Debut Party

My debut party with my 31 Gifts Adventure was a success! I had a good turnout and I think come February I will find a little extra dough sitting in my checking account! Hurray! I just wanted to share a few pictures from my party that my friend took for me. If you like what you see, you can always order from my website!

Be Our Guest, Be Our Guest

When I was in college almost 10 YEARS AGO (whew!) It came time for me to make my first "big" purchase. I was moving into an apartment with some friends and I needed a bed. So, I saved up my summer job money and when Fall came, I purchased this beautiful rod iron bed (my Mom, bought the mattress set....thanks Mom). I loved it. It was so perfect. Well, 10 years later, I don't really love it anymore. I don't particularly care for the rod iron. But, we need it for our guest room. We moved here this past September. Slowly I have been able to decorate and purchase a few things for the house. With money being as it is.........I did not want to spend a lot of cash on the guest room. HOWEVER, I have a friend coming next week who will be in need of a room. So, this week I decided to spend some time freshening up the guest room. It is not finished, for I would like to put a few more things on the walls. But, after a merely $20.00 spent on some new bedding, I must say I am pleased with the results. I decided to work with the rod iron instead of against it. I found some old frames that we don't use anymore because they are rod iron and re-purposed them for decoration. I pulled out an old clock that was a wedding gift and hung it on the wall. I made two throw pillows with some left over fabric to add some color to the room. And finally found a home for these used to be awful green curtains I had purchased a few months ago in a frenzy. (when I hung them up, my husband said, "those are terrible, they look like old people curtains".) I still have a set of the green curtain left over and I threw them in my "to be consigned" bag. Which by the way, I have made $12.00 in my most recent consignment experiment! This guest room re-do is not complete, but I am proud to say that I have not had to spend a lot of money so far to make a pleasant room for our guests. Only $20.00.
Cha-ching!

To Buy Or To Join......That Is The Question

I am VERY excited to announce my new venture! I have become a 31 Gifts consultant and I am pumped! I was introduced to this company through my sisters some time ago and I never gave it much thought until this year. 31 Gifts makes a nice product that pretty much sells itself while I get to eat delicious foods, talk with the ladies and make some moola. Sounds like a sweet deal to me!

Gather round friends and look at this! Here is all of the loot that I will be receiving in a pretty pink box in just a few short days! Jealous? Don't you just love stuff like this? You can organize your life away with cute bags, purses, totes and bins feeing so accomplished when you lay your head down to rest knowing your valuables (or junk) look nice in their cozy new home.

I'm pretty sure that I am the most excited about this huge utility tote to put all K's stuff in the car, or to use when we take our luxury cruise to Morocco (wait........what?), or when I decide to check out 25 books from the library at one time, I mean this thing will hold A LOT!


So, if like what you see, you can order through me! Whopee! Or you can host a parteee, I promise I won't bring Kaoriiiiiiii. You might even win something FREEEEEEEE! Okay, I'll stop.

Here is my website. Feel free to place an order or join my team if you want to start your new year off right just like I did! It is $99.00 for the enrollment kit and then the sky is the limit friends! Come join me!

Cold Hands Be Gone

Last night during all my free time, I was surfing the net, looking at other people's blogs and I came upon this great idea. I have suffered from cold hands my entire life. I guess suffer is too strong of a word, but it is something I have grown accustomed too, these cold hands of mine. When I saw this quick, cute and easy way to warm up those appendages, I wanted to try it ASAP. So, today during nap time, I pulled out an old sweater and chopped off the bottom part of the sleeves, fired up my sewing machine and voila! My hands are warm! The hardest part of this project was photographing my hand wearing the warmer. I took a ridiculous amount of photographs and this was the best I got. Sorry it looks like a dead fish, they all did.



P.S. My fingers are cold.

Apparently, Snow Is A BIG Deal In GA

Hello friends. Welcome to snowy side GA. We got a blast of ice and snow last night and the whole state of GA has shut down. That's right, even government buildings friends. Ca-ra-zy. We woke up to a thick layer of ice. Which made for a lot of crunch, crunch under our feet as we went outside to play. It was not good for making snow angels, but quite appropriate for a bit of sledding. We headed out in the first part of the morning, which was not the best idea, but K wouldn't have it any other way. I gave in.....weak. I ended up making a homemade box sled with a rope which was a total blast. She could sit in it and slide down the icy slope in our front yard and I could pull her up and down the street. It was fun for all. It was time to come in when the icy rain started soaking our clothes. Onto the 2nd activity of the day. Welcome to K's Pizza Parlor! A few weeks ago, husband and I picked up this cardboard playhouse for $15.00 at World Market. I saved it for a day like today. We put in a movie and I colored it while K watched Toy Story. She was supposed to help me, but lost interest after a few minutes. But, I enjoyed coloring it. It was kinda fun. After the coloring was done, we put the playhouse together and she was super excited to play in it. Well, looks like we are going to be stuck inside tomorrow too. I have no idea what we will fill our day with. Gotta get creative, otherwise I will just eat.

Our homemade sled. A box and a rope.




After we all took naps, we made my all time favorite! Freshly baked chocolate chip cookies. I went ahead and froze some before I discovered that I had eaten them ALL. Good plan.

New Year

Happy New Year Friends!

I just finished reading Choosing to See. It has given me a new perspective on resolutions. I usually make a list of 4 or 5 things that I want to accomplish, change and so on. Not this year. This year my goal is to simply SEE God working in my everyday life. For those of you who know me, really know me, you know this will be a new way of life for me. But, I am ready for it. I need it. Bring it!

(and i am going to be more frugal and loose weight....i couldn't resist)