Doing my thing day

Doing my thing day.

Have not had much time or energy to be creative with all that has been going on.

Finally accumulated enough dark colored plarn to make myself a tote for fall.

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Love these colors.
Covered a ring and crocheted  a P for Peggy.

Beads where made out of paper.

Love these colors.

 ATCs for Sept.
Theme
Industry

From Sandie at

Love the painted paper towel that she added.


Kentucky Industries

The one I sent Sandie.

The first layer is a ripening leaf of Ky. tobacco.
Had no way to send a sample of Maker's Mark. 
LoL

WooHoo

Just got my new diabetic shoes and I love them.
These are so cute and nothing like I had seen in years past.


They are made of a mesh material in the toe area allowing my sore toes to have room to accommodate for swelling, etc.


I can walk a lot better now.
Thank goodness for small favors.

Doing my thing day and finding joy in making decisions.

Doing my thing day.

One of the things I am doing to make sure I stay as safe as I can is to make sure I have my phone always charged and on me when I go outside or in fact wear it all the time.

I have a small phone and wanted something very small to carry it in and  something I could attach it to myself with.

Wa La

Using one of the softest yet strong recycled shopping bags, I designed and crocheted this neat little holder for my phone.

Small velcro closures are attached to the holder and the top to keep the cover closed when not in use.

Had to take my glasses to the office to have them readjusted due to the fall.

Spotted this pretty glasses holder and decided it would be perfect for holding my phone in it's cover around my neck. 

The items that can be made from this material are

endless.

While visiting one of my inspirational blog buddies, Cathy, this morning I discovered a new meme.

I was at http://bit-of-blarney.blogspot.com
and she had mentioned a new meme that she enjoyed.

Sharing the Joy Thursday.

Joy is so important to life but I need a poke every so often to remind me.

Our fish pond starting to become so overgrown.
We made the decision to have it removed and sown in grass so that it can be mowed and therefore easier to care for.

This morning after our yardman had finished.
I will miss it. Some of our fish had been with us for 13 years.

After our yardman had finished, HH and I sat on our deck and enjoy our coffee in our favorite mugs.

No feeling an absence of our beloved fish pond, but looking at the benefits of having it gone.




As I lifted my head to thank our God for the strength to make this decision, I felt
joy.
Joy in our decision.
No dilly dallying around.

A decision for the best way to stay in our home.
Keeping things simple.


Looking up at the trees we planted that need little care from us. Their care comes from reaching up to God.

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I am hooking up with Tea Talk Thursday with Ruth also.
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"Joy is the echo of God’s life in us."

Abbot Coumba Marmion

Starlet Challenge- Greer Garson and Doing my thing day.

Starlet Challenge this week is 

Greer Garson 

Greer Garson was working at an advertising agency at age 24, when she decided to start a career as a full-time actor. While playing in "Old Music" in London, she was discovered by MGM's Louis B. Mayer who gave her a contract the following day. Her first part was in Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939), which gave her an Oscar nomination for best actress, followed by the part as "Elizabeth Bennet" in Pride and Prejudice (1940). In 1942, she played the title role in Mrs. Miniver (1942), a WWII morale-booster, for which she won an Oscar as best actress. Although not happy with always being given the same kind of roles, she stayed with MGM until 1954. After this, she made few appearances in films, although her portrayal as Eleanor Roosevelt in Sunrise at Campobello (1960) gave her another Oscar nomination.

Framed at
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She was one of my favorite in the late 40's and 50's.
I was at that impressionable age and her portrayal of strong women made quite an impression on my young mind.
I wanted to be that kind of woman when I grew up.

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Doing my thing day.

As I continue to work on my items for the summer picnic craft booth I am finding amazing colored bags and cutting them up to supply my stash when I go on line with my Etsy shop.
Yes I am going to give it a stab.


 Trying to learn to make paper beads and jewelry.

The latest projects for the picnic.
I call these Toy Totes.
I filled each bag with water toys.

 These totes are made with heavier plastic bags along the bottom to give them more stability.


Double click to see the items.

 This is the latest purse I just finished.


Doesn't leave me much time for visiting my blogger friends but it will soon be finished.




Doing a little container gardening also.

Where the birds play.

Near the hummingbird feeder.

Doing my thing day and Adventure Express

Doing my thing day.

Continuing the items that I am making out of plarn for the summer picnic for the SCN mission work.

Plarn beach bag

 A second beach bag.

Have been using various colors that I don't have much of.

I like the variety of colors.

Both of these bags will have some beach toys in them.

Sketch for the Sketch book challenge for June

theme Pathway

Practice, practice, practice.

Second of three teapots

in a 
series, from art class.

 Adventure Express

There is a most beautiful park just a few miles

from my house that I go to a couple of times a week.

Bernheim Forest

A shot of the Quiet Garden from across the lake.

There are miles of walking and biking paths under shade tress.

All the trees are labeled and marked and there is every species of flower.

I was there for a visit today.

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Doing my Thing Day and Adventure Express

Don't forget 

I need two more followers on this fairly new blog to make 100 and then there is going to be a giveaway.

 

My SIL has been crocheting as long as I have. When she is seated she is always crocheting.

We went to Gulf Shores Alabama together one summer and she crocheted all the way there and all the way back.

She is like me she doesn't watch TV she crochets and listens to TV.

Well when she saw my plastic yarn items she wanted to learn how to make the py, plarn.

So we spent an enjoyable afternoon visiting and I taught her how to make plarn. 
She even came up with some new idea of her own and shared them with me.

She is a fast learner.

While she was learning and laughing up a storm I pulled out all the work on a tote bag that was not going the way I wanted it to go.

I have an idea our husband brothers will be watching us makeing things with plarn while they watch TV tonight.

Art Project this week.

I just love this little teapot.

"A man practices the art of adventure when he breaks the chain of routine and renews his life through reading new books, traveling to new places, making new friends, taking up new hobbies and adopting new viewpoints."


Well this post today has to do with adopting a new viewpoint.

I ask the question.

When does one purchase a new appliance?

For months now this woman who is in charge of the washer, dryer and dishwasher has been trembling in her boots as each one of those little beauties does their job.

Any woman will tell you they know the sounds of their appliances and they are  just as fine tuned to them as to the sounds of their children.

We know every wheeze, gurgle, start and stop and everything in between.

 Months ago I heard the washer and dryer in the laundry room dying.

It was a hard struggle.

We knew we had extra money coming in could they last until it did get here?

Friday afternoon when I came home the washer was still full of water and clothes.


It would not spin.
Not on normal, delicate or heavy settings.

The dryer made a noise but only got hot and did not go around and around any more.


 Saturday morning was spent selecting a new washer and dryer.
We choose the Frigidaire.

The pedestal under them was extra.

We got one for the washer.

One for the dryer would not leave us any room for clothes to hang on the rack above it.

I love the pedestal.

All the washing and drying goodies are stored there. and I do not have to bend over so far to unload the front loader which is new for me.

Saturday morning when I went to take the clean, I thought they were clean, dishes out of the dishwasher, they were still dirty and no sign of water had been near them.

It had died too.

The new washer and dryer would be delivered Monday AM at 9:00.


Now we needed a new dishwasher too.


The extra money we were expecting had come on Thursday.
The fates always know when you have an extra dollar.

Whee 

Saturday afternoon was spent wringing, by hand, all the clothes in the washer full of water. By then it was not a pleasant smell.
Then we had to dip as much water out of the washer as was possible.


Then when I discovered the dirty dishes I had to take them all out and wash them by hand. We had had visitors and there were a lot of dishes.

At 7:00 AM on Monday morning I began to try to reach the appliance store to see if we could order a dishwasher to be delivered at the same time.

I had gone on-line and found one that was just right.

No answer at the appliance store until 8:00 AM.

Of course they could deliver a new dishwasher too.
No trouble. Be there at 9:00

Sunday was spent learning all the new sounds and thanking God for them.
Now I can relax for awhile.

I know every woman and maybe some men know what I mean when I say we know our appliances. 
Well the guys know their trucks and other vehicles.

  So I cannot decide.

Do you buy a new appliance as soon as you hear terminal sounds coming from it or do you just let nature take it's course and run down and just stop?

I do not know at this point.


But HH and I are hoping we will not need a new appliance for many years to come.

Whoa

What is that noise I heard from the side by side fridge and freezer?

A woman just knows. 



Go here for more Adventure Express maybe someone will have a beautiful trip to talk about.
Like the trip I was planning before the demise of the major appliances. 

 

Adventure Express and Doing my thing day

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"A man practices the art of adventure when he breaks the chain of routine and renews his life through reading new books, traveling to new places, making new friends, taking up new hobbies and adopting new viewpoints."

We don't travel to new places much anymore so my adventures will be in the category of the other examples.

The newest and latest book I just enjoyed was
John Grisham's
"The Confession"

I have read all of Grisham's books.

This one is about the incarceration of the wrong man and the role DNA now plays  in the practice of law.


Adventure Express with GrandmaK starts today and I am a little late but of course, better late than never.

It is also Doing my own thing day so I am joining these two.


Of course anyone who follows my blog knows that my newest thing is creating wearable items out of plarn, plastic yard, and I am doing a number of items for the summer picnic at the Nazareth Campus to raise money for all their missions.

This is one hat and purse finished and I decided to try to come up with some summer shoes to go with these.
Oh heavens did my daughter ever laugh at these.
She is a down to earth girl who does not like what she calls foo foo things.
It is all in fun, you know.

 I was very careful that the addition of the plarn did not irritate the foot and these don't feel a bit different with the plarn than they did without it.
Just a little fun thing to add to the project.

My newest creation.
I added a row of burgandy with gold lettering from Heavenly Hams stores.
Since I only had two bags that was just enough to trim something.


This was made from a pattern that could also be for a man's hat.
I may remove a couple of rows from the brim and make it into a man's hat.
I could turn the front brim down and put a little crease in the top.

Would definitely need a couple of rows removed from the brim.

Trying very hard to get a good macro shot and I got this one last week.


Now I can try painting this little beauty.

Clematis around my fish pond.

This was one of the art class projects that I missed doing so decided to try it on my own.
I am okay with the work but my word 'clematis' did not come out good.
Gonna have to try to amend that or do it again.

Done with acrylics.
The shiny look is from the glossy finish I applied instead of the matte I prefer. Picked up the wrong can of spray.

I was lucky enough to find this beautiful frame at a thrift store and have been planning a painting to go in it.

I liked the colors of blues and purples in the original print so that is why I chose the 
"Clematis"
to go in it.

Now, when I get the painting to look like I want it to, we will have it finished.


Working on the painting will be my goal for today.


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and share your adventure with us.
Maybe a new book you read that we have not heard about or one that you recommend.