Goddesses !!

These are my Goddesses.  Aren't they beautiful.  I took a class a few years ago on the Goddess within.  I learned we all have a Goddess in us and they're are a  number of different personalities of the Goddesses.  That was the point of the class we had to figure out which one we were. It was very interesting  and informative. I did learn a lot  and enjoyed reading about them.   So this is my way of keeping them in my life.   It reminds me of what I have inside me and how to show it.   All of us could look inside ourselves.  Of course I do believe in Magic, which is just another form of Miracle.  It goes by  many names but the results are the same just different words.  Hey, that's what makes the world go around.  So sit yourself down, close your eyes if you must, although you don't have to and Believe.  You might be surprised at just what you come up with.  Tootles


















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Beautiful Tree

Going to the gym. 

Enjoying the Morning

Spring and Summer ? Here !

I have some pictures to upload on this site but for some reason they are not loading.  I swear there is so much I do not know work about all this so when it doesn't work smoothly I'm lost.

We are enjoying this lovely weather.  We better before it gets really hot.  After having such a mild winter I think we are all a little afraid of the summer coming.  Never fear we will soldier on and run in the house to our air conditioning.

I have been fixing up my screened in porch and the area of the porch that is not screened in.  All of it is in  white.  I have picked up a lot of white sheer curtains at the thrift store and even picked up some at Ikea.  No kidding.  They have very long and I do mean long white sheers for only 3.99.  You get two panels for that.  I got some for my bedroom and love them.  Hey, at that price I can put them outside.  It's just so much fun fixing it all up.  I even painted this little dresser that my daughter gave me.  I just love it but the drawer was warped and so hard to open and close so Jim removed it made the front of the drawer a drop down and we used it for our DVD player and DTV component .  It worked great with our TV on the top but as you know I change things around a lot  besides being we got a new bigger TV and love, love, love it.  I feel like I'm in a movie theater !  Ha

Hey, it worked this time.  This is one side of the porch.  Both chairs are from thrift stores still in good shape really but I want the white look so here come the white sheets.  The two baskets up behind the chairs is where our cats sleep.  They love it.  That's a fire place between the chairs.  Yes, I got at a thrift store several years ago.  When I bought it, it had a heater in it used it for a while but it was so old got a little worried about so removed the heater and left the fake looking wood.  It lights up but like I said it's pretty old so just use it like this.  The sign hanging above it something I wood burned it's a French sign, I love it and of course the chandelier is all made from  shells.  It's really beautiful.
Now I will try and up load the other side.  Wish me luck.





Okay, I am still waiting for the picture to upload but it's been about 20 minutes.  Finally was able to get back to post so I will check back in a few and hope I can get it on.
We use this area in the morning when we have our coffee in the morning.  It's still cool enough that the paper wasp are not out.  It's cool and the day is just beginning.  Now we will try and come out just before the sun comes up, it is so beautiful then.

Well it doesn't look like the picture is going to load so I might just end this tonight and come back in the morning.  One more try !

Just a quick note.....  Tomorrow my Jim and I are going to start the   Flat Belly Diet !  We need to do     something and it seems to be all the food we both like so we are willing to give it a try.  We go to the gym 3 times a week.  Monday, Wednesday and Friday !  We might even start going  more we will see so   between that and the flat belly diet we should be able to see some results.  I will be posting right here and let you know.   Tootles

Trying to figure out my computer !

I swear just when I think I have everything figured out (well, most of it anyway) I come across something different.  I made the mistake of not having them show me all about the computer and what all it could do.  Nooo, not me, I was going to figure everything all by myself.  Well guess what,  I don't have anything figured out and now I don't know where all my pictures have gone.  The new ones that is.  I have the older ones but I would like to add the recent pictures and another thing when I hit certain letters this little sign pops up then when I continue it disappears.  Now, I ask you, what is that ?  I'm thinking about setting up an appointment and going back in and seeing if I can still have them show me Or I could just sit here in frustration and keep doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. 

No matter what I choose to do I will continue to do all my blogs.  I know I have said this before but I want to write in them more often.  So here is to this new year that really has started out great, may it continue.  Tootles

Crochet Dolls, Different Blankets and More !

Sade Blake & Ada Belle

 The top photo is my doll my Mom made me,  now keep in 

mind, I was an adult.  I love her to pieces.  Just a couple of 

weeks ago I decided to make Sade Blake her own doll. And 

of course I named her Ada Belle.  What fun I had crocheting.

So now we come to the two dolls in the window. The one on the left is a Faery Doll.  She has wings all over her.  I tried to make her simple because she is so full of magic it's scary.  Scary in a good way.  Speaking of scary the one sitting beside her is really adorable but  lets face it, her eyes !  Yikes !  She is the all seer.  You know what I mean.  She knows and sees it all.  I do love to make the dolls.  Each time I try to do it a little different.

This next picture, I'm going to make me a quilt.  Not your usual one.  I will take pictures as I go along so you can see what I have in mind.  Right now I'm working on a square that has a pillow cover. The pillow itself is long gone but I have kept the cover as it was my poodles.  Her name  was Sade Blake and I loved her to pieces.  She would sleep with this pillow all the time.  I have made a big S in the center for both Sade and Sampson Drake.  He was also a  poodle.  I'm deciding whether I should put the red heart on it or not.  Haven't decided yet but do want to add ribbons and lace .   Now we come to the last photo.  On the right is a Shawl I made and I love how the yarn looks.  It's very soft as it's the baby yarn but it's even shiny too.  I had most of a skein of white left and most of a skein of green in baby yarn also.  So one side is white the other is green.  I, myself, think its a pretty combination but   maybe I should have made it more of stripes.  Oh well, it's made now.
The one on the left, I am making for my Daughter.  It's a Prayer Shawl.  I found the  pattern on the internet, of course.  It was such a  beautiful story about the shawls and  has meaning for you no matter your  choices in your spiritual life.  What would be better when your sad,  upset, or just deep thinking, you put the Prayer Shawl around you and it's like, who ever you believe in, is hugging you right now and telling you everything will be A-OK.  Now that's what I'm talking about.     Tootles

Sky View !

 I took these photos in Chico a couple           months ago.  I was really surprised how good they turned out.  It really did look like that but you know how it is, the picture doesn't do it justice.  Wanted to share.

 This photo of Welcome my Granddaughter took outside my front door.  Her Boyfriend edited it.  I love it.  I like to take pictures around my yard and of course of my animals.


As you can see my sweet Elviria has found a comfy spot to take her naps. Right in my crochet basket.  I watched her crawl in there, how careful she was, after all it is under a table.  What a kitty cat !  Tootles