I THINK OUR YEAR-TOOK SOME

 lessons from Nascar--and decided to revive up the hours in each day, week, and month--

cause so far this year is just 'zooming' right on by us!!!

So --let's see what did I get accomplished this week???  Monday morning Van went to Aldi's and of course I go next door to JoAnn's--needed a couple more gifts for my friend Anne, in NY for her birthday--found a cat puzzle with a quilt on it --750 pcs and was able to get that 40% off--(why are puzzles so expensive???) And found 2 novelty print fabrics--one was cats and quilts and the other one had  pretty humming birds on it--

Tuesday was a bus trip to the Publix shopping plaza--needed to go to Dollar tree for birthday gift wrapping paper--they had no wrapping paper left--and that store was such a mess--I just turned around and left--Big Lots did not have wrapping paper nor did Publix--so it's a good thing I did have a small bundle of tissue paper that said 'Happy Birthday'!!!  Tuesday afternoon I did the gift wrapping and by this time I was getting selfish and decided I wanted to keep the Hummingbird fabric--only---there was one square empty spot in the box--and that cute Hummingbird fabric folded just right and wrapped in tissue filled it in perfectly!!!

Wednesday I first had to see the volunteer nurse who comes each Wednesday between 11-1--to get my B-12 injection--Then Cheryl took me to an Eye glass shop to order me some new prescription reading glasses--I had $550 insurance credit for a new pair--and it still cost me another $17 for them--just simple pair of glasses!!!   Then we headed on up the road to Denny's and had a nice breakfast meal for our lunch!!  when we left we went across the street to a Good Will shop and '2' items in Pink came home with me--

This was a $5.99 sale--I did look up Graces Teaware and they are still selling tea cups and tea pots etc.--but did not find this one--so believe this one is an older one from them and I wonder if at some point it did not have a saucer with it???  And that little spoon is so cute--but I do wonder why there is a hole in the handle????

And I found this bowl--

Do you notice something the same about both of these 'new to me' items???

Finally on Thursday I got to do a bit of playing with fabrics and did some sorting and organizing of heart squares for this month's challenge--I have enough hearts to actually do 3 larger wall hangings--I think I will keep 2 sets of the hearts and sent the other set to Anne at some point--one set is mostly the birds hearts with a few other thrown in of flowers and some other animals the second set is all sewing hearts--

In sorting them I decided they were quiet plain--so I am now doing a dash line in black all around them--

I have 17 done--8 more to go on first set--

And I got this redwork ornament done the first part of the week--

And on Saturday I was able to press a couple of the 5 pc fat quarter kids prints I had gotten in and got half of one of them sewed together--

need to cut more squares--am cutting them 4 1/2" squares--

And this is the newest Counted Cross stitch project--

Remember I told you I would forget to take a photo of the finished cats and books cross stitching--well-- I did forget--but I did get it finished to send in Anne's box!!!

And I got all the blocks hand quilted with a 1/4" border--and now I am going back and doing the outlining inside each block--

Notice the second photo--I am doing a dragon fly in each of the 9 patches!!

And another little baby sweater was finished--

a really pretty blue one!!!

And boy are my grandchildren growing like 'weeds'--they must really love me!!!!!

(remember these are the babies on my new spider plant!!!)

BE SURE TO ENJOY THIS LAST WEEK OF AUGUST ---KEEP WORKING ON THOSE PROJECTS AND HAVING SOME FUN WITH FAMILY AND FRIENDS--

HUGS TO ALL--DI