Father's Day!

Wishing all the Father's out here, a Happy Father's Day!

yesterday's lunch...

Had lunch at Red Robin yesterday with all the girls from work. Less than 2 hours later... I was sick as a dog! Had the Chicken Caesar wrap that came with watermelon. I think it was the watermelon, it looked funny, 1st one tasted ok, the 2nd one, heh... feeling better now. Kept my breakfast and lunch down, which wasn't much. Stayed home from work, had the worst headache!

2nd pillow...

This is the 2nd pillow I made from the old tablecloth. I didn't have enough to make a ruffle, so Marian made me this cute flower and then I put the rose charm, necklace thing in the middle.
I had a different flower also to add, but it just didn't look right, simple is best sometimes.

happy dance...

oh my gosh... I am sooo doing the happy dance right now! Our computer had been acting up, so Mark took it to the $99 guy down the street, which a week ago I would not recommend to anyone. After the last 2 nights Mark spending 7 hours online in with them, I would so take that comment back. It's back and working and takes me 5 minutes to do a post instead of 1 1/2 hours! I love the new computer. Cost more than $99 though, our hard drive had died. I had been complaining for like 3 months something wasn't right. But... it was ALWAYS my fault! Hmmmmm... I DON"T THINK SO!
This embroidery I have been working on for about a 2 months. (My REAL first attempt at it) is called Garden Gate. It actually is a quilt pattern and these pieces go around the edges. So cute. I did one portion and am going to frame it and hang it in my sewing room. Excuse the toes showing in the bottom picture. Oh...check out the floor it's on..
My birthday and Mother's Day had came and went without not so much anything. I got flowers for my birthday but that was nothing, Mark always brings me flowers. So, after me making a snide remark one day.. I think he felt bad. When I went away for the girls weekend, he took everything out of my sewing room, painted the walls, bottom half chocolate brown, top tan, took the carpet out, put down wooden floors, put everything back, in the same spot to be exact and bought me a flat screen t.v. I guess he made up for it, what do ya' think?! Love ya, hun!

Memorial Day

Hope everyone has a fun and safe Memorial Day weekend.

more garden tour...

This house was the first house with the trian in the back yard. It was onced owned by Efron Zimbalist Jr., father of Stephanie Zimbalist Jr who played in the tv show Remmington Steele with Pierce Brosnan. The picture above is the "guest house"

This is the main house...

doorway to the main house...

this is the walkway from main house to the guest house...

had 3 HUGE redwood trees on the property.

garden tour...

Went to Fallbrook today for the annual garden tour and it didn't dissapoint me at all. This is a 40 year old staghorn fern that is about 15 ft tall. Came from the owners dad's house before he passed away.

Roses, roses and more roses.... and more succulants than I have ever seen in my life.

At each house they had an artist of some kind. Painters, gourd artists, quilters, violinists... all different kinds.

This house was just amazing. This was the first house we went to and my favorite. And in the back he had a caboose. Had it crained in and is making a pub out of it for the guys when they come over! I took more than 60 pictures, I'll post more later.

old tablecloth..

Isn't this just the cutest thing! I took an old tablecloth I bought for $1.00 at the Hemet quilt show, and on my weekend away turned it into a really cute pillow. Actually I made 2.

weekend projects...

Very productive weekend. Stayed up WAYYYYY past my bedtime, but got sooooo much accomplished. Made 16 spool blocks for our friendship group.... made 5 raffle blocks for Monday night class (which by the way I did NOT win)....

Made a BQ pattern with my favorite little doggies on it... Mia and Lolli..... (throw size)

And then this one.... it is called Sherbert Delight.....

And this one too..... can you guess where it is going?? my library of course.... The Very Series by Eric Carle. Has 5 of his stories all put together in this. I only took a picture of the corner though.

So, we watched over, like, 30 movies... stayed up till sunrise just about... had delicious food and great company! Can't wait till August for the next one!