Heres some Beautiful Lillies that are blooming in my pond garden right now. There are 5 stems of blossoms getting ready to bloom. I love iT!
Also, some pics that Amber took of my pond with the LED lights on the fencing around it that Amber helped me put on. Looks like a fairy land at night! And last but not least... A blanket throw I made from the left over yarns in my basket with black rows between the bright colors. It will be nice and warm in the winter for when Im lounging on the couch. Just finished it yesterday!
Now we need some family to have so more babies for me to crochet for............. Keep me busy!

Last but not least... Ive been seeing a eye specialist for over a year for a stroke in my right eye. He has been zapping the blood in my eye with laser to stop the bleeding. Im going again for laser tomorrow. BUT... he says the white haze I have in my vision is from damage to the retina and that will Never get better..... I was hoping it would. OH MY!

New baby stuff for my Sister's daughter, Amie.

My Sister, Nancy who lives in Florida, has a daughter named Amie who is now expecting a baby girl in November. Ive been working the past several months on the following items as a gift to her first baby. She was the girl who married 2 years ago in Indonesia to her Indonesian husband she met while working on a cruise ship!







This is a frilly little bonnet .













This is her first HOODIE SWEATER!












This is a detail of the blanket I made, the yarn has light tones of pink, blue, yellow, white and a little purple in it. Stitch is a fan stitch again.













This is a larger view of blanket.










A better shot of the hoodie sweater.












This is a stuffed toy Wackie Duckling that I made for her first toy.

A closer look at Wackie Ducky!

I guess my toys are making a hit with my friends and family. I just got a request to crochet a puppy dog for a young grandson of my daughter's neighbor. Back to WORK!!

Water leak led to Remodeling our kitchen!

Several weeks ago, we discovered Water, coming from under our cabinets, and leaking into the new kitchen floor on the laminate flooring we had done 2 summers ago. The laminate was swelling and buckling up at the ends. We thought it was a leak from under the sink, but my contractor while looking for it, found out it was a leaking DRAIN pipe that led from my kitchen sink to behind the wall into a main drain, within the wall behind the cabinets. It was flowing down the wall and onto the sub floor under the cabinets and out behind my stove onto the kitchen floor. Let me tell you, I was SO glad that it wasnt a leaky water pipe! Everything I ran into my sink and down the dran was getting into my lower cabinets and out onto the floor!

They had to take out the cabinets and all the old subfloor, and replace all the cabinets from the sink left to the stove, then apply a Mildewcide to the other plywood to kill the mold. Now, the house insurance paid for all but the plumbing work, and paid for the new cabinets, and MORE so that I had enough left to finally get my backsplash done in ceramic tile also. With a suggestion from my contractor we decided to do the wet part of the kitchen, around the stove, refridgerator and sink with ceramic tile also, so it can be just mopped up. I think it was a great IDEA! My kitchen looks so much more modern and up to date now! He did the counter tops 2 summers ago for me and they look so nice against the new cabinets and floor!

Here is the new lower cabinets from the sink left to the stove. ( one of the old cabinets remain right of the dish washer)

The wet part is the newer stripped subfloor after spraying with the anti mold product.

Here my contractor, starting to prep my untiled backsplash for the tile he was going to put up. He used rope to measure the seams between the tiles.

Here is a close up of the tiles I choose for the backsplash. The glass tiles put a real pop of color to the kichen. The color is blue lagoon!

The finished behind the stove area! Before grouting.

They laid cement board down on the kichen floor to accept the tile flooring.

Almost finished! The tiles are nice light tan!

Finished with the stove back in its home!

New floor and the fridge is back in place also!

Happy Birthday to ME!

May 7th was my 61st Birthday. Caroline had me over tonight for cake and ice cream to celebrate it. Here's some highlights. Barlow took me out for dinner at a nice resteraunt last night, he had the fish and chips while I had a Huge City Chicken stick! YUMMY! Wendy brought me over a nice "Grandma " tee shirt, that I'll model later.

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By the way, Barlow and I celebrated our 40th Wedding anniversary on May 1st. Seems like only a short time ago in my memory but a long time in reality.

Happy Mothers Day!

This is a Mothers Day tribute to my Mom, Jeannine Potulski who died at the age of 45 in 1972. She passed with ovarian cancer. She was a talented woman who could draw, paint, knit, crochet and sew anything. She was a 19 year old bride in this picture with my dad, Art. She looks so happy here.

I miss her everyday and hope somehow that she is smiling from up above at us and my beautiful grandkids! She and Dad are loved and missed so much.

A baby bonnet and blanket for Cindy's new baby coming in July!

My niece, Cindy Korber is due to have a baby in late July or early August. ( He third child) I have been working for 3-1/2 weeks on these for her. The thread has pinks, blues, whites and puples spread throughout. I edged it in pink, cause shes having a girl. The little cap has a ruffled edge around it. Im loving the colors! Hope she loves it too! The stitch is a fan stitch of 5 double crochets.

The ancient story of the Yetti is explained.

There is a leagend of the mysterious beast called Yetti, that has been told around the world. Recent reports is that he has been sighted in the neighborhoods of Warren, Michigan, hiding in the woods and the hall ways of East Detroit High School! I managed to get a few pics of him in and out of the garden jungles!


I have finally identified who this gigantic beast is........................

He is my grandson, DARIN Yetnick!!!!

All his friends have nick named him Yeti, since he is so tall, has long arms, and Big Feet! The name fits, so I captured this Photo of him for all eternity! May the legand live on!!! LOVE YA DARIN!

Two more little baby penguins!

Saturday, Caroline, Amber and I went to the Detroit Zoo and did the whole park, It was great! Nice day, but cool breeze. I snapped only a couple pics, but Amber took hundreds of them. Amber even talked me into getting her a stuffed tiger baby. We loved seeing the polar bears swimming in the tunnel, and trying to get at the seals, in the sealed off portion of the tank. Amber took pics of every frog, snake and animal we saw just about. She posed with a lot of the neet animal statues they have about too. Such a nice day, and a close to Caroline's last days of her vacation.

I finished two more baby penguins that I had promised both my Wendy and Missy, Caroline's neighbor, who loves penguins also. Wendy picked the smaller one, and I sent Frank over to give the bigger one to Missy. Now I am working on a shell blanket for a baby my other niece is having this summer. AND I just found out yesterday that my sister's daughter, is 10 weeks pregnant with her first baby also. That gives me plenty of crochet projects to work on for a while!

He's NOT Tony the Tiger!

Just completed the latest crochet project. This one is for Amber's girlfriend, Kiki. She wanted a tiger, so I made her this tiger kitten. He's ready to escape the jungle to pounce!

Ain't I Cute!

Bet you cant see me hiding!

Now I promised a couple more Penguins for a couple people, seems that they are very popular! Then I have time to make another baby sweater and hat for a niece thats expecting a little girl in late July. I got some neat multi color pink, and purple baby yarn for that. Having Fun!!!111

A sweater vest for my Wendy!

Just finished a sweater vest for my daughter Wendy, on Friday Morning, just before she came to clean for me again. I worked for 2 weeks on this sweater, and at the last 1/4 of the right front, I ran out of yarn and had to buy one more skein to finish it! I think it turned out pretty good. She likes it. Lookin good!

Another Kids project in Crochet

Another of Amber's best friends named Linsey wanted a horse toy from me. In the meantime, I am still working on a sweater vest for Wendy. I got the back of the sweater done, and most of one side in the works so far.
In my rest time I worked on this little horsie. I had just a little of this color yarn left so I had to scale back the pattern from the original plan, but Im please with it as it turned out. The pattern showed straight legs in the back, but Amber said it should curve back like a dogs legs do, so, I tried. Even made a little saddle on his back LOL! Hope she likes it! The color is not really pink, but more like peach. Closest I had to tan.