Sunshine is very limited around these parts this time of year!

 

Boy is it ever storming out there! WOW!

I'm not complaining ONE but because I LOVE this kind of weather. I know I've said it before but Ill say it again, NOT the cold part however! Brrrrr!!!!

We had a nice mid Jan warm up last week, only 2 days but it was perfect! Winter came back full force! Every time I looks outside I can barely see across my road, it is snowing and blowing like crazy! The sun….well its few and far between! I think we went close to 28 days withOUT the sun a little while back….that's nuts considering Portugal sees 360 DAYS of sun per yr. Yeah – wouldn't that be nice?

Anyhow, this is what the mailman brought me yesterday

There were 2 boxes of these babies straight from California, packed to the brim! I've NEVER seen lemons so big in my life! Thanks Josh & Justin!!!! You couldn't have sent these at a better time:)

The oranges are SO sweet. Its amazing how they don't even compare to the grocery store ones, shame shame…….

Here's a few more bunnies I've finished up this week and are all up for adoption by custom order as these will go into my booth tomorrow. Just shoot me an email if you're interested!

A Threadbare Primitives pattern

A Moonchilds Primitives pattern

A Prims by Kim pattern

My own pattern

A Sweetpeas Primitives pattern

Stay Warm peeps!

Bunnies……..wishing Spring was here!

 

Just wanted to post a few of my recent finishes.

This guy was made with a Backporch Pickins pattern. I just LOVE her patterns. VERY detailed!!!!!

And this is Hayley (named after my girl Hals of Prim It Up) using my own design. Hayley is for sale on Yankee Ridge Primitives for anyone interested!

**The doll in my header was made using a Threadbare Primitives pattern

I hope youre all enjoying the mid January warm up – feels like Spring out there. Big difference from 10 – 35 degrees eh?

I STILL can not get over these guys!

Anyone watch The Singoff when it Aired back in December?

I tuned in and out during the first episode until I saw NOTA!

OMG, unbelievable!! If you saw them then you know exactly what I mean. They are AMAZING! They are ACAPELLA! NO instruments at all - AMAZING!

Just take a listen!



And here..





They are on Facebook - FAN THEM!

I bet we see more of these guys REAL SOON!

Windmill Country

 

Hiyas Everyone!

Please DO click on the photos to enlarge!

Saturday we took a long overdue trip down to see my aunt, uncle and grandpa. They live in Java Lake NY, which is about 70 miles south of me.

The ride out there was amazing, I don't think I have ever seen snow on the trees look like this. We passed through what seemed like hundreds of windmills. Those suckers look huge at a distance but we were right next to them and they are quite impressive!

 

I was able to get some great shots with my Canon, these next few were taken while driving right through the front window!!

These next ones were taken on the way up of the scenery and snow on the trees!

Aren't those crazy pretty? Its so ugly around my house so it was  a nice change to drive into that!

What's everyone working on for Valentines Day? I am at such a slump, I cant find any real good patterns that I like and I'm having a hard time coming up with designs of my own so I've made a few and snow I'm moving onto Easter Prims………

A few things I've finished and taken to my booth,

 

 

 

 

I hope you’re all fairing these cold temps well:)

Moving on!

We’re all doing pretty well considering all that's happened in the last 2 weeks.

My father is renting a house about a 1/4 of a mile away from his house which is good because he's not too far.

They have his bedroom and bathroom totally gutted right down to the rafters and wood. It looks like only a few pieces of structural wood will have to be replaced but overall the firemen did a wonderful job in putting that baby out!

His boiler system and power is back on to the part of the house that got the smoke damage and there are huge industrial fans drying everything out!

We took a ride over on New Years Eve to see and it is just awful! Every time I walk in there I'm in tears!

I'm getting better and over my anger phase about the fire but it seems our Luck Of The Irish strikes AGAIN!

My father called me New Years day to let me know that the house was broken into sometime New Years Eve and things were stolen from him and his tenants upstairs!

Unbelievable! If I could find the person(so) that did this, they would get a major beat down and still might If I EVER find out who it was!

My father has about 2 months before construction starts so I just hope he can find something to keep him busy and out of trouble until then!

Thank you for all the emails wondering how we’re doing!!

On a lighter note we got hammered with snow over the weekend! There is about 3 feet out there and I am just loving it! Jason cleaned out the driveway 3 times yesterday with the last being around 8pm last night. When I took Bella out to the bus this morning I had to shovel us a path out, there was another 6” that fell! Its great:)

I hope everyone is doing well and enjoying their New Year so far:)