Summer Update

I guess it has been awhile. My computer is not working so great so I don't get on here much. I thought I woud just give a quick summer update.

My newest sewing endeaver. Rag quilting.

Fun at Tina's house in the pool.

T Ball

Cole

Jabin

Evan

Here is Evan as "Captain Underwear". He read my nephew Alex's book.

So that's his new role model.

Evan, Jabin & Amaya giving us some 4th of July entertainment.

This deer was in our back yard one night. What a nice surprise. We live right in town so it is a bit unusual.

Country Slash

Cole and Granpa with a turtle they found at the campground.

Hope everyone is having a great sumer.

Chopperfest is here!!

I have been "sew" busy the past few weeks!! Thought I would try and catch up. My sewing machine has sure gotten a work out. I have been sewing handbags, neck wraps, can & bottle cozys, head bands, and camera bags. I also have been making some barn wood signs. Good thing I have been bringing up goods as I get them done. I have the car jam packed and I still need room for my friend Jo's stuff, mine and Ted's stuff and a cooler. I totally realized last night that I still needed to bring display stuff up there. Nothing like waiting til the last minute.

I made some can and bottle cozys and showed them to the owner of the campground. Guess what she wants a ton of camo one's with the bar's name on them. She loved the frayed edge look. This is what I came up with.

I printed the tag on fabric that has heat-n-bond on the back. Ironed it on and stiched around it to make it secure. They have fleece on the inside. Just zig zagged around them.

Now I just have to come up with bandana's for her also that have the bar name on them. Think I will be busy for awhile.

My first project is getting some house work caught up on. My poor garage is a total disaster. Not to mention the sewing room.

I'll post pictures next week some time. We will be going up tomorrow some time. Wish me lots of sales.

Have a wonderful weekend.

Congatulation's Nicci

Introducing the 2009 graduating class of Clayton High School!!! Nicci is the second on the left bottom row.

No dry eyes hear. Justina and Nicci exchanging hugs and flowers.

Here are Justina and the "graduating girls". Nicci from high school and Amaya from kindergarten. Amaya graduates from kindergarten on June 4th.

Justina did a wonderful job on the small family get together after the ceremony. Dave's gracious parents let Justina have the party at their lake home. It turned out great.

After the ceremony we went to the trailer for the night. Amanda came with us. Today we came home early and Ted did some yard work and then we brought Amanda back to Glenwood City. She just moved there to live at her Aunt Ruth's house.

100th post!!

Can you believe it this is my 100th post.

I made these guys last week. I worked on more red, white, and blue ribbons today. Got them cut out anyway. I also made some "Up Northy" signs with old boat oars. I have to get a picture of them yet.

Campground project!

Sunday we raked everything up in the back. We put the fire pit back there. Also the swing and picnic table. Next we are going to turn the shed and add the extra decking on. Sure opened up the lot.

You can see there were alot of leaves. That pile came from where the dirt spot is. We filled the trailer full!!

Our new campfire area. I love it. It will be nice the kids can have the whole front yard to play now.

Gotta go for now.

"Just Horsin' Around"

"HORSIN' AROUND AT THE BACKWOODS!"

You would have had to seen it to believe it! On Saturday at our campground was the spring horse ride. The local horse club stays at the campground horses and all. They go on trail rides and have a great time. There are some beautiful horses. In the evening there is music at the bar. We are all having a fun time listening to the music and in rides this guy on his horse. What a site. He came in and turned around a few times then rode off out the door. The band even stopped playing when he came in. What a great time we had.

Last week was kind of busy. We had a good friend of ours from our old campground pass away very unexpectedly last Sunday. We attended his memorial service on Thursday. Later this summer they will have a burial service at the Spooner Veteran's Memorial. I had never been to a Military Honor service befor . That was very moving and emotional for us. It made me very proud to have a friend that served in the Air Force for our country. Rest in peace Duane!

On Saturday we went to visit Ted's mom. They were having a cookout for lunch. I did get a couple of things made last week. I will post them later. Friday I got more barn boards bleached and sun dried.

Hopefully I can get some more stuff made for Chopper Fest. That is sneaking up on me fast. Eveyone is buying my stuff as fast as I get it made. I have to get more hand bags made for that also. The gals up at the campground are requesting that I have lots of them!!!

Have a great week. Next Saturday is Nicci's graduation from high school.

Oh yeah HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY to you all.

Barn wood signs

Well I got up early this morning and started scrubbing the barn boards with bleach water. It gets all the "gunk" off. Our neighbors at the campground asked me last winter to make them a sign that says "It's 5 o'clock somewhere!" Well I had to get that started.

I had one that I wanted to make a flag out of so I painted that up also. I added barbed wire for a hanger.

Last weekend one of the campers asked if I could make him a door stop for his trailer. He liked mine with the bears and asked if I could do one with a deer. So I made that this morning also.

Here are some other things I have made!

Welcome sign. I added the stick today.

Yard birds

Howling wolves

Here is a sample of bags that I have made.

Wheelchair totes

More bags

Well that's all for now. Going up to the trailer tomorrow. Oh yeah, Carla the girls said "welcome to the club!" They are excited that you joined. Justina says "lefse" that's what you need to do!!! Have a great weekend.

Free Wood!!!!

I know it has been awhile. More on those things later. Last night I traveled to some friends house and got a ton of good plywood for some projects I'm working on. This morning I was painting some yard birds I had cut out of wood, and of course Justina called wanting to know what I was doing. She came across some "free" barn boards. Of course I had to drop everything. Well we had to tear them off. That was part of the fun of it. It was raining when I left and quit when I got there. We have driven by this old barn drooling over the pile of boards several times. It is not to far from Justina's house.

Poor lonely thing just waiting for a good home!

Here is Justina working hard to get a board she wanted. All the time wishing she had a cordless skill saw.

Here I am. "Give it a good kick and it will fall off!" I would make my parents proud!!

My load!

Justina's stash!

Now I have to get busy and make stuff out of it. I have been sewing also. Will update later. Gotta go.

Weekend with Family and Freinds

Friday was our day to meet up with Ann. I rode to Rochester with Andy , Greg and the boys. We met Justina and family at her dad's house. Off to Joann Fabrics to meet Ann. We had planned on shopping but were short on time. We went to Wendy's for treats instead. We had a lot of talking to do since we never had met before.

Here we are at Wendy's. Andy, Justina, me, Mardell (Dave's mom) and Ann. Look at the goodies to exchange!!

After that we went to a play at Justina and Andy's dad's church. It was called "The Passion of Christ". What a wonderful experience that was. Made you feel like you were actually there living in those days.

Saturday my family came to our house for dinner. The kids had so much fun playing with each other. We hid eggs in the back yard for an egg hunt.

Decorating bags for the "hunt"

The hunt is on. Counting to see how many we have.

After the hunt.

Cole, Evan, Alex, Jabin, Elsie, and Alma. Not sure where Amaya was.

Checking out the goods. Amaya has her "Super Girl " suit on from Andy.

After the egg hunt some of the kids watched a movie and some played out side. It was fun to get the kids together again. Also to see my family. Of course we all ate too much! It has been ahwile , the last time was at Tomah swimming.

I have some projects started for this week. Enjoy the warm weather.

Handbags & Honor Ribbons

Here are the projects I worked on so far this week.

The handbag on the left is the fabric I found on Saturday. The one on the right has crocheted lace from my stash of things from my mother.

These little over the shoulder bags were made from some small scraps I had. The are 10x8 with the strap about 45" and have two pockets inside and one on the outside. Velcro tab to close.

Here is the "primitive" one I whipped up. It measures approx. 15x 13 with a pocket on the inside also.

I am also working on red, white and blue honor ribbons for Chopperfest. I made some yellow ones also. They are made of one inch pine and measure 16" tall.

I will put some on stakes and hangers on some. They can be put in your yard or hung up either inside or out. I am putting them up at our campsite.

It has warmed up a little so I was working in the garage yesterday. I still could see my breath!

Friday I am traveling to Rochester with the girls. We are meeting our friend Ann. We know her from our blogs and now we get to meet her in person! After that we are going to a play that the girl's dad is is at his church. On Saturday my family is coming for Easter dinner. I better get a lot done the next couple of days.

Night out with family and friends plus another "freebie"

Last night we met Andy, Greg, Evan and Jabin, Justina, Dave and Nicci, Dave's parents, Dave and Justina's friends Doug and Mary, Kent's kids Dawson and Krista. Our friends Wayne and Diane came with us. Eighteen of all together. What a crew for our waitress. Evan and Jabin wanted Andy to wear her wedding dress and Greg to wear his suit because it was their anniversary. What a great time it was.

Group pictures taken by our waitress. We had to take two just to get everyone in.

Andy and Greg with their anniversary treat. Turtle Sundae Cheesecake.

Tina and Dave with their cheesecake.

ANOTHER FREEBIE

My friend Diane got this table and of course it was free! Tina was going to take it but found one at an auction. I needed chairs so why not take the whole set. It is a perfect size plus it came with two leaves. The dresser in the background my mother gave me . I put the table I had in my sewing room. Which will be great. The kids can go in there and do art projects. I can also do my cutting in there now and not have to move everything to the kitchen and then back to sew.

Wonder what kind of " free stuff" will come our way next. Ted just calls it more "junk". But junk is good!!! He approves of the table and bench. He can't believe someone would get rid of stuff like that. I'm glad they did.

FREEBIE BENCH

Free Bench

I got this bench for FREE!!! Thanks Diane!!! I got it home took the furniture polish to it and made a new cover for the cushion. The bolster pillows were already the black fabric so I just changed out the ties. Thanks Tina for getting it to my house.

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY

TO

GREG AND ANDY

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

TO

ALEX

Greg and Andy have been married seven years. It is my nephew Alex's seventh birthday today also.

Hard to belive it is Easter next week already. My family is coming on Saturday afternoon. Hopefully it will be nice so the kids can go outdoors. Maybe we can do an egg hunt.

Tina liked her bag I made for her. Today I found some cool fabric for a bag. I will post it at a later date. It was flea market barn day. Next month they will be open every weekend. YIKES!!!

Have a great week.