My cuppa this morning is a quick one but I have cut some fresh flowers to share with you out of the garden this morning.
My usual morning coffee in one of my fav mugs
my morning tablets....that hopefully are going to get less now my diabetes is under control
a bowl of nutty muesli this morning
and of course my fav little yellow jug full of garden flowers....hope you can smell them from there :-)
Would you like to know why it's a quick one from me today?
Well I'm going to tell you....I'm helping my daughter-in-law to be, Gina, cut and prepare the card etc for the wedding invites this morning. :-) There will be lots of pink going on today and I'm looking to a fun morning together.
That's all from me for now. If you want to see more then please pop back tomorrow to see the state of my desk. Pop over to join in today's fun at Elizabeth's blog and to see what others have been up to too.
Another week of really fab pics full of smiles being shared and I'd really like to say thank you to all that made the effort to share a little happiness with others. There seemed to be many appreciating our smiles so please keep up the good work....it really does cheer up our friends.
This week I'm featuring Janet's blog ....Fairy Thoughts. She had been playing with a new clay product and had made a really gorgeous new friend called Chilly. He looked just the way I was feeling and certainly made me smile :-) :-) :-) Thanks for sharing Janet.
My happy snaps for this week show the joys of a little boy having a couple of older sisters. There really is never a dull moment with Amy's little family. They are always crafting and creating, baking, laughing, and playing happily together [most of the time of course...after all they are normal!] Amy sent me a couple of pics to share with you all.....
Steve loves to dress up and pretend play :-) Having fun in the baby bath....or is it a bed now? :-)
As you can see here he is also very happy to play the roll of the baby for his big sister Phoebe to push round in her dolls push chair.....oh the joys of being the youngest in the family ......I remember it well!!!
Hope my snaps made you smile and you will share the happy things in your life and link them below. Have a great week.
I have an exciting day planned for today .....but more of that later :-)
What have I got to share with your today then?....
Two weeks ago I shared with you the gorgeous fabric I had cut out ready to take with me on the bag making workshop that Jo and I were playing guinea pigs for our friend to practise on. She is starting up crafty workshops and if last Tuesday was anything to go on they should be really successful. We had a wonderful time learning new techniques [drinking coffee, giggling and chatting] and came away bursting with excitement at the gorgeous bags we had made....plus the desperate need for lots of new equipment for our craft rooms.
Isn't it just stunning? I love the design and the fun fabric has really turned into a gorgeous unique bag. I'm sure Jo is showing hers off today too so pop over to see the one she made.
The whole bag is wadded and there are loads of fab pockets inside to put all those shopping essentials. I love how the grommets make it look so professional...they are a really great design and are fitted so simply too.
The other thing I'm sharing with you today is how I like a challenge...
A new customer to me brought me a really well loved treasure of his wife's while she was away on holiday so I could take the pattern off it and make her a new one as a surprise gift. When his wife retired from running a local choir about 25 years ago one of the ladies had made her a choir boy peg bag as a leaving gift. As you can see it has been really well used and was falling apart so taking the pattern wasn't quite so easy but I managed to make a reasonable copy and needless to say when he collected it he was thrilled to bits with what I'd done.....and so was I too :-)
Cute eh?
Well that's all from me today....would you like to know why?
I'm off to meet 3 very special people today that you all know really well....Julia [our WOYWW queen], Jan [of Lunch lady fame] and Di [of Snippets Playground fame]. I feel like I've known them for ever so am really excited at eventually meeting them in real life. I'm sure there will be photographic evidence and we will be sharing it all with you very soon but for now have a great week.
I'm starting my day off with scrambled eggs and wholemeal toast today with my usual cup of coffee of course.....I can't drink tea [it makes me sick :-( ] . My tablets have already been taken and I thought you'd like to share my gorgeous orchid too....what you can't see is that is has a second flower stem now growing at a pace of 1cm a day :-) :-)
Today I am also sharing this with you. it's worth reading carefully and thinking about each point. We really can learn so much from the elderly. Remember they are the lucky ones who have lived to tell the tale and share their wise words.
Written by a 90 year old
This is something we should all read at least once a week!!!!! Make sure you read to the end!!!!!!
Written by Regina Brett, 90 years old, of the Plain Dealer, Cleveland , Ohio .
"To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 42 lessons life taught me. It is the most requested column I've ever written.
My odometer rolled over to 90 in August, so here is the column once more:
1. Life isn't fair, but it's still good.
2. When in doubt, just take the next small step.
3. Life is too short – enjoy it..
4. Your job won't take care of you when you are sick. Your friends and family will.
5. Pay off your credit cards every month.
6. You don't have to win every argument. Stay true to yourself.
7. Cry with someone. It's more healing than crying alone.
8. Save for retirement starting with your first pay check.
9. When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile.
10. Make peace with your past so it won't screw up the present.
11. It's OK to let your children see you cry.
12. Don't compare your life to others. You have no idea what their journey is all about.
13. If a relationship has to be a secret, you shouldn't be in it...
14 Take a deep breath. It calms the mind.
15. Get rid of anything that isn't useful. Clutter weighs you down in many ways.
16. Whatever doesn't kill you really does make you stronger.
17. It's never too late to be happy. But it’s all up to you and no one else.
18. When it comes to going after what you love in life, don't take no for an answer.
19. Burn the candles, use the nice sheets, wear the fancy lingerie. Don't save it for a special occasion. Today is special.
20. Over prepare, then go with the flow.
21. Be eccentric now. Don't wait for old age to wear purple.
22. The most important sex organ is the brain.
23. No one is in charge of your happiness but you.
24. Frame every so-called disaster with these words 'In five years, will this matter?'
25. Always choose life.
26. Forgive but don’t forget.
27. What other people think of you is none of your business.
28. Time heals almost everything. Give time time.
29. However good or bad a situation is, it will change.
30. Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does..
31. Believe in miracles.
32. Don't audit life. Show up and make the most of it now.
33. Growing old beats the alternative -- dying young.
34. Your children get only one childhood.
35. All that truly matters in the end is that you loved.
36. Get outside every day. Miracles are waiting everywhere.
37. If we all threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else's, we'd grab ours back.
38. Envy is a waste of time. Accept what you already have not what you need.
39. The best is yet to come...
40. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.
41. Yield.
42. Life isn't tied with a bow, but it's still a gift."
I think we all have lots to learn from these wise words don't you?
If you'd like to catch up with lots more blogs who join in the T for Tuesday post then pop over to Elizabeth's and link up.
Thanks for calling by and for your lovely comments. Hugs, Annie x
Many thanks to all who joined in the fun this week. There really is a lot of happiness out there and how lovely it is to share it. Many call by each week just to share our smiles now folks so please keep linking them up to cheer the lives of those needing that little extra boost in their lives.
I am featuring Di's blog this week from over at Pixie's Crafty Workshop. She painted such a fab picture in my mind of her dressed ready for some intense cleaning....it really caused some giggles. I am hoping to meet Di this next week in real life and I would like to put a request in that she doesn't come in her cleaning gear :-) Thanks for joining in the fun Di.....see you soon wahooooo
I am sharing my two little munchkins this week to show off what a clever Great Aunty Jo they have. They are such tiny little poppets and are so into dressing up at the mo. Shell has tried to buy them a few dressing up clothes but they are all for children aged 3-5 so are much too big for them. Jo set to and made them a few [she put them on her blog on Wednesday] and you can see just how much they love them here....
Lexi just loves her princess skirt but in her haste to put it on she failed to cover her top half...I've blocked out the important bits cos I'm sure in years to come she might rather it that way :-)
Here is Nurse Lexi and Dr Sam....they have a fab set of Dr toys and are happy to check you over any time but be warned...they are a bit vicious with their instruments as yet!! :-)
And if you're not already smiling then this one is sure to raise a smile. Sam insisted on putting Lexi's fairy dress on...what a cute little angelic face eh? :-)
Thanks for calling by for your 'make me happy' visit. If you have something in your life that is making you smile please snap a pic and link it up any time before next Friday when I will be uploading my next pic and I will feature the one that made me smile the most.
There is always something different here at Sewing by Annie's to share with you. This week is no exception.
I have been picking the brains of several of my blogging card making experts....you know who you are and I thank you from the bottom of my heart. I am helping to make the wedding stationery for my son's wedding next August. The design they want was rather more complicated than the invitations I made for my two daughter's weddings so it's been a bit of a challenge. My daughter- in - law to be Gina is a bit of a perfectionist [of course she is cos she is marrying my son and he's the best!! :-) ] so it is important to me to get things just how she wants them.
Thought you might like to see what we have come up with so far. They might get a bit of tweaking between now and then but we are all very happy with how they look.
This is the front. It's a 3 fold card with a punched edge, pink ribbon trim and little punched glittery flower over the join.
Opened out you can see the floral edged perlised paper that will have the invitation details printed on it in the middle section.
On the lower section we have made a little pocketed panel for the other printed sheets to go with details of accommodation, menu etc
I say I'm not a paper crafter but even I'm rather chuffed at how they are looking so far. What do you think?
The other thing I've been working on this week is a selection of hair clippies for little Lexi. She needs fairly long clippies to hold back her curls but the larger ones usually come with rather large decorations on and she is just too little for a lot of them so I've made her a few more her size. :-)
Well folks that's all I've got to share with you this week. Hope you have enjoyed your visit and will leave me a little hello comment before popping over to Julia's to link up and join in the fun for this week if you haven't already. I will do my best to pay you a return visit as soon as I can.
There were several blogs last week that I visited but were unable to leave comments on because of google+ so I'm sorry about that.
I'm joining in today quickly before I head out the door for a fun day.
One of my good buddies is starting up doing crafty workshops and today that, much older, sister of mine and I are playing guinea pigs for her. We are making a bag following her instructions and helping her to tweak it all before she takes her first proper class. I've managed to get some real fun fabric off ebay and have all my pieces cut out ready. As they say....watch this space.....I will surely do a show and tell when the bag's finished.
So here you go this is my T for Tuesday for this morning....
My essential morning medication
Wholemeal toast with diabetic marmalade
My morning coffee in one of Mum's pretty fine bone china mugs today...it would have been her birthday this week
My beautiful sunflowers that Jo brought me to celebrate Mum's birthday with...thought you'd like to share them too.
That's it from me this morning. I must now go and make my lunch to take with me and make sure I've got everything with me for my day's fun. Hope you all have a good one too.
Oh how you all made me laugh last week with the fab slogans for the photo I shared. Thank you to each and every one of you for joining in. Of course there had to be a winner and I have to say this one really made me chuckle because of the events that had gone on earlier in the week.
My good friend Annette had sent me the instructions to make a little folding book like the one she had sent me all the way from Australia. The instructions came by email first so, me being me, thought I'd have a go to follow them. I can honestly say I've not laughed so much for a long time. I really couldn't make what I was making look anything like a book....or even a part of it. It took a session on facebook, in what little time two friends can have during one day when they live on opposite sides of the world, carefully following Annette's stage by stage instructions for the penny to eventually drop and I got it right. So much laughter was shared that day.
This was Annette's slogan for my Friday's smile photo....
....and trust me when I say Annette really didn't know just how near to the truth that was :-)
There will be a little surprise heading Annette's way for making me chuckle....of course it may take a little while to get there with her being so far away!!!
This week my funny comes with a little tale too.......
Shell said she had noticed someone had been taking photos with their ipad. We are thinking of contacting crime watch for the culprits......
Does anyone know of two little fair haired people....one with curly hair and the other with straight hair?
Modern technology really doesn't phase little ones does it? They choose what they want to do on the ipad and know how to enlarge etc at such a little age but I have to say they really have caused so many giggles at this photo.
Thanks for dropping by this week. Please snap something that has made you smile this week and share it by linking it below.
