• Zumba Gift Bag

      Envision this if you will: You’re in your back yard and you climb over the fence from your yard and into the field. You’re now “beyond” where you were. If you walk across the field and cross the creek, you are now “beyond” the previous “beyond”.  If then, you climb the fence, cross the creek and walk until you…

  • Baby Shower Extravaganza

      “Patience is not the ability to wait, but the ability to keep a good attitude while waiting.” This morning I was “working out” – riding the stationary bike while pinning things on Pinterest – and came across that quote that stabbed me in the heart.  Oh Pinterest, how I love you for your crafts, recipes and words of wisdom!…

  • 30 Sucks…

      Very rarely in my life have people done something for me expecting absolutely nothing in return.   Generally I get the short end of this lead-weighted stick and do all the work in my relationships.  In third grade I used all my hard earned “Cherry Cash” (frugally saved by yours truly) to buy all of my friends the pencils, watercolor…

  • Baby Buckets!

    My dear friend from church, Sam, is expecting her first child (as I finally post this on my blog, little Olivia Marie has arrived!!!) and I wanted to do something cute for her baby shower… Problem #1 Sam and her hubby Yanick chose not to know the sex of the baby.  Good for them! – bad for me and my…

  • DIY Lion Costume

    It is a very good thing the only people reading this blog are my darling friends… Seriously, I have been neglecting the crafting/picture taking/writing.  Ugh. The ladies retreat at church was a “safari” theme this year: “Faithful, Abundant, True On the hunt for life’s greatest adventure!”  I about nearly fell out of my seat when Pricilla Shirer started speaking on…