Bragging on another Garner Girl

Can I brag for a minute? It is not often that we have the opportunity to brag that one of our own is a published author. My cousin Keisha who also grew up in the Garner community will soon release her first book. We are all so happy for her, and I just wanted to take the opportunity to toot her horn.
Keisha is an amazing lady who has learned so much about living with diabeties and has written a book to help parents and students learn to prevent this disease. Please check out her website http://stompoutdiabetes.com/

Love ya Keisha and can't wait to get my autographed copy :)

Scrap'n evening in store

I am so excited I am meeting 5 or 6 of the ladies from church to scrapbook tonight. I haven't worked on my scrapbooks in ages. I am torn between working on my 5 year olds baby book and starting to work on photo's from my trip to England, Ireland & Scotland. Hmmm I think the trip is looking pretty good right now. Not that I don't love my baby girl...

But there is a special place in my heart for London.

The Food...

Big Ben....

Parlament...

The Tower Bridge....

Then there is the silly art that just makes me happy....

I usually don't care for cities. But I loved London, and would love to go back and see even more of it. Just tell me when and this girl will be packed and ready to meet you at the airport.

Clouds

Each afternoon we gaze at the sky hoping to see clouds.  Some days a few will form, but so far there has been no relief from this scorching drought.  I keep seeing things about a group planning to pray on Sunday afternoon for Rain.   I am not waiting until Sunday.  I am praying for rain every day.  I am urging my friends to all pray daily for rain. 
When you look out the window at this dry land,  stop for just a moment and ask the Lord to send us rain.  

Me a published Author!!

I have put this off as long as I can stand it.  I am going to be published!!!!!
It is not novel length fiction, but hey it is a start.  I will be doing some freelance articles for the Fort Worth edition of www.examiner.com  I found out about 2 weeks ago.  I am super excited.  I will Be the Fort Worth Christian Living examiner.  As soon as the first article appears I will be sure to let you all know.

Crazy Texas Weather

My husband called me just as I was about to leave town to tell me there was a bad storm near Millsap and that there was large hail in it.  So I decided to play it safe and go back to the office.  Just as I parked the hard rain started, then people from all over town started showing up to try to park their cars under the covered parking at my office. 
I sat there for about 20 minutes till I got the all clear call from my husband and then the call confirming it from my parents.  We lucked out with very little hail at our place and none that I saw in town. I drove home watching the clouds, once I got home I started watching the news coverage.  We had some scary storms in North Texas and Oklahoma.  My husband kept going back out to look at the clouds.   It seemed that every few minutes another cloud was forming in our part of the county and then they blew up into huge scary storms as they moved  north east.
One Tornado touched down near Springtown and then there were reports of storms in Saginaw.  I text my friend in Springtown to see if they were OK, she assured me that all was fine.  I was a little nervous about the Saginaw storm when I couldn't get my cousin to answer.  He finally posted to FB that they were OK. 
By nine o'clock I was exhausted and decided I couldn't do any one any good by worrying so I decided to call it a night.

Next Monday morning bright and early I will Leave for England, Ireland & Scotland.   The trip of a life time.  I am excited beyond words.  I will try to post some shots and updates along the way. If I can learn how to do that from my mom's iphone.  We have decided that my phone will stay at home in the states.  (Let mom & dad pay the international phone bill ;)

I promise I have not fallen off the face of the earth. My crazy life has just been crazier that usual. 8 days till relay for life! And 18 days till I leave on my dream trip to ENGLAND.

Good Things hapening in Weatherford

We have had an exciting weekend.  It all began on Friday night with a call from a reporter.
At about 5:00 Friday afternoon I learned that a reporter from WFAA wanted to interview my co-worker Pam.  I hung around for moral support and before it was all over I was part of the story.  The attached link is our 15 minutes of fame.
http://www.wfaa.com/news/local/Weatherford-church-raises-money-for-kidnap-torture-victim-118280129.html

Then Sunday morning during worship there were more camera crews.  This time they interviewed Cody our youth Minister.  Then Sunday afternoon they were back to interview some of our members.
http://www.the33tv.com/news/kdaf-kidnap-victim-gets-unexpected-help-from-local-church-20110320,0,3862928.story

This morning I have been interviewed by the Mineral Wells Index for tomorrows newspaper.  I have also spoken to several people who are wanting to donate funds or services to help.
Wow isn't this so exciting, to see the community come together to help this poor lady.

A star for a soilder

Most of you know I am crafty. 
I love to sew, make jewelry, scrapbook, the list goes on.  Right now I am into quilting once again. :) While looking for a pattern I found the following. So I thought I should share. This cool project to make quilts for our service members. 
I am going to make a star block and I just wanted to share this with my friends who are crafty.
Just go to http://www.unitednotions.com/LA_just_one_star.pdf and print the patern and all the info you need to make a star for our troops. 

The heartbreak of the Class of 1987

In June of 1988 my life was changed forever by the death of a good friend.  One of my classmates and friends was murdered.  His name was Keith Blaylock he was a sweet kind person.  His death effected all of us in different ways.  One of the saddest ways it effected me was the fact that I realized that we were no longer children, we were thrust into adulthood.  My wonderful image of our small town life was tarnished.  We all mourned Keiths senseless death. The papers were filled with details of a robbery and murder of our dear friend, who's body was dumped on one side of town and his truck parked on the other side of town, a bank deposit missing.  It sounded more like a movie plot that real life in our community.
I am telling you all this to say that in yesterday's Mineral Wells Index there was an article stating that there has been a positive DNA match on some of the evidence found in Keith's truck. 
The DNA points to another former schoolmate Brian Davis, who is currently sitting on Death Row for a 1991 murder in Houston.  I am saddened to learn that it was someone Keith knew and grew up going to school with.
 Since they hadn't found the killer for all these years I had always thought they had given up on the case.  The article indicates that Davis has been a suspect from the beginning.  Davis' prior Death Penalty has been overturned.  Now the Mineral Wells & Palo Pinto authorities are going to trial in Houston this week hoping to reinstate the death penalty. The case will also be brought to the Palo Pinto County Grand Jury after the current Harris County trial in hopes they will return a murder indictment in the 1988 Murder of Keith Blaylock.
My prayer is that justice prevails and that the Blaylock family gets the closure they deserve.

If you would like to read the article you may go to http://www.mineralwellsindex.com/  the article was published  2/22/2011 It is titled Seeking Justice

A fun give away

Those of you that have been around me for any time know about my love for china & antique dishes of all types.  I acquired an wonderful new set, a place setting for 4 plus a few extra pieces.  We purchased it at an estate sale over Thanksgiving weekend.  I forgot all about this purchase until a few days ago when I stumbled across them in the back of my husbands truck.  They have been riding around in the camper since November. ( I know this is when we purchased them because my mom thought I was crazy going to an estate sale on crutches only 4 days after my knee surgery.)  I am blaming the lapse in memory on pain meds.
Last night I got to go through the box and thankfully nothing was broken. 
They are a beautiful white, with a light blue floral design, accented with silver trim.  Blue Whisper, made by Sheffield.
 

Not a high dollar set but very pretty. I think I may gift them to a certain young lady that I love dearly who is a newly wed. Then I can add to her set as I can afford to.

I have told you all of this to lead into the following. One of my favorite blogs is having a cool giveaway.  Please visit http://myplacetoyours.blogspot.com/  and let them know you are visiting from Garner Girl.  This blog is about some of my favorite things, antiques linens, dishes and tablescapes.


I hope you all have a great day.