Labor Day Activities

Picture from wedsite

Well, dear Hubby and I stayed busy, but not too busy. I've been really tired since starting back to school. We went to the Blue Berry Festival in Plymouth IN, on Saturday. It is a really large festival with sporting events, tracker pulls, concerts, tons of arts and crafts and gobs of food. We go for the food and crafts. Jr. went with us, so we hit the midway too and he rode a few rides. It was a good time, but warmer than I would have liked. I saw a really cool product related to the scrapbook. All your work is done on line and then you can have the company, called Heritage Makers make a bound book out of your pages. I haven't investigated it too much, but wanted to share the link. There's also a consultant opportunity... Looks kinda interesting.
Heritage Makers, check them out. Let me know what you think and if you worked with them.
Sunday we slept in and boated. It was a beautiful day.
Monday I started to "put the garden to bed". Learned that term last year. IE, I pulled and cut back dead flowers. It looks so much better. We've had a lot of rain so the plants got a little out of control and some were just done.
I hope you all had a good and restful weekend. Four days and the weekend. Yeh!

There is Such a Fun Give Away Idea at One Woman's Cottage Life

Please check out the post on One Woman's Cottage Life. I'll be giving something away. One thing will be made by my special need's students. It is a darling watermelon theme candle holder. We make things in the classroom to simulate a "real job". I'm planning on opening a Etsy store with their things next school year. The profits will go to them for community trips to restaurants, and shopping. I want to take them on the trolley too and that's quite expensive. More to come, stay tooned. Please click on the sidebar link.

What A Week

Well, it's been quite a week. I am just stunned about the VT incident. So very tragic. I work in a Middle School and it always makes us think. There were threats all day all over our city. (Anniversary of Colinbine) Our school did not lock down, but police were out and about around the all of our secondary schools. At one point and time my husband thought we were on a lock down, but thankfully we weren't.
Kids think it's cool to make treats after such things and I just don't understand it. It was shocking to see the nightly news today. They showed a map of the US and almost every state had a treat today at some school. Where are we going in society?

These things seem so trivial but...
I have all my pink and green things ready for my swap partner. I kept forgetting to get a box from school. What a ditz. I think it will be worth the wait.

We are going to the first festival of the season tomorrow. That will be fun. The weather has finally taken a turn for the better in the Midwest. Yeh. Should be up to 73 degrees tomorrow.

Went thrifting this week, pictures to come. I'm really please with my purchases. That's my goal this week. Improve this blog with more pictures.

S.M.A.R.T. Habits Saturday

Well to say the least I am a slow learner. My goal was to have my clothes ready the night before work inorder to get to work on time. I picked out my clothes, but did not iron them. That defeats the purpose don't you think? I do. Second, I need a support group for "I hate mornings!" I need to get up no later than 5:45am and I don't drag myself out of bed until 6:00am. It's not the way to start out a day. It's such a self-defeating habit. I really must master this goal.

Flowers Oh My!!!

My husband works for a large company where he is the wear house manager. On Monday, a truck driver asked him to take some flowers off the truck for him and get rid of them. Not knowing what they really were he said sure. Well... there were 260 boxes with four large black containers each that held 8-12 bouquets!
You do the math.
I think everyone in are area got free flowers. I took about 250 bouquets into school and passed them out. It was fun, because we have had a late winter and it really brightened every one's day. The roses, tulips, mums and carnations are beautiful. I got my flower fix for now. Pictures to come.