Today is my Baby Girl Kaitlin's Birthday!!!

Today this silly beautiful girl turned 21!! Oh my goodness I can't believe it!!! She is such a blessing to me and our whole family!!! This is her this summer as a camp counselor at church camp. She has been a counselor to 12 and 13 year old girls for the last five years!!! She is very active in many areas of church. She will be starting her Bachelors Degree next week in Family Development. She is the head of the Young Adults in our Flint District and she also is very active in the United Methodist Women. She traveled to Birmingham Alabama this summer for a National Conference representing the Young Adults for Methodist Women.

She is a big Detroit Tigers Fan!! And they won today on her birthday!! GO TIGERS!!!

She was the Maid of Honor in her step sisters wedding last month!!!

She is silly and goofy!!!

She has a smile that lights up the world!!

She makes me smile everyday!! This is her sister Brooke and I celebrating her day with her!! We had a big dinner for her which she also cooked!! We had pulled pork sandwiches, garlic fries, homemade cole slaw and for dessert I made root beer floats and we also had brownies. She loves to cook and I love to bake so it works out pretty good!! Today she made the pulled pork sandwiches in the crockpot .She used a Pork Roast and Faygo Root Beer and cooked it on slow all day. Then pulled it and put Barbecue Sauce on it. It was very good. I am so blessed!! XO Fran. 

Check out this cool Etsy Treasury I was featured in!!!

Just click on the link below to view the entire treasury!!

http://www.etsy.com/treasury/NTc0ODA3NXw2NjQwNTQ1MjY/peter-peter-pumpkin-eater?index=0

I LOVE THIS TREASURY AND FEEL BLESSED TO BE LISTED IN IT!!

I am linking up to the Sunday Blog Party
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THANKS FOR LOOKING!!

XO FRAN.

 

Wedding, Computers and Storms Oh My!!!!

BOO!!!!!!!!!!

Hi I sure have missed blogging!! We had my step-sons wedding on August 19th and we were out of town for a few days. It was a beautiful wedding and everything went great!! I will be posting pics real soon. But when we got home from the wedding there had been a bad storm and it hit our computer ,and one of our cable TVs and a remote. So we lost everything on our main computer and had to get new equipment for the TV. Our computer was at the computer store for a week!! EWWW! 

Right now I am resting on the couch from having my surgery for my bladder on Friday. I am feeling alittle better today and looking forward to getting out real soon!! Thanks to everyone for your concerns. I didn't realize I was so attached or maybe addicted to the computer!! LOL But I guess when you blog you make so many friends and it is the only way really we can communicate!!! I feel so bad for the people that have been affected by Irene. I have been praying so much for everyone. One little small storm did that to our computer, etc. I can't imagine the damage that Irene has done.

 I am sharing this pic of one of my new listings I am putting in my Etsy shoppe for Fall. Practicing with my new camera and new laptop!! LOL I have so much to catch up on but I wanted to stop in and say hi!! I have a few ATC's to finish and start. I am so looking forward to Fall and all the great things that come with it!! Take care, XO Fran.  

Do you Barter, Swap or Trade? You should!!!

This afternoon I went to the door to open it to let some air in and a big yellow envelope fell at my feet! It was from my adopted niece Jill at http://www.buckscountyfolkart.blogspot.com/ . She had made this little cutey for a surprise and a thank you. I sure love it!! I love Jill too. She has adopted me as her Aunt Frannie and I feel blessed. This little girl is a magnet and Jill knows I love cherries!! Jill is an amazing artist. Check out her post on the Halloween Mixed Media House she rocked out!! Oh my goodness it is amazing!! I went outside to take this pic and I put it on one of my rusty shovels on the side of the barn. It looked so cute!! A big hug and kiss to Jill!!

Here is what I altered with my Mystery Swap Envelope #2 I got from Vickie at http://www.thingsilearnfrombear.blogspot.com/. I always forget to take pics of the stuff in the envelope before I start making them! I think I get excited. The Souvenir paper was half of another one that had a postcard on it. I had been wanting to make a jar for my beach glass and stones Sim and I always get on our vacations. I fancied this one up with some of the beach glass, some feathers, shells, etc. The ribbon and the button are from Vickie. I love the way this turned out and I even had more stuff left over to make this cool tag!! 

I just LOVE it and the way it turned out!! I had the little black bird and couldn't help but put him on the bike. She knew my favorite color is orange. Right now Vickie and I are bartering. When it gets finished I'll share it with you. I am still working on my book from before gluing pages together to make pockets. I have enough stuff left from Vickie to make an ATC card. I really like this Mystery Swap thing. And I really like the bartering. Trading, Bartering and swapping are alot alike. With the way things are in our country right now, doing these things can lift our spirits. Kinda put us back to the way America use to be maybe!! My other good friend Lori at http://www.Perfectisboring.blogspot.com/ home schools her girls and gets together with other homeschoolers. Lori is teaching these young girls about bartering through American Girl books and other things. That is what kinda got me to thinking about it. I am praying for our country. So if any of you are interested in Bartering, Swapping, or Trading there are probably alot of people out there who will. Let me know if you want to. I know Vickie and I are really enjoying it!! Thanks! and Love ya XO Fran.

Feeling groovy, a Mystery Swap, and Sale in my Esty Shoppe!!!!!

CHRISTMAS IN JULY SALE

 IN MY ETSY SHOPPE ON ALL MY HANDMADES

SALE ENDS JULY 31st!!!

I signed up for a Mystery Swap with Tee at http://www.thealteredpaper.blogspot.com/ . I can't refuse a mystery!! LOL We were to send our partners a regular size envelope with stuff to create a tag, atc, or whatever we wanted with at least 75% of what was in the envelope. Donna at http://www.redapplejunction.blogspot.com/. was my partner. Donna is so giving and I was so blessed to receive a larger envelope filled with great goodies! I thought and thought about it and I finally came up with the ideal of trying mixed media on this vintage book. I have been wanting to do mixed media so this was the perfect time. This book has been in my garage for quite awhile as my husband use to make lamps out of vintage books. This is a copy of a picture of this little child, but I fell in love with it. Not knowing if it is a girl or boy I decided to make her a girl and give her the name of Bree. These letters were in the envelope. Actually the only things I used of mine were some vintage lace , green jewels, the paper crown and the book of course. What I am going to do is use the inside of this book to put my other swaps for ATC's, etc. in pockets. Tee has decided this is so much fun she is gonna do it once a month. Sign up it is alot of fun! I know I want to! Go over to Donnas blog and see what she did with my stuff I sent her. It is so cool! I think I sent her way out of her comfort zone!! But she rocked it!!

So I am feeling pretty groovy I just got back from a couple days away with Sim again. This one was not planned and that made it even more special! While we were gone we went to an Auction and oh boy did we have fun! I did alot of cherry picking for the Vintage part of my Etsy Shoppe! Stop by my Shoppe up at the top and check out my "Christmas in July" sale on my handmade items!

XO Fran.