Ninety-nine cents

Look what I found at the grocery store for ninety-nine cents!

Pretty little carnations for just .99

Unbelievable!

I put these in the kitchen in a stoneware pitcher.

 They just made my day!

I put these in the living room.

One day soon the sun will warm the earth

 and melt the snow and we will have our very own flowers again.

And the mosquitoes will come

.....ugh.....

So for now I am going to sit on my newly made window seat 

and drink coffee.

 That will last about 3 minutes before I feel guilty for sitting and doing nothing.

Actually I wanted to make some pillows for said window seat today.

Here is my inspiration

Some quilt scraps and old chenille bedspreads.

Hmmmm

Cousin Palooza

Today my sister and I had planned to go on a short road trip to visit our cousins about two hours away.

We have been planning and anticipating and texting with the cousins since Christmas.

You know, something to break up the Winter Blues. 

A little something that has affectionately been christened "Cousin Palooza"

The problem is ....we woke up to this..

with a forecast of an additional 3-9 inches of snow.  

Don't get me wrong, I do love the snow, but we have had more than our share lately and even I, a snow lover, am dangerously close to getting my fill.

You see we don't just want to get together.  We need to get together.  We need to talk and laugh and be the people we can only be when we are together..... with family.

 Come on snow....STOP!!!

It appears we won't be going to Cousin Palooza today....the snow has changed to rain.....
 and now back to snow.....
Not exactly favorable road conditions. 
By the time we would be driving back home tonight, the temperature will have dropped and the roads will be a sheet of ice.
 Sigh.....
 I guess I should clean or something
Nope, don't' feel like it.
Maybe I'll just sit right here, on my bed

and work on this blog.
Still trying to navigate and figuring out how to link and, and, stuff that I don't even know that I don't know!

Yes...

I did make those pillows on my bed by the way.  I used an old bedspread I picked up at an Estate sale.  

They came out pretty cute if I do say so....

See ya later,