Cedar Ridge Homecoming

Last night was my grandson's schools homecoming game and I really, really, really wanted to show you pictures of some of  the most bizarre "corsages" you've ever seen….Texas High Schools Homecoming Mums! So what did I do? Forgot my camera which means I'm going to hijack some pictures off the internet!

First up I'll  show you what girls in my class wore for homecoming mums.  A nice large real chrysanthemum with purple and gold streamers and if you wanted to be showy maybe a pipecleaner "M" in the middle of it. (What gives with the rainbonnets 1965 girls?)

Fast forward to the new millennium.  This ain't your daddy's mum – ( that is if your daddy wore a mum which he didn't because he's a manly man)

Yes – that is a disco ball and feather boas in that mum. Go Mustangs…go bears…go tigers…go to the chiropractor after wearing one of these babies!

So anyway last Saturday my grandson and I made a mum for his date.   Here's the base.  We made our own because this stage to get you started at Hobby Lobby was $27!  Since I had a ton of the ribbon already we only spent $39!!!!

Lots of staples and lots of glue – now you know where this glue got its name!

Add three big mums

Then start blinging it out.  Yes – every drawer basket box sack was open in my craftroom and it still needed….more!

So of course when it was done later that night my flash wouldn't work and I  have no good pics of m  4 ft masterpiece :(

Are you in awe of my mum making skills?  Okay – maybe not – and there's no boa or teddy bear in there because I have standards – well…..sort of.

and guess what?  The dudes wear a "garter" on their sleeves.

 

So what do you think my Pink Saturday buddies? How about a pink mum?  That's upping the ante, huh? (yeah, right – what school chooses pink and white as their color??? Go Pink – Go White - Go Kitties – not gonna happen.)

Anyway I've got next years mum on the drawing board.

6000 yards of ribbon etc.  So if you think of what else should be on there leave me a note and if there's not enough room in the message leave it over at Beverly's How Sweet The Sound.  xoxo Nancy

When I'm 64

 

 

 

 

 

When I get older dying my hair, 
Just two days from now,
Will you still be sending me a valentine
Birthday greetings bottle of wine?

If I'd been out till quarter to three
Would you lock the door,
Will you still need me, will you still read me,
When I'm sixty-four?

oo oo oo oo oo oo oo oooo
You'll be older too, (ah ah ah ah ah)
And if you say the word,
I could stay with you. 

I could be handy writing a post 
When your lights have gone.
You can knit a sweater by the fireside
Sunday mornings go for a ride.

Doing the garden, digging the weeds,
Who could ask for more?
Will you still need me, will you still read me,
When I'm sixty-four?

 

Every summer we can garage sale
In the light of dawn, if it's not too far
We shall scrimp and save
Grandchildren on our knee
Bloggers one, two, three

 

Send me a postcard, drop me a line,
Stating point of view.
Indicate precisely what you mean to say
Yours sincerely, Wasting Away. (well not really – you know – the pink cupcakes and all!)

  

Give me your answer, fill in a form
Mine for evermore
Will you still need me, will you still read me,
When I'm sixty-four?

 

So can you guess how old I'll be on my birthday Sunday? 

So will you still read me, will I be blogging, will I still d0 Pink Saturday…when I'm 64?

xoxo Nancy

Little Maids All In A Row

 

My tag for Elizabeth's Happy Homemaker Tagalong isn't done yet so I'll share the little gift boxes I made for some little surprise gifts for the bride to give to her little nieces.

They are those flimsy little 12 for $1.00 boxes from Dollar Tree but they look so cute when gussied up a little!

And wrappings for the bride's two sisters – just because they're pretty….and have some Pink!

Happy Pink Saturday and thanks to Beverly for hosting

and to Cindy at My Romantic Home hosting Show and Tell Friday.

xoxo Nancy

WWYT What Would You Take?

First of all – everyone needs to pray for rain for Texas, please…. or send some positive rain vibes or whatever you do.   There are fires burning everywhere here. 

Backing up to Sunday when we came home from church this is what we saw.  

Fire trucks everywhere, command center in the middle of the street and the land across the street from us on fire!  At first as we drove through the barricade we thought it was our house and I knew the only really important thing was to get the girls, Lillie and Iris, out.  This foam they kept spraying after the fire was out.

 

But it wasn't our house and the wind, which was about 4o mph  was blowing away from our house as the temperature climbed to 105. It went on to spread to 20 more acres and was then contained.  And that quickly became one of the lesser fires.  All day long sirens blared as fires started popping up everywhere.   I know this picture looks like my house is a hovel and sometimes it is – haha – but there was a time when it was green and blooming.  Because of the hottest summer ever recorded and the most severe drought in half a century our yard and plants are gone.  We just couldn't seem to water enough and then came the time when doing so was a waste.

Then I saw this where it shows the first fire started on our side lot –

nope it was across the street so the EndofDays-er blogger who put my address as ground zero for fires of hell or whatever should meet the rest of the endofdaysers across the street. Laughing….sort of.

Anyway – with all that done and sitting all cozy in my hovel I decided to pack a few things to grab and go. With the dogs in the car…some of the things on my list (actually in a laundry basket) – computer…it has tons of my family pictures and lots of info we'd need for insurance, etc.and easier to take than that stuff, birth certificate and ss cards, some jewelry – only gold or silver unless it's sentimental, and some prescriptions that cost more than gold and silver.  Then for me a few clean clothes, and the programs and wrapped gifts I did for my niece's wedding even though I was scoffed at for wanting to put them in the car just in case!!! 

And even though the wedding is at a resort

a few miles from  the worst fire in Texas   –

Bastrop County – it will go forth somewhere because I'm happy to say it's more about the marriage than the wedding!

Many people have lost their homes – over 600 – and the worst fires are still zero containment.  So, here it is my favorite day of the year – this beautiful September day when the first cool front has arrived  these fires are still raging.

I'm keeping all those displaced people and the firemen in my prayers.

(pictures from Facebook)

Now… what 5 things would you take if you only had 10 minutes?  

xoxo Nancy

PS – I forgot…phones and chargers for all the electronic crap!  My basket just got heavier!

PSS I'm joining Sue @ It's A Very Cherry World today for Rednesday after realizing I have a big red firetruck to show!

Pink less Saturday

Hello Bloggy friends.  I am  totally bloggyless today!  This week has been so busy.  I've been taking pictures for an upcoming estate sale for my friend Pat of Estate Sales by Pat. If you're in the Austin area it starts next Thursday and her prices are fabulous.  Check it out here!  She has some gorgeous quilts and linens.

Tonight I went to the new Pflugerville auction and got a huge and I mean huge box of crochet doilies etc for $5.00!!!! I never win stuff like that but no one else was interested. Yay! So I'm making lampshades with them.  And I have a million little projects going because this adorable girl, our niece…

is getting married next week. How did that happen – she grew up overnight because wasn't 1986 just a couple of years ago??? And guess what her colors are???

Did you guess Pink?  WRoNG! It's teal.  A shade of my favorite color – turquoise.  And as you know I'm daughterless so I love the chance to offer my helpyness to her mother, my bff. She's my niece even though her mother is not really my sister but isn't it wonderful that sometimes you do get to pick your own family!!!  And I had a really elegant black dress picked out to wear to the wedding and then somehow opted instead to buy a pink/purple sundress that looks like a migrane with a hot pink shrug!  I've been around you guys too long!!! haha.  So that's next weekend and I'm just so excited that she's getting married. 

And by the way – Happy September!  Even though it's still in the 100s it's September and there is totally a chance that a cool front could blow in.  It's not in the forecast but there is a chance and as long as it was August it was more like a fat chance!

So now I'm heading over to put my link up on Beverly's Pink Saturday and could I be later?  Oh well….better late than never, right?  Have a wonderful laborless Labor Day weekend.

xoxo Nancy