Sunflowers "Make Me Smile"

 My teenage daughter Emilee decided she wanted to plant sunflowers like her grammie does in Maine, so she started them from seeds in the house omw you don't need to the grow really fast....we planted them as fast as we could. For our first crop of sunflowers they were beautiful. See the little visitor?

                                                                            simply primtive

 My daughter loved taking snap shots of the different growing stages, I was so thrilled they did so well for her. Oh yes, she is making plans on planting even more next year. Love that she got her green thumb from my mom. So sit back enjoy the beauty of fall approaching us, Sunflowers always make me smile, with a good cup of coffee.

What I've been Doing!

Wow where has the time gone, I haven't posted on this blog since March, I have been dealing with some illnesses that have really taken over my life, and from March on I have been so sick and trying to just live everyday life. Finially the doctors discovered that I was really sick and I had surgery to have all my girly parts removed, I was in the hospital for a few days and I have been home recovering but I am not out of the woods still having some issues other issues and now I am heading into have a GI done. Hoping to know soon what I am dealing with they think a bleeding ulcer or acid reflux disease.

Please forgive me for not posting life has been really busy, with all this illness and recovery our family has been busy trying to help me around the house, life tilling the garden. love the fresh dirt.

 To keep my spirits up I did take place in my first ATC Card Swap...this is what a came up with it had to be made out of metal...love it...

                             Our spring has been beautiful and I love the lilacs are just so beautiful!

                              here is what my daughter and husband did for me while I was in the hospital

                                                                      a little mini I created

stay tune I have more to share...

News from Peggy Lee

I have been busy making scrapbook layouts for awhile now, trying to be creative everyday for more scrapbook inspiration hop over to my other blog http://pegbaker.blogspot.com the flowers are made from strips of fabric I had laying around my sewing area, simple tied a knot at one end and rolled toward me and glued as I turned. I will post a more detailed post and pics soon. I have started my veggies inside but the weather isn't helping us outside, here in East Coast it can be touch and go in the Spring.
as you can see in the this next photo which was at the end of April, we got 9 inches of snow of course it melted right away but yuck, the weather man is saying for more snow this weekend. Come on I want summer already......winter is so long here.

more inspiration-trying my hand at blending inks over stamped images..love how these came out, going to make them into wall art for our house.

Here is Olivia she just turned 17 years old on Wednesday, where does the time go, she was only 7 when we moved home. Olivia is doing a little better with her health but we are still waiting for some test to come back.

blessings, Peggy Lee

Around the house weekend.

Around the house this weekend will be a busy one. Friday night (last night) I was sick from my fibro pain, I didn't get to go to a scrapbook retreat weekend. That's ok maybe next time. The girls had youth group, Lee and I dropped them off, ran to Walmart sick and all, but we where half way there and you know if you live in the country towns that's a big deal with the cost of gas today. So Lee and I ran in real quick Lee knows when I am sick with pain, I slow down really fast, but of course I did manage to buy some new fabrics fall colors (I bought them to make something for a swap I am in) no more clues want it to be a surprise.

I did work on some prim note cards last night while Lee and I watched tv for a little while waiting for the girls to come home. They turned out cute, I will post pics later today.

Now it's Saturday morning, we are up and have had coffee, we are getting ready for a family BBQ that we are having today, to see off our nephew George who is going back overseas to finish out another six months. Please keep him and others who are over there in your prayers, and their families.

August is suppose to be warm, NOT yesterday the wind was blowing and cool crisp air was flowing, fall can't come yet we haven't had a summer here in New England. And to top that off, it got down to 40 degrees last night, warm socks and sweatshirts was a must last night.

Don't get me wrong I love fall, just would like some kind of summer before winter sets in.

Peggy Lee

A Blessed Couple of Days! Look What Came!!

The past couple of days we have been home relaxing well after much time spent mowing and weeding a flower garden then peeling my clothes off from the heat wave we are finally getting, yeah. But it's very humid and sticking. The girls and I decided to play with water color paints and we had a blast. Here I am playing with color. I will post a pic when it's all done.

Here is Olivia helping me plant some flowers, she took a class at her school and she won award for it. Bare foot and everything, thanks Olivia for all your help. She is even wearing green, she matching the outdoors, not planned. she is a cutie. There was a very small flower garden here when we moved in this has taken alot of weeding and figuring out what is in there which wasn't much, love the plants behind Olivia's head, beautiful.

Even the kitties want to come out to play!!

LOOK WHAT CAME IN THE MAIL TODAY I WON OVER AT:

THE OLDE COUNTRY CUPBOARD'S CHRISTMAS IN JULY BLOG, THANKS SANDY FOR PICKING ME!! I TRULY JUMPED FOR JOY WHEN IT CAME, I LOVE CHRISTMAS AND THIS STARTS MY DECORATING, MY HUSBAND WILL LOVE THAT.

SO JUMP ON OVER TO SANDY'S BLOG AND BE INSPIRED YOU WON'T REGRET IT!

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Love the Santa and the Crow, this window will match one I have hanging already. The tarts smell Divine. Happy Holidays (shh only a few months early)

again thanks Sandy, love your blog...

Flower Garden

This is what I am up to this morning, my sister-in-law Caren came over with this beauty, she has tons on your property. We dug a hole and planted it this morning, between two huge trees. I have decided to make a flower garden there it's going to be cute, there are three old tree stumps and Lee and I are going to work them into the garden. Yesterday we went to the plant store and I got 20 flowers they had a deal 1.00 each. They won't bloom this year but next summer beauty will appear.

Lee has been busy finishing up the living room walls, next is painting the kitchen. So much to do when you buy a home, we've been here for a year. And our summer is just now coming, we've had so much rain. Our trees here in the east coast some are already changing color not good. So no vegie garden this year that's ok we are fixing and garden for next spring.

After digging up the lawn for the garden today, I need to finish mowing the lawn. I am excited for the sunshine today and for most of the week will be nice. Praise God. Our girls went to the lake for the first time this summer.

Lazy Days of summer

the new kitten has settled in quite well.

tigger our big boy enjoys our backyard

flowers blooming in a small garden that was already here when we moved in, I am thinking of making it much bigger next year.

enjoy these pics, I am scanning and taking pics of some projects I have done, hope to have them posted this week.