SMILE

SMILE

You're better then the best
I'm lucky just to linger in your light
Cooler than the flip side
Of my pillow, that's right


Completely unaware
Nothing can compare to where
You send me, lets me know that it's okay
Yeah, it's okay
And the moments where my good times start to fade


You make me smile like the sun, fall out of bed
Sing like bird, dizzy in my head
Spin like a record, crazy on a Sunday night


You make me dance like a fool, forget how to breathe
Shine like gold, buzz like a bee
Just the thought of you can drive me wild
Oh, you make me smile


Even when you're gone,
Somehow you come along just like
A flower pokin' through the sidewalk crack
And just like that
You steal away the rain, and just like that


You make me smile like the sun, fall out of bed
Sing like bird, dizzy in my head
Spin like a record, crazy on a Sunday night


You make me dance like a fool, forget how to breathe
Shine like gold, buzz like a bee
Just the thought of you can drive me wild
Oh, you make me smile


Don't know how I lived without you
'Cause every time that I get around you
I see the best of me inside your eyes
You make me smile


You make me dance like a fool, forget how to breathe
Shine like gold, buzz like a bee
Just the thought of you can drive me wild


You make me smile like the sun, fall out of bed
Sing like bird, dizzy in my head
Spin like a record, crazy on a Sunday night


You make me dance like a fool, forget how to breathe
Shine like gold, buzz like a bee
Just the thought of you can drive me wild


Oh, you make me smile
(Oh, you make me smile)


Oh, you make me smile
(Oh, you make me smile)


Oh, you make me smile


Songwriters: Bose, Jeremy; Daly, Blair; Harding, J; Shafer, Matthew;
Sung by Uncle Kracker

"If all the world were apple pie and all the water ink..."

My son got ink on the back of one of his favorite shirts. So, I tried to fix it. I have been wanting to save a shirt (or other piece of clothing) for awhile. I see so many other people able to save stuff, but I have never been able to. Usually the stain would get somewhere too weird to fix (like half under an arm, or on one of my breasts or something like that).



This stain is fixable (I think). The shirt is green, navy and white plaid. I had some scrap navy fabric and 'heat and bond'. Yes, I think I can do this.

I ironed on the 'heat and bond' to the navy fabric. Then on one side of the 'heat and bond' I traced star shapes (found in a pattern book, I used 3 different sizes) making sure they were big enough to cover up the ink stain and then cut them out.



I then pulled the backing off the stars and placed them over the stains. (2 stars would have covered up the stain, but I thought 3 stars looked better.) I ironed them onto the shirt (to make it easier to applique on by machine). Then I straight stitched it around the edges of the stars. I could have done a tight zig-zag (like embroidery), but I wanted the edges to wear slightly when washed and dried.



So what do you think? Did I fix it? Does it look o.k. or just strange?




Here is the inside of the shirt. Can you see the navy straight stitches outlining the stars? You can still see the ink stains from this side, but no one except us will ever know. You won't tell will you? Promise?

MHRF: I love this man...

When I was worried that I had only lost 1 pound in a week, he said "It's better than gaining a pound. See there, you're already 2 pounds to the good."

When I casually mentioned that I'd like to see him in a gotee (he doesn't usually have facial hair, other than the occasional 5 o'clock shadow - which is ruggedly handsome), he shaved everything that very day except for the gotee part. (He has such irresistible dimples, that I wouldn't want them covered up with facial hair, but a gotee wouldn't hide them would it?) Check out those dimples...


When I asked him to read a couple of chapters in a marriage help book (no we are not having trouble, but I enjoy reading and I want to keep things as good as they are) to explain to him how I felt (the book said it better than I could), he read them (he HATES to read) and then actually started doing some of the suggestions in the book.

I am so blessed. He's not perfect, but he's perfect for me.

I have a suggestion. The Pioneer Woman has taken how she met and fell in love with her husband and turned it into an online novel (you can read it here). I think that is so cool. My suggestion is for you to take 'Your Story' and write it down. No it doesn't have to be online, it doesn't even have to be a novel, but write it down somewhere.

You may think that it isn't interesting or that no one will care, but I promise you that someone will think it interesting (your children or grandchildren) and they will care. I would love to know how my grandparents or great-grandparents met. I know the story of my parents (I should write that down for my kids), but that's it. Write your story in a little journal, on line, in just a simple notebook, in a word document on the computer, but write it down...for posterity's sake. I think I will.

Treasure Found

Here are the aprons that I got from my dad's (mentioned here). They all belonged to my mother, so that makes them very special to me and I believe that one of them probably belonged to my grandmother first (which makes it even more special - I will be the 3rd generation in possession of that apron). Sorry it's a little cock-eyed.



The apron in the center is a Barbie sized apron. (I'm guessing it was made for me and my Barbie.)



That's just a casserole carrier, but it was with the aprons and I liked it.



This is a half-apron. Can you see the hand stitches around the bottom? It is also hand-stitched around the waist and at the top of each pocket (there were 2 pockets).



The long green apron is a full apron. To the left of that is the Barbie apron.



This was just some fabric that I found with the aprons. Not sure what I will do with it, but I liked it.



There were 3 bonnets in there too. I'm pretty sure that my mother never wore them. I don't know if they were my grandmother's, or if mom made them (as a decoration or something). I really don't know anything about them, but I'm keeping them too.



Here are 2 more half-aprons. They are not even hemmed. The bottom edge is the selvege edge.

It looks like I might now have an apron collection (small, but a collection non-the-less, or at least the start of a collection).

Yummy fabric

A friend of mine wants me to make her an apron. She said she likes the looks of vintage aprons, but didn't care what colors, fabric or anything, she just wanted me to make her something usable. She picked out an apron that she found from this post.

So this is the fabric that I picked out (she hasn't seen it yet, that is until now - hope you like it Mary). I can't wait to make her one.

Mary sent me a poem about Grandma's Apron via e-mail, sometime last year and I have been thinking about aprons ever since. I would love to collect them. My friend Amanda at Faith, Food and Family collects them. She should do a post and show us some of her collection.

Since I read the poem, I have envisioned making several aprons (one for each holiday, one for everyday use and one dressy one - my grandmother had everyday aprons and Sunday aprons), but I have yet to make one. Mary's will be my first and I am so excited. I'm sure that will get me started on making some of my own (I hope anyway).

Also, when I was at my dad's the other day (because Mary's got me thinking on this apron stuff) I looked through my mom's things and found several aprons. I'll post pictures of them soon. I was just giddy with excitement. I actually think at least one of them was my grandmother's (all of them looked hand-made).

Here's the poem that started it all...

Grandma's Apron

I don't think our kids know what an apron is.

The principal use of Grandma's apron was to protect the dress underneath, because she only had a few, it was easier to wash aprons than dresses and they used less material, but along with that, it served as a potholder for removing hot pans from the oven.

It was wonderful for drying children's tears, and on occasion was even used for cleaning out dirty ears…

From the chicken coop, the apron was used for carrying eggs, fussy chicks, and sometimes half-hatched eggs to be finished in the warming oven.

When company came, those aprons were ideal hiding places for shy kids.

And when the weather was cold grandma wrapped it around her arms.

Those big old aprons wiped many a perspiring brow, bent over the hot wood stove.

Chips and kindling wood were brought into the kitchen in that apron.

From the garden, it carried all sorts of vegetables.

After the peas had been shelled, it carried out the hulls.

In the fall, the apron was used to bring in apples that had fallen from the trees.

When unexpected company drove up the road, it was surprising how much furniture that old apron could dust in a matter of seconds.

When dinner was ready, Grandma walked out onto the porch, waved her apron, and the men-folk knew it was time to come in from the fields to dinner.

It will be a long time before someone invents something that will replace that 'old-time apron' that served so many purposes.

REMEMBER:

Grandma used to set her hot baked apple pies on the window sill to cool.

Her granddaughters set theirs on the window sill to thaw.

They would go crazy now trying to figure out how many germs were on that apron.

I never caught anything from an apron…But Love. (Author Unknown)

Beach Bag

I made this beach bag for my SIL's birthday. I embroidered 'Surf's Up' in red on some navy & white gingham fabric (thought it looked a little nautical) and sewed it on the front (top stitching it with red thread - doesn't show up in the picture). You could use it as a beach bag, pool bag or any other large tote.

My favorite thing about it, is that it is mesh and should allow most of the sand to filter out before getting into your vehicle or house.

Now I want me one (tutorial here - great excuse to make one for me, right?).

There are lot's of great phrases you could use on it, but I can only think of a few so help me out...
Surf's Up
Beach Bag/Beach Gear
Catch the Wave
Pool Bag/Pool Gear
...can you think of more?

Look What I Found...

I was reading the comments posted on my blog (I read all of them, try to get back with everybody - but I'm not perfect and don't always get to, but I do READ all of them, every single one). I love comments. I just get giddy when I realize that I have a comment to read. So thank you to everyone that leaves comments.

Anywho, as I was saying...I was reading the comments and I went to check out who wrote them (I do this to every comment too - if you are a blogger and you post a comment, I go to your blog) and I found this really cute tutorial on saving little girls overalls. You can check it out here. I really want to do this, but I don't think my boys would appreciate it.

So check out the blog I just found (while you are there, tell her I said 'Hi'), leave me comments on any post and I will check out your blog too.