fun fun fun

well, it's the end of the week and things are still a mess around here. The office is still sitting in the kitchen, the dogs hair is everywhere since my vacuum is in the barn. Ugh ! I hate the mess !!! I'm going to get the shelves up in the office today if it kills me and start getting the office stuff back where it belongs. Then help finish the work room. Oh joy. Oh and here's a fun contest. Check out this blog and I think it's the third one down. Great give aways ! http://ajdjss.blogspot.com/

Git 'er Done !

Now that schools out, we have alot of work to get done. We started in this room in the barn. What a mess it is when you get into it ! The insulation is all mouse infested, the mice seemed to have moved out but they forgot to take their toilets. Yuck !!! I found where the cats slept that were trying to get rid of the mice too. I think we have 6 bags of pink crap pulled out so far and these are huge industrial bags. We did gear up as you can see but I found that when I put it on, I had a panic attack instantly because I felt like I was suffocating. So I did help with the walls but Kevin threw me out when we did the ceiling so I could go out side and try to catch my breath. Yuck !! I will be glad when it's all out. They we have to put up a new ceiling and all new pink stuff, new walls and then lighting. Alot of work but it will be worth it when it's all done. Then we will move inside to the office that is being redone as well. Oh joy ! We look like the stay puff guy lol

New Blog with Giveaway !

well, I finally got my blog set up for my shop and it will only have shop info and what's new there. So if your looking for new things for family, friends, teacher and the like, come on over to http://glenshire-shop.blogspot.com/ Right now were having a give away to start off the blog right. Please come on over and check us out !
(Don't worry, if your not into LOST like I am, there will be a monthly giveaway with many other things that are non-LOST)

Contest on DarkUFO with my Lost goodies !

If you don't know, I'm addicted to the show called Lost so I thought it would be fun to give some of the things I make to this great Web site DarkUFO for contest prizes and see if it gets people coming to my shop and also for the fun of meeting new Lost fans like my self. here's the link to the contest... >> DarkUFO << I hope if you love Lost like I do, you'll Join in the fun !

Egg-selent !!!!

well, the chickens are laying like there is no tomorrow and then my son brought this one in today. There has got to be a bow legged chicken out there !! This egg is almost 3 times bigger than the rest and all our eggs are large as it is. Check out this whopper ! it's 2.9 x 1.97 egg the regular egg is 2.3 x 1.75

Little kitty

My son, Josh now lives close by and I seem to be seeing alot more of him which is great. He knows how I am with animals and brought me this baby yesterday to tend to. The baby doesn't have a name yet but I will think of something soon. Kevin on the other hand, was less than thrilled. He's not a cat lover and thinks that I need to tell people to stop bring me the homeless, unwanted and orphaned animals. I reminded him that this has been me from birth and I won't be changing any time soon and he realized that it's probably true. He gave up after that and we have come to a happy understanding in that area. So the baby kitty was taken away from its mom by some stupid kids that thought it was funny and when they finally gave the kittens back, this one was rejected. So now he is bottle fed a million times a day with kitty milk and loved on by the dogs. The white collie-Calley- thinks she is the mom and bathes the kitty after each feeding. Here is a photo of the lovely bunch. Calley, Doughall (the black collie) and Jinx the chihuahua plus baby Kitty.

Resin fun

So I poured a bunch of resin last night for fun and the thrill of it all and I was so disappointed this afternoon when I went to take it out of the molds. Resin is very finicky, it likes dry weather, and warmth. Well, it's been rainy this week and I forgot all about that bit of trouble. Silly me. So I poured a order I have and also some other things since I always have left over resin and now things are rubbery and sticky. I can fix the sticky but the rubbery is no good. Oh sometimes I hate resin. It's a true love hate relationship for sure. Here are some of the things I made. Here's hoping they get hard and are usable. I would hate to throw them out.
On another note.... I was feeling so down today when I finally realized that 3 years ago this week my son was hit by a car. I finally gave up on trying to pull off the happy face and got busy keeping my self doing things all day to keep my brain busy and not thinking. James.. I miss you tons.~Mom

Friends from Blogging

I just love blogging even though I don't do it enough. I meed great people on them, I learn new things and now I get great gifts !!! I love to read my friends blogs and every once in a while I will enter a contest and I won something !! My friend Terri ( I love saying that I have this new great friend !) made me a great gift from the pay it forward post. I felt silly after a bit because not many people follow my blog but hey, it is all about how we pay it forward in life !! Anyway, she sent me this absolutely beautiful purse. I told her I love the colors of nature and I think she some how crawled into my brain and guessed it perfect !


Then to top it off, she filled it with any womans favorite, chocolate !! Cadbury eggs, jelly beans, chocolate eggs and a bunny.
I usually hate the cream eggs but these were caramel and yummy. I passed one out to everyone and we all ate them instantly total yumm !!! what a wonderful gift !

The purse is just so pretty and I love the colors. I will probably add a zipper up top so I don't spill anything out but I love it, it's even lined beautifully ! Thank you Terri !!

Oh and one more thing, she added seeds and how did you happen to know my favorites ??? They truely are my favorites and I can't wait to plant them. Thank you !!

Resin fun

My newest hobby is Resin. Not alot of people like to do it because it's messy, smelly and takes forever to cure. (24 hours or more) but I love it. I have all these ideas of what to put in it and how I want it to look and my biggest trouble is waiting for it to cure. I'm inpatient and it shows, with the finger prints on my first ones. I finally have the nack to it and I'm having fun trying to figure out what to embed in it. Here are some of my first ones. Next, I need to make a mold because I have some beautiful butterflies to put in Resin (no there not real, just plastic)
it's hard to see the flowers since the flash shows up in all the pictures.

productive day

When I get a new crafting idea, I study how it's done, buy what I need to do it- in excess and then finally get around to doing the craft. I think that one of my troubles is that sometimes, the getting ready is the most fun and then I sit and stare at my supplies for a while contemplating what the finished craft will look like. I did that very thing again this time. I decided that I wanted to try making things out of resin so I looked up all the info I could find on it. Then I went to Amazon and bought a couple of books about it all. Well, 4 in all and they were all duplicates lol Two of one book and two of the other. In my own defense, they were both kind of mistakes. One book was totally different on the outside of the matching and the ISBN number was different too. I was so excited when I got the second one, opened it up and started thinking- hey, I've seen these designs before. Then I compared books and realized that just the outside was different. I sent that one back instantly. The other was a slight mistake too. I bought the first one and then realized that I some how got the one without the DVD so had to buy it again with the DVD. I guess I will sell the mistake one on my web site. I took too long to return it, oh well. So here I sat reading, getting supplies and chicken to try it. (did I mention that the dog chewed up one of my molds too while I waited ?) ( look for these on the Etsy site soon)Finally I sat down today and did my first pour. what fun !!! After I cleaned up my mess, I made tomorrows dinner in the crock pot, grabbed my purse and off we went shopping for tires and stuff. I needed a new shirt because I will be on a quaint NH TV show sometime soon and they are filming it this week. Fun huh ?? Anyway... We stopped at one tire place and they only wanted a mere $1200.00 for the tires etc.(besides the guy was a grumpy jerk) We said thanks, we'll think about it. We went to Sams Club and found some nice one's, Kevin gave in and we got them on the spot. So just over $600.00 later, we left with new tires on the Beast and he was happy. Now the truck isn't trying to pull off the road at every cliff and it handles so nice. Wow !! Nice day all in all. New tires, new resin stuff poured, waiting to be removed in the morning when it's hard. Life is good. Oh and I get Joey for a extra week. WooHoo !! :-)

I ♥ you, you ♥ me lets all be one family

ok, so all I could think of is the Barney song. What I was thinking is that if you have a Etsy shop, why don't you post a link to your shop in the comments and lets all heat each other. ♥ it makes for a better shop and helps business for everyone. If you don't have a Etsy shop, do you have a link to a web site you could share of your wares ?? Lets all share and be friends :-) (ok so it's corny but who cares, its time to get some work done on the web site.)

Found Camera- neat story !!

http://basinfoundcamera.blogspot.com/

A Camera was found at the Basin in Upper New Hampshire and someone picked it up and got all the photos off the old rusted out camera. Go check out this blog (above) and see if you know the people in the photos. It's a neat story and I hope he finds the owner of the camera. I have to say one of the people looks like someone I've seen before but then who knows. Lisa

Spring is in the air ?? Hahaha !!

Well, I haven't posted in a bit but after I saw my new friends Terri's blog, i just had to get out of my blogging slump and post something. So Terri says that she see's signs of spring. lolol Well, in her defense, she is in Tennessee but Spring ??? I did see a couple of Robins last week- personally I think the poor things were lost and I thought maybe someone should buy them a GPS so they could find the south and the worms because all the worms here are in the deep freeze and a bit crunchy. Yummmm This photo is from before we got our last 9" this Wednesday. If the dogs got a hold of the snow shoes, they could step over their fence so now they have to be watched when they go out so we don't loose one. All you can see now is the top 3" of the fence and I hear there is more snow coming this week. I guess I might have to go shovel a mote or we will loose a dog.

Well, I want to thank Terri for getting me out of my blogging slump, now I'm off to bed. Night Night !

Always tell people you love them

no matter how long it's been or what's going on in your life, you always need to remember to let your friends and family know that your thinking of them with a card, a call and a hug. It can be too late sometimes and you won't get that second chance. Today I got that dreaded call. I thought the caller was a salesman and thought he said that he had some good news for me. what he said was he had some bad news. Then he paused and I said well speak... He said Minor died this week, I had to make him repeat it three times because I was confused at who he was and when I figured it out, I was more confused at why he would be telling me my best friend died. that can't happen, she is too young- just 41 He said she had been sick this past year and then when his son got the flu, she caught it from him and passed away from it. I was one of the few that called her Nancy, I hated to call her by her nick name Minor, I thought it was silly. She tried to get me to change it, I refused. Nancy was there for me when I became single, she found me a lawyer when mine gave me the run around. then when James was hit by a car, she and her husband to be- made sure I could go be with my son before he passed away. She opened a jewelry shop and made sure I had a flexible job that fit in with my weird custody arrangement. She brought me food when I was broke, a shoulder to cry on when James died a friend always there for me. I will miss her forever. Nancy, I love you, Lisa