Until Next Time...

A couple weeks ago I mentioned that one of my girl's friends had asked me to do a candy bucket for her daughter for Halloween.  Well, it's finished and ready to go! Kasey said she wanted it girlie, so girlie is what she got! I love the ribbons on the handle! You can't get much girlier than a bow on a ghost 😂  Now, I need to make another one for the newest granddaughter, Emery. Em has decided she wants to be a chicken for Halloween.  Now keep in mind Emery turned 1 in August. I know, you're wondering how she let us know she wants to be a chicken. Well, her mom was holding out a couple costumes for her to look at and she went for the chicken.  Jenna tried really hard to get her to pick the unicorn, but Emery kept going back to the chicken one. So we bought the chicken one.  Until next time!

I started this post yesterday. Several times.  But, I got busy doing other stuff and this got pushed to the side.  I finally have a few free minutes today so I figured I would come back to it LOL  Really, I am procrastinating on doing my last case study for the management class I am taking 😉 So, this is titled WIP Wednesday.  I decided I would start sharing my cross stitch WIPs with you.   I started cross stitching MANY years ago.  I've done pieces and given them as birthday, graduation and wedding gifts.  I made the whole family matching Christmas stockings.  Even got two of the three grandbabies stockings made after a long break from cross stitch while I sewed children's clothes and went to school.  But, I picked cross stitch back up a couple of years ago and quickly remembered why I love it so much.  It's almost mindless work for me.  It keeps my attention just enough to make ignore all else, but not enough thought has to be focused on it to make it hard.  However, I do

 So, for those of you who are new to my blog here, let me give you some background info.  My bestie and I run a romance book blog called Two Girls with Books.  You can check it out here . Sometimes we write these long, rambling reviews, sometimes it's short and sweet - or maybe that's just me that rambles 😂.  We are fortunate enough to get some really great books before they're released to the public to review. At the beginning of the week I got a copy of Scandalous Prince by Rachel Van Dyken.  This is the second book in her new series, Mafia Royals, which is a spinoff of her Eagle Elite series.  Don't worry if you haven't read Eagle Elite, I haven't either.  So, I am jumping into Mafia Royals without knowing anyone LOL  But truly, you don't need to read them, she gives you some background information on the Eagle Elite people - they're all grown up here and are parents!   Well, I read Scandalous Prince and ABSOLUTELY LOVED IT!  I really didn't doub

 Last year I made hand painted Halloween buckets for the grandkids and several other children.  These are a few of them. They turned out great!  So great, in fact, that I had a young lady I know ask me if I could do one for her daughter for this year.  I am so excited!  Now, should I do the witches feet or the ghost?  I am kind of leaning toward the ghost since she said the girlier the better ;)

  Once again I have been MIA for several years.  Life happens and when it does, my blog evidently doesn't.  But I dreamed of  this blog last night and woke up with it on my mind.  So, here I am! Let me catch you up....the oldest daughter, Ashley, is back in Alabama, but only for another 2 weeks and then she and her two babies (who are 10 and 8 - can you believe that?) are going back to Louisiana.  Daughter number 2, Jenna, and her precious baby, who is 1, are living with us for the moment.  Daughter #3, Lauren, is still in Huntsville, no longer with The Walking Company (I miss the shoes).  She and her beau have a precious kitty named Ridge.  And most shocking is that Daughters 4 and 5, affectionately known as The Squirrels, live together in Tuscaloosa and both attend The University of Alabama.  Harley is a junior who just changed her major to Marine Biology and is in the Million Dollar Marching Band while Mallory is a freshman who is majoring in neuroscience/psychology.   As for me