First New Year Project: Better Late Than Never!!

 These last few days have been a marathon of cleaning, organizing, and working on classroom stuff.  Ahhhhh!!!!!! Back to work on Monday.  I do miss the little munchkins though.
And, I am looking forward to seeing my co-workers and begin the countdown to spring break.
Yep, that's me, "The Countdown Queen".

Here is a picture of one of the quilt blocks that go into my daughter's Christmas present.
Now that I am post-flu I can complete it.  Better late than never right?

                                         
                                          


   Good Night, Sleep Tight!!!

 Happy New Year!!!

I sit here laughing at myself.  Hahaha!!!  I have been reading different blogs and "again" found myself wanting to be a good blogger.  So, when I get ready to create my blog (forgetting how to find the old one from a few years back) UP pops ME!!!!  Apparently blogger.com keeps up with me better that I do.  

Anyway, I had a draft saved that I never posted.  So, if you just read the post about getting back to school and working in the cafeteria, that's the one that has been in limbo for a year and a half.  Needless to say, that cafeteria position just about did me in.  Those people should be at the top of the pay scale.

I returned to the Child Development Center and am enjoying working with 18mos to 2yr olds.

And, after being on Christmas Break for the last 2 weeks, Monday it's back in the saddle.

Back To The Future!!!   The last 3 days has been a whirlwind of cleaning, organizing, and creating my man his own little "homeofficemancave".   But, the most exciting thing for me was working on my sewing room.  Yay Me!!!  

My 2014 goals are to complete the Christmas quilt for my daughter and son-in-law, that got put on the back burner due to getting the flu.  

Then, I am going to see how many scrap quilts I can crank out to diminish some fabric.  The same old pile that I keep moving around is boring to look at. 

Next, I owe a friend so I am going to make a "western/cowboy" themed quilt for her son.

A few pics of some progress in the sewing room today:

Good Night. Sleep Tight.

 

 

Back To School/Work!!!!!!

Whewwww Weeeeee!!!!!! I was so busy working on my "summer projects", that I neglected to establish a habit of posting to the blog all summer long.  Back at work now.  I transferred to an elementary school cafeteria.  OH-MY-WORD!!!!!!! The first few weeks I thought I wasn't going to make it.  Extremely hard work.  I don't think I need that gym membership after all as I get a 7 hour workout 5 days a week.  Add in the back exercises, walking around the block and I should be pulling out that "skinny" wardrobe from the closet by years end.

Well as for the projects.......

1. Garage makeover was a success and we have plans to complete it just as soon as we can clear out all the leftover garage sale junk  stuff. 

2. Refinished a second hand store $7.99 desk to put my sewing machine on.  Love love love the drawers.

3. Painted 3 of the walls in my sewing room with $7.00 pale purple oops paint from Home Depot. The last wall will be pale green.  

4. Began the pantry re-organization.  To be continued......

5. Started cleaning out "Gage" trailer for garage sale.  TO HOT!!!!!!!! Hurry Fall

6. Had an extremely wonderful time in Louisiana.  Visited Mike The Tiger at LSU Campus.  Visited the most  beautiful State Capital in Baton Rouge.  Splashed with all three of my kids, and 2 grandbabies. 

7.  Did some rearranging of the back yard garden.  I will be applying a gardening technique I saw a video of.

I encourage anyone interested in gardening to watch backtoedenfilm.com/

Before:

After!!!

Earlier this spring when my little backyard garden plot began to grow, I had a "mystery" plant come up.
Since I throw all of my kitchen scraps (minus fats n meats) into a compost pile, various seeds end up in my garden beds.  When this little plant came up I first thought it was a squash plant.  Then it started trailing so I just knew it was a cucumber vine.  The first bloom was humongous!!!!  Ok, so I don't think this is a cucumber vine.  Then when it started bearing a fruit, I was convinced that we were going to have fresh backyard cantaloupe.

Something told me it just was not looking like a cantaloupe, so then I was like "who knows"?  Then while watering my large vines (had two going by this time) it caught my eye.  The stem was HUGE.  Aha, it can only be a pumpkin.  And, it was.

So now I am the proud mommy of one Large, and 4 medium sized orange babies.  With it only being June I knew they were not born to be here for Fall/Boo! decorations.  What to do with these orange beauties?
I began wondering if maybe, just maybe, I could use them for pumpkin pie filling.

I googled how to make pumpkin puree from scratch and landed on the Pioneer Woman's blog.  Thank you Pioneer Woman.  You're post was perfect.  I ran outside, grabbed one of my babies, and got to work.
While I have been writing this blog my baby has been roasting in the oven.  Ding!!  Now time to go puree the pulp and stash my first batch of pumpkin puree in the deep freeze.  Happy Thanksgiving Ya'll!!!

New Beginnings

Well, here I go.  This is my first post as a blogger.  I have been dancing around this hat long enough.  It's time to pick it up and wear it. I don't know what it is about a blank page that makes my mind go blank.  I am a very visual person, so maybe with no visuals to go on my tank may be empty.

Tomorrow is my last day at my current job.  I have been working at a local school district's child development center for the last nine years.  I have been the lead teacher for the 2 & 3 year old class.  I feel like I have entered a new season in life and am preparing for a "New Beginning".

  I have lots of plans and projects and look forward to posting along as I go.  I am also looking forward to meeting many new blogger friends and sharing stories and ideas.  I am old enough to accept advice and help graciously, and welcome it.

A few of my upcoming summer projects are:  A Pantry Redo, Sewing Room Makeover, My Back Yard Farm, Shhhh!!! His Surprise Garage/Man-cave, A Romp in The Swamp, and ughhhh: The Gage Trailer Clean Out and Sale.

Good Night Friends