EBAY BREAK

WELL I FINALLY FINISHED THE BOTTOM STEP. JUST COULD NOT GET IN THE MOOD TO FINISH IT UNTIL TODAY. SHADOW KEEPS STEPPING ON IT, BUT HE IS SO LIGHT WEIGHT HE DOESN'T EVEN LEAVE A MARK.
SINCE MY SALES ARE NEXT TO NOTHING ON EBAY, I HAVE DECIDED TO TAKE A LONG DESERVED BREAK FROM EBAY.
I WILL STILL BE LISTING NEW ITEMS AT LEAST TWICE A MONTH ON LEMON POPPY SEEDS. ALSO, I WILL CONTINUE TO LIST MY NEW PATTERNS ON PATTERN MART AND MY WEB SITE AND ALSO ON LPS.
WITH ALL MY YARD WORK AND SPRING CLEANING (which runs into summer) I JUST NEEDED A BREAK SOMEWHERE. SO THIS TIME I OPTED FOR EBAY.

Will let you know when I decide to list again.

Have a Great week..........

Hugs and blessings, Susan

Great Summer Weather here in Florida............

I am still working on my Screen Porch (Florida Room). Got it all painted, now trying to decorate it. Transplanted some indoor outdoor plants in Pots this AM. They just liven up the room. Just taking my time to get it docorated. Still need to cement the bottom step. Paint the Wicker Furniture and cover coushens, got the fabric yesterday. Using diff. deniums. Will have pictures at the end of decorating it.

Well, got to get back to work. Creating another Santa Pattern, put 2 new ones on Pattern Mart last week. Hey, take a look at my Pattern Shoppe on Poppy. Any requests just email me.

Hugs and blessings to ALL, Susan

HAPPY APRIL FOOLS DAY!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have been keeping very busy, between the house, yard and creating new items to sell. Also I have been working on new patterns. I even have a new Santa coming out real soon. I think this is the earliest I have ever finished a new Santa. But I wanted to get started on Santa Patterns for 2009. Of coarse I have to make the Santa first and then do the pattern.

I tried something new today. I spread cement on my steps going from the kitchen to the outside Screened in Porch. A couple of years ago, I tore off the carpet that covered those steps and was using folded throw rugs to cover up the uglyness. Well I bought me a bag of cement and decided to smooth a layer of cement over all the uglyness. I got the top step finished and ran out of dried cement, so will have to go to town to buy another bag. Beleive it or not, it seems to already be dry. I do not plan to walk on it until tomorrow, just to make sure. Now I am not sure if this stuff will stay on or crack off. But what the heck, at least I have given it the old college try. I even have some cement sealer that I plan to coat the step with.

My daughter, Vikki is coming up in a couple of weeks to help me paint the screen porch. I am real excited about that. We will work a couple of days and then go play at least one day while she is here. She will be here for my Birthday, so I am sure we will go out to eat on that night. I have such fun when she comes for a visit. Her guys will just have to get along without her for a few days.hehehehe

I just finished 2 Kitty Cats today. One went on ebay (catsinthebarn*primitives) and the other on Lemon Poppy Seeds. I will be doing that pattern real soon. So take a look when you have time.

Good Saturday Morning to ALL! ! ! !

What a beautiful week we have had here in Central Florida. Had my house opened up all week, no air or heat running. Yea! ! Easy on the Power bill. Sure wish I could send some SunShine to ya'll. I must say we need rain badly, they are saying possibly Monday.

I have had the creative juices flowing all week. So keep an eye on My Ebay catsinthebarn*primitives and Cats In The barn (pattern mart) and last but not least my Web Site www.catsinthebarn.com . If you need info for any of these sites just email me at grannygreers@comcast.net.

Time to get dressed and get out for my walk. I am back to doing 2 miles per day. Need to do more to rid myself of this winter weight. What we women go through just to look and feel good. Going to be a long Spring.hehehehe

Have a wonderful week-end and let me hear from you. Hugs, Susan

OMG

Here I am more than 1 year later......Why do I have such a tough time keeping up with this BLOG thingie. Here again I will blame it on my age.hehehe Just don't seem to be enough time in one day to get it all done, anymore. I just am no longer the WHIZ KID I used to be.

So please allow me to start all over again. FRESH AND NEW OK????????

As some of you know I live in Central Florida, Leesburg. Well to us it has been a long and drawn out winter. Usually I say that about our Summers. I know you will scream out loud when I tell you our temps. are now in the 80's during the days and 55degrees at night. I realize some who are reading this are still having much colder temps. Sooooooooooo! I will try and send you some of our SUNSHINE, if you ask me to..... hehehe, sure wish I could do that.

Well a couple of week-ends ago my Sister, Sally and Brother-In-Law came down for a visit from OHIO. Sorry to say it was still nippy here, but they didn't think it was so awfully bad. Then we all went to Vero Beach, where my daughter Vikki and family live. Sally and Red went on to some friends to spend a few days. Vik and I had a great time. She has just quit her job of 2 years (she hated it), so we got to spend some quality time together.

I told her I could sure get used to this retirement and being lazy real fast. But since I need to earn money to live on, I got in my car and headed home last Saturday. I am still having trouble getting in the groove of working. I did get 8 bodys made up yesterday and grunged today. I will start stuffing those guys tonight in front of the TV.

Now I am headed back to my work room and work on 8 more different sized bodys. I like to have a big pile of bodys to work with come July or Aug. When I will start decorateing them for the Fall and Christmas Shows.

So please excuse me......I promise it will not be another year before I post again.

Hugs and blessings to you all, Susan

HAPPY NEW YEAR YA'LL

BOY AM I EVER BEHIND.....SEEMS TO BE THE STORY OF MY LIFE THESE PAST MANY MONTHS.
I am going to try my very best to do better in 2008. Gee you didn't even hear from me in November or December. That tells you just how busy I really was.
I had great sales Nov. and Dec. Cause I kept my nose to the grindstone.
Well I guess most folks across the country are freezing. We just aren't used to this dip in tempature here in Fl. I did not bother covering anything up. My vegetation around this house is just to vast to even begin to cover up. Looking out I can see that the old Frost Bunny got alot of my shrubs and plants. One nice thing about living in Florida, it will be in the 70's by this week-end. I will then get out there and clip everything back. Hopefully I won't loose much. But it did dip down into the 20's last night.

Wishing every one a VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR. I also wish you Health and Happiness.

Blessings and Hugs, Susan

HAPPY FALL YOU ALL! ! ! ! !

Well here we are in Oct. already and I am heavy into making Santa's and SnowMen. As far as I am concerned, my Fall creating just doesn't last long enough. I started making Fall and Halloween items in July and continued on until the end of Sept. If I had my way, I would make Fall things all year long. But we have to keep up with the Seasons.

I went to Vikki and Marks over the week end. Max had a big Football game Friday night that we all went to. Max is suffering with Mono, but played one heck of a game. He is the kicker for Vero H.S., can you believe he is a Senior this year. Gee they just grow up to fast.

Vik and I shopped all day Sat. and had a great time. That is something I do not do a lot of, SHOP. But it was such fun spending the day with her. We just don't see much of each other anymore. I left Sunday AM and came on home. My two boys (Charlie and Shadow) were so happy to see me. They are such good cats and lots of company for me.

Well today was a sad day at the Feurer (Vikki and Mark and Max) house. They had to have Casey, the family dog put to sleep. I am still crying over that. Casey would have been 16 this Dec. That is a long life for a blonde Lab.

OK, got to get back to work. Keep watching for those new patterns and my new creations. Would love to hear back from you if you have read this blog.

Hugs, Susan