My favorite isle

I'm a day late. I kept thinking that for a St. Patty's day post I'd show some pics of my trip to Ireland.

My mom and I went in 2005 and had a great time. We went in May and we saw tons of green pastures and the most rock walls, buildings and basically anything one can build with rock.

I want to go back soon, I'd like to see the northern country.

Old photo of the week

I'm working on backing up all of my photos and archiving them. Labeling CDs and copying them to an external hard drive. This process would move a lot more efficiently if I didn't have to look at every single photo. It's been so much fun.

This has been my favorite find:


This is summer 1976 or 1977 - at the horse stables in Powder Springs, GA. My dad boarded our horse there - either Grey Boy or August Fog. My sisters would know. So that's Dad, Paige & myself in the bed of his truck. Guessing Paige is around 9. Love my Dads hair. (ha!)
This one is a classic.

EC's bedding

So while Paige was here we had an agenda to find or make EC a new duvet and items for her bed. Paige said that she wanted to change out her room for her B-day gift this year. We made some successful trips to some higher end outlet shops and JoAnns for fabric and trimmings.

Paige worked on the window treatment panels that she added pink ric-rac to. Then she made some buttons and placed those at the bottom.

I made a small pillow with green fuzzy ball trim. And we monogramed her pillow cases.

Here's the pics she sent:

Paigies visit

So last week Sista P arrived on Sunday and boy was I excited! She had been to our house before but it was when we came out to look for a place to live. I was anxious to see her.

We had a great week. We talked, laughed, cooked, ate, shopped & sewed! What was great was that we both kinda took our time in the mornings getting up and started. She had her coffee and elliptical and I had my cream of wheat & diet coke. We had an over all agenda of shopping for EC a new bedding ensemble. We headed to Pottery Barn outlet & found exactly what she was looking for. We found accessories and then made some custom items like monogramming pillow cases & pillow with the little ball fringe.

I think I may have overwhelmed her with all the creative burst at night - did I mention we used the Cricut cutting machine my Mom gave me for Christmas for B-day invitation's for EC? Yeah - I got that thing out late at night a couple of times. Like I said - ideas = crack for me.

We did make it to the Art museum and we took her to eat at Commissary BBQ to get ribs. But my favorite memory was just giggling with her on the sofa and seeing her in my kitchen.