a layout for Ruby!

i went to Ruby's and found another cool little challenge! take a part of her Playtime kit (which she has available free) make a layout to get another share of the kit, if you make two layouts or one with one of her templates, you will get both of her other parts to the kit!!!
here's mine hehe

i will leave a link to this in my comment on Ruby's blog, hoping she'll find it lol
otherwise, today, i want to get the Treasure Hunts kits uploaded for April and get some laundry done, hopefully before the dr appointment at 4 (sigh) oh how i long for the long boring days again lol... this year has been filled with dr appts, vet appts, SSI, court for SSI, lawyer appts for SSI ... (sigh) i am drained already.
i am also working on more freebies and still grabbling with the possiblity of a password. just not sure how i can get more comments here or even its important enough to matter anymore... i LOVE sharing freebies, it just irks me a tad when i see soo many downloads and just a handful of thanks..i know i am not alone there either.
oh well,i am off to start my day here with my critters! lol HAVE A GREAT DAY!

Cold & blustery & GOOD NEWS!

for the past two days its been just nasty cold and highly windy out here!! gusts up to 60 miles per hour and winds sustaining around 30 - 50 mph depending on which area... snowed down in town yesterday (didnt stick tho)& hail in other areas, just crazy weather! then tomorrow its suppose to warm up again lol go figure! well the heaters may be back on for a few days but there is certainly hope, the sun still shines strong thru it all! the wind was soo bad at times yesterday tho, it sounded just like a train going nearby, only without the woo woo lol (that was a train whistle for those of you who dont know me lol )

oh GOOD NEWS, DH got called back to work!!!!! YAYYY!!!! i love him dearly but he was beginning to work on me nerves, walking around here TRYING to find something to do lol.... either he has the money and no time or in this most recent case, ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD and not a dime to do ANYTHING lol.. poor guy, he wanted to buy some materials and work on the home or motorhome(DS bought for us for $750.00. yes it was a DEAL!!) or cars (our little 4 cylinder, the ranchero that hubby bought last year & never drove yet & the one that was left here when we moved in 3 yrs ago, only ONE car actually & just barely works)...EVERYTHING around here needs some fixing lol i know it had to be driving him crazy too. well it HAS to get better now, with him back to work!!
that's about it today! i hope you have a GREAT day!! and as always, thanks soo much for stopping in & visiting with me!! :)

Rug in the works & swapmeet find

Today i want to share with you a rug i finally started (to see my DONE ones, see link at bottom left of this page please).
These rugs i learned years ago, from the Carol Duvall show on HGTV and they are soo easy and fun to make but oh soo time consuming. they are made out of simple bed sheets material (cotton types)and torn into strips and kind of crocheted, but the really fun part is the tool! it's a shaved down toothbrush handle with a hole drilled in for the fabric! (the second pic is more a truer color)

there are NO knots in this rug, too! very cool process actually :)And these are the fabrics i will be stripping and adding when i run out of the red base with which i started :)

i will add more pix as i get further on it, right now its about 18 inches and almost 5 hrs work put in!

Also, altho' i didnt buy anything on saturday at the swapmeet, we went back on sunday when its alot more laid back and not so full of people (vendors OR custormers lol) and i did find this little package:)

says it contains, Holy water, Holy soil and pure olive oil from the Holy Land of Bethlehem, Jerusalem :)
(the back)

cool, huh? for a BUCK!! gotta love the swapmeet, never know what ya find lol

March 25

Well today was a beautiful Sunday here in the desert. we got a lot of transplanting done since we have to put MOST of our plants, cacti and otherwise, in pots & planters with fencing around so the critters out here dont eat them! Yea! i couldnt believe it either but we got prairie dogs, chipmunks and tons of cottontail bunnies and jackrabbits along with the lizards and bugs that eat them! lol hard to believe they have any chance at all out here with all that against them!! and that wasnt mentioning the weather itself, with its extreme temps. when i lived back in the chicago area, and of course further east, in Pa., i had such a green thumb, that i could grow, just about, anything! here its MUCH tougher. it is amazing to know that even thorny cactus can get eaten or at least bitten into AND not just once lol i found a really thorny cactus with a few bites out of it already!
the people across the road, have a pomagranite bush and said we can have the fruit this year!! i am so happy i dont have to climb any tree...and i havent seen them growing wild at too many places either.
When DH's brother lived in the Los Angeles area, he had a very mature orange and avacado tree each in his yard... sooo beautiful, both of them!
oh well, enough chatter for tonight. i hope everyone had a WONDERFUL weekend doing what you like :)

Bad, Bad Blogger

Here it is, Saturday already and i feel i have neglected my blog, terribly! soo soo sorry! i think i am in a funk :) not just a creative block.. wierd, i still WANT to play and create but something is different.. i just got the blahs :) this too shall pass!
Things havent been too exciting around here lately just trying to make it to the next day :)
Coco had his last of his baby shots today and it was the worse.. poor little guy.. the vet tech told us how he was feeling a cold going thru him and in a little bit it will hurt and then she counted down, 3, 2, 1 and he jumped to see what was pinching him and THEN he started to cry... i rubbed his little owie and was told it would soon dissapate... poor baby!
then we were off to the swapmeet... this week i didnt buy ANYTHING!! can you believe it ?!! lol AND they even had a slew of BABY bunnies there for $5. each and i was not moved ... lol well maybe a little moved but i am NOT the proud owner of a new bunny anyways! lol it was funny too, as soon as DH found out about the bunnies, he asked to check my pockets LOL yes they were THAT small! lol but i was a veryy good girl!! hey if ANYONE knows, we dont need anymore pets right now, its ME! LOL i clean up after these little monsters i mean, precious darlings, all day LOL oh i love my babies, but some days i would LOVE to shave them ALL :)
i have been thinking about making a certain day a freebie day but i kinda like the idea of checking in on me to see if there's a freebie or not....yes i have issues with loneliness hahahaha :) i just think it would be more fun to be surprised... you can always let me know what you think!! i LOVE hearing from you!
well i hope to check back in tomorrow, cuz i do LOVE my blog but until then, HAVE A GREAT DAY!! :) :)

Tuesday? Already?

Wow! where did the time go? sorry i havent been around, but its been SOO nice outside that i've been spending more time off the computer lol Hard to believe, i know! lol
today the cooler winds picked up again and heater back on and it was actually cloudy til around noon but still no rain.
well, by the time, i realized i should have taken a pic of the tastykakes box, it was too late, but my son had this one flap in his trash can LOL and luckily i didnt have to dig for it, when i mentioned it to him, DS went in and got it saying it was right on top or he wouldnt have thought about it being in there! lol So here it is: (i'll just sit here and drool awhile )

ok and now onto your link removed, sorry

this may be the last free freebie hehe... i think i WILL be passwording very soon and
those that know me WILL know the password... too many 'takers' tsk, tsk!! The rest of you, Have a GREAT & WONDERFUL day!!

its FRIDAY!! :) FROM MY BLOG TO YOURS!

not that friday means much since DH is laid off but still i get to go to the swapmeet tomorrow!! yay!! lol i love that place, not just for the DEALS but for the socializing... i have met some of the nicest people there!
well, my blog clock is still an hour behind, i dont know how others have fixed theirs.lol i thought if we got the puter clock fixed that it would fix automatically... sigh... so much for thinking lol.... well hopefully it will fix itself in a week.. if not, i may have to change my time zone setting or something!::: shrugs::::
OH and my DS brought home an AWESOME little treat the other day!!! a box of Tastykake butterscotch krimpets!!!! needless to say they are gone already lol between my son and i, who both miss & remember them from back east!! LOL oh yum, what a treat!! :)
ok, i found this 'game' for lack of a better word lol, here
and thought it sounded fun so here goes:
We came to Landers, CA

because we thought we had property out here, we checked it out online and by the time we got out here and even tore down the old shack of a place, down to the foundations, we went back online to see what the back taxes were and found out it was sold at an auction!! HAhahaha
well, 2,000 miles from home,now, i think we'll stay and so we have for 3 years lol
Landers isnt much of a town, tho it does claim to house 10,000 people, it doesnt seem so... we are at an elevation of between 3100 and 3500 feet, depending on who you read or listen to lol
We do have the Integratron,
World famous and one of a kind! read article here
We also have the world famous Gubler's Orchids, found here
both VERYY cool places and one of a kind!!! quite unique too! other than that, we the post office, an elk's or moose lodge and community center/thrift store!! lol yes you read that right! haha
AND probably most important is we are known as the UFO Capital of the World, cuz in the 60's and 70's they would have UFO gatherings lol
oh YES how could i almost forget about Giant Rock and how some one lived under it (ROFL) literally!!! Oddly enough, it was the same guy who built the Integratron!!!! article found here
that's my town, as crazy and beautiful as it sounds, its found in the High Desert with all its weather extremes! but i LOVE it :)