Thanksgiving Project Redo

Back in 1989 when I used to cross stitch a lot, my mom wanted me to make her something to put in the dining room for Thanksgiving. We went to the craft store and she picked out a cross stitch kit she liked. 

This is the finished project. My dad made a frame for it, and it hung on the wall in their dining room until we moved my dad out of his house in 2015. 

I brought it home with me and hung it up every Thanksgiving for a few years. When we moved into this house I really didn't have anywhere to hang it. To save space I took it out of the frame and put it in a drawer until I could figure out what to do with it. 

While going through box of pictures and frames to donate the other day I came across this moose wall hanging. 

I think I got it a long time ago to hang in one of our spare bedrooms at our old house. When I saw this I had an idea. 

I grabbed the cross stitch out of the drawer. 

And the dowel out of the moose hanging. 

And then using fusing tape I folded over and sealed the edges of the cross stitch inserting the dowl hanger into the top hem. This is the result! 

I hung it on my pantry door in the kitchen where I normally just hang little plaques from the dollar store. I'm very pleased with it and am so glad I found a way to display the project I made for my parents back all those years ago!

And the moose hanging did not go to waste.

I got a plant stake and tied a string to it and hung it in the guest room. 

In other news, we finally got the other bathroom painted. I show a before and after next post. 

See you next time and thanks for stopping by! 

 

A Goodbye and a Final Estate Sale Post

Thursday was my last day at work. Today I stopped by to turn in my key. The owner and her husband were there packing up the rest of the stuff. It's sad to see the store completely empty. 

But this morning I woke up and decided I'm not going to be sad anymore. I've enjoyed my two years there and it's time to move on! 

I spoke to the owner of the boutique that is taking over that spot and she is going to call me to work for her when she needs extra help over the holiday season. That will be good because I've decided I'm not going to look for anything permanent until after the holidays. If at all. 

Anyway, my friend and I went to an estate sale today. They are getting few and far between but this was a nice one.

The house is for sale and they are asking $715,000. Crazy. 

But the kitchen was gorgeous!

I've always loved a corner sink with windows!

White cabinets and the counters were white and black on the island! And look at that ceiling! Beautiful! 

I really liked this unusual dish drainer. They were asking $10 for it.  Everything was 25% off but unfortunately, I don't have room for it by my sink. 

This clock was pretty for $20. 

This fireplace in the dining room was so pretty and had window seats on both sides. Although it's a tad hard to see, I love the shape of the hearth! 

Very pretty china. There was no price, so I don't know what they were asking for it. 

This is the only thing I bought. 

Just a light flannel shirt for $2. This is after I washed and hung it to dry of course. I like wearing flannel shirts in the wintertime. 

Well, that's it for me for now. Even though I no longer have a job to go to I have lots of projects to do here. I'll start by painting our other bathroom which is long overdue!

Thanks for stopping by and see you the next time! 

Halloween House

Before I get into my neighbors Halloween house, I wanted to show you another miniature that I have using my hand for scale. 

Does anyone remember the miniature Tupperware bowl key chains they used to give out? I think it was supposed to be used to carry change on your key chain. I had one that I put change in and one day noticed that all that was left was the top! The bowl and my change were gone! Then they changed the design a little to put the chain on the bowl instead of the top I managed to get my hands on another one! I never used it though because I didn't want to lose one again! Isn't it cute? 

Now on to my neighbors house. 

They do this every Halloween and people love it! They even have a fog machine, but they don't turn it on often because it fogs all the way out into the street! 

Not everyone loves it though. The owners put on the park Facebook page someone stopped and said, "Ghetto, ghetto, ghetto!" Some people just have to be rude! 

Maxwell and Levi are scared to even walk by it! 

In other news, I bought a cheap wreath for $5 at the dollar store to put on our shed door. 

I think it's cute! 

See you the next time and thanks for stopping by! 

All Things Miniature

Way back in the day when my kids were very young I was crazy about miniature things. I wanted to build one of those miniature houses that had a bunch of rooms, and everything was to 1 inch scale.  Kind of like this. 

I wanted it to be very intricate and detailed with working lights and all the bells and whistles! It was going to be a long and tedious process and I was so looking forward to it! 

The problem was we lived in a pretty small house with no basement or spare room, our kids were pretty young and I was a stay-at-home mom, so I didn't have the money to buy all of the expensive things I would need to make it.

Later when the kids were older and I was working once again, I still had the desire but no time between working and shuffling kids all over! 

I did manage to collect a few things for my house project, though. I even got a few miniature furniture kits and Rich built a couple of dressers and a cute china cabinet. 

When Shauna graduated we moved into a house with a basement so I finally had the room to build my dream miniature house.  But by that time was I was quickly losing interest in doing it! 

We stored all of the things I collected and the furniture Rich made in a box in the basement, thinking maybe one day I would have desire once again to build it! 

That never happened. After 20 years of living there I never did want to even start on it! When we were cleaning out the basement getting ready to sell the house I found the box everything was stored in. Unfortunately the wooden furniture had molded and we had to throw it all away. I kept everything else though and have it displayed in a little box on the wall here in my computer room. 

Here's some close ups with a quarter for comparison. 

Sorry if the pictures are a little blurry. There are a few more things that I have put hooks on and hung on my Christmas tree. I'll post them when I get my tree ornaments out. 

In other news, I have about 2 more weeks at my job. It's getting depressing going in there and watching the place literally being dismantled a little more each time. I will be glad when it's all over with. 

I have a couple job prospects going on right now but, of course, I won't say anything about them yet. 

I did interview and got turned down on a part time teller job at a bank. It was fine though because I wouldn't have taken the job if they offered it to me anyway! The pay was good but there would have been too much pressure to sell financial products to customers! 

I'll leave you with this photo of Maxwell watching videos on my laptop. 

See you the next time and thanks for stopping by! 

Fall Decor and a Birthday Boy

I got all of my fall decorations up this week. Although I am a reluctant celebrator of Fall, I always like the way they look. 

I made this wreath by wiring garland on a wire wreath form. It was a real pain and I'm glad it's done. 

I originally planned on putting 5 pumpkins on it but they didn't look right for some reason, so I settled for one little pumpkin! It's a little plain looking but I like the colors against the blue door. The more I look at it though the more I think it needs a few more pumpkins so I'll probably add them at some point. 

Here's the rest of the decorations. 

A few people in our park are going crazy with Halloween decorations. I thought this was clever. 

One of those giant skeletons with 3 spiders on leashes. Too cute! The house across the street from us is really going bonkers! I'll get some pictures and show you next time! 

In other news, our Levi turns 5 years old today! His party was Saturday and we had a lot of fun! We got him a child's video camera and he loves it! 

So fun celebrating this sweet and sassy little boy! 

That's it for me for now. See you the next time and thanks for stopping by! 

Plant Update

You may remember back in July I posted that I have decided to try to grow some houseplants. I already had a snake plant and a Thanksgiving cactus that I've had for a long time. 

The snake plant was way overgrown with the roots coming up above the soil and the plant going every which way. 

I cut all the roots apart and replanted it and it looked much better. 

 Here it is today. 

I looked on Google to see why the leaves aren't growing straight up and most of the websites said it's getting uneven light. It's by a window so I have to keep turning the plant every few days. Hopefully it straightens out. I may have to stake it. It's doing well though because there is new growth coming in. I just have to be careful not to water it too much. 

The next plant is this polka dot plant. 

It was nice and healthy when I got it. 

Then it started to get these long stems growing and they were getting flowers on them. This seems to me to be a particularly fussy plant! Supposedly it gets these long stems when it's not getting enough light, but if I put it directly in the window (still indirect sunlight) it wilts within a day or so. I cut all of the long stems off and put it back on the plant stand. It needs a lot of watering though. 

Here it is today. 

Not as healthy as it was when I first got it but I'm working on it! 

Then there is this star plant. 

It hasn't changed much since I got it. I think I was overwatering it because the outside leaves seemed to be rotting on the bottom. I cut them off and cut back on my watering. Also I moved a lot of the stones out of the pot. 

Here it is now. 

Then there is this crispy wave fern. 

And here it is today. 

I don't know about this one. No matter how much I water or don't water, move it to different types of light it just doesn't seem to be doing anything. I'll keep trying but may just give up on this one! 

The one plant I was worried about not being able to grow was the African Violet. Here is what it looked like when I got it. 

And here is what it looks like now!  

It's doing the best of all the plants! It's the easiest to care for in my opinion. I just keep water in the tray underneath it and it takes what it needs! 

I took a cutting from an Eternity plant and a hunk of a peace lily from the plants at work so I'm going to try to see if they will grow. 

In other news. I finally got my hair cut back to pre-pandemic days. 

 It's a little more work than just pulling it back into a clip but I like it. 

That's it for me for now. See you the next time and thanks for stopping by!