alaine on May 21st, 2010

About a month ago I bought a plant for my pond. What I didn’t know was that it was a shallow water plant that needed to be on a shelf with 6in depth. The pond that I have now has strait sides. So off to Hobby Lobby I went. I just need a way to [...]

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alaine on April 7th, 2010

I’m not sure how its possible but the fish survived the winter. We haven’t had a winter this bad in over 30 years, The ice on the pond was at least a foot thick. And was that way for most of the winter. It would warm up and melt just a little and we would [...]

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alaine on April 6th, 2010

Easter was last week and while most parents were coloring eggs we were making egg heads.  I’m always looking for new fun things for the kids to do.  This was a fun and easy craft project that involved all 5 of my kids.  No age limit on this one folks.  I even had our 4-H [...]

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alaine on October 13th, 2009

About a month ago Jason’s sister had a baby boy. I just had to make a quilt. Knowing his family there will be about 10 quilts made. We all love to sew. Mine has embroidered teddy bears, with cotton flannel and chenille blocks. I embroidered his name and the birth date on one  block. Instead [...]

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alaine on July 19th, 2009

My embroidery machines are running constantly … and I’ve been using tons of thread and stabilizer. The local stores are a little high priced but that did give me a good excuse to go in and shop. On the down side they had a hard time keeping what I needed in stock. So I started [...]

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alaine on July 13th, 2009

Check out these pics – these are the “before” pictures of the pond without rocks and grass Bookmark To

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alaine on July 1st, 2009

Ya I know I’m a little spoiled! As you know for mothers day I got a real in-ground fish pond. The best thing about it was he had most of the work done the day that we brought it home, and with-in 2 weeks he had rocks around the outside and grass seed planted. It [...]

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alaine on June 25th, 2009

E-bay has gotten so big that I had to pick up another 350 E embroidery machine. It was used as a demo machine, so it was used very little an i got it at a great price. With 5 kids and Jason running numbers 24/7 its real hard to drop over $1000 on a machine. [...]

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Thought I’d post something on Alaine’s blog today.  She rarely has time to post, as business has been booming.  The whole cornhole bag thing hasn’t let up.  In fact, it probably accounts for the majority of the business right now.  It seems like the big thing now is to request designer bags rather than plain [...]

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alaine on April 23rd, 2009

Once a year I tie dye all the shirts for the 5th graders at Baldwin South. The school buys all the supplies and I get to have all the fun, this is for their field trip to the zoo. Every teacher and every kid gets one, plus all the parents that tag along to help [...]

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