Happy Sunday

Fundraiser for a school trip

As you all know, I love Thirty-One and judging by how many consultants we have, I'm not the only one. Right now, my granddaughter Alexis is doing an online party to raise funds for her 8th grade school trip. They are going to Washington, D.C., New York City and Hershey, Pennsylvania. As a Mamaw, I want to do what I can to help her raise money for her trip. 

 If you like Thirty-One and would like to help in her fundraiser, you can visit my site and place an order and have it shipped direct to your house. All orders great or small will be appreciated. Simply follow the link below. I am donating my commission on each sale to help her with her trip expenses. 

https://www.mythirtyone.com/124266/shop/Party/EventDetail/10511311

With spring coming up and summer not far behind, is it time to update your purse for the season? If you do place an order, check out our purse collection. It is the special for the month. Spend $35 and get any purse for 50% OFF! That is a great deal. Here are a few samples of our purses and patterns, but they are offered in a lot more patterns than is posted here.

I love playing around with the personalization on the website. Here's just some samples of the things you can get and customer design in patterns and personalization of your choice. Don't need anything for yourself? What about a end of the year teachers gift? A mother's day present for your mom? A bag for your little sports players? Maybe you have a hubby that loves to hunt or you are looking for something to keep your tablet in. There are so many possibilities for our products. And with each one coming in an assortment of pattern and fabric options, the skies the limit. You can contact me at

MamawsPlace @ Gmail.com if you have questions.

Thank you for taking the time to check out Thirty-One and we appreciate any orders that are placed.

Friday Foto Friends

I love the sky. Always have. Always will. I post a lot of pictures of sunshine and blue skies, unique bursts of sun coming through the clouds. Sunrises and sunsets. But last night the moon was awesome the way the clouds were around it. Didn't have my camera with me so these are from my phone but from now on, my camera is going everywhere I go. They may not be the best in the world but at least I captured it.

Can you believe it?

One month from today is Easter. Seems like just yesterday it was Christmas. I've decorated my table and put a couple of things out, but this week I hope to finish decorating for Easter. I did get a new tablecloth but haven't had a chance to put it on the table yet. I will show it to you in a couple of days. 

Yesterday, I got one of those random Pinterest emails that says "We have found something we think you will like." Well, they nailed it. I not only like it, I love it. I won't need till Christmas but I'm going to start looking for fabric now because I really want it to look as much like this as it can. 

It got me to wondering if there was anything like this for bunnies. I did find one with more than one bunny, but they weren't layered like the tree, but I bet I could still do these bunnies in layers. Except I would want fabric with Easter print.

These are cute too. Just a bunny in the corner.

This one is just too adorable with all the springy fabric cut in strips.

But I think one of my favorites for Easter was the carrots. Love it. 

I guess I see a trip to Joann's Fabrics in my future.

Made me smile...

Looking ahead

I'm just not sure how to dress. I ran out this morning for a quit trip and wore sweat pants and a t-shirt....WITH FLIP FLOPS. Guess the warm weather spoiled me and I just can't decide if it is spring or winter.

I start looking ahead to spring no matter what the weather is. In another couple of months it will be time to think about patio furniture and plants. I want to find another Swedish ivy. Except this time, I have a place to bring it in and sit it during winter. Lost one I had before because we had nowhere to put it in the house. It was HUGE. I want another one.

I want Boston ferns for my front porch. I love those.

I think I want white rockers for my front porch with a small table between them

I want a small patio set for the back porch, but won't need an umbrella.

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Several years ago, Thirty-One created this look for an office. I loved it at the time and I love it still, even though you can't get these patterns any more. I really regret not getting them back when they had them. 

Weekend wrap up

I got another set of bracelets from Paparazzi this weekend. The picture is not great because my lighting was bad with all the gloom and rain outside. But it has pale pink stones in it. Perfect to wear at my Thirty-One conference.

I did go to Hobby Lobby again when I wasn't feeling so overwhelmed over all the Easter stuff. I fell in love with the little Easter egg shaped saucer. 

And this plate matches the green in my spring tablecloth.

I picked up a plate holder with the thought of getting started on my basket for my table for Easter decor.

And I know I was looking at the wood white bunnies but once I saw this I knew my table needed to be in color NOT in white and tans. I need spring and freshness after all the snows and rains and cold weather this winter. I just love this little guy. He was on sale and I got him for just a few bucks.

I had bought this blue dish over the winter at Old Time Pottery but never found a good use for it. And I had picked up some speckled eggs at Dollar Tree.

I had a vase I wanted to use and I bought a spring of forsythia at Dollar Tree.

I already had a basket I planned on using so I arranged it in the basket and I like my result a lot better than the one I saw on Pinterest. It's more me.

I did pick up the salt & pepper shakers from Dollar Tree I told you about. I can't find the glass paint that makes them opaque but colorful. I will do that later when I can get to Michael's for the paint. So I decided to experiment with a blue. Got the paint for .50 cents at Walmart. 

I do not normally paint because I am messy. But I saw a tutorial where you pour paint INSIDE the bottle and roll and twist to cover then pour excess paint back out into your paint bottle. So I tried that. I did it on a baby food jar first and then on the salt shaker. It was so easy and so fast. As they were drying inside, I was able to put some jute on the baby food jar just to see how that would look. Please note what looks like a color difference on the salt shaker is actually the shadow of the jute string.

Once it dried good, I put some little flowers in it and did the first tier of my three tier stand. Still need to get more stuff for tier two and three before I show you the whole thing. But this is a good start. I just love it.

I didn't want a bow around the salt shaker because it was going beside a beach picture of me and Allen and a little angel with a seashell. So I thought jute would help with the beachy theme.

Just put some baby's breath in it. (Did I mention I keep little odd and end flowers around for just such occasions?) I couldn't be any happier with the result. 

Now I want to do a little red one and put a few small daisies in it for my craft room.