little buildings again

Yep,,, I am at it again!! This time it is a place of business.
The inspiration came from a building in Stillwater MN. I am thrilled to have figured out how to make the two story building with the doorway in an alcove. So I am ready to try another one. What do you think of this one?

soon a small little building will appear on the horizon of this blog.. watch for it...

not just another day

Saturday morning we woke up and once again I was having a bit of a problem with something that was in the air.. ( allergy of some kind).. so we took a not so wonderful problem and decided to make a wonderful day out of it.. We drove up to Duluth

found a hiking trail in the city that we did not know about

and was beautiful.. drove to Two Harbors and was just in time to see a sailboat race come into the harbor.. what a treat. Then we headed back to our neck of the woods and met with some people we have known for a long time that were having a family reunion and had invited us for the evening. It was a wonderful visit!! so a day that could have been not so great was indeed wonderful... sometimes it is all in what you do and how you do it!!!

families of all kinds

Here is one family.. or should I say part of a family? The brothers and sisters with one small daughter on the side. Years pass, people change but family will always be family... I love how you can tell every one of these "kids" come from the same 'place'!!! Look at the eyes..

July is flying by

wow,, it has been a long time since I 'said' anything!!.. guess the weeks have been busy.. however there is nothing to show you because everything I have done is gone... yep.. no longer in my world. One of the things I did was to sew Barbie doll clothes galore!! .. I really enjoy doing that .. only problem is I didnt get any pictures of the pile to show you. Off it all went to two little nieces who were on their way to Japan. The other really neat thing I did was to take a part an old letterman jacket and make two American Girl doll letterman jackets out of it .. However those too are on their way to Japan with the same two little girls. They were a challenge as that fabric is THICK!!.. I have been working at a scrapbooking store.. which I love to do . Creating pages is always fun, and I really enjoy the customers... most of the time!! I also went to my Dad's house and did a big cleaning and then my sister and brother came out and we watched two buildings on Dad's farm be torn down and of course did some of the clean up. It has been a busy July and it isn't going to slow down. This week I am off to help my sister take care of yet another young niece!!! This time it will be kite flying and bike riding and movie watching with a little scrapbooking thrown in... and so it goes.

Black Forest

My latest little house box. I am so excited I figured out a new way to close the roof that lets me add trim to the edge of the roof. Wouldn't it be fun to get some wonderful chocolate inside this tiny charmer?

sunday afternoon

It is a little hard to see but look behind the trailer at the leaning tree.. we drove in after church and everything was normal... George went out 15 min later and found a tree broke off... right on the driveway.. so he had to finish getting it down before it hit a pick up and then proceeded to cut it out for firewood.. just a nice sunday afternoon nap!!!

Three men and a car

Here is the object of my affection.. This beauty of a car got loaded on a slightly too small trailer and moved .. It was a total miracle!!

saturday when it was really hot

Is this not the cutiest car ever?? .. it was the object of a very busy afternoon.. getting it loaded to go to it's new home