What's in Those Jars?

One of my new blogland friends Mary Kate asked what was in the jars on my dresser. So I got to thinking maybe someone else might want to know too. Well..they contain a few strings of old buttons that I have been hoarding.. I mean collecting for a while now. I would really like to display them in some better way, but I just don't have the space, or really any good ideas. So I'm just doing what my mother always did.. string them together until it is time to need them. But the trouble is, I find myself not wanting to use them for anything except looking at and playing with. :/
I think I need to make the strings a little looser so I can spread them and see them better, but then I am sure I would have a tangled mess!
Then last night the weatherman kept telling us to cover any plants or flowers we didn't want to lose to the frost. So we went out and tied trash bags on our lilac bush. It was no easy feat. The neighborman pulled in his driveway and hollered over, "What holiday are you decorating for?"

When I went out this morning at 6am, it was 39F and cloudy.. not a speck of frost anywhere. Ugh I had to take all those bags off before anyone saw them and thought I was confused about the season we were in!

And finally, I really have GOT to work on my sewing stuff here. I keep getting so many interruptions. But this baby quilt needs to be finished by the 17th of May.. that's when the baby shower is. And I really have to have it done to give at the shower. I keep plodding along on it. I am about half done with the quilting.. just need to buckle down!Hope you all are having a good week!

I Like Mondays

I really do. It is my day to catch up from the fast and not always so restful Sunday. The whole week lies ahead like a clean slate waiting for us to make our pictures .

I had every intension of going grocery shopping today because we are out of almost everything. But I think we can eke through one more day before running out of bathroom tissue. And I wanted to take some time to put things back into my newly painted and papered bedroom. SO much stuff has been squirreled away in there. I have to find somewhere else to put it. Or get rid of it!

Our furniture in here is very dark. Old pieces that came from the lady who used to own our house many many years ago. I don't really care for dark furniture. But its what we have. And it does look pretty with white doilies. Today is rainy and chilly, so I cut some of the lilacs and brought them in. Here is the top of my dresser. Hope I can keep it this way!

All the lace doilies are in a drawer of a chest that is blocked by some other things in another room.. (way too much stuff in here!).. so this grandmother's garden quilt patch that was easy to get to suited just fine don't you think? Not made by me, but found by me at a rummage sale.

Ok.. back to sorting things. I did have fun this morning catching up on all the delightful blogs I like to read. The world is full of some really wonderful and creative people. Hope you are all having a lovely Monday.