TWO projects---completed this week!

Yea for me! I like DONE!! Most projects and that covers a multitude, get dragged out or forgotten or worse go out of style!! I have a few quilt projects that the colors coordinate to houses I no longer live in, (insert a very red face here). I'm so bad.......hehehe But these two look great and here's the biggie.... I even like them. Sometimes the vision in my head and the results are not the same! Anyone else?? So without further ado...... drum roll...... I present my newly paint sunflower mailbox and my fresh white kitchen curtains!

Belated Mother's Day wish!

Me and my Mother (of seven)

     I was enjoying my Mother's Day weekend so I didn't get this photo or my post up before the celebration day of Mothers.

 Saturday evening TheManWhoHoldsMyHeart and I took Mom out for dinner before attending our niece's high school graduation. It was a small graduating class, without a special guest speaker, so a pleasant evening of pomp and circumstance then an open house at my brother and sister-in-law's home. Lots of great food (prepared by my sister-in-law & nephew), visiting with family & friends, and congratulations to the graduate on her many achievements

(she received 7 scholarships in varying amounts)!

On Sunday morning TheManWhoHoldMyHeart prepared and served sourdough pancakes, fresh strawberries and Kona coffee sent over from the Big Island, part of the Mother's Day gift from #1Son.

I also received cards, gifts and phone calls from our three children!!
 I Love being a MOM!

So to all Moms out there in blogland a belated "Happy Mother's Day"!

Tis the season!!!

These two were visitors on Thursday morning and again on Friday morning, right outside our bedroom door! She wasn’t much interested in his stuff on Thursday, but on Friday they made whoopee out front, up on the driveway!

After this early morning wake up call, he belted out his gobble gobble right outside the screen door and we were sleeping with the glass door open!!! We decided to get up and have coffee out on the front porch. Well let me tell you all the birds were in a feathering the nest mood!! Pairing up and mating flights everywhere. We should have lots of “tweetering” all around in about a month. It was a beautiful morning, light winds, just the right temp and clear skies! So thank you turkeys we had a great early morning!

STRAWBERRIES



A FEAST FOR THE EYES........THEN OUR MOUTHS!!!
FIRST OF THE SEASON

Flip Flops & Flowers

I still like to call them "thongs" just to make my kids squirm! XD  Especially the youngest he would exclaim "MOM they're flip flops!" I'm sure the mental image of his Mom in a thong was pretty appauling,... disgusting,.... um..sick---it is to me now too, so let's move on. But growing up in the 60's that's what they were called, so I sometimes let it slip and go back to my childhood summers of rubber thongs! Hehe The styles and colors now for flip flops are endless and the tutorials for creating your own are out there if you google it! I've had two styles I've wanted to try bookmarked for a while and finally got around to creating my own yesterday, aren't the knots cute, not so much the feet... and I love purple!!

 Do these look familiar K? We made a pair, with a different fabric and flip flop selection, for TheOther#1Son's girl K when she was here back in March. I also tried another style with ruffles attached to a triangular fabric piece but they just looked wrong so I scraped them. These are also really comfortable, the only tweaking needed is a better way to keep the knot on the underside from pulling through as they wear. Still contemplating that design flaw.... I am keeping this pair for wearing in the house, sort of as summer slippers.

Now for the beautiful spring bouquet, of fresh cut flowers,
setting on the kitchen island!

Just gorgeous and the kitchen smells wonderful.  ENJOY!

MAY DAY! (If you catch 'em you get a kiss)

So happy to see May! Does anyone out there still deliver May baskets? I'd like to but living in the country makes it hard to sneak up on anyone, plus all the people I'd like to send May baskets to live too far away!! Long ago when I was in kindergarten I helped some neighbor girls deliver little paper cups with pipe cleaner handles, of candy, to unsuspecting neighbors. We had such fun!!!!!! Only once since then do I remember a May Day delivery. Who was first I don't remember, but who got caught I remember that! Any guesses TheOther#1Son????? Our neighbor across the street, Shirley, left some Star War toys no longer used by her son, on the porch for our Star Wars addict! So either he put a cup of candy on her porch or she put the Star Wars toys on ours first, as I said I just don't remember, but I do know who got caught and who got a kiss!! Sometimes us more mature women are thought to be slow, but we can surprise!!!! ;-)
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After speaking on the phone with #1Son about the above May day happening he said he remembers some tears from TheOther#1Son when he got caught by Shirley! Is his memory correct? Or has island living turned #1Son's brain to poi???? Please comment TheOther#1Son......