More from my birthday

 I got a beautiful bouquet delivered to the house. They were from Presley

I actually took a ton of pictures of the different flowers but I'm only going to post this one.

The day after my birthday, Amanda and I went out to lunch and to Hobby Lobby and the mall.

Lunch was at Cracker Barrel and was really good. I had chicken fried chicken and hash brown casserole.

Would you believe we didn't buy anything in any of the stores we went in. We even walked out of Hobby Lobby with nothing. I did take a couple pictures of things for possible craft ideas.

My final celebration was lunch out with an old friend on Tuesday March 25th. We went to Hanako in Conneaut Ohio

This was the first time I have ever been to a Japanese restaurant and the food was fantastic. I ordered Hibachi chicken and shrimp. It came with rice and onion soup. 

And that concludes the month and my birthday celebration.

How I spent my birthday.

 Ok so I know that my birthday was over a week ago but I had other things to post about so I'm just getting around to it.

I started is slow and easy with coffee and blogs. Then again, I start every morning like that these days. I decided I was going to go to the mall. The mall on a weekday morning is always nice because there aren't a ton of people.

I went to Bath and Body Works and they had full size body sprays on sale for $5.99 so I figured I would treat myself. Of course the next day everything was 40% off and I apparently also had a birthday coupon for a free item up to $9.99. No problem since Amanda and I were going to be up that way the next day anyway.

I also bought myself a new pair of shoes at The Shoe Dept. and a pair of pants at Boscov's and finally a couple t-shirts at Michaels. I only used 2 credit cards and didn't put much on either one so I didn't overindulge too much. I would say it was...

The mall was all ready for the Easter Bunny to arrive

While I was on my way to the mall I got a text from a friend asking if I wanted to go out for a birthday lunch. We met at Mi Scuzi's at the mall

After lunch I headed home and spent a relaxing evening at home. I did a little sewing and watched  a little tv. It was a really nice day.

More craft time and in my back yard

 I made another fabric basket. This one is even sturdier than the second one I made. I think it's because of the fabric I used. This one I'm going to use for Presley's Easter basket.

Then I wanted to add a new item into the mix with all the things I've been sewing. I found an svg file for Aldi's quarter holders. I had some faux leather that I had gotten at Dollar Tree a long time ago and never used. It's not the prettiest but at least I found a use for it. I also tried making one using craft foam.

Anyone who shops at Aldi's knows how important it is to have a quarter on hand for the shopping cart. These don't require any sewing. I cut the foam and the faux leather on my Cricut machine and then they are hot glued together.

In other news, they've begun digging out behind my house. It looks like they aren't going to waste any time getting going on this project. The day they did this they only dug a few holes across the property and they haven't done anything else since.

Hanging with Presley

 On Tuesday March 18th Presley came to hang out with me while her mom and dad were working. It was so much fun. We started with a selfy

We did all kinds of things. We put out some Easter decorations, we did some crafts, we played teacher and student, had drawing contests, played outside and washed and painted rocks. 

It's hard to see but Presley is back by that dead tree just off my property. She was fascinated by all the dead wood laying on the ground. She kept dragging pieces down to the house and then used a hammer to smash it and break it up.

She wanted to wash the rocks so we could paint them. I forgot to get a picture of the ones we painted and she took those home with her.