Small towns in Texas and other stuff

Today I got a lovely envie from Nathalie. She knows I love library cards. Do you know what she said to me? "I'm surprised you wanted more of these. What have you made with them?" As if I have to make something! Does she not understand that I just want to possess all of the library cards I can? We went to my BFF Melinda's mother's funeral in Waco this week.

We made a few stops on the way home.

We stopped in College Station, Texas for lunch yesterday.... at Rudy's barbecue... a place we like to frequent when in CS.

Normally when we are there the place is packed because it's football weekend or at least a Saturday. This was around 2 p.m. on Thursday.

The Aggies have a little song they sing that refers to sawed-off horns.

This a barn we passed somewhere between Waco and College Station... this is also an Aggie reference.

We stopped in Calvert to antique shop (because I didn't make DH take me back into Waco to go to Bloom and Bee Swanky).

Unfortunately most of the shops are closed during the week. There were a couple open and I did contribute to their economy.

We also stopped in Bremond, TX to check on things.... my mother-in-law is buried here. I love old cemeteries... I took a lot of pictures.

P.S. I removed the word verification on comments... that should help with problems leaving comments! I didn't know I could remove them until I visited HELP!

All About Me!

Here are the rules:

1. Type your answer to each of the questions below into Flickr Search.

2. Using only the first page, pick an image.

3. Copy and paste each of the URLs for the images into FD's Mosaic Maker.

The Questions:

1. What is your first name?

2. What is your favourite food?

3. What high school did you go to?

4. What is your favourite colour?

5. Who is your celebrity crush?

6. Favorite drink?

7. Dream vacation?

8. Favorite dessert?

9. What you want to be when you grow up?

10. What do you love most in life?

11. One Word to describe you.

12. Your Flickr name.

Here are the photo credits for my mosaic .. which also helps you know my answers. And...I really was named after Linda Darnell (actress) and that IS a picture of my high school. Number 12 was hard for me.... so I looked for pretty. ha And...Number 11...doesn't fit for a couple more months.

1. Linda Darnell in a P-38, 2. coffee and chocolate mousse cake, 3. murphy panorama, 4. Robin Blue, 5. David Cook, 6. 2006 Malbec just hangin out, 7. can't come to the phone right now, 8. Italian Creme Cake, 9. Seeker, 10. For the love of God, 11. Chocolate 60th Cake, 12. Who's your pretty friend?

Beeswax

Here's that photo of my mother-in-law that I use all the time. This time I printed it out on muslin again...but I stitched it to a small canvas by hand. But before I sewed her down, I used a few inks on the gessoed canvas and then stamped a bird in a tree with black ink. The phrase at the bottom was snipped out of a paperback book. I keep a cigar box full of phrases I clip out of books. I also sewed a button on her dress. Then I heated up the beeswax in the old crockpot and put a little of that on. That stuff really makes a difference. I need to start remembering to take before wax and after wax pictures. Below is a little something I sent to Christine for her birthday...which was yesterday. I had some ledger pages from a kit I got at Silver Bella that I hadn't used and I couldn't believe that the date on the top of one of them was February 21!!! The thing is that the beeswax made the date somewhat hard to read...which was a disappointment to me. I used the cover of an old hardback copy of a child's book. I need to start gathering more of those. I wrote Christine's name on the ledger pages in pencil to indicate she had purchased some pink fabric!

I have more pictures from Virginia's to show you.... later this week! And she and I both made something....direct copy of Pam Garrison .... I need to finish mine first and then I'll share those.

I also took photos of her art room..... is it okay if I share those, Virginia? I'll crop them artistically, I promise!

Virginia Stitches

My BFF Virginia... she is pictured in previous posts with me at Silver Bella and at International Quilt Festival.... well, she's been inspired lately by the likes of Pam Garrison and Rebecca Sower and Charlotte Lyons. (all links on the side to your left) And I thought I'd show you what she recently whipped up....

The mustard seed heart is one her mother gave her many years ago.

Remember you can click on the pictures and make them larger.

Virginia doesn't have a blog..you can leave her comments here if you'd like!!!

My Daughter is 30!

Happy Birthday, Debbie!!

I love you!

V-Day Countdown!

If you are still preparing for Valentine's Day ... or even if you are finished ...like me ... go check out Martha Stewart's site for their Ten Years of Valentines at Martha' Moments.

Oh.... I changed my settings so that when you leave a comment, instead of a popup, you still have the current post in the window. I like that on blogs and I found how to switch to that. It's in your dashboard somewhere. Just making your life better one post at a time! rofl

Valentines keep pouring in...

Above is my Valentine Banner from the swap I did with InThisHouseandGarden Yahoo Group! I love it!!! From left to right.... one unsigned...lovely with pink wings around a heart,Terri Nickelson-Williams, Sharon DuBois, Cynthia Weed, mine...or a rendition of what I sent ...I didn't keep one of mine so I ran upstairs and made one similar to it, and Connie Freedman.

Here is one of those cupcake liner flowers. Hard to take a decent photo of this. The instructions are on Martha Stewart. I've seen them on another blog but can't remember where...will let you know when I find it.

Have you seen the garlands that Pam Garrison has been making with cupcake liners and coffee filters? I reallllllllly want to do those. And look here too,!

Nathalie sent me this postcard! The love just keeps on comin!

Ohhhh...and I did go to the store and buy ricotta cheese yesterday. Just so ya know!