Wordless Wednesday

Dogs

The weather has been really nice here the past few days. My son and I were cleaning the house on Sunday (well, he was working to earn money, I was doing laundry and making clipboards) and I noticed how funny and different my two dogs are.


Here's K'Ehleyr....she's happy as a clam to lay outside and soak up the rays. Not so fun when she comes in covered with dead grass on your freshly vacuumed floor...










And here's Mopsa....who rarely leaves my side. She wants in the moment she goes out. She follows us around, or lays in a spot and watches the action.



She's not spoiled. Ha.




Thanks to all of you who voted in the poll....It's a record....15! Now if I could just get more than 3 comments...hm.

Crafty Weekend

I got some crafting accomplished this weekend. My pictures are positively awful, but there ya go.

Here is the first in another BOM (Block of the Month) from Willowberry Designs called Verandah Views.

Here is my clipboard. It is my first Mod Podge foray (I want it to be called Modge Podge)

I used the pages from an old dictionary and on the front used the "M" and the "R" for mine and hubby's names....awww....idn't that cute?

Here's the back...."C" and "A" for my kids' names...although the real "C" page inadvertently got glued behind the background page. Oops!

Here's another using Robert Frost poems, though I don't like it near as much.

I got the idea from Jennifer over at Sewhooked....check out that wall!!

Compassion

Meet my new friend!

A few months ago, I won a little giveaway over at Ree's (right!? I know). I say little, but this is big! A few Bloggers went on a tripto Costa Rica a few months back with Compassion International to meet the children they sponsor. I made some new bloggy friend through reading about their experiences, and it prompted me to want to sponsor a child. It was just before Christmas and so I was going to wait until after the first of the year to see if I could manage it. Before that happened, I was chosen to do this through no cost of my own. I finally got my sponsorship package in the mail yesterday, and I am very excited. They wanted me to sponsor an older child because they rarely get chosen, and I was happy to doso, so my young man is 18 and lives in Ethiopia. I can't wait to get the correspondence going.

Cutest Blog on the Block

As you know, I've been fiddling/waffling about the look of my blog. I decided to check out the website that lots of people are using (even though the name of it has been putting me off). I found this great background, though it was really dark with the template I had, so I changed it back to my old template, and I think I like it, what do you think!?

Have a lovely weekend!

Stress

Stress is my new friend (again). I know everything will work out the way it's supposed to. But we have quite a few changes that will be taking place in our lives in the next few months. Actually, I'm OK with this now. Tuesday I needed a Valium.
Hubby and I were talking tonight and he said "You and I are 'supposed to' people." We do things because we're supposed to. He's right, and it's an interesting phenomenon that all people aren't like that. And honestly quite infuriating. It seems to be becoming more rampant, anyone else notice that? My daughter is definitely not a 'supposed to' person. My blood boils when I think about it. But I'm not going to get off on that.

p.s. The guy says there's an electrical problem with my sewing machine and it's not worth fixing. It's not even a year old. He said he'd be happy to show me some machines in their shop. Yeah, I just bet he would! He said this about my last one. We're going to go get it and pack both of them up and get a second opinon. No, I haven't finished the pants yet. And all I have left are the cuffs. Too busy reading the last Harry Potter.

Class

We had a great class discussion this evening on our preconceived ideas, prejudices, biases, toward ethnic groups, sexism, low SES, high SES, disability groups, parental involvement, etc. It was good.
What wasn't good is that they've started construction on the highway I use to get to school. Sigh. They are widening it, I assume, so this will be an ongoing issue, so I'm trying to just accept it and know that it's going to take me longer. I have a poll about this issue, please vote in the sidebar if you'd like.