Sunday's Plans

Time to gather up my things and get ready to go to Sunday School and Church. 

We are going to head out earlier than usual this morning because two of our communities organizations are fixing us breakfast this morning. I understand their will be bacon and eggs among other tantalizing taste for a Sunday morning. All I needed to hear was the word bacon and I was setting my alarm to make sure I got there on time.

Many of you do not know that I have been helping in Sunday School class doing crafts for about 5 years now. I am at that point where I am starting to miss attending a class with other adults. I have loved working with the kids, but as of October 1st when the classes change and they all move up a grade, I am going to resign from crafting and attend my own class. I sure will miss my "gang" but I just feel like it is time. I will still help once a month in Children's Church, but it is going to feel strange not providing a craft for my kiddos every week. Especially this little group who has been with me since they were about a year old. I just can't believe they are all in first grade now.

We have started working on our Christmas program for church so I am sure choir practice will be tonight. We've just practiced once so far, but from what I am listening to on the practice CD, these are going to be beautiful songs, but easy to sing. We usually perform twice; once is right after our annual Christmas parade.

I am not sure what I will do this afternoon. I am so exhausted that I may just lay around on the couch. I do have to make a quick run to town and I will probably stop by my favorite antique store on the way home.

Hubby and I will have a late supper this evening and he is talking about having biscuits and gravy, fried potatoes, eggs and sausage. Guess I'll get breakfast twice in one day. Awesome! His gravy is my favorite because it is made with bacon grease not sausage. I love bacon gravy but most people have never even heard of it. 

Well, that's about how my day is going to roll. How about yours?

Thoughts of fall.....

I don't know what it is about mid-August that makes me think so much of fall. I guess it is the back to school excitement. It always makes me think of Friday night football games.

Going to the apple orchard to get apples to make apple butter.

Drives through the Great Smoky Mountains to see the changing of the leaves.

People beginning to display their mums.

Jumping in the leaves after Daddy would rake them up. 

There are so many memories in fall. I love when we start getting close to that time of year.

Update on my Pyrex Collection

It's been awhile since I showed my Pyrex and vintage collection. AS you can see I am starting to find some great pieces in the Town and Country and the Colonial Mist. I love these two sets. I was lucky enough to get a black gooseberry, but only one bowl.

More of the Town and Country which is fast becoming one of my favorites. I finally acquired the black barbed wire I have been wanting forever.

I did get my first bowl in the Autumn Harvest pattern. Hoping to add some more soon in that pattern. 

I adore my Shenandoah Cinderella set...ALL FOUR BOWLS. They are so hard to find around here. They were a Christmas gift from one of my best friends. I found my vintage pitcher and tulip mug at a local thrift shop called His and Hers.

My baker dishes on the right are some of the ones I have been looking for three years for. Found them all this summer and the most expensive one was $10.00. Still love my little Holt Howard Kitties I found on E-bay for just $9. 

I love my 441 Cinderella's in the Town and Country (that was my first T & C bowl and it was a gift from my son and his family). I also have the Butterfly Gold in that bowl. I have the Butterprint in that as well, but hubby was using it at the time of my photo shoot. I have a couple of Hazel Atlas cups that I just love. Looked hard and long for those and found them at a road side flea market stand for just .75 cents each. 

I don't know why, but I love little pitchers. I do not know if these are vintage or not, but I thought they were cute. 

One of my favorite Town and Country pieces and Hubby has confiscated it to hold his miniature Hershey mix. 

This is a new piece my friend gave me. She said I can keep it or trade it. I think I will trade it. Now just to find somebody who needs the dots and has something good to trade. 

Well, there you have it. My next piece I want is one of the Friendship pattern. May go look this weekend. 

Finally....

Every time I decide to organize my home office which is also my craft room, I get impatient and try to do it all at once. Then I don't like it and I have to start over again. Finally, I realized the key is to take baby steps and just do a little at a time. 

So I started with one shelf in my bookcases. I refuse to show the before pics because they were a disorganized mess, but here is the after. The little silver box holds Thank You cards to send to my hostesses. 

I love that the Fold-n-File could be turned on it's end to display my notebooks that I use in my business.

My white brocade file folder and tray add a little elegance to it, I think. I am just really, really happy with the results so far. 

The theme of our conference was Dream it, Be IT! So this is my Be It Board to keep me motivated in my business and to help me become a success.

And for additional motivation, I changed my computer desktop to the view that will be from our hotel room when we go to Panama City Beach next month. I can't wait. 

Well that is 1/4 of the room fixed the way I want it. Going to work on another 1/4 this weekend. I'll show you pics when I get that done.

Call me crazy....

I am still in Christmas crafting idea mode. I did the search for felt crafts so I went back and did one for fabric. Here are some of the finds I found. Some I love but don't know if I have the talent to do them. Others were so simple that I know they are going on my to do list. I am spending August accumulating supplies and then I am starting to craft come September 1st. I have a plan.

Top 10 Turquoise Tuesday

I am slowly falling in love with turquoise. It is actually one of my birthstones. It comes in so many shades. Some are clothes to a robin's egg blue and some are darker. I especially adore some of the turquoise picture frames I have been seeing online. 

I would love to find an old dresser I could paint like this. 

How exquisite is this gorgeous tea cup and saucer. 

I love the old dial phone. I wish we still used them. I would love to have one in this color for my home office.

What a comfy way to lay outside and read. 

I love these old vintage dresses. 

I need to try to do my nails like this. I have the blue and I have sparkle. I might just do that this weekend. 

I love anything with anchors so this is a great hit with me. 

I have always loved pictures of old red barns....until I saw this old barn. I wish I had room to build a barn just so I could paint it like this. 

And one of these days I would love to own a full set of the Pyrex turquoise mixing bowls. Online they go for close to $200 for the set so I am sure this is just a pipe dream of mine because I would never pay that for bowls.



Have a great day.