HAPPY JULY 4th

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Where Did the Week Go?

Here it is Friday night and my last post was on Tuesday!  Where did the week go????????  It's been another crazy, mixed up week :o)  There were good times and then a very, very sad time.  On Sunday afternoon, we got a phone call for Dennis to go to the hospital ASAP.  An 18 year old boy from our area was in a terrible accident in the morning and passed away late afternoon when they took him to have a CAT Scan.  He had horrible internal injuries and his neck was broken.  He happened to be on a motorcycle!  The family asked Dennis to have the funeral.  Well, he had found out that he needed to go to Antigua for a meeting with our Church's Conference leaders.  To get there he had to leave here Thursday by way of spending the night in Miami as there's no direct flights there from Cayman.  Then he was to leave early this morning and go to San Juan, Puerto Rico and then on to Antigua.  To come back to Cayman all of the above was just reversed and he would come home late Sunday afternoon which meant that he wouldn't be here to do the funeral.  I was disappointed by that as this young man had just started coming to our Church off and on.  Yesterday, I took Dennis to the airport and dropped him off.  His flight was scheduled to leave at 4:10 pm.  At 3:55 the phone rang and it was him calling to tell me to come back to the airport to pick him up that his flight was cancelled due to horrible weather in Miami!!  He said there were a lot of very unhappy people at the airport.  He wasn't real disappointed that he didn't go on his planned trip!  So, he's home with me this weekend after all.  Since all of my project's that I worked on this week I had to put the rest of them on hold for now.  On Wednesday, I spent 6 long hours in the school library trying to get it ready for the upcoming school year in August.  Someone else started the job and didn't get it completed.  Unfortunately, that teacher won't be back next year to do so.  Last evening, I started cleaning my house as we have company coming on Monday.  Our house has 10 rooms and a foyer which all have ceramic tile floors.  When I wash them I also have to take an older towel to dry them or they would streak horribly!!  So, I've been doing my regular cleaning plus washing windows and doing the floors which is a killer!!!!  Tomorrow, I need to go get groceries early in the morning, finish cleaning our bedroom, clean our bathroom and mop those floors along with the hall.  I think the floors are multiplying and the rooms are getting larger :o)  Tomorrow is the funeral with the viewing starting at 2:00!  I have to play the piano for it.  I'm sure it will be a large funeral and pretty long, too.  So, it's going to be another long day, but I'm hoping to get my cleaning out of the way in the morning along with the grocery shopping!  The bright spot today was when these Little Cuties called us ~

Caden was in rare form :o)  And Jordan was trying to talk to us!!  Can't wait because a little over a week I'll be seeing them again.  Exciting, exciting, exciting!!  Hope all of you in the US have a wonderful long holiday weekend.  It's a holiday here, too, on the 4th.  It's our Constitution Day, but I'll be busy getting company!  I was listening to the radio while making dinner tonight and they had a program online playing a special July 4th segment.  They played the Star Spangled Banner and I got teary eyed as I sang along.  Some days I get really homesick :o)  I told Dennis that we need to make dinner on the grill Monday.  Some of the teachers have a grill and said we could use it anytime!  We'll have to see about that!!  Love to all!! 

Project #3 Completed

Yes, I know it's kind of scary!!  Three projects completed now!!  I'm on a roll :o)

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Remember I told you about buying the two extra shower curtains? 

Getting ready to do some ironing

and more cutting and then sewing.

I just wanted to add somethinng to my guest bathroom and this area looked rather bare, so . . . . . .

Tada, Tada!!

Originally, I was going to make a window curtain, but decided to do this instead.  I'm debating whether to put tiebacks on this or not.  Dennis thinks I should.  I'll have to look around at the store and see what I can find as I didn't cut any fabric off of this piece to make them :o(

Now I need to get to bed!  Tomorrow I must go over to the school and into the library.  It's been decided that I'm going to be the new librarian next year and there's a lot to be done before the new school year starts.  Someone is going to be there to help me learn the ropes.  They'll be teaching and hopefully I'll be the one who learns :o)

Project #2 Completed

Several months ago, I was given this urn filled with a huge bouquet of flowers.  If you've been following my blog, you may remember it.  It's been sitting in my foyer all of this time waiting to have a change of color :o)  The silver just didn't fit in with my decor.  Last week, one day that we were at a store similar to Lowe's I grabbed two cans of spray paint for a redo!  Today I took it outside and did what I've been wanting to complete long ago.  Unfortunately, I forgot to take a picture before I started painting.

Here it is all done and ready to be put to use!  I moved it to our screened in porch this evening hoping it will lose some of the wonderful paint scent :o)

When it gets into it's new home I'll try to remember to post somemore pictures.  I want to honor the person who invented spray paint.  It's simply amazing what it will do!!

Finished Project

Several months ago, we bought a new shower curtain for our bathroom.  The one that was here when we moved in was in pretty shabby condition.  I also bought one for our guest bathroom to replace the one in there.  After we left the store I mentioned to Dennis that I would like to go back and buy two more to match the one's we'd all ready bought to make matching curtains for the windows.  Like I said previously that usually during the school year I just don't have a lot of energy left when I come home from working in the office at the end of the day.  I started this project last week but never got around to completeing it until today.

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Measuring

Pinning and ironing 

Cutting 

Tada!!

The window curtain I made matches my shower curtain.  I have a little bit of fabric left and am wondering what else I could do with it. 

I decided that with the curtains just hanging down that it was too dark in the bathroom.  So, I made some tiebacks and that let's the sunshine in.  I almost didn't make the tiebacks because it's been years since I made button holes.  So, I grabbed an old tee shirt and practiced on it.  They turned out perfect (or nearly!)  :o) 

Do you like them hanging or with the tiebacks better?

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Now on to another project.  Not sure when I'll get it completed, but I don't have lots of time left.  We have company arriving one week from today to do our Vacation Bible School and then two weeks from today we leave for the States and will be gone almost 4 weeks.  So,  I'm trying to stay busy and get some major projects done that I've been putting off!   When we got home I'll be starting to get very busy over in my office preparing for the new school year.

Cute

I just read this somewhere and had to share it!  Enjoy :o)

May those that love us, love us.
And those that don't love us,
May God turn their hearts.
And if He doesn't turn their hearts,
May He turn their ankles
So we will know them by their limping.