What a lovely piece of jewelry....

I had a wonderful day at the zoo yesterday with the grandbabies. We are heading out to play miniature golf today (which some call putt-putt and some call goofy golf.) I got some good pics but I am saving them for my Friday Fotos post. I did want to share something with you today. Some beautiful jewelry that has been popping up in my recommendations on Facebook and Pinterest. I love sea turtles and thought this was adorable.

Shells, turtles and dolphins .... all the wonderful things of the ocean and beach.

I really, really want to find where I saw this. I wouldn't mind ordering it before I go to the beach.

Thirty-One is coming out with a new charm bracelet and the charms hook between the beads so they aren't sliding everywhere. I just love this.  

You pick your own charms and it comes in silver or gold with the white little beads. I want this horseshoe charm.....

.....And one with my initial....

...and one with my birthstone.

I think I need to visit Etsy to see what kind of beach jewelry or charms they have. 

Good morning Monday

It's rare for me to have Monday and Tuesday as my days off. I love the idea of Monday not being, well, blah Monday. It's going to be fun. I'm taking the three younger grandchildren to the zoo today. My faves are the gorillas, elephants, giraffes and most important is the lions. My number one wish is for them to be close enough to get a good photo. Which usually never happens.

Speaking of photos, I actually had a photo taken of me yesterday to mark the fact that I actually wore a dress to church for the first time in I don't know when. I have a hard time finding dresses to fit so I just wear slacks and nice tops. Well, I broke out the little black dress simply because I was to lazy to put on two pieces of clothing if one would do the trick. Decided to document the occasion because it doesn't happen very often.

Thursday night I watched the fall premier of the new Thirty-One Fall/Winter 2017 line of products. My heart skipped a beat when I found out they are bringing back my favorite purse ever....The Retro Metro Bag. Back when I first started selling, I bought one every time a new catalog came out so I own 5. Over the years, I have sold patterns and products I have grown tired of, but I have never ever parted with a Retro Metro. When they discontinued them, I was sad since I love this bag. Well the new one is out and I can't wait. They have four patterns, but this is the one I want.

I never thought any more about it until Sunday morning sitting in church. I guess I'm not the only one who loves the bag. Diana, Shelby and myself were sitting together and when we stood up to sing, I happened to glance down at our purses....we were ALL carrying a Retro Metro Bag.  

I saw something recently online that you could order and saved a photo but forgot to save where I saw it. I'll have to go back and search. But this would come in handy when I travel to the beach so Sherrie and I can both charge our phones if needed.

Last summer, I needed a new non-stick pan and couldn't decide what to get. Someone suggested Gotham Steel and I had no idea what she was talking about. Apparently it is amazing titanium/ceramic. But you had to order it and shipping was outrageous so I just bought a cheap generic non-stick from Walmart. As I was looking for a toaster oven at Walmart the other day, I saw this on the end of the aisle....GOTHAM STEEL. Guess who is adding one of these skillets to her Christmas list.

Y'all would be so proud of me. I went to Shoney's to eat lunch the other day. I love having their sundae for my dessert. But instead, I thought the jello and fruit looked a lot better that day. So I passed up ice cream for fruit. WHAT????!!!! First a dress to church now fruit instead of ice cream? What's going on with the universe because things are kinda strange around here.

A few weeks ago, my memory in Facebook popped up from several years back and I had posted that I had gotten .15 cents off per gallon of gas with my Food City card. I had a picture of the pump and said "Woo Hoo! I just got gas for $3.78 a gallon." My how times have changed. That was after Katrina and the oil shortage stories were running rampant. Well, I used my card the other day and got it for $1.84. Wow. Big difference.

Well, time to get ready for the grandchildren to arrive. Have a great day!

Sunday's Songs

Something new to try...

I have been seeing these toaster biscuits in the freezer section at my local store for months. Finally bit the bullet and bought a box to try. Best way to try them was to make an old fashioned favorite Mom used to make for us.

I mixed some dark Karo corn syrup with some softened butter in a small dish.

It doesn't look so great from the camera, but I assure you it is like a gooey caramel gravy.

I fixed one of the biscuits just to see how they were.

After I toasted it, I sliced it open on my plate.

And poured the syrup/butter mixture over it.

The results:  Hmm. Not really sure. I did love the flavor of a good ol' southern biscuit. The inside was a little fluffy, but being so thin it was hard to expect any fluffiness. I did get the outer edge just a tad crispy, but not much at all. 

Flavor about an 8 - 9 on a scale of 1 - 10. Texture about a 7 since there was no fluffiness. Not my favorite biscuit ever but I did eat every bite of it. Of course it's hard not to when it is covered with such delicious goodness.

Would I eat them again? Yes, I'm going to make a small batch of gravy and try the next one I eat. Would I buy them again? Probably not. You can buy a bag of Grands for around the same price as 8 of these and just take out what you need. They were $2.89 for eight biscuits. But on the flip side, if I'm in a hurry and just want a biscuit really quick, I would probably keep a box on hand. So do I give these a thumbs up or thumbs down? I'd say it's probably the wibbly wobbly hand gesture for so-so.

Friday Foto Friends

Many years of laughter....

Many years of love....

And a card on our 20th anniversary that had a book mark in it. Allen said these words caught his heart and he knew he could never say it to me as well as this does.

I have kept this in my bible for 15 years and now it hangs on my refrigerator. I was blessed to have had that one great love and it will live in my heart forever. He was, is and always will be my soul mate and the love of my life. 

My updates from this week

I have gotten so lazy on my posting. It has just been a busy crazy few weeks. But I'm back to normal now. I did spend the 4th of July going antique shopping with my friend Sherrie. We had a great time, even if we just went to four stores before wearing ourselves out. I found a few things. One was a Corelle platter in the Pyrex Butterfly Gold pattern. I've seen these a lot of places for $18 - $24 and won't pay that for it. But I found this one for $4.

I also found this Corelle casserole dish that I've been looking for. It was $5.00 and in excellent shape.

I'm trying to collect as many of these 501 Pyrex bowls as I can till I can get every pattern they make. Found this one really cheap but can't remember what it was. I think around $3 or $4. I have different ones so far. I need to see how many there are total.

My happiest find of the day was this wooden spoon for $1.25. I know that sounds crazy, but I had a wooden spoon me and Allen used for 35 years and it broke last year when I was stirring brownies and I wanted another one that was all broke in and weathered. So I was thrilled to find this. 

I didn't buy this because it was $9 but I took the picture to remind me that I wanted to do this for my craft room. Next time I'm at the Dollar Tree I need to look for one.

Last time I went to this one store, Memory Antiques, I saw this booth and came home and pulled out my pink and sage green to redo my bedroom. But I'm still not happy with it because it's not girly looking enough. I have tans in my bedspread and it was more country rose, not pink. So I really want to look for a new bedspread and get some more pink in there. I always wanted a pink-pink lacy bedroom.

Instead of green in it, I want to incorporated some medium blues and maybe a little lavender. Kind of like the flowers in this tray that I wish I had bought. 

That's it for today. Hope you are all having a good week.

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