Some New Stuff

I have been crazy busy the last few weeks and  I apologize for my tardiness here in the blog world.  I have been visiting your blogs and trying to keep up with the wonderful things you all are doing though!

You guys keep me inspired….

First up are two precious snowmen that Jane at Mamie Janes sent to me.  If you have never visited her blog, I strongly encourage you to go there!  She is creative and talented beyond words!!  I have loved these snowmen ever since she posted about them back before Christmas!  I mean I REALLY loved them and it was to the “covet” phase.  I got a package in the mail the other day and inside……

Were these!!!

Jane sent them to me because she KNEW how much I loved them!Are these not the most adorable things you have ever seen????  I SO love them!!  Thank you so much Jane!!!!  You are the best!

Then from Donna at The Decorated House I ordered these two prints.  Beau and Abigail.  I LOVE them!!!  I am a rabbit person, if you didn’t know….not the Roger Rabbit type, not that there is anything wrong with Roger Rabbit mind you….but I like a more classy type rabbit.  lol  Donna has an Etsy shop that is WONDERFUL!

Here is Beau….

And Abigail…

And together….

I bought the frames and mats at Hobby Lobby…50% off of course!

Here is the geranium print I got for a dollar at a yard sale a couple of weeks ago.  I got another frame and mat at Hobby Lobby…

Yeah, I know….another rabbit…I can’t help it…

This is the other side of the mantle.  My mantle is VERY long!

My bedroom is in a state of chaos!  We are having new carpet installed Tuesday, and Steve pulled up the old carpet today…it is attractive in there now, let me tell you.  I finished the trim on my lampshade that I covered and made this runner to go on my night stand….

I used fabric I had left over from the bed skirt and lampshade projects.  I glued on some trim and two buttons…

This is my favorite pot!!  Notice the mega CRACKS??  I have had this pot for years and decided to wash it today…As I was drying it off I dropped it in the sink and B~R~O~K~E it~~hence the cracks cos’ honey I glued her back together….looks like the wrath doesn’t it?  I may try to do a paint treatment on it to try and hide all the cracks…I am TRULY the clumsiest person I know!!

Another rabbit….

Last but not least, I had seen on a blog one day how she covered the ugly labels on candles…so I did the same thing….I wish I could remember which blog it was, I would gladly give her credit…

Same fabric and some twine…

Thank you so much for stopping by!  I will try to do better in the future on my posting!  I do have an interesting story to share and will do that later this week!

I am linking up to:

Make It For Monday – Cottage Instincts

Met Monday – Between Naps on the Porch

Thank you so much for stopping by :)

Thrift Finds

Last Friday my girlfriend Mandy and I decided to check out a Yard Sale.  We LOVE when they start them on Thursday or Friday because we go and check them out on our lunch hour.

Now, last Friday was a rainy, yucky day and we knew that the possibility existed that they may have opted not to have the yard sale because of the rain, but we decided to chance it!

When we got there, we didn’t see any signs, and then we spotted a little bitty sign on a car at the end of the driveway!  It was ON!

First I found this print, which is a companion print to two larger ones I have in my den by C. Rowan that I had ordered off of Art.com.  I love these prints…

I am going to get another frame for it….but it was just $1.00.

These are the two other ones I already had….

The glare is terrible on this one…

Then I got these lamps…

I got two of the table lamps and one floor lamp for $10.00!  I love the wrought iron and the twist in the middle.  They did not have shades and this one I covered and am not finished with it yet.

On another note, I made a bedskirt for my bed using an idea that I saw on a blog some time ago.  I wish I could remember whose it was!

And let’s ignore this hideous carpet, it is getting replaced next week!  It looks like a putting green to me….hate it….

Okay, on to the bedskirt…

I bought the fabric and a board 2” wide and 6 feet long.  I cut my fabric to the correct width and used the raw edge on the bottom so I would not have to hem it.  I am SO NOT good at sewing!  I stapled the fabric onto the board adding pleats as I went.  Then I just slid the board between the mattress and box springs.  It took me all of about 20 minutes to finish!  SO EASY!!  (Listen to me giving a mini-tutorial)…

Another shot of the lampshade.  The fabric on the lampshade is the same fabric as the bedskirt.  I have not done the finishing trims on the lampshade and still have to get that done.

All in all it was a very good day at the yard sale!  I also got a comforter set for Cameron’s room and I am in the process of doing a facelift in there, so more on that later.

I am linking up with Linda at Coastal Charm for Nifty Thrifty Tuesday!  I am so excited that I FINALLY found some Thrifty Finds to share!

Please check out Linda’s wonderful blog, she is so talented and SO sweet and kind!  Also all the other participants of her party!!

Thank you so much for stopping by!

 

This Thing Called “Life”

You know, there are days that I just think to myself “Why am I the one doing this?”  Do you ever have days like that?

Seth came in the other night and announced that the driver’s side door would not open in his car, and he was to the point of “climbing over” the console to be able to get in the car to drive.  So not cool!

I send Steve out to look at the door and see if he can “fix” it.  He cannot.  So I take it to the shop to get said door repaired.  They call, door is fixed, $226.00.  Okie Dokie ~ Seth comes and gets me to go get his car.  Repair guy says, your gear shift is messed up, did you know that?  Seth says yeah, it gets stuck sometimes…I turn and look at Seth because this is the first I have heard of this.  Seth says “Steve knows.”  Well alrighty then.  I guess that makes it okay. 

We go from the repair shop to the tire store to get new tires for Seth’s car. Tire guy calls me says, ball joints are shot.  $250 to fix and align.  Hold that thought, I tell him, let me call my husband.  I call Steve, Steve says I can fix that, tell him to just do tires.

I do as I am told.  Tire guy says, okay, car is ready.  Mandy (my friend) takes me down there, drops me off.  I pay for tires, get keys go to car.  Car won’t start.  I try and try, nothing.  Really??  Seriously??  So in all of my femaleness, I decide that it is Steve’s fault that I am sitting in a parking lot surrounded by stacks of tires, unable to get the car started.  If he had fixed the gear shift thingy then I would not be in this predicament.  Then I decide that I am the girl and I should not have to do “man stuff” like car repairs and tires and stuff.  So…now that I am good and “TORE UP” I call Steve.

I throw me a hissy fit.  Can’t get the car started, Mandy is gone, I guess I will have to walk….not my area….I am a girl….don’t do cars….stacks of tires…

you get the drift…

THEN I call Seth.  He is coming back into town and says “you have to ROCK the car?”  Okaaaaay!  WHAT!

So I get out of the car, in my dress and heels, (I do have a job, you know) and start trying to rock the car back and forth.  Doesn’t work!  I start flippin out again and Seth says “Mother I really hate it when you get like this, I will be there in a minute.”

As I am waiting for him, I take a gander around the inside of his car….Dear Heaven!  It should be condemned!  Papers, bottles, cans, Wendy’s sacks, french fries!  I feel another fit coming on….

Seth pulls up, gets out and “rocks” the car and it starts.  He says, do you want to swap cars?  NO!  I am going to the flippin car wash!!  So, I go, but I DO NOT turn off the car.  As I am driving through the car wash, I notice his windshield wipers are just tattered.  I am thinking, he is NOT my child.  He could not be and drive around with the stuff that is INSIDE this car.

I vacuumed out the car, throw away the mats.  Just throw them completely away!  Suck out about the equivalent of 5 large orders of fries from the floorboard!  I am good and worked up at this point!  Things like, “I didn’t raise him to be this messy, and I never did this in my cars, my daddy would had my head on a stick”, are going through my head.

Lucky for my family, I don’t stay mad.

Steve will be doing a few repairs on Seth’s car this weekend…needless to say…

Part II - Seth and I go to Auto Zone…alone…..

Lord Help Us….

Have a GREAT weekend!!

FIXED!!!

No, not as in fixed like Bella, but fixed nonetheless!!

When I got to work this morning I had an e-mail from WONDERFUL SWEET GENIUS Paula at Castle and Cottage!  She had me e-mail my header to her, she inserted the text for me and sent it back and then told me how to get it where it is supposed to go!

Is that not AWESOME sweet???  Yes, it is!! 
She even gave me four choices so I could pick the one I liked the best! 

So, once again, thanks to Paula, I have a name!!

Thank you Paula!!!  You ROCK!!!

Lou Cinda :)

I AM TRULY COMPUTER ILLITERATE…

I thought it would be really “special” to change my  background on my blog, seeing as to how I still had Winter Wonderland on there from Christmas.

I did finally manage to get the background in there and even changed my header!!  Woo Hoo!

HOWEVER…

Right now, my blog is nameless!  Cute header and the words Tattered Hydrangeas are kind of lost in the scrollies…..

I have researched all night long to try and figure out how to insert text in my flippin header!!  I have visions of pretty script CENTERED in my header with the name Tattered Hydrangeas in there.

Still don’t know how….

Suggestions?  I need a tutorial from you brilliant women who know how to do this stuff…

I am NOT one of those women….sadly….

I would so appreciate your help!

Thank you :)

“The Heat” Part II

What all has been going on around here would boggle the mind!  My life lately has not been for the faint of heart!

Bella was spayed last Thursday…she did great… picked her up Friday morning and brought her home. 

By Saturday morning she had pulled out ALL of her stitches!  Oh yes, she certainly did!

I am peaking at her incision and praying that  I do NOT see anything resembling “innards” or intestines, if you will…didn’t see anything gory. Back to the vet we go and he glues her up this time!  Good Grief!

THEN I get a kidney infection, so to the doctor I go. Get an antibiotic…life is good…on the mend….

THEN Cameron gets up Saturday morning sick, sick, sick.  He has a baseball tournament Saturday…so…we medicate him and head to the ball field.  Between games I am feeling his forehead for fever…he holds up pretty good….

Until we get home….he goes down like a tree…Yep, it’s the flu!  The dreaded flu!  Now Cameron and I got the H1N1 vaccination, but they were out of the seasonal flu shot….great…..he is still in the bed, being medicated every four hours.  So far…I have rebuked it….keep your fingers crossed.

Now most of you know Barbara Jean of Treasures from the Heart fame.  She is so talented and she makes these nests and I just adore them!  SO, I ordered two nests from her and she whipped them up and got them to me in no time.  I LOVE THEM!!

See the little button and the cheesecloth and doily? So exquisite!

I put the nest on my framed silverware and adore it!  She also makes these tiny intricate little rosebuds from teabags….she included some of those for me as well…

I put three of them on the other frame.  Are they not the sweetest??  LOOOOOOVE EM’

Barbara Jean, you ARE the bomb!!  Thank you so much, I SO love the nests.  I have another one too!

The silver tray my best friend Janice gave me for my birthday!  I love it so much!  I added a nest and the tiny rosebuds on the tray for now….

This is my beautiful friend Janice and my Seth!  She is as beautiful on the inside as she is the outside!  And that is beautiful!!!

Well, I think I have caught you up to date…Just checked on Cameron…no fever right now….maybe the worse part is over….

Bella?  How is Bella?

She is JUST fine…..

The “Heat”

I know that I have been missing in action for a couple of weeks, but I have been CRAZY swamped at work, and if you read my blog, you know that I practically practice law without a license!  Anyhoo, it has been a couple of weeks of deadlines and statutes running and all that sort of legal “stuff”.

And you also know that I LOVE my cats!  I have four…yes, I know, that is alot.  But I adore them!

When I got the first cat, Chloe, Seth was 5 and Cameron was 3.  We had had her for several months and one Sunday morning Seth and Cameron came running into my bedroom as I was getting ready for church and they were just wide eyed!  Mother, there is something wrong with Chloe!

I run down the hall and there she is…lying on the floor, rolling around and meowing really weird.  I start thinking, she has been poisoned, she is dying!  The I stop and study her….Oh no, I say.  I think she is in heat.

Seth looks at me and says, what is heat?  Well, it is something that happens to girl cats, but she will be fine.  We will have to get her an operation.

After Sunday School, I am heading to choir and Seth’s Sunday School teacher comes up to me.  We had prayer request this morning in Sunday School, she tells me.  Okaaaaay, I say.  Seth had a very important prayer request.  He did?  Yes.  He asked for prayer for his cat who has “the heat”.  We both just died laughing!  I will never forget that as long as I live. 

Chloe did recover and is a ripe 13 years old. 

I came home from work on Tuesday and I notice Bella is acting weird.

She was rolling around in the floor and kept sticking her rear in the air and she was crying…..Oh No……

Not my sweet Bella!

I picked her up and she just put her head on my shoulder and I explained to her the facts of life and that sometimes it really bites being a girl….

So I called the vet and made an appointment to have her spayed. This morning I dropped her off…I cried as I left her…she looked so scared.  I told her she would feel so much better…well…not initially, I mean, she will have an incision and stitches….but soon, she will feel better…

I almost chickened out and didn’t have her spayed.  She stays in the house and all of my other cats have been either spayed or neutered.  So, I looked it up on the internet to see how often cats go into heat.  If they don’t get pregnant, they go into heat EVERY TWO OR THREE WEEKS!!  I didn’t know that!  It also said that they were very uncomfortable when they are in heat.

Ya’ think???

So…I took her this morning, I have called to check on her.  She came through the surgery fine.  I can pick her up tomorrow morning…

I think I will take off half a day tomorrow….just so I can take car of her…

It ain’t easy being a girl…