WIP Wednesday --Items to the State Fair

Well, I got my 4 entries taken to the state fair, but I was not able to finish the table runner.  In fact, it's only half done.
It's pretty tedious for me to work with the invisible thread, then I found that I didn't have enough red and green yo-yo's made.

I ended up entering the 12 x 34 inch valance that I am done with as a table runner in the holiday section.  This one that I am working on is to be 18 x 40 for the table runner.  I do still also have the second valance to get made.

That is all that I worked on this past week.  I was determined to finish it but just couldn't.  Now I've not worked on it for days....or anything else for that matter.
Hopefully I can get back in the swing of sewing every day again.   This yo-yo project needs to take top priority to work on daily.

Our state fair starts Friday and I will be busy with a fund raiser at church as well as going to the fair of course.  If I don't post next week it will be because I did nothing.......which won't surprise me at all.

I link up with the following blogs:




Jo's Country Junction:  http://www.joscountryjunction.com/

KatieMae Quilts for BOM weekly linky.  https://www.katiemaequilts.com/blog/

Frugal Friday Link Up

Welcome to Friday!



This has been a very long and busy week for me. I don't have any posts to share for this past week in my own linky, but I do hope many will come in and inspire us with their frugal type posts.



We spent many many hours at the Kansas State Fair this week. Monday was dollar day. We go each year on dollar day for the year. We always start by walking around with the Headstart class for the morning. I only spent $10 the whole day. $5 for midway rides, $3 for root beers, and $2 on something else that I can't even remember. (Told you it's been a long week). If you showed your DIllon's Plus card at the gate it was free to get in.



Wednesday not so frugal but that's my husbands day off. It cost the 3 of us $24 to get in to the fair. I told him we needed to pick up a lot of free stuff to cover that $24. Surprisingly enough, this year I didn't go around picking up everything that was free. We did pick up a few pens, several pencils, several emery boards, some stickers etc. The electric company gave out insulation to put behind your light switches and plug ins. One of Steve's bread customers gave us free food and drink from their booth (a funnel cake and 2 cherry limeades). We got free little cups of ice cream. We taste tested lots of dips and mustards with pretzels. We also tasted veggie stew and chili. I picked up some free devotional materials for the Lutheran Hour table. I even picked up an education packet from Birth Right---this will be used with Jasmine as part of health and they did a good job filling the folder with lots of information. We picked up 2 re-usable shopping bags, 3 sets of word magnets, 3 tops, and 3 of the little toothpick dispensers. Jasmine got a horseshoe with her name on it and John 3:16. Believe it or not, that's not even near the usual stuff we come home with. We probably did get our money's worth though, even just for having the family time out.



Moving on---today is the last of the baking soda tips from the 99 Cent Solutions. Who knew there were so many uses for baking soda?



1. Revitalize wallpaper. Remove greasy fingerprints by rubbing the stain gently with a damp sponge sprinkled with baking soda. Rinse and pat dry. Your wall paper will be good as new.



2. Don't lose your marble. Brighten up your marble countertop by dipping a cloth in water and lightly sprinkling it with baking soda. Rub gently in a circular motion and rinse with cool water and buff it dry, The marble will gleam again.



3. Green your baby clothes. Get rid of that stiff feel and smell of chemicals by washing your baby clothes in scent free baby detergent and adding 1/2 cup baking soda.



4. Down the drain. For a minor blockage pour 1 cup baking soda down the drain followed by 1 cup of white vinegar. Let it sit for 10 minutes then pour a kettle of boiling water down the drain. Repeat as needed. (I've used this trick many times over the years!)



5. Detergent expander. To extend dishwashing liquid, add one squeeze to a dishpan partially filed with hot water. Stir in 1 or 2 tablespoons of baking soda. The water won't be as bubble but it will feel soapy. Grease will disappear and baked-on food will come off easily.

Saturday September 19

Good Morning!
I am not past my disappointment and all about the refund, but all I can do for now is move on and pray it works out and I still get it.

Time to share what I've shared on gather since last posted here as well as things I've done on squidoo.

Squidoo:
I just finished updating Our Unschooling Journey 4
I added another blanket done on my Blankets for Christmas lens.
This week's assignment with Rocketmoms was to build a lens around Travel the World with the Rocketmoms. I built mine on Dillon's Nature Center--Hutchinson, KS

Gather:
Flower Photo Essay--Last One This Season
Two More Blankets/Quilts Complete
We Got a New Kitchen Table
and 36 Odd Things About Me
I'm also sharing 3 photos a day taken at the state fair in an album Kansas State Fair 2009

In other news...I survived the week. I'm feeling really tired but I made it. My son is still staying with us. We are working on getting the swimming pool emptied and taken down for the season. We got in trouble with the city for emptying it onto the street. They say it's human contamination and against the law. It had to be emptied into a sewer, and that didn't mean the grates in the street either.
I got my middle daughter to the dentist for her partial impression, now we wait for them to call and say they are done.
Tomorrow is the first day of Sunday school at church so I am keeping all the grandkids overnight tonight. I actually look forward to it....just hope I can get to sleep at a decent time.

I think that's it for now. Have yourself an awesome Saturday.
Marsha

Did You Think I Got Lost?

Good Morning! I can't believe it's been over a week since I blogged, but it's been so busy.

Steve was on vacation last week. Even though we really didn't go anywhere, we still stayed plenty busy..
On labor day I started and almost completed a quilt. All I had left was the tieing, which I am working on now.

Steve and my son, Johnathon put in a sidewalk beside the garage during the week. I haven't gotten to posting the photos or videos on gather yet.

The Kansas State fair started Friday, the 11th. We spent ALL day Friday there, and a lot of the day Saturday. My legs ache!! I am going back today with my granddaughters to walk around with Araya's Headstart class. Then, my daughter, Jasmine, will spend her $13 riding rides since it's $1 day.

As far as Squidoo: I updated this morning Our Unschooling Journey 4
I updated Gather--The BEST in Social Networking
And, this weeks Rocketmom's assignment was a fall recipe lens, so I chose to make one on Meatball Subs

In gather I shared my every day featured posts for my own group as well as:
Walgreens Shopping 9/6/09
Happy Labor Day Friends :)
Laboring On Labor Day
Araya's 4th Birthday Photos--August 29, 2009
Mail Call! Week of September 2
Walgreens Shopping 9/13/09
You can see that I love to stay busy on gather. I got my last $25 paypal redemption in Sept 11, and have a goal to cash out again by the 25th.

Guess I will move on for the day before it's time for me to leave...time flies by!
Have a great Monday,
Marsha

Tuesday September 16

Good Morning!
Does anyone want a cat that likes to get on your lap and suck on your clothes? Nymphadora does this and it's driving me crazy. Her way of giving love I guess.
Soon I will be heading to work. After work I will take Heather to her math tutoring. I am going to ask if we can change to another day besides Tuesday. This evening I have the bowling league.
The weather is great this past few days! Just about perfect in fact. The kinds I would love to see year around.

We got Allen Jr started on his meds for the strep throat. He is home from school again today, but hopefully will feel well enough to go back tomorrow. I've had strep a few times and I know even with meds it takes days before you start feeling better. Poor guy.



This is a one of the videos that I took at the Kansas State Fair.

I guess that's it for today. Have a glorious day!

Sunday September 14

We did end up going to the fair yesterday evening.
Yesterday was about the perfect day too. We stayed about 5 hours. We collected a lot of free pencils, pens, rulers etc. We rode the fair train. We got some food. It was fun even though all I could do once home was to fall in to bed.
It was super hard to get out of bed this morning too. I had to get up early as this was the first day of Sunday school for this church year. I also wanted to get a roast in the crockpot for dinner.
After church I took a long nap...then what did I do?? Someone gave me an invite to winster.com...ok, that is just too addictive...once I used my 200 free spins I paid the .99 to buy a day pass and get 300 more spins. Any of you want to join and play fun games? If so, just let me know.

Today I will share the photo essay I did on some of the pigeons at our state fair. I know most won't find it of interest, but I had to go in and take a good look after reading the book, Superdove. Pigeons at the Kansas State Fair 2008

I think the roast is about done, and a little later I have Bible study. I don't think...or sure hope not....that this week will be near as busy as the past week!

I opened a new lens at squidoo if you are interested. Home School Helpers Squidoo Lens

Take care,
Marsha