Tornado?

I'm so glad we have a basement. I'm such a chicken when it is stormy. I woke up at about 6:00 Friday morning and the local weather man was saying we were definitely in for it as far as storms go. He said there would be Definite Storm Damage. We always have severe spring storms in the Ozarks, but Never have they said that!!! Needless to say, I loaded up all my important stuff and got the basement ready for the sirens to go off. Around 8:10 they sounded. I don't think Springfield's storm was ever officially called a tornado but the straight line winds were clocked at around 80 mph. They called it a deuresho. sp? Like an inland hurricane. Here's what our patio furniture looked like afterwards.


And this is the school grounds just across the street from our house. This was a huge tree!


Luckily there were no injuries in our city, but three people lost their lives in SW Missouri.

Just earlier in the week (Tuesday) at the school across the street again, we heard a firetruck. I told Mickey it sounded like they were in our living room. He said, "they practically are, they're going into the school parking lot!" Then they kept coming. One, two, three, four Huge fire trucks, an ambulance, rescue people. It scared us to death! We knew something was going on at the school that night. This was about 6:30 in the evening. Come to find out a portion of the ceiling had collapsed!!! There were about 100 people inside including children. They were having a PTA fundraiser BBQ dinner that night. We quickly heard from another neighbor that no one was hurt there either! We are having some good luck in our little city. They said kids had been running back and forth in the hallway that collapsed all evening. Just happens they weren't in the hall when it fell. They held school at a neighboring church for the rest of the week.


On a much lighter note I got in the dye pots this past week also. I have started a new rug for in front of my kitchen sink. It's a Primitive Spirit pattern titled "Chicken in the Garden".



I'm doing it in a no. 9 cut. My first with this large a cut. I'm lovin' it! I dyed antique black, lichens, robin's egg blue, mossy and sea mist blue. Oh, and Pepperberry and bubblegum pink. All Karen Kahle colors.



I love her dye colors. They are such clear colors. They just match my decorating colors in our home perfectly. For the antique blacks I used Emma Lou's recipes. Hook book black, antique black green and antique black.

And here are some spring pictures from my garden. In the spring we have mostly pink, lavendar and whites blooming. I'm going to try to incorporate alot more white in the garden this year. It really glows at twilight. Especially way back in the yard. It just pops out.





Hope you have a wonderful sunny week.
Also, I'm working on stuff for my Etsy shop. Will try to list some tomorrow. Please stop by! www.shabbysheepcrafts.etsy.com

Peace,
Sheri

What a party!!!

OK, I'm trying again to post. Tonight I'm going to share some photos of my mom's 80th birthday party that we had last Saturday evening. It was a surprise party for her. She thought it was just going to be my dad, sister and her kids and great-grandkids. We invited her sisters and their husbands and cousins, and very old friends. (The friends aren't old...well I guess they're 80 too!) My sister flew in my mom's baby sister from Bonita Springs, Florida as part of the big surprise. She's only 61, like I said the baby. She spent five days here with us and we enjoyed her soooo much. I miss her already. Anyway, here are some pics.

I hope I can look half this good when I turn 80 years old!!!


My dad and sister. She's only three years younger than my mom's baby sister! They're great friends-my sister and aunt Sonja.

(The Chinese lady is our waitress. We ate at Mr. Yen's Chinese Restaurant.)


My Aunt Sonja presenting the birthday cake!





Linda my sis, my mom, and me


Her great-grandkids. My sister has two sons and a daughter. (I don't have any kids.)



This is the pillow I hooked for mom for her birthday. I did just the single rose last year for her birthday. Karen Kahle's Primitive Spirit patterns.

These are the party favor boxes. I took two old cassette tapes of my parents and my Aunt Naomi and Uncle Ralph singing and playing their guitars and transferred them to CDs. Everyone got two musical CDs and I also made a photo CD of old family photos (about 150 photos) and everyone got a lucky bamboo plant in a little vase. Oh and fortune cookies in cute little bags too!
I put them in these take-out boxes and tied them with yarn. Everyone Loved them!!! It was a labor of love...I hope I don't ever have to make cassettes into CDs again. I wasted 90 CDs!!! I made 18 of these boxes. That's why there were so many CDs.


And finally I made myself a new necklace to wear to the party. My Aunt Sonja loved it so I made her one for Christmas in April. She will have the only one in Florida. Well the only one anywhere!!! I had just bought the rhinestone pendant at a garage sale early that Saturday morning!! I also used a couple of lamp crystals on each of our necklaces and some bird charms, keys, and stuff...

And you know I said she was from Florida, well she's not quite this tanned! This is NOT my Aunt Sonja! Another one of my great bargain finds. I think I'll make more of this type of jewelry. I love it!





Hope I didn't bore you hookers and crafters with this post. But my family is very important to me. I love them all dearly.

And again, Happy 80th Birthday Mom.
I love you,


and peace,
Sheri

I wrote a blog entry ...

But I can't change the font or move the pictures I posted!!!! Have any of you had this problem with blogger??? ANY HELP APPRECIATED!!!

I'll keep trying!!

Peace,

Sheri

Now for the rugs!

As promised, here are the RUGS from Saturday's hook-in in Springfield, MO. I didn't even try to put names with the rugs~~notice I didn't embarrass myself and try to put names with faces yesterday either! I met many wonderful people, but Please don't ask me to name them. I'm terrible at that.

This was a little Tiny hooked pin on Mindy's sweater. It was hooked by Victoria Ingalls. Isn't it adorable? I want one!!!

I would like to thank everyone again, who came to our "first annual" Springfield hook-in. We had so much fun and we hope you thought we were good hostesses. We also hope you liked our city and our hookers! Please come back next year and bring your friends. I personally love meeting new friends and feel like I made some new ones.

Please leave me a comment if you were here Saturday and we met! (Or if you weren't and wished you were!)

I'll post a few more pics tomorrow.

Peace,

Sheri