TODAY'S SUBJECT: BEAUTIFUL BEANS

A great friend of ours has a gorgeous garden that he allows us to come raid every now and again.  Minus the mosquitoes, I'm in heaven!  Hubby and I went and did some picking last week and came home with beans, corn, beans, cucumbers and more beans. 

Saturday morning I was up early and busy with beans.

Some people put pies on their windowsills.  I put beans!  :)

 

Stay tuned for this weekend's garden project.

TJO

LOOK WHAT MY HUBBY DID....

I came home from work tonight to homemade baked sub sandwiches, pups fed and dishes done. 

How lucky of a lady am I?!! 

I love being married to that man!!

TJO

RASPBERRIES, JUNEBERRIES AND JAM

Let canning season begin!

I did my test run on raspberries and juneberries by making some really simple perserves.

Cant wait to see whats next in the canning line....better go turn the sprinkler on the garden now....

Happy Harvest.
TJO

   I received these adorable flannel blocks a while back from Loft Creations.  After 3 foot surgeries and a wedding, I am back in business on my NEW sewing machine (more on that later) and this is the first of many Project Linus blankets to be donated made from the blocks.
   I have shared the blocks with my mom and grandma to also make donation blankets for Project Linus.
  

The Project Linus Mission

Project Linus is comprised of hundreds of local chapters and thousands of volunteers across the United States. Each volunteer and local chapter all work together to help us achieve our mission which is to provide love, a sense of security, warmth and comfort to children who are seriously ill, traumatized, or otherwise in need through the gifts of new, handmade blankets and afghans, lovingly created by volunteer "blanketeers."

Together we have distributed over three million blankets to children in need since our inception in 1995.

Want to become a "blanketeer"?  Check out: http://www.projectlinus.org/index.html

Thank you to Loft Creations for your fun idea and donation! 

Have a great day!

Love,

Blanketeer Tara.

WITH A LITTLE HELP

I was finally able to finish my Hobo Bag.  My parents and great friend visited over the weekend of the 4th of July and the projects being completed were pouring out.

The guys worked on the deck while my mom helped me finish up some projects.  Isnt this bag so much fun and oh the stuff it can hold is endless.  Mom was very patient in taking me step by step through the pattern instructions.

Other projects are soon to come along with pictures of the awesome deck that is now attached to our house!

Off to try out that thing people call "relaxing."  It sounds pretty awesome!!  :)

TJO

TODAY I DID...

...very little compared to my usual weekend accomplishments.  BUT..I did work on these hot pad holders and sure had fun.  I am learning with each one and cannot wait to do my extra fun ones my mom got me to do!

Off to bed to start a new dish rag now and enjoy my nice clean sheets.  I just love the feeling of fresh sheets, dont you?

Guten Nacht.
TJO