Taking A Break...

You know those days. When you work so hard around the house that you don't even get to get a chance to look up. Let alone look out the window. Well last weekend I had one of those days. I worked indoors for most of the day without lifting my head. That's it. I needed to to take a break. The day was more than half way over and I just looked out the window to see what kind of day was shaping up without me. Sunny? Cloudy? Quote, "Honey, cousin Eddie is here." On quote...

Where's the dusting mop...
I'm signing off.........from Peek-A-Boo Street!

It's Just Rosey~

Hello friends. I hope you all are having a nice weekend. I really wanted to post this yesterday but I have been busy working my fingers to the bone trying to get this old project done. I have been seeing x's in my eyes, even when my eyes are closed. I posted this project a couple of years ago when I started it. I just recently picked it up again. I'm glad it's finally finished. It's a pillowcase.

This kit came with two pillowcases but I'm not interested in making the other one at this time. Did you happen to notice my initials? Maybe my great great great grandchildren will want to keep it. Or they might even want to throw it into the garbage, who knows. They may see it as old junk. But anyway, I think 'with love AMG' still has time to link up to Fiona's Green Day. And I think I can because of the green leaves on my cross stitch. It's easy. Every Friday just post a picture with something green and link up! Easy as pie. Fiona is from Ireland and has a beautiful blog and she too is as sweet as pie.
Well, my vintage towels are in the dryer. I have to iron out the wrinks and get ready to iron on the transfer for my next project. I'm so excited. It suggested what colors to use and what stitches to use. Easy as pie right? Well we'll see about that.
With that,
I'm signing off.........from Peek-A-Boo Street!
P.S. Sorry about the last pic. I couldn't close that gap between pictures for the life of me.

Getting Ahead Of Myself

I'm so excited! I love starting new projects especially ones that I've never tried before. I feel like I'm on an adventure or something and I just like to learn new crafts. You have inspired me and I'm going to try some embroidery. I think I might have tried it once before but I never purchased what I got today. I bought some iron transfers for these new vintage dish towels I got. Here are some pics.

These are Aunt Martha's 'Bruno the Bear' transfers. Aren't they cute? I just fell in love with them....

A close up of the one I want to do first, 'Wash Day.' It's so adorable it's making me smile....

I will probably need more, but here is the colored floss I've chosen. So colorful, cheerful and bright...















And these are the vintage towels. I love the color I've chosen...

I hope I got the right sized needles. And I will have to go check out YouTube to learn a thing or two. But anyway, before I can begin this I do have to finish my roses cross stitching project. It is almost finished. I just have to go around and do the back stitching and I will be all finished. I want to show you all when it is done. So I do get a little ahead of myself but I do like to line myself up with some other project when I get close to finishing one. I also do that with books. I will go out and buy one when I get close to finishing one. Sometimes I can be bad about that and end up not reading the darn thing. Thats' why I have a drawer stuffed with books I was suppose to read.
A lot of the time I like to do hobbies that I can pass onto my great grandchildren one day. Hopefully they would like to have them. I wish I had some hand made things that my Grandmother's made.
I just had to show you my newest project.
It has finally cooled off today. We got some rain for the first half of the day and it looks like the sun is starting to come out. It's 83 degrees and it's much more bearable, thank goodness. I'm so happy we finally got some rain too.
I'm signing off.........from Peek-A-Boo Street!

Hot, Hot, Hot!

Hot. Very hot. That's the topic here in Michigan with no relief in sight.

That's not even including the heat index which is 105-110 degrees today. When it's this hot all you can do is stay inside and reach for essentials to help you get through. I'm sticking with a very simple breakfast. Ice water and fresh crisp fruit.

I'm so glad that I did my grocery shopping yesterday. I'm so grateful to have air conditioning. I hope that the people who don't have air conditioning can find some relief through family and friends or through their community. These a very dangerous temps. I won't be letting my Peeper girl (mini Schnauzer) out that much today either.
Well I hope things cool off pretty soon. Last week it dropped down into the 80's. It's pretty bad when you think of 80 degree temperatures being cool.
I'm signing off..........from Peek-A-Boo Street.

Good Morning Sunshine ☼

It's top the morning here on Peek-A-Boo Street and I just had to show you my latest thrift find. I found this breakfast tray for $5. It was not it the greatest shape. But for five bucks, I knew it still had a little life left to it.

So after the thrift store, I stopped into my local hardware store and picked up a couple cans of spray paint. And now look what I have. A cute little breakfast tray.

I just love it. The paint cost about $9. Plus five for the tray. So for $14 I got a cute breakfast tray.
P.S. I usually don't use that much butter on my toast. It was just for the photo. Happy Saturday!

It's Snowing! **

Welcome to the second part of my Christmas in July. I have been collecting the 'Snow Village Department 56' for about 14 years. My Mom-in-law started my collection when I quit smoking. I never started up again either, thank God! She let me pick out my very first one and told me that I could choose from any series that I'd like to. She's very sweet that way. I love her dearly and she's my best friend too. I chose the church to be my first building.
I use to keep these things on my kitchen counter for years during the Christmas holiday. I was just simply running out of room and was becoming afraid to even set them up on my kitchen counter for fear that one would get broken by a dropped plate or something. Then my hubby came up with the idea of putting up some plastic white shelves and tying them together. We now had the room to do that since we've gotten a smaller dining room table. I just cut some of that felt snow and voila! I cut it so it would hang low behind the shelves to hide the cords. I finally had a safe place to set them up.










































My newest addition last year...













































































































Inside the radio station...



















The top of the greenhouse. You really can't see the detail inside...

This is the church I mentioned...























And there you have it, my Snow Village collection. I do have a photo with the lights on at night but it wasn't of good quality. So maybe this Christmas I can snap a pic in the evening for you. As you can imagine, it does take some time to set up. But when it's up, it's so nice to enjoy for the whole month of December. I just love it.
I just want to say thank you to my new followers and to my others who continue to read my blog. You all have beautiful blogs and I am honored that you'd stop in to read mine. I appreciate the time you give to leave a comment. Cause let's face it, we have a lot of blogs that we want to visit. I love to read each and every one of your comments.
It's snowing here....yeah right. We're in another heatwave. I do live in the north right? I mean, not North Pole north...but North. Yep, that's right.
I'm signing off..........from Peek-A-Boo Street.

* Christmas In July *

It's Christmas in July here on Peek-A-Boo Street. I found a few Christmas thrift finds that I wanted to share with you. I wasn't posting last Christmas so I'd thought I'd share my Christmas tree with you from last year.
I was so happy when I found these vintage ornaments. I can't wait to put them on my tree this year...

A ceramic dish I will be using this year to set out some Christmas cookies...

A Spode plate, 'Winter's Eve.' Bummer I only found one. I will be on the look out for another...

A pic of last year's Christmas tree...

Some of my ornaments. I don't know about you ladies, but when it comes to my ornaments NO one touches them but myself. The fam knows if they touch them, someone is getting hurt, lol. Also you will spot out some threaded popcorn on the boughs that I did last year. I don't do this every year for obvious reasons. Time consuming but a nice added touch...

You might have seen this pic of me last Christmas as I did pop in last Christmas to post this pic of me to wish you a Merry Christmas. After three years of blogging, I thought my blogger friends might be wondering what I looked like, lol. See that village behind me? More on that in my next post.

With that,
Merry Christmas in July!
I'm signing off........from Peek-A-Boo Street!

Sexy Legs...Not!

See my sexy legs...not!

Actually this post is about a quick little summer tip that came from my Mother which I have since passed on to my family. I tell my kids that it's 'ancient Grandma's secret.' Those pesky mosquito bites. Everyone hates them. And the itching and the stinging can be unbearable at times. You just want to scratch and scratch until your skin bleeds right? But you don't have to do that anymore. I got a quick cure. All you need is rubbing alcohol and a cotton ball. That it!

I've probably waited to late. But as soon as you notice the irritation, you just add a little rubbing alcohol on the cotton ball and rub or dab gently onto the mosquito bite two or three times a day. You will notice soon after that it makes the redness and the itching stop faster. I love this tip and it really does work. So I'm passing it along to my blogging friends. Sorry you had to view my not so sexy legs. But I was trying to show a point.
Okay with that said,
I'm signing off.............from Peek-A-Boo Street.