Five Parties and Carrying a Camel!

 On Monday I awoke with lots of energy ... see why I need my day of rest?  I scrubbed our bathroom from top to bottom, for the first time in months ... none of this wash just the sink, or just clear the counter stuff for me.

I also put together Charlotte's birthday package, since her birthday was coming up in a week.

Then I took it to the post office and headed to the DI in Provo ...

It was such a warm day,  I noticed several Convertibles out with their tops down ... on January 26th, of all things.  Then I parked next to one at DI, and as I was about to take a picture this motorcylist parked on the other side ... lovely weather.

Monday was also fun because I got to visit with Davin a bit ... he'd borrowed old blue, since he had to leave his car at the shop in Payson for the day ... so when he came to drop off the van, Dad was already home and we had a lovely visit with him!!  

 On Tuesday I went to party number one, a quilting bee and tea party.  To the left are Sherri and Margaret, sisters-in-law who live in West Mountain, the rural area to the west of Payson.  Margaret's family used to board Becca's horse, and evidently both Becca and Spencer became friends with these ladies' children. (Both come to my witch's teas as well)

We worked on quilting this quilt that non quilter Sherri started in her teens, quilter Margaret has been encouraging her to finish it.   Sherri's house is huge, and her kids are the ages of mine, so that means a huge empty nest.  She's decorating one of many guest rooms in a Winnie The Pooh theme.  She's been a fan since Junior High.

The luncheon part of tea ...

Above one the left is the back of a secret panel from the parlor that opens in to the bedroom hall behind the parlor ... on the right, above, is shown the triple alcove wall, the furthest left section of which opens into that back hall.  It was so fun!

Sherri was raised Moravian, before joining the church in her early 20's  She told us that her grandmother used to make Moravian Ginger cookies to sell, and then she bought things for the house, like the Persian rugs that Sherri has inherited, and is unable to part with even though they are literally thread bare.  I loved her stories and how she has taught her children about the religion she grew up with, and all the good things it adheres to. 

(Sherri's mother actually suggested that Sherri listen to the Mormon missionaries, after Sherri's older married sister joined the church.  Her mother had been impressed with the wonderful changes she'd seen in her oldest daughter's life.

This is the Pooh banner I made as a hostess gift.

 When I got home, I got to watch these two cuttie patutties while their mom was off showing houses near by.

 My cousin posted  this picture of my mom and her sister LaRee in California during WWII, I've seen it before, but it was fun to have it on the computer ... note that Aunt LaRee has those same skinny ankles that my dad so admired when he met my mom.

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On Wednesday it was a work day for me ... we had someone come in and buy the large vintage Christmas nativity lawn set ... I was carrying out part of it, when this photo was snapped ... made me laugh.

On Thursday, at work, I wrapped up the rest of my gifts for Dad's birthday, as we were going straight to dinner after work for Dad's birthday, also known as party number 2.  The picture also shows the two blue gifts that Brittany had had sent through Amazon.

 Here we are at dinner, at Los Hermonos in Provo.  Becca and Brady gave Dad this card for his birthday ... Dad actually cried as he read it, check out the collage below to see why.

 We are so thrilled, we could never have guessed we would have a third grand child born this year ... this baby will be number 19!

On Friday I worked on projects for the 2 Dotters sale coming up on February 7th.  I was very happy with how this 50s dresser turned out.

That night I tried out my new meat ball maker, and was delighted with how nice they turned out.  Definitely a keeper.

After dinner Dad and I walked over to red box ... and on the way saw these pansies in the bank's flower beds, still blooming, who knew!!

After the movie, Dad, like the smart person he is, went to bed ... I on the other hand went to the kitchen at 11:00 P.M. and stayed there making fancy cookies for Jenn's  Cookie exchange the next day ... I finished at 2:00 A.M., sort of sick, don't you think?

 Here I am at Jenn's house and party number three, I took tons and tons of pics, but I won't make you suffer through them all, I will be posting more on my Pollyanna blog though, if you are curious about Jenn's mad decorating skills.

This is a section of the cookie table, mine are the whole hearts in the doubledecker red basket. 

It was fun to meet new friends, like this gal who is a chalk board artist ... she sells on etsy under the name 'the black and white store', which I thought was clever ... the famous Margie Aslet actually took the picture.  Its kind of cool because Jenn's party photos are going to be on Studio 5 on Tuesday!!

 We all had fun making these cute bird decorations for Valentines, mine is the overloaded one in the middle.

 When I was leaving I noticed all her funny signs ... her driveway was full of stuff for the 3 Dotters show she is hosting in PG on the 7th, yes, the very show I am getting ready for too ...

When I got home, I got to watch Dad as he finished up on the rolling island he's been putting together for me ... can I just say how much I LOVE it.  He had to cut the single corbel above in half to make the side brackets and it was FULL of nails, I think he counted a dozen ... fortunately he put his old saw blade back on the table saw so he wouldn't ruin his new one.  And let me just tell you, with my father's history on a table saw, I was soooo nervous, that after watching a few sparks fly, I had to leave ... Thanks Honey!!

Party number four happened that evening, we met the Moes and Heuers for dinner and for Dad and Randy's birthdays at a Thai place in AF, before heading back to Highland where we met up with the Gearhearts at their home theater to watch the Hundred Foot Journey again ...  Afterwards we played games.

 On Sunday, we all had our typical Sunday schedules ... Brittney gave the closing prayer in Sacrament meeting.  I'd forgotten to put the roast in for our English Dinner Party that night, and ran home to start it and missed half of Sunday School ... boo hoo.

 After church Dad peeled a 10 pound bag of taters, to make roasted potatoes, then Spencer helped pealing carrots.

We missed out on family members who had made arrangements to watch the super bowl elsewhere, but the dinner party was a great success. (Party number 5, by the way)

Here is my plate, complete with the Yorkshire pudding that Trevor made  and which was delicious.

Brittany and Spencer also made a trifle from goods on hand, which was pretty darn impressive!

Later, for entertainment, the grands and the boys all flew paper airplanes to the 'moon', J. Scott even drew a man inside the cockpit of one of the planes, so we had a manned aircraft landing on the moon too!!

So that was our week, full of friends and family get togethers ... love you all, thanks for being a part of our lives.

A Week That was Slower than Molasses in January.

 Our somewhat sedate week started out with me starting Sense and Sensibility, a Latter-day Tale on Monday and doings some blogging posts, on three blogs.

Tuesday was lots more fun, I'd made arrangements to meet Arlene at the Bountiful temple this month, because I needed to pick up something I had bought on one of the 'yard sale sites'  (For sister Julie's info, it was 6 cups and saucers in the Rosepoint Pattern!) on FB in Farmington.  Of course I spent some time at the area DIs and we went to dinner at Cafe Rio!! 

 BTW we saw Dianne at the temple again, and she introduced me to someone who knows Doug, I smiled and said the pleased to meet you stuff, and didn't event think to mention that Arlene is Doug's wife's sister, though if the lady knows Doug very well, she might have thought I was with Doug's wife ... Arlene gets that a lot. 

I am doing my Utah Temples Passport, and this is my second temple this year!

Dad, of course was doing his usual stint at the Provo Temple the same day.

 On Wednesday I got the Valentines goodies out of the van, that I had set aside when I took down the display I did at Fleaology last week, and put together a sweet romantic booth display.

I also finished up making these tags, using prints of vintage pictures, to add into the mix.

I worked again on Thursday, and had this guy come in.  When I asked him if people say he looks like Scarlet Johanson, he said, not so much lately, but when he worked at Hollywood Video, he got it all the time!!  What do you think?  When I got home Dad and I opted to read instead of watching anything, and it took me until 2:00 A.M. for finish S and S.

 On Thursday the book I'd ordered on line, Sense and Sensibility by Joanna Trollope, one of a series of Austen books being re-written in modern style by well know Brits, arrived, perfect timing, eh?  (I didn't finish it until Sunday after Church, BTW) 

Also on Thursday, I headed to book club to discuss the book we'd read, The Hundred Foot Journey, everyone liked it, and the one lady who had rented the movie to watch after reading it was SO surprised,a and somewhat disappointed... yes, this was a book to read after the movie, definitely! 

On Friday I got to watch these munchkins, while their Mom was out showing houses in the area ... they posed for me with the simple wreath that I made while watching them ... it was all super fun!!

 On Saturday we hauled in this cool old bead board cupboard in from the garage, it's shown here on its side, that I bought from a customer, and never really knew what to do with. 

I had decided with my new kitchen remodel, that if I didn't have room for a prep island, that I could have a work station/bar, that I could put wheels on and park against the window with some bar stools ...

 Here it is with drawers added to the top, and big dolly wheels to move it around.  It stills needs paint and a butcher block table top that will be hinged, with half of it hanging down the back when in wall position.  I think Dad did an awesome job!  While he was working on it, I was busy painting furniture for the show I am doing in PG a week from this coming Saturday!

 That night we were off to meet the Moe's et al, for dinner at La Dulce Vita in Provo, then we walked a couple of blocks to Comedy Sportz an improv Comedy place, that is all good clean humor!!

Briahnna's brother Gabe, is on staff there, but had done the show the night before.  The gentleman I asked said he was hilarious, and when I want to take a picture of his picture, he said, "Oh he has long hair now ..."  

The show was pretty fun, though I had a hard time keeping up with current entertainment references, we all had a good time.

 Ben had sent me a picture of this Perkins coat of arms, and had asked about when his ancestors had come to Utah ... I thought you all might enjoy the email I sent to him, so I have cut and copied it for your reading pleasure.  

On my dad's side the Larsens were converted in the 1880's and immigrated here then, my grandfather went back to Norway on his mission and met the woman who would  be his wife in the late 1890's, she immigrated then and they married in Utah.

On My Mom's side, the Clarks joined the church in England, Thomas Benjamin Clark, was a member of the queen's guard, that was like a policeman. (you had to be 6 ft tall in your stocking feet to be in the group).  One day he overheard some men planning to beat up some missionaries in a park.  He followed them, and listened to the missionaries, he kind of hung around the missionaries after that, as a policeman, he was unofficially protecting them.  So then while hanging around where they were street preaching, after that, he eventually joined the church.  He shared the gospel with his family, his father Benjamin Thomas Clark, a widower with children at home still, also joined.  When they decided to come to America, Thomas B's wife wouldn't come, so he left her there to start a new life, as did his father and some siblings.  They came with the pioneers, I think in 1852, just five years after the first pioneers in 1847. You are named for these two Benjamins. 

My Mother's mother's family (the Frisbeys) didn't come to Utah until about 1890, her father was a member of the Whitmerite church (a break off of the Mormon church) and he came and settled in Provo to convert the Mormons to the Whitmerite church, without success.  Eventually, his wife and children all joined the church, and on his death bed he said that he should have been baptized a Mormon.  

In Dad's family, his ancestor, Philo Dibble,was involved in the church very early, in fact it was Joseph Smith who told him he should marry the widow Smith (Hannah Ann DuBois) who had been living with Joseph Smith and his family, with her small children.  I think they probably came in 1847, as they had lived in Kirtland, Independence and Nauvoo. (Dad later found that they had had a child in 1846 somewhere around Winter Quarters)

His ancestor Warren Snow was a leader of a wagon company that came in 1852.  He had five wives,Sarah Elizabeth Whiting was his fourth wife. Their first son was Edwin Marion Snow, your ancestor, he was born in 1859.  The Snows and Dibbles both eventually settled in the Springville/Mapleton area. 

Warren Snow's father is Gardner Snow, who had the mill in Salt Lake County that is now Gardner Village. 

Dad's Perkins ancestors came fairly early because one of them had the first child born in Fort Union,(Dec 1853)  which is the area of Salt Lake about 70th south and 9th east. 

On Sunday, as usual, I got to sit with Brittney and Spencer in Sacrament meeting.  I also go to hear my favorite SS teacher in SS, before heading to one of the care centers to support Dad in his calling.  Here I am shown with one of the other Branch Presidency wives, Alice Murdock.  You probably don't recall, but Trevor was a companion to one of her sons when he was on a mission in England.  At that time we had their family over for Family Home Evening.  Its fun to get to know her and her husband better now, with this new calling of Dad's.  The picture is in honor of the fact that we are bother wearing black and white and red.

After church we visited with Spencer and Brittney for a while, before Dad headed off to a priesthood leadership meeting.  When he got back we made dinner, and then went up to our room for some reading time ...

Spencer and Brittney had had her sister Angela to dinner, and when Angela left, they came up to study together.  We decided to do Jesus the Christ, and we had three copies, so that was perfect.  Its kind of fun to read in different copyrighted versions.  The top left is a second edition from 1916, It belonged to one of the Snow ancestors, who had left it to Grandpa Burt, who then gifted it to Dad!!  The one with the gold temple on it was Grandpa Carlo's, from his mission.  The little brown one was Dad's from his mission, and the purple one was Brittney's from her mission, that she had covered with fancy paper before taking it to Canada with her.   It was lovely and we plan to do some of it every Sunday ... felt so good to go to bed in the warmth of the spirit!

Houses, Antiques, and a Birthday, Oh My!

 Yep, it was another one of those weeks, where our lives were just go, go, go.

Monday was a lesson in flexiblity, because Becca came by as she was in town showing houses, she had one more to show, and it was an old one, I said I didn't have time ... she talked me into it, thankfully, because the house above was so fun to look at.  My friend Ginny is looking for a house in Payson, and this one had some issues, but it was so fun and so charming to see ... O Boy, makes me want to buy a fixer upper, luckily the lot size was so tiny it was not going to happen, but so fun.

Afterwards we went to the house here in Payson that has been remodeled by one of our customers from work ... it could be a TV show some time soon ... cant wait!

Becca and I walked around the house and peaked in the windows to see the staging.  So amazing.  Thanks for talking me into going, you silver tongued realtor person.

After I finished my blog postings I ran over to the antique mall to do some faux displays.  Nell and I have been in touch with a writer, who is doing an article in a national magazine, and who contacted us about trending collectibles ... she wanted back ground and pictures of popular items, based on our market.  These are a couple of the pictures I put together for her.

  On Tuesday I watched Becca's kids while I did some crafting for the the fleaology.  Becca was off in Salem riding Darby's horse... so good to see her doing something just for herself!

Just as she was picking up the kids, Andrew, a photographer/customer of Treasures came by ... he'd been to flea.o.logy and had seen the garden house and had some fun ideas for a photo project ... I'll be prepared to show you some of his pics when we get some snow.

On Wednesday I had the day off, and though I should have used it to do projects for flea.o.logy I ended up just reading, what a lazy, lazy girl I am .... I finished reading the Hundred Foot Journey, which was so, so much better than the movie ... its our book club book for the month, so it will be interesting to hear what everyone thought of it.

 Thursday I worked, and it was time to get some pictures done of items I was bringing to fleaology to post on line.  This is a sample shot.

 I also had a customer come in, who is a great crafter, and evidently one of my good customers for my 'smalls for crafting' booth.  We exchanged names for Instagram and became face book friends ... she is a very talented lady, and I have really enjoyed seeing some of her projects on line!  Her Instagram is punkurjunk, if you want to take a peak.  After work I delivered the trays I sold on Reclaimologists last week, before heading home for dinner, loading up the van for the show and a couple of episodes of the Big Bang Theory.

 On Friday I finished up loading goodies I'd completed that morning for the show.  I put an add on KSL, and did some pictures for the show in various places on line, before arriving at Olson's at 2 to supervise set up.

These three pictures show my set up.

I got home around 9:45 P.M. after set up, just in time to collapse.

 The next morning at 6:00 I was at the garden shoppe again to supervise  the set up of the final half a dozen dealers.

Aunt Joyce came just before we opened at 8, and brought me a Christmas gift.

To the right are Shannon, Jeff and Mandy, all members of my Reclaimologist group.

Becca and Brady brought their munchkins to enjoy the show!!

Spencer and Brittney came too, I thought this picture with them all on their phones was fun.

Of course Nell is my partner in the flea.o.logy business, but doesn't love having her picture taken.  She is a great help at these shows, and I so appreciate her support.

 ... and while I was hanging out and selling at fleaology, Dad was at Meg's again, for the last time.  He and Uncle Doug finished up the bathroom there.  

...before coming to the show to help me load out. Spencer, Trevor and Brittney all helped, and Nell would have, if she could have.

Dad and I had time to go to dinner at the Mexican Restaurant owned by a ward member, before heading to Orem to see Barefoot in the Park with Barb and Randy and some extended family of theirs.

 I got up early Sunday to finish up my lesson for Relief Society.  It was on prayer, and was really a good lesson for me.  One of my new year's goals is to say my morning prayers, something I have struggled with, so it was a very timely lesson for me.

After church Brittney and Spencer came upstairs to play the piano and visit a bit, which we always love!

 This is a picture of the goodies I bought for myself at flea.o.logy ... not a lot, but fun never the less. I took the picture to post it on Facebook, where there was a call to share flea.o.logy treasures, but i also thought putting it here would be a great record for me.

 Above we see Becca with the cabinet she bought from Trevor and Nell at the sale.  It goes perfectly in her  living room, and is the prefect finishing touch.  She and Brady Love It!

We were there with other Perkins and Summers to celebrate ...

Reagan's second birthday!

We all had a great time visiting, except Elias, who was a bit too tired to party. They'd spent the day at the zoo, and he was plum tuckered.  Still a great party, Happy Birthday Reagan!