Bob, Ann and I went to Kalona today to watch Allison's ASA softball team play. They played three games - one at 9:00 AM, one at 1:30 and then again at 3:00. We about froze! When the sun came out, it was pretty nice...but unfortunately, the sun wasn't out much!! The wind was blowing from the side of us (northwest, I think) and made it feel more like football weather than softball weather! Regardless, it was fun! Linda and Kaylee came down too, so that made the day even more fun!! Allison got to pitch one inning in the first game and then she caught the second game. She then pitched 3 innings in the 3rd game. They got beat their first game...when we got there the score was 5-0 in favor of the other team. Allison said the little girl who was pitching didn't do so well because her parents weren't there to watch her! Cute! They won the other two games!
Dave asked me if I'd told you about the Charger getting shipped out of Moravia to Belgium. After three days of polishing the car because they wanted it to be perfect for the new owner, it was loaded onto an open trailer to be hauled to Missouri, then on to Florida, and then to S Carolina before being put on a ship for overseas. Can you believe they put it on an open trailer?? Classic cars usually don't get hauled on open trailers! I guess we can't worry about it any more!
Tomorrow is a big day for us. We're going to Son-rise service at church at 7:15, then breakfast, then choir practice at 8:40 followed by 9:30 church. After church we're headed out to St Louis to deliver the GTX to the guy who is going to try to sell it for us. I probably won't be blogging tomorrow, so Happy Easter everyone. Remember He is risen!! More later...
Saturday, April 23, 2011
Friday, April 22, 2011
Stamping Club
Today was our monthly stamp/card club at First Presbyterian. Juliene was the demonstrator today and she showed us how to make three cards. The first one was this scalloped square., which was made into a sympathy card. It was fun to make and is much prettier in person than it is in this scan! We used all Stampin' Up products - Juliene is a SU consultant! I guess the dragonfly embossing folder isn't from SU - it's a cuttlebug folder that Jan got online for Juliene.
I think this card is very attractive and if I had the die cut for the scalloped square, I'd probably make some more of these. You know, I may have a 4" die from Nestabilities...I'll have to check that out!
The second card we made was this one with the tulip on it. Again, the scan does nothing for this card! It is unique in the way it opens! I messed up with my "from the heart" - it should have been down lower so it would show better...then I also messed up on the inside of the card, too. I will be remaking this one! Everything on this card is from SU except the above-mentioned Cuttlebug embossing folder! The tulip is made by using the owl punch and modifying it! Very clever!!
This is the third card we made. I stamped it on the outside with River Rock, but you can barely see it...I guess I'll be making this one again too! Oh well! I always like to have a sample for my card album, so these will be my samples!! The flowers were colored with a white gel pen. The uniqueness of this card is how it opens too! Good job, Juliene!
Juliene also showed us how to make an envelope to fit any sized card. I was glad to see how to do that as I have often wanted to coordinate my envelope with my card!
This afternoon, while Dave worked on his garage, I got my hair cut. Yay! She gave me a new style - Dave really likes it, as do I. It's very different from the way I usually have my hair cut!
Tomorrow I'm getting up way early to go to Kalona to watch Allison play softball. It's supposed to be 62...I don't have a clue what to wear. Her colors are orange and black and if it were to be warmer, I'd wear an orange shirt and black shorts. I don't think 62 will be warm enough to wear shorts and sit outside all day! I think I'll wear jeans and take a coat!! More later...
I think this card is very attractive and if I had the die cut for the scalloped square, I'd probably make some more of these. You know, I may have a 4" die from Nestabilities...I'll have to check that out!
The second card we made was this one with the tulip on it. Again, the scan does nothing for this card! It is unique in the way it opens! I messed up with my "from the heart" - it should have been down lower so it would show better...then I also messed up on the inside of the card, too. I will be remaking this one! Everything on this card is from SU except the above-mentioned Cuttlebug embossing folder! The tulip is made by using the owl punch and modifying it! Very clever!!
This is the third card we made. I stamped it on the outside with River Rock, but you can barely see it...I guess I'll be making this one again too! Oh well! I always like to have a sample for my card album, so these will be my samples!! The flowers were colored with a white gel pen. The uniqueness of this card is how it opens too! Good job, Juliene! 
Juliene also showed us how to make an envelope to fit any sized card. I was glad to see how to do that as I have often wanted to coordinate my envelope with my card! This afternoon, while Dave worked on his garage, I got my hair cut. Yay! She gave me a new style - Dave really likes it, as do I. It's very different from the way I usually have my hair cut!
Tomorrow I'm getting up way early to go to Kalona to watch Allison play softball. It's supposed to be 62...I don't have a clue what to wear. Her colors are orange and black and if it were to be warmer, I'd wear an orange shirt and black shorts. I don't think 62 will be warm enough to wear shorts and sit outside all day! I think I'll wear jeans and take a coat!! More later...
Thursday, April 21, 2011
More April Showers
It's raining again tonight...I believe the May flowers ought to be absolutely beautiful with all these April showers!! Here are some pictures of flowers at our church. Aren't they beautiful? 
I just love this double daffodil - I don't think I've ever seen a while double daffodil before! This creeping phlox has really spread too. It's so pretty - isn't it funny, though, that it is so prickly to touch! 
And, how about this red tulip! It is the most brilliant red - gorgeous!
Speaking of church, tonight we had Maundy Thursday services at Westminster Presbyterian. I'd never been in that church before. Very small, but a pretty church. Our choir combined with their choir for a wonderful sound! We sang one song together and then our choir did the anthem, "Is Is I, Lord?" It was beautiful!! Pastor David did the sermon on that phrase. He challenged us that we should all be asking just that - is it I, Lord?
Dave worked on the GTX today and we got it loaded into the trailer. We're taking it to St Louis Sunday afternoon.and should be back on Monday. I can't talk him out of selling it - :( !! Next thing you know, he'll be wanting to sell my Chevy too! Tomorrow I have card-making club at the church in the morning and I finally get my haircut tomorrow afternoon - yay!!
More later...
I just love this double daffodil - I don't think I've ever seen a while double daffodil before! This creeping phlox has really spread too. It's so pretty - isn't it funny, though, that it is so prickly to touch! 
And, how about this red tulip! It is the most brilliant red - gorgeous!
Speaking of church, tonight we had Maundy Thursday services at Westminster Presbyterian. I'd never been in that church before. Very small, but a pretty church. Our choir combined with their choir for a wonderful sound! We sang one song together and then our choir did the anthem, "Is Is I, Lord?" It was beautiful!! Pastor David did the sermon on that phrase. He challenged us that we should all be asking just that - is it I, Lord?
Dave worked on the GTX today and we got it loaded into the trailer. We're taking it to St Louis Sunday afternoon.and should be back on Monday. I can't talk him out of selling it - :( !! Next thing you know, he'll be wanting to sell my Chevy too! Tomorrow I have card-making club at the church in the morning and I finally get my haircut tomorrow afternoon - yay!!
More later...
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Saying Goodbye
Dave went to Moravia today to say goodbye to an old friend. This is the last time he'll see his plum crazy 1970 Charger 500. We sold it to a man in Belguim!! So, it really, truly is the last time we'll see her!! She is being shipped out tomorrow morning.
Dave is also detailing the 1969 GTX in order to try to see it. I don't really want him to sell the GTX, but he's determined. Next week one day we're going to St Louis to take the GTX back to the guy we bought it from. He's pretty sure he can sell it for what we want out of it. So, we'll see!
One good thing came out of this sale of the Charger. We paid off my Cadillac!! So no more car payments - yay!!
More later...
Dave is also detailing the 1969 GTX in order to try to see it. I don't really want him to sell the GTX, but he's determined. Next week one day we're going to St Louis to take the GTX back to the guy we bought it from. He's pretty sure he can sell it for what we want out of it. So, we'll see!One good thing came out of this sale of the Charger. We paid off my Cadillac!! So no more car payments - yay!!
More later...
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Winter Again!
I am sick of this cold weather!! When there's still a chill factor and only 37 degrees on April 19th - that's just awful! This morning I woke up to thunderstorms and pouring rain. In fact, we had about .8 of an inch in a very short time. It's spring!! I'd sure like some warmth to go with the blooming trees and flowers!!
I got my third Easter card made today. Here it is. I think it is darling! Everything except the eggs are made of Stampin' Up paper. I printed the sentiment on my computer and used the large oval punch to cut it out. The eggs are cut with Nestabilities out of DCWV paper. I think the kids will really like these cards. I know Jami will!! She keeps all of these for their scrapbooks!
Tonight I went downtown to the Hotel Ottumwa to our annual Beta Sigma Phi Founder's Day celebration. It was very nice. For entertainment, we played "famous women" trivia. One table had the easiest questions and the rest of us had really hard ones! It was lots of fun, though! Thanks ladies for a good evening.
I got home just in time to see Petra and Dimitri kicked off of DWTS...again, I'm wondering who in the heck voted for Kendra. She is horrible and Petra was very good and improving. I guess I'd better start voting again!
More later...
I got my third Easter card made today. Here it is. I think it is darling! Everything except the eggs are made of Stampin' Up paper. I printed the sentiment on my computer and used the large oval punch to cut it out. The eggs are cut with Nestabilities out of DCWV paper. I think the kids will really like these cards. I know Jami will!! She keeps all of these for their scrapbooks!
Tonight I went downtown to the Hotel Ottumwa to our annual Beta Sigma Phi Founder's Day celebration. It was very nice. For entertainment, we played "famous women" trivia. One table had the easiest questions and the rest of us had really hard ones! It was lots of fun, though! Thanks ladies for a good evening.
I got home just in time to see Petra and Dimitri kicked off of DWTS...again, I'm wondering who in the heck voted for Kendra. She is horrible and Petra was very good and improving. I guess I'd better start voting again!
More later...
Monday, April 18, 2011
Easter critters
Another day gone and what do I have to show for it? After I ran errands and changed the sheets on the bed this morning, I went to my craft room. Not only did I go through my patterns and box some up for the garage sale, but I also made a couple of Easter cards for the grandchildren! Here they are! These are CASE'd from Kay at Creations on Paper. I fell in love with hers...she used chocolate chip paper so her's was a lot darker than mine. I used a sponge and SU inks to do the sky. All of the punches are from SU and most of the paper is too. The Easter egg is cut from a Nestabilities die and is made from DCWV paper.
This little chick is another one of Kay's designs. She is extremely talented and so easy to CASE! She gives you all of the punches needed as well as step-by-step instructions on how to put the critters together. Both of her critters were on bookmarks...I made mine on cards!
I'm hoping the kids like them. I've still got one more to make. I hope I can get it done tomorrow so I can mail them out Wednesday morning.
More later...
This little chick is another one of Kay's designs. She is extremely talented and so easy to CASE! She gives you all of the punches needed as well as step-by-step instructions on how to put the critters together. Both of her critters were on bookmarks...I made mine on cards! 
I'm hoping the kids like them. I've still got one more to make. I hope I can get it done tomorrow so I can mail them out Wednesday morning. More later...
Sunday, April 17, 2011
Palm Sunday
We had a wonderful church service today. Pastor David led a parade of young disciples (the children) through the streets of Jerusalem (the church aisles) behind Jesus (imaginary). While he did this, the east side of the church was cheering Jesus and the west side was jeering Jesus. Very dramatic! Then the symbols presentation today was the hammer and nails. While the readers were telling about the symbols, a hammer pounding nails into wood was heard over the loud speakers...it made you have chills. I can't even imagine what he will do for Easter Sunday, but I'm sure it will be very effective.
This afternoon, after Bible Study, I was able to get some of my pictures uploaded. Now you can see some of what I've been up to the last few days!! This is a picture of Gunnar and Matthew Nelson on stage at the Sondheim Center in Fairfield. Wonderful concert!! The lighting in these public places isn't conducive for real good pictures. I'm sure they would be clearer if I knew how to change either my aperture or my ISO settings. I didn't want to mess with it during the concert though! Maybe next time I'm in a public building at a meeting or something, I can experiment with different settings!
Here is a picture of the "girls of 66" at the Fairfield Country Club. I guess there were only 16 of us at the dinner. Most of the ladies have on wine shirts...mine has chocolate as its theme, and Joneane's was a champagne theme. It was a fun night!!
This is a picture of our church's Saturday morning egg-stravaganza! This was just one table where lots of creativity was taking place!! I don't know that this little one got much out of it, but just wait until next year when he's a little older!!
The last picture tonight is of a houseplant that I started from just a cutting. I think this is it's third year...and last week it started blooming! It's never bloomed before. It has the most delicate pink blooms all over it. I have no idea what this plant is. I just know that I think it's beautiful and I'm thrilled to death that it has survived and that it is blooming!! I don't know for sure what I'm going to do with it next year when we're gone a little longer! I may have to see if my friend Juliene will care for it. She and her husband seem to have green thumbs!!
More later...
This afternoon, after Bible Study, I was able to get some of my pictures uploaded. Now you can see some of what I've been up to the last few days!! This is a picture of Gunnar and Matthew Nelson on stage at the Sondheim Center in Fairfield. Wonderful concert!! The lighting in these public places isn't conducive for real good pictures. I'm sure they would be clearer if I knew how to change either my aperture or my ISO settings. I didn't want to mess with it during the concert though! Maybe next time I'm in a public building at a meeting or something, I can experiment with different settings!
Here is a picture of the "girls of 66" at the Fairfield Country Club. I guess there were only 16 of us at the dinner. Most of the ladies have on wine shirts...mine has chocolate as its theme, and Joneane's was a champagne theme. It was a fun night!!
This is a picture of our church's Saturday morning egg-stravaganza! This was just one table where lots of creativity was taking place!! I don't know that this little one got much out of it, but just wait until next year when he's a little older!!
The last picture tonight is of a houseplant that I started from just a cutting. I think this is it's third year...and last week it started blooming! It's never bloomed before. It has the most delicate pink blooms all over it. I have no idea what this plant is. I just know that I think it's beautiful and I'm thrilled to death that it has survived and that it is blooming!! I don't know for sure what I'm going to do with it next year when we're gone a little longer! I may have to see if my friend Juliene will care for it. She and her husband seem to have green thumbs!!
More later...
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