Mmmm, Good!

Here's the dessert I made today..Waaaaay too sweet and rich but pretty to look at huh?

HAPPY MOTHERS DAY MOMMA!

This is MY mom!
Momma and Abby in October 2007

To mom:


* You always seem to have way too much on your plate, but I don't think I've ever heard you admit it to anyone.

* You are a better informational source than the Internet, cable, any encyclopedia or dictionary or doctors manual.

*You drive a cool car.

*I love talking to you, I guess thats why I call you 50+ times a day :)

*Most of what you have ever admired about me, I learned from you.

* Why did you make me learn to crochet in 6th grade?

*I have taught you well on accessorizing...you make me proud.

*I think Abby loves you more than me : )

* You have made "home" the best place in my life.

*You aren't bossy enough (I'm sure Luke would disagree with me on that one , being he kid he is : )

* I love when you stay up too late at night and you get delirious and start laughing uncontrollably!!!

* You're expertise on cherry Twizzlers astounds me..your the only person who can tell when it's a "bad batch". : )

* I wish you were this cool when I was 15 ( or did I just get uncool???)

* The only bad habit I ever got from you is ...Chocolate!

*You're the only grandma I know who rides a fourwheeler, jumps on a trampoline and ISN'T on blood pressure medication : )

* I admire you for taking on projects and heading up stuff at church when no one else will take the risk.

*I think your high school English teacher is stupid and if I ever saw her and knew who she was I would have words for her.

*You are the best mother in law to everyone and you always give everyone a second chance.

* You created a monster when you introduced me to MJF!!!

*One day we need to get a pedicure together!

* People always tell me how beautiful my mom is...I agree!

* All I really want to be when I grow up, is just like you!



Mom, you are the most awesome momma! I am so blessed to have been given a best friend for a mom! I admire so much about you and I hope that you know that every day of your life..not just Mothers day. Happy mothers day!!!

A thrifting I did go ! ! ! !

Well, once again I subject all of you to my crazy thrifting finds. I have been gathering things from different thrift stores and garage sales for a couple weeks so here's a look at what I have.

Here's the little glass birdhouse I found for $1. It makes a cute home for my limes but I'm afraid now I need more limes, or maybe I'll think of something else to cozy up that little arrangement. I have it on my dinner table so I think about it every time I walk bye...sooner or later I'll get creative with the whole idea!

These cute little french signs will go great in my kitchen. I'm working on a New Orleans French style decor throughout the whole house but so far the kitchen is the only room catching on.
I don't think it shows up too well in the picture but I bought a huge glass cutting board that I ADORE! I'm always spilling my cut up veggies off of my itty bitty plastic cutting boards so this will be a great solution. I just never had it in me to go out and buy a brand new glass cutting board for 15$, so this one suits me well at $2~

Also, the funky cake cutter/server...I have big plans for this lil' thing...just wait...pictures to follow!

Found this pretty plate to go on my little pillar...Bad picture, sorry. This is a project in the works, supposed to be a lil' cookie tray. One of these days I'll finish it and take a better shot.

So there ya have it! All my trash to treasure stuff! I'm super busy this weekend so maybe I'll catch up on my posts on Monday! Adios!

Turn it UP !!!!

Anyone who visits my blog regularly probably has not ever heard a song posted to my blog. Well, I know alot of people that turn the volume on the computer completely down so they don't have to listen to Everyone else's choice of songs ( I'm not incriminating myself am i?). I have had a few songs on my mind for the past few days and I guess I'm too stingy with my craft money to actually go out and buy the Cd's that I want so I decide to put them right here on my blog for my own enjoyment! No really, I sincerely hope you enjoy them as well. These songs are songs that really mean something to me. Do you ever smell a smell and it takes you back to a particular place and time and you feel warm and cozy and safe in that memory? Well, I remember being at a cross-roads in my life only a couple years ago and these songs were songs that I heard at church, songs that friends shared with me, songs I picked up on the radio , but each one of them touches me and reaches right down to my soul and stirs it. It takes me back to that place of surrender, and vulnerability and complete loss of control...as scary as that sounds, it was actually a good place to be...and I want it back.
My dad has always teased me about not singing. Actually, I do sing and I LOVE singing! I just think he's deaf and never hears me : ) I wish he could see me now! Singing my heart out in front of my computer! Maybe I'll sing one of my favorites to him one day so he'll quit nagging at me ( hugs daddy!)
Anyway, turn this music up a bit and let it play through and share with me, my songs. If nothing else, listen to them just so you will know what puts a smile on my face, and maybe you'll get a little grin out of it too : )

Paper Folder

No I'm not talking about origami silly! I'm talking about an old file folder that organises my scrapbook and crafting paper! I foudn this old filer folder at the thrift store and decided to dress it up a bit. I wrote the entire passage of Genesis 1:1-19 on a piece of white printer paper, photo copied it onto a piece of off-white scrapbook paper, the printed over it again the word PAPER. Then I cut out a few little squares and displayed the year on the bottom. The ribbon at the top doesn't actually hold the folder closed, I just glued the ribbon into the backside of the front folder, then glued it to the front and toped it off wiht a bottom. No buttoning and unbottoning here, just a trick on the ole' eyes! I also glued a nice sqaure piece of paper over the glued ribbon on the backside, so it would all look finished and well- done. I just LOVE my new paper folder!

Catching up

My posts have been pretty sparse or the past several days as I have been catching up with my real life. Sometimes I get so caught up in blogging that I forget to actually LIVE what I blog about : ) Anyway, here are some of the hightlights of the past few days.

I was a busy girl Saturday night. I finally decided to dive in and tackle the wall striping in Abbys room. I've been wanting ot do it for forever and just finally worked up the courage to try it. I am EXTREMLY happy with the results! (patting myself on the back now) I plan on adding some shelves and storage space and of course more decorating. I just haven't gotten all up yet.

Meet the newest member of our family, Cody! We brought him home a weeek ago and have been loving him ever since. He is a schnauzer/Brussels Griffon mix, which is a select breed known as Sniffon. He was born on March 12. I'll post a more flattering pic of him later, but this one was just too cute! Abby rocked him to sleep like a baby and he didn't mind her holding him lik ethat! Amazing!

I bleached this paper on Friday. I ussually just use small pieces of this kind of paper in my bookmarks so this will last for a while. Saturday was our annual family reunion. Sara and I found cups that MATCHED our shirts! How cool are we?!?!? We had so much fun together I think we forgot it was actually a FAMILY reuinion...Ya gotta love that cheesy smile!

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