A new month already and finally a chance to post...

I suppose I have hed several opportunities to post a new blog entry, but I have not felt like it at all or I have been just too busy with everything.

I finally finished all the hats and cards for the art show and am excited to see if they will sell. I certainly hope they will. I would like to have a little Christmas/travel money that I can use any way that I would like. Aside from the busyness of everything, I have been working everyday almost which is an excellent thing! God has provided in amazing ways for everything that I need. So now it is Sunday...a break from everything and I think I will finish reading my Gladys Taber book, Stillmeadow Sampler while drinking a a mug of vanilla nut biscotti coffee.

Enjoy this beautiful day!

Alphabet Meme

I saw this on Plastic Tupperware Queen's blog site and I thought that it looked fun...
A - Accent: Western New York (I guess I have an accent according to my friends.)
B - Breakfast Item: yogurt
C - Countries you would love to visit: Italy, Hungary, Ireland
D - Dad's Name: David
E - Essential everyday item: contact lenses
F - Flavor ice cream: Moosetraks
G - Gold or Silver?: gold
H - Happy Place: Kitchen
I - Insomnia: none here. I am always ready for some sleep. I try for 8 hours a night.
J - Job - teacher
K - Kids: I teach them and get the privalege of sending them home after a "long day". But I do love my nieces and nephews!
L - Living arrangements: A little house with my parents
M - Mom's birthplace: Eustus (I don't even know if I spelled it right.)
N - Name your pets: NO pets, but if I did have a pet, it would have to be something from literature
O - Overnight hospital stays: No hospital stays - thankfully!
P - Phobia: I am not sure...I guess mice.
Q - Question: Do I really have to iron this?
R - Religion: Christian
S - Siblings: 4 siblings...R, L, T, Z
T - Time you wake up: 5:45am
U - Unnatural hair colors you've had:
V - Vegetable you refuse to eat: LIMA BEANS - yuck!
W - Worst habit: biting my nails
X - X-rays you've had: teeth x-rays
Y - Yummy: applesauce/squash - okay Thanksgiving dinner
Z - Zoo animal: exotic birds

One of my favorite pictures taken by my dear friend, Tanya at Saharna in Moldova.

In who's steps do you follow, Christ's or the world's?

Photo taken by Tanya in Rezina, Moldova.

The Hats...

So far, I have 4 hats done. If I could just knit and crochet a little faster...that would be great!

New Cards

Hats off to knitting...

After figuring out how to make this hat...I am hooked on knitting. Even though it takes me forever...the process is definitely worth the product!

Thanks Debbie Bliss for making the art of knitting not so impossible.

New Cards for the Art Show!!!

The Tooth Fairy Card - for those children that have lost their first tooth. Coins can be slipped under the pillow (There is a small envelope.) in the card.

A pleasant friendship card with quotes from Dickenson and Emerson written on the inside...

Five down...many more to go.

I would like to have 30 handmade cards for the show.

I would also like to have 10-15 photo cards too. The photos used on the cards will be from my trip to Romania and Moldova this summer. Most of the proceeds from the photo cards will be sent to my friend who is a missionary in Moldova.

I am also making hats - child and doll size.

If I get ambitious...that is a big if...I will post a picture of them.

The contest...

The top left is the entered pie for today's pie baking contest...

I hope they like it!

UPDATE: Apparently they did...I won the 2nd Place Ribbon and $10.

Grasshopper Cookies

Hey, Rach...

Remember when dad first bought and brought home Grasshopper cookies. I was not going to eat them because I thought they were actually cookies made with grasshoppers.:)

Pie Time

Today is the big History Fair and I have entered the apple pie contest. I will have to put the picture on later.:)

The picture above isn't apple, but elderberry...but oh well.

Old Orhei, Moldova

After many hours in the "office", the 1st master's course is...

DONE!

One of our last days in Moldova...

After a lovely breakfast with her friends Jeff, Robin, Paulina, and her teacher Svetlana, we had pictures taken in the garden.

What I Could Really Go for...

Right now, I could really go for a hot cup of cappacino (Sp?) from the little pastry shop in Chisinau, Moldova. They have the best food and drink. My reason for this is because I need to finish my last paper for my master's class. Tonight is the night, unless I fall asleep with the computer propped on my knees. Tomorrow is the last day - my own personal deadline. After that, I am going to be creating some stuff for the little bizarre that my sister will be participating in with her friend in November. That is so much more fun than writing a thesis paper!

Small Town

Today was a true testament of what is to come - Autumn. Today is was very chilly, so much so I had to shut the upstairs windows and get out a sweatshirt. I love the fall - harvest time and everything that comes with it...even school - yes even that!

I am looking forward to next week. I am also looking forward to the picking of apples and getting ready for the winter, especially here in our small town. I guess it is something about this place that turns on the nostalgia. I was talking to another person who lives here and we both agree that something about this place makes us want to keep staying here.

The flags in each yard. The cute little gardens. The hardware and the everything grocery up town. The small library with all of it's books from the 70's and "country crochet" magazines. The I know everyone here and don't feel bad about asking to pick the berries in your yard. The town square and it's little band that gets even the oddest person to dance and not care what others think. The history fair that still holds the cutest baby and pie baking contest. I guess you could compare it to Jan Karon's Mitford in someone's mind's eye.

Canning Beans

I think I finally got the last of the beans from the garden... Sixteen quarts and I think we're ready for winter. Now for the tomatoes and onions. The canning has just begun.

Do like the little hat from the Art Park in Moldova? My niece certainly did, but she liked the nesting dolls better. She calls them babies in bowls.

Today I brought her a turtle from my sister that just recently visited Jamaica. When we asked her what the carved animal was, she replied..."a tur-tle".

pOOL dAYs of SuMMeR

It is quickly leaving...the summer, that is. You have a couple of weeks left to drink in the sun and to drink up the sun iea from the back porch. For me, I have spent the last couple of weeks with my sister's kids at the pool. Everyday for 2 to 3 hours, we sit in the water and laugh and play.
Today, we played noodle baseball... For those of you who know me baseball is like watching paint dry, but in this case batting around splash balls with a noodle and chasing after it can be very fun and for some entertaining.
I am in no way a beach kinda girl. My tan from this summer is the best so far in my life and I am trying to convince my legs to do the same. Wouldn't it be nice to have kids not ask if I am wearing white stockings in the summer when in fact I am not...it is only the real color of my legs?
So the summer pool days are almost over here...it is sad really....this was the first summer in a long while that I actually had off...
Off to...
1. Go to Europe
2. My sister's to have fun with the kids
3. The pool
4. Garden and can some of the produce from it...
5. Drink and read on the deck
6. Spend time with friends
7. Enjoy life and the passing of each moment!

You have to love this picture that my sister took. She is really a great photographer!

I hope she is getting some great photos while she is in Jamaica.