David's Birthday and the Antique Show

Today is David's 31st birthday. Hard to believe Dave's the third child I have who is over 30!! We had a little celebration get-together in the afternoon. Dave and I share a love of reading and trade books with each other.

Wendy and I always attend the antique show, held at the Weber County Fairgrounds twice a year. As always, we had great fun. She doesn't like her picture taken, so she took mine (I don't like my picture taken either:)

I did purchase the watering can. It's very unusual to still find the spouts attached on these old cans.

 I do believe I should have waited until the antique show to purchase my new eyeglass frames. Don't these retro frames look FABULOUS??? (I live just to embarrass my children.)

My Mother's Hands

Mom's hands are always busy - always have been and hopefully always will be. She cannot sit without doing something, even in the car. She has crocheted many, many hats for disadvantaged school children, bandages for leprosy patients and hundreds of crocheted bookmarks, which she gives away. She still quilts every Tuesday at the ward, doing charity quilts for an organization.

New Eyes

I had to update my eyeglass prescription so I decided to update my frames too.

One Hundred Eleven Over Fifty Eight

This is the time of year when I have my yearly physicals from two different doctors, including blood workups, x-rays, updating prescriptions, and the dreaded mamogram. It's always nice to know that the body parts I still have left are in good working order:)  My blood pressure has always been low. In earlier years the nurse would bring in another machine to recheck, thinking that hers must be broken!

Kitchen Shelves

I can finally say that the kitchen is DONE. Two shelves hung and a bit of grout was all it took to complete. It's taken an additional three months, but that seems to be how it goes. Once you move in, it's hard to get back to finishing.

 A fun place for these old pitchers.

 A home for some of my Watt pottery collection.

Matty's Birthday and Repurposed Wool

We have more birthdays in February than any other month.  Most of the family birthdays are lumped into about a one month time period - from January 19-February 20 (Jared, Hazel, Ezra, my mother, Shaury, Matt and Dave!)

Mike and I took Matt to lunch today at Cafe Rio's. I forgot to take a picture, so I pulled this one off his facebook page.

I love working with wool and found a super buy at Savers this afternoon. Everything was half off today. So I picked up quite a few 100% wool sweaters for between $2 and $3 each.

I will felt them by putting them in the washer with a few tennis balls, hot water and detergent. The agitation will break down the fibers and is the first step to "felting" wool. After placing in the dryer the pieces will be ready to be used. Sometimes these two steps have to be repeated a few times.

 I plan on making a few more puppets.

Shaury's 31

Today was Shaury's 31st birthday. We enjoyed yummy cheescake, played some wii games and had a good visit.