Erin and Elisabeth's Blogs........

My sweet seventeen year old twin granddaughters, Erin and Elisabeth have their websites and blogs now.......Elisabeth is working on stocking her Etsy shop........

I think you would enjoy dropping in to visit with them....Erin is a photographer-writer and blog designer and Elisabeth is an artist, writer and crafter......

Erin's is Erin's Artistic Expressions:
http://erin-artisticexpressions.blogspot.com/

Elisabeth's is Dixiedoodle Designs: http://elisabeth-dixiedoodles.blogspot.com/

Friday Show and Tell........

Today is Friday and Show and Tell over at Kelli's.........

Many years ago, my husband had elderly relatives in a nearby town....I would carry his Mother over to visit and eat lunch. They had no children and lived in the house that the cousin's husband was born in......it was so much fun to visit and hear about their marriage and younger days. My girls loved to go to see them. There was a very early version of a grand piano that was museum quality. In later years after the husband died, we were offered the piano but we had no room with ample space for it......I've often wondered what became of it...........

While my mother-in- law chatted out on the porch or in the kitchen helping prepare the meal I was encouraged to look in the out buildings......I didn't need much encouragement to do that. The buildings were time capsules just waiting to be opened and the contents oohed and awhed over....

There were old wooden ice boxes, oval picture frames, toys, mementos, pictures, dishes, children's clothes from the turn of the century, boxes with all sorts of jewelry, etc.

I even managed to maneuver through the rafters......


Below is a pair of little boy's shoes that belonged to the husband of the lady we visited.


Looks like he ran and played a great deal while wearing the shoes.......I'll unearth some of the beautiful long dresses and slips with very wide lace to show another time.......

Friday Show and Tell......Pay It Forward winner, Excellence blogger award

Friday is always a fun day looking at Show and Tell on everyone's blog.......check it out over at Kelli's........

About two weeks ago I was in one of favorite thrift shows and saw this picture or painting. It looks hand painted and seems to be painted on wood with a very glossy finish. It has a label on the back that states it was made in , gosh, I don't where it says....just a lot of letters......

Anyway, I like it and think maybe it's a father, mother and grown daughter. Is anyone familiar with this style?

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I won the Pay it Forward book give-away over at Mary's Writing Nook. I am to read the book, which I will enjoy I'm sure, then pass it on to someone else to read. The book is:
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Another nice surprise today, Jewelgirl surprised me with the Excellence blog award.....thank you Jewelgirl and I'll pass it along in a few days.......
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The Unexplained...................

Herein lies the tale of the stove.............




Several months ago, like a year ago, early one morning my husband heard a noise in the kitchen. Entering, he discovered the beeping coming from the stove.....like it beeps when the oven temperature has reached its degree of hotness. Turning knobs to no avail to shut it off, finally, he turned the stove off at the fusebox.

We called a repairman who came that afternoon. After checking, he said it was a small sensor and he would order and replace it in the next couple of days.....small detail.....

He called back the next day and gave us the bad news that the sensor was no longer in stock. Now the stove was not many years old and given the fact that we had lived away almost seven years it certainly had not been over used.....the only option would be to purchase a new stove to replace one the that worked fine except for the small sensor. As long as the oven was on, even the lowest setting, it didn't beep. When it was turned on at the fuse box.... .next turn oven to lowest setting as quickly as possible........

We priced stoves, looking for the particular drop in style needed. I simply could not see buying a new stove at about $1,000.00 when everything worked perfectly fine except the irritating beeper.

We decided to keep it shut off at the fuse box, turning it on only when the stove was being used. Now remember this has gone on for a year. Inconvenient yes, but frugal foremost.

Two days ago, the oven was on as I was making spaghetti sauce for a cancer Relay for Life fund raiser. Not thinking, I turned the oven off. After a few minutes, I realized the oven wasn't beeping..... IT HASN'T BEEPED SINCE! EVEN WITHOUT THE OVEN BEING ON! Do stoves heal themselves? I am ecstatic that we didn't go out and buy a new stove............Thank you Lord for a none beeping stove...........

Friday Show and Tell.......

Welcome to Show and Tell over at Kelli's.........




For quite awhile I wanted a pair of vintage floor candelabras....I priced them in antique stores and the cheapest I had found was two hundred dollars a pair. I'm a thrifter and refused to pay that much.

A year or so ago, I was in a favorite thrift store browsing around.....be still my heart.....in the distance I saw vintage, white candelabras......sprinting, dodging bodies in my way, I made my way to them.....I saw no price on them. Momentarily, I located the salesperson and while holding my breath, I asked the sixty-four thousand dollar question....." how much for the pair?" It seemed like an eternity before she answered, "fifteen dollars each." Before you can say, supercalalisticexpealodoshous (have no idea how to spell it) I had my money out of my purse and in my hand......

I've used them in weddings, communion, out in the back yard during a dinner party......they look great just standing around.....

The Case of the Missing Earrings......

Once upon a time, but in my lifetime, I was having a wonderful time browsing through a thrift store. I don't recall if it was Goodwill, Salvation Army or just a junque store......I spied a pair of silver earrings that called my name. They were tarnished but I like the shape. When I asked the price they were either fifty cents or a dollar. Of course, they came home with me.

After cleaning them with silver polish I discovered the silver marking 925 on them. They became my favorite silver earrings....plain enough to wear everyday and yet dressy enough to wear when the occasion arose. They were very comfortable because they were so light weight.....

A couple of months ago, after a long trip, as we were driving into our driveway, I removed them knowing I would be taking a shower and shampooing my hair. I remember dropping them into something by my feet.

A few days passed and I thought about the earrings. I looked in all the usual places I normally keep them.....no earrings. I looked in by purse....several times...to no avail. Finally, I decided I must have dropped them into a shopping bag and later when I removed my purchase I had thrown the bag in the trash can. Of course that trash bag had been thrown away a few days earlier. I searched high and low.....in the van.....under the sofa cushions......under the bed.....under the chest ........no earrings.....

Now I don't love things, I love the Lord and people, but I will hurriedly admit that I do have some favorite things. This earrings fell into this category. I was so disappointed with myself for not being more careful. There was nothing to do but 'just get over it'.......

Last Friday was a cold day in the south. We were going to be out and about delivering Easter Baskets to shut-ins and elderly so I decided on a jogging suit with a long sleeve jacket, and that called for white tennis shoes. I located them in the bottom of my closet. When I straightened up, the shoes sorta tumbled and I heard a rattle.....looking down I couldn't believe my eyes.....THERE WERE MY EARRINGS! I screamed, "I don't believe it!" My husband was in the bathroom with the door closed and he had no idea what was going on.......

Now is the Lord good or what? I still reach up and touch them to make sure they are really attached to my ears.....you better believe that I will be sooooo careful with them, putting them where they will be safe when I take them off. I might not be so blessed the next time........

The Church of Oprah Exposed

Friday Show and Tell......

Hi, it's Friday and Show and Tell time over at Kelli's......

One of the nicest gifts I received at Christmas is a 'key keeper'....actually I don't know if it really has a name.
The keys are attached to a snap hook on the keeper...then you hang the curved hook over the side of your purse and you can locate your keys anytime.