Cow corner...

How many of you have a ‘cow corner’ where you live?

This is on the corner I turn on to get to my way to my nephews house.

I have to pull over and say hello whenever they are out. They just stand there  and listen. 

Kelly wants to make a little sign that sits over this one, “Cow Corner” @ Oak Grove Farm

In between the 2 houses... we have “Cactus Alley” (endless acres of cactus)... ‘donkey pond’ (4 donkeys that graze around a tank all day)... and “cow corner”(hundreds of cows)

I am so loving living here in the country!

Hobby Lobby...

Have you seen this... so sad 

Bummer. Big time. 

Picture test...

UPDATE.....

It works! Yahoo!

Gonna see if this blog works for pictures..

Little re vamp of the front bathroom...

When we moved in , I made it livable until I could do more. 


I had the time now, so I went for it. If it blog pictures works, I’ll come back and update with details.

Ok!..... new paint all around... Sherwin Williams “Allibaster”... got rid of the southwestern green/blue. fixtures were rotted out and in order to update and replace we had to take wall surround down to get to plumbing. So we replaced the surround, it was all yellowed anyways and needed to be replaced. Tub is in good shape, we kept that. New Pfister fixtures... I gave Mark a picture of board and batten I wanted and he came through. I painted it with Heirloom Traditions paint (which I LOVE) for this project. I wanted the wall a light gray and cabinet darker.  Light was too light so I made a mixture, didn’t make enough first time around and it came out darker 2nd time.  So wall is darker than I wanted because I kept ‘fixing’ it. New shower curtain from Target, some hooks for new towels. I painted the shower curtain pole to match. Made a little board to put across and stained it.  presto.... it’s done!

Busy bees....

UPDATE>>>>> for some reason... program has said I reached my limit of pictures.... sorry about this... I’ll work on it later...What apps do my followers use for blogs?? And has anyone had this issue yet? Every January 1st, I have issues.. every year!

We’ve been so busy here at the house.

My nephews girls... asked me to show them how to quilt. Oh boy... sure...let’s just say it was a blast! They loved it, jumped in with all they had, conquered and asked for more!

Their first project was a quilt for each of them. They picked same pattern, but a little different fabrics 

This is Madeline’s...

And this is Grace’s..

Then they wanted to make a Christmas quilt for their brother... ok! They picked the pattern out, I took them to store to pick fabrics and they had a blast! Here is Isaac after opening it on Christmas Day.

Then... they wanted to make one for Dad... so they wanted a deer panel, went shopping for a panel and for backing,  couldn't find the exact one they were looking for so we ordered it but was delayed, of course just like everything else in the world and then dug thru my fabrics. We started the 23rd, the day it came in and got about 98% done till we had to stop for dinner. Then sickness came...

So it WILL get finished soon! Pictures to come.

Then.... MOM needed one... she had eyed one of mine.. commented every time she walked by... so I whipped one up that was identical to mine... and.... I forgot to take a picture.

Here is mine, hers is a little different.

Then....... if that wasn’t enough... they wanted to make rice bags for EVERYONE! So we made about 6 of them..... THEN........... I took them shopping so they could get presents for family. Accomplished that! Wrapping happened and presents delivered. 

I made a quilt for Kelly also... but forgot to take a picture of that also.

So.... there is more but we’ll save that for another post..

Happy New Year everyone!