Things you may not know about me

Since I am not really sure who reads this blog anymore, I thought I would take a minute to tell you a few things about me that you may not know.

I cry while watching weird things on TV. Like recently the Olympics and even some of the commercials for the Olympics. Every time USA wins a gold and they play the Star Spangled Banner, I get all choked up. I don't know if any of you watched Shawn Johnson win her gold medal, but when they panned over to her mom and dad sitting there bawling, I was straining to hold back tears of my own. I don't know if I am still post pregnancy hormonal, or if this was really that touching, but it still gets me. I also get choked up by that Visa commercial where they are showing the guy who fell during his race and his dad ran to the finish line with him just so he could finish. Here's the video. If this doesn't make you cry, you are a stone (Philip hates the narration, so he feels only annoyance for this commercial....I rest my case)

I like to crop and splice pictures. It's true. In college, before all the fancy digital editing you can do at home, I had a habit of cutting up pictures and splicing them together, then color copying them so you couldn't tell. It was like some personal challenge if someone said, "I like everything about this picture except........" , and I would jump into action to alter that picture to their liking. Now that I have a computer, I enjoy editing out stray hairs, arms and feet of my children or even cutting out the one person who isn't smiling and replacing them with a better face. Here is one of my latest.

I also like to recycle clothes. That may sound weird, but don't you love a shirt or pants and then they get a stain or rip, or don't fit or get out of style and I hate parting with them, so I reuse them to make dresses for Amelia or squares on quilts or other things. I've made capris long shorts, all our Marshall Island clothing into a quilt, and the one most people are shocked by is I cut up the skirt of my wedding dress and made it into a blessing dress for Amelia and this little vest and necktie for Ben. Both were fun labor of love projects and I hope someday atleast one of my grandkids will wear them. This is what it was before and this was Amelia's
and this was Ben's