TEN ON TEN

Here is my day on the tenth.
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I'm ready for bed after this day.

PROJECT 365 - WEEK 49

Well, we are getting down to the last few weeks of the year. I have enjoyed gathering pictures of everything this year. Will I continue this next year? I sure hope so. I've got a whole album of pictures to process into scrapbooks. As for this week, just your normal stuff around here. Cooking, laundry and keeping Bella and Luke out of everything. That's a full time job!

Luke took his daddy's hat and ran to mommy with it.

My chicken cookie jar. It sits on the hutch in the kitchen.

Bella and Luke waiting(impatiently) for the tub to fill with water for their bath.

My newest crochet project, Hexagon Blanket. I've got 2 rows done.

Luke sitting in a basket. Keep in mind this is a small basket. We use it to put their blocks in. He likes getting into things. Why? I don't know.

This poor little bird was sitting in the Trumpet Vine shivering in the cold. And then it started snowing.

I found some granny squares while decluttering a closet. So decided to take them apart and recycle the yarn into my Hexagon Blanket. I was putting the little balls of yarn in a bucket under my desk. I thought they would be safe from you know who, yea Bella and Luke. But no, they found them!

Want to see more pictures? Head over to Sarah's place, Nap Time Mom to see everyone's Project 365 pictures.

MUNCHKINS

Bella and Luke trying to sneak up on me.

SANTA TIME

I've decided to move all my scrapbook stuff over here from my scrapbook blog, My Journal. I well be closing My Journal the end of December. So you will be seeing some scrapbook pages. There are lots of scrapbook challenges out there. A couple of my favorites is Scrapbooker's Anonymous and Bird is the Word. The challenge for Scrapbooker's Anonymous is to use a holiday picture, have a tag and use glitter. Bird is the Word challenge is to use the word "Time" on your page. This is what I came up with.

Santa Time

This is my son and Santa. He is about 4 years old in this picture. "Time" is in my title. The tree is my tag and I used glitter on the tips of the flower and I glittered HO! in the upper right corner. Do you scrapbook? Head over and check these places out. Lots of talented folks over there.

BOOK REVIEW

"Unbroken" by Laura Hillenbrand
Product Description(Amazon.com)
On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spray of debris and a slick of oil, gasoline, and blood. Then, on the ocean surface, a face appeared. It was that of a young lieutenant, the plane’s bombardier, who was struggling to a life raft and pulling himself aboard. So began one of the most extraordinary odysseys of the Second World War.
The lieutenant’s name was Louis Zamperini. In boyhood, he’d been a cunning and incorrigible delinquent, breaking into houses, brawling, and fleeing his home to ride the rails. As a teenager, he had channeled his defiance into running, discovering a prodigious talent that had carried him to the Berlin Olympics and within sight of the four-minute mile. But when war had come, the athlete had become an airman, embarking on a journey that led to his doomed flight, a tiny raft, and a drift into the unknown.
Ahead of Zamperini lay thousands of miles of open ocean, leaping sharks, a foundering raft, thirst and starvation, enemy aircraft, and, beyond, a trial even greater. Driven to the limits of endurance, Zamperini would answer desperation with ingenuity; suffering with hope, resolve, and humor; brutality with rebellion. His fate, whether triumph or tragedy, would be suspended on the fraying wire of his will.
Hardcover: 496 pages
Publisher: Random House; 1st edition (November 16, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1400064163
ISBN-13: 978-1400064168

MY THOUGHTS: This has got to be the best book I've read this year. It is a wonderful book, if you get a chance to read this, DO. It will make you laugh and cry. It's all about Louie Zamperini, a World War II vet and his struggle to survive before, during and after the war. Louie's B-24 Bomber plane crashed into the Pacific Ocean. Then he was caught and held in a POW camp. Then he had to survive so he could get back home to his family. This book is full of pictures and information about the horrors that the POW's went through while interned. I was really surprised by all the information and horrified. The things that were done to the POW's in the name of war was horrendous. How they survived is beyond me. You have got to read this book!!

MY RATING: 8-12

ONE A DAY PROJECT - TUESDAY'S TALLIES

I started making Hexagon's for a blanket. Don't know how many I'll need or the size, just making hexagons and putting them together. I've measured the width and it's the right size. Don't know that either. I just laid down on the couch and put the hexagon's over me to see if it was wide enough. I know, not the most scientific way of doing it, but it works for me. Anyway, I've gotten the first 2 rows of hexagon's done. Want to see??

Isn't it pretty! I think so anyway. Want to see it close up??

I was cleaning out a closet and found some granny squares left over from a project I worked on a couple years ago. I didn't need them for anything so decided to rip them apart and recycle the yarn into my hexagon blanket. Now I have a box full of little balls of yarn. I still have a few granny squares to take apart.

I've been putting the balls in a bucket under my computer desk. I thought the balls of yarn would be safe there. Why safe and from what? The twins, Bella and Luke of course. They are into everything. Well, the little balls of yarn weren't safe, Bella and Luke found them. And I caught them red handed. So now the little balls of yarn are in a box up high so Bella and Luke can't get to them. They seem to think they are balls and throw them.

Well, that's it for now. I'm off to make some more hexagon's and watch t.v. 

AROUND THE ROOM

The weather is not nice today. Cold and cloudy with a chance of rain or snow. So my Macros are inside. I've taken a few shots of the laundry/computer room.

Lamp

Mousse

Stove

Toys

Got some macros you want to show off? Head over to Lisa's place, Lisa's Chaos, for some more Macro Monday pictures.

SUNDAY RUMBLINGS

Full of Light - the kitchen window all lit up with sunshine after a few days of cloudy, gloomy weather.

Motion - Bella running to me from her brother.

Nostalgic - when I found these ABC block at a local store I just couldn't resist buying them for the twins. They bring back so many fond memories of my own childhood.

Portrait - We had our first snow of the winter. It's pretty, but I hate the cold and ice that comes with it. If only it could snow and be 80 degrees. lol

Time - I was trying to capture my hubby's reflection in the mirror but kept getting the flash of the camera. But this one caught the clock on the wall reflected back at me. This is my SOOC shot.

PROJECT 365 - WEEK 48

It's been a kind of lazy week around here. The weather is colder and cloudy and we had our first snow of the season.


The neighbor boys built a fort. I liked how the Trumpet Vine made a frame around this picture.

These are my wedding rings. I've had them on for 43 years. I don't take them off to cook or clean. So they are a little beat up and they are getting thin.

We had our first snow of the season. We got about 3 to 4 inches all total. It's pretty but I hate driving and walking in the white stuff.

Do you remember playing with ABC blocks? I do, ooops I'm telling my age. I found these at a local store and couldn't resist buying them for the twins.

This is Bella jamm'in to the music. She sways side to side. The little "radio" she has plays nursery rhymes.

Bella and Luke, into everything, making messes and turning the house upside down, but I love them so much. Who could resist those smiles.

My hubby making his version of Oyster Soup. Oysters, Milk and Butter.

Head over to Sarah's place, Nap Time Mom to see lots more pictures.

DANCING

Bella dancing to her play radio.

WHICH WOULD YOU RATHER HAVE

As far as weather goes, it's been a funky week. Temps in the 60's, then rain and falling temps. So which would you rather have?

This........

or that..........

I personally don't like either but I can't do anything about it. So have to suffer through it.

OUR FIRST SNOW OF THE SEASON

Yesterday we got our first snow. It's pretty and I like looking at, but hate driving or walking in it.

I'm linking up with Susan over at A Southern Daydreamer for Outdoor Wednesday. Hop over and see all the great pictures everyone is sharing.