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FABULOUS JEWELRY GIVEAWAY

Lisa Leonard, is pretty famous around blogland with her wonderful jewelry pieces that it would be hard to just choose one, you can get really hooked. Centsational Girl is having a giveaway for a $100.00 gift certificate to use towards some Lisa Leonard Jewelry, you need to go and check this out... what are you waiting for... scoot.

Here are two of my favorites:

The Oval Monogram Necklace

The Open Circle Bracelet

You can check out Centsational Girl's blog here and the giveaway here and Lisa Leonard's designs here.

No Explanation Needed

Fly on over to this GIVEAWAY (Sort of) for the first 10 People

How cute is this... and you can get two by reading below

Here is what daughter said on her blog:

**UPDATE** You can reuse the birds. I actually hung one of them up above a shutter in the living room and then realized that I liked the idea of it perched on the fireplace so much more. So I took a damp cloth with just water on it and wet the fabric and it peeled right off. I wiped down the wall and then moved the bird. I don't know how many times you could reuse them before they might be too starchy. But yes, you can move them around.

Also, if you would like to tweet about the giveaway feel free. It really is just the first 10 people that leave me a comment asking for a pair.

So many of you seemed to really like the birds I made that I have decided that the first ten people to leave me a comment on here (with contact information so that I can email you to get your mailing address) I will make and send out two birds each. Then all you will have to do is starch them to your wall when you get them.

I am going to be using as much of the fabrics that I have on hand for this. So in your comments if you could please let me know any colors you might want me to try and incorporate that would help. I will do my best to accommodate. Also if you already know a spot where the bird would be perfect, let me know what direction you would like him/her to face.

Now you have to go here to leave your comment with contact info and color choice.

Oh the Shame of it All

Yup... momma dressed us up for Halloween. I am a lady bug and sister is a pumpkin... she is fat enough to be one (snicker... snicker). Jessica got these costumes for us last year on sale at Walmart... gee thanks!

Sister (Macy) thought she could hide her face and maybe her fur friends won't recognize her... the humiliation of it all.

I'll show my face... I'm not scared. I can still chase the BIG dogs.

Dad, "Pleaseeee... get this off me, help... make it stop."

Surprise

I started this post with this long spiel of gifts, surprises, thoughtfulness blah..blah...blah and the only thing I can honestly say is, "I am just quite shocked that anyone thinks that much of me to want to give me a present" and especially when they don't hardly know me. Do you get surprised when someone you hardly know gives you a gift? Or just surprised when you get a gift for no reason?

Well my blogging friend... oh heck... my friend, Sue, handed me this card with this cute Halloween ribbon around it. Hey, if I had even thought of a card (not much of a card giver) there surely wouldn't have been any ribbon around it. (* Note to self... ribbon around cards... nice touch).

"Sorry to See You Go" is on the front and she wrote inside a real sweet message for me. Well Sue, I have news for you... if I have my way... my move isn't going to change our new friendship and I am counting on you to come and visit me... it is only the next state over.
I was pleasantly "surprised" that Sue got me a subscription to Birmingham magazine. How cool is that? She thought this would help us to get to know our new area. I never knew that there was a Birmingham magazine, so now when I know someone is moving to another town, I will have to check and see if they have their own magazine to get them.

This was a wonderful and thoughtful idea, thanks Sue so much for the magazine and for thinking of me. Now I'll be able to find some (hopefully) interesting places to eat and shop for yours and Denise's visit....

Goofing Off tomorrow

I am taking a break from this

To go with Sue (front right) and her neighbor, Denise (back left)

to go here for lunch... Peckers Rest.

Isn't that hoot of a name, but they have wonderful homemade chips and some of the best

lunch specials for a whopping $5.35

Now if any of you have read Sue's blog "Rue Mouffetard," you know that she has some stories that she has categorized as "It could only happen to Sue." Not even kidding when I tell you that if you read her blog she has some of the craziest stuff happen to her, The Boss or The Daughter that will have you shaking your head. You'll just have to go and read for yourself. Scroll back to some of her older posts, there is one about a lamb.

This picture was from a recent trip just earlier this month in Jersey where they were hit from behind (not hard) at a complete stop and who should end up in the ER with an IV... yeah, you guessed it... Sue.

Well Sue, just a little warning here... do not... I repeat... do not... do anything that will make headlines in my little town.

But then again... we all like a good story and it could only happen to Sue.

Looking forward to lunch and shopping.