Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Memories faded away....

Mc Cloud California, where I spent much of my childhood. The best time of my life and the best memories ever. I have been there in 20 something years. But this morning I was thinking I would love to go visit. My memories of Mc Cloud are wonderful. This was my Dad's family. I had several Aunt's and Uncle's there and when I was really young up until 8 My grandpa and grandma where alive and they lived in a tiny cottage in Weed California...that was my first memory of ducks...In the back of there cottage was several grown ducks that walked around quacking all the time. And I loved them they would pull on our clothes at time. And grandma Strider had a ton of wild kitties. She had one grown they called eggnog. Her tiny cottage was just that a one bedroom bathroom and living room and kitchen...I remember she had a green Formica Kitchen Table and chairs to match...And I always remember her making Rigatoni Spaghetti for dinner when family came...And grandpa Strider sat by the bathroom door, which led to their bedroom, in a huge brown recliner chair smoking his cigars and reading the newspaper. When us kids would pass by to go to the bathroom he would pinch the heck out of us...It was his game he played, boy it sure hurt...I also remember out back on a little porch area there was a stone wheel to sharpen things...I remember how we would sit up on it and push the peddles so it would turn... there was another small cottage behind it where my Auntie's husband mom lived...I can see her face plainly. A small petite woman thin always wearing a dress and sweater with her short dark hair and dark glasses...A very sweet woman...That was my Uncle Buzz'es Mom...he was talk red headed and freckles like me he had so many they used to tease me and say they jumped off him onto me....If you went out the back gate and walked up the dirt road up would end up Town on the main street...I barely remember it now...It's like a faded picture in my head...I do remember the time grandpa Strider took us kids up town and to the huge store like a big drug store and we got to buy whatever we wanted only I can't remember what I bought...and the last thing I remember is my grandma Strider funeral, I was 8 years old when she died...She had cancer of the breast and they took it then the other and eventually it spread through her whole body...She was a heavy woman with bluish eyes and red hair...My grandma had nine children and she was a physical therapist uptown. O my I remember that too, we had to go like down in the cellar...well that's what it seemed like but I do know we went down stairs and it was dark with these tiny lights and she had a sm. office where she did her work...Mc Cloud was great My Aunt Ann and Uncle Jumbo we called him. His real name was Clarence. They lived in Mc Cloud...a tiny little town With one long street that was their downtown Had a huge general store and a couple of others I remember the postal Office was across the street and The Frosty Stand was there too...I remember these little Sunday's in the these little round turquoise plastic dishes and Banana split's in long ones...The places that had walk ways were wood and the rest was dirt...and down from the house was the school and through the school grounds was the swimming pool. Boy if there was a turn back the times dial, this would be the time I would want to go back to....My aunt Ann was the best. She had a clean old house with an upstairs bedroom and a wood burner in the living room to warn the house. They originally lived in the first house on the corner I barely remember that, I do remember some of it...and they ended up moving into the next house where on of my friends lived when I was little. I have no clue where they went...My mind is flooding with memories at the moment and I probably could write a book with them. Well I decided I think it's time for a vacation, to McCloud California before my Aunt and Uncle pass and or I do...it's been 24 years to long...That was more of my home than anywhere. They gave me direction in my life...Just been thinking wishing you a most lovely day with love Janice
I couldn't find many photos just these above...Just going to share a couple of my photos of some Crocheted Easter Eggs I had got along time ago and pulled them out of the attic at Mom's....


I had never paid much attention to them, but all they are is a chain stitch wrapped around a foam egg. but the are the sweetest...Enjoy your day....

Tuesday, March 27, 2012

More sachets and rain and rain....

GOOD EVENING FRIENDS, I BEEN HOME FOOLING AROUND SINCE IT'S BEEN RAINING CAN'T GO OUT IN THE GARDEN OR ANYTHING ELSE PRETTY MUCH...LAST NITE I STAYED UP AND MADE UP ANOTHER SACHET AND THIS MORNING I MADE ANOTHER..RIGHT NOW I'M JUST FOOLING AROUND SEEING WHAT I CAN DO...THEY ARE VERY HOMEMADE AND HAND SEWN..AND I LIKE THAT IDEA, KIND OF OLD FASHIONED...NO MACHINE AT ALL...
WOULD YOU CARE FOR A CUP OF HOT TEA...I SO ENJOY MY TEA, I LOVE MY NEW TEA POT. I FOUND IT AT THE CHINESE STORE. I SHOULD GO BACK AND SEE WHAT NEW ITEMS THEY HAVE.
I HAD THIS OLE FLANNEL PILLOW CASE AND I HAVEN'T USED IT SO I THOUGHT I'D MAKE A SACHET WITH SOME OF IT...


IT'S A PRETTY BLUE, I WANT TO SAY A CORN FLOWER BLUE..BUT I DON'T THINK THAT'S WHAT IT IS BUT JUST THE SAME I LOVE THE COLOR AND THE WHITE FLOWERS. VEE SAID IT FELT SO SOFT AND CUFFY...WHEN THE SACHET WAS ALL FINISHED...IT CAME OUT QUITE LOVELY I THOUGHT...ALL SEWN BY HAND WHICH I LOVE...I THINK IT'S MORE INTERESTING.

I COULDN'T GET A VERY GOOD PICTURE OF IT ALL DONE...THE LITE WAS TERRIBLE TODAY IT'S DARK AND COLD...
THEN I HAD ANOTHER IDEA, SO I QUICKLY DREW A NOT SO WONDERFUL FLOWERS AND BUTTERFLY..NOT PERFECT. . .




CUT IT OUT AND STARTED SEWING IT UP..THEN I ADDED DRIED ROSES INSTEAD OF THE LAVENDER...


I THOUGHT TO ME THAT IT NEEDED SOMETHING A LITTLE BIT MORE SO I THEN DECIDED TO PUT A EDGING ON IT...

AND IT GAVE IT A MUCH BETTER LOOK...SO I THOUGHT IT DID...I ENJOYED MAKING THEM. IT KEPT MY MIND BUSY ... GOING TO MAKE SOME MORE MOM WANTS A FEW FOR HERE DRAWERS..BUT SOMETHING IN PINK OR ROSES..I HAVE SO MUCH LINENS ETC...NOT A PROBLEM...
SO HERE IS ALL THREE THAT I HAVE MADE SO FAR...I'M HAVING FUN WITH IT...A NEW EXPERIENCE FOR ME..NEVER MADE THEM BEFORE JUST BOUGHT THEM...I LIKE IT.
HOPE YOUR DAYS HAVE BEEN GOOD SO FAR...WITH LOVE JANICE

Saturday, March 24, 2012

Words and dreams..............Second post (read down)

DO I DREAM...do you....
Let's sit down with a Pot of Hot Tea and talk about what you have been up to lately....( I can see clearly in my mind the hot pot of tea...and the tea cups and saucers ready to be poured into...the dainty little cakes and sandwiches at the side awaiting for me, to be picked up and eaten.) So you have been busy making things have you...In deed I have...I made my first delicate Lavender Heart Sachet...and I intend to make many more and maybe more to sell them. I have such great ideas popping through my head...Between Tea Pots and cups and saucers, sachets, aprons and pillows and somewhere in between there is God bursting through my mind. Praying for strength and much needed guidance ...And in the very background I see all the confusion on the day,. My Mom, Brother, My Sons and daughters...No one really realizing what really goes on in My mind. Having dreams...Do I dare...yes I do, I do day dream of Tea Cups and Saucers, pillows and flowers, rusted gates and door knobs. Birds and Flowers and a Tiny Cottage House of my very own to make into my dreams that I hold inside my mind. A Garden so big and beautiful, full of tiny puddgie birds and soft Robins and Blue Jays singing about. Songbirds and Finches running about and many tiny Hummingbirds. Bricks and Stone covered with moss from the due that has passed by in the night...Tiny little fairy's running about...hiding behind the leaves that are. Those are what I dream of...Lace and Buttons. Prints of Yesterday...Victorian Women flared with their Hats and Lace about them...All the treasures of yesterday's past...What am I doing Oh, so many things, but my most of all attending to all my Day Dreams. Crocheting and Sewing baking scattering about in my Garden Dreaming and dreaming the flowers about...(Holding my Tea Cup and looking at the Hot Pot Of Tea that's ready for me..)
Janice, Mz. Witherspoon's

Just an Ole Rainy Saturday Day.....

It's been raining now for hours, I got stuck at Mom's my sister decided to wait till the morning to come to San Francisco...darn, snaps, I so wanted to go home and start preparing the things for today...Well guess what I'm still here, waiting....hummm. Well I can't drive Mom's car in the rain, because It hasn't any defrost and I won't be able to see at all...
I'm so wanting to ho home...my Sweetpea is alone...and I left my sweatshirt on the line so after it dried, lol it's soakin wet now....
So now I'm just waiting to go either with my daughter or my sister...then Mom just put her to sense in and said what if no one comes for you... That doesn't sound good to me...Well good new my oldest daughter is on the phone now ... yeah she is coming to get me...So the party's on...lol so to speak...
I'm so ready to get out the door and be gone...Mom's house is getting harder and harder to deal with so much goes on here and there is so much negativity including her...she barely has a positive thought...So as I have become more stronger and less panic comes, I can't handle the strudness that applies here... the no respect and her at times (I Love my Mom) acting like a child...So I'm going to wait for them to come and going to get my belongings packed up...
I will be sitting at the window like the kitty kat...waiting to go...wishing you a lovely day....and a great weekend...with love Janice

Friday, March 23, 2012

So what am I up to today.....

I'm not doing much at the moment but I got a million things rolling around in my head of what I would like to be doing...I have so much I want to do ... at the moment I'm still at Mom's house... My sister is suppose to come later this evening ... it's going to be a great weekend visiting with my family and grandchildren... going to see ms Yuliana...and my other grandchildren and kids...we are going to cook up some food and just hang out.
Ha look what happen to my angel it's chippy now.. I have another one...but it got a hole in it...there's this other thing hanging on the wall on Mom's deck... it belongs to me...and I have been wanting to take it home but I'm sure Mom will say what are you doing ...
Isn't it sweet...I can see it on my fence in the back part...so I'm going to be taking it home...and come Monday get some sweet plants to put inside...This feels like a great day....
Two of my other grandchildren...Melissa and Anthony...
My sweetpea....
Another one of Yuliana
My grandson, Emiliano...
My daughter V, and my granddaughter Lysette....it's just family today...
MY OTHER GRANDCHILDREN, ROSALINDA, LILIANA, ALEXZANDER, AGUSTIN....
AND MS ASHLEY..... I HOPE YOU ALL HAVE A WONDERFUL WONDERFUL WEEKEND, I KNOW I'M GOING TO...FAMILY THAT'S WHAT IT IS ABOUT....WITH LOVE JANICE

Thursday, March 22, 2012

MY FIRST HANDMADE LAVENDER SACHET....

GOOD EVENING FRIENDS, TODAY I MADE MY FIRST HANDMADE LAVENDER SACHET...I HAD A LOT OF FUN DOING IT. IT HAS BEEN A LONG TIME SINCE I SEWED BY HAND.
I INTEND TO MAKE MORE ...
HAD TO TAKE MOM AND V TO THE HAIRDRESSERS, SO I WENT HOME TO START IN. I DECIDED NOT TO CUT MY HAIR OFF AGAIN I'M GOING TO LET IT GROW. SO I MADE THE TEMPLATES OUT OF THE CEREAL BOX A HEART AND A SQUARE AND A FLOWER... I ENJOYED MAKING IT. I WAS GOING TO SEW IT ON THE MACHINE BUT I DECIDED TO TRY BY HAND AND SEE WHAT I COULD DO. LIKE BACK WHEN, WHEN THERE WASN'T A SEWING MACHINE THE LAVENDER SMELLS SO NICE. I HAVE A BAG OF BABY ROSES AS WELL. SO IN BETWEEN WHILE I'M WAITING FOR THE WEATHER TO IMPROVE THIS IS WHAT I WILL BE DOING. THE WIND HAS BEEN BLOWING LIKE MAD THE LAST COUPLE OF DAYS...I ALSO HAVE BEEN CROCHETING BUT WANTED TO DO SOMETHING ELSE, I NEVER SEEM TO BE CONTENT WITH JUST DOING ONE THING...I LOVED THIS A LOT...SO I ALREADY HAVE ANOTHER ONE IN MIND...AND I'M STILL WORKING ON HOW TO MAKE MY APRON. I DON'T THINK I CAN SEW THAT ALL BY HAND, WELL MAYBE BUT I ASKED MY DAUGHTER TO BRING ME HER SEWING MACHINE... I HAVEN'T USE ONE IN A WHILE EITHER...
I HAVE SO MANY IDEAS IN MY HEAD, BUT I WILL START WITH THIS ONE FIRST....
SEE MY BUNNIES, I'M CONSIDERING TRYING TO MAKE A BUNNIE AS WELL....


Wishing you a lovely nite....with love Janice