Red Geranium Cottage

Well hello!!

It seems strange blogging now. I can honestly say it feels better knowing that only my FRIENDS are here reading.  I wish I would have done this so much sooner. Although I do feel bad blocking out those that enjoyed reading.  I might do this for awhile then unblock again. I'll have to see how it goes. Right now I'm really uncomfortable with the whole thing.  It's not been a fun few days.  I am losing more friends because of this whole thing. And some of them have cancelled BOM orders with me. I guess to hurt me once again.   I'm still not sure what I did that this has happened.  But I look at it this way, they really were never my friends to begin with right?  

Ok, back to normal here.  How about some pictures? That is why you came back right?

I thought my birthday was over but....WRONG!!!  Miss Brenda sent me this package of goodness. She already sent me those flowers in that awesome blue Ford Pick up truck.  Then I get this.  I love it all.  I can't wait to make that snow lady.  And the cocktail candy.  DELISH.

What could be better than a jelly belly that tastes like your favorite cocktail.  Nothing I tell you! Nothing!!!

Then I got this in the pkg. This is the neatest scissor fob. It is really pieced. Those are itsy bitsy pieces of fabric paper pieced.  It's so pretty. My picture isn't so good.  Thank you so much Brenda!!!

I got out some of my 4th of July quilts. I've shown this before many times but it's that time again.  I won this quilt. It was a round robin.  And I won! I never win. But I can't say that anymore.  

With all the rain we're getting my flowers are growing like crazy. I don't really have slugs/snails here that bother my flowers like I did in Ca.  Even rabbits don't come into our yard here. There they were everywhere.  Here we just have snakes, moles, chipmunks which are so cute but oh so harmful to everything like moles are.  We have wildlife of every kind. But so far they don't touch my flowers. And I spray for the deer so they are gone. At least out of my flowers.

Look how green the trees are.  My flower boxes, I have two are looking so good.  Hunka even got him a Sego/sega???  Palm.  Our friend Paula has one and he only thought they had them in Ca.  But apparently if you bring them in the garage here in the winter they will be fine.  We'll see.  We have one now. 

I know I showed some of these too but now they are blooming.  I swear these are HUGE.  You really can't tell here but they are tall.  

And these.....

Look at the blooms.

These are all over by our pond.  They are so pretty.  I love yellow almost as much as RED.

Look at this crazy plant. I thought it was different. The lady told me if I potted it I would see more curly branches sprout out and it would get fuller. I can't wait. I got one for my sister too for her birthday. She loves gardening.  And she's good at it.  Unlike moi!!

I've been stitching on this for Halloween.  Isn't it cute? It's a big boot!  The pattern in on the website.  I love anything by Crabapple Hill. 

Ok, that's my first private post.  Did you like it?? Did you feel special??? haaaaaa  Thank you for asking to view my blog. I appreciate you guys.  It's so nice to have friends!!!!   

Hugs!!!

Sharon

 

THIS IS A TEST

This is only a test!!!!!  

One last blog

OK before I start I'm going to tell you that I'm closing my blog to readers unless you have the password to get into it. I'm tired of TWO people that are setting out on a mission to spy on me and my friends and our blogs. I am done with these two people. One of them has a blog that she always acts like SHE is the victim which I can tell you she is not. She is not nice. I have tried and tried to be friends with this person and the other, well she was one of the SISTERS but is no longer!  She is evil. She says she's moving on, has lots of friends, high school friends, yet continues to dwell on me and my friends.  She is even sending messages to my BFF that is not nice. So we are left with no other choice than to make our blog by invitation only.This will finally close them out of our lives. It's pretty sad that two grown women can act like this.  It's very very sad if you ask me.  I'm done with them and frankly tired of the bullshit!!  The SISTA I have personally forgiven three times, and I think that is enough.  The other personI have repeatedly asked what it is that I do wrong to her that she can't be my friend. I know she's not and she continues to say it's me.Well it's not ME. It's HER!!  she lied and said she can't leave messages on my blog because it's Typepad yet she leaves messages on all other Typepad blogs. Like I said before I do not like liars. Nor do I need them in my life.  Life is way too short. I know several people right now that are suffering and bad things have happened in their lives. This is petty bullshit and they need to wake up and see that others have REAL problems in their life. These two women are grown women and should know better.  

After saying all of that let me get on with my blogpost. And if you'd like an invitation and the password please email me. If by chance you are friends with either of these two don't ask me for a password because I will not give it to you.  I just can't. I am done!!!!  When a "friend" threatens you because she has saved up all of your email correspondence and says she is going to send them to everyone you talked about....that is no friend!!!! Who else can you confide in but your friend.Only to find out that she is threatening you?? I forgave her and the whole time she had been saving emails to use against me. That my friend is no one I want to be associated with. And if you want to know whos these two are just ask me and I will tell you.  I'm done with it!!

Now how about my 4th of July decorating I've started????  Let's start with an Annie.

Look at that Disneyland ticket she's holding? Do you know how long ago it was when they gave out those tickets??

This old cabinet we got at an antique store. I fell in love with it.  

Love this table. I bought it at the shop I've shown before from Mexico Missouri.  

Boo changed the date on the calendar to my birthday when he was visiting.  Aww isn't he sweet?  And love me some Annie.  As much as I love me some flags.  A friend made me the little quilt in the calendar shelf years ago. She cross stitched that flag apple.

This is one of the little caddy's hunka makes. It's on my website under WOOD GOODS.  I love it.  

I've had this sheep forever!!!  For years.  I love her.

One of my favorite books.I've given several coppies of this away as gifts.  It's awesome.

Onto another cabinet.  

I need to write on the chalkboard don't I?  

I love these little figurines and the fences. I have several of them throughout my house.

This is the cabinet all that stuff above was sitting on.  I bought this cabinet an the top cabinet at a shop in Temecula, Ca years ago. I fell in love with it when I saw it.  

This is probably my favorite 4th of July thing I have. It's a photo of my mother in law and her identical twin sister Lou.  Look at them in their outfits.  I miss her so much. She was the sweetest lady ever.  They used to put on this dance production with their friends in these outfits. I still have her outfit hanging in my closet.  I will keep it forever.  

That's it my friends.  Please leave a comment or an email if you'd like my new code/password for the blog.  Sorry it has come to this but I knew it would.  Some people just can't grow up and move on.  

 

May I have your attention????

Run do not walk over here to vote for PAM Kitty's fabric line to win!!!  You could win a $50 gift certificate.  But voting ends soon!!!  

What's not to love about this????  My favorite colors too.

HURRY!!!!!

 

 

 

 

 

Odds and ends.

While I'm in the blogging mood I thought I'd go for another one.  You know when the mood hits, go with it.  

We have so many Hostas here. They grow crazy.  We never had them in Ca. nor did I know what they were.  They must have become popular once I moved away.  But I love htem and you can seperate them and share.  I gave Wilster a bunchl last year and his are doing good too.

On Mother's Day Wilster made lunch for me and then he thought he would lke the art fair going on at a local park.  I had never been to this park either. Matter of fact,  I never knew it was there and I drive by all the time going to my sisters. It's a pretty neat place. Called Sculpture Park.  Hence the sculptures everywhere.  And no I have no clue who these people are.  

Love this giant eyeball!!

Oh how I would have loved to bought these.  But I would need to mortgage off the house.  The Amish were making them at the Art Fair.  Let's just say, not cheap.  

There's the man of the hour!!  And no he's not drinking. He was holding it for Hunka.  That's what they all say right?

Some neat pictures.  

Love this.

Love my chair that Hunka made years ago.  

You should smell this plant.  It's Rosemary and smells so good.  My sister and I both got one at Home Depot when they first put plants out.  

I wish these would have done better.  I think the rain damaged them.  The whole plant fell over.  And it's a huge plant. Next year I'm going to tie it up so I can get lots of blooms. 

This is one of my great high school friends. We have known each other since we were 4 and 5. Jeanne and her four sisters and one brother grew up across the street from us. We have remained very close all these years.   I love my high school friends and have kept in touch with so many. Plus with FB I've reconnected with lots of them.  Being back here in St. Louis is nice because we can all get together often.  

More Hostas. These are right outside my sewing room.  And the roses were there when we moved in.  We hired a guy to power wash our house when we moved in and he used bleach. Well bleach and roses do not mix.  But they came back good as new.  

Hunka's been working hard on the pond area.  He loves his pond and fish.  He spends hours out there taking care of it.  His fish follow him around when he has food in his hands.  Just Madeline does.  It's really funny.  But now he's had three snakes out there.  I think he's finally killed them all.  

I love when everything is all grown up and green.  It's like no one is out there but us.  I could sit and listen to the waterfall all day long.  Until the humidity takes over me and I start to suffocate. Then I slam the door closed and enjoy the hum of the a/c.  

I have to show you what Boo made me for Mother's Day. He mailed it to me and we had a wee little problem.  It fell apart.  He soldered it together but in the shipping it fell apart. So he came to visit a week later and fixed it.  I LOVE IT. If you click on it you can see teh Daisy Cottage Quilting sign.  He knows how much I love old barns and RED.  He burned the metal so the roof would look old and the sides of the barn too so it would look like old wood.  I think it is the neatest thing.  

Ok, that's it.  More later.  

Thanks for stopping by!!!!  Don't forget to come back.  

 

 

 

Greetings fellow Bloggers!!!

I think I'll try a new font tonight.  I love different fonts don't you?    I have some birthday pics to show but first I have to share this quote someone sent me. It is too funny but oh so true.   

"Women are Angels. And when someone breaks our wings, we simpy continue to fly......on a broomstick.  We are flexible like that!!"

So I was saying,  I've got some birthday pictures of my gifties.  I've gotten some emails asking when am I going to post them.  Here I am finally. I don't know where my time goes lately.  The days just fly by.  I mean to get on here and do my blog but next thing I know, I'm going to bed.  

First up is this pkg that Beth sent me and said I could NOT open until June 9th. And I was good.  I didn't touch it until then.  If I would have known what was inside I would have busted it open sooner.

Look what was inside!!    Does she know me or what?

Look at this picture she stitched for me.  It is perfect in my kitchen with Annie.  Can you read the bottom of the stitchery?? It says, "Happy Birthday Sharon".  I love that!  Thank you so much Beth.  I need to get my butt in gear. Your birthday will come back soon!!!  I'll be ready!  

Look who it is!!!  My baby sister Linda and my nephew Cody.  Or Wild Man as I call him. Love me some balloons.  She has brought them to me every year now.  

They also brought me this great quilting book. Can you believe I didn't have it?  And my favorite candy.  

Chocolate covered cherries from Godiva!  I am addicted to those things. Have you ever tried one?? If not, DON'T!  Just sayin.

While they were here the doorbell rang.  A big old box from my BFF!!!!  I knew it was coming!  She didn't trust me so she sent it Fed Ex to arrive on THE day.  Honestly!!!  How can she not trust me???   lolol    My nephew was as excited as me to see what was inside.  Just like a kid, he wanted to help unwrap.  And Linda Pooh took play by play photos.   Does Cody look excited? You would think it was his birthday. Which by the way is on Halloween.  That explains a lot of things. 

I rest my case!   Oh to be 13 again.  

Inside that yellow Brighton bag was this.......... Nancy and I collect those big giant rings that are everywhere now. I don't even want to count how many we have.  WE always buy them in two's of course.  One for her, one for me.  We just gotta.  

Look my favorite!!  It's a Godiva kinda day.  Only thing is we had a slight problem with this box. 

It's called 100 degree weather and riding in the back of a Fed Ex truck all day. Chocolate soup anyone?   But look my red foil wrapped chocolate covered cherry can still be saved!  I threw that baby in the freezer and quick!

Couldn't let the melty stuff go to waste.

Mmmmmm good.

But wait!!! There's more!!  Be still my heart!  Would you look at that? I am in love.  This is the cutest dang thing.  We saw it at Quilt Market and I had no idea she was already making it for me.  I'm so happy she was.  

This is the longest runner ever.  And don't ya love the backing? Just perfect.  I have to get going. Her birthday is coming in November. And that's not very long away!

You know you want one!! This is another thing we collect. And yes we buy two at a time. Now the bracelet is so heavy we can't wear it.  They are Juicy charms. I can't tell you how many we have collected so far.  They are so pretty and itsy bitsy.  The detail is unreal on them.

Can you see the little cakestand that the cake is sitting on?

Then!! As if that wasn't enough. This came with a knock on the door.  A real flower in a cake!  I wanna squeeze it!!!  It's so pretty.  And you know what? The flowers are still alive over a week later.  The cake stand is mine of course.  But you know it's got RED flowers and RED bows.  Nancy knows me pretty well doesn't she?

I had to take this picture to show you how long that runner is.  It's great isn't it?

Nancy had an ice cream and cupcake theme going on and I'd say she did quite well with it. Here's a pic of all my loot.

My friend Wendy sent me a pkg from Canada.  What a surprise!!!  

Look what she made me.  And it was filled with all things RED.  Wendy knows I love zipper bags as much as she does.  Thank you so much.  It's wonderful.

And my little blue truck filled with flowers that Brenda sent me is still alive and beautiful too.   

I got a package from a friend Sharon in Pennsyvania,  a wine glass, a Starbucks card, and some candy from her local family owned candy store.  

Hunka gave me a Pandora necklace with two new charms,  and a nice gift certificate to Nordstroms, as did Boo.  Wilster gave me this candle warmer thingy I asked for.  And cards...........ohmygoodness did I get the cards.  Let's just say I was feeling the love of family and friends.  Thank you all so so very much.  It's good to feel loved.  

Thank you to everyone for the birthday wishes, emails, cards, gifts and phone calls.  I appreciate it more than you know.  

Happy Birthday to MEEEEE!!!!

I'm not sure why, but I LOVE my birthday's. I don't even care that it means I am getting OLD.  I love them.  Maybe because as a child I do not remember birthday's being a big deal. But as I am older I love them and they are all wonderful.  Because of good friends. What would we do without our friends??? I say nothing. I feel blessed to have such good ones.  Which means why sweat the small stuff right??  Here is an example.

Today I was SHOCKED when the doorbell rang.  This is what showed up. Thank you so much Brenda.  Today is Brenda birthday. We are almost twins.  :) 

This might be the cutest thing I have ever seen.  Do you see that FORD pick up truck??  My dad retired from Ford.  He worked there forever. I have only owned Ford cars.  Right now I have a Ford Explorer that I love.  And now I have a little blue Ford pick up truck that I will treasure forever.  

STOP IT I say!!!!!! It's too cute for words.  I just love my new blue Ford pickup truck.  Brenda has a great website if you love Primitves.  Go check her out.  

Now my truck  sits with my other favorite thing. My Annie dolls.  And my new yellow/red quilt. Which by the way is a kit on my website. My BFF Nancy loved it so much she bought it twice. lololol   I'd say that's being loyal wouldn't you?

And check this out.  I have been looking at it for days!!!! But it says DO NOT open so I did not open.   I've walked past this box for days.  Talk about torture.  lol  Not really because I can wait! I've never been one to dig into a pkg.  I like to wait and open on the big day.  See Beth, I've been a good girl.

Since my birthday is tomorrow we need to pick a winner.  I had my BFF Nancy pick the lucky person. And she picked..........................well you'll need to go to her blog to see who wins.  she didn't want to pick but I said it's my birthday and I want YOU to pick.  She will tell you the reason she picked who she did. And she doesn't know the winner. But I do.  And she'll be thrilled to death to win.  

I have to show you this photo from my birthday a few years ago. I love it. I was so surprised.  I knew the girls were coming over and we were going out to eat.  But look at my BFF with those balloons. They are bigger than her!!    This was when I still lived in Ca.  My last birthday there actually.  :( 

 

I miss my friends.  I wish they were here to celebrate with me.  But Beth and my BFF will be here in April to go to Quilt Market with me and Nancy will be here in July for a whole week!!!  YAY!!!  I can hardly wait.  Quilt market is in Kansas City this year so the girls can come here and stay before we go to market.  You know we'll be having some fun.   Just the drive to KC will be so much fun.  The three of us.  

Today my little sister Linda is coming over with my nephew Cody to take me to lunch.  They let me pick the place.  I've wanted to go to Applebee's forever. So I think that's where we'll go.  Then tonight hunka is taking me to dinner at a local place  called Mulligan's.  Tomorrow hunka and I will spend the whole day in St. Charles for lunch and a stop at the winery.  Then...........Boo is in town!!!  YIPPEEEEE.  He'll be at my house later when we get home hopefully.  He and Wilster came over a week ago.  Wilster gave me one of my favorite electric candle melter thingy's.  I'll have to take a photo of it. You don't have to light a candle. You just sit the jar inside and plug her in.  No flames, no house burning down.  I love them. He's given me two now.  

If you'll excuse me now I think I'll go and open all of my cards that have come this week.  See Beth, I do have will power!!!  Obviously Nancy doesn't think I do either. She has Fed Ex'd her gifts so they would show up today.  Can you believe that?? lolol No trust whatsoever!!!  

 

 

 

 

 

THANK YOU

WOW who knew?   I am totally blown away by all of the nice things everyone has said.  I do appreciate it.  I have to say that the person I am referring too really didn't say anything mean to me.  I can't let her take that rap.  It just hurt my feelings the way she reacted to me asking a simple question about something that hurt me. Instead of emailing me back there was a blog post about her failing me as a friend????   I honestly did not say that.   But honestly she did not say anything "mean" to me.  She even called me to talk and I missed her call.  I did not know she had called but hunka heard her message and told me she called. So I apologize for anything that was said about her being mean.  I guess with all the internet crap we have available it's so much faster to react than to step back and think before hitting that SEND butoton.  I'm at fault too I know I am.  I can't let anyone say something about anyone that is not true. I do not like liar's nor do I tolerate that.  It's unacceptable to me.  So again I have to say I'm so sorry that everyone thought she had said something mean to me.  I was hurt so I reacted with a blog post.  That was wrong too.   I know I wear my heart on my sleeve. Maybe on both sleeves.  Does that mean it's a big heart? lol   After all of those comments, I can't stop my blog.  So many wonderful comments, and emails I just can't believe it.  Honestly I can't.  And I must say the big reason is my very very good friend Ter'e wrote that she was coming up here to Missouri from Florida if I didn't continue. And honeslty I'm a bit afraid of her.  She's older than me!  lol  MUCH older.  :)  Plus she knows my whole life story and I guess understands why I react like I do, and why I try to be the nicest I can be to everyone.  There is a reason you know? I'm not just phsycho.  haaaa  

Again I thank you all so very much.  And to my BFF Nancy, thank you!!!  And you know why.  Don't know what I would do without you.  

Now go leave a comment so you can win that Annie.  Poor Annie, she's getting pissed that I keep interupting her time in the spotlight.  Remember you have to leave the Annie comment on the prior post and then on my BFF Nancy's blog too.  

JUNE!!!

This is my favorite month!!  Why you ask? Well because I was born in June.  And that's a good reason don't ya think?    Once your past 50 I geuss you really should't be looking forward to more birthday's but I've never really hated getting older.  This past year didn't go by very fast either.  A lot has happened in a year.  Most of it was good.  So that's a good thing.  

My friend Nicole makes the cutest Raggedy Ann dolls. I know several of you have asked me for her website so you could order one.  Those of you that haven't you really should check it out. I've never seen cuter Annie dolls.  Seriously. and her prices are good too.  No this isn't a paid commercial.  I just love my Annie dolls. And I can't stop buying them. I gathered several of them and took a photo for you to see my addiction. There are this many more that I didn't take a photo of.

Look at all those redheads.  I have them for every season.  I have large ones, small ones and itsy bitsy ones. They are all over my house.  I hardly ever put any of them away. Even the seasonal ones I hate to box up.  

You can tell I order a lot of them that are wearing RED.  Some of these were given to me as gifts.  I got my first Annie doll when I sold my shop. And I was in love from that first one. This is her.  Nicole made her holding two bolts of fabric,  her necklace has my name on her and the cute little fabric tag.  I love her.  

The little green dorothy one with the red slippers in the front was a gift.  Love her ruby red slippers. 

Nancy gave me the one on the left when I visited her a couple months ago. She ordered four specially made ones for all of us.

Love RED, love Annie.  

Cheeseball Annie.  Not really but I'm going to name her that.  

A gfit from my BFF back in Nov.  Nancy made the quilt Annie is sitting on too.  

Kitchen itsy bitsy Annie.  

This is the biggest one I have. She is a big girl!!!!   Her name is Sharon.   lolol  Need I say more?

I put them everywhere. 

I'm telling you I have them for every season.  

This is a fairly new one.

There's the one with the red ruby slippers on the right.  She's an itsy bitsy one. 

See how tiny the little ones are? I think they are my favorite.  

This is a tiny one too.

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The one on the right is my very first Annie. The fabric "Sharon" Annie.

I have at least four of them in my office.  They make me smile.

She's a brand new one too.  Like last week new.  

Last but not least, this is the one I'm giving away to one lucky winner.

 

I could go on and on with the Annie show.  But I'll stop for now.  Maybe I'll gather all of them up in my bed and take a picture!!  I still have so many more to show you. Do you think I have a problem????  lolol  I say it's a good problem to have.  

Now since June is my favorite month and just happens to be my birthday too I'm going to give you a chance to win your very own Annie doll.  Just leave me a message and........you have to leave one on my BFF's blog too.  Because she is also going to show all of her Annie's. Well I think it's all of them. Not sure you'll have to go check it out. So you must leave one in both places to be in the drawing. We will pick a winner on the 10th.  The day after my birthday.   Check out her new mixer too while your over there. It is beautiful. It is in the post prior to her Annie one.  You've got to see it.  Oh and did I tell you????  My BFF is coming to see me AGAIN!!  Yippeeee. This time she's staying for more than three days.  I can not wait!  

And if you don't win an Annie you can always go get yourself one over at Nicole's website. And if you see one here you like just send her a message she'll make it for you if she can.  WE do that all the time.  

Ps:  Joy of Joypatch won the giveaway.  You'll be getting your goodies soon.  All the way across the big pond!!! Thanks for all the comments on the previous post.