10 Random Things Friday...

1. You know I love Twinkie Chan and all her crochet goodness... I especially LOVE her Coffee-Cup-Cozy's, seriously so much better than cardboard!!

image found here

2. I'd like these UGG shoes, I wear a 5

You had me at "orchid"

3. Speaking of "orchid".  Favorite flowers ever!

I've owned several, I can never get them to bloom again.  Yet another reason I should move to Maui!

4. At Christmas I found these amazing chairs at TJ Maxx, they were light orchid and taupe (I know, that's gray, but my blogger has no "taupe" and it was a gray/brown).  I, of course, wanted to wait until after Christmas for them to be marked down.  Who else wants orchid and taupe chairs, right?  I re-decorated my WHOLE house around these chairs...in my  head. 2 weeks ago Friday I had this BAD feeling I better go to TJ Maxx ASAP... The Mister took me on Saturday, they were gone. Lesson learned: IF you see something you MUST have at TJ Maxx- do NOT wait for the markdown!!

If you have these chairs, I WANT them and it IS my birthday month...

I've obsessively done on-line searches...I can't find them.

5. The Super Bowl-I hear it's coming soon?!  I don't watch football, I don't like it.  I have NO idea what a "terrible towel" is (a terrible bowel, yes- but that is a whole other story).  A terrible towel to me is one of those cheap scratchy ones from Kmart.  No, I don't care about the commercials.  I DVR stuff to avoid the commercials... BUT,  I am up for the guacamole dip!

Yes, please!!

6. 

does this really even need a comment?

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Yesterday I cut...

 and filled

 my "other" etsy shop: Paper Cuts Are Cute.

www.etsy.com/shop/papercutsarecute

8. I just bought this run for my laundry room.  

I got it at TARGET! It's flammable, don't smoke on it!

My laundry room is painted Chocolate Brown, I just need to paint my laundry room cabinets "Dragonfly" like we did in my kitchen.  Doesn't that sound fun? ugh!

9. I'm reading Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

i like it!  It was $3.99 at a local Bargain Book store!

10.  This one is sad... Do you know of Kayla Aimee?  She had a VERY VERY tiny (1lb 9oz) preemie daughter on Nov 7th. Please consider praying for this family and leaving a kind comment on her blog.  My heart hurts for her!  I hate to end on such a sad note, but make her heart feel better by letting her know we're all pulling for her precious, precious daughter: Scarlette.

Her blog is HERE

Ok, that's all but don't forget to go to YESTERDAYS post and sign up for my give-away!  I'm going to keep it open till MONDAY 'cause i want to get it to the winner before Valentines Day!  Good idea, hun?

Have a GREAT weekend.  Tonight is definitely a "DATE NIGHT", I haven't been out of the house in days...

RED RUM RED RUM

10 things to be HAPPY about!!

Is it just me or has this week been a little bit "ugh" for anyone else?  I started this blog post by bitching about everything that is sucking the life out of me this week (photoshop, computers, technology), but then thought WHY in the world would ANYONE want to read that, I mean, seriously, I have WAY too much to be happy about!!!

Here's a list of 10 things I'm happy about today!!

1. Twinkie Chan's crochet pattern book is coming MY way once it's released next month!

CAN'T wait!!

2. Body wash that smells like vanilla cupcakes for $3.99!

I grabbed the body wash, the body creme, AND the body mist... when I walked into Darlings school last week a little boy kept yelling "I smell marshmallows, I smell marshmallows", so I buried his face into my armpit and yelled "it's vanilla cupcake you DORK!"

3. I'm running again and I feel GREAT!  I know it sucks to get going but when it's over I am ALWAYS glad i did it!!

4. I have this GREAT little girl in my life!

I can't imagine my life without my daughter, it's amazing how you don't know what you're missing till you have it!

5. I just (Oct 10th) celebrated 2 wonderful years with my Mr.

(picture from his surprise 50th, 2 years ago!)

6. This store, does anyone else ❤LOVE❤ this place?

7. need I say more...

GLITTER!

8. MY FRIENDS

too many to list, you know who you are!

real life friends, online friends, bloggy friends, facebook friends....

9. etsy and all the WONDERFUL artists out there.  Eye candy galore!!

10.  The fact I don't have to work in a mine!

Congratulations to everyone coming back to the top safely!!

What is making you happy today?

and let's not forget...

a little plug about my BABY/KID HAT DRIVE

As most of you know, my daughter was adopted from China and I left a little piece of my heart there.  I'm collecting hats to keep the children and babies warm in the winter.  Many live in orphanages that are without heat.

1. make a baby hat, toddler hat, or kid sized hat 

(you can take the non-crafty way out and buy one if you must)

2. Send to:

David Shellenbarger

c/o chinamommy

146 E Main

Caledonia, MI 49316

3. I need them in my hot little hands BY Oct 31, 2010.

4. I'll take care of shipping them to CHINA this fall.

any questions- please feel free to email me!!

chinamommy@yahoo.com

What I wore today...and other, better stuff!

Ok, so it was yesterday, but still!

You know how all those cute YOUNG bloggers in their vintage dresses like to post their outfits on their blogs and outfit remix sites?

Well, not wanting to be left out, I thought I'd join in...

Don't hate...

Oh yeah, then I have to give a run down of where I got everything: Shirt- TJ Maxx.  It's one of those running shirts that wick the wetness off of you, I wore it in 04 when I adopted my daughter from the sauna known as China.  Pants: Meijer, terry cloth and too short and WAY too wide.  Sexy, I know!

 I decided I'd better just post Darling's outfits, cause even if I don't wear them, I must say: I can pick them!!

Jeggings!!

(Target: head to toe)

I'm going to live vicariously through her outfits...

This year I'm going to stick to my goal of taking pictures of what SHE wears all year!  I know I love to see what I wore as a kid in the 70's!

Ok, so you know how I never finish what I start and I always have 1,000 projects and 999 problems with said project?!  Well, I watched the video on how to use my sewing/embroidery machine and I FIXED the issue I was having and look what I got done!!!

(please note improved outfit today!!)

Yes, my friends, it went from this

to this

note: fancy stitching

Now, don't get all excited, it's not me, it's the machine!

The sewing machine I have is smarter then you and I combined and it cost more than my car (although that might not be saying much...).

It is beyond me and I do NOT deserve to have this machine, but I do...long story.

Off to the dentist...will my $25,000 smile ever be done?