obsessions!

This post is all about my obsessions!
1) my obsession with food!
Does look scrumptious or what???
And seriously.. there are no points in it and its huge!

WEgmans is making these giant rice cakes.. 16 calories a piece. They are pretty much like eating styrofoam if you eat them by their selves.. but!.. if you make up a batch of my jello fluff stuff let it set and them spoon a ton of it on top of the rice cake, and then squirt some light whipped cream on top.. its like eating lemon pie! And best of all.. there are no points in this.. You can eat a LOT Of it if you want to! so good!

OBSESSION no 2:
need I say more? Look how absolutely freaken adorable this baby is!
their eyes are opening today. they will be one week old tomorrow!
They are sooooo freaken purrfectly precious!

oBSESSION 3
Creating cute stuff! This week Ive been working on a couple projects. I made a beachy pinkeep. I love these little pink flamingos. I got a bunch of them last time I went to Ocean City at a bar! I'm hoping they have more of them when I get there next week!

I suppose they would be pretty easy to make though! Isnt he cute?

I made another one like this a couple years ago, but it was a little different.

Made this little guy this weekend too. this is just a sneak peek, because he is going out in the mail to someone soon! I dont know if she comes on my blog or not, I hope it doesnt ruin her surprise!
Well, its quarter after 11:00 and I should get myself ready for bed. I have a lot to do to get ready to go this weekend. I need to make some lists!!

night night and sweet dreams all!

doing the happy dance!

because its friday!! and only 8 days before my vacation!!

HAPPY FRIDAY everyone! I have lots to do this weekend and throughout the week. grocery shopping , gardening and creating. I have two swappies that i need to get done this week, a special one on one 4th of july swap with my friend Kelbug, and Jenny Heids vacation swap. I also have more bear orders and I should try to get at least one of the orders finished and delivered. NEXT weekend I leave to go to OCean City Maryland for a full week of summer beach fun with 5 of my girlfriends. We rented a place right on the beach and I cant wait to get there. The lake and the ocean are the only places where I can feel my whole body take a sign of relief and really find myself in true state of relaxation.. oMg! I cant wait.

the only bad part is that i have to leave my kitties for the week and frannie has those new little babies!!
I'll be back this weekend!! have a great day!

more niagara.... pics! long!!

Our first day there, was all about hanging out, getting dinner and then the serious stuff.. PRESENTS!! Everyone made something special for a "blind" swap. we didnt know who would get our gift! Everyone out did themselves and we all went away happily skipping and singing!!

There were other gifties besides these swappies.. everyone brought things for each other! Look at all the sweet amazing little things! Check out Amys blog because she explains and shows who brought what!

It really was fun getting all these presents!! Kind of like Christmas, or your birthday!!

IN the first pic above, Sandy recieved the most awesome vintage purse covered in a ton of sweet old buttons and trinkets from the amazing AMy! and it was filled with sweet things you would find in an old lady's purse!

And in the picture directly above you can see the most precious ruffled bag that I got from Sandy! thank you Sandy, I love it! Here Jenny recieved a gorgeous bead egg filled wired nest necklace from the talented Maija! I love her necklace, It has the sweetest tiny little pinecone bead on it. ('scuse my poor photography!!)

Maija recieved this great apron from our superseamstress M is for Martha! (this picture doesnt do it justice and Maija wore it through out the weekend.. soo cute!

Martha recieved a beautiful bird in a nest collage made by my dear and oh so creative friend Natalea.

Natalea almost wet herself I think when she opened on of Jennys lollidolls, from our beautiful and talented miss Jenn !

And the adorable Amy recieved the felted dove pinkeep that I made!

So after an evening of gifties and staying up yakking half the night we got up bright and early (7:30)! and Jenny made up these scrumpulicious crepes! OMG!! I totally blew my diet this weekend!

As soon as we cleaned up from breakfast we got busy creating! And we had a great day first making needlefelted nests and birds and then making the sweetest little blue birdie swings! I really cant think of any better way to spend a day or weekend, then crafting with girls that feel just the same way about creating things as you do!

Arent these just freaken adorable!!?? this was Jennys project that she taught us.

I taught the needle felting , though most everyone had tried it before.

Look at Amys little blue bird above! omg cute!

these are the needle felted nests that natalea made!

Later that evening, some of us hung out in the kitchen with our PJs on needle felting little bears, kitties and birdies! These are the bears we made. When we were done, we did another little swap and we all gave our little felted friends away! Jenny gave me her tiny little pink bear! and look at the big pink bear.. made by amy! how stinking cute is that?? She gave hers to Maija and I gave the brown one to amy!

This is the little felted bird I made and I gave him to Jenny!

♥Martha , natalea and Sandy♥
Oops.. out of order pics.. these are from the first night when we went out to dinner...

arent they all lovely??

♥ Maija adn Martha♥

♥me and darling Amy♥

nat and sandy

and mother Maija being goosed by mister mouse!

yeah, I think she liked it!!
I am still unbelievebly tired, which is so unlike me, but I believe I'm coming down with a cold!

OK.. lets just get it over and done with because in 10 days I leave for ocean city maryland for a week of fun on the beach with 5 other girlfriends!!

for now, Im off to make a milkshake for Robby and I and then Ive got to do some blog hopping! so see you at your place soon!

love yas darlings!

OOOHHHH!!

ONe

more

thing!!

Arent they the freaken cutest things in teh world!!!

heehee!

niagara and kittens!

so much to share.. I dont know where to start!

Our Niagara ARt Sisters retreat was sooo much fun and it went so fast!

seems we had just gotten there and then it was time to go..

We all had a great time, it was so much fun to hang out creating with such special women.

I have a ton of pictures to share, but I am feeling totally unorganized.

So I need to figure out a plan of attack.

It would help to have a plan even before you get there and start taking pictures.

But I dont think like that!

So I shall begin with this is were we went!

This wonderful cottage at Niagara on the Lake Cananda.

Sandy found this for us last year and was able to rent it again this year.

Sandy is awesome. She really worked hard putting all of this together for us.
Thank you so much Sandy!

Heres a picture of all of us. I'm sure each of the girls are blogging about our trip..

so click on the links and check out what they have to say..

I'm sure they will do a better job then I telling you about our fun time together.

They are much more focused then I am! Arent they all lovely!

sandy Camarda

Maija Lepore

Natalea Kandefor

Jenny Kaplinski

Martha brown

Amy Powers

and me!

But dont worry, I will be blogging about our weekend.. Tomorrow!

but I'm distracted by this tonight!!!!!

I came home from work tonight and found 6 little babies

had been delivered on my hubbys afghan on the couch this afternoon!

I missed the whole blessed event!!

But I do think Figgy helped out again..

Hes loving frannie and their babies just like he did last time.

I was hoping to be here and was gonna take a video to show you!

Oh well.. perhaps youve been spared the gory details!

One thing I will tell you now about the Niagara retreat is that I stayed up til 2:30 am both nights and was up by 7:30 both mornings and I am still exhausted 2 days later!
so I am going to bed in a minute and I will post more tomorrow..
OKeedokie??
Arent they the cutest freaken little things??!!
Only 6 this time.. so much more manageble for her.
nightie night all.. I'll be back tomorrow!

I'm off Im off.. to Niagara art sisters retreat!

Hi all! running around like a crazy women trying to get ready to go to our Niagara ARt sisters retreat! still have to pack! But I'll do that in the morning. Im so excited to be going to play at Niagara on the lake for the weekend with some really fun and creative women! I have may swappies done and wrapped and cant wait to give them to the girls ! I have some baking to do in the morning and I want to clean up the house a little before I go too. I'll be back sunday with some fun pics! until then, heres some pictures from our memorial day picnic at the lake! I'll be doingvLOTS of blog hopping next week.. Ive gotten behind again the last few days.

OH!! and please say a little prayer that Frannie will wait til I get home to have her kittens.... She is huge!

Isnt my lake beautiful?? Lake ONtario (NY)

silly daughters and I

Bethany, Torrie and Jennifer.. (sorry torrey.. I can never remember how you spell your name!lol) I think its cute that my daughter and he wonderful sweet boyfriend read my blog!

lake napping!

If you enlarge this picture, you can see the little amish kids that were at the lake swimming in their clothing!


food!


friends

and family!

Bethany entertaining the old men! lol!


amish children spying on someone in the outhouse! lol!


Torrie avoiding the sun! and if you look in the background there are more amish picnicing and you can see one of the buggies. There were about 20 amish families having a big cookout and party at the lake. They were swimming and playing baseball. It was hot out though, to be wearing all the clothing that they wear.

One of my kitchen windows.

See yous on sunday! have a wonderful weekend.. Im going too!

HUGS!