Sewing an Extra Long Bed Skirt

Bed lifters, bed raiser, bed lifts, bed risers ... anyway... they are all the rage! Extra storage now for your guns, food storage, whatev. The only problem - standard bed skirts aren't long enough!

To solve this problem I took a pillow from the bed with me to Hobby Lobby and grabbed some sale fabric - 3 yards

ripped, folded, ironed, pinned, sewed, DONE! Extra long bed skirt out of my existing plain white bed skirt.



2 nails
twine
clothes pins
paper
water colors
little girl

Making Lemonade

We are trying our darnedest to get our house looking fantastic so we can sell it quickly. This is NO fun, because I am doing all the things I wanted to do, but not for me, for someone else.

Me and the credit card went to the store and bought beautiful yellow mums that we cannot afford, and I came home and planted them. Juliet and Cougar were helping me. I asked Juliet to clean off some rocks for the rock garden in a large bucket.

She told me she was done and I went to inspect them, only to my astonishment, the entire bucket was full of the tops of the mums! I yelled "NO! What did you do!?" My new, unaffordable mums were now naked! Juliet began to cry and said, "I was just cleaning them for you."

Boy did I feel like a jerk. I pulled myself together and we went in and found a big glass bowl. We put water in the bottom and put the flowers in to float on top and made a centerpiece for the table.

Naked Mums


Centerpiece on Table

Alice Dress

I love it! This dress is for little Alice Bright, my best friend Stephanie's new baby. I got the idea from the green apple dress on Cally's blog. It was the inspiration, but this one came out totally different, which I guess is how inspiration works...
Anyhow, every little girl should have a pretty dress.

Fancy Pants

These are the first pants I have ever sewn! Juliet loves her new fancy pants.

Lions and Tigers and Bears, Oh My!

No lions, or tigers, but we took the kids on a hike up to Laural Falls and we encountered a Mama Bear and her two cubs! No one was hurt, she went her way and we went ours.


Poor Juliet fell into the F-ReeZing water! She was so sad and cold.



Chad and Cougar climbed the falls. Cougar is like Spiderman/monkey the way he can scale walls and waterfalls with lightning fast speed and no fear.

Homemade Peach Ice Cream

This is SO easy and you will NOT find this recipe online so copy and paste!

2 cups whole milk
2 cups heavy whipping cream
¾ cup sugar
1tsp Vanilla

1 cup crushed, sliced or pureed peaches (optional)

Ice Cream Maker
Box of Rock Salt
10-20lbs ice
water

Mix first half of ingredients in metal part of ice cream maker (wait on the peaches). Start machine according to machine directions. Once the cream is thickening up, add the peaches and let it turn until ice cream is ready.
I scream!
You scream!

Mayo or Bust!

Our new place:

Ha, Ha, just kidding (maybe)

Well, my friends, Psyke! or Sike! or is it Psych! on the whole moving to Tennessee thing. It looks like Florida is the destination of choice~

Chad got a call last night offering him an anesthesia residency position at Mayo Clinic - and he accepted!