Book, Plants,Sewing, Bow, and WHAT WAS I THINKING........

 I have not done a book review for awhile so I thought I would start out my blog today with one. I came across the book Toward Daylight by Tracy Lee Karner because the author is someone that I went to high school with. When I reconnected with her on Facebook I found out she had written a book. Since I like to support people that I know I downloaded it to my Kindle not really knowing what it was about. I was very happy that I did. It is a great book for anyone to read if they are going though any illness. Tracy was a healthy, active women when she was diagnosed with fibromyalgia. Her book was an inspiring journey on over coming her struggles with her illness, building a new life with her husband and reaching her goal to become a writer. I recommend it!

 Now on to plants. I have gotten a little carried away with my house plants. I'm not sure when it started but it has started to get a little out of hand. I am spending more and more time taking care of them. I keep rescuing plants and bringing them back to life. I did not even take pictures of all of them. I keep wondering down the plant section in Walmart and keep coming home with new flower pots and soil and maybe even a new plant. Rick is beginning to think I have a problem.....

 Of course this is my pride and joy....the Boston Fern that I rescued from my Mom.

 I have been sewing like crazy.              I made Josie  these two jumpers

 I also made this Easter dress for Josie, I am going to put a bigger ribbon on it. I have also sewed two pair of pajama pants for Rick, one for Liam and a nightgown for me. Today I started on a dress for me. Hopefully I will get it finished tomorrow. When that is done I am going to move onto the rain coats that Christa and I bought fabric for. I am excited to make them, if they turn out they will be really cute!

 I got my new bow last week! I am very happy with it. I finally have a bow that fits me perfect without doing a bunch of stuff to it to make it fit. It is a Hoyt Pro Camp Elite FX-SD.

 Rick made these really pretty strings for the bow. Everyone loved them last night at league.

Yes that is me!! I was looking at some photos that other day and came across this one. It was taken in 2000 when I was in Europe. I look like a boy! I'm not sure what I was thinking when I picked out that shirt and those super cool sunglasses. Not to mention my styling haircut.

Later
Sharon

Louisville....

This past weekend we went to Louisville Kentucky for the NFAA Indoor Tournament. We left Thursday after I got home from work. The first night we drove until just after 11:00 and stopped just over the border of IL. Friday we got into Kentucky around 4:00. We had a great view of the Ohio River from our hotel room. Here are a couple of pictures we took from the room.

Saturday Rick had his first day of shooting. He shot in the Senior class for the first time. He did great tying for 3rd place. He was very happy with that since it is a national tournament. He had fun shooting and is already talking about going back next year.

Saturday after he was done shooting we walked around downtown Louisville. It was 61 degrees and sunny out. It felt so good to just feel the heat and the sun. It was a relaxing afternoon.

 The buildings were all so beautiful downtown. The building above and below must be collapsing because they had the huge beams holding it up. We saw several building that they were saving. It is nice to see them save the old beautiful buildings.

The sunset on Saturday night was a beautiful site from our hotel window.

Sunday Rick did not shoot until 2:30 so we did not leave for home until almost 7:30. We drove until 1:00 a.m. and then got a hotel for the night. We were back on the road at 7:45 this morning and made it back home around 12:30. It really was a pretty nice drive down and back. The roads are all nice and we  only hit traffic once for about 10 minutes when we arrived in Louisville. 

We had a great weekend.
Later Sharon

I'm going to be busy.......

Sunday I met Cassie and Christa and we went fabric shopping. It was so much fun and I got way to much fabric. We went to two different shops. One is SR Harris Fabric. They have over 30,000 square feet of fabric. I wish I had  more time to sew. It was fun to pick from so many different fabrics.

 Before we went shopping we went out for brunch. Cassie picked out a fabulous restaurant called Barbette . We all enjoyed our meals and our drinks.

 This is all the fabric that I bought. I have so many things to sew that I don't know where to start. I am going to be busy!

 I thought this was so funny. It is a elderly townhouse complex near us and it is just about snowed in. Hopefully you don't meet anyone on the path because you will not have room to pass each other :) 

 Today I got my haircut off! I was sick of it and needed a changed. I figures in a year or so I will be ready to grow it out again. I have had short hair almost all of my life and have wanted to cut it off for awhile. I finally got Cassie's permission since she cut hers off and short hair is in style now. Rick was not home to take pictures so you get a couple of selfie pictures.

Enjoy your day
Sharon