Oh plums I see

 

Good morning everyone,

Hope everyone is doing well. I am dragging a little. So much to do

and the smoke is at sensitive levels again. I was able to get some

things done outside yesterday but today is going to be some work.

In my header picture is an oil painting of plums and it comes from

The Turner Gallery an Etsy shop the link is below.

http://www.etsy.com/shop/TheTurnerGallery?ref=seller_info

On our property there are three plum trees and today I need

to spend some time picking them. It wouldn't be so bad if I

actually liked plums. I just can't let them go to waste so I will

pick them and try and give them away.



We also have some blackberries growing here but then again

that should be no surprise because blackberries grow wild here.

The beautiful picture of the blackberries come from the Etsy

shop at the link below.

http://www.etsy.com/shop/Flowersandplants?ref=seller_info

This shop is actually selling blackberry seeds but the picture

of the blackberries is gorgeous. Picking the blackberries is totally

different because I actually like blackberries. I'll tell you a little

secret. When I take the dogs outside I stand by the blackberry

bushes picking and eating a handful or two. Shhh don't tell anyone.

And I wonder why I could use to lose about twenty pounds.

.....LOL......

Oh well I love my blackberries. Hopefully tomorrow I can get

a good sunny day to take pictures of my projects and maybe

I can find the right place and lighting to take all my pictures

still working on that issue since we moved.

Please keep the firefighters that are fighting the wildfires in your

prayers.Yesterday a firefighter lost his life here in Oregon. The

bad thing is that we have thunderstorms in affect for the next

few days and with thunderstorms come lightening. Pray that

no more fires start up. It's been one crazy summer weather wise

and not just here but all over our country. We will get through this

God willing.

 

 

 

So until my next post Have A Splendid Day!!!!!

A crazy week

Good Monday Morning.

Hope you all had a great weekend. I had kind of a busy weekend

to go along with my busy week. In my header picture is what most

of our week looked like with all the fires burning around us. Well

tis was one of the better days where visibilty was more than a quarter

mile We had a few days that the air quality was at dangerous levels. So

 as soon as we had a good air quality day I had a lot that I had to take

care of in town. I did go out in the mess on Monday to get my Oregon

drivers license now that I had my new birth certificate.

On Thursday again I went out into the bad air to pick up my sons

new plates for his vehicle. The bank finally came through after I

said no payment would be made.

Friday it finally cleared up enough to go out and do my grocery

shopping. Most of the week I had to figure out how to keep the

dogs busy inside so they wouldn't want to be outside other than

long enough to do their business otherwise they would have sneezing

fits that they were smacking their faces on the hardwood floor.

Saturday I tried to catch up on all the outside stuff that didn't get

done all week. Then Saturday night my granddaughter Marion took

a spill off of her wheel chair and broke her leg, she has an appointment

today with an orthopedic surgeon to see if they will need to operate

to fix it. Below is a picture of her at the hospital while she is waiting

to be seen.

Sunday we went out to my mother-in-laws for lunch with since my

sister-in-law and niece are here visiting. I got very little blogging 

and crafting done. Hopefully this week I will do better. So until my

next post Have A Splendid Day!!!!!! 

 

 

I'm designing

Hello everyone

Hope to find all of you doing well.

Todays post is a little different than normal. For some time

now I have been working on a project. This project was a

design that I came up with to store all my tags that I had

received from my tag swaps. In my header picture is the

example that I came up with. I have exhausted all the ways

I can think of to get it off the ground so I have now taken it

to Quirky. Quirky is a place where anyone with great ideas

can add an invention. The community will be commenting and

voting on the idea. If it gets 200 votes, it will automatically

move into Expert Review, where a Quirky team discusses the

idea in great detail. To help make this happen. We are to tell

our friends and family about our idea and ask them to support

it by joining Quirky, voting and commenting. The best of the

best ideas in Expert Review move on to the live Product

 Evaluation. If you think that my design is a great idea would

you please go to Quirky sign up and vote.

The tag holder is not the only design that I have listed

on Quirky, below is a sketch of another design that I

came up with

This design is a steamer for Tamales. There are steamers

out there but not like this. If you have ever made tamales

then you know that they are steamed and not cooked. This

steamer would have a place to lean against while making

them stand. I usually use a jar but when I am trying to stand

them up I am always fighting the jar from falling over. The

tamales also sit right in the water so sometimes they don't

steam right. Because tamales are a lot of work when I make

them I usually do about ten dozen and have to steam two

pots of them. This pot would enable me to steam them all

at once.

So if you could help me out to get my designs to the next

level I would greatly appreciate it.

http://www.quirky.com/velma-meiners-1

Thank you!!!

Until my next post Have A Splendid Day!!!!!!