june fun...and frolic...

not to mention heat and humidity!

It's Wisconsin...we went from brisk fall like temps...to 90 degree + temps...

It's the last week of school...and Maddy is now a full fledged Safety Crossing Cadet! (That means moving into FIFTH grade!)...OK..SO HOW MANY OF YOU OUT THERE REMEMBER HER AS A B-A-B-Y???? and now we have only one more year at the school she is in...(the ONLY in her whole school life...she will be with Maxx)
(she was TRYING to hide from her CRAZY-CAMERA-PACKIN

..AH I MEAN proud nonnie...as she carried her sign out to her post)

First day of duty done...and she gets in the car and goes, "nonnie, my belts too big..(gotta be a fashion thing) and it's HOT...MY POST IS IN THE OPEN SUN!!!

She does wear that belt well....and could very well be an ad campaign for SAFETY PATROL! LOL

Gonna make another sister or brother bear...like this oldie but goodie...from a few years back....who resides in California...

This last weekend...we went to the Milwaukee County Zoo...this season they have a new feature...A butterfly experience...
The Zoo crew was so helpful with making sure each person got to hold a butterfly..especially the kids!!
The Crew showed each person how to approach a butterfly to get it to sit on your hand...

...we were so suprized that maxx held not one but several he WILL NOT HOLD A WORM...but he will fish...perhaps thats why his imaginary buddy, BOB...the ladybug..is just that IMAGINARY...

Little Miss Lavender....she is getting more and more sweet every day!
...the BIGGER THE BOW....the better the NONNIE!

AND Logan is settling in as being the BIG BROTHER...well trying to...he stands on his front porch calling me to come get him...(they live across the street)

Maxx is so ready to play baseball...still waiting on his Gait lab results...they said it would take six weeks...it's been three...

we've been practicing...

...and practicing

and practicing...

He may not be able to run well..but the boy can sure WHACK 'EM!

with summer comes the carnivals..this one was at Xander's school...
Maddy transformed into a butterfly...

Working on this Jewel Sparkles dress for a sweet little one I know...who adores her Jewel Sparkles Lalaloopsy!
Here is Jewel...

...and here is what i made...

I had to adapt it from several patterns....and a bit of ingenuity...

and then...we went to an estate sale...and usually estate sales are run by antique dealers in this area..and we avoid them because the prices are well...HIGH...but this one was in a block rummage..and run by the kids of a mom that had passed....i selected a couple of lace doilies...and she asked what I had planned for them...she was sooo excited her mom's things she had made were going to be remade into other things..that she gave me the rest of the pile!
and the runner will be PERFECT on my kitchen table! (sorry, shan) lol

..i can cross off the bird cage from my rummage list!!! SCORE!

I think Lolli is thinking that that pale yellow dotted swiss fabric will be turned into something frothy for her...so she's keeping a close eye on it...

Lady had all these sweet vintage pieces and she has baggies more!!!

Found these baking pan delights...(the set of Wilton graduated pans were only $3.00!)
the other ones were priced from .10 to a dollar!

Maxx gave me a great idea for a father's day card...he put this little squinkie car onto of it's matching counterpart..and says, "look, nonnie..it's me and dad!"

PERFECT!!!! Gotta get to work on it!

Leaving you with...this...close your eyes real tight...

make a wish....

...and BLOW!!! hoping all your wishes come true!

BIG HUGZ til next time!

ok...i'm lacking in

blogging drive....not much time between maxx's therapy....and various other things goin on....

to say life is busy is an understatement...

Weather has warmed up nicely...yesterday in the 90's..today 80's tomorrow forcasted to be 75...then 65 on thursday...oh geez....that is NOT going in the right direction...as we COULD have snow by the weekend...



ON FRIDAY WE WELCOMED THIS SWEET ANGEL INTO OUR WORLD



MAY I INTRODUCE LAVENDER PAMELA!!! Weighing in at 7lbs 15oz, 20 1/2" long arriving at 6:22 am!

the flea markets and rummages were very good to me this weekend...
found these beauties at a rummage right around the corner from our house...
this one has a broken pin back...but thinking it will be so pretty on a cuff!







Sunday morning...BEEEE U TEE FUL MORNING...papa and I set out for Cedarburg...to fireman's park...for the first fleamarket of the season there!

found these two sweeties...



..and also THIS SWEETIE! None other that Chippy Shabby, Jeanine Burkhardt HERSELF!!!



Papa made several trips to the car for me..with the treasures we found...well what I FOUND...



my finds will be so happy in their new home, don't ya think? Here is the birdie cage



..and this picnic basket and trellis!


...then leaving the flea market...we drove by this!!!
My head did a snap...and made papa turn the car around...



..yep right into the car it went
got it home and took out the drawers...



...took off the back...going to use that stenciled part..for some kind of art..



papa got a new back on the dresser...



and i have it all primed and ready to go!
Now need to pick up a color of paint...it's going into my art playroom...so something vintage toy color...and with POLKA DOTS!



WHAT FUN!!!

made up these totes this week....the first one is a beachy theme..with mermaid graphics


i took strips of textured fabrics...and scrunched them all up and stitched them down to create a sandy beach water...feel...



then some sweet friends and family sent me coffee bags and i stitched them in to a panel for this bag...
side one....



and side two...



well that's it for now, folks...

BIG HUGZ TIL NEXT TIME! (Which will be sooner than last!)

happy thursday!!

WAIT...IS THAT...NAH...CAN'T BE....OH-EM-GEE...IT IS!!!



THE SUN!!!

And lookie at the shadows of those baby leaves! (I love baby leaves...drives David crazy when we go someplace and I have to point them out..)

So tomorrow is Earth day...
last year Maddy was a poster girl for Earth day...



this year she was so excited getting into the car from school, that school had given each student a tree to plant in honor of earth day 2011! "nonnie, look what school gave us!!! AN OAK TREE!!! HEE HEE...DIDN'T HAVE THE HEART to tell her...it wasn't an oak... Funny thing was is that it was snowing and the smell from her tree made it feel like a whole different season!



Yesterday, maxx hopped out of school looking quite the appropriate season though...



he so rocks those ears!
In keeping with the earth day, reuse, recycle festivities I found these oldie but goodie art piece photos I made using old envelopes turned into row houses!






and also found this spring birdie art I painted and poem'd



so close your eyes...and look beyond the physical contraints of yourself and others..and learn to SEE beneath the surface the strengths and positives that over abundantly fill your world...

Today is the first day of spring break for the kids...so I'm sure we will be out and about doing some fun things....and with promises of temps in the 50's for the weekend....perhaps the park!!!

take care!

big hugz til next time!

Rummages Rummages..where for art thou...

RUMMAGES!!!??? Oh i so have that spring fever bug...and have started making my list and checking it twice...(oh wait..that's a whole different season isn't it???LOL) NOPE..i'm still making that list..but each time i look at it..it GROWS...(and that statement, too, could alude to that other season as well, couldn't it..)

It amazes me how things listed on this list changes from year to year...and how something are ever present... Anyone have anything so wanting on their list?

This year I have on my list...
is a desk chair like this...



and I'd LOVE to find a variety of these...to use in my dining room.



In our bedroom, we have an old wooden headboard...nonspecific...and I think I picked it up at a rummage many moons ago...well it just doesn't quite fit in with our beachy theme...so i'd love to come across some of these...shutters to make a headboard..



Yes, this is the time when I am going to get things done that I have had planned for quite awhile!

Come on up to our little second floor garden cottage!

Coming up the stairs you will be greeted by my revamped garden cart...(made a bag for a liner this week and got some pretty new blooms to fill the interior!)



And anyone visiting is greeted by one of my favorite sayings...for inspiration..coming or going!



I've had this birdie fabric for a bit...(it was actually a remnant...lucky me to find it...)
but it wasn't quite enough to cover these pillows entirely...

Kinda FUGLY...pillows...I picked up last summer...still new with tags...but the bullion fringe was raveling..so I clipped off the fringe...



and covered them with this birdie fabric!!!



...gonna make a birdie like the nested one below..in the medium purple and gold colors..to sit on my antique child's desk!

Our living room is sooo tiny that we use a weathered picnic table bench for a table...next up gonna paint that out and distress it...looking more and more like a garden!!!



The bit of 80 degree weather we had on this past Sunday has plunged me into SPRINGDOM...

Just look at these sweet little spring felted works of art... (CLICK ON 'LITTLE SPRING FELTED WORKS OF ART") oh goodness they are sooo cute aren't they?? VIVIAN DOES SUCH A BEAUTIFUL JOB!!!

I have a had a bit of time...to do a bit of art/crafting myself...I drafted this pattern for this cute little birdie....and the nest she is looking over...is done in the same fashion of the previous nest I had made for Danielle's swap. I just love the uniqueness...of each of them!



...and this little doggie is in heaven holding this more-than-adequate bone!



Couple more things crossed off my proverbial TO DO LIST!

On to the next project(s)!!! AND HOPEFULLY RUMMAGES COMING SOON!!!

as always...BIG HUGZ til next time!

Morning and happy FINALLY...

SPRING!

Supposed to be in the EIGHTIES here in Milwaukee today....I moved my herb planters out to the back porch... I saw that some of the plants we had transplanted last year...on the side of the house have begun to come up...for the new season!!! (happy dance here..as I don't have the greenest thumb on the planet...lol)
Yesterday we celebrated Xander, Logan and Kaya's birthdays...since they are all so close within a week time stretch...
Maxx had another round of therapy..with his sweet therapists, Rebecca and Tanya....last friday...and they have recommended that he see a rheumatoid specialist...(HERE WE GO AGAIN...) ...they saw him stiffening up after only 15 min of treatment..so they are thinking that he be evaluated for arthritis... (this involves more SHOCKS...(shots)....)

He will be pulled from his water therapy and Occupational therapy...(insert sadness here) as he LOVES it...

Tuesday the touch screen on my cell phone went out...I lost a bunch of numbers...and all my website addresses that I had saved...Yesterday...the modem went out on the computer...so no connection...Robbie's gaming systems are connected to ours..so he got a new modem last nite...and kevin got it all up and running again....and my new phone arrived in the mail~!

all is well...in the electronic world here...(knock on this table that hopefully is wood...lol)

This morning we are off to see the movie, HOP! So we will see you on the flip side of the afternoon!

BIG WARM HUGZ til later!