Things That make you Go Awwww

I finished my bunny rug, I like how it came out. Now I have two little rugs to finish.

 Easter was celebrated a week late for us. Daughter and grand daughter helped fill all 110 eggs.

Miss baby kept playing with the candy and having a regular ball.

Today my tulips started to open.

It was a perfect day the kids had a great time. The weather couldn't have been better.

husband and I are tired but oh so happy.

Classic Or Vintage

My newest find. Could this be called farm house classic or

fun vintage?

I recently found a taffy I loved as a kid. I haven't seen this in a long time.

This candy could be called a vintage brand, does that make me a classic?

I found these vintage beads in some of my mothers things. It makes for a very classic look.

My next read, I am ashamed to say I have not read this classic before.

This is neither classic or vintage (yet). I wanted to show my progress, I do not like the background I chose. The new back ground is in the washer as I type, it is an old vintage skirt.

Have a great week!

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Taking joy in life is a woman's best cosmetic.

                        Rosalind Russell

Happy Easter

Happy

Easter!

Sharing Recipes

This cookbook was traded into the book store. If anyone knows Hester (I love that name)Doyle from Oklahoma tell her she is a one funny gal.

This was put together by her it involves a lot of her friends and family recipes.

The book has 86 pages

The first 50 pages are desserts my kind of gal.

Why go for a face lift ladies when you can eat white bread,cheese, and sausage and get one:)

There are a lot of little tidbits like this one. I think I have translated Hester.

"The only reason that the family likes her dry old brownies is because she frosts them."

There is a recipe for brown sugar candy,she writes

"This recipe appears in the Oklahoman every year and I haven't had the courage to try it. Some day I will." That cracks me up! So much for kitchen tested recipes.

I did try her Grape Nuts Bread.

I will not make it again it is very dense and tasteless, it is ok slathered with butter.

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We had a trip to the Dr's today and all is well. We got the ok to kayak and hike so I think that is on our to do list soon.

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If I didn't start painting,I would have raised chickens.

                                             Grandma Moses

Ta Da

I am almost finished with my hand cut little rug. I have decided that the bear gets a bit lost in the back ground so I plan on out lining him in the red that is on the left leg.

A bit of thrifting Saturday morning. I found these two to help round out my Easter decorations.

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A very busy weekend we went to Maine to celebrate my brother-in-law's birthday.

 steak and lobster was had by all. It felt like we were celebrating two birthdays as they both have the same DNA now. On our way home this afternoon we both thought that ice cream would be a fabulous lunch. While eating our ice cream we walked through the candy store and each bought a bag of our old time favorite Easter candy. Right now I am so jacked up on sugar I have raked the lawn,3 loads of laundry,grocery shopping, and a bit of hooking. I am not looking forward to the crash.:(

Have a great week!

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I was gratified to be able to answer promptly.I said I don't know.

                                                        Mark Twain(1835-1910)

Blaming It On The Weather...

GRRRRRRRRR  There is something in the wind everyone is in a bad mood.

I had a hard day at work, the woman who comes in to let me go was in a bad mood because of work.

My daughter called me on her way home from work her opening sentence was" I just called to complain about work." Husband is cranky and just doesn't know why. Last week at this time we were 4 days into a week stretch of 80 degree weather. This morning I had to scape snow off my car.

I think even the bears are mad they woke up to beautiful weather and now it's snowing.

These are my recent dump finds they both say Irish whiskey.

They both have their new stickers on them, French crystal.

They way I feel today I wish they were full even though I am not an whiskey drinker.

I also found these. No stickers or markings so I have no idea.

I think I will donate them to a thrift store as I will never have a fancy bar it just doesn't last that long(kidding:) we are not big drinkers just a glass now and then.

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I have been working on my hand cut little rug. Not much left to do I am looking forward to starting the rabbit rug I bought at the last hook-in

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Let a smile be your umbrella,because you're going to get soaked anyway.

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My First Rug

This is a close up of a section of my first rug. The two biggest mistakes I made and continue to make now and then. Is I hooked to low. You are suppose to hook as high as the stip is wide.

and to close together. My first rug weighs a ton. Lately I have seen a few over hooked rugs.

You are suppose to see holidays (blank spots on the back) if it ripples and doesn't lay flat it is over hooked. Not only does your rug not lay flat it could break the backing. Then you are sunk.

This rug backing is burlap I was lucky it didn't break and I was able to get it to lay flat. I did unhook some to help it lay flat.

 I was taught by a very sweet Mcgowan trained older woman.

When my friend and I took our first lesson she asked us what would we like to lean we both said with a big smile "Primitive" She sighed a big sigh handed us a mcgowan pattern catalog for us to shop from

and told us the biggest cut was a six. Sounded ok to me what did I know? We preceded to learn from one of the sweetest ladies I have ever met. Sadly she passed away but oh boy would she hate what I learned this past weekend.

I went to a hook-in in Westford Ma. I sat with a few friends it was nice to see Courtney.

We met a lot of very nice ladies and saw some very beautiful rugs.

A new friend showed me how to do hand cut, about a 10. Oh boy is it wide and oh boy is it fun.

This is what I accomplished on Sat. The hardest part is cutting the strips. I need to get in the rhythm of the size and getting it straight. This will end up with Miss Baby.

And speaking of Miss Baby we spent the whole day with her today. So much fun she had us laughing all day. It is so much fun to be Gammie

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Fun is over back to work tomorrow.

The town where I grew up has a zip code of E-I-E-I-O...Martin Mull

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