10 Random Things Friday...

1. The Mister and I at a golf outing Tuesday

See all my teeth?  Good!

2.  Every year we put out our hummingbird feed and every year we have Hummingbirds!!

 Doesn't this one look like maybe she's going to lay some eggs?  She looks kinda chunky to me?

1 C sugar to 4 C water- store it in your fridge and add a little bit at a time!

3. My junk store find this week!!

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4.  Beach blanket with a handle from.....TARGET (of course!).

Now all I need is a tiger suit and a parrot...

5. Remember that time I cleaned my studio...

Me either!

6. My summer MUST have for my face...actually, I use it all year round.

7. Another summer MUST HAVE

8. The flip-flop basket right outside the door in our garage

9.  I got an idea this week and had to have a doll mold.  This might be for candy, I'm not sure but I don't think I want to eat a baby on a stick?!

 10. Today is my little sweetie's last day of 2nd grade...SO hard to believe!  This was last year, her last day of 1st grade...  She is SO excited to be a 3rd grader- Me?!, not so much!!

Have a great day and a great weekend.  This summer might be a little quiet on the blogging front, but I am going to keep up the random Fridays!!

Four!!!

Yesterday we spent the whole day on the golf course, which is 2nd (in my mind) to a great junk shop.  This is darlings 2nd year taking lessons, I figure they will come in handy when she's a famous surgeon and has to entertain whoever Dr's entertain on the golf course!

Let me just relive my glory shot for a moment, because I'm going to be living off this fame for years!  We played a scramble -if you don't golf, that means 4 of us hit the ball and we take the best shot each time.  They had a scholarship hole where you made a donation to this scholarship and if you made it within this circle you won double your $ back.  Well, I gave her EVERY bit of cash in my wallet, I had a good feeling about this shot...

I hit my ball and don't ya know, right in the circle...

and then, right in the cup!!  Yep- I got it in the hole in 2 shots with no help from the others, these were BOTH my shots!!

Did I mention I had $2, so I won $4!!  Whoo-hooo, who is a high roller??!!

My little photojournalist for the day!

I just wanted to thank those of you that left such kind comments on my birdie necklace yesterday! 

 It really means so much to me!

I've got a few more in the works, all of them will be OOAK!!

(One-of-a-Kind).

Now, if I can just find some time to work on them... 

Anyone working on anything crafty this week??

Please share and if you'd like it to be featured on my blog, let me know- I'd love to share your art and/or your shop!!

Happy Thursday gals, the weekend is almost here...

I'm back from Cheese Heaven....

Yep, Wisconsin is where this girl was!

The Mister had to go to a certain company's annual meeting and since the wife of the owner happens to be my new BFF (whether she wants to be or not), Darling Daughter and I went along!  

Oh did we have some fun in Cheese curd City!

This was our trip out to Wisconsin... it's a 6 hour drive but we turned it into 12 1/2!

We headed out down the toll road and saw one of these every 5 min. 

Darling with her DVD player

a whole lotta bikes on not a whole lotta car!

Seriously?

  Yes, she's reading while driving through 6 lanes of Chicago's insane traffic!

I zoomed my camera in (cause I'm nosey) and did notice it seemed to be directions somewhere, not a love note, so I'll cut her some slack.

C, this one is for you...

and have you been to my town??

Once there...

we played a little golf

these 2 may have drank a little wine...

and I MIGHT have disrespected a former NFL player!

Yes, that is me giving DD Lewis (#50 for the Dallas Cowboys back in the day) bunny ears!

He seemed like a guy with a pretty good sense of humor and since the Misters buddy couldn't talk me into putting him in a head-lock, I went for the next best thing!

No, he didn't know it and unless he's a follower of chinamommy, he still doesn't know!

Well friends, it's Monday evening and I've got to get caught up on my "The Bachelorette".

Tomorrow I have to run to Shipshewanna and get that dang dog back 

from my parent's who were nice enough to watch him while we were stuffin' our pie holes with cheese curds!

I miss ya!!

and since it's been a while...

a little plug about my BABY 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. email me at: chinamommy_04@yahoo.com for my address.

3. I'll take care of shipping them to CHINA next fall.

any questions- please feel free to email me!!

Come on get Healthy... or kinda'

First let me say: WELCOME NEW FOLLOWERS! I'm so excited about all the contest entries: Keep them coming! (Make sure you are going to MONDAYS post to enter- ONLY enter on that post!!) Please pass it on...

So yesterday i have a package in my mailbox- yippeeee! i loves me some mail & especially if it's in a box or large envelope! It was my amazon order... the "Skinny B*$ch" box set & my copy of "the shack" ... quite a combination hun? I've been scanning through my "skinny" book, as i will now refer to it. The language is "rough" to say the least & we (the authors & I) are not on the same page politically AT ALL, but i do think i'll gain some great info out of it without joining peta or giving up milk! My gram just turned 100 & drank whole milk her entire life. If vegan is for you- go for it, but with my Mister in the farming industry (NO- he is not a farmer, don't get me started on what a horrid farmers wife i'd make, think: Green Acres...LOL), it's not for us. I'm not a huge fan of meat, but i just have no desire to give up all animal products regardless of what some say... To each their own, that's what i'm sayin'! I did just turn 40 in Feb. so i WANT to start eating better & have kinda fallin' off the wagon of health & exercise (kinda, but if my cousin is reading this, she's cracking up- she thinks lettuce on your burger is being a "health nut"- love you!!). I've been saying i'm going to start running for ages & so.... TONIGHT, I'm starting again! I was a runner & would really like someone (the Mister...hee, hee) to be able to bounce a quarter off my butt again! Don't worry this blog isn't going to become all about wheat germ & athlete's foot, but it is a place for me to be accountable. If you see me eating a whopper & laying under a booth somewhere, feel free to give me a kick!

Tonight is my darling daughter's 1st golf lesson and i am SO excited & so is she.... aren't you, aren't you?? yes, you ARE!! No, really, she is! I think this is a GREAT sport & something we can do as a family for years & years to come. Plus, i want her to be on the LPGA & be a surgeon on the side... No, i'm not living through her vicariously, i promise!

Sorry this is a photo free post, i personally like some eye candy, i do! I never realized what a TON of work (coming from someone that doesn't have a job- hahahahaha) it is to gather pictures & post them. Oh somebody slap me... TON in capital letters even! TON of work? Seriously, what is wrong with me? hahaha, i kill me! Maybe darling daughter & i will try to do something interesting later to photograph!

Have a great day & don't feel too sorry for me slaving away at the computer gathering photo's for tomorrow's post!