EMERGENCY PRAYER REQUEST!

I have a very dear friend who is is only 29 and has cystic fibrosis. She is in intensive care. Her oxygen levels dropped to low so they gave her oxygen and now it has climbed too high. To much oxygen is just as dangerous for her and she could go into respiratory arrest. 

She is a young mother with a beautiful 6 year old daughter. Please pray that they can get her oxygen levels back where they need to be.

Thank you all for your prayers. Feel free to put her on any prayer lists you may have.

Don't remove a dead bush....

As planting season and yard work begins, be sure you check your dead bushes before you yank them out. My daughter recently decided to redo some shrubbery and plant some new items around her home. When they got ready to take out a dead bush, she found this....

We weren't sure what kind of bird it was for sure. But the next day, two of the babies hatched.

And then the following day, the third one popped out of his shell. It wasn't long till Mama Bird was spotted and my daughter realized she had baby cardinals at the end of her front porch. She was able to stand on the porch and zoom in so she didn't have to disturb the birds.

They are in the bush right beside the steps so she passes them every time she comes and go. Mama usually sits on them while the family just passes in and out. Sometimes she flies off, but not very far. Daddy is always somewhere close by and flies in for his check, but so far she hasn't been able to get pics.

They went ahead and left the dead bush for now. But she did plant some new shrubbery down the edge of the driveway.

And along the front of her home.

She posted some pics on Facebook so I asked her if I could use all these in my blog today. I do like this one, but I am not sure what it is.

These are beautiful. I think she said it is a little azalea bush.

Her magnolia tree is blooming and it is gorgeous.

She saw Daddy Bird fly in and check on the babies. Diana sat very patiently and finally got a video of him flying away. She told me I could share it but I wasn't able to get it to work from Facebook. But he was beautiful. 

I can't decide...

Okay. I have a Pyrex Town & Country Cinderella 444 bowl which I absolutely love. The problem is that the Cinderella set for Town & Country comes two different ways. 

This is one of my favorite patterns. However, I found out that this set comes with the other three bowls in solid colors that match the colors in the big bowl.

But it also comes with the patterns on all four bowls.

So I have found the solid brown to go with it for the solid set. And then I found the second from the top bowl to go with the patterned set. 

Do you see my dilemma? I am ready to try to complete the set. Question is, which set do I complete? The one with the pattern and three solids or the one with all the patterned bowls. Both sets are gorgeous and I can't decide which I would rather have.

Please leave me a comment on which one you like the best to help me decide. 

Weekend Wrap Up

It started on Friday morning when I got up and starting making little gift bags for the door prizes for my Thirty-One Flip Flops and Friendship gathering. 

Then I packed up everything, including the flower arrangements for the tables. Of course I packed everything in my Thirty-One bags. 

I took off work early to get ready for everything. Since it was a flip flop theme, I decided to try something I saw on Pinterest. So I bought some Nutter Butter cookies.

I spread them on a cookie sheet.

And using gel piping I started pulling lines from the middle up and the middle down to the other side.

The finished product was supposed to look like a flip flop.

So I added a candy pearl to the top.

Ended up with a lot of edible flip flops that turned out just fine. 

The girls got me a sweet gift for putting the dinner together.

I have been looking for one of these soap dispensers so needless to say I was thrilled.

My friend, Kellie, has a cri-cut machine that cuts final so she has been decorating glasses. I got one from her as a gift that night. 

Everybody knows me as the Queen of Flip Flops. 

I had a yard sale Saturday and had 3 tables with vintage items on them. After the 3rd customer, this was all that was left. Pyrex and vintage are two magic words for yard sales. 

After the yard sale, a very good friend and her daughter stopped by with one of those gifts that take you by surprise. 

They had been somewhere and saw this and thought of me. They just knew I would love it. Thank you Beth and Maddi for my lovely gift. 

I had some of my earth tone Pyrex in my yard sale. But I came home from work on Thursday and had new linoleum in the kitchen. Now my pastel tablecloth and pastel decor just doesn't cut it. So I went back into my yard sale stuff and swapped the pastels for the earth tones and the rich blues and reds. I will go through my tablecloths to see which one goes best with the new look.

A couple of ladies came by my yard sale Saturday with some trades we were doing. I am thrilled to be the proud owner of the Woodland mixing bowls. Now just to find the 404 size. 

Not sure who makes this pattern, but I had planned this trade a while back and am glad to get it. I love this pattern.

Sunday was Mother's Day at church and then hubby took me out for the day. After we got home, I just vegged out and had a light supper and spent the rest of the evening on the couch. It was a great weekend.

Am I a day late or a day early?

I finally got a chance to sit down and do my blog for today...or should I just wait and post it tomorrow. Do I want to be late on today's or early for tomorrow's?

These are the questions I ponder at 11:30 on a Wednesday night. Since I don't think much new will happen between now and tomorrow morning while I sleep, I am going to do this tonight and schedule it to automatically post on Thursday. 

This has been a crazy week. I have been gathering stuff for my yard sale and working on planning my Flip-Flop and Friendship gathering. It's been super busy considering I am having to do this after I get home from work and still take time to have supper. I hope I don't go insane before the week is out.

Our Flip-Flop gathering on Friday night will be lots of fun. One thing we are doing is having a flip-flop parade. Can't wait to see what everybody is styling on their feet. The winner gets this flip-flop dishtowel my friend Stevie Marie made. I really like it so it is going to be hard for me to part with it.

Well, by the time this posts on Thursday, my day will be underway. Hope you all had a good Wednesday and that you are enjoying a happy Thursday.

The Voice

There are very few shows that I watch on TV. And not many of those do I watch on a regular basis. But I have never missed an episode of The Voice in the 8 seasons it has been on. Many time my favorite win; many times they don't.  This season I have several that I really like that would make me happy if any of them win. But the one I really, really would like to see win is this young farm boy who is just 16 years old. Last night was probably one of the best performances I have seen of his.  It's getting down to the wire so I was especially happy to hear his name called as one that was moving on.  His style is a little different than what I normally like, but he just has something special.

A young girl at our church has a beautiful voice and has been singing at church since she was about 8 or 9. This is a video of her singing the National Anthem at a local minor league team game 2 years ago. She is graduating high school this year and travels to various singing competitions and has won many, many awards. She just cut her first single at a recording studio. It is called Dishes and is available on iTunes. I am really impressed with how good she has gotten. 

I would love to see both of the above young people go far in their careers. 

Weekend wrap up....

I had a fantastic weekend. Started out with these two sweeties staying all night. That is my oldest granddaughter, Alexis and my youngest grandson, Colby. They were both ready to eat so I let them pick. Alexis wanted chicken and Colby said that chicken sounded good. I suggested KFC since we went right by there. They both thought that sounded great. So that is where we ended up. 

The next morning we headed to McKay's book store to take some books back and let them get some new books. Alexis is my reader. That child loves to read. She was spell bound and I know she will be ready to go back whenever I go again.

After some shopping, we went to West Town Mall because Alexis was wanting Chik-Fil-A but Colby wanted a burger. Me and Colby had burgers and fries from What's Cooking.

Alexis decided she wanted Taco Bell after we got there.

We decided to take Shelby with us Saturday. She opted on the Chik-Fil-A, but after she got it she only wanted the waffle fries. So Alexis finished off the chicken. She ended up getting her Chik-Fil-A after all.

I took all the children back to their houses. When I got home, I decided to finish gathering all the stuff for my yard sale. I moved everything out of the storage closet to go through it and found this Inside Out Bag by Thirty-One that I had forgotten I had. I was beyond thrilled. Earlier that day, I had seen one and thought to myself "I wish I still had mine." Turns out that I do. 

We are having a Thirty-One get together for our local teams this coming Friday. I am in the process of making some centerpieces for the tables. I used some Mason jars and some Thirty-One swatches to make the vases. Very pleased with the way they are turning out.

I had bought some flowers to make this little bouquet to give as a gift. I used the Oh Snap! bin from Thirty-One for the vase on this. I am very pleased.

Sunday I finished going through my stuff for my yard sale. I can't believe I am selling off some of my Pyrex. One lady is looking at the scroll and then I decided I know if I want to part with it or not. If she doesn't buy it, I am going to put it back on the shelf.

I debated on the Early American space saver with lid, but in the end I realized I had enough space savers so I didn't really need this one. Also, this is the only Early American piece I have.

Hubby made us home made barbecue for supper Sunday night. It was delicious. I crashed on the couch and watched TV the rest of the evening. It was a really busy weekend, but I had a blast.