Apple for Teacher Digi Set

Digi Set contains, apple & book with sentiment circle ( Back to School   AND  "A Teacher Takes a Hande, Opens a Mind & Touches a Heart", apple alone, apple & book alone and the two sentiments.  This is outline digi version ( PNG and JPG files included plus a ready-to-print sheet).

Here is a card coloured with coloured pencils and glossy accents:

Apple for Teacher Digi Set
Price $ 2.50 CAD

Wheelbarrow Digi & Pre-Coloured

UPDATE - Pre-Coloured Version added to this product post see bottom.

The Wheelbarrow Digi ( uncoloured )

Included PNG (transparent), JPG and ready-to-print Sheet 300 ppi.

Wheelbarrow Digi ( Uncoloured )

  Price:  $ 2.00 CAD






A card made with the Wheelbarrow image: ( great for adding Flower Soft :)  )

The Wheelbarrow Pre-Coloured Set

-included 8 coloured images + 2 ready-to-print sheets ( JPG 300 ppi)

The Wheelbarrow Pre-Coloured Set:

Price: $3.50 CAD 

The Old Truck Digi & Col Set

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This set includes both the digi outline and pre-coloured versions.  All images in JPG 300 ppi  and includes 2 ready-to-print sheets.

The Old Truck Digi & Col Set
Price $3.50 CAD

3 New Dresses

While I was in Misssouri taking care of my mom after she had open heart surgery my dad celebrated his 70th birthday--mom ended up spending both of their birthdays in the hospital this year.

The morning of my dad's birthday he comes into her hospital room and told me he wanted to take me to show me what he wanted for his birthday, so I'm thinking it'll either be a herd of goats or a farm tractor--two of his favorite things. But before we leave mom looks at me and says in that mother voice--Cathy Lynn ( yup, that's when you know you better listen), I want you to go and do as your father tells you and don't give him any trouble. Hmmmm....I haven't heard that since I was a kid and I was a very good kid! LOL! So I'm thinking oh boy that must mean I not only get to look at goats and tractors I get to trapse through the fields with all the bugs and cockleburrs too.

So off we go....driving through downtown Joplin....coming up to Joann's Fabrics and he said we weren't going there....hadn't even crossed my mind, because he had just announced we were going to Radio Shack. Well Radio Shack does not have goats or tractors and he's a little behind on todays electronics---I'm still waiting on them both to get email addys--so we pull into the parking lot, walk across to the Radio Shack and then go right past the Radio Shack and into the ladies dress shop--Catherine's. Hmmmm....he is getting old! LOL! Then he says ok let's pick out some dresses! Now that is a surprise, because these dresses are for me! And it's his birthday. Much better than a goat or a tractor! So we find a handful of dresses and I go to try them on and off he goes and he keeps the dresses coming. Now this is a man who does not clothes shop, has no clue about women's clothing or the way we shop and when he finds a shirt or pants that he likes buy 5 exactly alike of each, so they last him forever. But he did really well at finding dresses and these are the 3 that I chose.......................................

A beautiful purple textured dress--that does not wrinkle! No need for that new iron. LOL! I love how it drapes and the feel of the fabric.

A pink jacket with big, square black buttons and a flippy, silky black and pink skirt..... I love pink!

And my very favorite is the electric green dress! The camera just doesn't pick up it's true color, but it is gorgeous and I'm hoping to find some electric green shoes to go with it. Again I love the texture, the layers and how it drapes.

So for a goat and tractor excursion I was truly and delightfully surprised! I LOVE my new dresses! Oh and I guess now I know why my mom said I was to behave. LOL!

Irons--What I Had, Have & Want

Ironing--rather boring don't you think (but I do love this vintage photo!). While it may be no fun to do, it's even less fun to wear wrinkledy clothes and I am an ironer and my poor old iron finally died.

See it just came apart at the seams and I have no idea how. I didn't do it and no one in the house is fessing up to it. Hmm.......

So what's a girl to do?........

Well I did have a few other irons.......

...nothing special, but this old travel iron won't do. It has no steam and gets really, really hot, so it would probably scorch my clothes! And besides it's doing decorating duty......

....Then there's my itty bitty, barely 4 inches long really cool little iron that I use for quilting. It's great for quilting, but just how long would it take to iron an entire blouse or dress?.........

...or there's my little Clover quilting iron with the nifty changeable heads, but that would really never do! I would be better off tossing my wrinkled clothes into the dryer and baking them wrinkle free........

...and then there's this.....the Proctor Silex $16.00 iron that came home with me from Big Lots. It will do. It's big enough, it gets hot, but not too hot and it has steam and multiple settings. Good for a cheapy iron that will probably last a year or two if I'm lucky, but I'm not complaining---til it dies right in the middle of ironing my favorite dress!..................

AND then! There is This! The Black & Decker F63E! This is what I want! I had one just like it that my mother gave to me in 1981 as a bridal shower gift and I used it a good 20 years or more before it gave out and went to iron heaven. Nope it's not fancy. It's not a Rowenta, but it's a good, solid, heavy duty, working iron that lasts and lasts the way an iron should. Yup, this is what I want. See I really am a simple girl. LOL!

Wondering About Old Friends

Every once in awhile I'll read on a blog where two old school friends have found one another and I get to thinking of old school friends of mine. So I thought I'd post a few names and see if just by some wild chance any of these old friends might stumble across me here in blogland and if they do I will have secret questions that only they will know the answers too. So here goes..... A few of the old friends I'm wondering about are (in no particular order)........

Sylvia Reeves

Susan Reeves

Linda Martin

Kelly Wallis ( or was it Wallace ?)

Cheryl Adcox