Melissa...How's the design on the new shawl coming along? Love the Bible verse. Going to underline it in my Bible.
Melissa, You are so right on people not wanting to buy a finish product until they have to furnish the supplies. Then they realize how much it cost for yarn or fabric and the time that goes into a piece. If I sell anything on ebay, I buy the fabric at Wally World, so I can keep my prices down.

Linda...I see you are doing the fatty fat dance . WTG on 1.8 lbs gone!! Hope you are feeling better.

Brandy...Hope you have an AWESOME time on your white water trip. We are going to take a jet boat trip down the Rouge River in Oregon. Will be our third time and it's so much fun.

It has been a stressful week for me. Good thing I have no good junk food in the house, just fruits and veggies and I don't want to eat them. So I have been good. WW scales said I lost 1.8 lbs, but my sacles said no change, so I'm keeping my ticker where it's at. I haven't touched my quilt since last week, and won't till things calm down here. I have a busy weekend ahead, our car club has it's big show starting tomorrow night. I have to work tomorrow and all day Saturday. Just hope I don't bake like I did last year.
Have a good weekend and I'll try to check in tomorrow.

Cheryl

Oh wow, Mel . . . that is absolutely beautiful . . . can hardly wait to see your version. I just love pineapples.

So sorry about your stressful week, Cheryl.. This too will pass. Just hang in there and keep on doing the good stuff.

Nothing too much new for me . . . no time for crafts, I've been busy with the work-project and still have a few hours to put on it this weekend. However, most of next week should be a little calmer and hopefully I'll be able to get some other 'more important' stuff done.

Alberto blew through last night and left behind a beautiful day . . . sunny, mild (mid 70's) and no humidity. Supposed to be nice tomorrow too. I do think Alberto may have stolen a couple of my shingles. The ceiling light in my computer room started to leak about bedtime last night. It did this once last year and then everything was fine again. Will just have to see what happens the next time it rains . . . but I guess it's only a matter of time before I have to bite the new roof bullet.

Have a great evening, everybody. Keep on doing the right stuff and the Fairy-Fat-Mother will be visiting, soon.

Hey gang . . . where are you . . . I'm talking to myself again . . . and people are starting to stare.

Happy everything to you too, Mel. Funny, I was just thinking of you. Was going to start a new afghan, but then decided to finish a couple of half-done granny-square-based shawls first. Kind of cute, but very simple. KW granny squares joined together with a coordinating colour of Boa. Will post pictures when done.

Have agreat day everybody . . . wherever you are. Hope to see you all really soon.

Hi Gang, Very busy and stressful weekend. The car show was great, the weather was beautiful and I had a tent to work under this year so I didn't burn like I did last year. Hubby and I won $ 200.00 in the raffle and a club member won the quilt I made. FD was a pain, so next year she will stay home. Got a new FD on Thursday and thought things were going OK until I stepped into my sewing room this afternoon. The smell alone just about knocked me for a loop, and things had been moved aroune in my room. The FD had threw-up on my computer desk, printer, wall, carpet and hubby's car parts and never said anything! On top of that, I noticed that the new cans of can air I had just bought was gone from my computer desk and from my sewing machine, but the straw for the can was by the puke. I think FD was huffing, but I can't prove it.
Anyway, called who I had to call. Made her clean up the mess and I locked up my room and the aerolsol cans. To top it off, I lite a couple of candles, and wasn't watching what I was doing and caught my shirt on fire. It melted a hole the size of a half dollar! Couldn't of been one of my everyday shirts, had to be one I wear to church!!! Anyway, I need to get up there tomorrow after I get back from town and air the room out so my fabric doesn't smell.

Melissa...The shawl is beautiful. I always loved the pineapple pattern.

Linda...Glad that Alberto has blown out to sea. Hope your leak isn't too bad.

I'll be back tomorrow and hopefully with less stress. Going out to walk or mow it away.

Cheryl

Oh my goodness. . . Cheryl. I really don't know how you do it. You are a truly good-hearted person, I'm sure I could never be a foster parent, I just don't have your kind of patience. How old is this girl? I mean, it's one thing to do something like that but entirely another to think it wouldn't be noticed. Hope it all cleans up OK and she settles down and realizes how lucky she is to have you. At least the car show was fun and you had that nice little $200 prize to keep your mood light.

Wow, Mel . . . I imagine you've seen things, I've never even imagined when it comes to the silly things people can do to themselves, sometimes.

We've been having another gorgeous sunny day in Nova Scotia . . . although with temperature creeping into the mid-80s, I'm glad we've got a nice breeze to keep the humidity at bay. Got to get going and get some errands run before it gets any hotter although the sun is fading and I'm beginning to think it just might rain although there is nothing in the forecast to suggest that.

Have a great day, everybody. Keep moving and shaking and doing all the other good stuff. See you soon.

Evening Crafty Ladies...Things are getting back to normal here. Think we have all the spray cans locked up, and my sewing room will remain locked as well. I did get up to my room for awhile yesterday and tries to air it out. Got a few more kids pressed together. Going to work some more on it tomorrow morning before I have to leave for WW. I've done good on my eating and got some walking in today as well. Hope the scales at WW show another loss.

Linda...The FD's are 14 and 15. Both will be in the 9th grade this year. I would like to quit foster care, been doing it for 6 1/2 years and don't think I have another four years in me.

Melissa...My hubby is a correction officer, so he brought home info on huffing. It never said if throwing up is a sign or not. Do you know if it is?

Be back tomorrow with scale results. Keep shaken and moving, ladies.

Hugs to you all.
Cheryl

Good Morning Ladies . . . 'iffy' weather today . . . warm, humid, partly sunny, partly cloudy . . . you know the kind.

Fairy-Fat-Mother only had room for .6 of a pound when she stopped by my house this morning, but that's OK, I'm happy with every little bit that keeps things heading in the right direction. YAY

Cheryl . . . That is a long haul, girl. Hope the room is good as new soon and hope the Fairy-Fat-Mother is good to you this morning.

Mel. . . So glad to hear the F-F-M made it to your house, too. Yippee. The only scales I think are really accurate all (or almost all) of the time are those huge balance-beam type that nobody has room for. All the little ones (digital or analog) all have their own personalities. The human body is a very difficult thing to weight because it is never completely still. I have a digital and tend to get on 3 or 4 times and take whatever comes up the most often.

Have a good day, everybody. Keep moving and shaking and doing all the right stuff. See you soon.

Hello Ladies...Fairy fat mother did not pay me a visit. I'm up .3 lbs, but that's OK. It could of been 10 lbs with the stress I've been under. This afternoon I made it back up to my room and got the rest of the kids pressed together. Tomorrow morning I'm going to start pressing them on the quilt and start sewing them down. Stopped at the quilt shop in town to see if my quilts were back from the quilter, but they weren't. I need to call her tomorrow since she has had them almost a month. Went out to lunch after WW with my friend. Had a horrible salad at Quiznos. Nothing makes me madder than a wet hen, than when the greens are slimy and you can see it!! So why can't they, when they made the salad fresh. I should of took it back and demanded a new salad, but I didn't. I picked out all the gross stuff and ate the rest. I live 25 miles from town and barely made it home. Still feel blaaaa!!!

Melissa and Linda...So happy that the fairy fat mother made her rounds to your houses. I know that eventually she will make her way back to me. Leaving you with some tips I learned at WW today.

EMPOWERING BELIEFS:
I am a winner
There is nothing I can't handle
Be free of guilt today
My possibilites are endless
My family will benefit from my healthy choices

POSITIVE SELF-TALK
I am the best friend I have
I am a capable human being
I love myself for who I am
I deserve to be fit
I am able to handle any problems I face
I WILL REACH MY GOAL

Affirmation
I have accomplished harder choices than this before
I have the ability to reach my goals
I am responsible for my own feelings
Belief in myself is a step towards personal growth

Just some thoughts that we should be saying to ourselves every day.

Cheryl
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Great attitude, Cheryl and you are so right; under the cicumstances that little .3 is a definite NSV. FFM will be much better next week. I hear you about slimy salad greens . . . ugh . . . I've had a couple of packages of baby field greens that caught that little problem well before the expiry date. You are right, you should have sent it back.

Not too much going on around here . . . trying to do some crocheting to keep myself away from the kitten store . . . our local SPCA has a little prgram on the community channel and I just saw two of the cutest little tuxedo kitten twins. I'm trying to stay strong . . . I do NOT need two more cats.

Have a good day, gang . . . wherever you are hiding. See you again soon.

Hi Gang...It's been a very long day. I have been gone most of the day, pretty tired tonight. Before I left this morning, I did get a row of kids pressed on and started sewing them down. Hope this row goes a lot faster than the last one.

Linda...I'm too nice for my own good sometimes. Yes, I should of sent the salad back and maybe I wouldn't of felt sick like I did lastnight. I know the FFM will be paying me a visit next week, I've been so good, so she has too! LOL
See you tomorrow. Cheryl

Well, Cheryl . . . looks like it's just the two of us again today. Glad to hear you are getting some kid-sewing done. I managed a little crocheting today, between naps. Our weather has turned hot, humid and it is now getting very stormy and I've had a migraine threatening all day.

Have a good evening, gang, wherever you are. Hope to see you all soon.

Hi Linda...Sounds like you had a pretty good day and got a couple naps in. Good for you!! Hope that migrain that was looming around didn't come about. I woke up to beautiful, very warm weather. By 10 am our weather alert was going off for sever weather that was coming in. It turned to tornado weather by noon and we lost power for about 3 hours. Lucky I wasn't up sewing at that time or on the computer. I got about two hours of sewing in on the kids this morning. Got an email from the lady that is doing the quilting on the quilts I left at the quilt shop today, she will have my quilts done by July 5th. That should give me plenty of time to get the binding on before I leave on vacation. Have a good evening and I will see you tomorrow. Cheryl

Hi Cheryl . . . Where is everybody else? Wow it is quiet today.

Where are you . . . ? I miss you all.