April 25-26, 2014 Weekend, Spending Time with Jennifer, Creation Station Shopping, Visiting with Brandi, and a Few Hats for the Kansas Barn Sale

 

My weekend started off with breakfast at the Doo-Dah Diner here in Wichita with Jennifer. I just love the saying on her shirt. Her co-workers gave it to her for her birthday. Anyway, we were very impressed with the meals and I plan on taking John there for breakfast real soon. You can find their hours here. I think I will most definitely need to get a hold of Guy Fieri from Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives to check out the Doo-Dah Diner. 😉

 

 

Then we were off to the Red Barn Sale near Benton, Kansas where my niece Angie (on the left)

 

 

 

 

 

 

had a booth filled with all of her really cool “Little Yellow Chair” (that’s the name of her company) creations.

 

 

The next thing that caught my eye was this booth with all of these crocheted fabric rugs. Nancy Colistro is a lady who has survived cancer twice and learned to crochet when she was recovering from her first round of cancer several years ago. I loved it when I looked down beside her chair and saw big huge balls of rolled up fabric sitting in her basket just waiting to be crocheted up into one of these beautiful rugs. She does custom orders and you can email her at nancycolistro@yahoo.com to find out more about Nancy and her rag rug creations.

 

 

 

 

Then I went on a search to find my friend Susie who was going to be at the Red Barn Sale helping out her friend Jane who is owner of “My Paisley Peacock”. Jane has fun fibers, fine fabrics, and funky furniture and fixtures. You can follow her on Twitter at http://www.mypaisleypeacock.com. I love this picture of Susie and Me and how country Susie is and how bohemian I am and how we get along so well. I think it’s because we love the same things; God, Family, Friends, and crochet. What more do you need?

 

 

Susie’s daughter Jessy was there too with her little baby boy, Ari. Of course my daughter had to hold him and love on him before it was time to move on.

 

 

I love this picture that Jane took of Jennifer and me. And yes as you can see in the picture I couldn’t resist the brightly colored rug that Nancy created. I think I sold three of them to people who stopped me to ask where I had gotten it. It was so funny because I kept running into people that I knew. First of all I heard my name being called from behind me and it was my Mom’s hairdresser Gracia, then I heard my name being called from in front of me and it was Katherine Scraper who I met through blogging and found out that she lived in the same town as me. Then I heard my name again coming from inside one of the booths and it was Nyugen who used to belong to the crochet guild. I loved seeing all of these people who I hadn’t seen in quite some time.

 

 

Here is a lovely lady by the name of Summer Munn. Her business name is “Nolies Nap Times”. I’m not quite sure where the name came from, but I plan on finding out more about her when she is in the Absolute Vintage Boutique’s “Vintage Girl Outdoor Market” on May 10th.

 

 

I was very impressed with her chunky and colorful jewelry that she makes.

 

 

After leaving the Barn Sale we headed to Newton to see my friend Catherine Blocher who owns Creation Station, since Jennifer had never been to her store before I thought it would be fun for her to see all of Catherine’s yarn and to help her out with her yarn stash.

 

 

Of course I couldn’t resist a few skeins myself. Catherine just got in some Patons Grace size 3 mercerized cotton in 6 beautiful colors; and you probably already knew that I wasn’t going to get just one color but all 6 of them, but you probably didn’t know that I actually bought 2 skeins of each color. Well I guess now you know. 😉 If you must know we left there with 2 bags of yarn; some for Jennifer and some for me. Before we left Catherine’s shop we asked her for recommendations to a good restaurant.

 

 

She suggested Curtis C’s, which is a family-run diner.

 

 

I had their bacon cheeseburger with seasoned fries and man it was good. I think when I talk to Guy Fieri I will have to suggest this little family-owned diner to him as well. I will also have to take John there some weekend.

 

 

Our day ended with us stopping by to see Brandi, who has been friends with Jennifer since they were 5. You may remember Brandi from my post last July when I talked about her wedding.

 

 

Brandi has recently been diagnosed with Leukemia and has been through chemo-therapy.

 

 

Of course Brandi has lost all of her hair and she had posted on Facebook that she would like to have some hats as she now gets very cold with no hair. And you can probably already figure out that I went to town making her hats to help her stay warm. I love this little girl (she will always be a little girl to me) just like my own. Brandi loves bright and neon colors so she loved the colors that I chose for the hats.

 

 

She spent a lot of time at our house as Jennifer and she were growing up. Brandi did not have a very good home life and I always hated to send her home.

 

Anyway, I have made Brandi 8 hats all together and she seems to love every one of them as much as I loved making them for her. All of the hats shown here are made with cotton so she should be good for the summer.

 

 

Jennifer is planning a little mini-reunion of the fabulous four; Starla, Brandi, Jennifer, and Jenny will be reunited next weekend for the first time since they were in high school and I plan on being there to take lots of pictures.

 

 

On Sunday I made a hat from some of the Bernat Mosaic that I purchased at Creation Station the day before.

 

 

Then I made one from Caron Simply Soft and added a little fun fur around the edge. I hope someone will like them enough to buy them at the Kansas Barn Sale on October 4th. So anyway how was your weekend? I hope it was filled with all things nice. I hope everyone has a wonderful week.