Bye Bye Caro and Victoria

Today was Caro and Victoria’s last full day in GA. They will fly to Montreal tomorrow. :(

I have several things to blog about because my camera battery was charging yesterday and I didnt get to post any pics for a day or 2. ((Bare with me)

I have had lots of comments on the Fatweiser Roast- several peeps say they will try it soon.

Ok, so on to the pics: Isn’t this fabric pretty? Aunt Mary Sue picked it out for me to use in the quilt class I am taking next week. (STOP lAUGHING!) She gave me 3 of the fabrics for my birthday. So nice of her! She picked out EXACTLY what I had on mind for my quilt. Thanks AMS. (Thats short for Aunt MAry Sue)

 

Ok, speaking of AMS, here is a quilt that she made last week. Isn’t is pretty? She is thinking of raffling it off for a fund raiser for school. Save your money so you can buy lots of tickets on this beaut.

JEnna tells Caro good bye. We will see them again at Christmas. Oregon may be nice, but its TOO far from GA!

 

Now- I had a nice little corner in the upstairs bonus room that I used for sewing, embroidery, paperwork, scrapbooking, etc…It was ok, served its purpose, but it was UGLY and too crowded. I decided I needed to expand my space. I had a budget of EXACTLY $0.00 and NOT ONE CENT MORE…so….

 

I remembered that I had some old cabinets from my old office that was Jade’s room before Jade. The cabinets were custom made for the old office, so I knew it wouldn’t be a perfect fit, but I thought I could make it work. I worked for about an hour and ended up with this…..

Please ignore the open drawer…you see (Robyn prepare yourself) my first husband is a builder and decided that he would do the staining/ finishing of the cabinets  himself…which he did for 85% of the cabinets. This last set of drawers is missing the poly coat and the top drawer won’t stay shut. He never finished it. You know the cobblers kids have no shoes….(robyn I bet you can relate to this….ha!) Do any of you have unfinished projects in your house? It seems at my house that always has something, but the longer it sits the less inclined I am to fix it. Tell me yoru stories so I dont feel so bad.

Anyway- I will fix the drawer and hang some pictures and curtains in time. For now I have more space to work, it’s neater, and I did not go over budget even one penny. Not bad!

Todd, I see you have been checking the blog, so here are some Put Put pics for you:

Not putPut, but cute enough….

Definitely not Put Put, but when I took out the camera he said, “Blog Me!” so I did. This is Uncle Carlton…married to AMS. This is his blog debut, but I’m sure I will have more stories to tell about him later.

Hope and Derrick came to visit Caro and Victoria today, too.

AMS made Hope a bag. It sure looks better than Caro’s, but check out that monogramming- I did that! Nice ain’t it?!

AMS was having a snack (or “grazing” as Uncle Carlton called it) and she didn’t want her picture made. I figure if I can put a pic of my bruised legs and butt on my blog then this picture is surely fair game.

Jeff and Victoria were swinging for a while. I couldn’t decide which picture I liked, so I put them all up:

Hope and both girls. (Jenna was at her dad’s, so no pics of her)

Pop and Nonni helped host a wedding shower tonight. That left Jeff and I at Nonni’s with Caro and the girls alone. Pop made the kind gesture (mistake) of coming home early. Since Victoria was already asleep, we left her with Pop and we snuck away for a dinner. Caro NEVER gets to have a dinner without Victoria. (I repeat- Oregon is TOO FAR from GA)

This was an impromptu event, but delish!

Jade had fried rice all over her- look at her hair- gross!

Yum! Sushi!!!

Ok, so tomorrow Nonni will take Caro and Victoria to the airport. We have had a FUN 2 weeks with them. They will be back for Christmas and we certainly hope they choose to make this long summer trip an annual event. (Well actually we want them on the east coast so we can visit a lot more!)

Thanks Todd for letting them come!

Caro, Tell your family hello for us. Have a safe trip and we will see you soon.

Sorry for the long post, but this is my blog and I will write as much, as little, as often, and about whatever I want. So there! :)