more summer pics.

First Day of School, the girls look so grown up Emilee is 13th going into the 8th grade and Olivia is 16 going into her Junior Year (as class President) mommy is so proud.

Emilee on trash day, she just loves that job....

Olivia helping us paint the trim pieces, more on the floor and the kittie...

here is a shot of the living room in process, this picture doesn't do the paint color any good, it's beauitful in person.

Sisters!!!

Time Flies when Fall Sets in!!

Wow the time has flown by since that last time I did a post. Sorry for not blogging, we have been so very busy with finishing the living/dining room walls and painting walls and all the trim, and the clean up well lets just say we are still cleaning up.
Along with back to school shopping and trying to get some summer fun in before school started, and then our local Lancaster Fair the next town over which runs through labor day weekend. Then schools start the very next day, plus soccer practice, field hockey games, school meetings. Boy I have to stay home just to be the taxi driver for my girls. Then with everyday things, house cleaning, shopping, laundry, oh yeah did I mention laundry.ahh

Plus Sunday School starting last Sunday and I am teaching again, plus getting ready for a fall class in scrapbooking in a picture frame class that I am doing. I am way busy but I like it. Now I am trying to finish up a schedule for a Holiday Open House (here at my home) to sell some of my creations and teach make n takes cards, scrapbook layouts. Life in the Baker home is full and fun!!

Here are some pics to share with you our end of summer fun...enjoy..

Here is the little guy Shawn who Olivia babysat for over a week, they had so much fun together, many tears shed by both when goodbyes where done, oh sweet.

Olivia learning how to drive, my hair is turning gray.!!!!

Sorry for not blogging.

I have been away for a short time, we have been busy finishing up the living room and dining room walls, they look great when I am done decorating I will post some pics. We still have some trim left and some paint touch ups.
But I have my creative place back, my studio/craft room was hosting the living room furniture, so now I have to clean up that mess, and hopefully be able to starting creating again. Now we are near the end of summer and our girls are getting ready for back to school, soccer already started and my oldest is the class president for her Junior year, she has already started with school meetings. It's going to be a busy year I can see already.
I have been a little sick, I have fibromyaligia and virago, so I have had a flair up and been dizzy for over two weeks. Maybe all the painting and up and down off of chairs flared up my virago. I am getting better.
Well fall is here in the East Coast, with cool crisp mornings, warm afternoons, and cold evenings I think summer has ended. Sad because we really didn't have a summer; but I love fall I just wish it was longer.
More to come now that I am getting back to a schedule.

Peggy Lee

Winter Wonderland Not!!

Hi bloggers, this post finds me with a (winter wonderland) of drywall dust, even though we put up plastic to cover the doorways the dust gets everywhere, but I am not complaining I can't wait for our living room walls to be done, they are primed and ready to paint. It's the clean up that's a killer. And our little helper Sasha our baby kitten was right in the thick of it all, let's just say she was a different color for some time!! Isn't she so cute..

Now I am still cleaning up dust, and more likely will be for awhile. I will post the pictures of the living room done completely hopefully in about a week.

I was shocked to see on the calendar that my girls only have about unless then 3 weeks until school goes back in. I am not ready to buy school supplies, teenagers are more expensive. I am closing my eyes and hoping it's a dream.

I will get back to posting when the dust settles. ahhh

Peggy Lee

What I've been Working ON!

My little kittie decided to sleep on the bottom of my kitchen chairs. I just finished washing the kitchen floor. bad kitty but oh so cute.

Here is a card that I made for someone special for a thank you gift. (all material is CTMH)

I downloaded the pattern of "CANDY CANE ANNIE" from The Olde Country Cupboard website at http://oldecountrycupboard.blogspot.com/
ANNIE isn't complete yet I promise to show you completely down. She lots of fun to make but next time I will make her a little bigger. Love this pattern and it's so easy.

Here is a wall hanging for FALL decoration, I made this in one evening watching a movie with my husband. It turned out so cute and easy I am going to make a few more. To sell. Leave me a comment to let me know what you think. It's not completed yet hope to have it down by Friday. My husband is home on vacation and he is trying to finish our living room walls so I can have my craft/studio room back. just think my living room is in my studio room (no room to play much) my house is a mess. Can't wait to be done, when it's all painted I will post pics.

Prayers Answered

Thank you all who prayed for our Pastor Jim, His test came back fine, His heart is fine. Praise the Lord.

Thanks Peggy Lee

blessings

Prayers

Our Pastor Jim is in the hospital with chest pains, please keep him and his wife Jody in your prayers and thoughts.
Words can not explain how I feel, not knowing what's happening that's when Trust in our Lord is huge. Thanks for your prayers.

Peggy Lee

sneak peek

here are a few cards I worked on last night, they still need color. While I was looking at the patterns in some Create and Decorate books, I free hand drew these cards. Not bad for the first time. I want to make more...

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

Inspiring yellow

Yellow is seeming to be a fav- of mine lately. I guess because I have been thinking of mustard yellows for fall decorating. Today is quilt group and I am going to sketch out a wall haning for our house for fall and sunflowers.
My kitchen is colored yellow but I don't like it all over my walls so that will change, but I do love splashes of yellow with prim decorating.
Fall is just around the corner, and finishing up the living room walls this weekend and getting the pine kneedle green on them I can't wait, now I am thinking of cranberry color for the dinning room. oh boy, picking out colors and changing my mind drives my man nuts!! ahh
Well have to run my friend will be here so to pick me up for quilt group. see ya soon..

peggy lee

August Morning

August is here and the sun is shining yes! Maybe the rain will hold off for a few days! This is a picture of something I found in my back yard. Can anyone tell me what they are? I think they are choke cherries? But I am not sure, it's like a tree beautiful (see the little black tic) yuck.
Today is going to be spent doing Saturday morning chores, dump run, cleaning bathrooms, helping Lee with the walls in the living room. We are even going to cook burgers on the grill tonight yes, love charcoal burgers. Enjoy family time today!
more to come later.
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!

http://oldecountrycupboard.blogspot.com/

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.

Rainy day pics of family time.

Yummy, fresh hot banana bread, hot cup of tea and playing scrabble with emilee! Now that's a family day at home....

what a cutie! emilee 13 years old

emilee and I are playing scrabble, sometimes emie takes a while to play so I decided to do some stitching while I waited. I got like two done. yeah...

Ok, I hate pictures of me, but I had to show you that I was stitching up a storm. I have about three more others done, I need to take a pic to show you.

family fun day at home. It's been raining here for weeks and not much to do but stay in and with teens you have to be creative and play a game or two with them. These pics are from the beginning of July. It's finially sunny here for a change but very cold for this time of the year.

Kidz Camp 08

Here is Jody our Pastor's wife enjoying camp....

Here is the worship hall at Singing Hills Lodge were Olivia is this week.

Here is Olivia at camp last year, she loves to go and be with all the kidz, Olivia is at Kidz Camp this week and we miss her very much, I know I will have new pictures to show you soon. I have been busy this week babysitting two cuties, in the pic below there they are, what a cute family. The girls are so fun, they love chasing our new kitten around, they keep me on my toes.

Chatting with U

girls coloring their hair!!!!

trouble

what a cutie!!!!! that's good yummm

olivia at santa's village with friends...

emilee showing off her birthday gifts, she loves those sneakers.

not much here for news, things have been kind of quiet since the 4th, we have had so much rain, I am thinking of building my own ark in the back yard incase it doesn't stop. We have had two sunny days, which I about killed myself mowing the yards, with a push mower. so I thought I would share some everyday pics with you of our life around bittersweet street.

more 4th of July parade

here are some more pictures of the parade, the pink birds drove my husband crazy, for some reason they are everywhere up here? Don't know why?