The Great Big Home and Garden Expo

We went to the Home and Garden show yesterday. It was wonderful to walk in the gardens and smell the fresh flowers and see leaves on trees. The gardens were beautiful. The show is huge and we did a lot of walking...today I'm sore. Guess I need to get more exercise. Guess who was there? Yeap Ty Pennington from Extreme Makeover. He drew a big crowd; the picture was taken from very far away.

There are many new home improvement idea's out there. Our home is 25 years old and needs alot of TLC. I'm ready now to start...only....I need alot of money to get my plans in action. Oh yeah in the garden were alot of sculptures....I found one that I really liked, and it was only 26,000.00 ( I think it is bronze)Aren't they adorable. I did buy one thing A hyacinth bulb in a clear glass. I put water in the bottom and it is suppose to root and grow. I will keep you updated on it's progress.

O.K. time to get back to reality.......we came out to our car which was lightly covered with snow and with the cold Feb. wind blowing in our faces.

I have two more candle mats really for auction. I hope to get them listed later today. I really didn't have much time this week to work on them, as I picked up an extra day at work. Gee I wonder how many extra days I would need to work to be able to afford those basset hounds...ha ha!

It's Paczki Time.

Paczki Day precedes the beginning of Lent, and the baking of paczki is traditionally a way to use up all of the fat, sugar, and fruit in the house--things forbidden during the strict Polish Lenten season. In Poland, Paczki Day, the day when all of the last paczki are consumed is the Thursday before Ash Wednesday. In Cleveland and the rest of the Midwest, Paczki Day is celebrated on Fat Tuesday, the day before Ash Wednesday
Lucky me, I won a dozen paczki yesterday by calling into a radio station. We have a wonderful local bakery that sell these for 9.00 a dozen. If you count them you'll see that one is missing. I couldn't help myself, the weather is very cold so when I got home from running errands I treated myself with a nice hot cup of coffee and a paczki. I wonder how many calories are in one? Better I don't know.
The bakery (Kiedrowski's) hosts an annual Paczki Ball each year. Great food, dancing and all the paczki's you can eat.
When we were first married, years ago, we actually had a dog that we named Paczki, that was before these jelly filled donuts made a hit in this area. Everyone wanted to know what a Paczki was back then. Guess you can figure it out....my husband is Polish.

My newly designed Bunny candle mat is already in the mail. I listed it yesterday and got a buy it now offer last night and decided to accept it. The offer came from a repeat customer. I need to get busy and make another.Stay warm

Picky, Picky, Picky.

That's what my daughter would say. I just didn't care for something about my Easter candle mat. It was those flowers....they were too big for the mat. O.K. now what?..... very carefully without having to take the mat apart I replaced them with some tiny flowers.

Much better. At least I'm happier with it. This is the kinda thing that use to drive my daughter nuts. I can hear her yelling "Leave it alone, it looks fine!" Sorry I can't settle for fine. It will be listed this afternoon on E-bay.
My son was home from Columbus this weekend. He traveled home Friday evening in the blizzard. It made me very nervous. Anyway he showed me a easier way to upload my pictures. He started to laugh and make fun of me when I said, O.K. let's go step by step so I can write this down. Darn kids, technology comes too easy for them.

My bunny candle mat is done and ready for auction. I think it turned out quite nice.
Take care, Have a great day!

Thinking spring

I 'm really ready for spring, for some reason it seems like this winter has been tooooo long. The Home and Garden Show is starting today so maybe my husband and I will go later this week. So nice to smell the flowers and get motivated to do some home projects.

I started to work on some Easter penny rugs. It helped me think of spring. So tired of snow and the cold. This one started out as Easter eggs. I love the colors but then what....maybe flowers? Flowers are always springy. Oh and maybe if I put the eggs into egg holders? What are these things called...better look it up. Yeap just googled it and that's what their called. How simple. I then found a kinda lilac colored wool that I had dyed last fall but didn't care for. It's kinda tie-dyed in that it has veins of pink and blue running through it. Turns out it looks great with this mat. Guess I'll be listing it tomorrow. I have another that I'm almost done with (it has white bunnies on it) if I get it done I'll list it also.

Take care.