I thought we lived in the City??

Hello...hope your Friday is going as great as mine

Well I thought I would share a couple of pics from earlier this summer. It was sometime in early July that Mr. Papitag yelled into the window from outside " Re...Re...come here you have to see this!" Apparently he was walking Gizzy and ran into this fellow right down the street:

Yup...it was a freaking turkey...walking in one of our neighbors yard! I was so quick to run and get my camera I didn't even care that I still had on my pj's, hadn't brushed my teeth yet and lets not mention what my hair was looking like. It was all in a days work of sacrificing looks for a great photograph...plus its not everyday that we see a wild turkey lurking in our neck of the woods...or shall I say "city." Hopefully none of my neighbors had their cameras taking a picture of my "wild" looking self (lol)! NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC...I am still waiting on that phone call (LOL) !!! No, but seriously I am =)

(gobble gobble)

I wonder if someone had him as a pet because he wasn't afraid of me getting too close to him. Mr. Papitag at this point kept yelling "Re, get away from him...he is going to attack you." I was just concerned with getting a good glimpse of him before he ran off into the empty lot down the street that makes it seem like we live in the boonies...that is another story though...I will save the hideous, nasty empty lot story for another day!

enjoy your Friday

Get out and do something Crafty...I sure will

A Day in the Park!

Hello!!!

Blogging has been a stretch for me lately. I have had so much on my plate that the last thing I have considered doing is blogging. Now that my track season is over I have dedicated a heap of my time to my little boy (gizzy) and my Fiance (Mr. Papitag). Actual quality time like trips to the park and simply taking a walk together are scare when track is in full effect...Track season leaves very little time for a lot of thing...so I have really been enjoying the "down" time and doing things that I typically don't have the luxury of doing.

(Here we are at the park on the Great Giant Swan Paddle Boats)

Gizzy has been taking full advantage of having all of Mommies time. We even got to escape to the park just the two of us; I tend to give him a little more breathing room than Papitag to roam and be free, which ultimately ends up biting me in the butt because somehow he ends up off the leash or either in a not so good situation....like almost being eaten by the real life Swan and geese (lol)....no really it wasn't that funny when we got swarmed by a gang of ducks (lol) ....but I can look back and laugh now...he was seriously almost lunch meat!

(Gizzy on the boardwalk at the park)

(The dangerous Swans that almost ate Gizzy) LOL!

(Gizzy amping up his retaliation)

(The swan getting a little to close for comfort at this point circling us. Gizzy was barking like crazy)

(Gizzy wanting to attack or either play with the duck... don't think so buddy that water was iiky)!

The following week the entire family got to go on the paddle boats. We had so much fun. Gizzy was so fascinated with the water!!

(Me and Gizzy on the paddle boat)

(Mr Papitag and I on the paddle boats)

(The ultimate Geese fighter) lol!

(Cutsie little turtle on the lillipods at the park)

Until Next Time!!!

Stay Crafty!

Oregon Ducks!!!

USA Track & Field Nationals, Oregon Ducks, Loads of Coffee & Adventures in the park

(Eugene, Oregon....Home of Track town USA)

I have been away for the past week competing at the USA Track and Field Nationals. All went well...I didn't do as good as I would have liked to...hence I am not on my way to Berlin gearing up to compete for the US at the World Championships. Nonetheless, I am glad to be home but the trip was an overall good one. We took loads of pics!

(I am still obsessed with photographing animals....National Geographic hasn't called yet, but I am hopeful the phone will ring one of these days! LOL... Eugene, OR is full of all sorts of ducks, birds, etc...they are so cute...and friendly)

(DUTCH Bros. Coffee, some of the yummiest coffee around! It is so amazing to me that there are all these little coffee shops in the middle of parking lots and open spaces with little drive up windows ready for you to place an order. Just a word of advice, don 't be a newbie like me and walk up to the drive-up window to place and order...chances are you might get hit by a car like I almost did. LOL)

(Organic Espresso coffee hut....this was a walk up or drive up one too...Yummy! They had cookies the size of your head...)

(Here I am feeding the geese. They were friendly and scary at the same time. They loved the chocolate caramel power bar I had...hopefully it wasn't too bad for them)

(Here I am walking up one of the Oregon Trails at a park...fun stuff)

(Me in my competition uniform after competing)
(I loved this huge art so I just had to mimic it)
(Being silly)
(The park where we ventured off to near the University of Oregon)
(Jumping for joy)

(The Track and stands)
(It was a bonus that there was a craft fair there. I didn't get to walk around that much because it isn'the brightest idea to walk around too much while you are trying to peek form competition...My coach did let me walk around for a good minute to take a couple of photos)
(Coach Ray/ the honey bunn)
(Me on the park bridge)(Goodbye to 2009 USA Nationals in Eugene, Oregon. Until 2011....)

Hope you enjoyed!

I had a blast!

Peace, stay Crafty

Nationial Geographic and Strawberry Picking

TO BE A COUNTRY GIRL......

I have been super busy with work and competing (track) every weekend....it has left minimal time for play play play....but I have managed to sneak a little bit of fun in here and there. While visiting Georgia a while back I had a chance to visit my Uncle...who is more like my Grandfather (strange I know) I only say that because he is old enough to be so....I love my uncle who is slightly a "Fred Sanford" (LOL)....no seriously you should see the "junk" or for better the "treasures" he collects!

(My Uncle and I)

My Nephew "Baby Turtle" from my trip to Georgia ...he was so comfy in my arms

(I am waiting on that call from National Geographic)

A birds nest on my uncles property... he has a bit of land and a bunch of wild life running a muck. I Can't remember what type of bird this was, nonetheless it was fun playing national geographic trying to get the best pic of the eggs and nest.

(Birds Nest)
(The birds nest), I almost got attacked by the Mommy bird while taking this one...she wasn't too pleased with me getting near her babies but I left them unharmed and undisturbed. Thanks Mamma birdie for not poking my eye out or biting me!

This past weekend Ray and I visited Valatie, NY for a track meet and we stopped along the highway when we were finished at a organic farm that had strawberries, boysenberries, corn, apples and so much more. We only opted to pick the strawberries.....they were so tasty!!!

(Strawberry farm)
(me picking strawberries)

Ray was the best strawberry picker ever...and it was his first time. He had a really good eye for finding the most red luscious juiciest strawberries ever....and he was kind enough to let me eat most of them......Nummmm Yummy!

(This strawberry was so perfect)

(I could have shoved all these in my mouth)

(I wanted to take all the delicious morsels home but I knew I had to leave some for everyone else (LOL))

(Me grubbin on our way home...and nope, I didn't bother washing the strawberries...honestly the thought didn't cross my mind (they looked to yummy and they were saying "eat me")....I figured since it was an organic farm that there weren't any pesticides used...and a little dirt never hurt anyone...RIGHT?) LOL

Peace out!

Stay Crafty and get out and visit a farm! This City Girl Did!!!

The Princess and the LYON!

Happy SPRING!

(Gizzy taking time to stop and smell the flowers)

I must admit that I have been a horrible blogger lately! I had planned on getting back on track with blogging consistently but honestly I haven't been crafting that much and could fill this entire blog with rants about whats been going on in my life but I figured no one would be interested in hearing all my strife (LOL). A couple of things that have been going on include: being outbid for (3)...yup 3 homes that we put bids on, healing my ankle appropriately which meant limited exercising (horrible for me), working like crazy almost every Saturday, and trying to find sometime for "me" in between it all. We have come to the conclusion that we are going to let nature take its course with the house hunting...my ankle is almost 98% better and no more working weekends. So this means more time for crafting and more time for blogging......

Here are a couple of Spring pics that I wanted to share with you:

(My new temporary hairstyle...)

(I still can't seem to resist picking these and making wishes)

Have a good one!!!

Its been a minute!

Training, Home Shopping, Twisted Ankle

the list could go on....

But something brought me back to my blog.......

I hadn't realized how long it has been since I last blogged. So much has been going on that I haven't even had time to pretty much think straight. For one I am in the peak of my track season so everything that isn't track related pretty much comes secondary even eating! LOL. I twisted my ankle long jumping this past weekend so I have been pretty bummed....icing and doing all the necessary things to help it heal a bit faster. I do promise to get back on track with sewing and crafting. I forgot to mention that while I was away in GA visitingg family, I scored big time on a huge lot of crafty this and that from my uncle. He is basically like Fred Sanford so he was harboring all these craft supplies so I decided to take them off his hands for some use. Literally I have over 2000 vintage buttons and over 50 zippers and a crap load of everything else...even a pair of electronic Dritz scissors which I am so in love with. Life couldn't be better.


Oh and Ray and I are looking into buying our first home (the pic is of one of the homes that we really liked) so we have been busy with that as well. Enough excuses though...I will be back in full effect soon enough you just wait and see :)

(I don't have any pics to post but more will come real soon). What good are rechargeable batteries if you don't charge them for your digital camera....hahahahahaha

Stay Crafty!

Knick Knacks and this and that

Knick Knack Patty Wack.....

I haven't posted in a while. I have been out of town visiting my family, thrifting through treasures, and sewing up a storm. I even managed to stitch my finger tip with my sewing machine (don't ask) lol. I guess you can say I get a lot of my love for nick knacks from my Mom. While I was visiting "home" me and my Mom got to do some vintage thrifting and antiquing. Here I am below trying on some antique glasses. They were so kooky... they didn't even have a nose bridge, but i guess back then they must have worked just fine!

(Me with the antique Glasses on)

(Here is the lot of the antique lens that were being sold for about $200...if only I had $200 bucks.... ohhhhhh I am salivating just thinking about the crafty things I could have done with those lenses. Oh well, it wasn't meant to be).

I have been super busy creating a stash of super cute baby gifts for my new nephew "turtle." The main project I have been working on has been this quilt....

I think it turned out really nice. It was my first time actually using multiple intricate fabric patterns and also different fabric materials. The yellow turtle fabric is a soft fleece and the printed turtle fabric and the solid colors surrounding it are all cotton. It was a fun challenge. I actually finished the entire project from start to finish in about 7 hours. I think I did Pretty good I might add. Boy let me tell you it was so unbelievably hard to find fabric with a turtle print on it. I was terrified that the contrasting fabrics and colors wouldn't go well together but all in all I am pretty pleased with the end result and my Mom and Brother were head over heals for the quilt....looks like I might be making more quilts in the near future.

I even inspired my mom to get a little crafty and make a couple of things for little "turtle."

(She created this onesie for our family photo for him to wear....it still swallowed his entire body. He is such a little pea.... 6 weeks at 6 lbs)

(My little angle fast asleep. Thank goodness! He kept me up all night) LOL!