Vicki O'Dell… The Creative Goddess

We may live just outside of Akron but our town is fairly small. The whole Memorial parade only lasted 8 minutes. There was a service at the cemetary afterwards and that takes a while but we came home to do yard work. My youngest son S marched and played his trumpet. Every year I have [...]

Yesterday I went to get my hair done at my GF’s house. We couldn’t decide what colors we wanted to do so we did them ALL! There were several tubes of color that we’d used to put highlights or lowlights in my hair on previous visits so we put 4 different colors in. There is [...]

Last night was R’s Junior Prom. He went with his friend M. I guess there was a “dance off” at the prom and according to R he “smoked” everyone else. He said he had a really great time and came home at 1:30 just like I asked him to. I’d have let him stay out [...]

  Hi, My name is Vicki and I’m addicted to Fiestaware pottery. (Hi Vicki) Someone was talking this morning at Curves about collections and I thought, “Gee, I really don’t collect anything”.     And then I came home and made myself a cup of tea (PG Tips in case you were wondering) in one [...]

I got my DH a new computer for his birthday so we’re in the process of cleaning up hard drives, wiping out hard drives and getting the new computer into our network of 3 already existing computers. So I was going through some pictures on my computer and found this one from the building of [...]

  I mentioned in my blog post Changing Things Up- A Front Porch Makeover that I planned to recover an old chair. While I don’t have step-by-step instructions to share I do have the finished piece to show. A sort of “show and tell”. I think there is still something missing but the bulk of [...]

On Monday night I was on my way home from work. I work from 1-9pm on Mondays so it was pretty dark. On my way to and from work I have to go through this “six corners” area where six streets all come together. Now, while there are traffic and street lights and it’s relatively [...]