Projects

Greetings from beautiful South Dakota.  Today is a good day - supposed to be our last warm day for a while; the sun is supposed to come out; Uncle Rich and Aunt Henrietta are here for a visit and life is good.  I have a project lined up for today that I'm a bit excited about.  Making my sweet little Katie a new pillowcase with pixies on it.  I thought they were princesses but Uncle Rich said they were pixies but then what does he know.

Last Friday night we were invited to Lee and Kathy Schroeder's home for dinner.  We had a very nice dinner and a nice evening visiting with them.  They are both HUGE collectors - too much for me but they both enjoy it and love to show off their things.  I can appreciate their lovely things but have no desire to have them myself.

One of the projects I wanted to finish before going to Washington was to do some decorative throw pillows for my DeAnn.  I finally went to the thrift store and found the perfect pillows to cover.  I had a couple of pillow cases that I had sewn previously and needed some pillows to put in them.  I am not happy with the way the dotted pillows turned out and if I have time, I will redo them before I go.  The other two turned out very nice - sure hope you like them too, DeAnn.



If you look back at my blog last year and I think the year before, you will see pictures of my blooming Thanksgiving cactus.  It's blooming again this year and is so pretty.  I love it because Chase and Amy gave it to me for my birthday one year.  It's been telling me that it would like to be repotted so I think I may try to do that before I leave also.  Isn't it pretty?

That's it for this week.  By the way, I have to take some space here to tell the world what an awesome, wonderful granddaughter I have (actually I have two but I'm talking here about the older).  Holly, you are the sunshine in so many of my days.  How I love you and how proud I am of the beautiful young lady you are - inside and out.  The devotion you wrote for Boyfriend Bears reminds me again of how blessed this world is because you are in it.  I love you to the bottom of the bottomless hole in Carlsbad Caverns and back up again.

Love to all,
Gramma and MOM