Going Green, What have you done?

I noticed on another bloggers’ page that March 28 is Earth Hour. You ask “What is Earth Hour?” World wide everyone is participating (hopefully) turning off their power for 1 hour @ 8:30 pm! If everyone does this, can you imagine how much this will help Mother Earth? Save this graphic to put on your blog, or do what I did, I have it tiled on my desk top to remind me! Please help spread the word! This is next Saturday! Light a candle, spend some time with your family! All while saving the planet!
Everyone is going green! Including me! I wished we had the mandatory separate your garbage here. That way everything would be recycled. I have been guilty of buy those big packs of styrofoam plates from Wallyworld. Well, we just used up the last of them! If I buy any kind of disposable plates, it will be the cheapy paper ones. They are more biodegradable. I don’t buy them unless necessary. I have been using the old fashioned glass plates!
Oh speaking of glass, I want to throw this out to you too! PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE!!!! DO NOT PUT PLASTIC BOWLS INTO THE MICROWAVE! As a cancer survivor I have been reading up on things that possibly cause cancer. MD Anderson seems to believe there is a link between using plastic bowls in the microwave and cancer! So this is another thing I have changed with my family. My girls are telling their friends too! So maybe it will domino and may just save one life! Oh and another thing on plastic, DON’T put the water bottles in the freezer! The cold does something to the plastic molecular structure and is bad for you also, as it gets into your water. Sorry to have gone off subject here! LOL But speaking of water bottles, since going back to work I use them. Well Kohl’s used to have a water service and have a water cooler in the break room. Well they are going GREEN too! They cancelled their service and installed an ionic water purifier. The water isn’t cold coming out, but hey it is purified! So instead of having to bring 2 water bottles, I just refill mine, pop it in the fridge and it is cold for my next break.
I have been saving the cardboard boxes, like cereal, paper towel and TP tubes ect. and taking them to be recycled.
Also, MAN has taken so much from the wildlife from all the clearing of trees and pollution ect. When I clean out my fridge I take out the leftovers to the animals. I can’t stand to waste food. What my family doesn’t want, a lil raccoon would love to have! I am guilty of not buying those bags that you bring to stores so that you don’t use more plastic bags. I do hope to buy some soon though.
If we all pitch in we can make this world a better place!
Ok that is my soap box… I am done! Hehehehe Hope everyone is having a great weekend! It is BEAUTIFUL here in Texas!
I would love to hear from you! Leave a comment!

Sock Monkey Pattern!

Good evening!
I know it has been a while since I have listed a new pattern! Don't faint! LOL! After many requests, I have finally finished my sock monkey pattern! I have spent all day working on him! I think he will be a good seller for craft shows ect.! As my last one I listed on ebay sold for $46!



Here is a link to the pattern!

http://www.patternmart.com/pattern/8149/Fabric+Sock+Monkey+10+PM

I hope to get more listed soon!
Take care and hope you have a great week!

Blog pics
New birdfeeders/houses hubby made for me! Lately there has been no over time for my hubby. So he has a lot of time on his hands! He has only been working 3 days a week. Which has been a nice break for him. He has gotten a lot of stuff finished around the house while I worked.





These are the fence feeders as I call em! We already have a pair of bluebirds making a nest in one of the houses!






And speaking of feeders! Look what I did with an old child's swing and old collandar! I use it for bird food! :)



And speaking of swings! Hubby bought this before Thanksgiving and it has been sitting in the box all this time until last week! We still want to do something different with it. But for now it will be here.




I can't remember if I showed anyone this gate and horseshoe arch above it, so here it is! The birds love to sit on it!



My hubby and I have been arguing over the color of our lamp poles. I wanted to keep them black, but he won! He painted them white! And you know what? I am glad he won! They look so much better now! tee hee Don't tell him I said so! LOL





Oh and last year I bought some star brackets on ebay. We used them as corbels. They ended up being a lil smaller than we pictured, so my hubby had the same idea as I did! Beef them up with some wood! So here they are! I love them!



Oh and we have about 90% of our land cleared. Well the part we want done anyway! And thanks to hurricane Ike taking out some trees too here is what our property looks like now. We want our barn to go somewhere in here. Still undecided. You see my Magnolia tree? Our property has 2 of them on it! I love them!



And last but not least if you haven't seen my latest Spring Annies, here they are!
Ladybug n Bumble Bee! I listed them on ebay!



Here are the links

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&item=320348189580

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&item=320348200929

Oh and one more thing! I had some ZZ Top tickets (3) for the Houston Rodeo on ebay! I am flipping out! I started them at $50, well last night they ended at $192!!! This will really help our family right now as the person that is in our old house is behind 2 months (we did an owner finance) on the payments. So we have been footing the note for 2 houses plus she is trying to sue us for drawing up the wrong papers for our contract last year! This has been a nightmare! So now we had to hire an attourney! Fun huh?
Anyway, sorry this post is so long! I wanted to post more pics, but maybe later today! Take care and thanks for visiting my blog! (((HUGZ))) Nutt!

Blogging etiquette!

Hello! I love getting comments, but I am not sure what to do once someone posts! Do I respond to their comment on my blog? Or do I go to their blog and reply? I am never sure what to do! I don't want to be rude and not say anything, but then I wonder if I reply to my own blog if they ever come back and see it! LOL
I have some new goodies that I hope to get finished tomorrow and be able to post here to show ya! I am so excited! Thanks for visiting!
(((HUGZ))) Nutt

One year ago today!

Exactly one year ago today I had signed papers on our new house, later that afternoon I found out that I had Lymphoma! What a year it has been! Now CANCER FREEE! MD Anderson ROCKS! But I know it wasn’t just them that saved me! It was all the out pouring of love and prayers from friends across the globe! I just couldn’t imagine so many people actually took time out of their busy schedules to pray for me! There were people that told their churches about me and they put me on the prayer list. It was just the most amazing thing I have ever gone through! I don’t think of my cancer as a bad thing. Not at all! In fact it was the best thing that could have happened to me! It brought my family closer together, and a new found appreciation for each other! During my whole treatment I didn’t feel afraid, I felt like a huge blanket had been wrapped around me. It wasn’t until my cancer was gone that I felt scared. I thought I would be forgotten and people weren’t going to be praying for me still, like someone snatched my blanket away. I know different now though! Many have told me they keep me in their thoughts and prayers. I have had 2- 3 month check ups and both were good! No more cancer cells to be found! I have gone back to work in November 08 at Kohl’s. I love working there! They feel like a 2nd family to me. I just wished I had more time off to craft! That keeps me sane! I wished I could clone myself and let Nutt stay home to sew! Hehehehe
I really love our new house so much! We have done so many changes to it to make it our own. Our latest endeavor is new beds! My hubby is so sweet! He made our head board for our bed from an old door. I still need to paint it. He made our youngest daughter a queen sized bed with huge drawers under the bed on either sides (still need to paint this too!). And last omgosh my middle daughter had the most odd room in the house. Her closet was huge with an octagon window in it. Just weird! So we tore out most of that wall and made an arch, put 2 pot lights inside the arch and made her a built in bed where her closet used to be! Then he added a closet on the outside wall! She loves hello kitty stuff, so I ordered her a blanket that is just perfect! It is the recycle hello kitty! Anyway here is a pic of her and her room! Can you tell what her fav color is? lol



Here is a before pic!



Demo!



Here is a couple of pics of our bed! Still need to paint it though! Don't look at all my junk! LOL





Thank you again to everyone who sent cards, letters, gifts and most importantly PRAYERS!!! I love yall!!!

Went Junking and have the flu! Ughh!

Well this just never happens! Since going back to work at Kohl's I haven't had many days off. Well this weekend it fell that I was off Fri Sat and Sun! Those are the the days my hubby works. So what does he do? He took vacation so we could do things together! Friday we got up early to go junking (AKA antiquing). Well I was just starting to feel bad, and as the day went on I just got worse. We did manage to hit a few antique shops. I got some really neat stuff! One thing that was my absolute fav was a shopping cart!!! I had to argue with hubby over that one! But I won! It was only..... ready for this? 5 DOLLARS!!! I have been wanting one FOREVER!!!

That was my 1st score!
Next we went to Crosby to these 4 lil antique shops all in a row.
I got the cutest lil ladder for $14!

I found the cutest lil blue wooden chair also! Along with an iron wall basket planter thingy! And if you look in the basket you will see the miniature horse hames (bridal thing and bit). I think the chair was $5, the basket was $14, and the horse thing was $15!



Oh I also got this big galvanized chicken waterer thing. It was the highest amount I spent on something. It was $25, but I love it. I didn't get a pic of it yet, I will have to take one tomorrow and post.

Our last stop was this door place. They install doors and have the old ones on the property that they take out. I was on the hunt for one for our headboard. The very 1st one is the one we ended up getting. Then we also found an iron gate, not sure what we are going to do with it yet, but I liked it. And my most fav thing we found there was a huge transum (sp?) half round window! lol I got all 3 of them for $60! Wooo hoo!





Well nuts!!! I need to get a pic of the door that will be our future headboard. Guess I will do that tomorrow!
I need to get back to bed! I have been running 102 fever. The dr called me in a RX. It seems to be helping, but I just have no energy, but my mind is racing wanting to do so much on my days off, but doesn't look like I will get it done. I feel so sorry for my hubby. He was really looking forward to doing stuff with me.
Well thanks for reading! (((HUGZ)))

Cancer Free and 15 yr anniversary! :)

Good morning! I am sorry it has been so long since I did an update! So much has gone on with me this month! January started out pretty bad but finished off pretty good!
I have been working a lot at Kohl’s had 2 court dates (with my ex for child support). I won! And this past month I have been working on our taxes. Got them done, filed for rapid refund, but was denied. A lot of people we know were too. Don’t know what is up with that, but they said it was going to take 5-10 business days to process. So we are waiting on that still. Then my Grandmother passed away Jan 8 so I had a wake and funeral to go to. The 15th I had my cancer re-staging and pet scan. Then on the 16th my lil chi had puppies! Yesterday was my blood work and test results….. CANCER FREE! Then to top it off it was our 15 yr anniversary! Woo hoo! So things are looking up! Crossing my fingers!
I have a facebook if you would like me as a friend, here is my link: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=507929259&v=feed&story_fbid=62014944501#/profile.php?id=507929259&ref=profile