Waiting For The New Year

Well I am sitting heare waiting for the New Year 2007. Hoping and praying that 2007 will be a better year for not just me but for every one. We usually go to our neighbor's house for New Year Eve, but I took a tumble yesterday and bruised my bad old leg. I just didnt feel up to getting dress and fixing a cover dish to take. I guess this the first time that we have'nt gone to our neighbors house in over 6 years. They are really good neighbors and they really watch after us. When I fell yesterday my husband couldn't get me up off of the floor and he called them. They came right down and took me to ER. Thank goodness I didnt break any bones just bruised up my old bad leg. I am feeling better tonight but just sore.

I wanted to do some art work but just didnt feel up to it today. Hope that I will be up to it tomorrow. I bought some DVDS for my husband for Christmas so we watch those, I mean I watch the movies my husband slept through both of the movies. So I had a lonely New Eve Night.

It is 11:30 right now and husband has gone to bed for the night after I roused him up out of his recliner to take our dog Sassy out to potty. A great New Eve evening I must say. I have always enjoyed going to our neighbors house as we all had so much fun and great food. I really miss not going this new year eve and I know they understood why I wasnt able to come as they are my helpers when I need them. I guess I am just feeling sorry for myself. Didn't mean to cry on anyones shoulders.

I do hope every one has a Good New Year in 2007. I pray that my health will get better and that we will have peace around the world.
Granny Lottie

Wonderful Day

Well I know I havent posted in here since before Christmas. I had a wonderful Christmas Day with my children(the ones that were able to come) I know most of you have read Beths blog of the account of our Christmas Day together with our family. We had a great day and she posted some pictures of the family on Christmas day. As you all know I am not smart enough yet on this blog to post pictures LOL. I have tried and just guess I dont hold my mouth the right way as they never appear in my blog LOL. After Christmas day I packed all of my Christmas decorations and tree away as to me after our get together with our children Christmas was over with for me. I got real smart and started reorganizing my art room. I packed all of my Christmas and fall art supplies away. Then I typed labels for all of my drawers of supplies so I could go and find what I needed. I was spending more time looking for something than making something. I still like my littler drawers with do dads labeling them. I receive so many wonderful treats from every one when I host a swap in ATCS, Books they really come in handy in my art projects. I really appreciate all those treats that I receive from all of my art friends.

Today was a wonderful day as my sweet Beth and I went out to my two sisters house and spent the day with them. We exchanged Christmas presents with one another. I got a beautiful Christma pillow and a beautiful cream color scarf with my initials on it. My sister fixed us a nice lunch. I made both of my sisters a YA YA Girls Book and knitted them a neck scarf. My oldest sister will be 87 years old in Feb and my other sister will be 85 in Feb. also. I am the baby of us three girls. I will be 78 in Feb. also. We were all borned in the month of Feb.
My oldest sister Adelaide is so sweet and bless her heart she is able to live by herself and cleans her appartment and cooks. She goes to all of her grand children and great grand childrens birthday parties and ball games. She really get around real good for her age. Her eye site is failing on her and she couldnt read the little book that I made her. Guess what Beth done she went to Walmart and got both of my sisters a magnify glass that went around their necks and rested on their chests so they could read the books. They both have the dry degenrating disease of the eyes like I have also, but my oldest sisters eyes are getting worse.

We left my sisters house in the afternoon and we just had to go by Hobby Lobby and Book A Million stores. We had both swore that our New Year Resolution was going to be not to buy any more card stock and supplies. Well 2007 isnt here yet and we bought more paper and supplies LOL. They had some of the most beautiful Valetine card stock and was on sale. We bought some stickers and stamps. We then went to bookstore and I bought 2 new art magazine and of course Beth bought some book on her new toy her camera that Santa Daniel gave her.
I spent the night with Beth last night so we could get up early to go to my sisters. Beth and I tried some new techniques out in the book that Beth gave me for Christmas. We finished our deco books ready to mail to the next person on the list in our round robin deco books.

Beth made some great pictures of our visit with my sisters. I want try to upload them in here as I am so dumb they never load in here. Maybe one of these days I will learn. Beth tried to show me how last night to do it but my old mind has already forgotter what she showed me LOL.

Wishing every one a Wonderful and A Happy New Year.

Granny Lottie

No!! I am not dead yet

I guess everyone that has checked my blogs are wondering if I surrvive Miss Jane visit. I really enjoyed her visit and I sure hated to see her leave. We had such a good time together. I also was so glad that Jill came up here on Wednesday to meet with Jane, Beth, Rosemary and me. We really enjoyed all of us meeting one another for the first time. It is so nice to meet your dear friends in person. I wish I could meet all of my art friends in person. Maybe one of these days I will. I hope to go to visit Jane this summer and I will get to meet Beth McVeigh also who lives fairly close to Janes house. I have been so busy after Jane left catching up on all of my art projects that we all goofed off while she was here and shopped two days while she was here. So I am just about caught up I hope. Finished making my Christmas Greeting Cards to send out today. I do have Judy Dicks Winter Wonderland Book to work in and I need to finished up making gift tins for my kids money that we give them every year. Oh well tomorrow is anothe day of work but it is the kind of work that I enjoy so much.

If you read the time this was posted you will see I couldn't sleep so I just finally got up at 3:30 A.M. My darn old leg and hip was hurting me so badly that I just got out of bed and turned the coffee pot on and here I am just a typeing away LOL. I am so tired of being in pain with my hip,back and leg. Nothing seems to help the pain and I surely dont want to get hooked on drugs. I didnt take a pain pill or muscle relaxer last night as I am so afraid I will get hooked on those darn things. I went to the Dr. last week and had a cortisone shot and he gave me pain patches and pain medicine. The shot helped my swelling in my feet but didnt ease my pain. They also made xrays of my hip and done a bone dinsity test on my back and hip. So far havent heard from these test yet. If I dont hear today I will call the Dr. today. I am so darn tired of hurting like this. Here I am a 77 years old woman that should be up running around like a chicken with its head cut off, but no I can hardley walk much less run. I see women my age that is all spruce up and dancing with a good looking old codger and here I sit and sit. Oh well guess I am just feeling sorry for myself. But Gee I would love to be able to travel and see a different scenery than Dickson. Guess I will just be contented to sit and do my arts and be thankful that I can get out of bed every morning. I have a lot to be thankful for. I have a good husband, very fortune that we have a good retirement and wonderful kids and family a good warm place to live in and food on the table. Our newspaper has been posting some sad stories about people on the Wish List that breaks my heart to read about. All I ask the Good Lord is for better health and continue to be able to get around.

Well guess I better get off of here as I have a lot of work to do today. Just wanted anyone that happens to come in here to check out my blog that I was still kicking, but not up a storm LOL.

Lisa I am so sorry about your Mom. May God Bless you and give you the strenght to see these holidays through without her.

Will try to do better on writing in my blog I promise for the New Year that will be one of my resolutions.
Granny

November 21,2006

Well just six more days until Miss Jane arrives her in Dickson Tenn. I know you all are wondering how we will know one another at the air port. Well Miss Jane sez she will have a red hat on with white fer around it. I Lutie Mae and Bethrue will have overalls on and a red check flamer shirt on and a big straw hat with dry weeds around the brin. We will be carry a gift basket of nuts and fruite and or course cholates all wrap up in Red what you call that paper. I no that we will be able to pic Miss Jane out as she will be the only one to have a red hat with fer around it. I hope they will let usen in the airport and not think we are terist with the big basket of stuff. I dont want them people to be feeling all over my body to chet me out as I may pee in my over alls. I know Bethrue will get a trill out of them checking her body out but not narry me.
I sure hope it dont snow as I dont want my feet to get wet as we will be bar footed and Miss Janes fer on her hat mite get to smell like a possum fur!!!!

Jest want to let you good folks no how we would know one another. By the way all of our neibors can hardy wait for Miss Jane to come and visit usen.

Happy Thinkgivings
Love

November17,2006

As usual I havent been on my computer very much lately. My dear sister came up to visit me this past Sunday and stayed through Wednesday. We had so much fun while she was here. She is 87 years old but you wouldn't know it except she is on a walker dued to the fact that her balance isn't all that good. She falls a lot of the times. She doesnt let the walker stopped her from going. On monday we went to the Dollar Tree Store and I helped her pick out little trinkets for all of her 21 great grandchildren for Christmas. She has 15 grandchildren and 21 great grandchildren.Then we went to an outlet store there we bought ourselves a blazer a piece. Next we went to Taco Bell and had her favorite Mexican Pissa. We then went to Big Lot and from there we went to Walmart. Boy! were we tired when we got home. We both laugh about us being out together as she was on a walker and me with a cane. We said;" We bet everyone was making a comment that those two old lady should be in a nursing home or assistant living instead out in this cold shopping." Monday night my sister looked at my christmas cards that I had been making and she picked one out that she liked and ask me if I would make 12 for her to send to some special friends. I made her 12 cards and finished them up on Tuesday morning. I also made her 5 Christmas braceletts to give to some of her children. We played Mexican Train Dominoes and Skip Board. She beat me 3 times in dominoes and I beat her 3 times in Skipbo. We had so much fun being together. My other sister couldn't come as she was helping her son move. We really miss her not being with us.

I had to take my sister home on Wednesday in a pouring down rain. I could hardly see to drive it was raining so hard. It has been raining here ever since Wednesday. Right now it looks like the sun will shine today but yet is is only seven oclock so just dont know. I do know it is cold as krout here.

I am behind on my art project due to my sister visit with me but what the heck I got a break from my art and so enjoyed her visit with me. I forgot to mention that my sister couldn't get over all of the art pieces I had from all of my art friends. She understood why I was in it so big and spent most of my time in my art room. She would like to do all of the arts but her eye sight is getting bad. She did help me do some things with the braceletts and also some tags. She really bragged on all of my friends arts.

I went to the beauty shope yesterday and I got my nails sone and hair fixed and then met my hubby at Walmarts and got my grocery in. Came home and dropped in the recliner. I finally got up and fixed dinner and then went into my art room and started making a tag for the tag of the month. Decided to do the 4 chunky book pages that I am in a swap for. I just cant decide on collaging. I am not good at putting articles or pictures together in a collage, I dont think this old mind will cooperate with me LOL. I love to stamp and paint but collaging isnt my cup of tea as the old saying goes.

Well my hubby is up and ready for breakfast and I guess I better get off of here and get busy. Hope to really get with it in my arts today and finish up some of the projects. I want to be finished so I can enjoy Thanksgiving with my son Gary who might be able to come to see me. If he has a man to feed his horses. We always go to Beths for Thanksgiving and her husband does the dinner that day. If my son doesnt make it here we will go to Beths for the dinner. She always has such a good dinner. In fact 3 years ago on Thanksgiving day is when she got me into doing all of the arts that I am doing. I started out doing ATCS then went further up in all kind of arts. Beth I am so glad that you talked me into doing all of the arts. It has been a good theraphy for me.

I will try to post some pictures later on today of some of my arts and some of my friends arts.
Have a good weekend and A Wonderful Thanksgiving Day.
Love
Granny





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Getting ready for Janes visit!

Well Beth and I have been talking about all the fun we are going to have when our friend Jane comes down to visit in a couple of weeks. She has never been to visit before and we can't wait! We will be picking her up at the airport. We will probably use Beth's car, I sure hope Jane can climb up in it, its just a tad bit tall.

Of course if it snows, we will have to break down and use our luxury limo-motorhome, as it does come equiped with a snowplow.
I am gettin the house all decorated up for her. I know she has some knee problems and sure am hoping she will be able to manage the steps up to the Palace when we get her here.

I though I would decorate the house some for her, so we got Rudys santa hat out and put it on him for Jane to enjoy.
Also Sassy our sweet puppy is so excited,,she just can't quit grinning.
We thought if it was kind of warmish,,we might get the house boat out and take her for spin on the river.
But,,,the really biggist and funniest thing is going to be the Party we are having in her honor. All my nieghbors are going to coming over to meet her. Oh its going to be fun! One of our closest neighbor is name Billy Bob. He is into nature big time. In fact when Nature calls he can enjoy even then with his deluxe bathroom/front porch. Its ok Jane,,he is single at the present time. Although he frequently does seem to want to fight on the telephone with several of his ex wifes, but only when he has a case or two.
But the biggest surprise of all,,is that we just got a new hot tub. Of course most of the neighbors have been over to try it out already. But ,,,here is a glimpse of some the hotties that will be ready to do some "tubbin" with you Jane!!!!
Now Jane,,we aren't going to show you all the other exciting things we have planned for you here. This is just a small glimpse of the fun that you be experiencing here in Dickson. I know you can't wait to get here,,we can't either! Beth and I just wanted to get you ready for the fun time we will have! Enjoy and see you in 2 weeks!!!

October 23,2006

As usual I haven' posted in my blog for several days. I have been so busy with my arts trying to catch up with all of the trades that I signed up for. I also had to put the tag books together with Beths help. We got all of tags made into books and mailed the books out to everyone that had signed up to make the books. I think every one really liked their books. I really did enjoyed hosting this tag book, so much that I am hosting another tag book for Christmas Celebrations. The group that I am in is ATCS and Alter Books. We have so many wonderful artists in our group it is such a pleasure to host a swap. I am in several other groups also. I have been making guilt squares for one group that we will make a book out of our quilt squares. Another group that I am in we are making quilt squares also out of fabric and I plan to make a quilt wall hanger out of those squares when we have finished swapping our squares. This is something new for me and I am not all that good in quilting. I have tried to sew on my machine a sating stitch around cut outs of material and with my old eyes I am afraid I have made something of a mess with outlining the pieces that I attached with satin stiches on my sewing machine.

Nothing new going on at my house. My hubby eye surgery was canceled for last Thursday as the Dr. had an infection that went to his blood stream and was in ICU. They called and set up an appointment for November 2nd for his surgery. I so hated it for him as he has another two weeks to dread the surgery. His son from Oklahoma came to be with him for his surgery and drive us to hospital and see Dr. after his surgery. Robbie is a fine man and not married and he has heart problems and on disable to drive long distant truch driver so they retired him. He is a big help to us.

Beth and I went to the stamp show this past Saturday and really enjoyed seeing all of the goodies that the vendors had. And of course I spent until I was broke. Bought some unmounted stamps, color pencils, chalk and metal paper. We done some take and goes also. Learned how to emboss on metal sheets. I hope I can remember how to do this. May have to wait until Beth and I get together for her to help me remember all of the steps in doing this. We also met Rosemary at the show. It was so wonderful to meet one of our new members in our ATC group in person. We had been in touch with Rosemary through the posting on message board and email but it was so great to meet her in person. She is a sweetie and we are hoping to get together soon with her again. My friend Jane in our group is coming to see me the last of November and I am really looking forward to seeing her. She is in our ATC group also. Rosemary will meet her also and Jill from Alabama will come up and meet Jane also. It is so wonderful to meet your friend for the first time face to face. I wish I could meet all of my friends that I have made through my art groups. Guess I want be able to do that as I cant travel all that much. I have friends all over the U.S. that I have made through my art groups. Jane is the moderator of ATC and it is the first group that I joined when I started my arts. That was 2 years ago when Beth got me into going back to doing my crafts and arts.

My hubby just now got up this morning so I guess I better get off of here and prepare breakfast. I got up around five this morning and been reading all of the blogs. Every ones blogs are so interesting and pictures are great. Rosemary really had an interesting blog on her trip to Europe. My blog is very dull as my life is kind of dull LOL. I guess when you get my age and failing health you have to slow down and your life may become kind of dull. My life may be dull but I try to make it full of happiness and love all of my family and friends. What does people have that doesn't have a family and friends!!! I am so thankful for my wonderful family and friends and enjoy life to the fullness even if my life is dull and boring at times. Just plain old me but happy that I am able to get up every morning and enjoy each day.

I am taking theraphy for my Parkinson and back and balance in walking. I go three times a week and it is really strenghtening my legs and my balance in walking is getting better. Beth and I took my walker with a seat that lets down to the Stamping show and that really helped. I have three more weeks of theraphy to do. I don't get much art work done going three times a week. I plan on continueing my exercises at home even after I finished the theraphy as it is helping me so much.

I will try to continue my story soon as I can and sorry that I havent finished it yet. I dont know if any of you have read it or not but it is a true story and has a surprise for the ending of it.

Got to fix breakfast for my hubby now. See you later.
Granny

Halloween Shrine

halloweeen pictures

October 8,2006

Well I see that my pictures didn't upload in here. I have done everything that Beth told me to do. Guess I will just wait and see if they will upload in here again.

I haven't been doing anything exciting as usual. My life is pretty dull. All I do is go to theraphy and beauty shop and shop for grocerys. I did go by Peebles and bought some white pants that were on sale with 90%off that cost me 3.79. Thought that was a good buy so I bought 2 pairs of the pants. Also bought me a nice tapestry jacket that was on sale also.

My son from Hartselle, Alabama came up to spend the day with me this past Saturday. I was so glad to see him and we had a good visit. Beth came by also to eat lunch with us and visit with us. She had just got a perm and her hair look so pretty. Last night I worked on some Halloween ATCS. for Beths swap that she is hosting. I have been working on some quilt blocks also this past week. I am having to learn how to ironing the clot patterns on the sewing machine. Not doing such a good job LOL.

My husband is going to have surgery on his eye again the 19th of October. I have to take him to get a shot in the eye next week and then surgery the following week. If he dose not have surgery he will loose his site in that eye due to dibetes. I dread this for him as I know it is going to be painful. His son from Ok. is coming to be with him also and help me out.
I am trying to get some of my arts done as I know the next couple weeks I may not have the time to do it.

It has turned cool here and the leaves are turning some but most of the time they are just falling off of their trees. We just didn't have enough rain for the leaves to be pretty. I had to turn the heat on last night as it got down into the fortys. I love fall but sure dread the winter months. I am afraid we are dued a bad winter.

Well I dont have anymore news just the same old same old with me. I am going to try once again to upload some pictures but it I dont have success this time I will just give up on it and wait to see if Beth can show me what I am doing wrong. Hope every one has a good following week.
Granny Lottie

October 1,2006

I hope it is as pretty at your house as it is here in Tenn. It is a beautiful sunny day and temperture is in the 80s and will be that way all next week. It is so hard for me to stay in the house when it is so pretty outside, but I had some art work to do and also to go to Walmart for some food and things I needed. I was too tired to go yesterday since I was up late friday night.

Yes I surrvived the Ray Price concert last Friday night. But boy it was hard on me climbing up that 5th ave. hill. With my hubby and Beths help I did make it up the hill. The Ryman was two blocks down from where Beth had to park. It was a steep hill and it wasn't that bad going down hill but oh my it was rough going up hill. Anyway I recalled how many times that I climb that hill as a young girl, as I worked in downtown Nashville. I never thought about climbing the hill and never got out of breath. I guess that is what old age does for you LOL. I know it was worth climbing the hill to see Ray Price. I really did enjoy hearing him sing. He may be an old codger of 80 years but boy he still has a wonderful voice. God gave him that talent and he will use it til the end of his time I feel sure.

Beth spent the night with me and we worked on some of our art work yesterday. She is a wonderful daughter and does so much for us. Beth went home and I finally got busy making some Halloween Postcards for a swap I am in. Then it stormed and I had to turn my computer off and went to bed. I was up at five this morning as I am not use to going to bed before twelve midnight. It only takes about six hours of sleep for me. When you get older the less sleep it takes for you I think.

I am going to try again to post some pictures of my art and of The Golden Girls, my two sisters and me. Maybe it will go through this time.I meant to get Beth to post some of my pictures when she was here saturday. Wish me luck as I need it LOL!!!!
Granny

Sept.28,2006

I see that my pictures didn't upload. Sorry about that. Nothing new going on in my life just the "same old same old". Oh my, I was tagged by my daughter Beth and I don't know what I am to do. I guess I will just wait until tomorrow night when she takes us to see Ray Price and spends the night with us. I will get her to show me what to do. I am dumb when it comes to blogging LOL. I finished making a Christmas Tin for a swap that I am hosting. It turned real pretty. I also finished putting the eyelets in the shipping tag books covers that I am hosting. I had to make 14 covers back and front as there are 14 gals that signed up for this swap. I have received all of the 14 except 5 gals. With my daughter help we will put the books together and mail each one a book no later than middle of October. Beth is so good in helping me with the swaps that I host and just wanted to let everyone know that she helps in these swaps. She and I work together on all of our art works. We have more fun doing this together. I finished my quilt page for another group and mailed it off also. I have the tin and 2 chunky pages to mail today and I guess I will start on my October arts that are dued in October.

I have been going to physical theraphy 3 times a week for my back and balance in my walking. Boy the theraphist really gives me a work out but at the end she really massage my back and leg.That is the best part of it. So far I think the theraphy is helping me. I have just had 4 sessions. I am so tire when I get back from the workout that I just sit for awhile and go through magazines and sometime nap LOL.

I am really looking forward to going tomorrow night to see Ray Price. He is one of my favorite singer of the older country music stars. I love his voice and I am hoping maybe some of the older stars will show up and surprise him in his concert.

Well I have been up since five this morning just woke up and couldn't go back to sleep. So I just got up turned the coffee on and came in here to do some writting in my blog. Guess this is all folks will try to upload pictures of the tin,quilt and golden girls.
Have a good day!!!!
Granny

Sunday Sept.24,06

I have been so busy that I haven't had time to post in here. I have been trying to get my quilt pieace ready for one quilt swap and another quilt piece ready for another swap. I also been making ATCS and Chunky Book pages. I am about ready to mail all of these out tomorrow so I thought I would take a break and come in and do some writting.

Nothing exciting has happened in my territory, just a few storms yesterday and down pours of rain. It is cooling off here to some degree. May be in the upper forties next week at night. I spent most of the day this past friday with my husband in two different eye doctors offices. He will not know if he has to have surgery on his eye until October. I am praying that he doesn't have to have it. I haven't been in much of a mood to write on my story. I guess you could say I have writer block. I will get around to writting in it before long.

Do you know 3 months from today will be Christmas Eve!!!! I can't believe how time flies by when you get older. The stores are already putting Christmas out and it isn't even Halloween, can you believe that!!! When I was growing up we never did think about Christmas until after Thanksgiving. We never put our live tree up until Christmas Eve. Now we are decorating the house and setting our tree up the day after Thanksgiving. Time sure does change our customs.

I am a country music fan big time!!! I want to go and see Ray Price Concert next Saturday night.
I am going to Krogers and check to see if there is any tickets left for the Concert. He is an older country singer and sings some of the most beautiful songs. Some of you younger ones may not know him. Beth said she would take me and my husband if there was still tickets left for the show. He was honored in the Country Music of Hall just this month and I figure some of his older buddies like Willie and Mel and some more might show up for the concert. I not only love country music I like some rock and roll,pop,classical. Heres hoping that I will be able to get tickets for this concert.

Guess break time is over as my drawing board is calling me LOL. I am going to try to upload some pics of my work and The Golden Girls(my 2 sisters and me). Keep your fingers cross that I will be able to upload these pics.
Lottie

Sunday Sept.17

I have been so busy that I haven"t kept my blog up. I just guess I forget about writing in here like I should. I am recovering from my fall real good and most of the bruises are fading away. I havent been doing much for the past week. I went to see my sister that hurt her leg trying to keep from falling. She wasnt able to walk and had to go to the hospital for a few days. She is now in a nursing home for a few weeks to take theraphy for her leg. She is 86 years old and she is a dear. She didnt like it much when they put her in the nursing home. I worked two days on A Funny Book that consists of all of the funny pictures and quotes that I had saved in my computer. I thought she needed some laughs while she was recooperating in the nursing home. She has really enjoyed reading the book. All of the nurses have had a good laugh also from reading it. I really enjoyed making it and done some laughing also in making it.My sister is a dear sister to me. We are very close and we talk every day and when I have problems she is always there for me. We lost our Mom in 1975 and my sister has been like a mom to me. I love her dearly. I also have another sister that is 84 and she is a dear also. Our children calls us "The Golden Girls". We are very close to one another. And of course I am the baby of us three girls. We Golden Girls have a very good time when we are together. Sometimes we do get in heated arguments when we are playing cards or dominos, but that is to be exspeted of sisters. I just pray that we have a lots of more years to be together. We have lived longer than anyone else in our family. I am so thankful for my dear sisters and ask God to take care of them every day.

I did have a wonderful friday and saturday this week. I went to my sweet daughter Beth and spent the night friday. We worked on our arts and had so much fun doing atcs and cards. The next morning it was a beutiful day and we decided that it was too beautiful of a day to stay in and do our arts. I had been confined to the house all week and we decided to go shopping. We went to Michael and of course I spent too much money on Art supplies. Then we went to a little shop Paper Moon that is scrapbooking and art. Would you know I spent more money!! I love stamps and inks and paints. This shop has such neat supplies. We had lunch and then she brought me home and we tried a new technique out which turned out real pretty.
I am so thankful for my sweet daughter Beth. We are not just Mother and Daughter , we are best friends. She is so good to me and my husband and takes care of us. I see her every week and sometimes we work on our arts or we go shopping and also we go to all of the art shows. We went to Jackson, Tn. back in June for over night and art classes that The Tennesse Stampers held. We are going to a stamping show out at the fairgrounds next month. What would I do without my Sweet Daughter Beth???

I must go to bed now and I will try to post some pictures tomorrow night of The Golden Girls " LOL. and also of the Funny Book Cover that I made for my sister.
Nite
Lottie

Quilt Page

I will attempt to upload a picture of the Quilt Page that I done for another goup that I am in. The theme for September was Coffee. Lucky Beth found some material with coffee theme printed on the material. It was a hard theme to work out on a material page. Finally figured out just what I wanted to do. It turned out fair as it wasnt much you could do with cloth and theme Coffee.
Lottie

Saturday Sept.9,2006

Here it is Saturday. Boy this week went by fast. I didn't get all of the things I wanted to do for this past week. I did get some of my art work done and I am all caught up for the time being. I plan to work on a quilt block for the group that Daisy is hosting. I have ideas on what to make but just don't seem to have it altogether in my mind yet.

I went to lunch this past Thursday with my girlfriend and we shopped until we dropped. Which didn't take us long to dropped as she has MS and me with Parkinson. About all we can take in is about 2 hours. We had a very good lunch in fact couldn't eat it all and asked for a carry out box. I had the remainder for dinner that night while my husband ate left over from the night before. I was so tired that I didn't work in my art that night.

Friday wasn't a good day for me. I had a hard fall friday morning. I do not have good balance with this darn Parkinson and I turned around to sit down and I lost my balance. I fell and landed on my left arm and hip. Thank goodness no bones broken but sure have some big bad bruise on my upper arm. I had to yell for my husband to help me get up off of the floor as I am not able to do it by myself. We finally managed to get me up off of the floor and it wasn't an easy task I grant you. I have no muscle strenght in my legs at all so you can imagine what it was like. I am sore this morning from the fall but feel ok. I did manage to go to the beauty shop after my fall and then went to the store and done some shopping for grocery. I finished up a birthday card for my friend in a group that I am in and also made some paper beads. I had to go to bed earlier than I usually do last night as I was so sore and tired. I was awake at four this morning so I got up and turned the coffee on and here I am. Hope everyone has a good weekend. I hope my daughter Beth is feeling much better today and maybe we can get together this weekend and work on our quilt block. I sure don't want that crud that she has and I haven't been around her and want be around her until she is over it and feeling good again.
Lottie

Chapter iv; Postmand Always Rings Twice

Just when she thought that they had renewed their love for one another she was so hurt that he was still seeing and talking to his girlfriend. She tried not to let him know that she knew that he was doing this. He could tell that there was something wrong with her as she seem so unhappy. He suggested that they go to Florida for a few days over the Memorial Holidays. She agreed to go thinking it might help their relationship. They arrived in Florida and found a real nice place on the beach. On the way down to Florida he seemed to be his old self again and they had a lot of fun going to Florida. They went to the Dog Races and walked the beach but soon it all began a nightmare for her. He dranked too much and that made her angry and she would just walk the beach without him. He was usually out cold when she would return from her walks. They packed up and left for trip back home. They didnt talk very much on the way back home. The following week she found out that he was seeing his girlfriend and talking to her on the phone.

She was very hurt and had noticed that their love making had stopped again and she decided that it was time for them to have a long talk. That night after dinner she told him that they needed to have a talk about their relationship. She began to tell him that she had been told that he was sitll seeing his girlfriend and said this can not go on like this. He didn't denide that he was seeing her and said that he was sorry but that women was his weakness. She asked him if he still loved her or maybe he loved his girlfriend. He thought about it a long time before answering her and said," Maybe we can just still live in the same house and both of us see other men or women and just not have to answer for what we do or where we go and who we go out with". Boy that is when it hit the fan and she exploded and started crying and told him," You are crazy if you think that I am going to live like that"!! She told him she wanted a divorce now and not to continue with a legal seperation. She knew he didn't love her or he couldn't say anything like that. She got in her car and went to her sons house and told him about it. He was sorry and told her that she was right in asking for a divorce.

The next day she called her lawyer and told him about what was going on and he advised her to start divorce precedure. Her husband agreed to all of the terms of the divorce and was very amiable about it all. He even helped her find a Town House Apartment to live in and made the deposit on it. They were in the process of paying for their home so he rented it out and got an apartment also. Her husband and son helped her move into her apartment. Her apartment was a beautiful townhouse. Two stories with two bedroom upstair and full bath and living room, dinning room and kitchen downstaire with a half bath. It was brand new and so much nicer than their house as their house needed a lot of work done on it and her husband wouldnt turn a hand toward doing the remodeling of the house.

She decided to have a big yard sale before they moved out of their house to get rid of all of the stuff they had collected through the 30 years they had been married. The yard sale went off real well and they made enough money that she bought a new couch and love seat for her apartment. She got both bedroom suits and her dining room table and pie hutch and her stero console. He was left with old couch and chair and dresser and some dishes and cookware and a few linens. She took most of what was left from the yard sale. During the yard sale her regular postman came by and she handed him her change of address cards. He told her he was sorry that it didnt work out for her and her husband. She asked him if he knew the postman that she had a date with before she went back to her husband as she told the postman that she had one date with when he called her at the office to go out to dinner again that she had gone back to her husband. He told her he was gald that they were going to give it another try, but if it didn't work out to let him know. Her regular postman told her he knew him and was a very good man. She told her regular postmand to tell him that it didnt work out for her and her ex. He said he would tell him.

The Saturday that her sona and ex was over to her apartment hooking up her washer and dryer the phone rang and it was the Postman that she had one date with. He told her how sorry he was that it didn't work out for her, but yet he was glad and asked her out for dinner that night. She agreed to have dinner with him. When she got off of the phone her son asked her if he had overheard her conversation and what was going on. She grinned and said," Well I have a dinner date with a nice postman, you have always heard the story Postman Always Rings Twice. Her son grinned and her ex said you are kidding us and she said no I am going out again with him. Her ex said,"You are a fast worker blondie". Her ex even gave her a gift for her new apartment. She knew deep down in her heart that he still had love for her but that he wanted to be free and have his women.

She was all ready for her second date with her postman. He arrived on time and they went out to dinner. He wanted to take her and show her the log house that he was in the process of building when his wife passed away. He told her all about the house. He built all of it except the chimmey and fireplace. It was a 3000 square feet log house. She agreed to go with him. It was out in the "Boom Dock" way out to the end of no where . As they drove up the little dirt driveway it was very dark and she thought to herself What Have I Done, coming out here with a strange man why he could rape me and no one would hear me. AS they turned into the front of the house he told her to sit in the truck while he turned all the lights on in the yard and house. It was a beautiful log house all lit up. He took her on a tour of the house and afterwards they had coffee and cake. He was a perfect gentleman.

When he brought her home he told her he wanted to see more of her as they had such a good time that night. She told him that she also enjoyed the night and that he was a very smart man to build a beautiful log house like that. She told him she would think about seeing him again.

When she went into work the next day around noon a florist came with beautiful silk roses in a container shaped like a treasure chest. Of course it was from the Postman and a note Think Real Hard. She was told by all of the office girls she better latch on to him. What do you think she done?
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Labor Day

Today is Labor Day and I have labor all day. I finish making my fall shipping tags today for the swap that I am hosting. I made 28 tags for the book front and back covers. I also made 6 ATCS and stamped images for a swap that I am in. The weather has been beautiful here. It has turned cool here and I turned off the air condition and opened all of my windows to air this stinky house out. I love fresh air flowing through my house. It is really beginning to feel like fall is here. I love the fall season best of all of the seasons. I hope the leaves are pretty this year but I am afraid they want be as we havent had all of that much rain. My hubby and I use to go to the Smokie Mountains outside of Knoxville Tn every fall but we havent been able to do that in over 11 years since our health started going down hill. But I do remember all of the beautiful leaves and the colorful pamarama that we saw while we were there. Memories are one thing that can not be taken away from a person. I have so many good memories. I am writing my memoirs for my children. I am making a surprise for my children for Christmas but I can not tell you about it until after Christmas as my daughter Beth will read this. Sorry Beth!!!

It is 10 P.M. here and hubby just came in to say goodnight. I am not sleepy as I took a short nap in my recliner while the Braves were playing N.Y. Mets. The Braves beat them which made me very happy. I don't have any exciting news for today just the same old same old. I am going to say goodnight and will write the next chapter to Postman Always Rings Twice. You may not be enjoying this story but please remember this is a true story even if it is kinda boring at times.
Nite
Granny

Finally

Well what you know I was able to post the pictures. Later on I will post some of my recent arts.
Got to get busy in my art studio and straighten it up. I did clean my house this morning after I had to go back to bed for awhile as you saw I was in here at three in this morning. I got sleepy finally and went back to bed for a short sleep. Hope everyone has a nice long and restful weekend.
Granny

some mor pics of craft shows

Some more pictures of craft shows

Trying again to post pictures

Well here I go again trying to post some pictures of the craft shows that my hubby and I used to do. Beth told me to get rid of my cookies and try again. Here goes

It didnt upload

Just as I figure I was unable to post my pictures of our crafts and shows. I guess I will have to get Beth to show me how to do this. A message came up about cookies and Javea being unable. I dont know how and what to do about this. Will ask Beth what to do LOL. Well guess I will get me another cup of coffee and see if I can write the Third Chapeter Of Postman Always Rings Twice.

Chapter III

" Oh, what have I done", she said to herself. I have done the very opposit of what I said . I dont want another man to mess up my life again and here I have agreed to go out to dinner with this postman. I wish I had never agree to do this. What will we talk about and how will this date turn out??

I dont know what I will wear or how he will dress and if he is neat and good looking. Well it was friday and she was trying to decide as to what she would wear. She finally chose her lavender dress and black patton leater shoes. She had her hair done at the beauty shop on her lunch hour and they touched up the roots to her blonde hair. Oh yes when she got a divorce she decided to go blonde as she always heard that Blondes Had More Fun. She lost weight and blonde her hair and she started sowing her wild oats as she never had a chance to before her marriage right out of high school. She wonder if this man would like her blonde hair. He was going to pick her up at 7 and sure enough the door bell rang at exactly at seven.

When she opened the door there stood the postman that she had talked to so long at her mail box a year or so ago. She remember talking to him when she was working out in her yard and he stopped and was putting the mail in her box at her house that her and her ex had. She thought he was her regular postman and she wanted to tell him how sorry she was that he lost his wife with cancer. It turned out that this postman was subing for the regular postman. They started talking and come to find out he had also lost his wife a year ago with a massive heart attack. They stood at the curb and he turned his jeep off and talked a long time, in fact her ex hubby came out to see what was going on.

When he saw her he remember also about the conversation they had a year or so ago. She and him both said It is a small world and laugh. That kinda broke the ice between them. He was in a brand new Maza truck. He was well mannered and helped her in the car. One thing she was upset about was he was shorter than her and he dressed out of style. She thought the poor man hadn'th bought any clothes since his wife passed away. His wife must had bought all of his clothes. They had dinner and he talked and talked which was good as she really didnt know what to say. He brought her home and came in and she showed him her children's pictures and grandchildren. He had some picture in his wallet also of his children. He had all boys, one in the Air Force and one in the Army and a evleven year old boy. Soon he said he had to go as he had to be at work early Saturday morning. As he was going out the door he said " I will call you".
She thought to herself that she wouldnt answer if he did call. What a first date for her. She called her girlfriend immediately and said well my date has left and it is only nine o'clock and I am all dressed up so lets you and I go out and kick up our heels. She and her girlfriend went to their favorite clup and danced until the wee hours of the morning with so many nice men. She told her girlfriend all about her date with the postman and said she hope he wouldnt call her again for a date.

She had to work the next morning on saturday and she really felt ruff the next morning from dancing and had a couple of drinks. She told herself Old GAL You ARE Having A Ball I Guess!! This was a different kind of life that she was not use to but it was a lot of fun though. While she was at work her ex came by with her alimony check and he had known about that she was having a date the night before. Of course he had to ask her about her date and she lied and said it was wonderful. He wanted her to come by his house when she got off from work as they needed to talk about something. She agreed of course to come by there as she stilled loved him so much. After all he was her first sweetheart and they had spent all of those years together. When she got off she went by his house. He wanted to take her out for dinner and dancing. She agreed to it. They had dinner and shopped and bought a video and went back to her apartment and watched the video movie with Willie Nelson in it about something road again. It came time for him to leave and he broke down and said he wanted her back if she could forgive him. Of course that was what she had hoped for him to say. He didnt leave and spent the night with her and they were so happy being together again at least for a short time. She gave up her apartment and moved back into their house and he helped her move back. But he sure didnt help her unpack all of her furniture and stuff.

She forgave him and was so happy she thought but it didn' t last long the happiness.
To be continue.

September 2,2006

Another one of those nights!! I woke up this morning around 3 am and couldnt go back to sleep. I finally got up and turned the coffee pot on and here I am drinking coffee and decided I would just get in here and write some. I know I will get sleepy again around five but I have so much to do for today. I need to clean my house UGH. I have gotten so awful about cleaning my house. I hate to clean my house. I much rather do my arts. I guess after fifty years of cleaning your house it soon gets old. I tell myself that no one ever comes to see me and my clean house so why bother to clean it LOL. My house stays fairly clean with just us two. We do keep things picked up and dont scatter things around in the house. My husband smokes a pipe and oh my he makes such a mess with filling his pipes. He scatter tobacco all over the floor when he fills his pipes. Sometimes he will sweep the tobacco up but very few times at that. I guess the most messy room in my house is my art studio and I will straighten it up but in a few hours it is back messy where I have been working on a art project. I try to straighten it up every night before I go to bed but some nights just too tired to do so. Boy this is good coffee!!!

As I once told you that my husband and I used to do craft shows until our health began to fail us and we had to give up doing craft shows. I really miss not doing these shows as we made so many crafter friends and we would always take our RV and camp when we done shows. I have made so many friends in my art groups on the internet and just wish I could meet them in person. I will meet one of my dear art friend Jane in November she is coming to visit Beth and I for several days. I can hardly wait for her visit. I know we will have a fun time. She also has a blog in here also.

I am going to put some old pictures in here of some of our craft shows or at least attempt to do so. You know me I am not up to snuff on this blogging LOL. Here goes some pictures of the crafts I use to do. One summer Beth and I made over 600 shirts and about 300 cloth books for children. Also painted little black people resins. I would get the resins already molded and paint them. They really sold good for awhile until Walmart and other stores started selling them. The stores has really hurt the crafters. We use to do a show over Labor Day at one of our state park here in Tennessee. Now they have stoppped having the show about four years ago. So many of the crafters have stopped doing shows as there is no money in it. You worked your fingers to the bone to get ready for a show and as I said so many of the stores has hurt the crafters with having the same stuff that the crafters has and much cheaper, but not as fine work in the crafts. The bad part about doing a show is unpacking your crafts and packing it up. I always dreaded that job. We had a big 20 foot tent that we had to set up when we done outdoor shows and that was one heck of a job to put that up also. I would work myself to death painting and sewing and then it got where we wasnt making all that good money for the time we spent making our crafts and setting it up and we had to give it up due to that and our health.

I am going to try to post some pictures of our crafts and shows. Hope I can do it. Here goes nothing maybe LOL

August 31, should go to bed

Here it is midnight and I am still up and not sleepy. As usual it is the same old same old day in my life. Nothing exciting ever happens in my life. I guess the only exciting thing that takes place in my life every day is getting my mail. I so enjoy getting mail from all of my art groups that I belong to. I usuall get atcs or something from a trade that I am in. I have started my fourth note book of ATCS. I have over 1200 ATCS. My shelf over my computer is full of books,tags, pictures of all of my good friends in my groups of their art. My art studio is getting too small again. I talked my hubby in putting me up three shelves for me to store some of my supplies. It helped out to some degree but the shelves only lasted over the weekend as one morning they fell off of the walls. I told him when he was putting them up to be sure and find the studs well he didnt find the studs and they fell. The shelves are back up and I am hoping they want fall again and hit me while I am on this darn computer.

I guess you would call this exciting today. I went and got my hair all kinked up today at the beauty shop. My hair was straight as a poker and I couldnt stand it any longer. If my hair doesnt look good it makes me very depressed. I look bad enough as an old lady without my hair being straight and flying every which way.

I really dont feel like writing the next chapter to my story as I had a awful dream about my x huband that is dead now. I woke up crying and couldnt go back to sleep and I have been depressed today from that bad dream. What does it mean when you dream about people that are dead. I dream all of the time about some of my relatives that has passed away and usually wake up crying. I hate to have dreams like that. Oh well maybe I want have any tonight. Hope not.

I just now got through reading one of my friends blog and it sure was funny. She is coming to see Beth and I in November. I know we will have a fun time together. I can't wait for her visit as she will liven my life up and keep me laughing. I need some laughter in my daily routine. My husband is a very serious person and doesnt cut up much and doesnt laugh very often. My first husband was a comical person and we were always laughing and pulling foolish stunts on one another. It really took some gettting use to not having all of the stunts and laughter in my second marriage. I learned the hard way when we were first married. I pulled an April Fool joke on my second husband and boy did it make him mad, he wouldnt even eat lunch. So I never pull a stunt again on him!!! He is a wonderful person and treats me like a queen. He has my coffee and paper ready on the table every morning when I get up. He is a very quiet man and never says anything about what I buy or go. Sometime I get to feeling so quilty about spending so much time in my art studio and not spending more time with him. But he never complains about it.

Guess I will hit the sac now as I am getting a little sleepy writing this boring blog. Wish I had something exciting to write in here but guess my story will have to do if you can bare to read it.
I will try to write more on the story tomorrow night. Nite to all, Granny

The Postman Always Rings Twice

Chapter 2

She thought to herself, I cant feel sorry for myself I must start a new life and pick myself up from this sorry pitful situation. But how do I start a new life for myself? All of my past life has been for my children and husband. Raising my children to be decent loving kind people. I have cooked, washed, clean and done work outside of my home. All I know to do is take care of my family. At least I have worked out in the public some. I must be thankful that I have a job now and a very good job at that. I will have a income to help along with my money that I get from my ex husband every month to help meet the expenses that occurr living alone. She realized that she had a lots to be thankful for.

She would try to go to bed and get some sleep although sleep didn't come easy for her. She tossed and tumbles all night and would awake and with the question what did I do to deserve this loneness. The next morning she dreaded going into work as she knew she would have to tell everyone and her boss that her marriage had ended. When she was hired her boss told her he wanted a woman with a family and a happy marriage. What would he say when she told him about her marriage coming to an end? She knew she looked awful, her eyes were swollen from crying so much the night before and she had lost weight for the past few months in her unhappy marriage. She dreaded going in and telling her boss that her marriage had ended. With her swollen eyes she walked into his office and started telling him with tears streaming down her face. He felt so sorry for her and told her not to worry about her job that she was a good office manager and she would always have a job with him. She left his office feeling such a relief that she had told him and he was so understanding.

As time went by she got to feeling better about her life. She was glad that her ex and her split up on good terms even if they had a lot of bitterness in their last few years together. Her ex even helped her find a townhouse and helped her move into it. He was very promp every month with the alimony to her and a good alimony at that.

She started going out dancing one night a week with a very nice lady and she really enjoyed dancing as her ex and her used to dance every weekend. Her girlfriend was a widow and loved to danced so they may a point to go out at least once a month to dance at a very nice club. She would be asked by a lot of nice men to dance but she never dated any of them or told where she lived.

One day she met up with one of her friend at church and she asked if she was dating anyone. She said no and she didn't intend to have another man in her life. Her girlfriend wouldn't give up on her and told her that her husband worked with a man that had lost his wife a year ago in death and that he was very lonely. She told her that he would like to have a nice lady to take out to dinner and be a friend to her. Finally she gave into her girlfriend and said that this man could call her. One night this man called her and of course her ex had come over to see her and give her the alimony check. While her ex was there this man called her. She had to tell him she couldnt talk to him right now and that she would call him back. After her ex left she didn't call her stranger back but in a few minutes he called her. They talked for a long time and she couldnt believe that he was the postman that she had talked to for a long time at her mail box a year ago. She remember him very well and felt so sorry for him in the lost of his wife in death. She finally agreed to go out to dinner with him the following friday night. After she hung up she thought what have I done. I haven't dated in over thirty years. Why I don't even know how to act or say on a date. Oh my! what have I done to agree to go out with him!!!!
Continue later.

Sunday August 27,2006

Here I go again trying to figure this darn blog out. I guess I will have to get Beth to give me lessons in how to get aroung in this darn blog. Just got through talking to her and she try to tell me what to do but it is all Greek to me LOL.

Beth came up friday night and spent the night with me. We worked on some new technique in greeting cards. We also tried to make a necklace out of a little match box that we saw in one of our art magazine. I didn't have the beads that we needed. Beth has so many pretty beads that she makes the most beautiful jewelry out of. I am not too good on making jewelry. I have more compliments on all of the jewelry that she makes for me. We went to bed around one in the morning and we couldn't go to sleep so we talked some more. She didn't snore thank goodness LOL. We got up the next morning and loaded up to go to our Sassy Stampers Club Meeting. I was hostess for the August meeting. I took Barbeque, brownies , nic nacks, fruite tea. We had ten at our meeting and every one brought a cover dish. We worked so hard on some new technique that we just about forgot it was time to eat all of that good food. Beth taught a class on how to stamp on acetate and glue and glitter. We also learned how to take a coffee filter to cover your stamp and take a crayon and rub over the image on the stamp. We made greeting cards with a new technique. We had a lot of fun at the meeting. We always come back home with new ideas. I was so tired that I just didn't do anything but sleep in the recliner and tried to watch the Titans get beat ugh.

Today I have been trying to make the covers for The Fall Shipping Tag Books swap. I am hostess for this swap. Just about got all of them printed out. Need to clue some pictures and poem that I wrote on the covers of the book. I got tired and decided after dinner that I would come into my blog and see what I could mess up in my posting.

Beth just called me and said she was posting my blog site into a group that we are in. The group has made a data for all of the members that has blogs. Well I tell you this when you come into my blog it isn't much to look at as I don't really know what I am doing LOL. Maybe one of these days I will get as good as my daughter and others in posting in my blog. Please overlook the grammar and spelling when you read my blog. I am not good at grammar, I barely got by in highschool in english. I had a sorry teacher. The teacher would sleep at her desk most of the time and I didn't learn anything in grammar. I love to write stories and have written a lot of stories but so ashame of my grammar in these stories. My typing isn't all that great either. So just over look the spelling, grammar and typing when you read my blog. I used to make up stories to tell to Beth. She said she wished I had written those stories down so she would had copies of the stories I made up. I did win a contest in highschool on one that I had written but when another english teacher that was really good and very strict on grammar read it she had red corrections all over the story and I had to rewrite it all over again with the right grammar and spelling. I sure wished now that I had her for my teacher and maybe I would had learned more of grammar. You can't look back on the past though and wish that you had done different in some of the things that you done in your past. You just have to do the best that you can with what life you have left. I have started a story in my blog and I guess I will finish it if you can bare to read it with all of its mistakes.

Don't take the above paragraph wrong, I am not feeling sorry for myself. I am just glad that I am able to write even though I make a lots of mistakes. I am glad that I have an imagination and can put my imagination into words. I write a news letter for an art group that I am in and the moderator says she loves my southern writings. I will post some of my stories in here if you will overlook all of the mistakes LOL.

I will attempt to try to write the next chapter on "The Postman Always Rings Twice. Hope anyone that reads it will enjoy it.

Take care until I see you again in here with my writings.
Golden Granny

True Story: Postman Always Rings Twice

She was sitting in her apartment crying her heart out. She was alone for the first time in all of her 50 years. She was thinking about all of her past years and wondering how she was going to stand being alone. What have I done that I deserve being lonely at the age of fifty?? I always heard that life begins at fifty. It seems that my life ended at the age of fifty.

She was brought up in a loving and caring family. Her Mom and Dad and two older sisters. They always had fun loving times. They all would sit down together at the dinner table and discuss all about what they had done that day. Even their pet dog would add something to the conversation sitting between her Dad and her. Family life was great in those days of the thirties and forties. There was a togetherness that families today doesn't have. Mom stayed at home and tended to her family. Today Moms have to work to give their children all that they demand in worthly goods. Children really dont know what they are missing out on those olden days.

Here she was all alone after graduating from highschool and jumping right into a marriage of 30 years or so. It was a good marriage until the last couple of years. What happened to that wonderful marriage she asked herself. Time was changing in the world and you seldom heard of a divorce back when she was growing up. Here she was divorced and alone. What did I do that brought this loneness to me???
Continue later:

August 21,2006

I have been very busy since I last posted in here. I went to my daughters Friday night and we created some Fall Shipping Tags Book covers that I am hosting in a group. We ran out of the paper that we were using for the covers as we wanted all the covers to alike. We took a break and ate some good old Herschey Kisses filled with carmel. I love those darn things but once I break that bag open I just cant stop eating those darn things. Beth loves the kisses also and course I dont help her out on her diet by bringing those things there when we are creating. But that is what Moms are for in my bookLOL. Beside if she gets smaller than me we want be able to share our clothes and that is for the birds.

After eating too many of those good old Herschy kisses we decided to make our shipping tags for the book. Beth was awning and eyes were crossing about 11 oclock and I was told that she just had to go to bed. Beth gets up at 5 in the mornings since she has started back to work. She said that I could stay up and work on my arts if I wanted to. I decided I would just turn in also. Well I couldnt go to sleep for her snoring LOL. Just kidding you Beth Dear. I finally got up and took a pain pill as my leg was giving me a fit. I went off to sleep about one in the morning.

The next morning we were up and ready to dig back in our creating. I finished my tags and she worked on her Deco Book and quilt book. I had seen in a magazine on how to make paper beads. We dugged the magazine out and we decided to try making some of the beads. They was so easey to make. I made a sting of black and striped beads with black stones in between the paper beads. I used a piece of black stripped wraping paper. Beth used a piece of paper out of a catalog all different colors. Her beads were so colorful. I wanted a black string of beads to wear with a black outfit that I had. We then decided we would make braceletts to match the beads. We put Gel Varnish on the paper beads that we made and I swear you can not tell that they are made out of paper. This old Granny decided that she needed a ankle bracelett so sweet Beth made me one. We had such a good time as we always do when we get together. I came home around four and didnt do anything the rest of the night. I was tired of creating so I of course read some more in my art magazines and got some more ideas that I would like to try.

Beths art studio looked so good. Her hubby put up a lots of shelves in her studio and she really has it organized. I came home to my messy art studio and was so disgusted that I don't have enough space and storage. Beth and her hubby told me that they would put me some shelves up if I wanted them to do so. Of course that is all that it took for them to volumteer to do so. My hubby and I went to Loew today and looked at the shelving. I am going to get rid of an old computer desk and mount three white shelves on the wall. I bought 3 white storage bins at Big Lot so I am just waiting for them to mount my shelves LOL.

I am about caught up on all of my art projects. I mailed out seven envelopes today with swaps that I am in. I need to make my Quilt page for September and finish the covers for my Shipping Tag Books. I decided that I would come in here and catch up on my posting. I also am a News Editor for a group that I am in. I send a news letter out every month to all of the members in that group. They write me and give me news that is going on in their lives. They really enjoy the news letter that I send. I add a little comical to the letters and some time a nice joke or quote or poem.

Well I guess I better get off of here and start composing the News Letter and maybe play a few games on here. Nite to all until I see you in a day or two. You may be surprise with a true story about some old granny!!!
Granny Lottie

August 21,2006

I done it!!! I hope

Well what you know I think the pictures came through I hope. I will try some more pictures of my arts.
Golden Granny

Up load pictures didnt work. I will try again. I really dont know what I am doing in here. Help!!!! I uploaded the pictures and a screen came up Done. I then click publish but no pictures. Guess I will have to have my daughter to walk me through the steps on uploading pictures. Also my friends list of bloggers I cant find either. This is all Greek to me, I am so dumb in this blogging. I usual can figure things out but not this!!! Will try again to upload my chunky book pictures.
Golden Granny

August 17,2006

Another Day and Another Dollar as the old saying goes. But just another day to add on to my years but not another dollar LOL. I miss not working and being with people but retirement is fine if you make it to retirement. My husband and I had so much planned to do when we retired but our health started to failed. So I say go while you are young and enjoy every minute of your young days. I know I sound a little depressed about getting old but really I enjoy every minute that God gives me. I keep busy and keep my mind active with all of my art work and this darn computer. I am not in the best of health but I dont let it stop me from doing and going when I have the opportunity to do so. I tell all oldies to stay active and keep your minds busy.

Speaking of busy, I really stayed busy yesterday. I made 4 pages for chunky book for a group that I am in. Also made 9 ATCS and straighten up my art studio. Also took time out to watch the Braves get beaten by Washington. Also read some art magazines while the commercials were on. I am a big Brave fan even though they aren't doing good this year. I still support the Braves. Today will be a busy day for me also. I will do some more art work then I go to the beauty shop for my hair and manicure and pedicure. I love to have my feet worked on it is so relaxing. Then I have to go to the store to get some stuff to feed our poor old bodies LOL. I want be worth a dime after all of this going. So will tell my hubby to have the recliner ready for my old tired body!!

My daughter Beth and I are hoping to get together Saturday and create some arts. We have to make our third Quilt Book Page. The theme is Coffee. Boy that is going to be hard. Beth picked up some material with coffee designs on the material. I have a lots of good ideas in making the page but don't know just how I will do these ideas. Beth and I so enjoy getting together and compile our ideas. Two heads are better than one! Sometimes I spend the night with her working until wee hours of the mornings. This time I will not be able to do so as my husband needs me to put eye drops and patch over his eye before he turns in for the night. He had cataract surgery done 2 weeks ago and he is doing fine with his eye. I am going to try to upload some of my art works at the end of this posting. Wish me luck in doing so LOL. Have a wonderful day and show all your kindness to one another.
Golden Granny

My ART Work

Pictures of My Art Work

As usual not keeping my posting up in here. I am not like my daughter she posts in here every day and puts pictures in here. I have been busy making ATCS, pages for book and Birthday cards. Also going into Nashville to doctors.

Today is one of those dreary old day and I will probally do some arts. I am trying to get caught up on my cards and ATCS. I haven't posted any pictures of any of my art work so I will try to post some now. I am fairly new at this and I don't know too much about posting pictures. Here goes an attempt to post some of my arts.

Behind On Posting

Well I am behind on my postings. I do have a good reasond for being late in my posting. This has been an awful week for me. My husband had cataract surgery this past Tuesday and he hasn't done as well as we thought he would do because he has diabetes. He takes 4 shots a day. The surgery got his blood sugar all out of wack. He got very dizzy and unstable on his feet. He fell in the elevater the next morning going back to see the doctore who done the surgery on his eye. Thank goodness it didnt jarred anything loose in his eye. I have had my hands full waiting on him and watching him to be sure he doesnt fall again. His dizziness is some better but he is still unstabled in his walking. We are having a time getting his blood sugar back to what it should be. I am a little tire as he has always waited on me so much but I guess turn about is fair. I havent been able to do much in my arts as I am busy watching and taking care of him. My daughter Beth doesnt live too far from us. She came up today to stay with my husband so I could go to the beauty shop and go to the store. While I was gone she cleaned my house and done my laundry. Bless her heart she is such a dear daughter. I dont know what I would do without her. Later in the day her husband came up and finished putting railings up to our front porch steps. My husband had started doing this project but it got so hot here the past 2weeks that he couldnt take the hot weather with being a diabetic. Dan finished the railings and I do so appreciate him doing this as we needed the railings to go down the steps as I am unstable on my feet due to Parkinson disease and him being so unstable on his feet also. Our deck steps were too many to go down for us. I am so glad that we have the railings up now. I really appreciate all that my daughter and her husband does for us. We have 5 boys but they all live away from us.Two lives outside Atlanta and one in Alabama and 2 in Oklahoma. So you see we have to depend on Beth for everything that needs to be done. One of our boys did come home from Oklahoma and did some painting in our house that needed to be done. He isnt married and disable but was able to help us out. He has said that he would move in with us if when we got where we couldnt take care of ourselves. He is a stepson but I love him like my own sons. He is a dear man. I have 2 sons and daughter and my husband has 3 sons. We have been married going on 23 years. My children were all grown and living away from home when I met my husband. He had one son 11 years old and other were away from home. Every one thought I was crazy for taking on a 11 old son to raise, but Tony never gave me one ounce of trouble. He was a very good boy and was always very helpful. Tony got married 2 years ago and we dont see or hear from him too often. As the old saying goes guess he cut his moms aprong strings when he got married LOL. He is real busy in his job and I realize that but would be nice to hear from him more often as I love him just like my own children. I will later on put some pictures of my children and stepsons in here and husband. My daughter has a blog in here under Sandee. Beth and I really enjoy doing our arts together and shopping for art supplies. We are friends as well as Mother and Daughter. I would be lost without her. I am tired and guess I will hit the sac soon. Some day I will tell the story of my husband and I courtship and how I met him. You have heard of the movie "Postman Always Rings Twice". That is the story I will tell someday when I feel up to it. Goodnight friends....Lottie

My Sister Visit

I really enjoyed my older sister visiting me. My dh and I met her and her daughter after my dh eye doctor visit. Her daughter brough her to meet us. My older sister is a dear. She is 87 years old but doesnt look a day over 77. She gets around better than I do. She lives alone and has a beautiful apartment. Her son and daughter looks after her off and on. She was in a car wreck a year ago and total her car. It wasnt her fault. Woman pulled out of a side street and hit her head on. Thank goodness it didnt kill her. It did bruise her up very badly but no broken bones. Her eye sight isnt all that great as the Dr. told her not to drive anymore. She is lost without a car and has to depend on her children to take her places. I know she gets so lonesome just sitting in her apartment. I told her once a month that she was coming to visit me for a few days. She was always on the go until she had her wreck. She stayed from Tuesday until Friday. We went shopping Wednesday to Peebles and Walmart and had lunch. We both gave out after 2 hours of shopping. I am not able to shop for over 2 hours as my legs and back gives me a fit. She had open heart surgery one year and the next year she had knee replacement in both legs a year apart. She has been like a mom to me since we lost our mom. I love her so much and I want to spend as much time with her as I can as I know she is getting up in years.

My other sister wanted to come with her but she had doctors appointment so she came on without her. I really enjoyed her visit. We played Rummy Cube every night until around midnight.

My granddaughter came from Alabama to visit with us this past Friday. We took my sister home and had lunch out. Beth done the driving out to my sisters house. After we left my sisters house we shopped at Book Million and then Hobby Lobby and naturally I spent too much money in Hobby Lobby. Bought some art supplies and magazines. My granddaughter left this morning to go back home. I have 10 grandchildren but she is the only one that comes to see me. She is my first grandchild and she is so sweet. She calls me a lots to see how I am doing and comes to visit me about every other month. I really appreciate the love that she has for me and I love her so much. She is 30 years old and no children and has a full time job so I know it is hard for her to get away to see me. She is a dear sweet granddaughter.

We had a storm this morning and it rained until noon. We really did need the rain as it has been so hot and dry here in Dickson, Tenn. We got over 2 inches of rain. My poor flowere really had a field day drinking all of that good rain. Their heads are standing up and they look so pretty. I have so many flowers with Beths help. Beth comes up every spring and plant flowers in my beds and helps me hang all of my hanging baskets on my deck. I am going to make some pictures of all of my flowers before long if I can stay out of my art room long enough to do so LOL. I have been working on some cards today. I love my arts and it is good theraphy for me.

I hope to go to church tomorrow if I am up to it. My legs and back has bother me so much with this rain and I am tired from all of my shopping LOL. I have good days and bad days with my Parkinson disease and my legs and back. I have try to rest some today. So hope it isnt raining tomorrow so maybe I will go to church.

My dh will have eye surgery Aug. 1st on one eye. He is a bad diabetic and I am hoping his surgery will not get his blood sugar out of wack. He takes 4 shots a day and it is so hard to control his blood sugar. I just pray that he will stand the surgery ok. A dear friend of mine that I met on the internet 9 years ago passed away this past Tuesday. I will miss her so much. I have never met her in person just chat on the internet. She sent me some of the most beautiful pictures and poems, quotes and also comical pictures and nice jokes and stories. I will miss her so much. I have so many friends that I have met on the internet over the years that I have never met in person. I did meet one of my friends. Barb in Wisconsin came to see me and I went to see her. Now I have a friend in one of my art group that is coming to see Beth and I in November. I am looking forward to her visit she is such a sweet friend. I have more friends on the internet than I have any where else. Every one of my friends are really a special friend. Some people are scare to meet their friends from the internet face to face but you know if they are up and up kind of person after so long of a time. Every one of my friends are very dear to me.

I guess I better get back to my card making and visit some with my dh.
Hope all of my friends have a good weekend.
Granny Lottie

Back Home

We are back home from our trip to see my son in Dallas Georgia. Boy it was really hot there also. We did get some relief from the heat by jumping in his beautiful pool. We had a real nice time and really enjoyed seeing my son and his wife. My son took us into a town that had a Michael and of course I had to buy some art supplies. I found some lovely cotton material for a fabric book that I am partcipating in. We send a fabric page at the end of the month and receive a fabric page back from some one else. We will end up with 8 fabric pages for our book that we will bind how ever we wish to do the binding. The pages are to be quilted. I have never done any quilting before so this is a new thing for me. I will try to post a picture of my first page in the book that I done. I am staying pretty busy since I got back from my trip. I have 3 books to work on. Also I am going through all of my old art magazines and tearing out techniques and greeting cards. I am making a technique notebook and a greeting cards notebook. I cant always remember what I see in those magazines so I decided to clean out my old magazines and make a note book for what I want to keep. I am not tearing out any of the magazines for the year 2006. I think it will help me so much when I am ready to make something like a greeting card and a technique if I can go and thumb through my notebooks. I have also started making postcards also. I enjoy making those. I would love to get in a swap for postcards. I really need to get my art studio straighten up. Guess I will try to do that today. I really dont know where to start LOL.

Beth and I took some pictures of my son's horse farm and of the deer coming to get food that my daughter inlaw put out for them. As soon as Beth sends me the pictures I will post them.

I couldn't sleep this morning and I finally got up at 5 . I had so much on my mind and my old bones were aching so got up started the coffee and here I am. Guess I will go and get another cup of coffee. Hope every one has a good day and keep cool.
Lottie

Same old same old

Today hasn't been any different than any other day. Just the same old same old. I have just about got caught up on my swaps. Went to the beauty shop today. Got my nails done and hair cut. It is so hot here that I dont dare get out. I did water the flowers on the deck today. My flowers are so pretty. I got up at five this morning. I just cant sleep like I use to. It only takes about 5 hrs. of sleep for me. My old left foot was so swollen and red when I got up. I just dont know what is wrong with my foot. The Drs. havent never xray it. They tell me it is edemin but I dont think it is that. I am going to call tomorrow and see the Dr. and tell him I want a scan done on it. If it isnt one thing it is another that is wrong with me. I know Virgial gets tired of hearing me complain and I am trying not to complain as much as I use to. I sometime just feel so badly that I can hardly go. Beth tells me I dont get enough exercise but when you feel bad and can hardly walk who wants to try to exercise and fall. I just sit in my art studio and do arts. I do cook meals and try to clean the house but have to sit down about every 25 minutes to rest when I try to clean the house I just give out so fast. I am thankful that I can get up every morning as some people are bed ridden. I dont let it get me down I just keep on going. It does depress me that I cant do like I use to. When I complain about that my dear hubby says well I cant do like I use to.I get so tired and bored just staying in the house and I get so lonesome. No one ever comes to see us except Beth bless her heart. It just gets old as I am use to going and doing all sort of activities. I guess what I am trying to say is that I just cant accept the shape I am in and getting old. I think a lots about how I use to go and have so much fun. As I stated I am thankful for being able to get around and I thank God every day for being able to just get around. It is a great life if you dont weaken to it. I do try not to think about it. My arts is really good theraphy for me as it keeps my mind off of what kind of life I have. It does get boring and I do get out of the mood to do arts. I sometime get on my PC and play games. All Virgial does is flip that darn TV remote control and plays it so loud that sometimes I turn the radio on in my art studio to drown out the loud TV. About all we do together is play Rummy 500 after each meal and I usually skunk him. I get tired of playing it but that is about all we do together. I sometime think he is as depressed as I am. He was always up working and building things in his woodwork shop. He isnt able to do that now. His health is really getting worse. I am bored tonight and thought I would get on here and just write about my feelings which isnt very interesting.

I am looking forward to going to visit my oldest son this weekend in Georgia. Beth is driving us there. I dont think she much wants to go but she doesn't want us to go by ourselves. We will stay until Tuesday. I haven't seen him in 2 years. He does call me every week. He has a farm and horses and it is hard for him to get away.

Going to have lunch with Annie tomorrow. She is the only friend that I have here to do anything with. She isnt well either. She had cancer of breast and also has MS. She takes so much medicine I dont know how she even gets around. I just dont take all of that much medication. I only take heart pill, blood pressure,parkinson medication. Total of 4 pills a day. She takes 22 pills a day!!! I really enjoy being with her and we try to shop some but we give out fast. We use to go to water arobicas together but we had to go all the way into Nashville 3 times a week and that was hard to do. When they open up the Y in Bellvue we are going to start back. It help me so much in strenghtening my muscles and may me feel so much better. I think it will be ready around November. I can hardly wait for it to open.

Well if anyone reads this they will find it very boring. Guess I was bored and just got on here like I was talking to someone. I needed to talk to someone evern if just my computer LOL.
Goodnight

Art Studio

I will try to post pictures of art studio

Cant sleep 4 AM

Well it is 4 AM Monday morning and I can't sleep. So I just got up and turned the coffee on and came in here on my computer. I dont know why I awoke so early but I just couldn't lay in my bed any longer. I have problem sleeping as my legs and back gets to hurting and I get the tremors from Parkinson disease if I lay in my bed and not sleeping.

I haven't been doing anything special since the 4th of July. We did have a nice 4th of July with our friends. The fireworks were beautiful and a lots of good food to eat. It was nice to get together with our friends and had a real good time.

Beth came up this past Saturday and we tried some new techniques out in our arts. We made post cards and greeting cards. I do so enjoy when Beth comes up and we do our art together. You know two heads are better than one. She comes up with some marvelous ideas and I sometime come up with a few new ideas. Beth is such a good artist and she is always telling me that she gets her talants from me. I dont think so, as she is way ahead of me. When you get my age your mind just doesnt function as good as it use to. I make her so mad when I tell her that her art looks better than mine. So I guess I better quit telling her that but it does outshine my arts that I make. Her head is full of ideas in doing our arts. I plan on going down to her house one night this week and spend the night with her and we will work on our arts.

We are planning on going to see my son Gary in Dallas , Ga. this weekend. Beth is going with us and do the driving as she doesnt like for us to go off by ourselves. My hubby isnt too well and neither am I so they tell me but I feel fine. I just have trouble with my balancing in walking and just give out too quickly. I am able to drive the car but Beth doesnt like for us to take a trip as she worries that we may get sick or have a wreck. I havent seen my son in over two years and really looking forward to going to see him. I sent his wife an email asking her if it will be ok for us to come and if she had other plans. We were very dissapointed last year as we planned a trip there and it wasnt a good time for us to come. They are a busy couple. They have 25 acres and 3 horses and both are counselers. They use their horses in counseling children and family. My son took training to use the horses in working with children. He is like the Movie Horse Whisper.
Gary is my oldest child and Beth and him aren't all that close. Beth is closer to her other brother Rick than she is with Gary. Rick was crazy about Beth when she was a baby and still crazy about her now. I never had to have a baby sitter as Rick would always tend to Beth. He would come in from school and would always go to see about Beth and took care of her until bedtime. Rick and Beth are a lot alike in disposition and very tender hearted and very compassionate. Gary is more like his Dad in ways as being very distant. He is becoming to realize that family means a lots to him now that he is older. My Mom and Dad was very close to us girls. My two sisters and I are very close. All of our family has passed away and we are the only ones left. Us girls have children and grandchildren and great grandchildren. My sisters and I try to get together at least once a month. My two sisters lives about 50 miles from me. We play dominos and cards and usually end up arguring as sisters do LOL. But we are very close and have a good time when we get together. We are The Golden Girls that is what we are called. I am the youngest one of us. Adelaide is the oldest she is 86 and Doll is 84. Adelaide doesnt look 86 and gets around better than Doll and I do. They live alone as their husbands has passed away. I am planning on my two sisters coming up to visit me in a couple of weeks. We use to shop until we dropped but now we cant do that anymore we give out in about an hour or so.

Well it is five a.m. now and my dear hubby is sleeping away. I wish I could sleep like he does. Dont know what I will do today. Guess the same old same old. I have been going through my art magazines that has stacked up for the last two years. I am making a notebook of cards and techniques by tearing out pages from my art magazines for past year. I cant remember what I see in ideas for card making and techinues so I am making a notebook and making tabs for different catergoings. When I am ready to make a greeting card will just turn to my note book to get an idea as to how I want to make it. My magazines were staching up so and I needed space in my bookshelves to put other art supplies. I am about to run out of space in my art studio. I will try to upload some pics of my art studio.

The sun is coming up and it is daylight and I am on my third cup of coffee. Husband still asleep. Guess I will get busy doing something. Just another day for me and thankful that I can get up and try to enjoy the day with Gods Help.
Granny

Monday, July 3

We are celebrating the fourth of July tonight with the Adams who are our neighbors. We have been doing this for the past seven years. There is usually around 40 people that gets together. We all bring food and we eat until we are stuff and then when it gets dark we have a firework display that lasts about 2hrs. We all chip in to buy all of the fireworks. Each year they get prettier and prettier. I am taking a coconut cream cake, casserole, and of course a bottle of wine to celebrate the 4th. We are not a drinking group but we do like wine!I have been marking ATCS today for a Purple Passion swap. Purple is my favorite color so I have enjoyed making these cards. I am behind in making greeting cards for some of my friends that are sick and also some birthday. I must get busy tomorrow and do these. I dont ever get caught up it seems. My are studio is in a mess and I need to clean and straighten it up. Oh well one of these days I will do that . Maybe by next year LOL. I guess I better get off of here and make my casserole and get ready for a night of fun which I am so looking forward to. I do not have a lot of fun at my house except when I have company. I do have fun doing my arts and my husband sits and looks at TV. I wish he had a hobby beside looking at TV. I have tried to get him interested in my arts but no can do. Oh well that is life! See you later.Granny