Wednesday, September 30, 2009

It's a Fall Party!!

Welcome to a Fall Party!! Rhoda at Southern Hospitality is hosting a wonderful fall party! So...

WELCOME TO FALL!!!!!!






I love this pumpkin which I got at Hob Lob! It has glitter on it and I LOVE glitter!!!




More glittered pumpkins.....











Please be sure and check out all the other participants to the Fall Party and get some wonderful ideas! Have a Great Day and thank you so much for your visit :)

Sunday, September 27, 2009

A Double Post!!

I have been so lax in posting lately I decided that I would join in today for Rhoda's LAST Today's Thrifty Treasures for this season and also Susan's Met Monday! So be sure to go over and visit Rhoda and Susan so you can visit all the wonderful participants!!

I found these salt and pepper shakers at a yardsale and they just appealed to me. I don't know why, I guess the shape of them and the silver tops. They are heavy! The tops were tarnished and I had seen on a blog (I wish I could remember which one) that you put the tarnished silver in a bowl lined with aluminum foil, sprinkle baking soda over it and then port boiling water over it to cover! It really works!! I took out these gleaming silver shaker tops in just a few minutes!





Now I have this white armoire in my kitchen, and I have been talking about painting it for two years and never seemed to get around to it! Well, today I MADE myself get around to it!! It is great for storage and has my little tv inside that I watch while I am cooking, plus larger serving pieces and cookware! So this...

transformed to this...



I just love it!!


Why didn't I do this SOONER???




Thank you so much for visiting my blog today and be sure to check out everyone elses wonderful treasures and transformations!!

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

WAR EAGLE!!!

Where have I been??? Well...I have been very busy AND the last two weekends we have gone to Auburn to watch the game!! This past weekend, Auburn v. West Virginia...that game was the BOMB!! Now keep in mind it has been raining down here in the South....ALOT!!! Like 5 and 6 inches of rain a day!!! I am a true Southern girl, and I DO NOT like to get wet!

So we head out Saturday morning at 8:30 (yes, 8:30, that is VERY early! Game at 6:00, 2 hour drive) But we were meeting my friend Jamie's son for lunch. He attends Auburn University! Lucky Dog!

It is NOT a pretty day. It is cloudy, it is ugly, it is rainy!! So...Steve and I don't have tickets yet, and I have already started pondering the fact, that if it is raining, I ain't gonna buy tickets to go sit in the rain. I will watch it on television in a restaurant or something.

SO, the day progresses, and it is still rainy! My hair promptly falls flat as a pancake and is just very attractive. But we plod on. We go eat, we do a little shopping and Jamie has started to share with me that she doesn't want to go to the game either....so, she is trying to figure out how to break it to Wayne cos' they have season tickets! She finally tells him, about an hour before the game and he ain't so happy. So we throw Steve into the mix and tell Wayne Steve will go with him! Yeah, that's a great idea!! Steve loves football and it does not matter WHO is playing! He will watch it!! Now, Steve is an Alabama fan, but for the last two weekends, he has gone to Auburn! Poor Baby!

So we send them to the game and we are headed to Moe's to watch it on tv with some other friends, who also didn't want to sit in the rain. We are walking back toward town and we have one little bitty umbrella between us and the bottom.....falls.....out!!! It is raining like a mug!!! We are huddled under this little umbrella and trying to run and I see this BIG tent and head for it!! Jamie said, we don't know these people to which I replied I don't care!!! So they became our new best friends as we waited for 1 hour for the rain to stop!! Then we plodded on to Moe's as the game had been delayed an hour, we hadn't missed a thing!

The game was AWESOME!! I just knew at the beginning that West Virginia was going to hand us our butt on a platter! HOWEVER, those Tigers prevailed and we won!!! Now, I have had NO voice whatsoever since Sunday!! NONE!! Because, I yelled my head off!! I cheered and high-fived people I did not even know! I was a total maniac! There were people pulling their chairs up there where we were sitting! They wanted in on the action!! They know ME now!!

Oh boy, do they know me.....

War Eagle!!!

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Some Great Give Aways!!

I am late in mentioning some really great giveaways on some wonderful blogs!! First up Lynn at Painting Thyme Needfuls is having a give away. She is a painter and incredibly talented!!!

Next our Wonderful and Precious Marty at A Stroll Thru Life is also having a give away. Marty is always good to visit blogs and leave the sweetest comments. She is so encouraging and is just one of my favorites!!

ALSO a blog I have just discovered and love is Thimble Prims Studio . She is also an artisan and an incredible one at that!

Another one is Artistic Halloween Queens . They also have a GREAt Halloween giveaway going on and such great stuff on their blog!! I LOVE this time of year, don't you?? Even though it has been raining here FOREVER!! I have not had a good hair day in a month!!!

Anyhoo......


Please check out these blogs, you will be glad you did!!

Have a great day :)

Thursday, September 10, 2009

IT"S A FALL CLOCHE PARTY!!!

Wonderful Marty at A Stroll Thru Life is having a PARTY!!
A Fall Cloche Party! I have a few cloche's, though they are hard to find in my neck of the woods! I don't know why, but I will share what I have.....

First up, my rabbit with her lil' punkin...


PLEASE forgive the flash, it is the best I can do! Out of all 200 photos I took, both with and without the flash, these are the best...




Oops! No cloche here, but there is a pumpkin and that is fall....pretend there is a lovely cloche over this one...



Here we go...um, more rabbits....



ANOTHER rabbit....he is ready for fall with his pumpkin on his back and a LARGE acorn....





Stupid flash...


Can you tell I LOVE rabbits?? Yeah, thought so! To see some really gorgeous cloche's all adorned for Fall, "hop" on over to Marty's and check them all out!!

Thursday, September 3, 2009

September is Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month!

This is a very important month! And in an effort to educate ourselves, we as women need to be aware of the symptoms of this silent disease!
Beautiful Ashley at I'm Just Too Jazzed to Sleep as well as Ceekay at Thinkin of Home are just two of the women I know that are fighting ovarian cancer.
This disease can affect each and every one of us and knowledge is power!
And also, please keep Ashley and Ceekay as well as all women facing this in your prayers!