Quote of the Day

To love is to allow hope into your life.

To hope is to allow uncertainty into your life.

To be uncertain is the essence of learning to trust God to bring only the disappointments He deems best.

~Gretchen Louise Acheson

Music Quotes (Quote of the Day)

Love is like a violin. The music may stop now and then, but the strings remain forever.

~June Masters Bacher

Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.

~Sir Thomas Beecham

Where words fail, music speaks.

~Hans Christian Andersen

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.

~Victor Hugo

Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.

~Henry Ward Beecher

Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

~Thomas Carlyle

Music is love in search of a word.

~Sydney Lanier

Quote Of The Day!

In regard to this Great Book, I have but to say, I believe the Bible is the best gift God has given to man. All the good Savior gave to the world was communicated through this Book. But for this Book we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man's welfare, here and hereafter, are to be found portrayed in it.


~Abraham Lincoln

Quote of the day

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
- Theodore Roosevelt

Questions.....

When life gives you questions what do you do? I'm curious, so post/answer away!

And please post more than just pray or ask God or something like that. What else do you do? Do you think and agonize about it? Do you put it on the back shelf and put it out once a day to get new thoughts? What do you do? Does this even make sense????

Dear God

Dear God, I've had a happy day;
I've tried to do my best.
And now I thank You for the night
When children all can rest.
Amen.

So....

I need a new profile picture,... any ideas?


Or shall I just sew something and then have Steph snap a few pictures :)

Material!

After waiting, entirely too long! I finally got to go to JoAnn Fabric's and buy material!!! I'm going to finally get around to sewing again!!!
Here are pictures of the material I got.

This is a pink flowered material. It was on clearance for $2 a yard! I LOVE clearance!!
The Home School group is doing a Civil War day this fall. So I will probably use this pattern with brown accents and a brown sash. The 2nd picture is a a better idea of what color the material really is..

This material we got for Lydia. We are making this pattern

Except we are making her jacket out of this brown material.

This material I bought to reproduce a shirt I saw at Maurice's. I will be putting sleeves on my shirt and I am going to make it in a regency dress instead. The shirt I saw had white underneath, but I liked the green better :) The white material was $13 a yard, but it was 50% off. But! When they rang it up it was only $2.49 a yard!!!!!! YAY!!!!!

I love shopping for material!!!! And sewing!!

Now, I just need a new sewing machine... :{

me wrist

So, I have a little run in with the fryer at work... and this is the result:

This actually looks much better. I was dropping chicken down and some oil jumped out and landed on my arm, yes oil jumps. It happens fairly often so I just wiped it off my arm and washed my wrist off. It didn't hurt at first, but then it started almost stinging. I put ice on it and tried walking around with my wrist stuck in ice water, but that didn't last long and I had to start putting stock away so I ditched that idea. But by now, my arm was red from the back of my palm to 3 inches up my arm. Stephanie rigged up an ice pack with empty hot dog bun bags, and I put stock away with it tied to my arm. We were very worried that it would blister, the oil is about 375 degrees. But thankfully the big spot had a flat blister that popped one day when I was getting dressed, I don't know why... So, that was last Wednesday. This picture is from, Saturday I think. Today it is starting to peel but looks a hundred percent better than it did a week ago.

Pictures as promised :)

BEFORE......

AFTER......

As you can see there are 1 1/4 melted chocolate walls and 3 3/4 milk chocolate walls. We both like it a lot better than the yellow, the brown is more relaxing :) Luke was the one who pointed out our chocolate milk paint :) He was helping us paint and then the next day as he was pouring chocolate milk into his cup he calmly remarked, this is what color your walls are. :) It was pretty sweet :)

So, there you go :) Opinions??

ahh!!! and what's been going on....

So, today was the last day of school in Platteville. It was crazy!!!!
When the high schoolers are free, the rest of us have to suffer... the air was positively electrifying today. I think I could have hooked my hair dryer up to it. And of course, because they were out of school, we had a bunch of goofy, jerks in through drive-thru. Just in case anyone was wondering, when all 5 people in the car talk and try to order at the same time we can't hear you and it will only take longer to figure out what you wanted to order. So, that's mostly what my day was like, totally hectic, with lots of crazy kids... but now, I am at home and it is peaceful and quiet, almost everyone is in bed asleep, except me and Dad, we are the night owls. But hey, it's quiet and peaceful, and I can actually get stuff done.

Tomorrow I hope to finish cleaning my room, then I can take pictures and show you all the new paint job :)

And Sunday, I think I finally! get to go to Joann's and buy fabric! Yay!!! I've been waiting for weeks!!

here's the post I started a few days ago...

Hello all!! I know I haven't been a very good blogger recently... Life seems to be passing me by at a very fast pace. It's quite scary actually! I'm not sure what I have been doing recently. Work, life, KIT 4 KIDS stuff. Finished the coloring book, YAY!!!! It took Susie and me 5 months, but it's finished, finally! So, now hopefully life will go on. I just found out that Strings Workshop has been cancelled for this year :( I was really looking forward to it. But that's o.k., more time to save my money up I guess.

Most of you don't know but I am hoping to do a violin recital this Fall. You are of course all invited, I can't guarantee you will enjoy it, but you are welcome to come! So, I will spend the Workshop time practicing instead. Recitals are lots of work, which reminds me, I need to find an accompanist.....

O.k. well, it's late and I am a little tired, so I should go to bed. I will try very hard to be a better blogger, even if I don't have anything interesting to post :)

Time era quiz

You are living in the 1950's. You want to live in a place where there is still technology and cars yet you don't want all the technology we have now. You want to go back to a place where life was more conservative and peaceful and value on family morals was much higher. The 50's is for you.
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