Big girl and teddy bears! Our Miss Jaidyn is getting so busy. Is almost walking! She is such a cutie.

Playing peek-a-boo with great-aunt Angie.

The bears are all made from wool. The large one is dressed in a very sweet, vintage baby dress. She is approximately 36-inches tall.

These goofy lil' ones have lavendar buds added to their stuffing. I dried it from my gardens. They smell yummy. I plan on adding collage tags to each of the 3 bears.

It rained for a full 5 minutes tonight! The first rain the whole month of August on my yard. At least it settled the dust a bit. I got all excited though thinking, this was it! Poor Toby did NOT want to go out to potty after all. LOL He was at the door to go then did a quick turn around. Honestly, he had probably forgotten what rain was it had been so long since he had been in it. We went anyways. Me all hunkered down with a big ole umbrella over us both. Chanting...go potty, go potty. Quite a site I am sure. :o)

Computer woes and candle making question...

Yep that is what has been happening at my house. Blogger wouldn't let me in. Actually I didnt receive any of the sweet congrat messages you all posted to me about the magazine. I found them when I went to make my next post. Thank you thank YOU! But blogger wouldn't play nice all week long. Then my pc got hit with some crazy virus/trojans. Still working on the spam I am receiving. But new day and here we are in blogland. So yayaya for that :o)

Thought I would show you a couple pics of recent completed projects. Just quick wooly ones. The small snowman on the last pic is actually a pincushion. It is filled with that crazy Lizard Litter (crushed walnut shells).

And this big boy of mine is getting some crazy hair on him. LOL It is so cute. It is coming in random tuffs all over his face and chest. The towel (an old bath towel cut in half), well there is usually a couple laying around. His blankies/chew toys at the moment. I just told Penny tonight when Toby got out of his chewing stage I was going to make him his own blankie. Her reply...5 years? Yes probably. He is the chewer still. But is he just 4 months old.

Penny has a question I am passing along to you all. Do any of you have any experience making soy candles??? This is my dilemma .... My four ounce candles, that are in jam jars, burn beautifully. The pint size candles, which are a pound of wax, do not burn nearly as well. I'm thinking I need to use two wick in these larger candles. What do you think? I plan to experiment with the double wicks before I offer the pint candles for sale or as gifts but thoughtI would ask for your opinions. Thanks for any suggestions.

I cannot believe it has been almost a week since I posted. 14 dishcloths later...LOL Yeah. That is how many I finally ended up with. I did have a couple ask for the pattern, so will post that this week for anyone interested. Very simple pattern. We had a mini yard sale here today. Heather is getting ready to move and wanted to clean out a bit and of course we always have a bit to add to the sale table. She was happy with what she did, so that was good. There were a ton of them going on about town, so we didnt do as well as we usually do. People were looking for school clothes. And people were having them to make money to buy school clothes. It still seems strange not to have a school age child. I miss the excitement of chatter about new clases, bookbags and making new friends. sigh She will be 21 in September. I need to get over it huh? LOL

Here is Toby showing off his baby teeeth. We are working sooooo hard on training him to be a sweet boy and not "mouthy" as the vet calls it. But giving kisses and not bities. The potty training is going great. He is going to the door alot now when he needs to go potty. And sometimes will even give a lil yip to get my attention he is there. Course there are still accidents, but they are fewer apart now and usually when he gets excited his daddy has came home!

When I am sick, I crochet. And that is another sickness, but we won't go there! LOL In the past 2 days/daze I have made 7 dish cloths. Just simple ones. But these will be pressies along the way. I have burnt everyone out on doilies. :o) And no Penny. I am not cutting into your business! LOL My sister is the reigning dish cloth queen. She always has one in her purse on the needles. If anyone wants a pattern for these just let me know and I will write it up. They go so quickly it is scary.

We are just taking it easy here. I have a cold/flu thingy that has laid me low this week. And the puppy is being really good. He loves the bed his granny and poppy bought him. Loves it to "pieces". He can only have it off the couch when he is sleepy. Otherwise he wants to devour it! But when he is sleepy he is sooo sweet.

Oh! And don't forget about the new yahoo group I started. Hand-Dids for hand-doers! :o) I have really worked on gathering tons of links for free patterns and tutorials.

Hope everyone is staying cool and healthy.

My new Yahoo group, Hand-Dids.

I had thought about starting this group for a long time. Like a couple of years actually. And now just seems to be the time. It is not limited to any one fibre technique since we girls like to do it all! :o) So come on over and play.

Yummy eye candy.

My friend Reeze worked up my free pattern into this sweet mini wallhanging. I saw it partially completed at our BPF Retreat. The center is appliqued. Reeze does amazing work and has her own pattern company. Be sure to check out Morning Glory Quilt Designs.

It has been horridly hot here. We had a smattering of rain here a couple of times today. Then a hard 5 minute rain just now. Mark has a rotten summer cold, but got the yard mowed before the rain.

We have had Toby 1 week today. I am still on the fence if this is a good thing or not. But he is a sweetie and our's LOL So I might as well get over it. Having my routine changed up has been the hardest adjustment. Old dog old tricks...new puppy new tricks :o))

What? More puppy pictures please? LOL Here ya go.

Look at those ears! No doubt about him having yorkie in him. The poodle part makes them lay down. He loves having them rubbed. He has filled out some already. You could feel his little ribs. The people we got him from were feeding him generic adult dog food! It was huge pieces he could barely chew. They sent the bag home with us. Oh and it was past the expiration date! He is on Puppy Chow now and loves it. I picked out some 30's blocks I have made already to make him a lil quilt when I feel better. Right now he would chew it up! :o)

Here is a great organic style recipe site. From Alice's Kitchen is written by a local lady who with her husband, oversees a wonderful Farmer's Market in the next county. Alice is also a driving force in a co-op store there. I have bookmarked so many recipes I want to try. The cool thing is that nothing is exotic or too expensive. And you can always substitute with what you have. Give it a lookyloo.

Things that make you go hmmm....

This is the newest addition to our lil' family. Meet Tobias aka Toby, whom I am sure will be the topic of many conversations to come! A Yorkie-poo and 10 weeks old. Mark has wanted a puppy for over 4 years. I mean he has WANTED a puppy. So he finally wore me down. Course you know this means that "I" have a puppy now right? Mr. Mark works about 70+ hours a week. Do you realllly think he is going to be very active in the puppy training aspect? LOL But I knew this going in. sigh He is a cutie. Toby not Mark. Well he is cute too I guess. LOL And Toby loves his kennel. Actually puts his lil' self in there to go nitenite.. And no crying about it if I put him in there cause Mommy just needs a time-out. LOL The things us women do for our men. :o)

side note: I was asked if I thought Toby thought, he was mine or Mark's? My reply...Are you kidding? This lil mutt knows WE belong to HIM. LOL

My best Scrabble single word score EVER! And you gotta see what word it is. AND it was a double triple word score. Another first for me. Cool! If anyone ever wants to play with me through email, just let me know.

It is hot here. We broke 90. Blech. Thank God for central air and blinds.

A peek at what I have been doing.

This scrappy album block is 14 x 17-inches.

This square in a square scrappy is 15-inches.

And I can do zippers now. Yay for me. This lil bitty coin purses measure 4 x 4 1/2-inches. Made from wool with hand applique on the front, coordinating cotton fabric lining. The colors are much MUCH prettier than the crazy pic. I have always been afraid of trying a zipper. But decided to just suck it up and give it a go.

And this is what keeps me going. LOL Nectar of the God's I call it. Mt Dew soda pop. Mark found this cool metal bottle at WalMart and said he knew I needed it. I had actually meant to drink it while watching the fireworks, but in all the hubbub forgot to grab it. (But no worries it is gone now. I washed the bottle and have it on a shelf in my playhouse.) We are blessed to be able to watch the fireworks from our driveway. No fighting the crowds. Just the sceeters. Which actually I chased away when I played with my sparklers. LOLOL Yep I have to have sparkers!

A lil' something quilty.

This is the runner I started at Retreat. The blocks are paper pieced. I wanted to make it different, but couldn't figure out what I had in my head. LOL But it is finished. I machined quilted it. Measures out 25 x 9 1/2-inches. Could be a wall hanging also.

Then I worked up this lil crazy quilt doll blanket. I thought it would be sweet for the Bleuette dolls. It measures 10 x 12. The embroidery doesn't show up too good in the pic. I added the word Love and a metal heart charm. Nothing fancy in my stitches, but I enjoy doing the handwork. And can do it with my feet up resting. Both pieces were mostly done using Civil War Reproductions, Kansas Troubles and a bit of Thimbleberries. All from my scrap stash except the backings and sashings.

I am still here. Just not having a good week healthwise. Have been putzing about though, trying to work on little things. I love to embroidery. It is just basic/primitive style to most people. But it makes me happy. I made up 4 little take-a-long needlebooks with pockets. Just a simple project. They are 4 x 8-inches opened up. With a 3 x 6-inch insert of red wool for needles. I thought the pockets were deep enough to hold a small pair of snips, thread and thimble. I used a thin pellon under the crazy foundation to give it some body and a bit of poof. I got the idea when I was copying Michelle's tea cozies. These are just bigger.

A friend ran in the Relay for Life last night in my honor. How sweet was that? :o)

Nature's bounty. You gotta love it!

Kate had tagged me for the Front Door/Back Door Meme. The Meme simply asks for photos taken of the view out your front and back doors. Well both at my house are pretty boring. But, if you turn the corner at my backdoor you get my backYARD. Which is very pretty and a happy place to be right now. So I am taking my blogger liberty and changing this Meme up a bit. Our yard is small, but we have worked very hard to make it special. Still lots we want to do to it, but it is getting there. And it is all about the journey right? :o)

Now who to tag? I tag anyone who wishes to play. If you do play, please send me the link and I will post it.
Everyone have a great day. And if you are bored, come on over and help me pull up some weeds! :o)