My grandson voted before he was born!

Well not really, but he was in his mommy's tummy when SHE voted today, so does that count?

See that sticker on her tummy? Yeah, that's OLIVER!!! I am so incredibly proud of my daughter and son-in-law for making sure that he got to experience voting first-hand even before he could see the ballot. They will make such awesome parents!!! My daughter is sooooo organized these days (perhaps it's her nesting instinct?) that she actually studied the ballot ahead of time and zipped right through that electronic voting machine faster than I could say VOTE! I'm sure she said a few words to Oliver while she was touching the screen like how to recognize a good candidate and which party is truly FOR the PEOPLE (starts with a D folks!)

Is anyone else truly looking forward to being able to turn on the television without having to flip through channels adnauseum to avoid political advertisements and then end up switching to Netflix or Hulu anyway? The NaBloPoMo prompt for today was to say what our first act would be if we were elected president. How about banning all those ads? Better yet, prohibit filling those pockets so deep that they have millions of dollars to spend on all those ads, junk mail and phone calls! I think we could heat a house for the winter with just ONE candidate's junk mail alone! Ok, enough of that. Let's just say that I'll be glad when January gets here and we can move on...

Toodles!

Monday,Monday, so good to me

Silly song just keeps floating around in my head with pictures of those four singers, especially Mama Cass in that short dress! Today is Monday, Day 5 of the NaBloPoMo challenge to write a blog post every day during the month of November. The blog prompt for today's post is: "What are your thoughts about tomorrow's election in the United States?" Well to be quite honest I hope whoever wins does what is right for our country, because no matter what they say during all those millions of dollars worth of ads we've all be nauseated by over the past few months, if they are controlled simply by what the deep pockets and party lines tell them to do, we're in trouble. 

Believe it or not I used to really get involved in politics, or at least in radical advocacy work on my own time while trying to play the good state government employee serving as a Legislative Liaison who wasn't allowed to lobby or say anything contrary to the current administration. Talk about migraines! Yeah, after I figured out that it wasn't just the aspartame  MSG and chocolate that brought them on and finally gave in to the fact that my job and the internal conflicts it was causing might actually be a big contributing factor I gave up all the nasties and have rarely experienced one since. Well admittedly I haven't completely given up chocolate, but have learned that, unlike the stressful job, consuming it in small increments is ok.

So what does all that have to do with my thoughts about tomorrow's election? Quite honestly, even though I still vote and I know that only one vote really CAN make a difference, I just can't get overly excited or worried about who wins or loses because you know what? Life will go on!

Bottom line with me is that I'm more concerned about the upcoming baby shower I'm throwing for my daughter on Saturday than I am about the election. There you have it! Here she is with our empathetic Border Collie, Katie. Our Golden Retriever has also gotten in to the habit of patting Emily's belly. Guess they're making sure Oliver is okay. I love it!

Family visits

Here it is Day 4 of NaBloPoMo and I still haven't committed that acronym to my ever-shrinking memory. Seems the second letter should be an "o" because I want the "N" to stand for November. Anyone else having this problem?

We went to visit my parents yesterday at their assisted living apartment and had a lovely visit with my dad. Mom had gotten whisked away by my niece for her very first mani-pedi. We got to exchange hugs on our way out of the building just before the nurse rushed her down the hall for her insulin shot before supper. She looked beautiful and happy, but I didn't get to take a picture. Here's a great shot of DH sitting in front of the 35th anniversary quilt my sister made.

 

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Day 3 NaBloPoMo Grandbabymoon

Last weekend we were in charge of the "livestock" while our daughter and son-in-law went out of town for their Babymoon. It was their last trip as a couple before their baby is born (due Dec 27). So this weekend DH and I travelled out of town to visit family. I took some pics that represent our night and morning routines. Don't laugh when you see that snore relief box below, but there's something about the air in this house that really stuffs us up, so I thought we'd try those nose strips and throat coating strips. According to DH they didn't work! Any suggestions?

My iPad lap tray with earbuds allowed me to watch another episode of McLeod's Daughters on Netflix while DH fell asleep. Sure glad MIL got a wireless router!

Pretty little painting on the dresser.

This light above the kitchen table gives me a headache. Wonder why?

Guess where we are?

That's all for today folks! Time to get caught up with family and do some shopping in the big city!

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Baby Oliver's Heartbeat!

Here I am for day two of the NaBloPoMo and as promised have a short clip of my grandson's heartbeat. Btw, I finally gave up trying to find an iPad app for video editing, uploaded to YouTube and used their editor. It let me put a word bubble over my daughter's stomach, so other than the preview that I can see below, you can't totally see her stomach. I shortened the video so no faces or other revealing images appear.

Just what is this NaBloPoMo anyway?

I've been noticeably absent on and off for quite some time and would like to get back to blogging again. I must apologize ahead of time to a blogger, Erin, who gave me this idea because I have copied some of the text from her post at Erin Cooks because it's the fastest and easiest way I know how to get the information here. Hey, why recreate the wheel, right? Besides that, she's got an awesome blog that I hope you'll ALLLL hop over to so you can appreciate her talent!

I’m going to give the November NaBloPoMo thing a go. If you aren’t familiar with this particular acronym it stands for National Blog Posting Month. That’s right. If you’d like more info about NaBloPoMo I’d recommend checking out BlogHer’s details and also signing up for Shareaholic’s newsletter. They’ll both be offering prizes and great tips for getting us through this daily posting marathon.

Anyway, I'm trying to learn how to use this Blogsy app on my new iPad and not too sure about it, so will post this now and edit from home later. Today after work I get to hear my grandson's heartbeat during their appt, so hope to share that exciting experience with you!

Ok, I'm back and have managed to put the links where they belong in this post. I really hope that I can at least post a picture, sound, thought or combination of all three each day this month. It's going to be a busy one for sure with all the holidays, baby showers, trips to visit relatives and continued baby preparation, so there should be plenty to blog about! I know, I know, this is supposed to be a blog about my craft room transformation and trust me friends, there will be some of that here too as soon as I can find a spot in my new, much smaller space. My thoughts are moving more towards sewing things for little Oliver and also making use of all that miscellaneous cotton fabric I've been hoarding collecting. Maybe it's high time I drug out some of those gazillion quilting books I've been slobbering over for years and actually DO something with them!

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OWH World Cardmaking Day Boghop

Welcome to the Operation Write Home World Cardmaking Day Bloghop! I am so excited to be participating another OWH bloghop! What a great opportunity to spend the day with a bunch of creative, talented bloggers and blog-readers who have a desire to make sure our military men and women have great greeting cards to send home to loved ones and friends. When you're done here just click on the hop picture above to get the list of other blogs.

 Many of you already know that I am military through-and-through, born in to an Army family who traveled the world over helping ensure the safety of our great nation. Then I also joined the Army and served alongside my father in Germany as possibly the first documented father-daughter team in the Big Red One. Well, Dad was an Infantryman and I worked in Personnel, but we served on the same base anyway and loved it!

If you're interested in learning more about OWH and how you too can get involved in making cards for our heroes click on the banner at the top of this post. I'd love to hear from you, so please take a minute to leave a comment below! Thanks for stopping by!

The card below is based on an Operation Write Home S&S Sketch #1 that you can find here along with a whole bunch of other free card sketches. I picked this one because it is also CAS (Clean and Simple) and a great way to make a whole bunch of cards with just a few cuts.