Happy Monday Everyone!
Hope your Weekend was Great!
These pictures are the beginning of a new blog post, called "Under Glass".
Barbara and I started noticing on blogs the unique items that are under glass. You know we don't do anything halfway. So we hunted and gathered all the cake plates, domes and cheese trays, we could find. Put anything and everything under glass. The next few days, maybe weeks, I will be posting things under glass. So get a cup of coffee and sit back and enjoy the pictures.
These two are the biggest glass dome and the smallest in the store. I love how, even the gold Christmas bead looks like it was meant to be under the little dome. Like a pearl from a oyster. So no matter what you put under these domes, it makes them look special. Because you took the time to arrange it just right. We all pick up at least one sea shell from the beach, display it under a dome or a glass and hold on to that relaxing time, spent at the beach. Set it on your night stand or in a special place so you will notice it daily.

A little bit more of Halloween.
I made this for a swap I was in, and it wouldn't fit in the box. So I got to keep it.

Toot was at the shop for awhile yesterday and I had my camera. We all wanted a girl, and it is getting so long. DD thinks it is bad luck to cut their hair before he is a year old.

One last Summer picture, I think Summer is gone for another year. I don't even want to go to the beach now. So we are planning a trip to the Mountains or Nashville to see the Rockettes.

The reason I had my camera at the shop is that I had another idea....... Through the first of the year I will be posting these pictures. First will be "under glass". For several months now Barbara and I have noticed on our many blog we look at, that there is a lot of things under glass. So we ran with it. Check back next Monday for the first pictures. It is a really good way to use that glass covered cake plate all year.

Last week, when they were getting ready for the Mardi Gras Party, I got out my face paint. I took a class alot of years ago. So be nice. I was going to join the clown unit of the Daughters of the Nile. I look this class and ask my mother in law to make a clown outfit and I now have no time. So I will pull out that clown outfit and try to make balloon animals at the church carnival. Wish me luck!

We had another busy week at our house.

My daughter planned and organized at Mardi Gras Party for a bunch of 13 year olds.

And it was a hit!

Cold but a Hit!
Wouldn't you know that the weather would change and turn cold.

But do you think the 40 + preteens, felt the cold?

No and it was a great time for all.

Happy Birthday Seana and Jarica

Now it is time to clean up. So enjoy the photos while we plan a Harvest Carnival at the church October 31st.

The candy Buffet was my idea and it was a hit too.

Who doesn't like candy?

Don't you love the huge mask made from a dryer box. She painted it and used Christmas garland, from the thrift store. All 9 -cost about $10.00.

This is my little piece of Halloween. The top of this buffet if where the sea shells go in the summer, it's where the Easter chicks go in the spring. With so many people in our house it is hard to decorate for the seasons or holidays, so I have adopted this little spot to spook up.

Happy Halloween!

Good Morning !

Anyone who knows me, knows I love Halloween. I have given adult parties and children's parties,and decorated the porch to be a haunted house, but the one that was the most fun was the savager hunt.

This year, there is too much going on to throw a good party, so I will just decorate alittle.

These two items were made for a swap I joined.

A sweet and sinister swap.

Did I do it?

Does it look sinister?

I also threw in a gummy skeleton hand, for the sweet.

I had the worst time trying to find a big enough head, even had Jenn's husband Bill on the look out. But in the end I think it turned out okay.
So I hope you all are enjoying the cool fall weather. In Alabama we are wet. And rain all day today, again.

It is the perfect day to complete indoor projects.

Crop 2 Help Group Photo

Crop 2 Help Retreat

Saturday

SPA NIGHTWe pampered our self.

With a Spa night.

And look at the candy Bouquets Jill made.
Thanks Jill, for everything you did!

Crop 2 Help Retreat 2009Irasema

Queen of our t-shirt designs and alot of laughs.

Love you!

Jenn, winner of the Friday night goodie bag.

There is not a lack of food at our crops.

Introductions are always fun.

Friday night dinner,

Dinner among friends.

Glitz and Glamor.

Ladies,I am a little late in posting but I wanted to let you in on the reason I have been absent from the blogging world lately.

And it being Breast Cancer Awareness month, follows right along with it.

Only a month ago my mother in law, Carol, had a routine mammogram.

She had not felt a lump, she had not been sore, she was not feeling bad, but a lump was detected.

And further testing told us it was Cancer.

They wanted to take off her breast.

Carol had her surgery last Monday.

She came home on Friday, with 4 drain tubes.

Someone in the family has been with her since.

She is doing well, she will heal.

But it by the grace of God that it was time for her to have a mammogram.

Early detection is what has saved her life.

Please, have your mammograms.

Well, White September came to a scheeing halt didn't it!

With the crop 2 Help and my mother in law having cancer surgery I had to put my little blog on the back burner.

And then , when I thought it was getting back to normal, I developed a kidney stone,

So just a few more days and then I will be back up and running.

Please Pray that I give birth to this nasty stone soon.

Home from my scrapbooking weekend

And we had so much fun

I am tired

but I would do it again next weekend.

A great group of women, that loves to help!

Gob bless each and everyone of you.

No, No I am not at the beach.

I am still away,

having fun!

Alittle busy the next few day.

No, I will not be a the beach.

I am at a scrapbooking weekend. Fun!

Come on in and sit a spell.

Want a glass of sweet Tea?

Knock ! Knock!

Who's there?

Water!

Water Who?

Water way to answer the door!

Speaking of water have you seen the pictures of Six Flags flooding?

And as the month flies by, stop and smell the flowers.

She is wearing white and we all need a laugh on Monday's.

Here is White September Tip,

Eat only white chocolate this month.

Saturday
It is time to relax,
Enjoy your weekend!

Can you believe September is almost over.

And only a week until the Retreat.

I am working on last minute details,

and my mind is going in ten different directions.

Kinda like these canisters, I need to get my events all in a row.

I am a note taker, planner, it all has to be written down, completed and checked off.

Why is the fall such a busy time for me?

I have a birthday party here first of October, brothers birthday too,

Sale Event at the shop October 5th, doctors appointment, dentist appointment, mother in law having surgery, 2 sewing classes at the shop, Carnival at church, Jerri's Jubilee in November, Grandsons want a carnival Birthday party in February, needs a lot of planning and hubby wants to take a mini vacation soon.

I think I will need it.

But this weekend nothing is planned,

I am going to enjoy it.

Yeah! Bunco Night!

Bottles Bottles

Who's got the bottles?

That would be me.

Cleaning up old cobalt

blue bottle today.

But you will have to wait to see them, until October.

I have alittle idea floating around about a Christmas tree using bottles as decoration.

Stay tuned.

Today is a beautiful day!

Fall is in the air in Alabama

and

it is cooler.

So push up those windows and create.

Even with a box top and a bottle you can create something pretty.

A stack of white bowls

can even be inspiring.

Can u guess what the item is, that is in the bowl?

They are needle holders.

Neat!

I know I am late, but it is still Sunday

Day 13 of White September.

I wanted a special picture and I found this one on-line.

It comes from Coastal Living Magazine.

I could live here, relax here, put my feet up here.

I hope each and everyone of you had a relaxing Sunday.

Today I am asking for your prayers

for my mother in law.

She is having to make some hard decisions

and prayer can only make it easier.

During a routine mammogram

they found a lump, so deep, she had not felt it.

She will lose her breast, but with your prayers she will not lose her life.

Oh, how time flies.

Today, (if you are stuck in a cave) is 9-11

Please take a second to say a prayer for the ones that has gone on ahead.

A week a go a man walked into my shop

long story- short.

I bought these.Along with 4 ******count em******

4 truck loads of bottles.

A storage building full!

All kinds of bottles, jars, glass drawer pulls, glass rods, glass lids, glass everything.

He was a true collector.

I have had a wonderful time going through the many many boxes and boxes.

Many more to go through.

So today all I have to say is

GOT GLASS!

So if you have been online at all,

you know today is 9-9-09.

Somewhere there is a bride getting married

on 9-9-09 at 9 o'clock for $99.99.

What a story to tell.

Even things draped on a chair waiting

to be arranged,

looks beautiful.

Dig deep into the closet and pull put

those white shoes.

Because after today

you can't wear em

again until next year.

So on the seventh day, having finished his task,

God ceased from his work he had been doing.

And God blessed the seventh day and declared it holy,

because it was the day when he ceased his work of creation.

Can you hear the ocean?Close your eyes and see the blue water,

smell the salt air and hear the waves breaking the shore.

Nanny, come wipe my butt!

SNAP!

Back to reality!

It's just the gang.

Looks like there might be a cat fight.

Wonder what she said!

Maybe it was a church dress.

Maybe it was for a special occasion.

Maybe it was a everyday dress.

Maybe it was yours.

All dressed in white.

Pretty

Welcome to day 2 of

White September!White is a color, the perception which is evoked by light that stimulates all three types of color sensitive cone cells in the human eye in nearly equal amounts and with high brightness compared to the surroundings.

I just like it!

Welcome to White September

For a while now I have noticed in the many blogs I visit

there is a love for decorating in white and off white.

So as fall starts to invade my neck of the woods, I have been noticing the white items in my world. So before all the colors of fall - falls into our pictures, and lives.

I have decided to create

"WHITE SEPTEMBER"

So join me in celebrating September.

Today's pic comes from the shop.

And if you will leave me a post on what it is,

the correct answers will go into a drawing for something

white, antique and lovely.

UPDATE
Okay, just leave a post and I will put you in the drawing.

And if no one has guessed what this item is. I will tell u at the end of the month.