say you Love it!

So I've been spending time with Holli in Nashville this week. One entire week. Tuesday to Tuesday. Bliss. We've shopped, dined, run errands, exercised, and shopped a little more. {yes, exercised, butts and guts at the Y, practically killed me!} Holli worked too.  She is getting ready to take kids to camp and there is plenty to do in preparation for "the best week of their lives". But, since this was sold to me as "the best week of my life" we've been on the go for days, building up to Holli's 26th birthday. There is so much to see...

Daniel graduated from high school over 10 years ago so it was finally time to paint his Cary Imp Green walls a different color! Before One of the walls has a floor to ceiling world map and I think the whole family wanted to keep it that way.  Holli and I are always brainstorming decorating ideas.  We came up with a great way to incorporate the world map while still making the bedroom a welcoming place for Daniel to "come home" to and friends and family to feel comfortable in.   We decided that since we have all been blessed with...

but you never lose! Every now and then I get my ducks in a row and enter something that I have designed into some sort of publishing 'competition'. My first experience was simply a pair of earrings that were published in Stringing Magazine in 2009.  They landed on the '17 earring designs page' and I was thrilled!  I think I even received a check for $15.00 for that big event.  But it was simply the accomplishment that I enjoyed. The acceptance. {photos of that publication can be seen here} Then about a year ago I tried my hand at needle...

We got a new puppy!  Call us crazy I know!  I'm not sure how we got to this place again.  We were being nostalgic about getting Sadie around Valentines Day back in 2003, when suddenly...... Piper 7 weeks old - riding home in Kirby's hands Now, let me just tell you what it's like to have a new puppy in the house.  Basically, it's like having a new baby.  That's all there is to it!  The good part about a new baby is that a baby wears a diaper.  The good part about a new puppy is that she can...

I just finished my 'February' book of the month.  I know, unbelievable, it's still early in the month!  I figure I need some quick reads early in the year so I can get ahead.I didn't pick The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe just because it was short though.  Our family went to the third movie in the Chronicles of Narnia series over Christmas and I fell in love with Narnia all over again.  When I saw that Holli's books were still on the book shelf, I decided to read them. There is so much underlying Biblical meaning.  Aslan, The...