Additions to Basket

Six Pair of Handcrafted earrings

Locks of Love

I woke up this morning and decided that today was the day to have my hair cut and donated to Locks of Love. Of course I neglected to get a before picture but they cut 2 10-inch long pony tails that will be sent in to Locks of Love. With it being gray they will sell it to off set the cost of making wigs from hair that still retains a natural blonde, brown, black or red. Here is my new doo...

On My Mind - Helping my Home Town in New York

Knitted pull over neck warmer

 I finished a knitted neck warmer and have started making some earrings for the basket I'm putting together to ship to NY that will be raffled off to raise money to help those that lost everything.

Jewelry makings waiting for creativity to strike

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Two More Days.... REALLY?

I have two more days of work before I can just stay home and relax. I'm so ready for the weekend!

The freezer we've had since we first married croaked and Scott and Greg drug it to the street. Scott was hoping it was just a switch that he could change out but it was flat out done. The man from down the street took it to the scrap yard so we were happy someone got some use out of it. Scott scrambled to get everything moved to the freezer on the bottom of our fridge in the kitchen and still ended up having to call his Mom to see about using some space in her freezer for all the green beans that I did up a few months back. I guess I will be canning more now. This weekend I will make up some blackberry jam with the berries in the freezer to open up space for other things that need to be frozen. LOTS to do this weekend. Saturday I will be finishing up the gift basket so I can ship it out Monday. I'll post pictures before I package it up. I sure hope it helps them raise some money to help  those that lost everything in their basements and some even the first floor as well.If you are on Facebook they have a Donation Page as well "Floodfest Greene"

The Corner "5 and Dime"

Where I attended 7th to 12th grade - GCS

The Sherwood Motel

These photo's were taken in Greene in 2008 when I drove to NY for my 25th High School Reunion.

Pirate Cat Socks!

It's Wednesday, aka HUMP day and I'm calling for a Pirate Cat Sock day! Of course I'm probably the only one that owns a pair of Pirate Cat socks. Which makes me think perhaps I should look for MORE cat socks to open up the options. Bad days always go better in a pair of cat socks.

I hate changes in my schedule but it had to be done today. I'll be trying to rework a whole 25 foot side counter during the lunch rush; which means I WON'T get done. They'll be calling me to the register and I will be doing a bunch of guest service. I hate when the Boss is out of town. The Holiday Season has just begun and I'm feeling  that... "I want out of Retail NOW feeling". OH well... I'll muddle on.

A Day Late - Basket item update

Yesterday I started 2 potholders and finished them up tonight...

AND I also made this elephant...

She took a bit of time to put together so I didn't get as much accomplished as I had hoped.

I also started a knitted neck wrap....

MORE to come... I hope to mail this out next weekend so it can get there in time for the BIG Event. I'll most likely ship Fed Ex.

Basket Progress

Here is what I have completed so far for the "Handcrafted Basket" I am donating to my Home Town's Flood recovery efforts...

Three hand knitted dish clothes.

A Christmas Table Runner.

A HUGE canvas tote bag that I decided to fully line with a fun print.

 I was bad and went for a walk with Scott and then we went to lunch at Zesto's so I lost about 2 hours of sewing time but we "needed" a bit of time together.  Tomorrow I will make some more things for the basket and "report in" here tomorrow night.