Top 10 Tuesday

 Top 10 Tuesday

As you know, I love to pin ideas from Pinterest. I decided to go back and look at all my pins today. I was amazed at things I saved on there that I liked and actually bought as well as things I liked that I actually did them successfully. Here were my top 10 of things I saw on Pinterest and followed up with it. 

The one I used the most was the one I saw of having a sparkly accent nail. I do my nails this way so much that it is probably my #1 find on Pinterest that I am so glad I found. 

I liked this one really well. One Valentine's day, I tore up sheets of magazines/catalogs and the kids make cards for their Mommy's on Valentine's made with hearts like this on the front of the card. It was a blast. 

I saw this on Pinterest one day and wanted it to wear to my Thirty-One Conference and I went and found it at Kohl's and ordered it. It was on sale and I had a coupon so I got it for like five bucks or so. It's one of my favorite bracelets when I wear pink.

One day I saw these little deer. We had these when I was little. It may me want some of my own. I went to E-bay and bid on some and got them for a few dollars. 

I like making mini muffins in cinnamon sugar or lemon. So I found a cute jar and put my muffin liners in it because I saw this. 

This one surprises me. I had pinned it because I liked it. Didn't know where it came from. A few weeks after that, I was in JC Penny's and there it was on a rack. So I bought one.

I pinned this tablecloth and then went looking for it. Found it at Kohl's and it is one of my favorite ones now. 

My daughter had a white three tier one of these. When I borrow it now, I use scrapbook paper on the shelves and coordinating paper for whatever the occasion.

I saw this phone case and then found it on Amazon. It was one of my favorite phone cases. 

One year, we made these in Children's Church and Indian headbands and wore them for a Thanksgiving feast.

It was fun to go back and see all the things I have done or purchased from pins. 

Memorial Day

Sunday's song...

What better song to feature today than a song about Sunday's from a great Southern Gal. Here is our very own local recording artist, Kelsey Cate, singing her latest hit Sunday's in the South.

I am in VBS mode.....

I have all my vacation stuff washed up and put away. Got all my bags unpacked and stored till next trip. Now to enjoy a wonderful 3 day weekend. Our VBS starts next Sunday which means I will be decorating this week. I am going to have the kids in Children's Church and Ms. Missy's class work on some projects for our sea themed VBS that we can use to decorate the craft room with for VBS. That is if Ms. Missy doesn't have other plans for the kids tomorrow. 

I think the fish in this picture would be great for them to make and then next week we could do some twisty streams for the sea weed. 

 

And for Children's Church, we can color paper plate sea shells. These look painted, but I believe we will just use sea shells. Ask anybody who knows me, we don't paint and we don't do glitter. I like them both but trying to do that when you only have four tables and about 27 kids, it becomes a nightmare. We drew on black construction paper last week with chalk. What a nightmare. We had to borrow a box of wipees from the nursery to clean everybody up. Who knew chalk was so messy.

In addition to decorating for VBS, I am doing crafts for the 3, 4 and 5 year olds that are pre-K. I get to do them in 3 different groups and there are plenty of helpers. So I have been doing my Pinterest homework. Haven't decided on every night yet, but we are SO doing this one. It is too cute and they can use it in the pool or bathtub. It is sail boats made from pool noodles. 

Sometimes it is as much fun to plan VBS as it is to attend it. I would be interested to know how many of my readers work in or attend their VBS. It's not just for the kids. I get a big blessing in being around them and watching them learn. And the program at the end of the week where they have learned the songs and get to perform them is always so entertaining. 

Friday Foto Friends

On the night of May 21st,  at the beach, we got to see the most beautiful scenery ever. The moon rising from the sea. We kept seeing a red dot to the right of it so I went to my trusty friend Google Search and found this: 

May 21 Blue Moon will be near red Mars. This full Blue Moon and the red planet Mars will shine together all night long, from dusk May 21 until dawn May 22. Of course, the moon will be blue in name only. But red Mars will really be noticeably reddish in color, and the full moon and Mars are guaranteed to be spectacular to view on this date. Earth will pass between Mars and the sun on May 22. Astronomers call that an opposition of Mars, because Mars will be opposite the sun, rising at sunset. I had taken some high powered binoculars with us and sure enough, there was Mars...red and glorious. It kept slipping behind the clouds so I didn't get a picture. But here are some beautiful photos of the sky that night as the moon rose out of the sea and the clouds were going by covering and uncovering it. It was one of those once-in-a-lifetime moments. 

I thought this was a perfect post for Friday Foto Friends.

Tired but happy...

I am so exhausted today. Five days at the beach. Five days of relaxing and unwinding. Five wonderful, glorious, fun filled days. Then a 7 hour drive home and an all nighter of unpacking. 

Love the trip. Hated the putting everything up part when I got home. But happy to say I did find a new piece of Pyrex while I was gone. There is a place I always go called Homespun Crafters Mall that is the best kept secret in Surfside Beach, just a few mile away from Myrtle Beach. It is full of vintage items, handmade items, home decor, fabric and much more. I will share some of my finds with you later, but today I want to share the Pyrex excitement. 

 

I was looking for several items and one was anything in the Shenandoah pattern. I spotted this baby on a bottom shelf inside a stack of bowls. I don't like to go over $15 for a piece I really, really want but have been known to spend as high as $20 (rarely, but I have done it).  So I bent down, picked it up and held my breath. The price?   A mere $7.00 so I snatched it up so fast it would make your head spin. When I got done shopping, I went up front to pay. As she went to ring it up, she said my favorite words in the world....."This is on sale 20% off" . That's right. I got this baby for $5.60!!!!

I just about screamed with excitement right there at the register. Is this a deal or what?

Submerged

As I was driving along with a friend yesterday, we were talking about school being out soon. Then we started talking about what all is going on in our lives the next few weeks. THEN I realized VBS is on June 5th. I am in charge of decorating the stage and figuring the crafts for the 3 - 5 year olds. I do believe I need to get busy with planning. So of course, me being me, I headed to Pinterest.

I see a lot of pool noodles in my future. We can cut notches in the noodles to make them spiral like coral reefs.



These cute little crabs would be good for my children's church kids to make to help decorate.



If we are going to be Submerged then I need to figure out how to make a submarine.



Some Japanese lanterns (I think that is what they are called) cut in half with some streamers would make some awesome jelly fish.



Not to mention some cute fish.



And of course, the ultimate submerged creature....an OCTOPUS. I have decide to get a giant beach ball for his head, painted and with pool noodles for his legs.



It appears I have my work cut out for me the next week.