Sadie Blake

 Sadie Blake is looking out at my pretty periwinkle.  She is a doll my Mom made me.  I was married with children but have always loved dolls.  This one is very special to me mainly because Mom made it.  Sade Blake loves looking out the window at flowers and things.  I gave all my other dolls away to my niece when I was about 15 or 16 thinking I was done with them.  Learn from me.  Don't give any of your treasures away until you are much older.  I think you will find you don't want to give it away at all.  I just thank God I have Sadie Blake.  Isn't she sweet?  Mom did a wonderful job.

This is my pretty periwinkle.  The blue flower that is.
 I know what you are going to say.....What is up with the white rose.  Ok, Ok, you caught me.  It's fake.  I just couldn't throw it away and I thought it look good in this pot.  So just enjoy.  Talk more later.  Tootles

January Warmth

A good morning to you and yours.  We are having nice weather for this time of the of the year and I for one am enjoying it very much.
Hope you are enjoying yours.

Kitty, Kitty

 The kitty on the left is one of the animals I made for Christmas.  It's called an amneko cat.  I had never heard of it before.  I searched for animal patterns in crochet and this came up from a blog.  I thought it was so cute so made it.  I went to the site for instructions on how to put it together and they were all in Japanese, help!  Thank goodness for the pictures.  I did get it together (obviously) but feel I missed some important details by not being able to read it. 
Next to kitty is one of my kitty's, Elviria.  She is curled up like a black ball and as you can see she is in my crochet basket fast asleep.  She also tries to curl

up on my lap when I am trying to crochet, most of the time she is able to do that as I can still work.  Then there are the times she is not having it and keeps turning in circles to get me to put the crochet down and give her the attention. 

Happy Holidays Everyone !  Now our new year begins and I am so excited for it.  Tootles

Roses and Eleanor !

 What is more beautiful then Roses?  I tell you I love them.  I have saved the petals for years and have a basket full of them.  It smells wonderful.  I have added other flowers to it but the Roses smell the best.
I thought this would be a nice change from the Holidays.  This bouquet is from last summer and I was never without a bouquet thanks to my husband bringing them in.

Then we have the sweet.  Eleanor that is.I have shown this picture before or one like it to show she insists on getting her drink here.  We do have a water dish on the floor but that seems to be beneath her. Ha!  Her sister Elviria also gets a drink here but not as often.


I know we are all glad the Holidays are over.  Well, not quite yet as we do have New Years to go but I was talking about the gift giving and dinners to make.

This year I ordered my turkey dinner from The big grocery store.  It was delicious, especially since I didn't have to cook it.  I have a very small oven let alone a very small kitchen so believe me ordering it was great.  Everything was delicious except the broccoli dish.  It was broccoli, rice and cheese mixed together.  Now I do like all of them just not together in one dish.  It was not good but the turkey (12lb) was delicious, mashed potatoes and gravy, yum, cranberry sauce, yum and of course the rolls not to mention the pumpkin pie, double yum yum.  It was great and we had left overs which is always a treat.  Tonight we are having tacos.  A great change and we love them.

Hey, just to let you know hopefully the first of January I am getting me a computer or ipad for my own and will be on top of my blog.  I do so love to write here but it is challenging sometime.  Now of course I see they are bringing out a new ipad3 the end of February.  Fine !  Ok, so do I wait for that or just jump right in on another device.  I swear I just don't know.  I am going to go look and if I find just what I want or see something I know will work perfect than I am going to get it.  Wish me luck!

Oh, real quick!!!!! I got an Kindle Fire for Christmas !!!!  I have to say I do love it.  I had the Kindle2 and really loved it but I have to say having it in color and a bigger screen is great.  Now with the update in place I am enjoying it very much.  Also went to a discussion and found out how to find the blogs and to see them in color is great.  Will talk more later.  Tootles

Help !!

Ok, I have been eating gluten free food and I have to tell you it is awful.  I mean awful !  So what I have been thinking it's just wheat, that doesn't agree with me.  Let me put it another way.  So help me God, it has to be just wheat.  I feel so sorry for all of  you out there who need to eat gluten free food.  Oh, My God,  it is just plain awful.  All I can say is I have not tried all gluten free food so there is still hope for all of you but my heart does go out to you.  I for one am eating a lot less and no wheat so will keep you posted on that.  With the Holidays it will get hard but just the thought that I would have to eat gluten free food is enough to make me eat less and no wheat.  Hey, I think I just found a way to lose weight.  Well sort of.  Will let you know.

Another Great Day !

Hey, this is great.  I feel super.  Today I had an omelet for breakfast, just eggs and veggies.  Lunch, veggies, beans and rice.  I know, you are probably saying it's boring eating all this over and over and I have to agree but....when it makes you feel good it's what works.  I do plan on going to the store and getting some gluten free food like bread, cookies (hey, I have to live a little) and more stuff.  So, so far so good.

Thanksgiving, Oh No !

Why the "Oh No!"  Well, I  have been reading about Gluten allergies.  I think I just might have some form of that.  I first heard about it while watching the "View".  Elizabeth talked about her allergy to it as I was listening some of the things she said she experienced, I also had experienced.  So I looked it up on line then look up even more sites and then went to Elizabeth's site and ordered her book.  It's like a whole new world has opened up for me.  Hey, this is good news even though I am a bread lover from way back.  I mean the rosemary and olive oil bread you can buy from Costco is to die for.  I have always loved bread.  When I would have cramping and bloating in my tummy I would just have a slice of good bread.  Wow!  Then to find out that was probably what was causing the problem. I still can't believe it.

This is all new to me.  I have just started this so will keep you posted.  It's funny I have been eating healthy (I thought) for a long time.  Now I realize it was all good except for the gluten.  I even made my husband eat whole grain bread because it was better for him.  Now he tells me he never liked it.  Well we will see how this goes.  So far today I have had an egg, hash browns (which my husband made me for breakfast) and coffee.  Lunch was brown rice and veggies.  So far so good.  I'm not kidding I did just start.  I am aware of reading labels now not just for the fat content but gluten, wheat etc.  I looked at the ingredients on some nuts that were suppose to be healthy.....guess what ?  wheat starch !  So that just goes to show you.  I will keep you posted and wish me luck.  Tootles