HAVE A HAPPY ST. PATTY'S DAY

HOWDY!  
If it weren't for holidays, I may never post anything!  It's not that I live the most boring life and don't have anything to post but that life has changed from what I originally was posting about...more on that soon.  It's raining cats and dogs out right now, yeah!  So Cal needs the water.  Sorry LA Marathoners that you have to run in the rain.  Who knows, maybe it'll blow away today and tomorrow it'll be the best air quality ever for running!

Crappy pic but it's  gold sequins edged in green ones

So, St. Patrick's Day, hmmm conjures up memories to wear green or else you'd get pinched.  I'm wearing green today even tho adults don't play that game too much but just in case any of my customers want to pinch me, I'm ready.  I got this tee last year on sale and finally get to wear it.  I have a wee bit of Irish in me and my mom would make corned beef and cabbage with boiled potatoes most every year.  Whole Foods has an Irish meal for their regular dinner buffet today so I plan to head over there meet a friend tonight.  That way I don't have leftovers, cooked cabbage smell in the house or a mess to clean up!

Some pics of "almost spring" from my garden...

Lobelia

Grape Hyacinth

Have a lovely "Green " day whatever you are doing and thanks for stopping by!

HAPPY HEARTS DAY!

Happy Valentine's Day Everyone!

Ice cube tray from Ikea

Hope you enjoyed a little of my "heart" world.   Wishing you a sweet day!

OXOXOX

HAPPY 2010!

Hi!  Hope you all are up without any hangovers and ready to tackle 2012.  This year has got to be better than last year!

I rang in the new year with some friends in their lovely craftsman home in an old part of Pasadena.  We had a delicious simple dinner of prime rib, asparagus, roasted fingerling potatoes and spinach salad.  Home made carrot cake for dessert! 

Here are some pics of last weekend with my  brother, mother, sis and her kids spending a gorgeous day at the beach.  We played games and Andy my bro, brought his metal detector and Josiah having been told not to go in the water just couldn't help himself since it was so darn nice out!

San Clemente Beach Sunset Dec. 26, 2011

The sun set on another year but we get a brand new one, yeah!  Make it a great one.  

Thanks blog friends for visiting me and making me laugh and inspiring me with all your food and crafting projects this past year.  I'll be back soon...

Sights of the Season

Merry Christmas Everyone!  Happy Holy Days to you all. 

Here are some sights from my little piece of the world.  Enjoy your time off from what you regularly do and may you find some PEACE this weekend. 

My son, he's all happy that they sent another smoked turkey to a mailbox customer that isn't here any longer and she said we can always keep the turkeys since she didn't like it anyhow.  This is our 4th turkey!

Chocolate gifts for my delivery men and customers.

A tiny plant for my mom.

It's just not holiday time without this stuff!

Rushing to get a couple of gifts off the hook and into a gift bag!

From the backdoor of my shop you can see that Mt. Baldy has snow!

My little Charlie Brown tree that sits outside the door.  I got it years ago from Trader Joes and it was one of those tiny live trees with those little ornaments held on by chenille wire.  It's about 3 feet tall now.

Have a wonderful magical day!  I'm headed down to my mom's and then my sisters and then tomorrow off to my brother's and then back to my sisters.  Bye for now!

WIND

Wow, we had super strong winds approx 90mph (a record for us here) that hit us Dec. 1st, early Thursday morning.  Our power got knocked out at our shop for 6 days.  Six days of no income!  Whereas, many people lost trees and awnings and some even had structure damage from big trees falling on their property, all I lost was the NOTARY sign (shingle) attached to the awning in the front window.  God only knows where that ended up.  The wind brought a cold front and boy, it was cold and dark here in my shop.  I came in every day hoping that the power would come on and could only sort mail for my mailbox customers and sign for pkgs from Fedex and UPS.  I did manage to do a few notarizations since they are a "low tech" service; good ol' paper and pen!  Soooo glad that is over and can get back to business.  This is our busy time of year and we do way more shipping for people. 

I'm making a few crochet Xmas gifts that I'll post pics of after Xmas.  The shop is closed for the day and I plan to hopefully finish my holiday shopping today.  Don't hate me!!!! I just don't have too many gifts to get this year.  My daughter isn't able to make it out here so she wants me to send her some goodies from Trader Joe's Mkt. 

I like this pic.  It's from the Crate and Barrel catalog.  Kinda cute kid isn't he?  It put me in the holiday spirit somewhat so I  thought I'd share it with ya.

Hope you're getting into the spirit of things and enjoying the season.  Wish me luck finding parking spaces!

Happy Turkey Day Everyone!

Hope ya get to have family and friends around you and you eat til your heart (or stomach) is content!

I'm headed to Rancho Cucamonga to my (second to the youngest) brother's place.  Then whatever family members don't have somewhere else to be (about 6-7 of us) then we'll go to his girlfriend's family and celebrate there.  My bro wanted us esp., our Mom to meet his girlfriend's parents and family.  SOoooo, does this mean there are wedding bells in his future?  I get kinda nervous about meeting so many new people at one time at their house.  But I will just deal with it.  Since Mom and I aren't cooking the dinner like we originally planned, then we can sit and catch up on things.  I'm making candied yams with walnuts tonight since my bro asked me to "pleeeease" bring them.  Maybe I'll go visit my sis and her family at her in-laws for dessert since she'll just be across town.

I was planning to take Friday off for the first time ever since opening the shop but decided whatever $ I make on that day I get to spend on gifts, so there, Black Friday.  I'll make money instead of spend it.

Don't forget before delving into that pumpkin pie to give thanks! 

Be Good, Be Well, Be Happy!

Happy All Hallows Eve!

Hi!  Here's my co-worker and me.

This is Skully.  He's had fun sitting on my boob all day!

 Weekend before last was my niece, Tamara's 13th birthday.  She had a sleepover with 6 friends and we all had a great time.  My sis wanted me to go and help with the party and of course I wouldn't have missed it for the world.  We split into 2 teams and had a scavenger hunt on Del Mar (the main street that goes down to the ocean and the San Clemente Pier) by going into the retail stores and restaurants that were open past 7pm and since it was a foggy night it was quite eery which made it more fun.  After that we had pizza and then headed to a frozen yogurt place.   Then we went back home so the girls could take the gingerbread houses that I bought at IKEA and make them into haunted houses.  Some came out great and some well....they won't become architects any time soon!!  

Two more girls came later.  The b-day girl is the barefoot kid.

We sang h-b-day and they ate the dessert and then it was off to the yogurt shop

Remember when we had small butts & we could share a chair with a friend?

All ready to decorate

Uh oh!

 

Well, I'm off to meet with some princesses, ghosts, goblins and some super heroes, they need their candy. 

Have a fantastic All Hallows Eve!

Happy Independence Day!

Hi!  I do feel grateful right now. 

I'm sitting having my coffee, blogging on my favorite holiday.  Ya know why it is my favorite holiday?  It's because at the fundamental core of everyone on this planet called earth is their right to religious freedom.  Yup, our forefathers came to this land to get away from taxation but that was after they left their beloved homelands for the right to their own religious beliefs without persecution.  I believe that people's spiritual beliefs are deep inside of everyone and that is our basis or the beginning of us and then we build our lives from that point.  With this particular freedom we have here in America we can all celebrate our religious customs in the way and manner we choose to.  This holiday, "Independence Day" transcends every religion because every American shares in this holiday! 

So, party hearty today!  Think of those who came before us who have and for those who are working to keep our freedoms.

It's a gorgeous day, 78 degrees at 10am and now I'm going outside to tend to my garden where I feel the closest to God!  I'm making progress on my projects!!  I'll have pics for you in the week. 

I didn't mean to get all "Sunday School" on ya...I'm just sayin'.

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!

To all my mommy friends, please have yourself a blessed and relaxed day to spend with your loved ones!

Martha Washington Geranium

Bromeliads I transplanted last weekend

All the Amaryllis are blooming now

 

I'm headed down to my sis's and mom's to spend mother's day with them and a few other family members.  We're gonna serve brunch at my sister's and then hang out and relax!  Have a fab wknd!

Happy Easter and Happy Passover!

 

AND HAPPY SPRING!

 

I was out tending my garden this morning and now it's raining, darn!

It really needs some TLC esp. the potted ones.  

I hope you get some good eats, some good drinks and some good company today.  I also hope whatever you were planning works out better than mine! 

Edited to add that it rained for just a short time so I did some other stuff indoors and then lo and behold it stopped and I almost got everything done that I wanted to do outside, yay.  All in all it was a productive weekend but my back was hoping it would rain all day.  I hope I can manage to roll out of bed tomorrow!

Happy Valentine's Day

If you were here I'd share my candy hearts that I put out for my customers today!

Hope you have a special day and if ya didn't get any flowers, jewelry or candy and you wanted something, go buy it for yourself.  You deserve it! 

Holidays Revisited

I snapped some photos of our neighbor's house last night; quick before she starts to dismantle it this weekend.  She always does it up big and her front yard sparkles every year.  I will miss her displays; if all goes well, this will be our last holiday season at this home. 

We've been real busy this week at the shop.  Hope this is a sign of the economy recovering.  We had to do some last minute changes to our phone book ads.  They are throwing in a webpage for us this year.  Hmm, I don't know about that but we'll see.  I'm always leery about things being "free".  I know nothing in this world is actually free, soooo time will tell on this.  

I felt kinda crappy last weekend.  I had 3 days and didn't accomplish much.  I slept more than usual and it was cold by our SoCal standards and I sat and crocheted, read, browsed the web for crochet patterns and made food.  Our oven is officially broken.  Maybe all the cookies finally did the damn thing in.  Crock pot and stove top food until it gets fixed (if ever).   

Here is a picture of my chauffeur for the last couple months.  Now I'm back to working solo again.

My wonderful son driving us to work in the morning.

Our commute along the foothills in the early morning just days before Christmas.  Well, here's to a lovely first week into the new year!  Thanks for stopping by...