Announcement/ Invitation Templates

These are the style that I worked on all day instead of doing my taxes.

Taxes??? Not! Maybe next week.

Well this week definitely is turning out to be an office sitting week. I was supposed to do taxes yesterday, but I sat and organised pictures all day. Then today, my sister called early and we started designing wedding invitations. Once again, taxes will be put off.

Saturday finds

Today, I was so undecided about what I would do.

After realising that trade days onlyhappen once a week, I left my house to the weekdays and went to see what kind of cool pieces I could find to hang on my kitchen walls.

My hubby is not very happy with all the junk I found. I think he is not crazy about the cluttered "Cracker Barrel" look in my kitchen. I will take a few things down, but I will add most of the cool things I found today. I found three bridles that I plan to use as towel hangers. A couple of rake heads, an ice pick, and some pulleys will go up quickly. I should have just hung them up and he woudl not have noticed.

After the trade days, I stopped at a pretty barn to take pictures. One day I will compile and complete my farm project.

LOOOONG Weekend Drive

Our original plans were to be real simple. Saturday morning - get up, drive two hours north, vertical rope training until the afternoon, drive one hour to Huntsville, sleep,wake up, cave, come home, relax Monday.

WHAT REALLY HAPPENED - Saturday, we went to Attalla when we should have just headed north to Cherokee Rock Village(one extra hour of drive time). We then headed to a friend's house for a get together/party which was in Southside/Albertville area. About 9 p.m. we drove home more than an hour to get home. Sunday afternoon, we left for Huntsville driving 2 hours to Jessica's to stay the night. Monday, we left around 7 a.m. to go check a cave and do some ridgewalking. Around 1 p.m. we drove back 2 hrs to home arriving around 4:30. At 6, I got back in the car to go to Gadsden for the GAP(Photo Club) once a month meeting. I don't miss it unless something REAL MAJOR comes up. So 2 more hrs of drive time and I was home around 2 a.m. So all in all, we put enough miles on the gas tank to not have grocery money for the next six months. Hahaha but we did travel around 11.5 hours the whole weekend covering about 650 miles.

Today, I woke up to an email that offered me the deal~Photobook for $10.00. Since these things usually run about $50, I pounced. Then to keep momentum, I went right to work. I have a friend who really wants pictures of her daughter's wedding but is so overwhelmed by all the digital pictures that she has yet to get anymore than what I have given to her. I set right to work. Six hours later, I hit the "upload to the website" button. Informed that it would take 88 minutes to upload, I had to stay on my computer to keep it from hibernating. Hibernation would interrupt the upload and I would have to start over. Once that was done 10 more minutes of processing and paying, the book should be delivered about March 7th. My body is literally sore from sitting here all day(over 9 hrs). I hope she loves it. The work just flew by, but now I am tired and moving hurts. I guess I will go check my mail, have some breakfast, and go on a walk.

Okay! Let me try again part 2

This is such a sweet gift.

When you open the box, the gift gets even prettier.

This is handmade through and through down to the last cut, stitch, letter, and knot.

It is aproximately eight feet long. It is connected with baker's twine.

Okay! Let us see if I can do this.

This past weekend, my husband went caving and spent the night at our daughter's house in Huntsville. After being back home for a while, he springs up and says, "I have something for you from Jessica!"

He hands me this box.

I still do not have the hang of this thing. The three other pictures that I tried to add have disappeared.

PLANS

I found myself thinking of life in a plan A- plan B mindset. This last weekend, I think life is more of a journey on a plan rather than two plans to choose from. I thought if something bad happened along my way then somehow, I had ventured off of the safe, quiet, calm, perfect plan. "No," I say to myself, "my life is one plan, one path, one venture, TO FOLLOW MY LORD." Where ever that leads, I must be content to know that if I am attentive to His lead, I will follow.

The biggest obstacle I find is that my life is mixed up, snagged by, enhanced with, so totally joined to OTHERS. Maybe that is what the scripture is talking about when He says we must leave father and mother, husband and wife, brother and sister, to follow Him. Becoming individual in a world where we longed to fit in. We are geared for communication, for fellowship, for unity, and then he throws the idea at us to follow Him is leaving everything behind.

Anyway, I shall close this and move on to my next post about my wonderful valentine banner that one of my daughter's made for me. Sherry, you will love the pinks and reds in this. I may just bring it with me on Thursday so you can see it.

Valentine's Day

Just when I think we cannot agree, we buy each other the same gift (without pre-planning).

Friday Fun

Today, we were able to finally get the gutter relined. It was quite a task. I bought the flashing the other day and planned for a no-seam continuous aluminum lining. 27 feet of flashing was determined to flap in the wind, jump off of the roof, and do its own thing. BUT, we were victorious.
Now for all the other chores in my life!

photo shoot fun

This morning, this handsome young man came to have his senior portrait done. His mother and I narrowed the choices down to 2 of her favorites. She took samples home so that her husband could help her decide. I could not wait to hear their decision before I jumped into my editing fun. I am pretty sure it will be this one. I am waiting to order prints for her tonight. And if they choose a different pose, I will have fun all over again!!!

I have not accomplished many of my goals today because I have had picture fun. I have rearranged the house to make room for an 8 ft ladder to be moved from my porch to the livingroom.

Life is good. I think I will go work on the gutters outside and cross off my list. hehehehe

All day with pictures

I did not grab my camera and go to the woods. Instead, I grabbed a mouse and click my way through several hundred pics, deleting the unworthy ones. Every picture can have worth but I cannot keep every snapshot. Pictures can be somewhat like clutter. We keep too many and miss out on the few that really matter. I had close to 3,000 pictures from our 30 year anniversary trip to South Carolina. I was so thankful for my written trip journal. It will help me compile the book and document the memories.

I was also able to go through 3-400 of my daughter and her husband's train trip to Idaho last Summer. It is easy to become overwhelmed and lose hope that one day I will have all the pictures tagged and easy to locate.

This morning, actually at noon, I have a dental cleaning scheduled. From the dentist, I will head to the thrift store to locate a couple of old computer keyboards for a photoshoot tomorrow. I also hope to go by my son's house and work on clearing out my junk from his garage. He has been so patient.

Ideas, ARG!!!!

The ideas going through my mind. TOo many ideas and not enough energy to accomplish it all.
Back steps need designed and built. Maybe a back porch. Could we screen it in? The front porch needs cleaned off. Where do I put all the stuff? Jessica says I need to paint my porch swing white and my rocker a bright red and get red and white accent pillows. The idea just excites me. My kitchen cabinets need finished. I need sleep/ AHHHH it's 10 p.m. Time for Andy Griffith and sleep!!!
Good night. Watch out for tomorrow. I may just grab my camera and just go play tomorrow.
Probably not.

Wet Wednesday

Hi peepulls!

I am having somewhat productive day. I am slowly plodding along. I am not moving like a whirlwind, but today, I have cleaned out the bathroom top tile to bottom tile. I also washed 3 loads of laundry, cleaned out the laundry area, and straightened my kitchen. Dinner is on the stove and my hubby will be home in an hour.


Just a quick note abotu yesterday. I went with three other friends on the Pinhoti Trail. We hiked in one hour and back out putting 3 miles of wear on my boots. It was nice. We headed home and then decided to go get pecans.

Life is good.

Tomorrow is lunch with girlfriends. Friday will start a family weekend. My daughter and her husband are swinging in to surprise my husband for his birthday. I plan to make Italian Cream Cake and spend the weekend having fun!