Patricia's Birthday Gift

This is a painting I did for Patricia from a photo that I took on our way to Farm Fair in Idaho last summer. Just as you come down the hill it looks out into the valley of rolling hills, farms and wheat fields. I wish I could have captured how magical it really is. The hills remind me of pictures in a story book and just looking at them creates a peaceful feeling inside.

Some Yummy Yarn From The "Yarn Garden"

I found this great hand painted cotton yarn that will soon be a scarf!

My Thrift Store Finds

Here are the things that I found at the thrift store in Portland!!

A Day Out With The Girls

We got to spend the afternoon with our sweet friend Patricia and celebrated her birthday with her. We started out our day visiting a great thrift shop in Portland that Patricia visits frequently. If I lived near this thrift shop I would be in big trouble. It's exactly what a thrift shop should be. The prices were great and they had tons of treasures. For 20.00 I got an incredible embroidered tunic in the perfect red head color, a bracelet made from vintage beads, a large cotton embroidered table cloth that just needs the finishing touches and a vintage type set that will be great for my vintage paper crafts.

After that we went to a chinese resteraunt that made everything home made and fresh. It was the best chinese I've ever eaten!! I had the beef and broccoli in a brown sauce and fried rice. The egg drop soup was wonderful and perfect for the cool rainy weather we had yesterday.

After lunch we decided to make our way to the button and ribbon store that we've heard so much about. We did however get sidetracked by the Yarn Garden store. This place is an entire city block!! There were so many choices of yarn I could hardly make a decision. Patricia had to come and find me and drag me out. (not really, she was very sweet about it)

We were on our way again turning and winding through all the one way streets of portland and through all the traffic to get to the one place we were most looking forward to seeing. We finally found it only to see that it was totally dark inside the store. No! It couldn't be!!! It was closed!! Yes , Patricia, we should have listened to you and gone there first! Oh, well. It's a perfect excuse to plan another "Girl's Day Out".

We were pretty pooped and a little cold and soggy from the rain, so we headed back to Patricia's for the pajama party. She opened her gifts and then we though we should get the movie going before it got too late. We put on our jammies and curled up on the couch together with our munchies and watched a movie in front of the fire. Before we left we had some home made angel food cake with fresh strawberries. We couldn't have asked for a nicer day and I'm so glad that we got to share Patricia's birthday with her!!