tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49742947757311500392024-03-14T11:31:22.273-07:00Holly's...Havena place to escape into creativityHollyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14344710994135239866noreply@blogger.comBlogger173125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4974294775731150039.post-57537254451202207052012-08-30T10:22:00.001-07:002012-08-30T10:29:04.168-07:00Time to create.....<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">My word of the day is "originate".</span></div>
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<span class="ssens"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong>originate :</strong> to give rise to <strong>:</strong> </span><a href="http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/initiate"><span style="font-size: large;">initiate</span></a></span></div>
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The kiddos are back to school and the creative juices are flowing!!</div>
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I spent 6 weeks this summer with all of my favorite people in Utah, which means lots of whimsy!!!</div>
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Yummy foods galore, window shopping, novel reading, and best of all IDEA GATHERING!!!</div>
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Did I ever gather ideas... too many ideas!</div>
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So, now that my three 'olders' are back in school and I have to fill my days</div>
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Time to originate and get these projects going... </div>
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Hollyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14344710994135239866noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4974294775731150039.post-85953269914247869162012-04-19T11:28:00.001-07:002012-04-19T11:37:08.322-07:00Reclaiming my whimsy.....<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I was looking around my room the other day, and I thought </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">"why in the world are all of my doors white?"</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I am in the process of reclaiming my whimsy.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I am an artist at heart and for months I have been feeling stagnant.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I have been doing the mundane things that we need to do to keep life going, to keep the household functioning.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">laundry, dishes, chauffeuring, cleaning,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">the list goes on and on.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">(Like any of you don't already know that...)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I don't even mind doing those things. Especially with some good music in the back ground.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">BUT... My magic is fading. I use to be fun and whimsical.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Lately I have been finding myself becoming </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">so </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">so </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">practical. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Not that there is anything wrong with practical. In fact I totally plan to hang onto some of</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">this new practical me!! It's really handy! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The part that troubles me is that my light seemed to be fading.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The pixie dust is wearing off of my wings...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">the red is draining from my hair...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">the paint has dried on all of my brushes...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">the caffeine is gone from my diet coke!!! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">SO... I am reclaiming my whimsy!!!!!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I am starting with baby steps, but my first project is my closet door. I have just finished painting it</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Martha Stewarts 'Tidewater'.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">It is my new favorite. I now have 4 frames and a bedside table recently painted 'Tidewater'.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">(I have never believed in overkill. :) )</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This is the first year that my Chloe has been in one continuous dance class, and has been able to enjoy </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">the costumes and recitals that go along with it. I have been so spoiled by Jens'</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">mad photography skills that when it came time for the dance studio to do their annual</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">photos, I went running straight to her for ours. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I will NEVER go back to traditional studio photos. I loved having</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Chloe outside for her pictures. It catches the colors in the costume and the</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">whimsy of the whole idea of a little dancer girl so much better than any of my studio pictures </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">growing up ever did. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Once again...</div><div style="text-align: center;">THANK YOU JEN!!!!!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br />
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</div><div align="center" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;">"doesn't come from a store.</span></div><div align="center" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div align="center" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Maybe Christmas...</span></div><div align="center" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div align="center" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;">perhaps...</span></div><div align="center" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div align="center" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;">means a little bit more."</span></div><div align="center" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div align="center" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;">-Dr. Suess</span></div><div align="center" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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</div><div align="center" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Merry Christmas!!!</span></div>Hollyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14344710994135239866noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4974294775731150039.post-73852523933777077522011-11-22T11:36:00.000-08:002011-11-22T11:39:55.094-08:00Thankful For.....<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoZLN5IsMClZ4h4KpMiHHaXtk_jP21JbiHzbPaeLZ8pLlHQ39whJfRxl2G7WiRCvvNhZ134VyjYjsxYwshLuOpipXL4lkfyF1G5FBIWaCYh4YZiCCD8v1Myep7DzGj65J2GYJ1metO0Nw/s1600/Family+2-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" hda="true" height="425" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoZLN5IsMClZ4h4KpMiHHaXtk_jP21JbiHzbPaeLZ8pLlHQ39whJfRxl2G7WiRCvvNhZ134VyjYjsxYwshLuOpipXL4lkfyF1G5FBIWaCYh4YZiCCD8v1Myep7DzGj65J2GYJ1metO0Nw/s640/Family+2-2.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This is what I am truly thankful for!! My amazing family!!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">(that and a <a href="http://jennifer-myhappyplace.blogspot.com/">bestie</a> who is an incredible professional photographer. :))</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I decided that I would be diligent about getting annual family photos as I watch my kiddos grow </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">up far far too fast. After last years success with <a href="http://jennifer-myhappyplace.blogspot.com/">Jen </a>taking gorgeous family pictures, I </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">decided that I just had to make her work her magic again!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Well,... she did it!!.....Again!!!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">THANK YOU JEN!!!!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I just love them!! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">You really captured my children's personalities, which can be nearly impossible. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">(Especially when they are in front of the camera. ;) ) </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I've said it before and I'll say it again... </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Your MAD TALENT just runneth over!!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Now,... how to make choices for a Christmas card?????</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div>Hollyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14344710994135239866noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4974294775731150039.post-78199291585739469302011-10-30T21:23:00.000-07:002011-10-30T21:23:37.567-07:00Such Talent...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtm7pT3xjWykgHk8p2S8Vxz3FWjwfSwh0KIJzAxlhxR758uLPHHJPu7lX9RnWC3WaQSxyHhKNbhl-R-nzwAeM15K_k0a6B9PIapeifaI_Xfdrq_-steabze8f29FjTEsrNSpEl5jcP0JQ/s1600/310149_2562937117776_1384531642_4702669_1475447160_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" ida="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtm7pT3xjWykgHk8p2S8Vxz3FWjwfSwh0KIJzAxlhxR758uLPHHJPu7lX9RnWC3WaQSxyHhKNbhl-R-nzwAeM15K_k0a6B9PIapeifaI_Xfdrq_-steabze8f29FjTEsrNSpEl5jcP0JQ/s640/310149_2562937117776_1384531642_4702669_1475447160_n.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">My littlest and I attended a birthday party the other day for her "bestie". </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">She was turning the big '3'!!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">So her mom (<a href="http://jennifer-myhappyplace.blogspot.com/">my bestie</a>) got out the camera and just started taking snap shots...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">they were all</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">BEAUTIFUL!!!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Given... her mom is a professional photographer...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">BUT STILL!!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I feel like I should have paid a sitting fee. These are just a few</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">of the amazing photos that she sent me.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Thank you <a href="http://jennifer-myhappyplace.blogspot.com/">Jen</a> for these...they are truly a gift!! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">My son made an acrylic painting a few years back and titled it "Zero Gravity".</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I thought it was so clever and cute that I (of course), immediately</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">stole it and hung it in our office.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Well,...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">recently he decided he wanted a it in his room. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And I still have my original in the office!! :):)</div>Hollyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14344710994135239866noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4974294775731150039.post-648772057968709642011-10-17T09:07:00.000-07:002011-10-17T12:11:19.333-07:00Obsequious...<div style="text-align: center;">The word of the day is Obsequious... </div><div style="text-align: center;">...something I have been trying <em>not</em> to be since I painted this picture...</div><div style="text-align: center;">12 years ago.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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disapproving : too eager to help or obey someone important <br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">: marked by or exhibiting a fawning attentiveness </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"></div><br />
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">: ready or prompt to help or obey like a servant or slave at the wish or command of another person especially to gain favor </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"> </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"> </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"> </div>Hollyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14344710994135239866noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4974294775731150039.post-67931622255556970232011-10-11T11:53:00.000-07:002011-10-11T12:03:00.894-07:00Random-ness...<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">Been busy...</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">I feel like it's fall.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">I know that sounds funny, because it is fall, but here in the desert where the temperatures stay high well into November fall is more of a feeling than a noticeable change in colors, or temperature.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">It has cooled down,...a bit.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">People have decorated for Halloween,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">and there is that certain buzz.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">That excitement that is contagious, and it starts to fill the air. Well it makes me want to nest.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">So,...I have been nesting.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">I have refinished a few pieces of furniture and started a few projects that I am excited about. I will post them all as they get finished up. Now my kiddos think that I need to get started on their Halloween costumes. Oii!!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"> Wish me LUCK!!</div>Hollyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14344710994135239866noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4974294775731150039.post-78425226508388238792011-09-21T14:49:00.000-07:002011-09-21T14:49:20.402-07:00Drooling<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhpafUb6HkOV2V5uOClJchod9YuHY3BbdsFceog973xc79CvUa5-vQNwrHH6d8eSvPb2u9N3VSFJfLY_gUuuWAUDUVvsG4e6hera4gc_0lfy18dhIUee9dBW2GQMh110Uay6LeyHY2qEk/s1600/carolyn+westbrook+the+french+inspired+home.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" hca="true" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhpafUb6HkOV2V5uOClJchod9YuHY3BbdsFceog973xc79CvUa5-vQNwrHH6d8eSvPb2u9N3VSFJfLY_gUuuWAUDUVvsG4e6hera4gc_0lfy18dhIUee9dBW2GQMh110Uay6LeyHY2qEk/s640/carolyn+westbrook+the+french+inspired+home.png" width="553" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The French Inspired Home</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">by Carolyn Westbrook</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">My <a href="http://shabbynest.blogspot.com/">sister</a> gave me this oober-amazing book about 6 months ago for my birthday,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">and I thought it was lovely. Fun to flip through and enjoy the eye candy.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Now that we are mixing things up here at the Platt plantation and I am looking</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">for lighter and airier decor I find myself drooling over the pages of this book.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">It has a very Victorian feel, and lots of gooey detail,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">which 18 years ago I just loved. Then my tastes did a whole</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">eclectic voyage around the world flip flop thing, and now</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">...again...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I find I have come full circle and love the gooey-vintage</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">details mixed in with all of my other eclectic tastes.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">What is a girl to do??</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Fickle me!!!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Anyhoo... for any of you who have not yet flipped through a copy of </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">the French Inspired Home,... I thought I would just throw the idea out there.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">It is a treat.</div><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbdONnS5IEqqZyt_lJGzGefBrrvyMVwm20ELTnc91EEJ55QGe08CZPdZjw2OrE5KgKZXv7opb4rpNCM8h8nSHA6GRsL6waITdHgNAw3wBgPqynpUeMT2yaFkDCuJELWbTLq1Gi3vyMbn0/s1600/FIHkitchen+image.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" hca="true" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbdONnS5IEqqZyt_lJGzGefBrrvyMVwm20ELTnc91EEJ55QGe08CZPdZjw2OrE5KgKZXv7opb4rpNCM8h8nSHA6GRsL6waITdHgNAw3wBgPqynpUeMT2yaFkDCuJELWbTLq1Gi3vyMbn0/s400/FIHkitchen+image.jpg" width="360" /></a></div>Hollyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14344710994135239866noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4974294775731150039.post-50480808295785225532011-08-15T23:47:00.000-07:002011-08-15T23:47:16.267-07:00So many other things first...<div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"> I was talking to a friend recently about how my blog is so </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">sorely neglected.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">She is a good friend with good insight.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">One of those people that you can just talk to,</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">...bounce ideas off of,</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">...blow off steam with,</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">...and voice concerns to.</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"> She asked me a simple but good question.</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">"Do you enjoy your blog or does it cause you stress?"</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">I have been thinking, and I have decided... both. </div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">I enjoy having a place to put my ideas. To document finished projects.</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">To get opinions from others. </div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">Honestly... my favorite part of my blog is the convenience of </div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">my side bar. I visit my own blog nearly every day just to bounce off of it to </div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">visit all of you. To explore all of my other favorite places.</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">I don't enjoy feeling pressure that I should post something if I haven't done so</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">in oh... say 2 or 3 months. </div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">(Not that I would ever let that happen.)</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">I only ever created the blog as a haven for when my creative juices are most active.</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">I thought about deleting my blog.</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">Thought hard about it...</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">and almost did it.</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">Than I felt a sense of loss.</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">Real loss. </div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">That was something that I didn't expect.</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">I sometimes get attached to a work of art that I have finished and it is hard to sell it,</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">or give it away... and I joke that they are like my babies...</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">but I didn't realize that I was attached to my blog.</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">So I decided... no... I am not deleting you... my little</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">under nurtured,</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">but adored blog. </div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">But, I am not much of a blogger.</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">I have discovered that I am all of these other things.</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">I am...</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">First a mom, a wife, and a Latter Day Saint.</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">Next a friend,</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">Next an artist,</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">a cook (not by choice :) )</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">a housekeeper (""")</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">the doer of laundry</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">the chauffeur</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">the book keeper</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">the homework editor</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">the hairbrush er</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">the sock and shoe finder</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">the referee of sibling rivalries,</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">a journal writer,</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">jewelry maker,</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">clothes mender,</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">band aid putter on-er,</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">back tickler,</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">etc.</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">etc.</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">etc.</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">and then... a blogger.</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">I really appreciate so much my little band of followers,... </div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">and I really appreciate the few hits and comments that I do get.</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">So, I am not deleting my blog that I have a soft spot for.</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"> I am, however, from here on out...</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"> owning that it is at the rock bottom of my priority list. </div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">I will not promise myself that I will do better about updating it.</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"> Nor will I feel guilt, pressure, or stress if I go 2 or 3 months (not</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">that I would ever let that happen) without posting.</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">So.... if ANYONE is still with me it is opinion time. </div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">I have been "lightening up" my house over the last while. </div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">Getting rid of some dark colors and tossing in bits of robins egg blue,</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">and lots of ivory and white...</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">little splashes of yellow and green.</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">Making it feel fresh.</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">My bedroom has had red accents for such a long time now. I am so over the</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">red. Downright sick of the red. I have gotten rid of most of it. The only thing keeping me </div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">from redoing the whole color scheme are two original works of art by two different </div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">people that I know personally. They are beautiful pieces and of course...</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">they are very heavy with red. My walls are taupe. My room feels heavy.</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">I think I have found a solution. </div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">( I really wish I could remember what magazine </div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">I found these pictures in so that i could give credit. oops. )</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">See how the red in these pictures looks really light and airy, even cottage-Esq when paired with yellow?</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">I propose this...</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">I paint my walls a very light creamy yellow,</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">add even more ivory and white accents, and keep the few red pieces that I already have.</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">What do we think?? Am I on to something?</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">Or is red and yellow soo totally yesterday? :)</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<div align="center">Did anyone else receive this advertisement in their mail</div><div align="center">recently??</div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center">I laughed out loud!!</div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center">It is so simple, yet so creative.</div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center">I already love my Kindle, but after this advertisement I love it even more.</div><div align="center">How can I not be partial when they have such tastefully clever</div><div align="center">people working for them?</div>Hollyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14344710994135239866noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4974294775731150039.post-78763368932532527972011-05-26T11:46:00.000-07:002011-05-26T11:50:15.877-07:00Badger~<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQUz_ntLE9KKHRELghFpa0sz1DNVK_vUc9gzzH1i7IjcYxQpzo7aWLD3PSuiYWhCpwXb4NAdqYlhAqdS3fSRfq1vjhjs0X3GX-jF1barNPVXbbZ7-TSIszGBWdwtqwG4zQ_xP6WcyPfow/s1600/DSCN0531.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="492" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQUz_ntLE9KKHRELghFpa0sz1DNVK_vUc9gzzH1i7IjcYxQpzo7aWLD3PSuiYWhCpwXb4NAdqYlhAqdS3fSRfq1vjhjs0X3GX-jF1barNPVXbbZ7-TSIszGBWdwtqwG4zQ_xP6WcyPfow/s640/DSCN0531.jpg" t8="true" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Meet our newest family member...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This is Badger.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">He is a desert tortoise,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">and the coolest pet we have ever owned!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">They had two tortoises, and Badger was the smaller of the two.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">(He is about 15 inches around.)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Well, apparently when you get two male tortoises together they fight.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Badger is said to have nine lives like a cat because he has lost many a fight and lived to tell about it.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">He has been flipped over on his back and stuck there for many long </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">hours in the HOT desert sun, until his owners discovered</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">and rescued him.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">He has even had mouth to mouth resuscitation...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">(yes really),</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">after nearly drowning in our friends swimming pool.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">(On more than one occasion.)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">All because of tortoise testosterone.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Who knew??</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Anyhoo... because they too love Badger, it became too stressful for</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">them to always be worried that he was a casualty </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">of yet another tortoise war, and so they did what they felt was best</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">for him, and found him a new home.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">We welcomed him with open arms!!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And though he is really not cuddly, I am amazed at just</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">how cute he is.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">It is soo fun to watch him move around and eat.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Our youngest princess pets him and talks to him nearly every day.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">" I wuv you Badga!"</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">It's very tender,... and then she turns to me and says...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">"mommy,...Badga wuves me too." </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Thank You to the Prestons for our newly adoptive family member.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Who knew one could feel such affection for a tortoise??!!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">My amazing friend<a href="http://jennifer-myhappyplace.blogspot.com/"> Jen</a> of J. Frank Photography has done it again!!!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Every time I hire her to take pictures of my</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">peeps, or my whole family,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">or a teapot in a french pastry shop :):),...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">she exceeds my expectations!!!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">She threw together a little Easter special where she did mini</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">photo sessions locally with bunnies. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">BUNNIES!!!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">How cute is that??</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">How clever is that???</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I don't know if I was more excited to see my girls enjoying real live,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">soft, furry bunnies, or to get really great original photos out of the deal!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Anyhoo... I think that they turned out darling!!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Thank You JEN!!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">If you want to see more of the cute Easter photos, including ones with </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">chicks,...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">yes, real live fuzzy CHICKS,...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">then hop on over to her blog <a href="http://jennifer-myhappyplace.blogspot.com/">My Happy Place</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">and check out all of the eye candy.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div align="center">Thanks Kym for the fun idea!! (<span style="font-size: x-small;">p.s...I'm dreaming of your cupcakes.</span> ;))</div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center">Happy Crafting!!!!!</div>Hollyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14344710994135239866noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4974294775731150039.post-34955193831683605142011-03-09T19:03:00.000-08:002011-03-09T19:03:28.051-08:00And The Winner Is................<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkrm4PVM9qLMtRysK7L02bfhZevv_R5u7lHyFR_cHOQ1bHN9ixiy_ypxpWQEL2yiGSBpK6vpRWTHPXtUVWThw1B7nah12Ty1q_SjfDKBEaBKeJeplrQVY2Dddo5EAC_B9DjAS4flwNTUw/s1600/89.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" q6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkrm4PVM9qLMtRysK7L02bfhZevv_R5u7lHyFR_cHOQ1bHN9ixiy_ypxpWQEL2yiGSBpK6vpRWTHPXtUVWThw1B7nah12Ty1q_SjfDKBEaBKeJeplrQVY2Dddo5EAC_B9DjAS4flwNTUw/s320/89.jpg" width="192" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Sorry that it took me a few days to post a lucky winner,...I </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">have had company in town, and oii... if we didn't run around like</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">headless chickens!!!!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Anyhooo....</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Just in case my own computer had any tendencies toward favoritism, I had my</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">husbands computer randomly pick the winner.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The very lucky lady who gets to choose one of these two darling dresses from</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.shabbyapple.com/"> Shabby Apple</a> is...............</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">drum roll................</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">TARA </span><span style="font-size: small;">of "Come Sign With Me,</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">and "Tara Michelle Designs"!!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Congratulations Tara!! I will be contacting you. And THANK YOU to all</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">who entered. A little good natured competition</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">makes life more fun!!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div>Hollyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14344710994135239866noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4974294775731150039.post-54979290809824229022011-03-03T12:33:00.000-08:002011-03-03T12:33:58.870-08:00A not-too-shabby giveaway.....<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_iThdDS86naz5IckoIyz03Q4pn8i6VRgWOQfxW5rirsv-uRHB7I9yX8UsWwn2AoKH6yvWZmCblYbPZ8xm_1iLzZiR2Gbt_0dTSvWEChzGe9Q1-yBJ97Z9s6L7A35bOV9ID68bMy4m4z0/s1600/89.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" l6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_iThdDS86naz5IckoIyz03Q4pn8i6VRgWOQfxW5rirsv-uRHB7I9yX8UsWwn2AoKH6yvWZmCblYbPZ8xm_1iLzZiR2Gbt_0dTSvWEChzGe9Q1-yBJ97Z9s6L7A35bOV9ID68bMy4m4z0/s320/89.jpg" width="192" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">"L'Ete"</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">If you have not yet discovered the <a href="http://www.shabbyapple.com/">Shabby Apple </a>then you are in for a treat!!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I recently discovered the online shop at <a href="http://www.shabbyapple.com/">http://www.shabbyapple.com/</a> and fell IN LOVE with</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">the apparel they have to offer.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">But my favorite.....</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">the dresses....</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">oh the <a href="http://www.shabbyapple.com/">dresses</a>!!!!!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">They have a wide variety of classic, vintage inspired, whimsical, working, and playful dresses!! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">They even offer maternity and kids dresses!!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Well,... today is your lucky day!!! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Shabby Apple is generously offering to give away a dress to one of my readers.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">You can enter to win your choice of either of the two dresses above.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">"L'Ete", or "Sundance Kid"</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">All you have to do is leave a comment to enter.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">If you would like to enter twice hop on over to... </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Shabby-Apple/56291792791">http://www.facebook.com/pages/Shabby-Apple/56291792791</a> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">and "like" Shabby Apple on Facebook. (Make sure to leave a second comment letting me know that you "like" Shabby Apple.)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The winner must have a U.S. shipping address.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Wait, it gets better Shabby Apple is graciously offering my readers a 10% discount on any purchase.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">You just have to use the coupon code... "hollyshaven10off", and you can choose from.....</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Happy dreaming. I will take comments for the giveaway until midnight Saturday March 6th.</div>Hollyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14344710994135239866noreply@blogger.com48tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4974294775731150039.post-9303481527594807172011-02-27T20:45:00.000-08:002011-02-27T20:45:26.308-08:00Springy Vignettes...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgm87UK0cyTcPc3-O2XGlTNMhoeEyly3X_g1xeM2rORpQ82oywIyfQa3_-KaBX2j6mGfMuzCPj9SF5dYEih3D7IPQk4S25guCk5cS6V5s616B8PpVkFnVz1SS44bwWvZZAb41yyN0wsvtA/s1600/DSCN0304.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="510" l6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgm87UK0cyTcPc3-O2XGlTNMhoeEyly3X_g1xeM2rORpQ82oywIyfQa3_-KaBX2j6mGfMuzCPj9SF5dYEih3D7IPQk4S25guCk5cS6V5s616B8PpVkFnVz1SS44bwWvZZAb41yyN0wsvtA/s640/DSCN0304.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Still working on lightening things up around the house.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Now, along with the neutrals, I have been finding that light greys,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">robins egg blues, and spring greens</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">bring me much comfort.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I always pegged myself as such a "warm color girl",</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">and now I notice that so many 'cool colors'</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">make me feel all warm and fuzzy.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">my high school sweetheart,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">(who just so happens to also be my wonderful husband!!)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Happy Valentines Day Steve!!!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">So a while ago I started adding more and more neutral tones to my home.</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">Neutrals seem to calm my nerves,...</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">to relax me. </div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">I hung up these three really <a href="http://ahollyshaven.blogspot.com/2010/04/leaning-towards-neutral.html">cute metal tiles</a>.</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">Then those same tiles continued to bug me...</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">for a few days...</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">then a few weeks,...</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">then a few months!!</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">Finally I decided that they just needed a little something</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">I had a 16x20 picture in my garage waiting to go</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">to the goodwill. So I took the picture and the glass out of the frame.</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">I used my favorite 'Rust-Oleum' spray paint in "heirloom white"</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">to spray paint the frame. </div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">I screwed an antique glass knob right into the wall above the tiles,</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">and hung the frame over the tiles with lace.</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">I am really enjoying the finished product.</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">The frame really was just the right "somethin somethin' that the </div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">tiles needed!!!</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">And,... THANK YOU to those of you who so kindly commented on</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">my inquiry in my last post. I know exactly how I am going</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">to approach painting my curtains,...Thanks to you!!!</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">months and months ago...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">But they are Anthro, and so they are way overpriced and I figured I would watch </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">for them to go on sale. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">So I watched...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">for like a year...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">and they went on sale for-a-small-fortune!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And,... they only had one size left...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">So I figured I would make them. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Doesn't everyone have like 15 (or so) </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><em>unfinished</em></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">projects laying around their house?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Or is that just me??</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">So, why not make that 16, right?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">So I have the curtains all ready to go, and I am ready to paint on them.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">(Yes, I actually want to paint on them. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">My favorite poems, important dates, kids birthdays,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">places I have been. Ya know, make them personal.)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">So here is my question....</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I was just going to use good old acrylic craft paint.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Bad idea or good idea??</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Is anyone versed in the knowledge of painting on fabric with acrylic?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">If so, your opinion would be much appreciated!!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Thank you!!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Aren't they cute??</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">.....or two!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">.....or ten!!!!!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I had a conversation with my 2 (very nearly 3) year old yesterday.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This conversation stuck with me all day.....</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I was catching up on my family scrapbook.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I am only,...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">oh,...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">6 YEARS behind!!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">(I am so going digital/online scrap booking when I </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">finally catch up all of these printed pictures!!)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I was scrapping the obituary of Fern Johnson, my husbands</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">grandmother.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I showed the picture to my Ella and said...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">"This is Grandma Johnson,... she was wonderful.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">She thought that everyone and everything was wonderful,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">which in and of itself is,...well,...wonderful."</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Ella mumbles to herself and says the word "God",</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">which catches my attention because we always say Heavenly Father</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">in our home and now I am really curious as to what she is mumbling about.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I say.... "what did you say Ella?"</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Ella says... "she with God."</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">(I just stare at her. We talk about a lot of things in our home, </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">but have we ever covered this?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I mean, to this degree? </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">So I continue to stare.)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I say... "Did you say she is with God??"</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Ella: (a very matter of fact) "Yes."</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Then she says... "Desus (Jesus) is wonderful."</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Ella: "Do you wemember mommy?"</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Me: "Remember what Ella?"</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Ella: "Wemember that Desus is wonderful??"</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Me: "Oh Yes Ella, I do remember,...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">do <em>YOU</em> remember??"</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Ella: (another very matter of fact) "Yes."</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Then she just scampers off to play.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I had chills from head to toe and pondered that tiny little conversation all afternoon and all evening.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I don't read too much into things that children say, but I know they are smart!!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And,... there is a lot that I would like to read into this, so I think</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I am just gunna go ahead and do that.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div>Hollyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14344710994135239866noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4974294775731150039.post-30558075272796540282011-01-09T14:29:00.000-08:002011-01-09T14:29:42.106-08:00Fit For Princesses.....<div style="text-align: center;">Does anyone remember<a href="http://ahollyshaven.blogspot.com/2010/10/fit-for-princess.html"> this project</a>?</div><div style="text-align: center;">Well, it is complete!!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">I know, I know... you are all thinking,</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">"Wait!, What, Did she actually FINISH a</div><div style="text-align: center;">project??"</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">and the answer is........</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">YES!!!!, yes I did!!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I found the perfect sized letters for this piece at JoAnn's... </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Took them home and painted them white...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Printed a few of my favorite pics. of my pixie...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Had to buy a few extra cute little clamp/paper clip thingies at Target...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">and..... VOILA!!!</div><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Now the room that belongs to both of my girls</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">actually looks like it belongs </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">to both</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">of my girls!!!!!</div>Hollyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14344710994135239866noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4974294775731150039.post-28720563160366002922010-12-31T21:55:00.000-08:002010-12-31T22:00:11.223-08:00Happy New Year!!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDxt9MS6a-8mD1YCMD7Y7lRloOmiOOuM_OFCSoqfRJrEd0ZCWc04oaexYTtulWFis_dwlUAejTZRywWAAhhCGyZ12c4pe6hnm3Q74brx1v-IDAgeEKQkS_qzkWNdbdSEdXbpxzn5x4L4k/s1600/1aaaaangelflying007.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" n4="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDxt9MS6a-8mD1YCMD7Y7lRloOmiOOuM_OFCSoqfRJrEd0ZCWc04oaexYTtulWFis_dwlUAejTZRywWAAhhCGyZ12c4pe6hnm3Q74brx1v-IDAgeEKQkS_qzkWNdbdSEdXbpxzn5x4L4k/s640/1aaaaangelflying007.jpg" width="436" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong>Re-solve</strong>: to cause resolution of (a pathological state) </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"> 4 a : to deal with successfully : clear up <resolve doubts=""><resolve a="" dispute=""> </div><div style="text-align: center;"> b : to find an answer to </div><div style="text-align: center;">c : to make clear or understandable </div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">In 2011..... I resolve to persevere.....</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><strong>Persevere</strong>: per·se·ver·ance noun \ˌpər-sə-ˈvir-ən(t)s\</div></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">: continued effort to do or achieve something despite difficulties, failure, or opposition : the action or condition or an instance of persevering : steadfastness </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">I resolve to spend 15 minutes a day loving and believing in myself more </div><div style="text-align: center;">so that I can love and believe in others more.</div><div style="text-align: center;">I will recognize my strengths more </div><div style="text-align: center;">so that I can recognize the strengths in others more.</div><div style="text-align: center;">I will look for my beauty more </div><div style="text-align: center;">so that I can more easily see the beauty in others.</div><div style="text-align: center;">When I feel less then adequate I will try to focus on my best quality,</div><div style="text-align: center;"> to work through it and</div><div style="text-align: center;">persevere.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">What is your best quality? How will you resolve to love yourself more??</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><em><span style="font-size: large;">Happy New Year!!!</span></em><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;">"The spirit of Christmas illuminates the picture window of the soul. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">To catch the real meaning of the spirit of Christmas,...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"> we need only drop the last syllable</div><div style="text-align: center;">and it becomes</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"> the spirit of Christ."</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">-President Thomas S. Monson</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br />
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