My New-Old Chairs...

The hubs and I hit an estate sale yesterday morning, and I instantly feel in love with these two chairs!  They were $100, which I thought was a pretty good deal, but hubby wasn't convinced.  So, we kept looking around and then, I spotted another couple checking out my chairs...I was panicking!  I was convinced they would buy them, and I wanted to yell across the room, "get away from my chairs!"  lol But, I just kept eyeing Stacy, then the chairs, and making my sad puppy dog face.  Stacy just kept laughing at me.  Finally, the other couple walked away, and Stacy said if I really wanted them I could get them, so I ran to the front to pay for them as fast as I could!

They need to be reupholstered, but I figure with all the tutorials I have pinned on pinterest, I should be able to manage. I can't wait to get started, but first, I have to paint the kitchen and hang new moldings. Then, make curtains....THEN, I will finally be able to get started...so I figure by the summer time...lol but I'll be sure to share pics when they are done!

Retail Therapy...

So, after my sickening experience of being too dumb to work my smart phone on Monday (for those of you who haven't noticed all them missing pics on my blog...I deleted ALL my blog pics from my smartphone Monday...yeah...all of them...I thought I was just deleting them from my phone, but nope...they're all gone.  Oh well, I had been contemplating updating some of my photos, but I guess now I have too!  lol)  Anyway, I went shopping, and nothing makes you feel better than a bag full of pretty new fabric and patterns...well, me anyway... 

Aren't they pretty?!?  I can't wait to get started!  Too bad I've got about 50 baskets of clothes to fold before, I can start sewing...lol

Mardi Gras Petti Skirt

I mentioned on my FB  page that I have been working on my first petti skirt.  I also mentioned that I finally got a smartphone!  It's a Samsung Skyrocket, and I love it!  Anyway, the point is...when I finished the pettiskirt, I was determined to take the pics with my new phone and upload them from there.  The good news is I finally figured it out...The bad news is I accidentally deleted all the pics in the process...except one...so here it is...my first petti skirt:

It took me a week, but I did it!

Happy Mardi Gras y'all!

My Lil' Mardi Gras

Finished the boys Mardi Gras costumes yesterday and they have been wearing them round the clock!  Then, today I come out of the bathroom on to find Ian in this get up....

That kid cracks me up!

Making Sausage...

 When I was little one of my favorite family events was "boucherie", or butcher.  We would make sausage, boudin, cracklins, wrap the meat.  The kids would run around my grandparents farm, playing on hay bails, riding four wheelers, and pretending to drive the tractor.  It was a blast!

We don't do it anymore, but we do still make sausage.  We made it a couple of weeks ago, and I wanted to share some pics.  It's a ton of work, but still fun.  The family gets together and works together on something, while the kids are playing...brings back a lot of memories watching the kids play.  

One of the things we still laugh about, is when I was about 5 we were "making butcher", and they would always cook some of the meat for lunch, so I was eating and someone mentioned something about the pig, and I dropped my fork and said, "This is PIG?!?!?"  So my mom goes, "No, it's pork." And I was like, "oh, okay"  And just went back to eating.  lol 

Seasoning the meat...

This is ponce...basically sausage meat stuffed in a stomach...yeah, I don't eat that...lol

They made me try to sew the hole up...yeah, I don't think sewing meat is my specialty...I kept ripping it...

Lady Belle...I love how her eyelashes are the same color as the surrounding hair.  I would have assumed they would be black...

My grandpa had to take over for me...Stacy laughed at me and said, "I can't believe your grandpa can sew better than you!"

Love this pic of Sophie

Delilah...isn't she pretty

I gave up on sewing meat and went for a ride...I haven't ridden a horse in forever!  I was so afraid she would start running because she isn't 100% broke yet.  But it was really funny, she just wanted to stay by my sister!  She kept walking up to her and following her around...I guess it's because Olivia's the only one who really rides her.

We make little hamburgers out of the meat and cook it so we can test the seasoning before we put it in the casing.

Going to my grandpa's house to hang the sausage in the smoke house...Ian was so excited!  He had been waiting to go all day!  lol