SUNDAY FUN AND MORE HOOK-IN RUGS ~ ~

Today is Miss Luci's 8th birthday ~ she's the little bitty one!  We took Luci and granddaughter, Jordyn (she's also 8) to a local greenhouse for lunch!  It was to be their annual Christmas Tea but it got cancelled it till next week due to weather  ~ we have plans for next weekend so Grandpa said to ask if we could come and have lunch ~ yes, we could!  So, here are the two little cousins, standing in front of one of the loaded trees, all stuffed from their lunch and bubble-gum tea!  We heard some funny stories and shopped around and dropped them back at Luci's house ~ they were going to dance to Michael Jackson music!!   We're going back for soup and cake tonite!  I'll be really stuffed from celebrating Luci's birthday because on top of all this, Grandpa made pancakes and bacon for Luci's birthday breakfast!! 

You might think this is a black and white picture but this is what it looks like in beautiful Ohio today at 3:30 in the afternoon!!!  We really got hit with the snow and sounds like more to come!  I sure hope not ~ I have one busy week ~ and might I add,  no shopping done yet!!!!!  I wonder how IOU's will go over!!!!! 

These are more rugs from the Akron library hooking day ~ this was such a beautiful piece ~ very narrow cut and a very old piece.  Someone had started it many years ago and it is being finished and some of it re-done by a very nice gal, whose name I can't remember!!  If someone can help me, I'll add her name to this post!  Her work was impeccable!

Love this snowman!  I'm thinking it is Rita's rug ~ but if I'm not thinking right, again, let me know!  Cute, isn't it?

Another nice little rug ~ I think it would make a cute pillow!!

This rug looks like lots of work to me!  It was very well done and rightly so, since Betty Young is the creator!!  Betty is a teacher and a very 'fine' hooker!!
Thanks to friend, Donna ~ I found out this is Linda Gustafson's rug ~ I knew that!!  But I did forget ~ great rug, Linda!

Arlene is working on these little angels ~ she really didn't want to take their picture but I didn't know if I'd seen them finished.  They're cute little pieces, don't you think?  Arlene draws a lot of her own patterns ~ never an idle moment for her!



Linda Cook brought in this great sampler rug that she did ~ I love it!  I'd like to do one of these with my own drawings sometime ~ think I will do it before I leave this planet?!  I'm going to try!!

Friday night was our annual Homebuilders Christmas party ~ it was a beautiful night ~ weather was swell and we had our usual good time!  After the dinner and lots of mingling, we went to the Martini bar (again) and there were just lots of people we knew ~ once again, we were the oldest people in there ~ it seems like often we are anymore! We joined our kids there ~ they were also at the party ~ Sonny's son, Brian, is the president and my son, Ted, is on the board ~ and many of their friends, etc.  I have to say everyone is just swell to us ~ they don't make us feel like the oldest people in the place!! 

Saturday, a friend and I had a lengthy breakfast ~ trying to say everything we hadn't got talked over in the last couple of months!  Then Luke and Luci came to spend the night ~ their momma had her 40th birthday this week and they went off for a party with a cast of thousands!!  We played nertz and go fish and ate KFC chicken!!  And Grandpa and Luke got the Christmas tree and got it put up and decorated!!!  Considering the way it looks outside today, that was a stroke of genius!!!  I did some decorating but surely need to do more!!

So ~ a new week lays in front of me ~ a couple of lunch dates with hooker friends ~ appointments for Tad ~ billing to do ~ finish decorating ~ start shopping ~ and I do have my hooking Challenge to finish for the 20th!!  Might be good if I'd start it!!  You should live here ~ you just have to hang on for the ride and hope it all gets done!!!  Have a good snowy evening!

Alice

P.S.  I started my Challenge piece tonite!!  YaY for me ~ but ~ I'm worried ~ it seemed like a good idea ~ at the time ~ now it's kind of ~ well ~ you know!