closure_uid_suedr0="276" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">flames 10 -12 ft. in the air...</span></div><div class="separator" closure_uid_suedr0="270" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">He will be OK..... but burns on his arms & face</span></div><div class="separator" closure_uid_suedr0="270" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">look pretty nasty right now</span></div><div class="separator" closure_uid_suedr0="270" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" closure_uid_uplzqf="128" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-za272GRJcMk/TkC9rfMdE2I/AAAAAAAAAZQ/iE0TPXlzTA8/s1600/mail.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="191" naa="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-za272GRJcMk/TkC9rfMdE2I/AAAAAAAAAZQ/iE0TPXlzTA8/s320/mail.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" closure_uid_uplzqf="127" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span closure_uid_uplzqf="147" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(on again... after the accident...How many times do I have to say,</span></div><div class="separator" closure_uid_uplzqf="127" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span closure_uid_uplzqf="147" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> "Michael, be careful" ?? : )</span></div><div class="separator" closure_uid_3mdecl="107" closure_uid_suedr0="270" closure_uid_uplzqf="106" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" closure_uid_suedr0="270" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">Anyways.... why I tell you a little about Michael??</span></div><div class="separator" closure_uid_suedr0="270" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" closure_uid_suedr0="270" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">He will be the father of our 1st Grandchild.. : ) </span></div><div class="separator" closure_uid_suedr0="270" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">Yes.....</span></div><div class="separator" closure_uid_suedr0="270" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"> Michael & Carrie told us a few weeks ago</span></div><div class="separator" closure_uid_suedr0="270" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<div closure_uid_suedr0="305"><div closure_uid_6mo7ey="130"> <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And w</span><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">e could not be more thrilled.... : ) </span></span></div></div><div closure_uid_suedr0="228" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"> </span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"> </span></div><div closure_uid_suedr0="173" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span closure_uid_suedr0="198" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"> </span></div><div closure_uid_suedr0="173" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span closure_uid_suedr0="198" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"> </span></div><div closure_uid_suedr0="117"><span closure_uid_suedr0="151" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"> </span></div></div>Kathy@ Gone Northhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15044063883582389498noreply@blogger.com25tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8300365876551809810.post-2843338208451196422011-07-22T00:46:00.002-04:002011-07-22T00:49:47.255-04:00A Birthday Purse<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <br />
<div closure_uid_dp6ca5="140"><div closure_uid_mm9t35="107"> <span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Maggie's Birthday</span></div></div><div closure_uid_dp6ca5="140"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-M2wqyEHirxY/Tij7In64ecI/AAAAAAAAAXk/_epDGoMbi90/s1600/purse+061.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-M2wqyEHirxY/Tij7In64ecI/AAAAAAAAAXk/_epDGoMbi90/s320/purse+061.JPG" t$="true" width="320" /></a></div><div closure_uid_dp6ca5="140"><span closure_uid_dp6ca5="153" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"> </span></div><div closure_uid_dp6ca5="140"><span closure_uid_dp6ca5="153" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"> Niece Maggie is turning 18</span></div><div closure_uid_dp6ca5="140"><span closure_uid_dp6ca5="153" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"> Party was planned for 5:30</span></div><div closure_uid_dp6ca5="140"><span closure_uid_dp6ca5="153" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"> I had already gotten a gift </span></div><div closure_uid_dp6ca5="140"><span closure_uid_dp6ca5="153" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"> But I had a free afternoon</span></div><div closure_uid_dp6ca5="140"><span closure_uid_dp6ca5="153" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"> SO I thought...</span></div><div closure_uid_dp6ca5="140"><span closure_uid_dp6ca5="153" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"> She needs a purse :) </span></div><div closure_uid_dp6ca5="140"><span closure_uid_dp6ca5="153" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"> 1:30... I go thru my stash</span></div><div closure_uid_dp6ca5="140"><span closure_uid_dp6ca5="153" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"> </span></div><div closure_uid_dp6ca5="140"><span closure_uid_dp6ca5="153" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"> She liked the one I had made myself last year </span></div><div closure_uid_dp6ca5="140"><br />
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<div closure_uid_dp6ca5="183"><div closure_uid_9xto88="107"> <span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So I got to work</span></div></div><div closure_uid_dp6ca5="183"><br />
</div><div closure_uid_dp6ca5="183"><span closure_uid_dp6ca5="184" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"> Pockets on the inside</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-BbXwKzE2fno/Tij9MwVfH6I/AAAAAAAAAXs/7ppwVFrYUlo/s1600/purse+069.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-BbXwKzE2fno/Tij9MwVfH6I/AAAAAAAAAXs/7ppwVFrYUlo/s320/purse+069.JPG" t$="true" width="320" /></a></div><div closure_uid_dp6ca5="181"><span closure_uid_dp6ca5="186" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"> </span></div><div closure_uid_dp6ca5="181"><span closure_uid_dp6ca5="186" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"> Full pocket across the back </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-3f6of6S1a1A/Tij9kBRNiUI/AAAAAAAAAXw/2QLtJMyNTnM/s1600/purse+052.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-3f6of6S1a1A/Tij9kBRNiUI/AAAAAAAAAXw/2QLtJMyNTnM/s320/purse+052.JPG" t$="true" width="320" /></a></div><div closure_uid_dp6ca5="181"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"> </span></div><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"> Pulled apart on old belt</span><br />
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<div closure_uid_dp6ca5="207"> <span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">To use for rings & embellishments</span></div><div closure_uid_dp6ca5="207"><br />
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<div closure_uid_dp6ca5="214"> <span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Walked out the door at 5:00</span></div><div closure_uid_dp6ca5="214"><br />
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<div class="separator" closure_uid_dp6ca5="238" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-f-ncl9whc1k/TikAOFdNOQI/AAAAAAAAAYI/vH6C-5xQLB4/s1600/cottage+013.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-f-ncl9whc1k/TikAOFdNOQI/AAAAAAAAAYI/vH6C-5xQLB4/s320/cottage+013.JPG" t$="true" width="320" /></a></div><div closure_uid_dp6ca5="140"><span closure_uid_dp6ca5="239" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana;"> </span></div><div closure_uid_dp6ca5="140"><span closure_uid_dp6ca5="239" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana;"> (no pic of her with purse.. : ) </span> </div></div>Kathy@ Gone Northhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15044063883582389498noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8300365876551809810.post-59312179015813360662011-07-21T20:35:00.001-04:002011-07-21T20:37:02.328-04:00HOT !!!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" closure_uid_yq2fot="148" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" closure_uid_yq2fot="148" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hnYIMjgh-Qo/TijFdEX111I/AAAAAAAAAXg/owuopTEF1lU/s1600/hot+outside.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="292" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hnYIMjgh-Qo/TijFdEX111I/AAAAAAAAAXg/owuopTEF1lU/s400/hot+outside.jpg" t$="true" width="400" /></a></div> <span closure_uid_yq2fot="149" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> My son sent this to me today... </span><br />
<span closure_uid_yq2fot="149" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Just thought it was worth a smile.... : )</span> </div>Kathy@ Gone Northhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15044063883582389498noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8300365876551809810.post-45649360181108381622011-07-10T00:20:00.007-04:002011-07-15T07:50:44.778-04:00If you could do anything you wanted ???? <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I</span><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">n your kitchen??</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"> Would you play & be fun ??</span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"> Or would you go safe?</span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"> & do White??</span><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> The new lake house we are purchasing</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> has 2 kitchens.....</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">The one has new cabinets... we will leave those alone</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">The other kitchen needs a complete re-do</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-1rMDGM8hE90/Thkiobw-6OI/AAAAAAAAAWs/jkDGpjjVFeU/s1600/cottage+027.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" m$="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-1rMDGM8hE90/Thkiobw-6OI/AAAAAAAAAWs/jkDGpjjVFeU/s320/cottage+027.JPG" width="320" /></a></div> <span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(kitchen to be re-done above)</span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This home is a foreclosure & needs a TON of work...</span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana;"> almost all of it HAS to be re-done....</span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana;"> So without spending my arm, leg </span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana;"> & selling my 1st, 2nd & 3rd child</span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana;"> I am going to try & just do what I can </span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana;"> with very little money</span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana;"> So we/I will be painting these cabinets for <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">now </span> </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"> What would you do??</span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"> If you had the chance??</span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Red Perhaps??</span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">A pretty soft green??</span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">A Bright Lime Green??</span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"> <span style="font-size: small;">(yea....That's not going to happen... : ) </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Yellow "ish"?? Off white??</span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"> Brighter yellow?? </span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"> A shade of Blue?? Aqua??</span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Black??? Too safe???</span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">I kind of like the grey???</span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"> </span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"> Seriously?? What would you do??</span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"> If you could decorate a </span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"> vacation/weekend place ???</span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"> ( & then tell me why someone would</span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"> have 2 kitchens?? ) </span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"> linking up with Miss Mustard seed</span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"> for <a href="http://missmustardseed.blogspot.com/2011/07/furniture-feature-friday-favorites-link_14.html">Furniture Feature Friday</a></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"> </span>Kathy@ Gone Northhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15044063883582389498noreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8300365876551809810.post-34586312047990957792011-07-06T23:29:00.002-04:002011-07-06T23:41:53.679-04:00Some Color on the Front Porch<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div> <br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"> This set was my Grandmother's.... it is quite old & I have recovered it more than once..... I did not store it this past winter.... it sat out in the Michigan winter. </span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"> Notice the horrible rust & f</span><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">aded fabric....awful...</span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"> One afternoon, a few weeks ago.....</span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"> on a whim... </span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"> I went for some spray paint I had in the house.... some fabric I bought over a year ago... a remnant I just liked & knew I would someday use.... </span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;"> I am not entirely sure I like it.... ????</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"> We have a white house with a wrap-around porch all the way across....t</span><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">his sits in a corner.......I do a lot of red geraniums... white wicker chairs....</span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana;">red bench....</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana;"> thought I would add </span><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana;"> something different </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"> & use red with turquoise</span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"> (+ I had it on hand : ) </span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"> sort of free make-over </span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"> & a short afternoon of work</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;"> The new cottage is almost ours..</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"> Just waiting on the final paperwork.... agh!!! </span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"> Why is this taking so long ??? </span><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;">It was a foreclosure... It is HUGE & needs a lot of work...</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;">Today I sat & waited for all the inspectors to come thru... </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;">just for our peace of mind that the structure is fine.... </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;">All is good.... : ) </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;">So guess what I will be doing for the next few months?? </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;">2500 sq. ft of painting, flooring.....</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">Since my last post I have traveled from one end </span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"> of the country to the other... well almost...</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"> Been in New York.... then Colorado....</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"> And Up north here in Michigan, on the weekends</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"> we have been home.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"> While in Colorado I met Bruce</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> We were near Buena Vista at Frontier Ranch, a Young Life camp. We were there to participate in a work week. Each night between dinner & Worship, we had about an hour... husband & son took showers & naps, so DIL & I decided to take a short drive...</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"> We drove to an old Ghost town nearby... </span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"> St. Elmo</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">There was absolutely no one around</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">We followed him around town until it started to get dark... about 45 min. (we missed worship that night : ) </span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"> When we told some folks who live there, they did not believe us until we showed our proof... they said, </span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"> "Can't be, there are no moose near here" </span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"> Well, we encountered the one lone Moose....</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"> who must have wandered his way down from Montana.... just to give us a thrill....</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"> Now I am off to a week of fancy schmancy dinners in Washington DC.... Where they say it will be HOT, HOT, HOT.... from 2 ft. of snow in Colorado.... : ) </span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It has been a while... a LONG while...</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> My absence involves a new phone, a slick phone salesman, a new internet connection, getting the old connection back again....</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> And a whole LOT of frustration along the way...</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> Anyways... this past weekend, I planned & pulled off a great </span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> surprise </span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;">Birthday party...</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> And for part of her gift from me, I made this....</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Her Old Catholic school uniform skirt.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> A few months ago her Mom gave me a bag of wool, sweaters & clothing. She was cleaning & pitching things & knew that I upcycle wool into mittens, purses etc. When I showed the Birthday girl the things her mom had given me, she said, "That is my old skirt from school"</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> I loved the plaid & knew that I could do something fun with it.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> I had already gotten her a gift, I made the food, got all the prep things needed for the party & then the day before, I decided if I could quick </span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> </span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> make</span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> the bag, it would be a fun gift for this occasion.</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> I washed it, & ironed out the pleats & then went with the flow... not knowing how it would turn out until I was finished.... luckily I have a VERY large fabric stash & didn't need to run out for anything to finish it.</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> Took me just the morning from start to finish...</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> It was great fun when she opened it. </span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> Her family had flown in from all over & </span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> they all remembered the uniform.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> I had also gotten her a rain coat from a recent trip to New York, </span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> But the bag was the hit of the party.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The party was great fun!! Her husband asked me to do this,</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> & </span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">we pulled </span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">it off... She was surprised.... : ) </span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> Joining these Parties... Thanking these hostesses </span><br />
<a href="http://thriftydecorchick.blogspot.com/2011/05/before-and-after-party.html"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- </span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sarah over @ Thrifty Decor chic for her Before & After Party</span></a><br />
<span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-</span> </span><a href="http://betweennapsontheporch.blogspot.com/2011/05/historic-tyson-stedham-restoration-part.html"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Susan over @ Between Naps on The Porch for Met Mondays</span></a><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> - <a href="http://becolorful.typepad.com/becolorful/2011/05/motivated-monday-may-2nd.html"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Pam over @ Becolorful for Motivated Monday</span></a></span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> </span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"><a href="http://skiptomylou.org/2011/05/02/made-by-you-monday-48/">- <span style="color: #660000;">Cindy over @ Skip to My Lou for Made by you Monday</span></a></span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"><span style="color: #660000;"><span style="color: #660000;"> </span> </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> </span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"><a href="http://www.bystephanielynn.com/2011/04/sunday-showcase-party-with-nikycole.html"><span style="color: #660000;">- Stephanie over @ Under the Table & Dreaming for Sunday </span></a></span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- </span><a href="http://linda-coastalcharm.blogspot.com/2011/05/nifty-thrifty-tuesdays-no61.html"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Linda over @ Coastal Charm for Nifty Thrifty Tuesdays</span></a><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> <a href="http://diybydesign.blogspot.com/2011/05/swing-into-spring-its-party-14.html"><span style="color: #660000;"> - Judy over @ DIY By Design for Swing into Spring</span></a> </span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> </span>Kathy@ Gone Northhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15044063883582389498noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8300365876551809810.post-43290844846658259772011-03-12T23:40:00.037-05:002011-03-31T07:55:14.631-04:00Upholstery job.... DONE & DELIVERED !!!!!!!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-R1tTitJ3ypk/TXwsPddDfwI/AAAAAAAAATQ/wAbyilTEfnY/s1600/chairs+2+010.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" q6="true" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-R1tTitJ3ypk/TXwsPddDfwI/AAAAAAAAATQ/wAbyilTEfnY/s320/chairs+2+010.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> This job kicked my back side to the curb & back again.....</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> The Before.... there was 2 of them </span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> with the ottoman</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> She said that she was in no hurry....</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They were just starting the remodel job.....</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> It would be more than a few months.....</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> yea.... no kidding.....</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> It took me that long.........</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> </span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> I started last fall & took them apart </span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> </span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> Then the mitten business took over my entire life</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> Remember?? How I whined about it back over <a href="http://gone-north.blogspot.com/2011/01/going-to-blog-going-to-blog.html">here</a></span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> So... after the Holidays, I got back to the job.....</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She told me to be creative.... Do what I wanted....</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> The fabric was reversible & she wanted me to use both sides.</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> & She did not want the skirts back on the chairs.</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> </span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> BUT... BUT... BUT.... It all had to match..... AGH!!!</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> & then there was not quite enough fabric.... AGH!!!!</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> because of the repeat in the fabric</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> I did what I thought looked best & tried to match</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> Thinking..."well, you would want the brown where your head rests"</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> "& brown near the floor, where dirt would gather"</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> "& brown where your hands would rest"</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> SOoooo I just went with it, adding as I went along... </span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> not sure what it would look like, until I was finished.</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> Because that's how I roll.....</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> So, the seat cushions are reversible</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> Then I thought it was kind of boring, so I added the 4 in. </span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> border, blue in front, brown in back.</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> So adding & subtracting as I went.... </span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> but because of no skirts, I had to hand sew </span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> the border </span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;">& welt on, there was nothing to nail it to....</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> again.... going with the flow, not planning it out </span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> ahead of time</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> </span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> This set is going in her new 800 sq. ft. bedroom. </span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> They will set by the fireplace.</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> So she wanted pillows for the bed</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> </span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> Did you read that?? 800 sq. ft.??</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> As big as our 1st house.... : ) </span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> SOooo I finish this job, I am taking pics to show you</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> And then to my GREAT HORROR!!!</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> Do you see it??? The dumbest mistake I have EVER made.....</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> I had sewn welting in the seams on the back of </span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> one chair </span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;">& not the other </span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> How ever did I do that??? </span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> I guess, when you go with the flow & add here & there</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> And you are rushing.... AGH!!!! </span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> So now what to do??? It would mean taking the </span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> whole chair apart again... OH NO!!!! </span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> I seriously thought about glueing it on .... :) </span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> (would she notice?? If I left as is?? :)</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> So after some careful consideration & thought...</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> I hand stitched it on.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I delivered them a few days ago</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> And she was very pleased</span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> </span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> leave </span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;">well enough alone & quickly made a few throw </span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> pillows </span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;">for the chairs </span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> I am not by any means a professional upholsterer...</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> And I have done jobs like this before.....</span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> For myself... :) </span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> BUT this one just about did me in.</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> Did you see how many miles & miles of welting there is on these? :)</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> You really could not pay me enough to do this one again</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> (she is a friend or I would have had to charge as </span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> much as she spent on the remodel :) </span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> BUT</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> I have another chair sitting here, </span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> for someone else</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> waiting to be done...</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> (with no matching AT ALL :)</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Linking up to</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> -Pam over @ Becolorful, for <a href="http://becolorful.typepad.com/becolorful/2011/03/motivated-monday-at-becolorful.html">Motivated Monday</a></span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> </span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> -<a href="http://betweennapsontheporch.blogspot.com/2011/03/bramasole-under-tuscan-sun-movie.html">Susan for Met Mondays </a>@ Between Naps on The Porch</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> -Debbie's @ Debbie's Blogging & Blabbing for her <a href="http://debbie-debbiedoos.blogspot.com/2011/03/getting-my-french-country-onand-newbie.html">Newbie Party</a></span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> </span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> -Skip to My Lou for <a href="http://skiptomylou.org/2011/03/14/made-by-you-monday-43/">Made by you Monday</a></span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> -Judy over @ Diy By Design for <a href="http://diybydesign.blogspot.com/2011/03/swing-into-spring-its-party-7.html">Swing into Spring</a> </span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> -Jen over @ The Thrifty Home for her <a href="http://www.thethriftyhome.com/2011/03/77th-penny-pinching-party.html">Penny Pinching Party</a></span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> -Miss Mustard Seed for <a href="http://missmustardseed.blogspot.com/2011/03/furniture-feature-friday-favorites-link_17.html">Furniture Feature Friday </a></span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> -Linda @ Coastal Charm for <a href="http://linda-coastalcharm.blogspot.com/2011/03/nifty-thrifty-tuesdays-no54-and.html">Nifty Thrifty Tuesdays</a></span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> -Traci @ Beneath My Heart for <a href="http://beneathmyheart.net/2011/03/best-diy-projects-of-march-linky-party/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_">Best DIY Projects of March</a></span>Kathy@ Gone Northhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15044063883582389498noreply@blogger.com48tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8300365876551809810.post-22259976522894782522011-03-08T23:42:00.003-05:002011-03-09T09:03:36.093-05:00Aren't Blogging friends just WONDERFUL!!! <br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-ntKUdHCbszI/TXcAob-PEaI/AAAAAAAAAS4/O0AdO6PowjU/s1600/chairs+2+020.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" q6="true" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-ntKUdHCbszI/TXcAob-PEaI/AAAAAAAAAS4/O0AdO6PowjU/s320/chairs+2+020.JPG" width="320" /></a></div> <span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am not a very good blogger. I keep thinking that I need to take some time & learn how to really do this. I can not use the excuse that I am new to this much longer...had this blog almost a year now... I just haven't given it much attention... I keep forgetting to take pics, or I think that I don't really have much to share with you, or I am just too busy...</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> BUT I have met the most wonderful folks out there in blogland....</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;">Take <a href="http://serendipitycottage-fleamarketmama.blogspot.com/">Glenda over at Serendipity Cottage</a>.... I met her almost from the start of my blogging experience. She is the most delightful girl & takes the most beautiful pics. She has a wonderful family, whom she adores & writes about often.</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> </span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> She has recently started selling her wonderful <a href="http://serendipitycottage-fleamarketmama.blogspot.com/2011/01/what-ive-bee-making.html">"Glad rags"</a></span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> They come in sets of 3 for $11.97 with free shipping </span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> Recently she had a give-away... of some of her Glad Rags,</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> & I was</span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> one of the lucky ones to get a set.</span><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We were gone for a few days when they arrived, </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">but what a sweet package in the mailbox to come home to.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;">They are just wonderful.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They are almost too pretty to use... But please do use them,</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> so soft & thick. </span><br />
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</div><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> Wouldn't they make a lovely bridal shower gift? </span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> Or just something fun for a niece at college? Or a "just because" </span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> gift for your daughter or daughter-in-law? </span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> Or just treat yourself for once. </span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> </span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> She wraps them up in a delightful crocheted flowers with </span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> some </span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;">vintage buttons.... Just too cute for words. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> </span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> If you haven't met her yet.... </span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> Go on over to <a href="http://serendipitycottage-fleamarketmama.blogspot.com/">Serendipity Cottage </a>for a visit</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> Meet Glenda.... you will love her, I promise.</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> </span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> Then while you are there....</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> go to the sidebar & check out the Glad rags.</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> Then buy some of your own...</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> </span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> And one more thing about Glenda... </span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> she is writing the most delightful story, </span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> about a girl named "Rose". </span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> She gives us a chapter at a time & I am always </span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> anxious for the next part of the story.... </span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> </span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> Glenda is one talented girl & I am so pleased to call her a friend....</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> She is one of the reasons I love blogging so much. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> Thanks Glenda for the very sweet, </span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;">very soft & very useful gift!!!</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> </span>Kathy@ Gone Northhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15044063883582389498noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8300365876551809810.post-72584465969964319922011-02-22T20:10:00.007-05:002011-02-22T23:35:22.313-05:00The sun / Son was out today.... <span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It was a beautiful day, today...</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> The sun was shining, but it was COLD!!!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(lighthouse on lake Michigan, here in Holland)</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> </span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> I had a plan today... I was going to accomplish a TON.</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> I was home alone & was going to go no where, just me & my </span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> vacuum, my laundry, the mop, the sewing machine.... </span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> YES!! I was going to do a LOT.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> A message on the answering machine.....</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> a daughter of some clients....</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> I did not return the call immediately.... </span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> these clients were in</span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> Florida until spring...... </span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> did not think it was urgent.....</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> </span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> She called again.... so I called her back.</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> "Mom" she says, "Has only days to live.... Would it be possible </span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> for you</span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> to come here & cut Dad's hair </span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;">& try & do </span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> something with hers, before she passes"??</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> Oh My... Ofcourse.....</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> My dirty floor had nothing on what I experienced today.</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> The sweet love of a family surrounding the mom that they love.</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> Making sure she was comfortable & looked like she would want.</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> </span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> I have been doing hair for 35 yrs. & on occasion, have done </span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> house/hospital calls. BUT this was special. </span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> Alma really only has a</span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> few days, if that. </span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> I did not know she was sick. </span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> I did her hair the day before </span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;">she left for the winter. </span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> She got sick down there & they flew home this </span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> past weekend, so she would be at home.</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> </span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> I got to see all of the kids & grandkids there, telling me stories....</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> stories of Mom's faithfulness & love thru the years....</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> heard about the last month of pancreatic cancer.....</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> Heard of the generous private jet that flew them home...</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> Saw the sweet love of a husband as he prepared to lose </span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> his beloved....</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> </span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> </span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> I don't think she even knew....</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> </span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> But I was Blessed....... beyond anything....</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> </span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> The Son was shining today</span>Kathy@ Gone Northhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15044063883582389498noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8300365876551809810.post-41020197457918860292011-02-21T02:22:00.001-05:002011-02-21T09:09:46.141-05:00Something sweet.... <span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I started to write this post over a week ago in the airport...</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> I was on my way to Dallas from Michigan, hoping to escape this....</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> </span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-cXzxuWBQZLU/TWICX4IINcI/AAAAAAAAARg/_29RXcdJS2c/s1600/thread+002.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" j6="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-cXzxuWBQZLU/TWICX4IINcI/AAAAAAAAARg/_29RXcdJS2c/s320/thread+002.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But I got to Texas & it was more of the same......</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;">Cold & Ice</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;">So fast forward a week & Michigan had a few days of warming</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;">The snow melted...</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;">BUT today... this is what we have AGAIN....</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It was so nice yesterday, my sister & I decided to go north to the cottage.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;">My husband is in Colorado, he is getting to spend a few days with our son & DIL, helping with a remodel project on the front end of his business trip.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;">Sister & I were going to spend a few days, but Mr. Weatherman was telling us that BIG weather was coming again, so we left early this morning & drove home, so we could get home. </span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;">SO.... I am home alone & enjoying all that being snowed in alone means.... I get the big comfy chair in the sunroom, get to eat when/what I want, not sharing... reading, watching movies & catching up on blogs....</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;">So I digress.....</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SDaXBReXvTg/TWIMSnNG6QI/AAAAAAAAARs/nM__eP8Kb5A/s1600/thread+007.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" j6="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SDaXBReXvTg/TWIMSnNG6QI/AAAAAAAAARs/nM__eP8Kb5A/s320/thread+007.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> This is what I wanted to show you...</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;">A client of mine is a fairly recent widow. She has moved into an assisted living facility & is down-sizing her things.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;">Since she no longer drives, I usually pick her up, cut her hair & then bring her back. She asked me this last time if I had a few minutes to come up to her apartment. She had this there & asked me if I would like it. Her family was going to throw it out & she said, "I think Kathy might like it"</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> Are you kidding me??? I LOVE it.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-S0hP-XJeC9k/TWIOnFcqNKI/AAAAAAAAARw/iWkdCLS4bbs/s1600/thread+010.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" j6="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-S0hP-XJeC9k/TWIOnFcqNKI/AAAAAAAAARw/iWkdCLS4bbs/s320/thread+010.JPG" width="314" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> It hangs on the wall & will soon be on the wall of my "being remodeled sewing room"</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;">She said that it was quite old & was handmade.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;">She gave it to me, just as you see it...</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;">with all of that colorful thread.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;">Do you notice that each little shelf flips out to better get at the thread?</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> I have lots & lots & lots & lots of thread, & thread holders in all shapes & sizes to hold all of the serger & regular sewing thread.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> But I think this will be used mostly as a piece of art for the wall.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;">Isn't it just perfectly lovely??</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;">Such a thoughtful gesture, she knew I would love it....</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;">Sure glad it did not end up in the land fill.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;">Thanks Tina!!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> </span>Kathy@ Gone Northhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15044063883582389498noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8300365876551809810.post-44192781273423828982011-02-02T11:06:00.000-05:002011-02-02T11:06:09.144-05:00They told us it was coming.....<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_jC75v7x-vp0/TUlwGTPOJHI/AAAAAAAAAQ0/fHunnD7ntVk/s1600/snow+003.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" s5="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_jC75v7x-vp0/TUlwGTPOJHI/AAAAAAAAAQ0/fHunnD7ntVk/s320/snow+003.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> They have been warning us for days</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And here in Michigan... snow is not usually too big a deal....</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> We are used to it. I think last year we had well over 100 in.</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> </span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> But they are saying this is the biggest snowstorm since the 70's....</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> We had 17" from midnight til 6 this morning.... & it is still coming...</span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> </span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_jC75v7x-vp0/TUl4svfUOUI/AAAAAAAAAQ8/0yikLQG2QeQ/s1600/snow+006.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" s5="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_jC75v7x-vp0/TUl4svfUOUI/AAAAAAAAAQ8/0yikLQG2QeQ/s320/snow+006.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Everything is closed today.... the TV shows 1000's of closings...</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;">They are not showing the Today show.... only local weather... AGH!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;">The snow plow got stuck in the driveway early this morning.....</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;">I am not getting out... no one is getting in.........</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_jC75v7x-vp0/TUl6skzM45I/AAAAAAAAARA/giNbuNIdC2A/s1600/mitten+007.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" s5="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_jC75v7x-vp0/TUl6skzM45I/AAAAAAAAARA/giNbuNIdC2A/s320/mitten+007.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;">Guess I will work on more of these................</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Or get back to work on these & finally get them finished.....</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Stay warm all............ </span>Kathy@ Gone Northhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15044063883582389498noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8300365876551809810.post-39376924990968336282011-01-11T00:35:00.005-05:002011-01-12T10:57:22.806-05:00Going to Blog... Going to Blog.... <br />
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<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was excited this year, to dazzle you with my Christmas decor... My Dept. 56 village.. I have lots of houses & they are lovely. They just never got put up this year.... (: </span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> My Christmas tree... we own a Christmas tree farm, so I get the pick.... got put up, but never got many decorations.... </span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> I have been so terribly busy, I can't see straight... </span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> I have a mitten business..... & this year it was ridiculous.... I thought I would quit. You see, everybody & thier aunt makes mittens out of wool sweaters.... there are enough out there....</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> I turned down so many calls, that it makes me sick to think about it....</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;">Why was I not sewing all year long??? Again, thought that I would quit.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> I have been making them for more than 15 years. I used to make them for all the high school girls in my small group from Church, for Christmas, then I had a few ask me to make them for gifts. I went on an Alaskan cruise, gave them to my friends on the cruise, a store in Sitka saw them & asked me to make some for them. I gave them to some friends in New York as a gift, had a store there ask for some.... & it goes on.... so my business was born.</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> I have never done an art show... never wanted to, this fall a friend asked me to join her in a booth.... orders, orders, orders....</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> I delivered an order Christmas Eve.... I was so sick of it....</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> My facebook status said..... "Done, Done, Done..... Don't even ask" : )</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> Our kids came home for Christmas & I was not ready.......</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> But I am not finished.... folks are still calling</span><br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"> </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"> <span style="color: #660000;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I get some special orders for</span> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> both</span> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">in the pair to match exactly, but most want them to be whimisical & some-what match...</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_jC75v7x-vp0/TSvoFheVuHI/AAAAAAAAAQU/V-X1Wqn64yw/s1600/mittens+2+014.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" n4="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_jC75v7x-vp0/TSvoFheVuHI/AAAAAAAAAQU/V-X1Wqn64yw/s320/mittens+2+014.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> I had one order, for 4 pair, from a mom for her kids from the sweater that thier dad wore, before he died...</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> </span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> </span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> I want to quit.... I want to do something else fun for a while.... but no one wants mittens in July.... I have a big upholstery job, 2 chairs & an ottoman that I said would be done by Christmas.... not done yet.... My house is a mess... husband is going to Arizona next week & I am not going....too far behind.... ( I have the ticket...agh!!! )</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> </span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> </span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> So for now I am sewing, sewing, sewing......</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jC75v7x-vp0/TSvsCDPSbRI/AAAAAAAAAQc/oI--_tkAaY8/s1600/mittens+2+001.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" n4="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jC75v7x-vp0/TSvsCDPSbRI/AAAAAAAAAQc/oI--_tkAaY8/s320/mittens+2+001.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> </span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> Linking up this week with<a href="http://becolorful.typepad.com/becolorful/2011/01/pillow-of-the-week-34-and-another-motivated-monday.html"> Pam</a> over at Becolorful</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> for <a href="http://becolorful.typepad.com/">Motivated Mondays</a></span></div>Kathy@ Gone Northhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15044063883582389498noreply@blogger.com22tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8300365876551809810.post-85255858462222976442010-12-08T00:01:00.002-05:002010-12-08T01:02:47.346-05:00Collection of Christmas trees<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_jC75v7x-vp0/TP8GSS-36qI/AAAAAAAAAPc/jnsLZaabg14/s1600/mittens+034.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" ox="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_jC75v7x-vp0/TP8GSS-36qI/AAAAAAAAAPc/jnsLZaabg14/s320/mittens+034.JPG" width="320" /></a></div> <br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> <span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;">I have a collection of Vintage</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;"> Ceramic Christmas trees.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have them all over the house.</span><br />
<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana;"> I really never meant to collect them, it just happened. </span><br />
<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana;"> I happened to get my Grandmother's when she passed. Then I bought one at a thrift store for $2. Then a client told me they were pretty valuable & collectible. So if I saw one cheap, at a thrift store, I would buy it. I think I have 40 + of them in all shapes, colors & sizes. I have never paid more than $5. for one. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The very large in one in the middle was a gift from a friend, from Church. She had it in her barn, didn't want it any longer & gave it to me. The one on on the left, back... Last week, I was home with the flu, a friend calls, says that she saw one at GW for $4. but it did not have any lights, so she didn't think I would want it. I got dressed, not feeling well, drove down there, bought it for the $4. & the lights were all taped to the inside.... told her she could have gotten $100 for it on Ebay..... : ) </span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Playing around with them on the kitchen counter </span><br />
<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana;"> I am just getting out the decorations..... </span><br />
<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana;"> & they will all get moved around as I add : ) </span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Back entry table. </span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_jC75v7x-vp0/TP8KrydYfGI/AAAAAAAAAPs/GhUlgoX5hII/s1600/mittens+039.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" ox="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_jC75v7x-vp0/TP8KrydYfGI/AAAAAAAAAPs/GhUlgoX5hII/s320/mittens+039.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> One of the few I have in the Beauty shop.... this one I bought just a few weeks ago at a thrift store, no base, no lights, I hesitated, as they wanted $5. But I bought it. Went back this week & there was the base.... they gave it to me for free. </span><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ceramic wreath, goes with the collection. </span><br />
<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Back entry.... Goodwill $2. a few yrs. ago</span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana;"> Mantle tree, not lit, with mantle to be decorated </span><br />
<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana;"> with greenery in the next day or 2.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana;"> I am late getting at my decorating this year.</span><br />
<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana;"> I have been down with flu & busy with my wool business....</span><br />
<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana;"> I knew back in July I should have been sewing mittens & scarves : ) </span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana;"> More on that later.... I still have to decorate my 2 trees, put up the Dickens village.... & an upholstery job to finish by the weekend....</span><br />
<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana;"> Better get to it......</span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span>Kathy@ Gone Northhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15044063883582389498noreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8300365876551809810.post-62856776090130826402010-12-04T00:30:00.006-05:002010-12-04T10:15:56.696-05:00Just a little of where I have been.... <span style="color: #990000;"> </span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> I have been M.I.A. & before I start posting Christmas & all that goes with that, I will show you just a little of what I have been up to....</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> The week before Thanksgiving I flew to Dallas. I go there 4 - 5 times a year to work.</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And I need to explain the "work" I don't actually get paid in cash... BUT BOY do we work!!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">See these nice women all lined up. They are waiting to get in.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> It is kind of a long story, so I will try & give the short version. I have a friend in Dallas who is a clothing designer & manufacturer. And she is not small potatoes... she is HUGE.</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> She started a small company years ago to put her husband thru seminary, now she has 4 of her own labels, owns maybe another 4, her clothing is in lots of small upscale boutiques, she designs a large line for Dillards, she does a lot of Coldwater Creek, does some for Nordstrom's ..... & lots & lots more. Anyways 4 - 5 times a year they have warehouse sales in Dallas, & a few girlfriends & I fly in. And we work the sale. And work is not even the word for it... we bust ourselves for 3 days straight. And they pay us in clothing. How COOL is that??? !!!!!! </span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Women stand in line to get in... there are great deals... $300 coats for $50. , $150 tops for $20.... Each sale is just a season behind, this sale was fall clothing. </span> <br />
<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> At each sale, there will be 15,000 - 20,000 pieces of clothing. & I tell you the truth, I probably handle them all at least 2 - 3 times. We spend each day from before 7 until maybe 9 at night, hanging them back up, waiting on customers, picking them off the floor, squeezing thru the mobs & the racks to hang them back where they belong.</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> But I can tell you this after the fact. It is great fun. (don't ask me while I am at it, it would be a different answer : ) And truthfully, each time I book a ticket to go again, hubby says to me, "I thought you said that you were never doing that again" : ) </span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> ...MEN... they just don't get it... it is like child-birth, you forget until you are in the middle of it again, or the pain just after : ) </span><br />
<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> But my 2 good friends from Colorado, fly in. I come in from Michigan, & then the Texas girlfriends.... and we sort of have a big slumber party for 4 days in the guest house. We take things back that we might like & at night, we all try on for each other.... that part is</span> <span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">great for a lot of laughs. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet MS;"> <span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> I met all these great friends more than 20 yrs. ago, thru ministry & I am extremely blessed to have them all in my life. The work is hard, but good, but the friends I have made & met thru this have added so much to my life. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> The clothes don't hurt either & my family will plan that is what they will get for all occasions.. Christmas is coming : ) In fact they give me specifics on what they are in need of : ) </span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> I always come home extremely tired & I could write a book on flying these days... This past trip alone, in one day I was asked 3 times to get off a plane for mechanical issues, I was re-booked 4 times, took a bump, my luggage did not follow.... BUT.....I will forget that next time I book my ticket to go again....</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Now on to Christmas.... had the flu all week.... so now to get at it.....</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><strong>But This just brightened my morning, so I thought I would share it.</strong></span><br />
<strong><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"> 650 voices joined together at a Macy's in Philadelphia. I am sure to the delight of many surprised shoppers.</span></strong><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><strong> Wish that I had been there to experience this 1st hand</strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> <span style="font-size: large;"> Recently my husband & I took a week & went to Colorado...</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"> This was here waiting when we returned. </span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"> Isn't this just the most thoughtful gift??</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;">You see recently Kathy over @ <a href="http://sweetup-northmornings/">Sweet up north mornings</a> was having a </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;">contest / give-away. She & her sweet husband took a trip & asked us along. </span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> She blogged about thier travels & had us guess where they were. </span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> And I won... with the most correct guesses. Yippee!!!</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"> And I do confess, that I knew a few, guessed at a few & then googled one or two :) </span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"> So Kathy sent me this great gift. She packaged it just as one would expect from such a creative girl.... What fun to get a pink pkg. !</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"> And then her artful, fall notecard, that I know she must have made herself, was just too sweet. She said, "Because you are a new blogger & I want you to really love it" </span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> <span style="font-size: large;"> Well, so far I really do LOVE it.... I have not posted many yet. (I don't even know how to "Grab a button" or "Join a party" :) I am sure that this will help a LOT. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> It is filled with beautiful pictures, very helpful & interesting articles.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"> There is an article about The Vintage pearl, an online shop & blogging jewelry maker that I just Love. It was very encouraging to me, as you see I am contemplating an online business... (I will share that some day soon ) </span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"> There are articles on blogging etiquette, & how to take great pictures.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> </span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;">This is 145 pages of blogging inspiration & encouragement.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> <span style="font-size: large;"> If you have never been to visit Kathy's place, you need to stop by... </span><a href="http://sweetup-northmornings.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-size: large;">here</span></a></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She has the SWEETEST blog, takes the most incredible pictures & was the very 1st blog that I followed. So this is a very special deal for me. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"> Thank You Kathy (& Dave) for such </span><br />
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Kathy@ Gone Northhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15044063883582389498noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8300365876551809810.post-55414350136933522612010-10-12T00:05:00.006-04:002010-10-21T15:43:48.550-04:00Just about Perfect Weekend!!<span id="goog_600465206" style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> <span id="goog_1530688229"></span><span id="goog_1530688230"></span> <span id="goog_970179113"></span><span id="goog_970179114"></span> <span id="goog_1729191749"></span><span id="goog_1729191750"></span> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #660000;"> We have an "Up North Place" here in Michigan. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #660000;"> And we go just about every weekend. This time of year is deer hunting, so if "we" (DIL's & I ) want to spend time with our hubby's, we all go. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #660000;"> A Perfect Friday would include a ride up, hitting every Thrift Store along the way. And I wish that you could have been along for the ride.... The color here in MI. is SOOooo beautiful right now. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> Did you know??? The more red the leaves, the more sugar in the sap...</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then on Saturday afternoon 2 of my DIL'S & I took a drive to the little up north Michigan town of Onekama.... wine tasting our way there</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then...don't know why, but I have no pics of the town that was having an Oktoberfest ????? But we did a little wine tasting there also...</span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> </span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> (I didn't do much... designated driver...... but that may explain no pics :) </span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> 75 & sunny, little art in the park, in a park on the lake..... </span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> a little shopping, beautiful day, beautiful color all around</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> Sunday afternoon included a little river fishing.....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #660000;"> A little lunch at the river ........ </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #660000;"> And then as the guys took back to the tree stands we did a little more picture taking.......... (view from our bedroom window ) </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #660000;"> Underneath an old railroad bridge</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #660000;"> Then Carrie snapped a pic of Chuck & myself... </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #660000;"> (I never share pics of me...... this will be it... squinting & all :) </span></span><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_jC75v7x-vp0/TLPd5tKU7QI/AAAAAAAAAN8/ZxLQap5DEeA/s1600/b+&+K+wedding.bmp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ex="true" height="225" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_jC75v7x-vp0/TLPd5tKU7QI/AAAAAAAAAN8/ZxLQap5DEeA/s320/b+&+K+wedding.bmp" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> they live in Colorado, moved there to do a Church Plant.... BUT...... we are leaving in just 1 more day to visit.....</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #660000;"> Linking this up to <a href="http://alittleofthisandthat2.blogspot.com/2010/10/simple-pleasures-drinking-h2o.html">Simple Pleasures @ A little of this and that <span id="goog_1158848090"></span><span id="goog_1158848091"></span> <span id="goog_730811673"></span><span id="goog_730811674"></span> <span id="goog_1922869031"></span><span id="goog_1922869032"></span> <span id="goog_2040702701"></span><span id="goog_2040702702"></span></a></span></span>Kathy@ Gone Northhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15044063883582389498noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8300365876551809810.post-84318978900965049002010-10-04T00:30:00.003-04:002010-10-04T13:08:03.810-04:00A Little / A LOT of Art....& I am a Winner.... <span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1st........</span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> I am a Winner.... : ) </span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> Recently <a href="http://sweetup-northmornings.blogspot.com/">Kathy over at Sweet up North Mornings</a> was hosting a party/contest. <a href="http://sweetup-northmornings.blogspot.com/2010/09/fallerizing-beginsand-winner.html">"Where in the World are Dave & Kathy?"</a> They went on a fun vacation & invited us to go along. As she posted about thier travels, she asked us to guess where in the world they were. I was the lucky one to get the most correct guesses.... </span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> This is especially sweet for me. You see I am a new blogger, don't even know how to do it all yet. BUT Kathy's sweet blog was the 1st one I followed.</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> I don't even remember how I found her, but one night I just followed a blog trail & I came upon her lovely blog & spent the rest of the night visiting. </span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> She has a wonderful, restful place, & takes absolutely fabulous pictures that make you just want to grab a cup of tea & sit for a while.</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> Kathy is the one that inspired me to start. I am always anxious for her new posts, to see what great idea she has come up with now. </span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> Thanks Dave & Kathy for bringing us along on your travels. </span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> It was GREAT FUN!</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> Make sure that you stop in & visit her <a href="http://sweetup-northmornings.blogspot.com/">here</a></span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And then earlier this week I spent an evening at <a href="http://www.artprize.org/">Art Prize</a> in Grand Rapids Mi. </span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> An art contest/exhibit with over 1700 pieces of art, scattered all over the city.</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> It was a beautiful Michigan night, perfect weather, huge crowds & some fabulous pieces. The public gets to vote & there are some huge dollar prizes.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> A few pictures......</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This lovely quilt was made from much smaller pieces than you can actually see here.... & with my LOVE of fabric, sewing & quilting, I was incredibly impressed with this one. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> The painting above is not a painting but a mosaic.</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> Currently in the top 10.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> This piece is also in the top 10</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> A penny made entirely of pennies... also a top vote getter. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> And then some questionable art ???? :) </span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This was a pile of junk....looks like it came right from the scrap yard.. :)</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> If you look real close.... that is my DIL Carrie in the mirror & ME.. taking the picture :) <br />
And then my cheesy little camers died.... </span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> We took in a lot in one evening & hoping to go back one more time. </span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> There is one more week. Now, the voting is just for the top 10. All, in that group will take away some money, from $7,000 to $250,000 for the winner. It is a fun way to spend some time..... with art & food vendors all over the city.</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> This is only the 2nd year for Art Prize, but it has grown since last year & is bound to only get better.... A brilliant idea of Rick DeVos.....</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> Linking this with Pam @ Becolorful for <a href="http://becolorful.typepad.com/">MotivatedMondays</a> </span>Kathy@ Gone Northhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15044063883582389498noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8300365876551809810.post-87428536351904423572010-09-28T23:26:00.002-04:002010-09-28T23:38:10.715-04:00A Special day! <a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jC75v7x-vp0/TKKnUa86L_I/AAAAAAAAALY/x2_tcPwWkg4/s1600/brevin+001.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" px="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jC75v7x-vp0/TKKnUa86L_I/AAAAAAAAALY/x2_tcPwWkg4/s320/brevin+001.JPG" width="320" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> These sweet boys are 1 today. Aren't they the most adorable? </span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> The one on the left is Alex, the one on the right, Ian.</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> Thier mother is my little cousin, who is really like my sister. </span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> Kim, had a few miscarriages & then a still born baby boy, Troy. And then after much doctoring, it did not look good for getting pregnant again. Then after some special, expensive procedures.... she was told "Twins" <strong><em>BUT</em></strong> one will most likely not survive....</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> <strong><em>BUT</em></strong> God is <strong><em>SO</em></strong> good & she carried them all the way to term. </span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> We celebrated them this weekend.... I made them something I had seen out there in Blogland....</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A Travel High Chair</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> I figured they will get a LOT of toys.... & heck they are 1, they don't know.... I'll do something for Mom.... </span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> She LOVES them. </span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Not a 4 pt. safety high Chair, but they will work. And instead of carting in 2 high chairs wherever they go.... these will do in a pinch. </span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> She said, "All the wiggling & they stayed put.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> Aren't these boys just the cutest? Love them to pieces!! </span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"> </span>Kathy@ Gone Northhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15044063883582389498noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8300365876551809810.post-91140462217300748682010-09-26T22:55:00.005-04:002010-09-27T14:22:25.739-04:00Putting Summer away<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_jC75v7x-vp0/TJ_82hxvgqI/AAAAAAAAAK4/L6585S8Q9Gg/s1600/007.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" px="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_jC75v7x-vp0/TJ_82hxvgqI/AAAAAAAAAK4/L6585S8Q9Gg/s320/007.JPG" width="206" /></a></div> <span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Well, fall is coming to Michigan.... A tree in the backyard is starting to turn...</span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jC75v7x-vp0/TJ_-VombQMI/AAAAAAAAAK8/JIVBwqLRqx4/s1600/002.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" px="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jC75v7x-vp0/TJ_-VombQMI/AAAAAAAAAK8/JIVBwqLRqx4/s320/002.JPG" width="320" /></a></div> <span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial;"> A pumpkin field that we pass on the drive home from up north. </span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial;"> There are miles & miles of pumpkins near our place up north. I love to take the back roads on the way home this time of year just to see all that orange.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial;"> I haven't posted in more than a month, busy, busy. I started a new job, quit same job. Went on 2 trips, spent every weekend up north, getting things ready for deer hunting, well hubby & sons did... I hung new curtains, that I made, hung some new shelving, re-arranged furniture, had new cable TV installed + a new big screen.....( can't deer hunt & not have good TV for football ) </span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial;"> </span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial;"> Anyways, as we get ready for fall, we pulled out some bushes, planted some mums, added a new bench & I am sadly putting away the geraniums</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial;"> So before I put it all away, I thought that I would show you something I did earlier this summer.</span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_jC75v7x-vp0/TKABGY493XI/AAAAAAAAALA/O8M-fHCtvBE/s1600/silver+stand+004.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" px="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_jC75v7x-vp0/TKABGY493XI/AAAAAAAAALA/O8M-fHCtvBE/s320/silver+stand+004.JPG" width="320" /></a></div> <span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> I took these thrift store finds... 2 candlesticks 1.00 each & this bowl thingie, also $1.00</span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_jC75v7x-vp0/TKABuBfspTI/AAAAAAAAALE/2m_UsNQWfAU/s1600/garden+010.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" px="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_jC75v7x-vp0/TKABuBfspTI/AAAAAAAAALE/2m_UsNQWfAU/s320/garden+010.JPG" width="240" /></a></div> <span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And made a little Garden art........</span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jC75v7x-vp0/TKACeio0zuI/AAAAAAAAALI/s6eQMiGvch8/s1600/garden+011.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" px="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jC75v7x-vp0/TKACeio0zuI/AAAAAAAAALI/s6eQMiGvch8/s320/garden+011.JPG" width="240" /></a></div> <span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A 50 cent plate & then when I thought it lacked something, I added a thrift store flower pot that someone had embellished 30 cents : )</span> <br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_jC75v7x-vp0/TKADb-_ni6I/AAAAAAAAALM/E77MM1-m5ts/s1600/garden+015.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" px="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_jC75v7x-vp0/TKADb-_ni6I/AAAAAAAAALM/E77MM1-m5ts/s320/garden+015.JPG" width="320" /></a></div> <span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> And some Gorilla Glue, my new favorite tool </span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jC75v7x-vp0/TKAD-sK_4kI/AAAAAAAAALQ/Hyr2eYNwXkk/s1600/garden+008.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" px="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jC75v7x-vp0/TKAD-sK_4kI/AAAAAAAAALQ/Hyr2eYNwXkk/s320/garden+008.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial;"> It looked pretty cute near the back door.......</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial;"> And recently I bought this at Goodwill for $3.00, an ugly lamp that will be something for the yard next summer.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Can't you just see it with a great finial on top, or a gazing ball.....</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Next summer...............Sigh........... </span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial;"> Joining <a href="http://becolorful.typepad.com/becolorful/">Pam over at Be Colorful for Motivated Mondays </a></span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial;"> for my 1st ever Blog party</span>Kathy@ Gone Northhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15044063883582389498noreply@blogger.com4