great way to recycle your wedding dress

http://www.mamamia.com.au/miscarriage-stillbirth/wedding-dresses-for-stillborn-babies/

The Central Ski Report

Here's an update:  the papers arrived in Norway today 11-20-12

Hello Cindi Carlson, The newspapers arrived today. I have just opened the envelope but I haven`t hade the time to read them yet. But I am looking forward to do so when I can find the time.

Thank you again for this gift. I will send you a formal thank you-letter in a couple of days.
All the best form
Per Øyvind Østensen, Curator
Norwegian Mining Museum
Po box 18
3602 Kongsberg
NORWAY

I had a stack of these newspapers that were my grandfathers from the 30's and 40's. I don't have an attachment to these but i knew i couldn't just throw them away, i knew i had to find them homes. I have a few i will send to the ski hall of fame and the rest are going in the mail to 8 different places.

When you are researching old newspapers, its the the shape the newspaper is in, it is the article on the front page. I read the articles, looked up people online and sent them to the person/ski hill with the best story.

I am sending some to a museum in Norway. One of the articles was about a Birger Rudd, he went onto to win an olympic medal and open up a skiing museum in his home town. I contacted the curator at that museum and they wanted the newspapers...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kongsberg_Skiing_Museum

best deal in a LONG time

i am so excited about this deal, i feel like an extreme couponer! I had a $30 gift certificate for JCPenney's and some time to wander. I bought 2 shirts for Tyler, 2 shirts for Derick, 1 pair of jeans for Tyler and 2 pairs of earrings. After they applied the $30 dollar gift certificate, i owed .43 cents! Yeah i said .43 cents and I saved $175.58. I can't tell you the last time i spent .97 cents on a shirt. I was hoping to find something for the girls but no luck...

Friday, July 1st

Here's todays plan...

• Derick senior pictures starting at 10 am with the talented Lina
• Lina & I hit up the fair in Ishpeming after pictures for a little bit (lina scored some sweet hankies)
• frozen pizza for lunch, thank goodness it was done minutes before the power went out (i heart frozen pizza)
• 1:30 pm, Vinnies in Ishpeming, $3.00 bag sale, they crammed my 25 items in that bag! yeah that is my best score of the summer. Let me break that pile down for y'all: 2 flannel shirts, 1 polo, 6 t-shirts, 1 jean skirt, 1 pair capris, 1 pair of shorts, 2 pairs of jeans, 3 long sleeve t-shirts, 3 sweatshirts, 3 cardi's and 2 tank tops. Yeah, I paid .12 cents for each item!!! (You can see by the tags most items were 1.50)

• invite to porch party at 6 pm
• hubby is going to camp, he's on vacation next week
• Tyler works 11 - 7 today, i feel bad for him, he's like me this humidity it's killing us! we live here cause we like the cold
• Aubri has been hanging with her friend who is up visiting and leaves on Tuesday
• Derick is napping at the moment
• Sheena is in Houghton for the day & she's staying the night up there with her friend

what a great day off!

13 hats to donate...

all made from fleece left over from other projects...

less is more...

The Key Club at Negaunee High School was collecting clothes for the victims of the 581 Fires. My basement has been driving me crazy and I was waiting for a rainy day to do this and today was that day! 9 BAGS OF CLOTHES FROM MY BASEMENT....where did they all come from! Aubri and Sheena helped me go through totes and the closet and then we hauled them all up to the high school. 1/2 of my basement is still a mess but 1/2 of that 1/2 is my husbands workshop, I gave him until Saturday to get it cleaned up or I was going to do it for him (if I do it lots will go out with the garbage!). Plus the box in the corner I still need to mail to "Hope's Closet" downstate, they collect prom/evening dresses and give them to low income families...now that box just needs to get to the post office! :)