Rainy Day Pillow

Two of Tony's old button down shirts turned into this.

A wonderful find at Ollie's. This book only cost me $7.

Checkers anyone?

gathered goodness

A basket weave pillow made.by.me. :)

Refashioned Polo Shirt

I have a rather large pile of clothes I no longer wear. They've been sitting in my closet for several months now, waiting for a yardsale/trip to the good will. Then yesterday I saw this tutorial of how to refashion a shirt. "That looks easy enough." So I went through my unwanted clothes pile and selected a shirt to refashion. I took a plain green polo shirt (identical to the one pictured above), and turned it into a ruffly top. I even had enough scraps to make a little bracelet to match. It's like a new shirt!! Now I'm starting to second guess getting rid of that pile of clothes in my closet.

Excited about dirt and other things

Our bradford pear trees are blooming beautifully and I am l.o.v.i.n.g. this spring-like weather we've had the past few days. I do not think it is here to stay yet, but it has been nice. Saturday morning we made our way to Goldsboro to return plywood to Lowes and pick up some starter pots for our seeds. We were also very excited to get a truckload of nice rich soil! Never thought we'd be so excited about dirt. Ha! Tony & his dad started on the shed, while I shoveled the dirt into our garden box and started our sweet pepper seeds. The guys were able to complete the floor of the shed early afternoon. Most of the day was spent outdoors in the wonderful sunshine ... thence Tony & I both received some pink highlights on our white skin. ;) After a nice big salad we made our way back to Lowes to pick up more wood. It took a looong time to weed through all the warped pieces of wood, but we were finally able to get what we needed. Praise God! Then homeward bound we were after a quick stop at the grocery store to get ingredients for homemade pimento cheese with Irish soda bread - dinner. It was a late night, but it felt sooo very good to lay in bed!! Oh yes, and spring our clocks up an hour.

After a few hours of sleep our alarm started going off, noting it was time to get up and get ready for church. :) It takes us a good hour to get to church from our house - plenty of time to talk and sing with my sweet husband and/or listen to a sermon. Sweet moments of togetherness. A song that continually came to mind while listening to this weeks sermon was "Behold the Lamb of God" by Andrew Peterson - if you turn your volume up you can hear it playing in the background.

Behold the Lamb of God who takes away our sin.
Behold the Lamb of God the life and light of man.
Behold the Lamb of God who died and rose again.
Behold the Lamb of God who comes to take away our sin.

I was able to get a good start on a girly baby blanket; there it is pictured below and you can see the tote bag I sewed with Tony's mom. It makes for a great traveling bag. Oh how I like being crafty!!

Yesterday afternoon we went to Tony's parents house to celebrate Wes' 21st birthday. Theres a picture of two of our cute neices and a nephew below. :)

We came home and sat on our porch enjoying the nice Sunday afternoon breeze. Tony read. I crocheted. Then my parents stopped by for a visit. They brought us two yummy bagels that dad had made the day before. Very tasty!! Then we just sat and chatted about various things. :)

Wonderful weekend!!
Praise God from Whom all blessings flow!!

It's just the beginning ...

Here is the start of our little garden. After eating some

homemade biscuits and gravy, my sweet husband went to

work on building our garden box. Of course I stood close by

to watch and help. ;) Monday night we placed the order for

some of our seeds and are looking forward to getting those

planted in little pots very shortly. Grow garden, grow!!

This is my first completed sewing projectusing a pattern -
a froggy apron. This fabric was originally purchased
by Tony's mom over twenty years ago. She was going
to turn it into little overalls for Tony, but never
got around to it. So the fabric was neatly folded
and safely stored for twenty-plus years.
The frogs that are centered on the pockets remind her
of little Tony - he was such a happy child and liked
being silly. Always had a big smile on his face. :)
Thats my hubby!! And I am so grateful to God for him!!