Weekend Wrap Up

It was a great weekend. I did a little shopping on Friday afternoon. I am starting to accumulate some things for fall decor and crafts. I did a quick run to Hobby Lobby for somethings for a craft project. I didn't find anything I was looking for, but I did absolutely love this sign. FYI one of my all time favorite songs is Let's Give 'em Something to Talk About by Bonnie Raitt. So I just HAD to have this sign.

I love having different spoon rests on the stove top for holidays. Sometimes, I use little candy plates for the spoon rest. I couldn't find a fall one, but I did find a Thanksgiving one. Both items from Hobby Lobby were 40% off so they were only $7 with tax.

Saturday when I got off work, my daughter called to see if I wanted to run with her to pickup my granddaughter's new glasses. We stopped at Dollar Tree. Since I am on my quest for fall or Halloween bargains for decorating or crafting, I decided to get a few things. The orange pumpkins are made with sweater knit fabric and the brown were burlap. I have about 5 different ideas of what I can do with these....time will tell. Stay tuned.

I love the little pumpking pedestal. It will be holding a candle of some sort. Just have to find the candle I want.

This is one of those impulse buys. I do not know why I loved this so much but I did. I have never decorated with pomegranates in my life. But I figure with all the fall flower arrangements I put out around my house, I will find one that they will go in. They only had one so I'll have to look for a couple more at another Dollar Tree.

Dollar Tree is has also started to carry fabric.  They are 18" x 21". I'm going to make a couple of no sew runners out of them for fall for my end tables.

I loved this jar because it has a copper lid and will look great in my Steampunk room. I am going to make my yearly traditional candy corn/honey roasted peanut snack and put it in this jar. Details to follow when I do that in September.

I saw a cute craft project that used those fancy bows. Since my daughter has taught herself to do the pretty bows, I bought this ribbon for a craft project but they didn't have the other stuff at that Dollar Tree. So details to follow on this project when I get all the stuff to make it.

Sunday was a beautiful day. I don't work on Sundays. We went to church and I sang in choir. Preacher Sam brought a beautiful, uplifting message. We had 2 new families join the church. It was communion Sunday so that was done as well. Later that afternoon I went to visit with a friend in a neighboring city for a few hours. We had a wonderful visit. When I left, I stopped by a different Walmart to pick up some cleaning supplies I was out of. A storm was brewing. As you can tell by these pictures it wasn't going to be a nice storm.

It held off until I got on the interstate to head home, but then the sky got even blacker and opened up and it poured. Wind and rain causing the interstate to get crazy so I got off and came a country road home. Rain was so hard I could barely see. When I finally broke out of the rain, I had to pull over in a parking lot so I could get out and take a picture of the rainbow. It was a lot brighter than this picture and it was the full arc when I first saw it. But by the time I found a safe pull off, it had dimmed. But it was still beautiful.

Well, that wrapped up my weekend. I hope yours was full of happiness and rainbows as well.

You Say - Sunday's song

Birthday time

I want to wish a happy birthday to my youngest granddaughter, Shelby, today. She has come a long way from that little girl who loved her binky and wore them like accessories. She had so many with sayings, but since she was a little chatterbox, this was our favorite. To this day, we still say there are times we wish we had the mute button.

She's all grown up now and today she turns 14. She will be a freshman in high school. Not sure where those years have gone but she has become a beautiful young lady who has developed a strong personality. She knows what she wants and goes after it. She loves being creative. She is so loyal to her friends and family and she's always got their back. It's been wonderful watching her personality grow over the years. She definitely marches to the beat of her own drummer. 

Happy birthday, Shelby Rayne. I hope you have an amazing day. 

It's just Around the Corner

Today my daughter found a fall leaf in her green grass at the end of July. She is a fall fanatic so she wants to know if you can count this as it being officially fall.

Then I saw on Facebook where Hocus Pocus 2 is going to make its premier on September 30th.

But what sold me on the idea that we are getting close to fall was the fact that candy corn is in a large display in Walmart. That settles it, fall is upon us.

 

Wacky Wednesday

 

Sliding into Second Base

Apr 14, 2016 — - A runner sliding into second has to make "a bona fide attempt" not just to slide into the base, but also to "remain on the base." 

Life is like sliding into second. You have to make decisions and live with the results. But whatever you choose, sometimes you always feel like you are sliding your way through. Hitting the good points and hating the rough patches.

My past seven years have been that way. I lost my husband in November 2015. Nothing was ever the same. There were times, I would have those deep middle of the night melt downs. I sometimes shed quiet tears and sometimes my body was racked with pain and I thought I would never be the same again.

Without my family, I couldn't have made it. The grandkids kept me sane and happy. My kids were always checking on me without making it look like they were checking on. I changed jobs, made new friends, took new adventures. 

Somebody said something to me recently about me being happy all the time and did I not miss him. Well, yes of course I miss him. We were married for 34 years. But I had two choices. Sink into depression and mourn for him the rest of my life or pick up the pieces and create a new path for myself.

I chose to take a new path. It's not been easy, but it's been worth it. I will forever miss him and will always have my memories tucked away. But now I have a new life. It's not better. It's not worse. It's just different. I don't have to answer to anyone. I make my own decisions. I do my own thing. I still go full speed ahead. I don't always stop at first for fear of moving ahead. I slide on into second and see where I can go from there.

Sunday Drives

 When I got my license to drive, Mommy and I would take off on Sunday after church and lunch and head out to some country road for a drive. We would just pick a road and see where it went. We had some great times and made great memories. When me and Allen got married, we did it sometimes too. And when the kids grew up and got married, we did it even more often. Between the beautiful scenery in West Virginia and in Sevier County and the Smoky Mountains in Tennessee, we've seen some beautiful sites. So today, let's take a drive down some country roads. I've been on some of these and some I just discovered online and would like to travel to some day. But for today, let's head out to the country.