Expanding my repetoire

I just whipped up some homemade sugar scrub, taken from this fine lady's blog....

Yes, it IS in baby food jars.  Recycled goodness!

I'll see today when I take my shower how it works.

"There must be more to life than having everything!" ~ Maurice Sendak

Thankful (10)

This week I've had nothing to be but thankful as I experienced the comraderie of my neighbors, the joy of making new friends, and the caring and protection of older friends. 

It was a long week in terms of work (my first 13 hour shift since working a shooting in February), a horrible winter storm, losing power for several days, and basically trying to keep everything together while wearing 3 layers of underpants. 

I was constantly amazed at how strangers came together to help one another, and how friends knew what I needed without me having to ask. 

I hope you all have a wonderful and blessed day and continue to be thankful for all the things, both good and bad, in your lives.

"For each new morning with its light,
For rest and shelter of the night,
For health and food, for love and friends,
For everything Thy goodness sends."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Today I am thankful for the fact that I know my apartment like the back of my hand....there's nothing like having no power while attempting to get ready for work! 


Our walk this morning, when it had started to snow....




One look at Attie this morning and I heard Julie Andrews singing.  Made me laugh.

























I don't have any pictures of this storm from when I woke up.  It only snowed a couple of inches, but it is literally below freezing with gale-force winds.  As I was drinking my coffee the lights kept flickering so I told Atticus we'd go for a walk then I'd come back and take a shower and get ready for work just in case.  Well, after we came back and stepped inside, I wasn't even done taking off all my winter paraphernalia when the lights went out.  GREAT. 

There is absolutely nothing to do with no power, except get on the computer.  And pretty soon I need to start getting ready.  I can only imagine how fun work is going to be tonight.  I should probably prepare for a 14 hour shift or something.  With lots of hot-chocolate packets and food to keep me motivated. 

BRRRR....

"How far that little candle throws his beams!
So shines a good deed in a naughty world."
~ William Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice

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Today I'm thankful for sewing therapy.  I indulge in it as often as I possibly can. 

Here is my first Barbie dress, (that I didn't have to throw away in a fit of exasperation), taken from this pattern:

Ignore Barbie's head, who is hanging on at a weird angle. 

It took a bit to catch on to the fact that the Barbie in the pattern I was following and the Barbie I was using as a model were differently-endowed....after that I was able to adjust some measurements and things went more smoothly.

Barbie has creepy eyes in that last picture.

So there's a preview of some of the Barbie stuff I made last night!  Right now she has 4 dresses, all about the same type of style.  Now that I have an idea of what I'm doing, I'll branch out to skirts and shirts and hopefully can then cross one Christmas project off my list!

"Don't wanna see you no more...
You showed me nothing but hate
You ran me into the ground,
But what comes around goes around..."
~ Eminem

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Today I'm thankful for peace and quiet....

Waiting by the front door to go inside and escape from the freezing rain outside....

God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say "thank you"? ~ William A. Ward

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Today I am thankful for contentment.

All this....

To make one of these.  3 Ole's for quesedillas! 

If a fellow isn't thankful for what he's got, he isn't likely to be thankful for what he's going to get. ~ Frank A. Clark

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Today I'm thankful for:

Coffee and girl-talk

Gonna go hang out with my board-gamers group now.  Then off to work.  Hopefully I can make it being up for 24 hours....

When our perils are past, shall our gratitude sleep? ~ George Canning

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Today I'm thankful for forgiveness...in all its shapes and sizes.

This is a video of Atticus, deep breathing like Darth Vader.

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted. ~ Aldous Huxley

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Today I'm thankful and very grateful for the friends who unknowingly helped get me through my day.


My camera phone can't do justice to the fog over the hills this morning...


















Praise the bridge that carried you over. ~ George Colman

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Today I'm thankful for Atticus and the discovered joy of baking him cookies and biscuits. 

Turkey drop cookies

Atticus is thankful for it too.

Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone. ~ G.B. Stern

Thankful

I've had many reasons to smile and be thankful this weekend.  Its like indulging in high-end therapy....just free, and a lot more fun.  To heck with worries and what-ifs, etc. 

Its been such a good couple of days.  I am so very very blessed.

Here's some specific good news that I can share with you...

Although, I would like to say I forgot to call my dad on his birthday this week.  Sorry, dad!!  Happy belated birthday!!

I look way tougher with a mustache...

If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.
~ Andy Rooney