Random Wednesday

Yesterday, 63° and flip flops all day. Beautiful sunshine and blue skies.

By evening the skies were no longer blue and they were calling for snow over night. 

Woke up this morning and my thermometer said 27° and we had snow. I didn't get much, but they must have in Gatlinburg and outer areas because school got closed.

 

My daughter posted this picture of the trees at her house. I may prefer pretty days and flip flop weather, but you gotta admit this is beautiful. 

 

However, while it was spring weather yesterday I did get my bunny wreath made. I don't normally make wreaths, but I am happy with how this turned out.

Have a great day....no matter what your weather is!

Top 10 Tuesday

I love going to Pinterest and just browsing down to see the things it recommends that it thinks I will like. Here were my favorite 10 things I found that I liked on their recommendations this morning.

1. Lemon cake

2. An adorable country wreath.

3. Easter nails. Really love this.

4. A patriotic design for my three tier shelf. 

5. The entire Colonial Mist Pyrex bowls. I have this set except for the largest 404 bowl. It's my dream find. The 404 bowls are so rare to find. It would really be gorgeous with my other three.

6. I still don't know how to crochet, but if I did I would definitely makes something with this pattern. It is so lovely.

7. Another beautiful set of nails. There is nothing fancy about these. Just different polishes. I could do this myself.

8. Another suggestion for a three tier stand. This would be beautiful for August & September.

9. I loved this Pyrex bowl they suggested for me. I have never seen this pattern. I need to do some research on it.

10. Last but not least this unique crochets afghan project. How adorable.I love the blue, lavender and mint green together. I may have to make something in plastic canvas out of these colors. 

That's my Top 10 Pinterest items for Tuesday. Have a great day.

Weekend wrap up...

It's been a great weekend. I had off Friday and Saturday for the past work week and Sunday for the start of this work week. Love when my days off give me a 3 day weekend. It was beautiful weather and I got to do some retail therapy. I am loving the new Pyrex storage containers I picked up on sale at the local Corningware Outlet. And did I mention that I had a 25% off coupon and I got to use it on sale and clearance items. 

The first bowl was the 60th anniversary of the Cornflower blue pattern.

They also had the new Easter bowl released. Love the kissing bunnies. 

And I picked up the new spring pattern. Love the pink and yellow.

They all are gorgeous and I'm so glad I stopped in the store the other day.

In the clearance section, I got a couple of smaller size containers from Pyrex that were on clearance for $1.50 each. 

The cornflower blue bowl looks great with my colonial mist Pyrex set. 

I also did a run to Dollar Tree where I picked up the stuff to make a bunny wreath. Hope to get that done soon and I will share it with you.

I went in Bon Worth and found a very springy tunic top to wear with my capri leggings this year. I love all the bright colors. It was $28 with 60% reduction on the tag. The whole store was 25% off items, even clearance. So I got this $28.00 top for $8.44. SCORE!

Last week I had been to Dollar Tree and gotten a vase, flowers and eggs.  

I finally got around to making my Easter arrangement. I can take the eggs out after Easter and still have a spring arrangement. I also found these cute chick salt and pepper shakers at Dollar Tree and I got the place mat at A.C.Moore for a dollar. I just love it. 

That's it for my three day weekend. How was your weekend?

Sunday Songs

These guys are awesome. The group's name is Anthem Lights. I read where the vocalist, Kyle Kupecky, commented about the meaning behind the name of the group. He said,

"These songs and this record is our anthem to the world saying, "Listen, we know there's a lot of darkness in this life, but in the end, light is gonna win." 

I hope their music blesses you on this lovely Sunday.

Happy birthday Garret

Nineteen. Where have the years gone. My first grandbaby turns 19 years old today. I find that so hard to believe. I can turn back the clock in my mind and remember the exact moment I held him for the very first time. Time stood still. My heart just melted. I was mesmerized by this beautiful little creature.

His beautiful eyes and contagious smile have continued to make my heart melt.

I remember the time him and my mom were at my house and she was letting him help make homemade biscuits. That was a wonderful day.

He was not one of those children that wouldn't smile for the camera. He always had a smile ready for me when I went to snap. Of course as he has gotten older, he's not so fond of getting a picture taken as he was in his younger days. 

It wasn't long before he started shooting up in height and losing that little boy look. 

He is definitely an outdoorsy child. He loves to hunt and fish and just be outside.

As a matter of fact, when I took this picture years ago, I titled it "Wishin' I was Fishin'." I'm pretty sure that is what he was thinking.

But they grow up way too fast and he has turned into a fine young man who is in college now and I don't get to see him like I wish I could. I miss those days of him coming over and us playing zoo together in the toy room. I miss the memories of going to the Deer Farm and the Zoo and Rainforest Adventure. I miss the days of miniature golf and going to the movies. I miss the game nights when Papaw would be working and me and Garret would play games all night and eat pizza and wings. 

Happy birthday, Garret. I hope you have a great day! 

A little piece of heaven...

I love photos of the sun shining through the clouds. I always feel like God is opening up heaven to share a little bit of the glory contained within.

This one I took because I felt like this really was heaven. I cropped it for you to see the beauty a little clearer.

Then I noticed something in the original one. A Krispy Kreme donut sign. I had to chuckle because I always feel like I'm in heaven with the first bite of a Krispy Kreme when the hot donut sign is on.

I have to grab pictures while I'm driving when I'm at a stop light. But no matter how the picture turns out, there is nothing I enjoy more than driving to work with a clear view of the mountains up ahead.

I stopped at Shoney's to eat the other evening after work. Their Bradford pear was gorgeous. Yes, I did crop out the tree trunk because this tree was in front of their dumpster and I didn't really want to post pictures of the trash.

But I guess one of the best pieces of heaven this week was when a lady at work made an Arby's run for milkshakes while they were $1.00 each. I love a good chocolate milkshake.

I hope you had a great week and got lots of pics for Friday Foto Friends.

Probably not going to be a diet day....

Not that I ever diet, but if I did diet I would blow it today. I woke up at 6:00 craving pizza. It is 7:30 a.m. and I'm still craving pizza. So what's for dinner when I get home from work today....PIZZA! And breadsticks AND that big round warm chocolate chip cookies that Pizza Hut makes. Yep, going to be a great day!