Class reunion book

A friend asked me to make her a record

keeping book for her graduating class.

This is what I came up with:

Hope you like it, Pat!

Their colours were maroon and gold and

the class flower was a red rose.  I

don't know how anyone would remember

that.  I don't even know what our colours

were or if we had a flower, song, etc.  

What's more, sadly, I don't care.  I hated

most everyone in that class.  I was an outsider

and was miserable to entire two years I 

was there.  I was a city girl, moved to this

country place where all the grades were

in one school.  Talk about culture shock.

I hope I don't still sound bitter.  Well, after

42 years you'd think I'd have gotten over

it by now, but apparently I never will.

 However, had they not dragged me kicking

and screaming from Maumee, Ohi0, to this

little teeny town in Michigan, I wouldn't 

have the life I have today, so I try not

to dwell on it.

Moving on.  We had class yesterday.  One

of my sentences had the word garage in it.

I had no idea what the sign for garage was.

We were using classifiers, which is a hand

shape to indicate an object.  In this case,

of course, it was a car.  So Pam said,

"What do you think the sign for garage

is?"  I used my classifier "car" and put it

under my non dominant hand.  She said,

"That is the sign for garage."  Surprise!

I am not good at classifiers.  I know them,

of course, but I'm not good at using them.

Practice, practice.   I need to practice my

finger spelling.  I am still slow and clumsy

at it.  It's just because I'm lazy and don't

work on it much. 

Happy Sunday!

Nature's wonders

I like this technique, but I think I made

the center too big to show it well.

It still looks good, but I think I should 

have had the center more narrow.  I like

it though.  Here's a better example of

nature at it's best!

I saw this leaf this morning and thought it

was just spotted, but when I touched it

I realized it was raindrops!  I had to run

in and get my phone to take a picture.

Remember when we said we had to get

our camera to take a picture?!  Things sure

have changed.  The raindrops on this leaf

are even more amazing in real life.

I'm going to church this afternoon to 

help with people coming in to have

their photos taken.  Tomorrow after

class is my turn.  I'm really looking

forward to it.  NOT!  I hate having

my picture taken.  Especially after 

being there a couple weeks ago.  The

guy was running really late and

one family had to leave because they

had an appointment.  I heard he takes

about a million pictures-more for you

to choose from if/when you buy them.

This is the same company that took

pictures for the school.  They are

really expensive so I took Cody to

Walmart.   I am not planning on buying

any more than one sheet of 9 wallet

size and only that because we get

a discount for the church.  It's still

outrageously expensive.  But we

get a free 8x10.  Whoopie.

Happy Friday!

Oh, Christmas tree...

I love this design but I don't like the

placement of the gems.  I wish I

hadn't put them so close.

It's cool how the stitching makes

up a tree.  I borrowed this from 

a pinterest post.  They have tons of

designs on their page.  Free for the

taking.  Nice of them, huh?!  Most, 

though, I have to fiddle with so much to

get them the right size so I only get 

one if I really like it. 

I  keep forgetting to post this.  I

think  it's absolutely hilarious and

since my friend, Pat, has the same

maiden name as me I had to send

it to her as well.

Isn't that a riot?!

I am doing nothing this whole day.

I've been running for the past two 

weeks and from tomorrow through

Monday, I will be running, so having

one whole day to do nothing is

great!  Lili likes it, too.  She hasn't gotten

a lot of out-of -cage time.   She gets 

cranky when she has to spend a lot

of time in her cage.  I don't blame her, 

I would, too.

She's such a nut!

Happy Thursday!

Huge rainstorm!

I woke up to a LOT of rain this morning!

I even heard a rumble of thunder a

bit ago.  Maybe we will get a thunderstorm!

I can't tell you who this is for because

they read this blog from time to time and

I just sent it yesterday.  I really love it.  The

only thing is that I was going to put gemstones

at the bottom of each"spoke" in the 

middle and forgot. 

I am really excited.  I cleaned the house for

my dad yesterday-my sister is coming on

the 14th.  I'm excited about that of course.

But he wanted to pay me and I told him no.

So he said maybe we could go to Outback.

I'm not turning that down!!!  We decided

it would be fun to go to Toledo.  I texted my

cousin, Cathy, and said maybe we could stop

by-or we could all go.  She, her parents and my

aunt and uncle (so my dad has someone to

talk to, LOL) are going next week.  I have

never met her parents so I am looking forward

to seeing if they can understand me and I

can understand them. They will have to sign

a little slow for me.  Hopefully they will

be patient.  :)  I think it will be a lot of

fun and my favourite restaurant!

Happy Wednesday!

Playing with acetate once again

I love the look of acetate cards.  So when

I saw one on pinterest I decided to try

it.  Mine is way different than theirs

but I used the same idea.

Isn't that cool?  The "beautiful day" is stamped

on the outside and there is a white panel on 

the top and bottom.  It's kind of hard to see.  

I love how it turned out!

Speaking of turning out, I have it on good

authority that the apple cobbler was 

very good, but doesn't taste quite as good

with mint chip ice cream....LOL.

We had a great class last night, but I'm

having trouble grasping the comparisons.

You "set up" a place (for example) on the

right and another place on the left (SF and SD

for example) then say, I prefer SD, but rather

than saying SD you just point. You've already

established that on the left is

San Diego.   I want to say "I prefer SD" 

 Nope.  Not how you do it.

I will never talk to a deaf person properly. 

They will  have no clue what I am saying! 

I'm having trouble grasping a couple of

concepts like that.  Our language is made

up of inflection of voice in a lot of instances

and deaf people pay more attention to

facial expressions-another thing I have

to work on. Pam told me last night

that I had this "finally it's over"

expression after I did the announcements

Sunday.  I didn't realize that, but I do know

I do a "freaked out" face.  Sigh.  This will take 

forever. But I want to learn, so the desire is

there to get this stuff into my head. 

It's important that I get it.  But if God called

me to do this-and I believe He did-then

He will help me get it through this thick head.

Happy Tuesday!!

The heat is coming back!

Yes!  It is going to be warm this

week.  I knew if I prayed hard enough

this would happen.  Actually I didn't

pray at all except to whine to God

how much I hate cold weather.

He knows this.  He laughs at me.

I'm sure I'm a constant source

of amusement for him!  LOL!

And that's OK with me!

Yesterday went well except that there

was a man-and I don't even know who

he was, could have been a deacon, I

don't know enough people yet.  Anyway,

he started talking and Pam said later

she could see that I was getting

stressed and should not have been

stuck interpreting that.  I wasn't

stressed at all.  I couldn't understand

what he was saying.  He was talking in

a low mumble.  I didn't do too bad

on the announcements, but I didn't

do great either.  I do like interpreting

the prayers as they are easier for

me.  Some of it includes the song we

just sang, but it's all religious

interpretation and that's easier because

of the songs.  I'll get there some day.

On to the card:

I just love these lamps.  I tried to make

it gold and green, but I didn't have floss

or metallic floss  that was really gold   

I think it came out OK anyway.  

Happy Monday!

I made apple cobbler!

I am not a baker.  I am not a cook.

Ask anyone who knows me and

they will emphatically agree.  But

last night I actually made an apple

cobbler.  It is from my sister in law,

Laurel's recipe and hopefully it

will taste good.

It looks pretty good.

 

I've practiced my songs until I'm purple and

still am making mistakes.  Lord-take my

hands.  Especially during announcements

with a missions trip to Africa and all the

African city (?) names that are mentioned.

That will become "missions trip"  period. 

LOL!  It will be a challenge.

 

This is the other shaker bookmark.

Those little shiny dots are actually

clear micro beads that are smaller

than the head of a pin.  They go

EVERYWHERE,  are very hard

to round up and I end up sweeping

many of them onto the floor.

 

Happy Sunday!