Once again....

...I failed miserably at sticking to one topic. I guess my brain doesn't work that way.

ADD perhaps?

I finished sock pups tail.

Here he is waiting for the birthday girl to come home.

We surprised her at the bus stop.

She loves him and his new name is Paco.

And he loves tacos.

Also the bag I made for the auction finally made it on the site. The Auction on line ends Friday and the auction ends at the shop this Saturday. My bag is around page 16 if you label it price descending, unless it gets a bid then that may change.

http://www.salinepictureframe.com/showroom/index.php?act=viewCat&catId=368

There are lots of small beautiful works of art as well, and last year there were some great bargains on all original art.

Ok. New topic. I finally figured out how to put a photo at the top of my blog.

I got one thumbs down and one thumbs up on my photo selection.

So in my quest at making the masses of people reading my blog happy(all 3 of you), I would like some input.

Stay with the one already there.

My Sugar Creek

Go with a chicken theme

Like Brownie in the porch pot....

....or eggs?

Or something garden related?

Or chicken & garden related?

Or something I made?

Like an art quilt?

Or a chick bag?

Or my hard working pup?

It doesn't even have to be one of those photos, just point me in a direction and i can take a new photo.

I thank you in advance for your help.

Happy Birthday!

Twelve years ago you came into this world and made our family complete.

This fortune cookie you got years ago pretty much sums it up.

I love you sweet girl.

I don't know what to call this

I thought about calling this "Are you sick of hearing about my great weekends yet? In case you aren't, here's one more."

Not that I want a crappy weekend, it's just I am on a great weekend streak and i don't want them to end, but I don't want to sound like Pollyanna either. I get my share of shit too.

Friday, I met with my sons 8th grade class at the park and helped supervise while they tested one of our local rivers for pollution and such.Not much effort on my part but fun anyway. I got to hang with my boy and his classmates and eat hot dogs. Not bad. The last time I helped out at that park, all the kids were shorter than me.

Friday eve I sold another bag on etsy! Yay, etsy love.

Saturday, kids had soccer games. I usually don't care much about watching sports on T.V. but something about my kids playing soccer is the greatest. We also had wonderful weather too which helps.

We had an hour and a half to kill between games so I shipped off the etsy package and we went to our local farmers market. More crafters this year, and lots of plants for sale. I was bummed though because the only veggies for sale were all ones I currently have in my garden. There was a booth selling home made cheeses and although it wasn't in my budget for this week, I plan on returning and trying some soon.

I pack a lunch on these Saturdays so we don't have to travel all the way home or resort to fast food. We picnicked in the car and then watched my sporty girl play.

Then the kids and I went shopping, they are both taking class trips this week (the boy, Washington DC. the girl, Toronto). We got travel food, granola bars and such and bottled beverages, since they are required to take disposable packaging so they don't have to worry about lunch boxes on the bus.

My girl's birthday is tomorrow so she also picked out a few early gifts. She loved it! She got to pick out what she wanted and it saved me gas on an extra trip back to the store later.

Shopping with my kids is so much fun. They are two funny souls.

We also hit a local fruit and veggie market and got a combination flat of flowers and veggies. I get some Veggie plants already started thatI don't like starting from seed, like eggplant and hot peppers. I would never use up a whole pack of those kind of seeds anyway. The Coleman family owns the market, they had purchased my grandfathers farm and took such great care of it, so I like to spend my money there. Very nice family.

I got the flowers for my pot sculpture.

I saw this pot idea from another blogger http://empressofdirt.blogspot.com/ , if you go to her blog, scroll to the bottom and click on projects. I added my own twist with the baby foot sticking out. My MIL likes all thing cherub, so when one of her angels was damaged by mowing, I stole the body parts. I know, I'm twisted but i like what i like.

Rained all day Sunday, but had a great indoor Mothers Day. I sure am blessed with great kids and Hubbie.

Today I'm finishing gifts for the girl.

I made a travel bag for her trip. I wanted a zipper to keep her things safe. The zipper didn't turn out as well as the first time I installed one, this one is slightly crooked but I think she'll forgive me.

She loves all things puppy so I thought this fabric would be fun.

I put a pocket on the back.

I also am making her a bulldog from mens socks. Martha Stewart kids magazine had this idea a few years back. One of many sock dogs I've made for her. She usually claims them in the making stages and how can I refuse?

It still needs a tail. I'll stitch it on during her soccer practice tonight.

I like using different buttons for each eye. It gives them a one of a kind face.

I hope you all had a great Pollyanna weekend too.

I have all that I need

For Mothers day, I don't need jewels or fancy things or a day at the spa.

I have these two.

And this bowl of dandelions.

And that's all that I need.

Happy Mothers Day.

Just Me and my Fish

It takes so little to amuse me.

* no fish were harmed in the making of this film

My weekend in a giant nutshell

I someday, may pick a topic and just write about said topic. Not today.

I made a grand total of $63 at the garage sale. Considering it was all useless to me stuff, that was just gathering dust in the basement stuff, and the fact that my kids had soccer so I didn't even man the sale on Saturday, I consider it a success!

When I got home a package was waiting for me on the porch.

Lisa from twinville http://laughingorcaranch.blogspot.com/ had asked me to make her some bags, after seeing my dog food bag bag, out of some of her feed bags. Since i adore Lisa I said yes!

Lookie at what she sent.

Aren't these beautiful.

Not only did she include the two she wanted but gave doubles for myself,

and more.

My girl who has a love for all thing puppies claimed this one.

Farmer Julie also ordered something from my etsy shop so I got to use my mailing station for the first time and am thrilled with it. Everything I needed in one spot. No running down to the basement, digging out supplies from under mountainous piles, none of that. I am proud of my smarticles in making this.

Speaking of Farmer Julie, http://farmerjulie.blogspot.com/ , so nice, one of the first few to leave comments on my blog. She's an artsy, chicken owning, big truck driving mom who made me feel not so freakish with my artsy, chicken owning, big truck driving ways.

She makes these beautiful ceramic pieces at her etsy shop http://farmerjulie.etsy.com/.

Speaking of etsy, I know for the economic stimulus check that we are supposed to be going to the mall, buying giant screen TVs and such, but I don't want to. I am going to take some of my $$ and shop on etsy or some other artist website. Not only do you get some one of a kind art, clothing, and more to choose from, you also are buying something from an American, in America. Not that i have anything against those poor Chinese people working for poor wages, but when you support an American artist or business, they in turn (hopefully) spend their income on food from a local farmer, eat at a local diner, shop at a local hardware store, and on and on. If you really want to help stimulate the economy, isn't that the way?

other weekend happenings

Field trip for a 3 week old Partridge Rock and a 1 week Dark Cornish.

Trillium in bloom.

So is the Dogwood.

We call this Dogwood Lane.

This is my dish washing view, I have it good.

Chicken with Bleeding Heart.

Chicken with Sunflower Bag.

I fed worms to my favorite Bass.

Yes, I do realize that sounds weird but this fish likes to swim up and be fed.

(It's nest is on the left, the little gravel spot. click to enlarge)

And I weeded the lettuce and pea bed.
(hey Lisa, you get 2 this time)

You can enlarge to see the little pea faces.

Not bad for one weekend. I hope yours was good.

Fun Friday

Today I made $34.25 at the garage sale, not bad for a whole lot of nothing. I also did gobs of trades and came home with new things.

The sale is at my brothers house and includes his fam, my fam, sisters fam, dad and stepmom, mom and stepdad.

My stepdad and i took off for a bit and hit some other sales and I got......

....an extra set of eyeballs. For only 10 cents. A true treasure in my book. I made him buy a safari hat and we wore our treasures to every sale after. He was embarrassed but not me, I figured people would be looking at my eyeballs and not my rained on frizzy hair.

We closed shop, I met the kids at the bus stop, got the mail and it included....

... a package from KB.

http://apatchworkworld.blogspot.com/

KB is a funny blogger in California, with a talented artist husband and two adorable kids, who makes these true one of a kind items mostly created from treasures she discovers from garage sales and thrift shops. You HAVE to check out her stuff.

http://www.kokoleo.com/

I had left a comment on her blog last week and her juicy, adorable baby drew my name to win...

...this bag!

Roomy and very well made (I checked out how she made the bag and learned a thing or two).

Veggie covered, it will be perfect to take to the Farmers Market.

Now as if that wasn't enough she also included...

... all these goodies.

A notebook, notepad, stickers and a button!

So nice, so kind.

A great day.

We are now getting some much needed rain. I had been hoping for a good drenching to soak in all the little chicken land mines scattered all over the yard. My chickens are my natural herbicide, insecticide and fertilizing machines. They also give the most tasty eggs.

Soccer games and more projects in my weekend future.

Have a good weekend!