gosh, I can't believe I haven't been here since the beginning of April. Pretty sad, I know, but it seems that everytime I really get motivated and inspired something happens to stop the ball. The latest was the tornado's that ripped thru on Mothers Day and I am just now getting over all of that. Our town still looks like a war zone but I think all is finally getting back to normal.

I have so much to say but of course no time to do it. I do want to recommend the book P.S. I love you, be Cecelia Ahern. I read it a while back and have just now seen the movie on Friday. As always the book is so much better so make sure you read it as well as see the movie! The best thing the movie has going for it is this man.....YUMMY!!!!!! I mean Scrump-Delish, yummy, yummy, yummy!!!!

All out of order but lots of pics

More Swaps

Well, I don't know how many of you are subscribing to Teresa's Bellatoria or any of the past ezines but we just had the best swap. My partner was Kathi and our swap was"Queen Tea" as you can see by what all she sent to me. The crown is part of what I sent to her, my first attempt at making a crown and I think I made it a lot harder than it should have been. I love all of my goodies and have already had 2 cups of tea. It is hard here in the south to have hot tea and not iced sweet tea but I do try it every once in a while. Thank you so much Kathi!!!
I bought the sweetest book from Phyllis and just had to show you. If you don't already know she has a Flea market sale every Friday so make sure you check it out. I also got an order from Heather of wonderful old jewelry. I can't remember what they were named but I got two separate bunches, one with silvers and one with mauvey/purple colors. The pics do not do them justice.
The other pics I have posted are from Easter with my youngest and his cousin Luke. As you can tell they don't favor at all but then my brother is the tall skinny one in the family and somehow I came out short and dumpy. Go figure.
And last but not least my husband and I went to Chattanooga last weekend and on the interstate coming home this is what we looked in the rear window to see. Of course we had to let the van pass us so I could take another shot from behind. We laughed so hard for abt. 30 min. Somehow this guy made it off the interstate in Forsyth with no problems, he had to have the strongest cords holding that mattress on but he sure made our day.
I hope everyone is doing well and I will be back soon to post more photos of my latest flea market run and add some goodies to Etsy. Have a wonderful day!!!

Better Late Than Never

We have had so much going on around here that I am way behind posting some pics of a Valentine Swap that I did. Cheryl sent me the greatest heart thingy? that I have ever seen. I think I have shown everyone I know and of course my husband just looks at me like I am nuts. I have worn the apron all over the place and my 3 year old thinks it is a skirt that I forgot to sew the back on. He goes around me looking at it like he just can't figure out what the problem is.

Somehow I forgot to upload the pics of the apron but will get them added in the next post.

Well I am off to stuff Easter eggs for the preschool hunt tomorrow but will be back soon with those etsy items and another swap box from Bellatoria.

New Look

I have been gone forever but Sara at Sadie Olive has worked her magic on my blog so now I am back. Thank you so much Sara, it is so perfect!!!
The pic in the banner is my Great,Great Grandfather's second wife, Mattie, who actually raised all of his kids which probably explains why she looks the way she does. Can you imagine marrying a man abt. 15 years older than you who has 12 kids already and then having 6 more? NO THANK YOU!! I love old pics of anyone's family but esp. my own but then I have shown you so many you probably already knew that.
Speaking of old things, we are in the midst of remodeling our kitchen and I am looking for an old kitchen sink. If anyone in Georgia knows of a salvage yard, please comment and let me know where. We visited Second Chance, an architectural salvage shop this morning but no luck on the sink. Of course it was like Heaven with all of the old doors, molding, thousands of mantels, doorknobs, cabinets, posts, railing. I am tellin ya it was Heaven, but my husband was right with me and he was feeling the presence of the Lord like I was.
Anyway, hopefully we can get back there and I can get pics for all of you. Time to go put kids in bed but will be back tomorrow with pics of some new Etsy items. Please go check out Sara and see if she can't whip up something for your blog!

Happy 2008!!!

My husband playing Jimi Hendrix on Guitar HeroIII! Too Funny!!

I have been such a bad blogger these last few months, seems like we have so many deaths in our family at this time of year that FAMILY has been my number one priority. Family should be number one but if I don't get some time to myself I may just snap. So... I have made a resolution to blog more, meet more of you, craft more and perhaps a new adventure for me before Valentines if everything goes right. I will fill you in more as things progress.

My oldest two started bball this past Sat. and I wasn't on top of things as far as pics go, it's hard to watch, cheer, take pics and watch over a 3 year old all at once. It has been so long since I posted I have actually updated the pics since Halloween. The next couple of days will be updating my etsy shop so please check it out on Wednesday the 9th.

Can you believe I posted something Phyllis? LOL!! I have been "missing in action" but we have had 2 deaths in our family and between them and sickness, well blogging has been in the back seat.

I do want to tell you that if you haven't signed up for Winterbella, you need to go do it right away!!!! I will be showing some of my creations in the next few posts. I have to go cook now but will be back tomorrow.

"It's been a long time coming...."

I know, I know, where have I been? You guys can't imagine how crazy my life has been this past month! I have been reading everyone's blogs faithfully just not my own. I am the room parent for my 3 yr old's class and we have one thing after another planned and we haven't even got to the Christmas activities yet, UGH!!!!!

I am preparing for the Mistletoe Market in Perry Ga., which will be the 16, 17, 18th of Nov at the Ag Center for anyone in the area. I think they have 60 vendors this year and lots of variety for shopping. My Pampered Chef booth did well last year so I thought I would try to sell some of my crafting this year. I have knitted several wraps, made tons of journals and candles and I've gotten my self so worked up and nervous abt. how much money to put into this, I will have an ulcer when it's over. Everyone that stops by my booth and mentions this blog, gets 20% off your purchase.

The last time I posted I was working on my family reunion, Thank God that is over!!!!! It was great, we had abt. 75 people show which wasn't bad for the first ever Dover reunion. The majority of the family doesn't even know that the others exist so I thought all in all we did pretty good. I have more family shots I want to post but will have to do that later. I now have to go clean a costume that my child wore to school today for Fall Festival. Of course mine was the only one that spilled grape juice all over his lap.