tlc's Random Life

 To be honest, both.  Yep that's right, what your looking at is a feed sack re-purposed into a tote bag.  If you're like me you're thinking "what?  those are trash"  But turns out they are kinda cute and people seem to really like them. ~~~ Here is how it started.  Stephanee was at a pig show with her girls and sent me a picture of some that a lady was selling...and asked me "do you think we can make these?"  My reply was "of course I think we can make these.  I have made tons of bags in the past."  Whats funny is that just a few days before she sent me the photo, while having lunch with Jody she showed me a different photo and said she thought I would like the bag.  I didn't realize at the time but that bag was also made out of empty feed sacks.   I had a few projects going that needed finishing up before I could work on this crazy idea, but this week we had collected a few feed sacks (we go through a lot of them so it wasn...

(Before we get started...the photos are random and a little all over the place.  Hope you enjoy)  My lap while driving, yo-yo stuff and camera   That is the very question Stephen and I should have been asking ourselves long before now, that's for sure.  Because the answer was...YES!!!  We have to make time before we all go completely crazy in this house.  With so much of our time spent at work (or school in the case of our girls)  As a family it seemed that we were always moody and super fussy.  So a couple of weeks before the girls spring break, I asked Stephen to plan to take off on the Wednesday, Thursday, Friday of that week so that the four of us could leave town and spend some much needed time having fun and relaxing.  I was thinking a short drive around out home state seeing a few things we haven't ever seen, but well nothing ever goes as planned.  we ended up in 3 states in 3 days.  We started out at home here in OK ...

OK so I should have posted this yesterday with it being St. Patrick's Day, but I didn't quite get to it.  Now I'm not like most of the country who go all out to celebrate this holiday even when they are not even Irish, I will honestly admit that other than the whole "gotta wear green or your gonna get pinched" part I am not even sure what the day is all about.  With that said, I am not making light of it in any way.  Its just I'm not Irish (that I know of) and have never really been taught about it.  However, a girl I have come to know while working this crazy job of mine is and is all about this holiday.  She recently had a baby (sweet baby Ella) and I had yet to get her a gift. While out shopping with Steph, we decided to make her a quilt to give her for Ella's first St. Paddy's Day.  So it started...we ended up picking out 10 different fabrics to make this little quilt and while surfing the web for just the right pattern I found just the right one. ...

Hey there, seems like forever since I posted.  It was just a week or so ago just after falling from the horse twice in one day...but when I don't write I miss it.  I don't know why, I just do.  But life has been pretty crazy and has had me running all over the place meeting this person and that for lunch, dinner and a ladies fellowship.  Not to mention all the little projects I have going and appointments for my girls and this morning...that whole spring forward mess.  I do love longer days, but am missing that hour of sleep today.  Sometimes it all seems a bit overwhelming, but I keep on going because thats what I do.  Here is what has been going on. Projects that are in progress...my yo-yo quilt  What looks like a lot is really only 32 of 80 but judging by the size of the little circles, I am sure I am going to need more along the lines of...oh I don't know 800 but we'll see.  I am doing this one all by hand.  So I may get tired...

So the last day of February...the 29th...leap year.  What better way to enjoy the day (that only comes around once every 4 years) than with weather this nice.  It was amazing outside today.  Much like most of the days we have gotten this past "winter"  Brittnie and I got out the horses today.  It was quite windy so we should have known better, but we did it anyway.  This is a shot from the saddle of Joey.  We set out to just wonder in the pasture seeing that he hasn't really been rode in the last few years.  Just want to get him use to being rode more regularly.  We were having a blast.  we made several laps and what seemed like a very long time(turns out it was only 30 minutes)  Britt looks back at me and says "so mom you ready to trot yet?"  I reply with "what? NO, I am not!"  I have to remind her that even though I have been a horse owner for nearing 7 years now, because my life has been busy working, being a ...