Very Sad News

I'm sorry I haven't been writing. We received some very sad news about my daughter's health. She must go to the hospital to have a procedure done and then the recovery will begin. It's more emotional than anything. We could fix the hurts for our kids when they were little, a kiss and maybe a coloring book and crayons when they were sick in bed. But that won't do it this time, I'm afraid. She's a grown woman now and there's little I can do except be there and let her know how much I love her. Time will fix the wounds as it always does, but the memory will take time to fade. There is a very
big empty space inside me, too right now. But I have to think of only her and my SIL's feelings now.
I will blog when I can talk about it with all of you.
It's just too difficult right now, my hands shake and the tears come unexpectedly and I can't see what I'm doing or type the right keys. My heart isn't here right now with my love of blogging. I'm going to curl up next to Mr. Glen Oaks for some comfort.
I love all of you and I will write when I can, hopefully in the next couple of days.

An Early Christmas Present

Hello, Primmies, I  hope your weekends were restful and enjoyable. A blogger I follow purchased this new Christmas book, An Early Christmas by Tina Woltzman. There are 160 stunning pages in this
book, a total of 300 full color photographs of 12 homes. I thought I
would share this with you. There is a link below to see 27 color photos
from the book and a link to purchase the book. I hope you enjoy the
pictures, I know I did.

VIEW 27 Beautiful Color Pages From The Book

BUY An Early Christmas

I want to thank everyone for being patient with me while I worked out my computer issues. Thank you for your kind comments.  I will talk to you all again soon,
Susan

HARD LESSON LEARNED

Hi, Primmies...
I experienced a hard-learned lesson with computers this past week.
It turns out that the problems I had were not quite of my own stupidity.
It seems that in reading the Google Forum, there have been a lot of
crashing incidents, and this is apparently what happened to me earlier in the week. I thought I had done it with the deep clean scan on my computer, but nope, it's good ol' Google. Had I known, I could have avoided the HOURS of going nutsie re-installing programs and
such and just done a system restore. I went back to the day and time
right before this all started and simply picked the date and clicked.
There are a couple of teensy things out of whack but I'm accepting
that as a trade-off in getting back my Adobe Acrobat (seems you 
have to buy this now, it came with my laptop) which is one of the
things that disappeared. All of my patterns and things that had been
stored here were Acrobat, so when the horror happened they would
not open any longer and I couldn't find a free program to re-install.
I found some free ones from other software but they aren't quite
the same with the handy features. Needless to say everything seems
to be back in working order, and this blogger for one doesn't have the mental fortitude or the courage to go and do any of my usual posts
with pictures, files, blog surfing, etc. I'm kind of frozen tonight, 
maybe in the light of day I'll get my courage back to really use my
laptop. For now, I plan to stay offline for the rest of the night!
Warm Regards,
Susan


vintage image: vintagecatnip blog

GUESS WHAT I FOUND? CHECK OUT THESE AWESOME TUTORIALS

I have been going cuckoo looking for this blog. I remembered someone saying to check out the 40 Days Of Fall Crafts and
I thought I had written it down. Well, of course I didn't, so many
days later and less hair on my head, I found it. These 40 Fall
Free Projects are from Pamela of Our Pioneer Homestead blog.
Click this link which will go directly to all the crafts projects.
There is also her button on my top left blog sidebar that will take
you to one page for all of them. I did a few highlights of the ones
I like the most:

                                  Thanksgiving Dove Make Do Day 11Thanksgiving Dove Pattern

                                                         Colonial Sugar Cones Day 26

Willow Branch Witch Broom Day 12

Arnold Printworks Make Do Cat

Colonial Dress With Apron Day 15

I hope you have as much fun as I did. I'm not nearly through looking at all of the projects so far. There are 10 more days to go! Pamela

also has a lot more content on her blog, lots of tutorials, hints, and

free projects. Make sure you take time to visit her very pretty blog.

Susan

LET'S TALK TURKEY

Hi, everyone, I survived the ensuing chaos of last night from the "cleaning house" incident. See what 
happens when you clean? That's why I avoid it!
I forgot all about mentioning Thanksgiving when I
jumped ahead to Christmas! And I hate it when the
stores do that. So I'm going to put up a few cuties
in between Christmas and other posts. Here a couple I thought we really cute to put in your fall orders or to incorporate them into your decorating project. Of course, you could always just mail them (what's that, I know; I still like to use regular mail for writing notes and cards):

Isn't this the cutest? This turkey looks like the one that walks down our street every day. Watch out, boy!

This one is sweet, too. I've never seen Auld Lang Syne with anything but New Year's. What do I know?
I have a few more from Thanksgiving and harvest. If you want to see a couple more let me know if you comment here. Speaking of, Mr. Glen Oaks' son will be with us this year for dinner. And of course my Ashley and Tim. Each one has put in their request for veggies and deserts. Timmy is making
a casserole that they like and a  desert. Isn't he sweet? I've made up a Menu in a "sandwich board" style to put on the table with the centerpiece. When I'm finished I'll post it. I got the cutest idea from Mamie Jane for using an old hardcover book.
I might be back later on tonight to visit with you all again. I want to read what all of you have been up to today!
Until then, primmies...
Susan