More Swaps

Well, I don't know how many of you are subscribing to Teresa's Bellatoria or any of the past ezines but we just had the best swap. My partner was Kathi and our swap was"Queen Tea" as you can see by what all she sent to me. The crown is part of what I sent to her, my first attempt at making a crown and I think I made it a lot harder than it should have been. I love all of my goodies and have already had 2 cups of tea. It is hard here in the south to have hot tea and not iced sweet tea but I do try it every once in a while. Thank you so much Kathi!!!
I bought the sweetest book from Phyllis and just had to show you. If you don't already know she has a Flea market sale every Friday so make sure you check it out. I also got an order from Heather of wonderful old jewelry. I can't remember what they were named but I got two separate bunches, one with silvers and one with mauvey/purple colors. The pics do not do them justice.
The other pics I have posted are from Easter with my youngest and his cousin Luke. As you can tell they don't favor at all but then my brother is the tall skinny one in the family and somehow I came out short and dumpy. Go figure.
And last but not least my husband and I went to Chattanooga last weekend and on the interstate coming home this is what we looked in the rear window to see. Of course we had to let the van pass us so I could take another shot from behind. We laughed so hard for abt. 30 min. Somehow this guy made it off the interstate in Forsyth with no problems, he had to have the strongest cords holding that mattress on but he sure made our day.
I hope everyone is doing well and I will be back soon to post more photos of my latest flea market run and add some goodies to Etsy. Have a wonderful day!!!

Better Late Than Never

We have had so much going on around here that I am way behind posting some pics of a Valentine Swap that I did. Cheryl sent me the greatest heart thingy? that I have ever seen. I think I have shown everyone I know and of course my husband just looks at me like I am nuts. I have worn the apron all over the place and my 3 year old thinks it is a skirt that I forgot to sew the back on. He goes around me looking at it like he just can't figure out what the problem is.

Somehow I forgot to upload the pics of the apron but will get them added in the next post.

Well I am off to stuff Easter eggs for the preschool hunt tomorrow but will be back soon with those etsy items and another swap box from Bellatoria.

New Look

I have been gone forever but Sara at Sadie Olive has worked her magic on my blog so now I am back. Thank you so much Sara, it is so perfect!!!
The pic in the banner is my Great,Great Grandfather's second wife, Mattie, who actually raised all of his kids which probably explains why she looks the way she does. Can you imagine marrying a man abt. 15 years older than you who has 12 kids already and then having 6 more? NO THANK YOU!! I love old pics of anyone's family but esp. my own but then I have shown you so many you probably already knew that.
Speaking of old things, we are in the midst of remodeling our kitchen and I am looking for an old kitchen sink. If anyone in Georgia knows of a salvage yard, please comment and let me know where. We visited Second Chance, an architectural salvage shop this morning but no luck on the sink. Of course it was like Heaven with all of the old doors, molding, thousands of mantels, doorknobs, cabinets, posts, railing. I am tellin ya it was Heaven, but my husband was right with me and he was feeling the presence of the Lord like I was.
Anyway, hopefully we can get back there and I can get pics for all of you. Time to go put kids in bed but will be back tomorrow with pics of some new Etsy items. Please go check out Sara and see if she can't whip up something for your blog!

Happy 2008!!!

My husband playing Jimi Hendrix on Guitar HeroIII! Too Funny!!

I have been such a bad blogger these last few months, seems like we have so many deaths in our family at this time of year that FAMILY has been my number one priority. Family should be number one but if I don't get some time to myself I may just snap. So... I have made a resolution to blog more, meet more of you, craft more and perhaps a new adventure for me before Valentines if everything goes right. I will fill you in more as things progress.

My oldest two started bball this past Sat. and I wasn't on top of things as far as pics go, it's hard to watch, cheer, take pics and watch over a 3 year old all at once. It has been so long since I posted I have actually updated the pics since Halloween. The next couple of days will be updating my etsy shop so please check it out on Wednesday the 9th.

Can you believe I posted something Phyllis? LOL!! I have been "missing in action" but we have had 2 deaths in our family and between them and sickness, well blogging has been in the back seat.

I do want to tell you that if you haven't signed up for Winterbella, you need to go do it right away!!!! I will be showing some of my creations in the next few posts. I have to go cook now but will be back tomorrow.

"It's been a long time coming...."

I know, I know, where have I been? You guys can't imagine how crazy my life has been this past month! I have been reading everyone's blogs faithfully just not my own. I am the room parent for my 3 yr old's class and we have one thing after another planned and we haven't even got to the Christmas activities yet, UGH!!!!!

I am preparing for the Mistletoe Market in Perry Ga., which will be the 16, 17, 18th of Nov at the Ag Center for anyone in the area. I think they have 60 vendors this year and lots of variety for shopping. My Pampered Chef booth did well last year so I thought I would try to sell some of my crafting this year. I have knitted several wraps, made tons of journals and candles and I've gotten my self so worked up and nervous abt. how much money to put into this, I will have an ulcer when it's over. Everyone that stops by my booth and mentions this blog, gets 20% off your purchase.

The last time I posted I was working on my family reunion, Thank God that is over!!!!! It was great, we had abt. 75 people show which wasn't bad for the first ever Dover reunion. The majority of the family doesn't even know that the others exist so I thought all in all we did pretty good. I have more family shots I want to post but will have to do that later. I now have to go clean a costume that my child wore to school today for Fall Festival. Of course mine was the only one that spilled grape juice all over his lap.

Family

This pic is my GGGrandparents David and Eliza Dover, supposedly
some Cherokee indian in her? What do you think? This one is my Mom and Dad and me-Dover bunch
This one is my mom and dad's wedding(Shivar and Dover Families)

Here is my GGGranddad-Brinson Shivar(family from Prussia)

I saw a post by Corey on family and thought since I have been working on these photos I would show them, who knows, maybe I have family out there I didn't know was visiting me.

I know it has been over a week since I posted and I haven't even visited y'all very much this week but I have been working on family issues. My dad is working in Illinois (he's an electrician) and has been there since June. He came home for a visit last weekend and bought an RV so I have been handling all of the paperwork and bills that come thru for him. I can hardly keep up with my own and now his too, UGH!!!

I am also in the process of planning the Dover Family Reunion that is to be held on Oct. 20th and this family is so spread out I am still hunting them down. I just found 3 in New Orleans area yesterday and there is only 1 month left before the reunion... Anyway, you can just imagine how frazzled I am working on it, 4 swaps that I joined like some kind of nutjob, and my everyday duties. I will have pictures in the next couple of days of the dresses I made for one swap, the sweet and sinister swap goodies and the Owl swap I am in. Needless to say I will not join 4 at one time again!!

I will be back in the next few days to show what I have been working on, hope everyone is having a great week.

"Flea"in and Taggin

Packs and packs of old gift wrap
I can remember this being on my Granma's curtains, but I found yards and yards.
The flea market has hundreds of these and I just keep buying them up, can't wait to make some altered books with them! You might even find a kit containing one in my etsy shop

Flea-in and Taggin.......Cause that's how we talk in this here part!!

I went to the flea market last week and wanted to share a few things that I found, obviously you see them above. I have also been tagged by Sandy to list my middle name and some words to describe me with each letter. Here are the rules:

So this meme works this way (condensed version):*You must list one fact that is somehow relevant to your life for each letter of your middle name.*If you don’t have a middle name, use the middle name you would have liked to have had.* At the end of your post, you need to choose one person for each letter of your middle name to tag.

D-devilish(I love to play jokes on people or say shocking things that embarass most normal people)(you know, abt. hemorrhoids or pooping or what not)

A-Angelic(not really, it is just what my name means:)

W-witty(my husband will laugh hysterically at my using this word, he says I am just plain nuts)

N-never on time(as you can tell, Sandy tagged me on Aug. 30th)