~~~~Weekend Happenings~~~~

It's Monday and another beautiful day is on the way. My weekend was fun and just flew by, I hope yours was fun too. Saturday was so great....Lisa and I had our adventure. We took a road trip and headed to one of our favorite places, The Elegant Stitch, in Modesto. This is the most wonderful stitchie store and the owner Lois is the nicest lady. Very helpful and can answer any question you might have, in fact all the ladies that work there are just great. Well, back to the trip.....we headed to Modesto and stopped along the way at Denny's for breakfast, it was so yummy and I'm not a breakfast person...but mine was delish and so was Lisa's. After breakfast we continued on to Modesto and wouldn't you know it we missed the exit we needed, (that's why I call our trips adventures, you never know what's going to happen) well anyway about 5 miles down the road we realized our mistake and got turned around and made it to the shop...which by the way is in a new location and just fabulous. The shop is huge and just filled with wonderful stitching things. We were there for over 3 hours just oooing and awwing over everything. Then it was decision time............... Look at all the goodies we came home with. Do you see the little sampler and the rose thread on the left? Now, don't laugh, that is what I bought plus a few little notions........and the rest is Lisa's. She sure knows how to shop and sew too. I'm happy to tell you we made it home without one little accidental detour....it was a happy, happy day.

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Oh heavens, 4:45 sure comes early, but it's Sunday and the WX Peddlers Faire is today. Yippee! After some coffee, I'm awake.....time to get ready for the day. Wear comfortable clothes, dress in layers, approiate shoes..okay. Now lets see....money, notebook, pen, tape measure, water, snack, hand sanitizer and my rolly cart...got it all. Off to meet our friends Rob and Michell and I'm meeting a blogging friend at the market too........more about meeting her in a minute. Lots of vendors today, I don't think there was one empty space. Shopping was great and we all found great treasures (and we saw lots of Scottie dogs, a clue to who I met). Carl found some neat treasures but his favorite for the day was a Fenwick Flipin Stick. He loves to fish and has a huge collection of rods and reels and this is a great addition....he's just itchin to use it too. I found some neat things too. This is my favorite find............
A vintage green basket, and I love it! I couldn't wait to get home and......
fill it with roses. These are my most favorite roses, "Secret", they are soooo fragrant. At first I put the basket on a table in the front room.......I didn't really like it here..........then I moved it here............
I think I it like much better here. What do you think?????
Look at these sweet pinwheel magnets.....aren't they just precious? They were a surprise from a blogging friend....before I tell you who let me tell you how I came to meet her. Well, my friend MICHELLE ordered some treasures from her Esty shop... as it turns out they talked and she was coming up to the faire (with her friend) and told Michelle she would bring her treasures and see her at the faire....how nice was that. Anyway, we all met up and she had a set of magnets for Michelle and me too. They are her own creation and I just love them. This sweet blogging friend is BECKY @ Sweet Cottage Dreams. It was so neat to meet a blogging friend, she is a dear. If you've never visited her blog stop by, you're in for a treat. Well, after all the shopping we headed to our favorite joint for breakfast and then home to rest, relax and maybe a little nap.

Well my friends have a happy day, I'm off to do some chores. Hugs, Linda

~~~~There are big ships and small ships. But the best ship of all is friendship~~~Author Unknown