Busy Bees

It's Been Awhile

2010-08-09T07:13:00.000-07:00

Hello Blogland! It has been some time since I have been here, actually forgot I had this. Just started another blog yesterday as a matter of fact for the same WFC. Here it is wfcbusybees.blogspot.com/ I also have some esty shops http://www.etsy.com/shop/WFCBusyBees and http://www.etsy.com/shop/APRONSINSTYLE always listing new things. It has been a very hot summer not to much getting done outside. Did lots of housework this past week, can't wait for it to start cooling off. Hope to keep both of these blogs going for now. Well I will be back later....

I Love Lucy

2009-07-20T09:56:00.001-07:00

Good Afternoon Bloggers!! I just posted some videos of I Love Lucy!! She is my all time favorite. Hope you enjoy her as much as I do.

Aprons Aprons and more Aprons Handmade with love

2009-06-25T07:27:00.001-07:00

We have handmade aprons for sale on our web site www.wheelsforchristina.com on our store page or visit Alice's Pantry in Jim Thorpe in the Douglas House at 77 Broadway. We have barbaque aprons for men and women, retro style aprons full and half for women and we have childrens aprons. All of our aprons are 100% cotton and made with love right here in Pennsylvania. They do come from a smoke and pet free home.

Rained Out at The Hill Climb

2009-06-13T15:35:00.000-07:00

So sorry to say we were rained out at the Weatherly Hill Climb today. We are hoping that Sunday brings a better day.

Weatherly Hillclimb

2009-05-24T08:31:00.000-07:00

We will be selling Leiby's handdipped ice cream at the hillclimb this year. Please be sure to stop by and see us June 13th and 14th. Just look for Wheels for Christina at the starting line. We appreciate everyone just stopping by to say hi. Once again we will be set up at the hillclimb with ice cream and maybe some aprons along with rootbeer and coke floats. Weatherly will also be hosting a community wide yard sale along with the hillclimb.

2009-03-17T10:56:00.000-07:00

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HAPPY SAINT PATTIES DAY TO ALL IN BLOGLAND

2009-03-17T09:22:00.001-07:00

Just Like Grandma's

2009-02-12T11:49:00.000-08:00

I just finished a apron and Pat also has one done. We listed them on our esty store page. What do you think? I love them. We have been busy sewing our little hearts out. I also put some Beautiful Aprons in Alice's Pantry in Jim Thorpe. We just love making these aprons they are so pretty when they are complete. It is so cold and windy outside today what a better way to spent our day.

Morning All In Blogland!!!!

2009-02-05T04:28:00.001-08:00

Hello! How is everyone today? It is so cold outside, can't wait till it warms up here in NEPA. I was a little busy last night listing some afghans onto my esty store. I also am trying to get to Jim Thorpe to put some more aprons into Alice's Pantry. But it seems these days she is hard to get in touch with. I am hoping to get them in this weekend. Valentines weekend Jim Thorpe is having a Winter Festival, this is the first that I can recall. I might be wrong so if you are in Jim Thorpe, Pa stop on by Alice's Pantry in the Douglas House and see our aprons.

Girl Scout Cookie Time

2009-01-23T18:56:00.000-08:00

It is that time of year again. Those good old girl scout cookies. I went shopping today and tried on some jeans. Well I can say tried them on but not really, could not get them zipped. I am not to happy with my weight as of right now. So then again I have one of my weakness here GIRL SCOUT COOKIES. My daughter sold these while she was growing up and now my granddaughter is selling them. I can not refuse a girl scout cookie, especially the carmel delights. Well I guess I will put on some more pounds by the looks of things.

It is going to get to cold outside again to get any kind of good walking in. Why is it when we get older it is so hard to get the right kind of motivation to lose those unwanted pounds?
Now lately I have been busy with other things and the weight just seems to be my last concern, until I try on new jeans. Then I get disgusted with the whole thing I refuse to buy the next size.
I better get the motivation to do something--I know eat another delicious Girl Scout Cookie. What the heck they only come out once a year.

Good Morning BlogLand and Our New President

2009-01-20T07:07:00.000-08:00

Good Morning to all you bloggers in blogland!! Well now today is the first day of our new President. Lets hope this President will help boost the ecomony and make it so people have decent jobs again. To many people are losing there homes, jobs, families are being torned apart. This recession or depression whatever they call it has to get better sooner than later. The job market is scarce, I opened the paper and looked at it yesterday and there was nothing out there. You used to open the paper and there was job after job, not anymore. I am just Thankful that we still have our home and my husband still has his job. To many people are just pounding the sidewalks day after day and putting out hundreds of resumes and making calls and nothing.

Others are resorting to other means of supporting there families such as turning to crime, most of them are left with no other choice. And that is not what this should come down to. What ever happened to helping your own? We help everyone else in other countries and such. Why can't the government step in and help the American People? Give them shelter, food and a bed to sleep in and feel safe, better yet create jobs!!

I am hoping that things will get better alot sooner than later. I am hoping that our new President will get things rolling as quick as possible.

Way to many people have lost everything already and that is not the way it should have been.

When Is This Cold Spell Going To Break?

2009-01-20T07:03:00.000-08:00

I don't know about anybody else but I had enough!! It is just to cold to really enjoy being outdoors unless you are skiing.

Above all fabric-thought this might be of interest

2009-01-19T05:12:00.000-08:00

Good Morning all you bloggers in blogland. I thought this might be of interest to some of you. I just posted a link to Above all fabric she has a contest going on. I am going to do some research and hopefully find some more good ones. Everybody loves free stuff, right?

I was busy yesterday listing some of our aprons onto our website Wheels for Christina. If you have a minute why not check it out. We take such pride in our quality of workmanship. We have some aprons for sale in a gourmet shop in Jim Thorpe, Pa known as Alice's Pantry. She is located at 77 Broadway in Jim Thorpe and right now for the winter she is only open Sat and Sun. 11am till 5pm.

This is a quaint little town, especially at Christmas time. They have all the shops decorated and lights on all the trees on Broadway. Train rides with Santa at Christmas time and sleigh rides.

Soon they will have the Saint Patties Day Parade that is such a huge event, people can party all day. Everyone has such a blast all in green hats and beads, mugs, balloons and so much more. Some of the people even have green beer. This is one event you have to go to if you are in the area. Just think this will be here before you know it.

Busy Bees Handmade Retro Style Aprons working in this Winter Wonderland

2009-01-17T18:49:00.000-08:00

Hi Today I started taking pictures of some of our aprons. I am starting to post them onto our website www.wheelsforchristina.com for sale. This is for a charity and we are hoping to do well with the sales. We have some aprons for sale in a shop in Jim Thorpe Pa known as Alices Pantry 77 Broadway. For the winter hours her store hours are Sat and Sun. only 11 am till 5pm. Be sure to visit this great shop she carries gourment foods along with aprons for Wheels for Christina.

How is everyone doing with this cold spell? It is just so cold our furnace seems to be running constantly. I can not wait till it starts to warm up some. I have some pictures from that ice storm we had.

Winter WonderLand In NEPA

2009-01-07T18:29:00.000-08:00

Well here it is Jan. 7, 2009 and all the schools are canceled. The roads are a mess the trees are hanging. The ice is so thick on the trees, I wish I would of had my camera with when we went into Hazleton. Some of the roads were just a perfect picture with the ice on the trees. I got a picture this afternoon of our walk way out in front of our house. Some of the roads were one great big ice skating rink. You can not do to much outdoors on a day like today, unless you love to ice skate. So I spent my days indoors not doing much of anything. I have some aprons I can finish sewing, that will be my project when I am done here. Hope everyone has a safe and enjoyable day. Till next time!!

``Busy Bees`` A little bit about me.

2009-01-04T06:34:00.000-08:00

Today is Sunday and it is cold outside!! I can not wait until it starts to warm up. I love the picture of the bee, my husband took this picture out in front of our house. This is just so beautiful and amazing what the eye can catch on camera. I am sitting here in front of my computer down in my basement. I am trying to decide if I want to remain here and play on the computer for awhile or go upstairs and get something done. I baked some banana nut bread yesterday and ate it warm right out of the oven. That was a first for me and I did not like it warm. I will have to sit here someday and put some of my favorite recipes on here. I love to bake and sew and crochet hats and scarves and afghans and blankets. I had entered some things into the Bloomsburg Fair last year. This was the first time ever and I won second place for a blanket I had crocheted for our bed. My husband was so proud of me, he has been after me for several years to enter something into the fair. The year before I missed out because my babygirl was in the hospital. I will have to take some pictures of this afghan and place them on here. I still have the ribbon and the check with it, still in the bag. I did not cash the check I held onto it as a reward. I have so much to share with each and everyone of you. I just need to sit down one day and put my thoughts here. My life has been a roller coaster and will continue to do so.

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2009-01-01T16:03:00.000-08:00

I AM USUALLY WORKING ON AFGHANS OR APRONS! I LOVE TO BAKE PUMPKIN ROLLS MMMMMMMMMM SO GOOD. PAT LOVES TO SEW ALSO. WE ARE WORKING AT RETRO TYPE APRONS. THE PROCEEDS OF THESE APRONS GO TO A CHARITY.

2008-12-31T12:53:00.000-08:00

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Christmas At Our Home

2008-12-30T20:10:00.000-08:00

Christmas at our home with the tree all decorated, the girls hanging on Santa. And my Husband sitting by the fireplace. The girls hanging on Santa was actually taken at a Breakfast with Santa.

(Our own Town within a Town)

2008-12-30T19:54:00.000-08:00

This is our own little town within a town. We had been adding to this collection but this year we did not. We actually have another little village underneath our tree every year. Our neighbors just love it we have it in our foyer and it can be viewed from outside. My husband enjoys putting this together with his youngest son and our grandchildren. Just had to share this with you all.

Christmas is here and gone

2008-12-30T19:38:00.000-08:00

What a wonderful time of the year! the grandchildren and children just loved everything.

Very Interesting To Me I Found This Today. " Beauty is in the eye of the beholder"

2008-12-30T11:31:00.000-08:00

Origin

This saying first appeared in the 3rd century BC in Greek. It didn't appear in its current form in print until the 19th century, but in the meantime there were various written forms that expressed much the same thought. In 1588, the English dramatist John Lyly, in his Euphues and his England, wrote:

"...as neere is Fancie to Beautie, as the pricke to the Rose, as the stalke to the rynde, as the earth to the roote."

Shakespeare expressed a similar sentiment in Love's Labours Lost, 1588:

Good Lord Boyet, my beauty, though but mean,
Needs not the painted flourish of your praise:
Beauty is bought by judgement of the eye,
Not utter'd by base sale of chapmen's tongues

Benjamin Franklin, in Poor Richard's Almanack, 1741, wrote:

Beauty, like supreme dominion
Is but supported by opinion

My Beautiful Daughter Christina

2008-12-30T06:47:00.000-08:00

Hi here I am again still playing around with this. There is a lot to learn, I just posted a picture of my beautiful daughter Christina. Christina is such an inspiration to all who know and love her. She cannot talk or walk but her expressions say it all. We all complain of everyday aches and pains or life in general. Christina usually has a smile on her face no matter what. This child has experienced more pain in her life then most. Christina has alot of medical issues one of them is severe scoliosis, along with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. This child can be happy and smiling one minute and the next she can be in respiratory distress in the hospital on a ventilator. She is well know in the hospital in the Lehigh Valley Area. She amazes even her doctors that care and treat her, for someone as complexed as she is. Christina always pulls through, Thank God. Today she is still sleeping away in her bed with her nurse by her side. Christina will sleep until 12:oo somedays and others she is bright eyed and bouncing about by 7 a.m. We also have a special link to Wheels for Christina, Helping the Special Needs & Developmentally Disabled. This is the charity we are making the aprons for, we hope to sell lots of them.

Handmade Aprons and retro type aprons

2008-12-29T19:36:00.000-08:00

Hi I have been busy making handmade aprons and retro type handmade aprons. I have been busy buying up material and throwing different colors together. I have some aprons hanging in Alice's Pantry in Jim Thorpe Pa. I am always on the go doing something if not taking care of Christina, I am busy cleaning house or crocheting or running errands. I tend to bring my grand children home from time to time and boy do they keep you hopping. Sometimes I feel so young and other times I feel so tired and worn out. I'm also new to this blogging thing, so I hope I can get it to go well. I am trying to figure it all out so I can download some pictures of what I am working on. Well until next blog!!!

Wheels for Christina

2008-08-28T19:06:00.000-07:00

Our Story

My Beautiful Daughter Christina

Our story starts with the birth of this beautiful little girl. Christina was born with Cerebral Palsy, by
the age of 2 she had her first grand mal seizure. Christina has been hospitalized quit a few times
over the years for pneumonia's and other respiratory issues. Christina has severe scoliosis and
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease which has her depending on oxygen 24 hours a day

In 1997 Christina had a feeding tube inserted, Nissan fundoplication for refluxing. Later she
had the tube changed from a gastric tube to a jejunum. She is tube fed 100% nothing by
mouth at all, everything goes into her small intestines. Christina is a very special child, she
is non-ambulatory, non-verbal and struggles with various health issues. This little princess
usually has a smile on her face, unless the sun is in her eyes or she is tired or in pain.

This Princess of mine tells me she loves me everyday with her eyes and glowing face. I will
never hear Mommy I Love You, but I see it everyday. I (mom) transport Christina to and
from doctors appointments, family visits, shopping and other outings. I lift my princess in
and out of her wheelchair and into the front seat of our van, which is getting harder to do.
Christina is dead weight since she is non-weight bearing and at the age of 25 she now weighs
137 lbs. We always have a caretaker with us during transports, this caretaker spots us with the
hopes that we do not fall.

Up until 3 years ago Mom worked, I gave up my job to care for my princess. We work at
supporting Christina to the best, but we are now in need of some help. This is why we started
Wheels for Christina with the intentions of getting a Wheelchair accessible van. Our plan is
to keep this going to help other families with similar situations.

We will be posting another page to this website to sell aprons and afghans for this charity all handmade by mom and a caregiver. Visit this web site at www.wheelsforchristina.com

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