Unique wall art

Friday Foto Friends

There is a section of Columbus, OH called the Short North area. It is a unique shopping/restaurant area that is very quaint. On some of the buildings they allow wall art to be painted on the side of the building. Here are some pics I took of the wall art on the section I visited. We only had a limited time frame so we just went to our favorite store. I would have loved to had the time to go to all the sections of this district and get more pics. But I did love the ones I saw.

Hooking 

My amazing trip

I survived Thirty-One National Conference. Over 10,000 women. Lots of great music. Some fascinating speakers. Wonderful training for our business. Great food. Good times and of course our wonderful amenities. Here's the amenities we received which is also a sneak peak of some of the new fall line. We even had a couple of our items personalized with our initials when we received them. I am in love with the new fall line. 

Then of course we got our new journals which has tons of space for notes and calendars at the back. And then our wonderful badges we all love to collect along with the 31 pins they give us. We always love getting our new conference ink pen as well.

Then of course we had to shop the conference store for those items that are only offered once a year in the store. 

Our team leader bought us all an inspirational dish towel and a key charm. 

Two of the friends I traveled with had names starting with K so their back packs were K. We lined them up together against a wall and took a pic just because the three of us walking down the street together spelled out my initials Brenda Kay Keefer.

This was possibly my favorite conference so far. We had a lot of time to play tourist so I will post more on that tomorrow. Have a great Thursday.

Good Morning....

I have been missing in action these past few days. I have been at my Thirty-One National Conference. It was an amazing trip. Visited some unique stores while we were in Columbus, OH.  I traveled with three of my Thirty-One sisters and we had a blast. We came home last night and didn't get home till about 2:00 this morning. I was back up around 7:30 so I'm sure a nap is in my future today. We left Columbus around 7:00 last night and drove through the night. We were playing rap music and Maroon 5 to stay awake. Around 12:30 or 1:00, Krista and I were eating potato chips and fudge. I have never laughed so hard in my life as I did during the trip home. Love these gals to pieces.

I just wanted to stop in with an update today to let you know I will be back at my posting tomorrow. Have a great Tuesday.

Friday Foto Friends...

Friday Foto Friends

What a more appropriate post on Friday Foto Friends than to reshare what Ms. Debbie who hosts Friday Foto Friends shared with me on Facebook. She knows I love nail polish. Talk about something easy to make. 

Speaking of nail polish, I just bought me some hot pink, white and sparkling silver/gray. I need it for my nails for conference. We always do our nails in something than just one solid color for conference. It's almost a tradition. Now I just need to decide what unique way to do my nails. I like this one really well, but I would make the white nail a pink nail with the white dots. But I could never do the strips that neat.

Absolutely positively love this one but have no clue how they did that criss cross pattern so it's out, but it's just so neat I had to share it.

I like this one, but would leave the heart off. Although, believe it or not, I can do the heart. I have a tiny hole punch for scrapbooking that is a little heart. You punch the heart out of a piece of washi tape and put on the nail with the polish there. Then you paint over the washi tape hole with the color you want the heart. After it dries, lift off the tape and you have the heart like this. But it is time consuming. But other than the heart, this is the design I'm doing. Just going to use hot pink instead of pale pink.

From trash to treasure....

This is just to amazing not to share. I have a friend I worked for back in the 70's that is on Facebook. He posted something yesterday I just had to share. He does a lot of wood craft projects and loves to make things. He was driving by somewhere and saw a pile of old beat up looking wood formed in a tee pee shape for a burn pile. He stopped and asked if he could have a few pieces that he thought looked like they had potential. 

The owner said for him to take whatever he wanted because they were just going to burn it because it was just old scrap wood. He got it home and stripped it and cleaned it up and was amazed to realize what he now owned was solid cherry wood pieces. 

So he decided to use it to work on a desk he wanted to make. Here is the result. 

Moral of the story is "One man's trash IS definitely another man's treasure."

My UPS man is my hero...

My UPS guy came by yesterday and now it looks like Thirty-One exploded in my living room yesterday. A lot of ladies were excited when they saw me post it on Facebook. Will be making deliveries today.

I know I was beyond excited to get my new bag. I am in love with the little chick icon. This is the Go To Tote which is my favorite bag they make. I am going to use this for our National Conference this year. 

That was one of my free products. The other one was this adorable wristlet. It matches really well with the purse.  

Since I had the red and blue theme going, I went through all my makeup mini zipper pouches and found a red one to go with the new ensemble. This will be my new favorite out and about products. I am loving them all. 

Funny thing about the Chick. If you select one line of personalization, it goes right across the middle of the chick and you can't really see it good. A friend of my suggested two lines with the asterick just to see what happened....and WAH LAH! A chick with a hair bow.  And check it out, my font I chose, makes it look like the dot on the eye is on the stomach. Oh wow! My birdie has a bow AND a belly button. LOL. Have an awesome Wednesday.

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