Wow! Ok this is what has happened this week Whew!

This is the little machine Silhoutte SD Machine can do....You will be AMAZED. please bear with me on the simple things, but we all have to start somewhere, I am going to the MOON and BACK!!!

How do you like it?  The font on the green vase in called "Black boys on mopeds"  What????? But seriously, that is the truth!  Too funny!

I have been addicted to other people's blogs regarding this machine.  Take a look at my side bar with the other bloggers blogs and I can almost guarantee you that they are working with this machine too. 

But I have to tell you, to get it started was a pain.  I don't sit and read instructions and like to "wing" it and for that I have to suffer the consequences of that.  I get it.  I just pray that I don't break the machine in the process.  That is like sewing.  I had my mentor come over now a few times to teach me the "right" way of sewing.  Not my way.  My way is probably wrong and I know once I get the bad habits I will just keep going back to it over and over again.  I am that way on knitting, again, bad habits.  Do you get it now? 

I just seem now to have more patience than I every have, or is it I am tired of not succeeding on projects I have started.  Well I am finally finishing things, that is why my blogging is suffering.

Thank you for keep checking in on me.  (I finished "The Help" last night).  Boy it was a good book, good reader.  Now to go and finish the scarf, man I have ALOT going on.  I will have to write about my sushi party on Saturday, now that was a hoot!  I have a lot of pictures and stories about that one!

Thursday Thoughts.....

Excellence is a habit. You are what you repeatedly do.

—Shaquille O'Neal, professional basketball player

Prepared to be blown away, this little girl is amazing, did you see this on AGT?

 I sat straight up and my mouth dropped!  She is unbelievable and no there was no one in the shadows singing for her.  Watch this and enjoy!  I can't wait until she sings again.  Could you imagine hearing her in her bedroom for the first time?  I would think someone was in there with her a big opera singer and taken over her body! 

Enjoy!

Foto Friday....

Good Morning,

I just wanted to put something on today that was easy to look at.  For centuries, people have been painting fruit and for the past oh 100 years or so, they have been photographing fruit.  I am no exception.  I love to look at a beautiful bowl presenting fruit.  Here here is my Foto Friday of Fruit.

Please have a great weekend.  I am going to sew a pair of cooking pants today.  I hopefully will post my design early next week.  I am excited about doing this.  I think I have overwhelmed Andy with making place mats.  How many sets do we really need?  As many as I want to make!  I love fabric.

Thursday Thoughts.....

Worrying is like a rocking chair; it gives you something to do but gets you nowhere. —Glenn Turner, Broadway actor

Foto Friday....

Can you smell the pine trees?  Can you smell the cool breeze along with the heat coming from the ground?  This was taken on another part of the lake.  Wanna join me for a walk sometime?  I would love to have you. We could make a picnic, sit next to the water and watch the children play. 

Enjoy the "foto".

Have a great weekend!

What I am reading now..

I went to my book club meeting on Tuesday.  Hey if you ever have a chance to get into a book club I HIGHLY recommend it.  That is if you like to read.  I LOVE to read. When I was in my early 20's and didn't have any money to spend, I use to get home after work, get my pj's on, make a sandwich (I was broke) sit down open up a book and 3-4 hours later, it was time for bed.  Now if I got calls from my friends I would definitely pick up, that took priority over EVERYTHING!

My favorite book, well there are so many, off the cuff, I would have to say, "The Stand" by Steven King.

Not only did I read it as soon as it came out, I hit the story exactly when the weather was the same in the book, but when they re-released it I had just finished it one week earlier.  Bought it immediately and re-read it again.  Incredible book.

It was my first "Big" book I read with more than 200 and something  pages.  I grew up!


Now, my club is reading "The Help"

I like this book, the writer writes a lot in the persons thoughts and even though I am a few dozen pages into it.  I recommend this book.  I was looking at another blog site this morning and she said she kept reading this book.  I get that.  It is based on the 1960's and their way of thinking, that is all I am gonna say about that.

If you do get this book, let me know what you think....

This weekend I am attending a book signing of an author I have just fallen for her writing.  Her name is Christie Walker Bos and she is from Big Bear.  I have read "Finding Delaney", which was the first book I had to read in the book club and found her writing, easy and fun.  Sunday she is re-releasing "The Man List" and it is a fictional book that has the main character make a list of what she wants in a man.  It worked, and it worked in Christie's life!  Unbelievable!   If you want something bad enough, write it down, my pastor used to say that all the time.  But be careful with what you want, you might just get it.  True words, huh?

Have a great day, now to get my foto for Foto Friday, that is a lot of F's!

Chow!

Thursday Thoughts.....

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. —Steve Jobs, co-founder and CEO of Apple

We are big time!!!!

Hey, I just got the Sunset Magazine and we are in it!  It is a great article that showcases our town and some of our restaurants, (way to go Jamie, your pancakes are THE best, not to mention your hamburgers) at the Grizzly Manor!  (This particular issue pictured below is not the issue it is in....I couldn't find the current issue on the internet and I am too lazy to take picture of it and post...maybe later)

They wanted to do an article about me and my blog but I told them that due to me having surgery I was not able to put everything together at this time.  Believe it or not....

I am very excited and love my town to death, congrats to us!