Needle Felting... tomorrow is the last day for my giveaway

I have been doing a lot of needle felting lately.... as one can see by my hands having lots of little red spots from the needle!!

It seems that whenever I do one needle felted thing I have to do more.... lol !

Comment  if you want the Paddington things!!! Tomorrow is "the" day!

Decluttering and giveaway

One of Bob's plastic bookcases up in the storage area started to collapse due to the weight of his many transoceanic radios!!! The side columns started to bend and soon everything would have been on the floor.  I graciously (lol) offered on of my metal shelving units .... ha ha ha!. But that meant going through the boxes of stuff I had stacked on it... time to de-clutter.
  So today we packed up the car with two boxes of bookes plus a back area full of boxes and bags!!
Off to Goodwill , Restore for Humanity and our local used bookstore (Inklings)!!
  The bookstore owner gave me a few Paddington items left from her Paddington tea. My grandchildren are too old to be interested... but maybe someone else's are not!!
Just do a comment ( no anonymous please) and I will put the names in a hat and mail these things off to the winner.  Does February 1st sound good?

There is a poster, stickers, activity booklet and a coloring booklet with colored pencils

busy times

I drove to downtown Kansas City this morning for my every 7 weeks haircut. Mark and I get to play catch up on each other lives... He is a single urbanite adopted from the Philippines when he was a child. He was a stock broker but made this 90 degree shift into hair dressing. Love him!!
Today we talked about his recent cruise to Mexico, his Mother's leukemia and stroke and how his long time customers are getting OLDER . One of them he washes and cuts, does her make up etc twice a week in her home... sometimes she is " there", sometimes not.
I talked about my Mother and grand daughter and a fundraiser put on by my elder daughter's non-profit... The fundraiser was led by a  female impersonator which led to a discussion on "pronouns" .... when and what to use!!
My elder daughter has an appointment with Mark this afternoon .... will my ears buzz as they discuss me. Sometimes I wish I could be a fly on the wall and listen.... and other times I am glad I am not so I don't hear what they say!!

I have another online bear show coming up ... link on the right hand side. So I have been hard at work bear making, taking pictures and getting my website ready. I only need to add the PayPal buttons!

Ruby is my lead bear for the show ... Can one tell that Valentine's Day is coming up??

PS .... the weather has taken a nice shift to warmer!! They are talking about 60 degrees tomorrow. All the snow is gone just loads and loads of leaves from last fall.

Feeling lazy

After our day trip yesterday I am feeling lazy...still in my pj's at 11 am...... we went to Booneville to check out another old Singer and its table. The machine was not really what we wanted. The table was. As soon as I can I will post pictures...yes, we bought them!
Then it was off to Rocheporte which is where I-70 crosses the Missouri River mid-state... and where the Les Bourgeois winery is!  Tasted and bought 6 bottles... 10% off with purchase of 6!!
Then headed home with a stop in Grain Valley's Brass Armadillo... 15% off sale. Not lucky this time.

While feeling lazy I have been reading blogs and wondering how so many manage to be frugal food shopping. I see so many recipes online ( facebook...e-mails) and am tempted to try them... but that means buying the ingredients which are not always "frugal"....


Made myself feel guilty so I am now dressed etc..... 
  
 Here are pictures of the table... it's a Singer 74 ( if you really want to know).

Yes... it needs work.... the top and inside work surfaces really have had hard use. The table is really different from most of them. The opening for the machine is canted and the top opens on the same angle. It is supposed to make your sewing so much more efficient. We'll see.  The Singer inside is a 15-91 and will take work. I think I will put another machine, one I use regularly, in this one when DH has touched it up!!
 

Up and running again

Just after my last posting my computer went belly up. Luckily we had advance warnings and so downloaded my files to a secondary hard drive.... but that meant no time on the computer until DH decided on a new one and then set it up.
I am learning slowly all the new computer's ins and outs and DH has added all my files from the secondary hard drive ( sort of like a huge flash drive).

I did go back to the estate sale and same home with MORE little Steiffs...

The large rabbit is not mohair and quite new but it is so cute and soft I coulsn't resist. The baby elephant from my first trip is still my favorite!!