February Scavenger Hunt

Linking today with Kathy from Postcards from the P.P. for February's Scavenger Hunt. This was so much fun! Trying to find a different interpretation of each challenge. Here we go:

Last minute doesn't give you many choices!

Couldn't find a Big clock so this is my kitchen clock.

A bridge crossing the "locks" of Lockport (my town) made with an old train track.

My husband's high school trumpet (over 40 yrs ago) in the original case. He still plays it for the Saints games. Which leads us to......

New Orleans headlines this Superbowl year.

Park bench from the park behind my house along the canal.

My post box.

My granddaughter's eyes.

A heart I painted a few years ago.

Something red I made for my great nephew.

My dad's sergeant stripes from WWII.

My most comfortable shoes right now.

I'm looking forward to the March challenge! Why not play along? Flickr page here.

Pink Saturday

Showing off more pinks for Beverly's pink group again this weekend. Spring has started down here and I for one couldn't be happier!! I love the warm sunshine and the few plants sprouting up here and there. The photo below shows the blooms of a peach tree down the street. Simply stunning!

Last Saturday was this little one's first birthday. She's so grown up already! My sister made her birthday cake and I did the banner and her dress for her. The weather was perfect so everyone had fun outside. 

A perfect first birthday party!!

Hope y'all all have a great pink weekend! I visited Dru last weekend at Garden of Dreams and enjoyed her tulips and tags!! Stop by How Sweet the Sound and visit her and some other pink blogs!

Pink Saturday

I'm so honored to be featured today for Pink Saturday hosted by our wonderful blog friend, Beverly. I've been posting pink on and off for quite a while now and have met some great blog friends through the years. They've made me laugh, cry and always realize how great this world can be. We are all sisters (and sometimes brothers) who want the same in life ~ a healthy, happy family and a world where we can be peaceful together and support each other.

For my pink today I'd like to share my Valentine party I hosted last Sunday for my family. I wanted to make it special and Pink, to show them how much they mean to me. And besides, we all love to be together!!

I placed Valentine tablecloths on each table and used some of the food as centerpieces. This table had peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, raspberry scones, white chocolate strawberries and tea cookies.

The other table featured white chocolate strawberries, raspberry macarons, and strawberry mini cupcakes.

We also had red velvet cupcakes, fruit and cheese, chicken salad, chocolate pineapple and strawberries, more scones with lemon curd, and grape tomatoes.

For dessert we had candy and sundaes with hot fudge or salted caramel sauce (a big hit!). Of couse I'm including some pictures of my three littlest Valentines and also some wonderful news~~my daughter Katie is expecting her first child in October. We're all so excited!!

And finally, a late Valentine to all the Pink participants. I received this monday and loved it so I needed to share!!  Go here Happy Valentine's Day!

Hope y'all all have a wonderful pink week!

Pink Saturday and Valentines

Happy Valentine's Day to you all. I love celebrating any holiday but usually skip over this one because of Mardi Gras. Since Fat Tuesday is so late this year, it gives me time to do a little bit for my Valentines!

I decided to make each of my grands a pillowcase. I used the darling Valentine fabric I won a few weeks ago from Freda for Georgia and Avery and bought some dinosaur fabric for Gabe. For the girls I added some machine embroidery and pieced the top together.  I just use an old pillowcase for measuring the 2 large ones and just made a pillow myself for the small one.

It's the first time I've tried writing freehand with my sewing machine and it was such fun. I know I'll be doing it again soon! I'm also having a little Valentine tea party Sunday evening. I'll post those pics next weekend if not sooner.

I also wanted to link to a new blog that I've been enjoying. Sandy, aka Doris the Great, is really funny and thrifty.

Hope y'all all have a wonderful weekend and great Valentine's Day. Hope on over to visit some other pink lovers at Beverly's, How Sweet the Sound. You'll be glad you did!

Auction fun, Pink Saturday and other good stuff

Stayed up late reading blogs and catching up with all my internet friends. One post usually leads to another and before I know it hours pass. Besides all the inspiration, I do have some great laughs and deep thoughts (does that sound too SNL) along the way. 

One blog had a clip from the Carol Burnett show about "Went with the Wind" and I had to watch both of those. Too funny. Every time I think of Scarlett O'Hara I think of Carol Burnett too. Other blogs have posts on all the great things people are doing to help the victims of the Australian floods like making toys for the kids who lost everything.

I do love the internet blogging community. It's really given me a way to connect with so many others who love the same things I do and love to share. Today I'm linking up with Beverly and Pink Saturday. I haven't done this in so long so I don't have a blog to share with y'all but next week I will. Enjoy!

This picture shares an outfit that I'm making from a Simplicity pattern. I didn't exactly follow the directions for the yoke because I wanted to add the pink rickrack into the seam instead of on top. I had to do a lot more pinning and basting than I usually do to get it to come out okay but I like the end results. The hat was a first for me but I love the way it turned out. I didn't finish either because I need the measurement for the dress length and some bias tape for the inside of the hat. Maybe tomorrow.

This is a photo of my new iron. Isn't it bright? I bought this at an auction Thursday night that I went to with one of my sisters and her husband. They auction anything! Candy, cereal, dishes, antiques, knickknacks, etc. It's fun to go and just see what people will bid on. The auctioneer is really funny and adds quite a few remarks along the way. This iron was brand new and since I've been buying some dollar store ones lately (which usually crap out in the middle of a project), I needed something I could count on for a while.

 Then I wanted to show y'all this adorable memory box my sister, Karen made for my grandson. His party theme was carnival (on a post below) and she took his picture and put it in a carnival box. Isn't is precious? Look at that little face. He is going to love it!! I'm going to post some more pictures of it on flickr to show the back and sides.

One of my goals this year is to blog more often and take more pictures to share. 

Wonderful win, Wonderful project

I'd first like to thank Freda's Hive for this stack of incredibleness! I won these last week or so and when I received them I was so thrilled! I want to make some valentine gifts and these prints are perfect. Now to decide exactly what to make!!

Next is a picture of the knitting project I started. Of course, I didn't have the same yarn which will make a size difference (which doesn't matter) but the small yarn is probably making it harder to see what I'm doing. Taking each row at a time and still have to rip back. The written instructions are much more confusing than the chart. At first I was so intimidated by the chart but now that I understand it I can follow it better. Hopefully I'll finish this before I become too frustrated! Linking to kootoyoo for the fun of checking out more fun blogs. A good winter past time especially when one has a cold!

Gabe's Birthday

Welcome to Gabe's Carnival Birthday!! Sparkles the Lion and of course, I'm the elephant!

The Birthday Boy.....

A wonderful cake made by his great aunt!!

And a random thought-why would someone steal a sign from town???????? Total disregard for others' property!