The other day I received a reminder for a free birthday gift I still had to redeem with a purchase made in the store. Okay I said to myself let's see what's out there in the form of a gift. I needed to refill my kitchen hand soap dispenser, so I purchased that refill. This time of the year for some silly reason I like the scent of the smell of marshmallows in a scent. I found some hand sanitizer and purchased that also that had marshmallow scent in it. So, while I was looking around in the store, I saw an elderly woman with maybe her son or grandson helping her find what she was looking for. I thought nothing of it, and I was @ the checkout. I inquired of the free birthday gift with my purchase. I turned around and looked at a rounder that had items on it for one to purchase. I heard the particular scent this woman was inquiring about, and I happened to notice it in a few different styles on the rounder which was within my reach also. I felt led to turn around and ask the woman if she would like to pick out an item with the scent she liked. She selected a lotion, so I got it and had the sales rep ring it up as my gift and I handed it to her. As I was about to leave, I inquired of the man with her as of her age. He responded 86 years old. I briefly stated how my mother lived until 93 years old.
In those moments of seeing this person shopping with the woman I could not help thinking of the times one of my children would pick up their Nana and take her to a hair appointment. They would sometime shop or get something to eat after the hair appointment. My brother-in-law & sister would sort of do sometimes the same thing as when around the holidays. My mom would give him/her the money, and he or my sister would go and purchase for her the gift cards she wanted to give as gifts @ times.
See, being kind never does go out of fashion does it. I am working on another project now. There is 1 more widow neighbor that I asked the pastor if they could make 1 more for me of the prayer lap quilts with a donation made to the church. I mentioned how she loves sunflowers. He responded that it is based on the materials they have on hand that has been donated. I was then on a tiny mission in search of materials to coordinate a quilt with incorporating sunflower pattern material along with coordinating colors to go with the pattern I selected. I know very little about making quilts, so I trust I purchased the right materials for this project.
When most people are asleep, I find myself baking brownies. I have in the oven dark chocolate Ghirardelli brownies in which I added mini peanut butter M&M's and a little extra vanilla flavoring to the mix. I have another little project. The other day I found a sticker by number Charlie Brown book by Brain Games. I purchased it for my great niece to work on. I thought it would be fun for her. So, this is what I did ... I completed the very first picture in the book as a little gift to her within the sticker book. Do you like that idea? I had fun yesterday working on it. I tend to be a bit of a perfectionist at times with liking things to match up when working on these types of projects. When done and looking at the picture I saw a few stickers in my opinion that needed to be re-positioned so as to fit in their numbered place to complete the full picture. What I like about this particular company is the quality they produce. If you are careful, the stickers can be re-positioned, if need be, without tearing the sticker itself.
I have worked on a folk-art sticker book, along with vintage butterfly pictures of the same type. I even have worked on a word search of women's names in the bible. Look up the company, "Brain Games." If you are by an Ollie's Outlet Store, check out to see if they have any in stock there because they are at a much better price point then if ordering else ware. In this week's advertisement they featured the Charlie Brown sticker book, so I went to see if they had it in stock and I bought one for 4.99. Lower price point then the other similar ones I purchased for 7.99 & 8.99. I liked so much one of the folk-art pictures I finished that I actually put it in a picture frame and hung it in one of the rooms of the house. It actually is in the frame in which I did a prophetic type of painting last year or the prior year while sitting on the back porch. I like projects like this to keep my mind sharp and not go dull if that makes sense.
Oh, I will be sending some brownies along with the sticker book to my great niece. Hope she likes it. I may try to make a few Italian dunker cookies to send along also. I have been baking here and here and freezing it because I am trying to make a small variety of items to send off care packages to a couple of my aunts.
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| Here is 1 of the blessing cards I worked on last week. |
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| That fascinates me how the picture is completed with stickers. |
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