HAPPY PINK SATURDAY TO ALL

Good morning to all and Happy Pink Saturday!   Hope you all are having a great Pink Saturday....   I am going to be moving my craft studio to my attached garage,  it is  a over sized  two car one. And the room I am in now is not big enough. So I am going to working on getting it ready to move, we have one long wall that is really not being used just mainly for storage of junk really. So I told hubby I want to move it in there. I will have so much more room to stretch out lots of wall space for completed projects and storage for supplies. I can paint the wall which is just nice dry wall and I have a rug down already. So I am excited about the move. It will take a bit of time but in the end will be so worth it, for heat I am going to use a heater, until we get out wood burner up and running.  Then that will be my source of heat, which I really don't need a lot of with my Hot Flashes... lol      HMMM  was I supposed to do a different post today.....   lets see.. don't tell me  I will think of it...   OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH  yeaaaaaaa    PINK SATURDAY... HA HA HA  SILLY ME!   

Ok here is my Pink pretty.   Are you all ready for it.....  Well even if yo are not, I will show you any way, or I might forget again.....

Wow it took me a while to find this, I really need to get my photos in order,  I almost for got what I was looking for. haha 

Any this is what I am working on my white pillow shams, I have a really wonderful pattern that  I am embroidering on them in Pink and brown, for my guest bed room. They are Pink Roses you can click on the photo to get a better look. 

 

Sorry that it is so wrinkled, but  when I am done which I am on the second one I will iron and show you all. It is supposed to be all in  Red, some of you know about the Red Work style, but I wanted the Pink and Brown, I love the way they look together. And some day they will match the guest room when redone.  I have  made a couple of Red Work projects in the past. I love the style. In a later post I will show you all the ones I have done. Well I hope you enjoyed my Pink pretties, have a great day and wonderful weekend... God Bless

Oh and a huge Thank you to Beverly at How Sweet the Sound, she is the hostess of this  great Day..  Stop by and check out more Pretty Pink Saturday post, and have  some relaxing fun..

Hugs;

Alaura

IS SOMETHING MISSING????

Hello there;  Yes something is missing,,,,,  from my post that is. I was supposed to show you all what my give away is going to be, but as usual, the day was not what it was supposed to be. I think I should stop making plans, then when things fall apart it won't be a problem.  Does that make any sense,  hmmmm   hope I did not loose any of you.. ha ha   Not sure how the day got a way from me today , but some how it did, and I am so so sorry about this. So I will tell you all what I am giving away, then take a photo of it all and post it this weekend....  Notice how I did not give a day,,,,  that was on purpose so this won't happen again.    Oh and you will have to stop by again,,,,,  he he...  How sneaky of me.

In my give a way is a  Book by Rachel Ashwell, love her, a garden journal to write in and keep photos and such of your garden or what ever, and some other goodies that I will keep until later, ha ha,  Now you will have to stop by again,,  So I hope you all will be leaving some comments to enter my GRAND! GIVE AWAY! FOR MY 100 POST.  Which by the way is over that now. But that does not matter any way.....  Does it..   I didn't think so.

I really need to find a photo for this post, I think is not right to me to not have a photo. So I will be right back, ok...   now don't leave yet...

Ok I found one; this is my Daughter Heather and Son Dustin, poor Santa he can hardly see, Dustin was not too happy to sit on Santas lap. He was a very shy boy,,, not any more.....  Oh how I miss those days...   I like the wing chair Santa is setting on...

I feel better now that I have a photo on, don't you?????  I thought so.

We had a very windy and sunny day today, Buttttttttttt tomorrow we are going cold   brrrr  with a chance of   dare I say it.....

SNOW   EWWWWW  so not ready for that...  I saw on the news  some one had tons of it,, silly old me can't remember where but it looked very cold and lots of shoveling....   Ok I will say good bye now, I think I drove every one crazy enough for now. lol   I am off to get a post ready to post tomorrow for Pink Saturday... 

Now I wish to thank you all for your wonderful comments and for taking the time to visit and  then to leave one.  As I have said before you all are the BEST!  PAT YOUR SELF ON THE BACK.....

God Bless;

Hugs;

Alaura

JUST A REMINDER OF MY GIVE AWAY

 

Good Afternoon;  Wow we are having a very windy day today here in Indiana...  I wonder if  it will be worth all the trouble to rake my front yard of the leaves,, or will they just blow back in later. ha ha  My three trees are just now turning colors, they are very late bloomers. So they don't drop their leaves until the end of Nov. or the first of Dec. which is such a bother cos all the other leaves are already swept up by the street dept. Then ours just sits in the street until spring. bummer.. oh well.  This is not what I am posting about any way. I wonder alot lol  sorry....

This is just  to remind you all that I will be showing tomorrow my 100 post give away. I am getting all the pretties together to take a photo of then post tomorrow. Now sure what time probably late afternoon, Heather has the day off work tomorrow and we are going to go look at some bushes for her house. So please stop by and take a look and leave a comment for the drawing... I am so excited about my drawing, I love to give things a way,.............   well some times...lol    So keep me in mind and have a wonderful day...  God Bless;

Hugs;

Alaura

PLANNING MY THANKSGIVING DINNER

 

Good afternoon every one; What a wonderful day it is too. We are having our Indian Summer this week, and I am so loving it.  I am having a very slow day today,not sure why, I have so much to do now. Planning our family Thanksgiving Family Dinner, cleaning up my garage to make more room for every one. I love have our garage connected to our house, that way we can use it for lots more room. It is a large one too, and it heats well with a heater if we need to. I have some large rugs out there also to keep the tootsies warm.  And it is a great spot for the kiddies to run and play in.

I am trying to think of  a different way to fix my turkey this year, so if any one has some great ways please let me know. I love to try new ways to fix and old favorite. I would love to have some new dinner ware too, I will have to do some looking around. This year I am going sort of  fancy casual. I am getting kind of tired of the paper plates and such, I do have a nice dishwasher and two daughters who can do some washing,,,  oh and my son  and son in laws... lol  

So how are you all doing your Thanksgiving this year, I would love to know.  I  try to keep to a traditional Thanksgiving, with everyone saying what they are most thankful for. Maybe this year I will have them all write it down and put it in a large bowl and take one out and read them one at a time. That sounds pretty good.

I have the TV off so every one can talk and visit play games or what ever.  I grew up that way, not TV  ha ha   So if any one loves the football games  sorry,, not here.  On my hubbys side they are big  fishing and hunting people, so deer hunting it the the big thing with them.  Hubby does not hunt any more, yea  but he does fish,   Oh before I forget; on Friday I will show what I am giving away in honor of my 100 post. So stop by and check it out...   I hope every one has a wonderful day today. I thank you all for your very sweet comments on my grand babies..  Please stop by any time, I so love the company and comments....

God Bless;

Hugs;

Alaura

SOME CUTE TRICK OR TREATERS

Good evening;  I would just bet most if not all of you are glued to the TV watching the updates on the voting.  And that is what Hubby and I are doing. It is going to be a long night..  

I have some very cute photos of some cute little girls, who just happen to be my four grand daughters. lol  They stopped by for some goodies on Friday night.

  Are they not the cutest little cheer leaders you ever saw,  they are the cheer leaders for the Indiana Colts, yea team!!!   They  were having lots of fun. My three pumpkins I carved turned out pretty good, behind the girls is one of them, the face has stars for eyes and huge lips  with a oval nose, she was a cute pumpkin.

And this is my Little Maddy Moo. She was having a great time with her little bucket of candy. This is her fist time out trick or treating, Madison is my youngest grand child. She is so sweet looking in her cow costume.   It was a pretty warm night hubby and I set out side to hand out candy, I had lots of fun.  I dressed up as a little girl, my neighbor's stopped over  to check  me out. Some of the other neighbor's were setting out side also so we had a nice time talking and handing out the goodies to the little hobgoblins. lol;   Oh and yes hubby took a photo of me to show you all, but he has not down loaded it yet. 

Hubby took this photo that is why it is so dark, if you look real hard you can barely see me in the middle.  At least my white gloves showed up ok.  lol   oh you can see the whole pumpkin too. hey not bad.

I just had to take a photo of my scarecrow, it took me  for ever to carve it. I had pumpkin all over the place. But he came out pretty good.  I should have taken it when it was darker you could have seen him better. all the kids loved him.  Well I hope you all enjoyed my halloween photos.  It was such fun, except for getting sick, that was not fun. All better now. yeaaaaaaaaaa... Thanks for all your well wishes and prayers.  And I am going to be having a give a way  in honor of my 100 post. Which I did not realized was already here. Wow how time does fly,  I did not  even think I would have that much to talk about.  What a surprise that is to me. 

I so love having a place to  share my thoughts and ideas with others. When I started my blog, it was just a place to go to  put down my thoughts, and place to get to know other ladies, and make new and dear friends. Which I have done, you are all my treasures and will always keep you close by. I thank you all so much for letting me your family, and being my friends with whom I can share with.  I will let you all know when I will have my give a way, some time this week I will showing what it will be.   God Bless;

Hugs;

Alaura

FEELING BETTER AND A AWARD

Good evening to all my sweet friends. I am so blessed and thankful to have such wonderful friends as you. You have given me much heart felt well wishes, I am over whelmed .  I  thank you all so much  for your friendship.   THANK YOU....

Now I have been working on redoing a small chest dresser in my living room. I am done with it, well actually I finished it the day before I got sick, so I am going to show you all what it looks like now, I think it came out pretty good. I wish I had a before photo but I don't and for some reason I just did not think to take one. oops...  sorry.

 

I love this old chest, I found it in my father in laws  pole barn just sitting on a big stack of junk. And I said I wanted that it he did not, and he gave it to me.  This was years ago, it had no paint just dirty wood, but I could see the beauty underneath. Hubby was just beside him self, like what are you going to do with it and where are you going to put it...  you know stuff like that, I said don't worry I will find a spot for it, and I did.  Hey ladies  we can always find room for a new treasure, am I right.....   Well any way back then I painted it a dark maroon color, it was like that for years. But I have been wanting to redo it in a creamy white, but never seemed to get to it.  Until  last week.

I glued the scroll wood work on the front, it fit just perfect, and looked like it belonged there.  I sprayed painted the draw pulls a hammered black, they came out great.  I  had to put three coats of paint on this baby to cover up the dark paint,  that for some weird reason I like it.. ewww  shame on me...  Good think I woke up and saw the light....

I am looking for a great stencil to add to the sides of it. Not sure what kind but I think it needs something. So I will just keep looking for the one thing that will say    HELLO IT IS ME YOU WANT.... lol   After I let all three coats dry I did some sanding to distress it,  then I put on some light layers of gel stain in walnut to age it.

I really loved how it turned out. The photos really don't show how great it is very well. Now I am on the look out for just the right pretties to set on top. I did  change the dark green quilt for a lighter one, it looks so much better. I will have to take a photo of the whole thing to show you all how nice it looks. Guess I am going to go visit some garage sales this weekend. YEAAAAA   

And now for my award, Dawn  from Dawns day break gave me this wonderful award. Dawn you are such  a great friend. I love her blog and reading her posts. 

This is the second one from my Dear Friend. I thank you so much for this award Dawn. I am  honored to have such an award such as this.  I have a couple of others I really need to put up, boy when you get sick for a couple of days, things sure do pile up.  

So I am supposed to post the rules. ok here they are.

1. Please put the logo on your blog
2. Place a link to the person from whom you received the award
3. Nominate at least 7 or more blogs
4. Put the links of those blogs on your blog
5. Leave a message on their blogs to tell them.

 

Now I have to pass this along to some others.  But there are so many who are deserving of this and many other awards out there, that I really can't pick. It just makes me feel really rotten to leave some one out or who has never received one. So here is how I am doing this,   now I know that I am not doing it the way it says to but here goes.

To the first seven of you who leave a comment you may take your award with you. Or if any of you who have not even received and award   PLEASE TAKE IT WITH YOU ..... I feel every one of you deserve one.  Don't feel awkward about taking it I am giving it to you,  so grab it and take.  Again thank you Dawn   Love  you...

God Bless;

Hugs;

Alaura

UP DATE ON MEEEEEEEEE

Hello every one, I thought while I was still a wake I would give you all a up date on my health.  Yesterday day was a awful day could hardly breath and my head felt like it could POP!. The cold med. I take  makes me sleep most of the day, which hubby says is a good thing, hmmmm  I wonder what he does when I am a sleep...  hmmmm lol    Any way today is just a bit better, I can sort of breath out to two of my nose holes. hahaha   my coughing is getting less and less that is good.

OH and Beverly I am so so sorry I did not put on my Pink Saturday Pretties. I just was not awake enough to do it, and on Friday after all the trick or treaters were done I was done. Put my PJs on and went to sleep. I really feel bad about it.

Well I want to thank everyone for you kind comments, my friends you are the best in the world..... hugs to all of you.  I have to say good bye now, I am getting sleepy again, I hope to catch up with you all soon.   God Bless

Hugs;

Alaura