the big ooze...

after days of thawing...

this ice sheet is still on the car...

the road right behind the driveway...

reflections...

my little buddy got his shadow...

light, shadow and slowly melting ice...

icicles and sticks...

they are everywhere...

this is a major improvement...

it is in the sun all day long and it's finally giving up the ice...

should be gone by tomorrow afternoon...

this one last limb is still frozen to the ground...

and there is one place by the dryer vent that has grass...

Craig calls these icicle grave yards...

it looks like this under all the trees...

this is the bottom of the front steps...

the standing water will go over the top of your shoe...

the birds will have drinking water for awhile now...

the driveway...

slimy...

see the moon in the middle?

clear blue skies and it's 45 right now...

we are heading for the 50s later this week...

I got out on the deck...

but I'm not allowed off of it yet...

besides, my chair doesn't have fenders...

it's still a little too cold to play in the mud...

still playing around in here...

hang tags, more flowers, shopping on line...

may make some cards...

who knows...

I have ate too much...

DH made pancakes for breakfast and it's been all downhill from there...

he loves the new skillet I got online...

it's wonderful...

I will post on it later...

gotta go play again...

images...

hope your weekend is going smoothly...

and you are surrounded by love...

and chocolate...

images...

I found these images this week...

all with fragments of the Lord's Prayer...

I am sure there has to be more of them...

so I'm still looking...

praying today for Debbie at Lakehouse...

haven't heard a word since my last post about her...

and for Angel Dawn...

she is the first thing on my side bar...

click the link to visit Nezzy and read her complete story...

she had a brain tumor removed and is under going chemo...

it's very major...

and she lost so much weight...

and has to have a feed tube until she gains enough back...

have a blessed day...

share it with someone...

Look in the Nook...

if you love graphics...

you have to go see Jany...

let me tell you...

no, no...

I'll just show you...

this is what I made from graphics found at...

Look in the Nook...

and there's more there!

she has the best graphics...

the best I have found in a long time...

I can't wait to mix her fun with my fun...

it ought to be so cute!

can't wait to make cards...

this one I am going to frame for my bedroom for sure!

I use her calendars for my background now...

make sure you check them out...

she does several every month...

I missed January!

I almost cried, they were so pretty...

workin' it...

got the glue gun out and put these together...

I have  a project or two planned for later...

just wanted these ready to go for it...

and these smaller ones...

Dh grabbed the mail this morning and these came...

some were very dirty...

so I washed them...

1/2 gallon of water...

one to two drops of blue Dawn...

one capful of bleach...

low nap cloth...

see the dirt just on one card?...

yuck...

check out the swastika...

it was a sign of good luck, much like the four leaf clover...

until Hitler used it...

I have found many old postcards with it on them...

they will slightly curl until they dry and then they go back flat...

yeah. more big letter postcards...

my current passion...

and while I had a bucket of cleaning water ready...

I started on this book I got a couple weeks ago...

now the scratches are there...

nothing to be done about it...

but the filth on it has to go...

the spine was bad...

this is the back...

the bottom part has been washed once...

the spine inside...

the glue turns to dust after many years...

some people use binders glue...

not me...

paper is a wood product...

wood glue works so well...

put plenty on...

the extra will ooze out the ends and you just wash that off...

fold the cover back over and gently rub, rub, rub the spine...

pushing all the glue into every nook and cranny...

here it is after one washing and gluing...

it needs to dry 24 hours before I touch it again...

I will wait at least 48...

just a reminder of how it looked...

I have done so many boxes of books...

the worse they look, the more I want them...

you can get a box of them at the auctions for a dollar a box...

now, when you start to wash the old fabric covers like this one...

you will get the dye off of it too...

but that's ok...

you want to pull off the oxidized dye...

it contains the layer of dirt and mold spores...

the bleach in the water will kill all mold spores...

when it becomes damp...

you quit and let it dry overnight...

then hit it again...

you can use Q-tips for small areas that you need to concentrate on...

just dip in the cleaning water...

roll dry on a folded paper towel...

and always, rub with the grain...

give it a try...

it's not hard...

really...