Some recent finds

Before leaving on a weekend trip to New Jersey, I did a little shopping at Goodwill. I didn't expect to find much, but I was out while my daughter was in school for the day, so I had all the time I needed to have a good look around.

Items include-
*a mosaic type Christmas decoration. (it happens to match the colors I decorate with..SCORE!)
* bag full of shells
* white glass urn
* glass candleholer
* large glass vase
* beat up nightstand to makeover for my daughter's room
* cool detailed picture frame

But you'll have to tune in later to see if any of these items get used in any new decor ideas.

A week in the life Fridays (Sept 6-10, 2010)

Welcome to my first installment of "A Week in the Life".

Monday

(Labor Day = pool time)

Tuesday

(Hurricane Hermine hits Texas coast and shares

pouring rain and high winds. Resulting in downed

tree limbs. Yay!)

Please forgive my first video share if it doesn't work...lol

Wednesday

(Some instant motivation to find a

place to park while we're away in NJ)

Thursday

(All packed up and ready to go)

Friday

We have arrived in NJ. And I'm setting this to post

on time. So I unfortuantly don't have a picture of

my own for today.  But I'll share a cool picture anyway.

All in due time

I've done a few projects since my last post. They involved a few blank tshirts for my daughter, a small white decorative urn, and some glass pieces. Not put all together of course!

But right now I'm on borrowed time. (Even though I'm not EXACTLY sure what that means....lol) Our family will be airborne soon. We are going up to the Jersey Shore with my husband's family for their annual beach trip. And no...it's not THAT Jersey shore. ;) And that means I need to get my butt into gear packing for everyone. Why do women need SO MUCH STUFF when we leave the house for longer than a day? There's clothes, socks, unmentionables, makeup, hair brush, toothbrush, toothpaste, deodorant, shampoo, conditioner, hair dryer, hair flat iron, several pairs of shoes, bathing suits...and the list goes on. Too many to mention!! And yet my husband could most likely pack his belongings in a backpack. So frustrating.

But the most frustrating about it all is that ALL of the above mentioned has to still be used the morning you leave. So it can't actually all be packed up, ready and waiting for your departure. It's always a last minute pack job hoping you don't forget any of the absolute necessities.

Oh...and I forgot to mention that since living on the East Coast for the past 4 years, we haven't had to fly to see any relatives. It's been nice. I'm not afraid of flying....we used to have to fly all the time when we lived in WA state. But it's been so long and haven't had to experience all the extra baggage costs. I'm dreading it!

Ugghh....so that was my soap box rant for the moment. So when I return from our weekend trip, I promise to get posting about those recent projects. Until then...how do get yourself and family packed for a trip? Any helpful suggestions to make things a little smoother?

And just because I REFUSE to let you go without any pictures....I give you a couple Jersey hot bodies!!

                                     And a little cutie running off the food snatching seagulls....

                                                Both taken on our last trip in 2008.





A week in the life Fridays

To encourage myself to take more pictures, (is that possible??) I'm going to start a reaccuring theme of my own. I've seen this trend all over blogland but hadn't had any ideas for one of my own. A lot I've seen ask people to link up to share their posts as well.  For now I think it'll just be my way of sharing one picture from each day of the week. With limited text. Ideally I'm going to try to only include the day of the week that the picture was taken.

To start it off, unfortunatly I don't have any pictures to share from this week. But because I can't ever bring myself to have a photo-less post.....

I can't help but smile when I see this picture. Our miniature schnauzer Tucker doesn't really care for bath time...and with all this fur being wet....he is so pathetic looking. I think he looks like chinese, if that's possible...lol.

Next friday if I remember to I will officially start my "A week in the life Fridays". So stay tuned!