I just wanted to show a picture of the red sea glass I talked about in my post on Jasper Beach. I think you can pick it out. It's right next to the real nice aqua one.

The Bear Room

When we do stay overnight on our trip's to Maine we usually stay at the Rostay as I posted a while back. Grampie took these pictures so the grandkids could see this uniquely decorated room! I'm very glad the stuffed bear head was just a play one!

These rocks are on Jasper Beach in Maine. This is a place we like to visit for its unique beach. When you park all you see is a wall of stones, large ones. You can't even see the water until you climb up and over the wall and then VOILA!! A magnificent stone beach. The closer you get to the water the smaller the stones are. Some are striped , some are granite eggs, some are red, green, mustard yellow, white quartz....the variety is endless. We spend a lot of time searching for the best treasures to bring back with us. They look their best wet or wiped down with a bit of oil. We have them filling the base of a lamp, in a vase, in the china cabinet(the very rare round red one Dad found one year) in little dishes placed around. Memories all over the house!

Lucky Ruthie???

Well, I'm hoping I'll be lucky at the end of this month. While I was on vacation in Maine, I went to the local Grange rummage sale in Corea. Some very talented ladies created this quilt to be raffled off. I bought a bunch of tickets but so did a heck of a lot of other people!! They're selling them right up to the day of the raffle. I was told by one of the quilters that this material is Civil War material. I think she meant it's all reproductions from material of that era. It's beautiful! These pictures can not do it justice. If I win, I'm sorry to say girls, I'll have to keep it for myself. I can't have my daughters fighting over it now can I? ;0)

Sleeping Beauty

I just found this picture of Olivia taken at church last Sunday. She fell asleep on Grampie's shoulder and slept through the "LOUD" worship service. She woke up when the music stopped as the message was about to be given. At that point I took her down to the nursery to play with all her little friends. This proves to me that kids can sleep through any kind of noise at home without the need for everyone to be creeping around trying to be super quiet! Isn't she just too darn cute?!

A Big Thank You!!!

For all of my new visitors by way of Swap-bot....your comments were appreciated and very thoughtful. I love how my feedjit live traffic map has many more flags/red dots. I've enjoyed reading posts from my partners blogs and websites too. Again, thanks!

Anticipation....

I joined another swap called Love For The Bloggers. I'll have 15 partners who will be visiting my blog and I'll be visiting 15 others. The main reason is to increase viewers to the blog for those of us who aren't well advertised out there in "blog world". Well, I'm going to have to update and blog a bit in the next day or two to freshen up Grammie's Goodies. I'll see if I have anything worthwhile to post. My life is pretty simple and uncomplicated(otherwise known as boring). I'll do a vacation one for you and maybe post a new pic of little Olivia. The above picture is a sample of what I have for vacation. This is our first stop in Maine. More to come...