SV -- 08.30.2012

Despite being CRAZY distracted today, 

I completed my Speech Communications class work for the week! 

It's not all due until Monday!  

Woot Woot!

Now, I've got to run along and figure out something to feed the fam

Small Victories!!

Them Bones

I have an odd obsession with all things dead and bones.

Here is a "photog" of some dead things I have found and received while living in the country...

Link Parties

I have recently discovered that link parties are awesome!  So may different blogs in the "interwebs" host link parties for sharing things from your own blog or website.  

This is a great tool for finding other blogs like your own, networking, and also getting the word out about your own blog and helping it grow!  

So I have decided I would start sharing some links to Link parties most of which have a designated day of the week!  

This is also a GREAT incentive to get some craftiness moving right along so you can have something to share EVERY WEEK!

(We all need a little kick in the britches once in a while right??)

Animal Scarves

Thanks to my loverly soon-to-be-step-sister-in-law Ellen

(sheesh is that a mouthful)

I discovered an awesome gal who makes these amazing crochet patterns

(Bees Knees Knitting on Etsy.com)

My favorite are the animal scarves

I just bought these as a set a couple weeks ago and I can't wait to get to work on them!

(She has others so go and check her out, these are just the few that I bought.)  

SV -- Wednesday 08.29.2012

1.  Got to spend some really good and fun quality time with my hubby yesterday (blog post to follow)

2.  I ran my 2 miles this morning nearly 30 seconds faster than last time! 

(for those of you runner's out there this may not seem like an impressive 2 mile time, 

but I live on a really hilly road)

3.  I feel really good about the day!

Small Victories!

Cuttlefish Art Gallery

Here are a few scans of some of my own cuttlefish I have drawn.  

These are just scans, so they aren't super great quality, 

but here ya go anyhow!

Each is done with colored pencil 

(My favorite medium) 

Let me just say, my husband is amazing.

He is my visionary.  I'll tell him that I'm stuck on something and he instantly knows the solution!

I told him I needed a tag idea for my "Hollow Hiding Books"

It's T-Shirt Time!

I love T-Shirts.

I mean, that's just all there is to it.

I made my husband a t-shirt quilt for Christmas a couple years ago 

And thought that I would start collecting more shirts to make other quilts with.

It started small...

But of course, it turned into a huge operation.

My local Thrift store is awesome.  

Everything is dirt cheap

For instance, t-shirts are $0.25!

Prices that low make it easy to increase my stash!

Last week I went to the "Good Samaritan Thrift Store" in town and picked up 29 new t-shirts!

Elementary, my dear Estate Sale...

There are these two ladies that live in my county who are sisters and they are well-renowned in the area because they do Estate Sales

Most of the houses are very old and have tons of antiques and amazing goodies. 

The prices though are typically VERY high 

But on the plus side they almost always have a "Clearance Day"  where they mark everything down 25% or more!

So 2 weeks ago I went to one of their sales here in town on clearance day and scored!

Here's my little Haul:

Sprinkler Time!

Here in southern Georgia it gets crazy hot in the summer.  

And since we don't have a pool, 

The kids spend their time acting like goof-balls and running through the sprinkler while SQUEALING!

I had to turn the water pressure way down because Gracie wouldn't got near it when it was shooting up really high.

In Mimi's Shoes...

In July My husband, Son, Daughter and I went to visit my mom.  

She lives about 2.5 hours away 

the way I drive anyway ;)

My mom has some serious style

and like just about any other average woman, 

she has an intense love for shoes.   

So, there are big beautiful high heels of all shapes and colors 

all over her house at any given time. 

Gracie managed (with little difficulty) to find some.

Isn't it funny and also kind of amazing that ALL little girls do this?