FORGOT TO TAKE PHOTO'S OOPS!

Good evening to all my dear blog friends.  Today was a wonderful warm day we had, it was almost 60, yippy  yeaa!!!!!   But sadly it is not going to stay long. Tomorrow is going to be rainy with very high winds and thunderstorms. Which I am not going to be up set about, the temp is going to drop and with the rain it is going to be freezing rain. boo boo  I hope it does not stay long. But today was like a Spring day, my bearded deep blue Iris's are starting to peek through the ground, my Weeping Pea tree is getting some buds on it, so I hope they don't blow away or freeze off.  I do have them covered up to protect them. 

Yesterday was a fun day,  my two grandsons and I were making Valentine Cards for their Mommy and Daddy and all the grand parents. They had such a great time, as well as I did. We had glue stick and stickers glitter paper and all that goes with it every  where. lol  And I have failed as a true blogger, I did not use my camera to take photos of them......  I know I know, shame on me to not capture a time as that forever.  I can take a photo of the cards Zachary made for Papaw and I he was so so proud. Corbin is into Penguins so he was making them. 

So since I did not have a photos to share, I am going to show the two quilts I made a while ago. 

 

This is a Irish Chain Quilt; I made this for my oldest daughter Heather. It took me a long time to quilt, I hand quilted around each 2 inch square and in each white block I put in a star and half moon. I won't do that again. My poor hands were so sore and tired. but she loved it, I think it came out pretty good.

This one I made for my grandson Zachary's baby shower, it had some matching pillows. Now as you can probably see that in the last row one block does not match the others. It is supposed to be a Log Cabin quilt, but some how I sewed the block the wrong way and did not notice it until I was taking this photo....  [look of shock]   So I call this my Humility Quilt, because it does not have to be perfect.  I am the type that has to be perfect in what every I am making or doing, and that is a hard thing to break out of. But know one noticed it right away any way.  I have a couple of Quilts that are humility quilts, lol like the Amish call them, so I am in good company.  I have make quilts for most of the grand babies before they were born, I will have to do some digging to find them. not sure where I put the photos.  I have made two Guardian Angles Quilts, they were very hard  for me to make, as I was not very good back then with triangles, which the whole thing was make of.  The second one was made for my niece Maddy Grace  she had to have lots of Dr. appts. and almost had to have open heart surgery, so I made the quilt for her keep near her. Her Mommy said that she stills has it and takes it every where, she was adopted from the Philippines when she was about 2 yrs old with some health problems. And today she is in first grade and doing fine, she is such a little doll.  Some day I will have to do a post on all of my grand kids and grand nieces and nephews, just to show them off. lol   I hope you all enjoyed my photos even though they had nothing to do with the card making post. sorry about that.....  

I want to thank you all for the visits and hope you will continue to stop back, I love reading all the wonderful comments you all leave.  Oh dear I hear Thunder out side, I love the Thunderstorms there is just something about them, they relax me, except if they are really bad then it is kind of scary.....  :}  

OK ladies until next time; God Bless;

Hugs;

Alaura

I AM SO TIRED; BUSY WEEKEND.

Hello to all my dear friends. like my title says I am very tired, hubby and I had three boys and three dogs this weekend. The boys were our oldest and youngest Grand sons, and my two fur babies and one fur grand baby. My S I L took my daughter to a romantic weekend for an early Valentine's gift, so we watched their boys and one dog. Then my Son took his wife out for their Anniversary and needed a sitter for their son. So I had a very full weekend. But what a time we all had, it was so much fun, but they sure wore me out. lol  Our oldest grand sons are 15 and 13, so they were trying to teach me how to play video games, well you can probably guess how that went.  I was so bad but they were so great about it, how sweet of them. We took them to a movie last night, we went to see Taken, which was a good movie by the way. It was not a very foul mouth one or ladies with out apparel, so it was a good movie with the grand kids.  Then I made their favorite food that I make which is Lemon Pepper Chicken, my boys love it, for dessert I make a very moist chocolate cake with chocolate fudge frosting...  mmmmmmm :] so so good and bad. lol 

Then this afternoon we took them to lunch at their favorite restaurant Los Limos.  So hubby and the boys stuffed them selves.  Went to the store to get a few things, they each picked out their favorite Magazines and then we came home so I could just drop. lol   Mom and Dad came to pick them up about an hr ago. So all is well and very quite. yeaaaaa   I love to have my grand kids, but I too love it when they go home. Does that make me a bad grandma,,,,,,,,,,,  hope not, I do love all 11 of them so very much. 

So I am so sorry that I have not been able to visit you all for Pink Saturday, I love to visit everyone as much as I can to see all the beautiful Pinkness.  I will be making some stops though. I want to thank you all for the wonderful comments you have left me, and the visits. I so love for you to stop by  from time to time, it means a lot to me. Well I have to put up my tired feet and sip my coffee,and do some blog surfing. I hope you all have had a great weekend, and my your Monday be a bright and sunny one. Until next time; God bless;

Hugs;

Alaura   

ANOTHER DAY AND IT IS PINK;

Good morning to all my fellow Pink blogger's .  I hope you all have had a wonderful week.  Before I start, I want to thank you for you kind and caring comments concerning my nephew, he is doing fine now,Praise the Lord.  Now on for Pink Saturday, it seems to be showing up faster and faster. I no sooner post one and then here is another. My my how time flies, when you are not looking.

 

Now I know that there is not a lot of Pink in this, but I just had to share it with you. This is a dresser scarf  that my sweet Mom make so many years ago, it is very old and not in such perfect shape, but it is beautiful to me.  I used to keep it in a drawer to protect it, but I decided to bring it out now, it is on my dresser that we bought at a local Antique mall,  so now it has a home. And every time I see it I think of my Mom.  I took a photo of how it looks so far on my dresser, I am looking for a dresser set now to complete the look.

The long gloves I found at the same Antique mall, I fell in love with them. I really need to get some candles for my holders. They were a gold color and I sprayed painted them and then did and antique look to them with a gold stain. I took some wax and buffed them and they came out great. 

Now this sweet wall hanging was made by my two daughters and my oldest granddaughter Caileigh J.  They surprised me with it on Grandparents Day.  It means so much to me, this was made the year after we lost our daughter April Caileigh's  Mommy.  Now I know what you are all probably thinking,  why does it say Mamaw Goddess. well I will tell you all.  I remember the day that April told us she was going to have another baby, we were so excited. I was making a joke saying that  this time can the grand baby call me Goddess instead of  Grandma.  So  April and Chas were teaching Caileigh to say Mamaw Goddess she was two yrs old.  So now she is 9 yrs old now and still calls me that, now my other three grand daughters call me that. It is something so special to me to hear them call me that, because my daughter taught her.

You should see how people look when they hear that out in public. lol I love the look on their faces...  

Well I hope you all enjoyed my Pink Saturday photos, and the sweet stories that go with them.  I hope you all have a very Pink Day, and too see more beautiful Pink pretties stop by our wonderful hostess Beverly of  How Sweet the Sound to see more pretties.   until next time; God Bless;

Hugs;

Alaura

THURSDAY, A LONG DAY;

Good afternoon, it is such a beautiful day today. The sun is out and not much wind, and the temp. is in the high 30's.  And the weekend is going to be near 50, so I am hopping that  all the snow and very cold days are behind us now.  If the snow was all melted in my yard, I would have been out doing some type of yard work, lol    I am so looking forward to Spring, aren't you?  Yesterday was not a good day, my Sister called me early and asked if I would go to the V A  hospital, Chris her youngest was in the ER, with  food poisoning. He ate Sushi  the night before, he looked so bad. We were really worried about him. He  has  sent to Iraq  twice, and them comes home to this. Silly boy,  he also had a very bad head ache so the Dr. gave him a shot for it, well he must have had a bad reaction to it, cos he was just so nervous and shaky we were really started to get up set. So sister went to get the Dr. and he had to give him another shot to calm him down. Then he needed to have a CT scan. That came out ok which was such a relief. We did not get home until 3:30 pm.   I got to drive his car back to sisters house, it was soooooo much fun, it was a Six speed. I asked him how well it cornered,,,, he he  my poor sweet nephew.  He is in Collage and will grad. this May, then he will be off to Officer training we are all so proud of him.   I have a photo of him when he was over in Iraq,  his job was to  search the Iraqi workers who worked on the base, any way he was holding a very large gun. It was so hard to believe that,  that was my baby nephew. I will have to scan it to show him off....   Do I sound like I am boasting.... sorry if I am.....   Ok enough of Christopher...  

So  I was unable to start on my chair yesterday, I started to work on it today. I have it on my dinning room table, and started to sand it to get the satin off.  I have taken some photos and will post on them later. I can't wait to start painting it I also have a gel stain to rub on it to age it a bit, then I will be putting  on some very beautiful fabric on the seat.  I won a gorgeous piece of fabric on E-Bay today it is a Toile, I hope it is going to be enough to cover the seat of my bench, it will be perfect.  I wish I had some photos of it, but when I get it I will make sure I show it off.  he he   Well that is about, not much going on,,,  well at least today that is. 

Have to go and start hubby's dinner now,  so Ladies until next time.   Have a great day,,,  God Bless;

Hugs;

Alaura

ANOTHER DAY ANTHER PROJECT;

Good Afternoon every one. We seem to be getting better weather these days. although it is still quit cold, the Sun is out and oh so pretty. With the days growing longer, I can't help but feel Spring is not too far off. I have been dreaming of what I will be planting this year, and how I will be our front yard. This year I am only going to concentrate on the front. I really need curb appeal bad. lol

So until then I am still trying to finish our family room, painting and putting up the molding with the bead board.  But my next project is my Ladder back chair, it sits at my kitchen desk, so I thought I would paint it a creamy white,,[what else]  and pad the seat with some quilt batting and shabby fabric.  I am hopping to begin some time today with it,,,  notice I said Hope, to start it..lo

Then I have my Mothers old Deacon's bench, it really needs to be redone. I have not been wanting to redo it since my daddy passed it along to me after my Mom passed. But I finally decided that Mom would not mind if I redid her bench. I really love it and am so happy to have it in my home, every time I look at it,, it reminds me of Mom.  I will be taking before and after photos and each and every step along the way.  I still  have to start on my lap quilt, I have not been able to get to it yet.  I get so far behind on things, and drives me crazy. lol...  I think I need a kick in the rear, some days, ok maybe not. I think my rear is just fine. :}   OH  I finally broke in my new Paula Dean Pans, it was very hard for me to use them, but I was very brave and closed my eyes and jumped right in,  am missed the pan,,,,,,,,  so just a reminder do not close your eyes when you are dumping in a bag of  veggies, it is not a pretty sight......   When I was all done with the pan I gave it a nice soapy warm bath and rinsed it off and dried it, tucked it in its new home.  I was so nervous about using it, but all went well,,,,,,  at least after I opened my eyes that is... lol    

Well Ladies that is bout it for now, my fur babies are wanting to go out, and you know what that means.........  I want to Thank you all for you very kind comments about my fireplace redo you all are so up lifting  I treasure each and every one...  Have a great day;

Until next time;;  God Bless;

Hugs;

Alaura 

MET. MONDAY

Good morning every one, Happy Monday. I hope everyone had a great weekend. Hubby and I stayed home most of the time, it has been very cold and windy out.  When it is like that my Fibro, and arthritis  acts up and I am taking Pain pills more than I have too.  But today it is not too bad, Praise the Lord.  Ok this is my first time doing a Metamorphose Monday.  So I hope I do it right.  Today I am showing you the before and after of my Fireplace. I have been thinking of  redoing it for quit awhile, but just never got around to do it. To many other things just kept getting in the way. I still have to finish paining the walls too, I am so behind on things, and if I don't get going on my walls,,,, well when spring finally shows up,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,  well you can forget anything that has to do with the inside.... lol  So on to the before shot.

 

The Mantle is painted the same color as the walls, it is a  Sage Green color.  I had to spray the bricks with a  Soot cleaner, and it really worked great, it took off all that nasty black stuff.  But I was not happy with the tan color of the bricks, so I let them go for a year, until I could decide how I was going to make them look so much more Chic.  I have been doing our house in a shabby chic style, and the color of the bricks was just not working. 

A wider shot of the fireplace.  As you can see I have all my supplies out and ready to get started. 

It took longer to tape up the windows then it did to paint it.  But in the end it was well worth it. 

This is after the first wash on the bricks, when I stood back to survey it, I was not sure I like it. So I waited a bit before I did another light coat. I did not want a heavy paint on it, but I did want just a bit more.

So I was thinking that I would spray the fire surround before I did another coat of white, it might not need it. So out came my can of spray paint I just went for it.  I had to open my patio doors to let out some of the paint smell....  Woooohooooo   I was getting light headed...lol    Well so far so good, I did not get black all over the newly painted bricks. So that was a good sign.  I put on two coats of spray paint. 

OK now it was all dry and I could take off all that blue tape and see how great it looked.  I was a little nervous about how everything was going to look.   Would I like it,,,, would my hubby like how about my family would they like it,,,,,  or worse yet  would any of you out there  my dear blog Family ,, would you like it....... 

Please do not look at the yellow chair in the right side, I am going to have it recovered, I love the style of the chair. Hubby and I found it at a antique mall here, but just have not had the time to get it done yet...  And I have  not decided what fabric and colors to use on it...  That will take a while.  One thing about me that drives my hubby nuts, is it takes me forever to make up my mind about decorating, and what I want  for a room, like color fabric furnisher and where to hang things and set stuff...  I know it is a bad flaw, and I am trying to work on it....

 

Close up of the fire screen...  oh dear you can see me in the glass,, oops!  That was not supposed to happen.   Oh well,,, 

I am sorry it is not a clear shot, but  here is the end results.  So what do you think????????   Did I do a great job, or what...  OH and should I leave the mantle green or white or another color, I was thinking of buying some rope molding and running in down the middle of the mantle and paint it white....   but I am not sure about that.... 

This is a better photo.  I need to get some new candles for my holders. I have used them lots. and they are too small now...

I really need to buy some copper cleaner for my  pots. My boiler we use for small fire wood, and the small one I put pine cones in to start a fire with, they work great as fire starters.. And when I can get them with the cinnamon sent,, wow how nice that is.

Well that is about it for now. I hope you all enjoyed my very first Before and After  Met. Monday...   I am not sure when I will be posting on Met Monday again, as I am kind of slow at getting things done.  I just like to take my time, so I don't mess it up. Which I have done,,,,,,   no no really its true,,,,,,,,,,,,  I have messed up before.  I know how shocking is it  I try not to let many people know about that...  I still have bad dreams about my poor little helpless Bear, that I dropped kicked across the room,, so so many years ago.  And for what I ask you...............  a nose that would not turn out right....   oh the shame of it all.... [ hanging my head........]    OH Alright I will stop now....  I heard that!!!  lol

Now for more beautiful before and after's please stop by and visit our hostess for this wonderful event.  Susan from  between naps on the porch  there you can visit so many more wonderful blogs, as well as Susan's she has the most beautiful before and after photos.  

I want to thank you all for taking the time to visit and leave a sweet comment.  Until next time   God Bless;

Hugs;

Alaura

PAULA DEAN HAS ARRIVED!!!!!!!

Good Afternoon;  I am so excited about my new Pots and Pans, they are so nice. They are way to nice to use... lol  I love the color.

I really had to work hard to get them out of the box, it was not easy.  I did a lot of ripping on that box, like Christmas, but I finally won. I was not going to let that box keep ME  from my beautiful new pans..  No sir ree.....  I had that box all over my kitchen.. lol But when you see them you will agree it was well worth it...

Are these not the most beautiful set of Pans you ever saw.........  I wish the Red would have shown up better, it is a deep red with some black splattered all over it.

 

She even has her name on the bottom. They are a heavy set, the handles are so comfy to hold and they have a nice curve so they won't hurt your wrist when holding them.  The glass lids are so nice  the knob on top has the same  type of rubber I guess, and the center has a really pretty copper.

OOPS!!!  the copper is around the center, not in the center.... lol  I just love them.....  Boy do I love them.

I am sorry for going on so much about them, but I have not had a new set for years. So this to me is like getting a  Car... lol  I really can't wait to use them though. Now just have to find the right recipe to fix...   OK now I have to find some new flat ware that I love,  a new set of dishes, then glasses.  OH then I have to redo the whole kitchen... lol   And to think it all started with a new set of pans.....  he he    With all I want to do in the kitchen it will be the last one done..  I found some paint colors I like for the other rooms. I will take some photos of them and show you then you can tell me what you think about them...  I love to hear all the great decorating advise that you have. And it really helps out alot.

Tomorrow is Met Monday, and I am showing my makeover Monday, it will be my first time. I have redone our family room fireplace. I think it came out great..  So I am excited to show you.

I find that I need to show more of my decorating style on my blog,  all of the blogs I visit, and  that is a lot,,,,,,  everyone is showing their lovely homes. So I need to get in the act, so with that said I have to get going on my family room to get if finished so I can post it..   Well I hope you all enjoyed my post of my new pans,,   cos I really love them!!!!!!!!!    lol   

Thank you all for paying me a visit and leaving such kind comments.  So please stop by again, I do get lonely with out you...

So until next time;  Have a great Sunday. God Bless;

Hugs;

Alaura