End of summer country outfit

Hello folks, I've got to get in this last summer outfit before summer ends!!! It's almost gone! bummer!! Summer is one of the best times of year for me, I love to be warm!!! but not too warm, I do not like the foggy stiffling mugginess that our Maritime weather sometimes brings but right now we are having a beautiful end of summer beginning of fall. The leaves are turning color already at my house, I have a nicely colored red tree. We have lots of colorful dogwood with the pretty red berries up high in the trees, sign of a hard winter I've heard it said but I don't believe it because we had lots of dogwood berries another year and we practically got no winter. Anyways!!! back to my outfit!!! Here it is!!! Very comfy cozy!!!

Excuse the messy blog post but by computer is fried....by my own fault of spilling water on it!! I have tried all the tricks of trying to dry it up but still no go. I am hoping that after a while it will work but I think I will have to invest in a new computer. I am on my husbands computer now and it sucks! lol It's a good thing I had put most of my pictures and videos on an external hard drive because now I cannot access anything on my computer...all my programs!!! sigh, I guess I've learned my lesson of not having any drinks anywhere around my computers!!...or have I?  I hope!!! hahaha
FYI...screw-on lids may not prevent your liquids from leaking out!!! Be warned, don't leave them on top of your computers!!!

Excuse the underlining of the words....for some reason this post will not let me not underline the rest of the post!??

the skirt is new but the jacket, I made it a while back

This is the whole outfit I made to wear together

There is a story here. While I was
making the front I happened to
snip right throught the front to the back.
Yikes, I thought, I've ruined my shirt.
Then I started talking to myself.
Use your creativety what could you
do to fix this, think!  And it came to me
Well you've already cut the back of the shirt
so you may as well cut it up good! So I sliced it
up and there you have it. A sliced up T-shirt with style!!!
lol
I really believe where ever there is a will, there's a way
You just need to put a little brain power in there and figure
out a solution.
I could have worn this bare back but I didn't want to. I didn't have
the right kind of bra so it wouldn't show so I opted to wear a
tank top underneath.

I really like the yellow sweater with it, makes it look so summery

This outfit is late enough that I'll only get use of it next summer

       

Now I've got my groove on!!! Ride em cowboy!!! lol

I could wear this with a pink polka dot tie belt too

Or with a white belt

That it folks! The end, Kaput, there is no more.....until the next time!!!
Stay tuned when I reveal some surprises I've made

P.S. don't bite off more than you can chew!!! Got that!!??! :)

I've reached 10,000 again!!!!

Wow, it's hard to believe that I've reached 10,000 page views again on my new blog!!! I had reached over 10,000 page views in the other blog that I had started when that got deleted when someone went and put spam all over my blog and blogger automatically deletes your blog when that happens which is very unfortunate because I had a lot of information that I lost. Too bad!!!

I just want to say that I am very thankful for all the friends, family and people that come and support my blog. I just love seeing all the different countries that come to visit!!! Some places which I have never even heard of and I have to look you up to see where you are!!

 Thank you so much Canada, you are my top supporter so far!!!! You guys rock!!!!

Thank you United States of America!!!! You are my next top supporters!!! actually you are almost tied with Canada!!!! You guys are awesome!!!!

Thank you Russia!!!! Like wow Russia!!!! Amazing how many of you come here to my blog!!! I'm so happy to have you here!!!Ребята, это великолепное !!!

Thank you United Kingdom!!!! It's great to have you here!!! You are so wonderful and I wish I could speak with your British accents because it is lovely!!!

Thank you Germany!!!! A pleasure to see you coming to my blog!!!!Ihr seid wirklich tolle !!!!

Un grand merci à vous la France!!!! Vous êtes accueilli ici!!! J'espère que vous allez revenir!!!

Thank you Poland!!!! Nice to see you hear and I hope you come back!!! Ci faceci są fantastyczne!!!

Thank you Australia!!!! Very happy to have you here!!! I love Australian accents, I could listen to you speak all day!!! Hopefully someday I can go visit your country!!

Thank you China!!!! Great to have you hear China!!! So happy that someone the other side of the world would come to my blog!!! 这是令人敬畏,就像你们是!!!

Thank you Ukraine!!!! It is great that you guys come visit my blog, I am very happy to have you hear and I hope you come back often and find things that you like here!!! Чудові люди!!!

a few more I'd like to mention and say thank you to are: Spain, Romania, Vietnam, and Norway.
I haven't seen Japan coming on my new blog but they used to come to my old blog all the time. Sad that I lost them.



Wow again I say thank you for your support!!!! I am honored to have you coming to see what I do.
Yours truly, Lee Anne 

P.S. I am sorry if I missed any countries!!! Just let me know if I did and I will add you in!!! 

I’ve gone black with bangs

Hello everyone in blogger land and Facebook land and all kinds of lands!!! Yes I dyed and cut my hair!!!
Well my hairdresser did but I had a hand in it too. When I got home I just wasn’t pleased with my hair, not that it wasn’t a great color and I had only had a trim but there was just something that needed to be done, I wasn’t sure what but I got out my scissors….and I started cutting…my daughter who is a hairdresser hates for me to do this but I really don’t care lol I’ve been doing it since I was 4 years old, I’m not about to stop now and since she lives away I don’t have her here at my every whim when it comes to cutting my hair. So my bangs were about down to below my ears and I cut them about to my nose and that still didn’t satisfy me, so I cut them again to my eyebrows. That did the trick!! That was exactly what I wanted but I didn’t know it until I did it!!! lol
Here is my hair after just coming from being washed and blow dried and a bit of foundation on my face, Kind of pale

Straight straight, very straight

Now I used a big barrel curling iron to give it a bit more body and added just a touch of scandaleyes flex mascara in 003 extreme black and a white pencil on my lower lid. No eye shadow. I dusted some pink blush from Clarion in Hyacinth on my cheeks but not on the apple of my cheek only on the outer cheek if that makes sense. Then I applied a matte red lipstick from Maybelline in red revolution with my finger,very lightly to give a natural color and that is it, I’m done, cooked, finished and ready to take pictures.





My daughter Cara wanted to see my new hairstyle and color and so I figured you guys would too
See you later!!! Have a great night or day or whatever time it is in your area!!! So great to see you here Japan, China,Norway,Vietnam,Russia,Poland and Australia and United Kingdom!!! I hope you find my blog interesting and that you’ll come back often!!!
Nite xox

Jewelry I made

 

 

The bracelet

This is a pony tail holder I bought somewhere. They can be used for different things.

The pearl dangle necklace

 

The floating necklace

My very first necklace

 

The 4 strand pearl necklace

The charms are a cross and a key….two thing dear to my heart.
The cross represents Jesus and the key represents the things I’ve learned through Him. If you listen closely to the gospel with all your heart, there are “keys” that you can receive that will change you and heal you once you understand the    truth. I have been changed, I have been healed but that’s another story for another day.                                                                                                                                                       

Hope you enjoyed my jewelry!! It’s my first time making some. It’s a lot of tedious work but I like it….I don’t think I’ll be making a lot of it but once in a while it’s nice to make your own things.

Going to pick up some more fabric tomorrow!!!! Love it!!! I need some more fall fabric well maybe not but I want some!!! hahaha. I already have fabric to make a winter jacket in black and white plaid which is big for this fall. Anything black and white is going to be big this fall and that is fine with me because I love black and white!!!

I have finished my secret project and I have to send it to my aunt first and then I can show you guys!! It turned out pretty decent. Not exactly the way I imagined it but I have to make due with what I have to work with. It took a lot of hours to make. First I needed good weather to start and we were NOT getting ANY!!!! But it came after a while. I actually found two days I could work with without fog!!!!  I hope she likes it and you guys too once you see it!!

See ya later

P.S.

My new revamped dress and my mangled frozen lip

Hello guys and gals, I revamped another dress. It’s a good thing I can sew!!! How bored with my clothes I would be!!! lol  This is another dress I made last year or the year before(I don’t know, the time goes by so fast lol!!) that I never wore for some reason. I think it’s because it was too short and I couldn’t wear it anywhere but as a beach cover up but never used it for that either…SO I decided to change it up a bit to give it a fresh new look and I am loving it this time around and getting lots of compliments when I wear it.
Here is what it looked like before

I was really hating my short hair but looking back on it now, I guess it wasn’t too bad…but I am NOT cutting my hair again!!! lol

This is how I made it

This is a top I had

I used the top as a pattern and cut around it leaving about a half inch seam or so and I cut it out longer to make a dress. Then I sewed up the sides to fit me and I shaped the front neckline the way I wanted it and turned under the neckline, armholes and hem and top stitched everything and there you have it, a dress.
Here is what it looks like now
Now I have to tell you about my dentist episode before you see the rest of the pictures. I had a filling that fell out on a tooth next to my front teeth and so I had to get it filled so I called my dentist to find out that he was on vacation and so I called the dental office to see if there were any other doctor that could do it as my tooth was hurting. They told me that there was a doctor available and they gave me an appointment the next week. I went for my appointment and the dentist proceeded with checking out my tooth with an ex-ray and then she froze my gums and started drilling where I reacted in pain as it was not froze properly. I am there thinking that usually my dentist waits a bit before proceeding but she started right away and so I don’t think I really had the chance to freeze properly and so she stuck the needle in some more which seemed like forever and went on with her job. Now in the mean time in talking with her I found out she had just got out of school 2 months ago. That made me a bit uneasy but she didn’t do a bad job for someone new. That wasn’t the problem, the problem was that my face was sooooo frozen after that I couldn’t move from my lip to my eye and it looked like the whole side of my face dropped about an inch and I couldn’t get it up as it was frozen solid right to my eye and it felt swollen. This was done at 9:30am and at 12:00pm I was still really frozen but my stomach was grumbling and so my husband and I decided to get something to eat. Since we were in town there isn’t too many choices to eat and I thought I would get a sub. I figured it should be soft enough to chew since it was only a ham and egg sub with lettuce. So carefully I started eating my sub on the other side that wasn’t frozen. My husband and I had gotten a take-out and we parked by the sea eating our subs and talking. The next thing I know I am trying to chew through something that feels rubbery in my sub. I bite down harder to try to break it apart thinking WHAT is in my sub that is so hard?? Then I realize I have taken a bite from the frozen side of my mouth and the thought goes through my mind…I HOPE this isn’t my lip!!!!………….sure enough I look in the mirror to my horror and I’ve tried to eat through my lip!!!! YIKES!!!!  Good thing I couldn’t feel it!!! lol  That was the end of my meal!! I wasn’t hungry any more…ewwww!!!!! It’s a good thing I’m very sensitive to texture in my mouth or else I may have bitten it right off but I only punctured it!!! Couldn’t feel a thing!!! I wish the dentists would warn you NOT to eat until your mouth is thawed or to just sip on something instead of eating but I think I’ve learned my lesson because I think I want to keep my lips for a while more!!! lol 
 I wasn’t changing my plans to take pictures of my dress and so you will have to deal with my frozen, bloody,swollen,bruised fat lip lol  Actually I love how the pictures turned out even if my face is a bit lop-sided, hahaha

It’s amazing how a little change can make it looks so different and cute!!!  I had some lace on hand and I added them to make little cap sleeves and a flounce at the bottom, and there you have it, a new dress that’s slightly countryfied.(I think countryfied should be a word hehehe) Translators it means “from the country”

See how I conveniently keep my weird lip hidden from the camera hehehe



No smiles for you today!! lol It would be pretty scary!!







Have you ever watched the movie “The wedding singer”? My hair was blowing all over the place so I grabbed the ends of my hair to keep it from flying around and my husband said I reminded him of the psycho ex girlfriend when she comes to try to seduce Adam Sanders to get him back, lol  So we decided to do that pose, hahaha. I know, we watch to many movies!!!

Have you ever tried to sit on a pile of wood……don’t try this at home!!! lol


There you have it, my new revamped dress and my tired,frozen,mangled,swollen lip. Not my best face but it’s the only one I had!!! lol
P.S. My daughter is going back home tomorrow….sad….I wish she lived closer….I wanted to make her some more clothes. I bought some nice soft green print fabric and I thought I’d make her a little jacket before she went but I’m not going to have time. I guess I could always send it to her. It will probably cost more to ship it than to make it!!

Right now I am waiting for some fabric to arrive that I ordered for a customer to make roman blinds for her bedroom. The fabric is Ivory with pretty washed out blue flowers on it.(Old fashioned) It should look good after they are made, can’t wait to make them!! I’ll post some pictures for you when they are done!!
Bye for now!! xox
P.S.S. don’t say you can’t say you don’t want to!!!

Proverbs 1

New International Version (NIV
1 The proverbs of Solomon son of David, king of Israel:
² for gaining wisdom and instruction;
for understanding words of insight;
³ for receiving instruction in prudent behaviour,
doing what is right and just and fair;
⁴ for giving prudence to those who are simple,^[a]
knowledge and discretion to the young—
⁵ let the wise listen and add to their learning,
and let the discerning get guidance—
⁶ for understanding proverbs and parables,
the sayings and riddles of the wise.^[b]
7 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge,
but fools^[c] despise wisdom and instruction.

Which are you? Wise or a fool? ;)