Happy mail day!

OH MY GOSH!! Is this not the sweetest doxie ever??? I named her Baby after my sweet doxie that we had for 16 amazing years. Baby passed away on December 4, 2010. I still tear up when I think of her which is almost daily. Sweet Meri from ImagMeri made her for me. I love that she tied my favorite red, white, and blue ribbins around her neck and painted the base in those colors too.


Meri,
Thank you so much for making this sweet doxie for me!! It was so worth the wait on her!! Your work is so amazing and I am so pleased to have an original by Meri! I love the sweet label you put on the bottom!!! I will treasure this forever! Thank you so much!! You were one of the first ladies to welcome me into the circle of bloggers when I found you girls late last summer!! I found a blog called Old Glory Cottage. Carol's blog stole my heart because of her love for the red, white, and blue and anything patriotic!! She had an amazing list of blogs on the side of her blog. I visited each one that she had listed and discovered the most wonderful women and the adorable art and creations. It has been such a blessing in my life. I wanted to thank you for accepting my hand in friendship when I extended last year! Your prayers and encouragement have meant so much to me!!
Hugs,
Lynn


ps, I have gotten more packages this week. but I have had a bad pain week. It has been rainy and damp most of the week and that plays havoc with my body. I have two choices, don't take the pain meds and hurt so bad I can't stand myself or take the pain meds and be so groggy and sleepy that I can't stand myself and just give up and sleep the days away!! Please pray for my hubby!! He needs the prayers too , even though he can't feel the pain that I have, it affects his life like it does mine. Maybe worst for him. I can't do the things I used to do anymore. I am a huge clean freak and used to sweep, mop, clean the bathroom, kitchen, and dust daily! yes, I know crazy! Now if I do this, I can't hardly move the next day!!!! So, my illness has limited what I do, the trips we take, and everything and everyday life! I so hate it!!! I wished  a million times that I could have a new spine! One that was normal and that didn't cause pain with ever movement I make! so, I will take pictures and post all the goodies I have gotten this week soon.
I appreciate all the wonderful ladies I have met while blogging! You ladies have inspired me so much!! Hugs,

Stop by and see what's new at the Wienee Ranch



 This adoreable banner was made for me by my sweet blogging friend, Shirley! Her blog is Zetta's Aprons. If you have never visited her before please stop by and say hello. She has been such a blessing in my life. She checks up on me when I haven't been online for a while, she has sent many prayers up on my behalf! Thank you Miss Shirley!!!



Below are lots of pictures of my home decorated for the summer! I leave my patriotic decorations out from May till September 11th each year! I love the red, white, and blue!! I collect any thing in those colors and anything that is patriotic or Americana!!

 The flower arrangement in the grubby can with the patrioitc image label was bought from Shelia  on etsy

 The hanging mail pouch was purchased on etsy from Brenda at the Rusty Thimble! She makes adoreable primitive style items. The sweet brown hats were purchased from Tammy at NC primitives from the past. The sweet ditty bag was made by Linda Parker from Parker's Paradise blog

The patritoic mouse was sent to me from Valerie in the summer swap!

Second shelf, the watermellon pin keep  and watermelon pieces were from my Shelia my candle hugger pal. The wooden watermelon slices came from Valerie!

 the blocks were made by Chipper Nely

 Star goodies are from Katie my pal for Amy's Bee Happy swap

The bee on the second shelf and the little chamber pot were from Katie my pal in Amy's Bee Happy Swap

bugs on mirror tray came Katie

The above pictures are of the front porch decorated for the summer. Hubby put up the porch swing and we got the wood rockers last week! I love my front porch. We stay out there a lot in the all seasons!We get lots of compliments on the porch. Hubby designed and built it himself. Also shown are the flowers on each side of the side walk leading down to the entrance and front porch of the Wienee Ranch. I hope you enjoyed the picutres. To all the girls that have been swap buddies, thank you again for everything!

Hugs,

Lynn

Pebbles' Birthday party

 This is our oldest furbaby, Pebbles! She is in her party dress waiting for the birthday party to get started!

Here is the party table and decorations. I made the happy birthday banner with DCWV pet stack 12x12 paper. The treat bags are filled with dog treats and a dog toy for each of the furbabies! Yes, we are those crazy dog people LOL

 This is our youngest furbaby, Cocoa Puff!! She is wearing a party dress too! all furbabies get dressed up to attend the birthday parties!

 This is our only little boy, Sarge!! He is wearing his cameo jacket for the party and trying to sneak and grab a goodie bag off the table when I wasn't looking! Haha Daddy caught him and snapped the picture!

 Here is our Bella Boo! She is so dainty and such a little diva on top of it! Her color is listed as an Isabella. She is a soft gray color. Sarge and her are a couple and Cocoa Puff is one of their puppies!

 Another picture of the birthday girl Pebbles in her party dress and matching birthday hat! The green thing beside her is a stuffed woodpecker from Kohl's. She loved that toy!! I buy the stuff animals at Kohl's when the hit the clearence for 2.50 each. I usually buy 4 of them so each furbaby has their own. I know, trust me, my furbabies are treated better than some children.  They give me unconditional love and compainionship. They do not care if I am not feeling good, don't have my makeup on and my hair done, they just want to be close to me and love on me and I love them so much! Can't imagine life without them!!!

Another shot of sweet Bella Boo in her party dress and birthday party hat!! We have a shop called Cozy Petza about 4 minutes from the house. She handmakes all of her dog clothes and sells them in specaility shops all over the country. We found some of her outfits in a pet store at Broadway at the Beach in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. She loves to dress the furbabies and they have a ball when we take them to her store. She makes the cute birthday hats too. She is very talented and is such a sweet lady !

Just wanted to share a little of the reason why the title of my blog is Life on The Wienee Ranch!! These sweet furbabies are such a big part of our lives! They have brought lots of happiness and joy into our lives. Pebbles is 14 now , Bella just turned 6, Sarge will be 6 on July 20th, and Cocoa turns 5 on September 20th!

Have a wonderful week!
Hugs,
Lynn

Fourth of July tear bears

Hello,
Hope everyone had a wonderful July 4th week!! We did!! It was hot and humid but hubby ,I, and the four furbabies had a wonderful week. We took a couple of day trips, got some projects finished at the house, and of course started a few more. Seems you never get done with the honey do lists!! I wanted to share these wonderful tear bears with you. I bought them a few years ago off of ebay from a paper artist known as paper piecings by Olivia!! Her work was very popular and her tear bears caused quite a few bidding wars. I was lucky to win several of her pieces over the years. Sadly, she is no longer creating these wonderful little pieces of art!! She made a couple of pieces for me special order, a softball bear and a soldier bear!!
Have a wonderful week!

I am up to taking on a few more friendship garland pals if anyone is interested! Just let me know!
hugs and stay cool.
Lynn

Friendship Banner Swap

Hello Friends in Blog Land!!! There is a buzz of some excinting new wonderful swaps going around

in blog land. Elizabeth of Creative Breathing blog swap came up with the most wonderful ideal

for a friendship garland swap! She has asked some wonderful blog friends to make a banner

for her friendship garland and in turn she would make a banner for their friendship garland. I have

sent out emails to some wonderful and talent bloggers that have welcomed me into

their online circle of friends to join me in making a banner for my friendship garland and I will make one for them.

Above are the tags that I made for the Cartoon tag swap that Tammy from

Tammy's in Love blog is hosting! I had so much fun making these tags. I new I wanted to use my favorite

color combination of red, white, and blue. Anyone that knows me or has visisted  me here on my blog,

know that I love anything red, white, blue, Americana, or patriotic. So when I went hunting for

images to use for my tags and I came across these Huckleberry Hound images on google, I knew I had

the images and theme for my tags! I am so proud of the way they turned out:O):O)!!!!

This is a picture of Elizabeth's banner from Creative Breathing



I have asked the following ladies to join me in my friendship banner garland. I would love to have a few more ladies to join me in making my banner and a banner for you. Please email me at pls0818@aol.com or

leave a comment if you would like to trade a banner with me. I have choosen to make 6x6s squares for my garland. For the ladies that have already responded to my emails and said yes, please let me know what shape and size to make for you. Stay very cool the next few days. Here in North Carolina we are having temps over 100 for the next 4 to 5 days with no rain in sight until a small chance of rain on Tuesday night.

Meri from ImagMeri

Sandy from 521 Lake Street

Renee from My Vintage Mending

Shirley from Zetta's Aprom

Chris from Perfectly Printed

Tammy, from Tammy's In Love

Erica, from Golden Egg Vintage



If you would like to join me in swapping banners just let me know! I would love to have more friends to join in on helping to make my friendship garland. Have a wonderful and safe holiday weekend.

Hugs,

Lynn

Baby Jacob went to be with Jesus early this morning. Please join me in praying for his family as they deal with this terrible loss. He was only 15 days old! Thank you for joining with me to life this sweet and precious family up in prayers.
Hugs,
Lynn

Blessed with swap goodies

Hello, Sorry I have been MIA! I have been dealing with the usual pain issues except now they have changed my meds to Morphine. Lots of it!! Makes me very sleepy and I feel like I am sleeping my life away. It is either take it and sleep or not take it and be miserable! Also, Charter Cable has malfunction at our house! We have the bundle of services. Our cable tv and internet will work ever now and then and the phone has not worked since a week ago Friday! The Charter repair men have spent hours at my home every day this past week except Memorial Day. They still haven't got it fixed. We are only getting a small amount of the signal at a time and sometime no signal. They will be back Monday to work on rerunning all the cable and stuff. Joy, Joy, I have to keep all the furbabies in the bedroom which is fine if I stay in there with them, if not they are barking, whining, scratching, and eating the bedroom door!!!Oh well!! Now to the wonderful blessings I have received. I have not uploaded the pics yet because the internet will not locate my kodak easy share program with the low amount of signal we are getting. My candle hugger swap arrived from Michele!! She sent me the cutest watermelon theme hugger, pin keep, and the cutest little blocks with all my furbabies name on them with sweet little paw prints.Thank you so much Michele, I love everything. I have already put all the goodies you sent me out on display in different areas of my home. My hubby noticed the wood blocks with the baby's name on them first!! He loved them. I have them sitting beside framed pics of our furbabies!!! Thank you again!! I got my bug swap from Cindi!Oh my she sent me the cutest things. She sent me a star plate, a hand towel with a little thing to hang it with and cute stars on it. I put those goodies in my bathroom. I wonder how she knew I wanted to use a star theme for my bathroom?? She also sent the cutest little ladybugs!! A sweet little note pad, a little butterfly,this little tin pocket hanger, and a little frog too! Thank you so much Cindi!! I will post pics soon!! I got my summer swap from Valerie. She was the hostess of the swap. She sent me the cutest little patriotic mouse sewing the flag!! A beautiful metal star with red, white, and blue on it, a sweet metal frog for my garden. She was a super pal and I am loving all the goodies she sent me. I have mailed all of these ladies gifts to them and the only one that doesn't have theirs is Valerie but hers should be there by Monday. I mailed it yesterday. I have Amy's and Tammy's swaps to mail out Monday. I wanted to get on here and say Thank you since I can finally use the internet without if going away in the middle of a post!! YOu will not believe how many times I have tired to post this week and the internet would shut down!! I was about ready to throw the laptop and router out into the middle of Sipe Road to be put down by oncoming traffic!!! Please remember to say a prayer for me that this pain will go away and I can have a life again. Hubby and I went to Wally World to get a few groceries and cleaning supplies. Just walking in the store had me in tears!! I told him I felt like I had a 80 year old body!! Doing daily chores and shopping should not be hardship and shouldn't cause pain enough to make someone cry!!!Forgive me for whinning!! I try not to complain too much to the hubby, he worries enough about me, and I know it is stressful for him and I can understand that. We are still realatively young and we had planned on doing all kinds of things since the children are gone and now I can't do a lot of those things. So pray for me and him too! I am super blessed to have him. He is a wonderful man, if I mention I like this or oh, that would look so good in our home, he gets it for me, builds it for me, trys his best to keep me getting out and doing what I can. And he very seldoms complains about any of this and dealing with all my tears, fears, wants, and needs, and spoiling me too! WE celebrate our 30th ammiversary on October 15, 2012. We have been a couple for more than half of our lives!!! Ok, enough rambling. I will post pictures of all my goodies, my summer and patriotic decor, and my lovely flowers that hubby has planted for me this year. Have a wonderful weekend! To all of my swap partners!! Thank you again for the wonderful goodies that you sent my way, the prayers you said on my behalf, and the sweet kindness that you showed to me. Hugs to you all and I will treasure the sweet items you gave me always and will be reminded of you each time I look at them. Hugs, Lynn