the price of gas is too high to leave the house.....

so come on over here

and

play

instead

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seriously though

have any of you filled up your tanks this week

wowza

~

the give-away continues until 5pm tonight

sharp

so leave a comment

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the more the merrier

right

~

oh

and

have you seen this video

~

i don't really love lady gaga

but

this little girl took gaga's most recent song to a whole new level

~

watch her facial expressions

~

and

i don't know about you

but

i was thrilled to finally hear what the words are to this song

"there's nothing wrong with loving who you are"

since

gaga tends to mush them all together

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it's a sweet give-away....

and

these arm-warmers/fingerless gloves

can be yours

{along with some other sweet hand made goodness}

they're made from recycled sweaters

and

are as scrumptious as my recycled sweater

that you all loved in my earlier post

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made

with love

by jenny

jenny

will be ALSO be giving the winner

in this give-away

a $25.00 credit towards ANYTHING in her etsy shop

{see i told you she was a doll}

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so

how do you win

~

between

now and 5:00 pm

tuesday

leave a comment on this post to be entered ONCE in the give-away

~

if you are a follower you will automatically be entered TWICE

{please remind me if you are a follower }

~

and

if you mention this give-away on your blog

{and send me a note telling me you did}

you

will be entered a THIRD time

~

so

let the fun begin

and

while you're waiting to see if you're a winner

check out jenny's etsy shop

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monday will be fun....

just another tease

to remind you to come back here on monday

for some good old fashioned

handmade

love

~

if you were one of those who commented on my sweater

you will not want to miss my give-away

on

monday

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words to ponder.....

"our kinship with earth must be maintained; otherwise, we find ourselves trapped in the center of our own paved-over souls with no way out."

terry tempest williams

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thanks to ann marie. her blog is where i found this quote.

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i ran into a friend today on my side of town. the side of town he laughs at and is light years away from where he lives even though we both call madison home. it honestly took me seconds to register him in my mind as he was so unexpected.

along with school and work he's on call in our city as an interpreter.

spanish is his first language but he speaks 5 different languages.

impressive. right.

today he had patients at the eye doctor that needed his help.

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after somewhat gutting my closets. the dining room looked like a garbage dump. i had 6 black force flex garbage bags filled to capacity and a few loose items in miscellaneous bags screaming to be set free. so off to the food pantry i went.

to say they were excited to see me

would be an understatement.

~

my son is working in construction. it's a job he has had off and on all through high school and right now it's pretty much full time. he is always dirty. always covered in something. usually it's mud. lots of mud. yesterday it was mud and tar. yep tar. black dried on tar after working on a foundation. it was on his boots. jeans. face and arms. i gave him a loaf of freshly baked corn bread and wished him good luck while his dad gave him a bottle of mineral spirits.

thank god he can do his laundry at his apartment.

but

that's only after he goes to the car wash

where they have the hand held wands where he can hose himself off first. boys.

~

today i bought him new work clothes at good-will

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happy weekend

everybody

~

OH

and

on monday. a big fun give-away

and

yes it has something to do with the sweater lady

and some say size doesn't matter....

well personally i think it does

~

really

how boring would this photo have been if i had shown you a tiny pine cone

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oh wait

your mind is still in the gutter

isn't it

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don't they know i can count...

i see the cold winds outside staring at me. daring me to be brave enough to walk out my front door. but i'm not playing that game today. instead i'm staying in where the warm air from the furnace dries out my skin

and

sends dirty dog smells through the air reminding me she needs a spa appointment.

~

i'm behind

i have closets that still need to be emptied

and

drawers

that are scary enough to be the lead roles in an upcoming horror film

begging me to visit. and i might. or i might just sit and finish the book i'm reading that had me crying in the back of the airplane sunday night.

~

i didn't want to sit in the 14th row flying home. only because it's the last row next to the only bathroom and the seats don't recline.

technically it's the 13th row. do they really think we can't count. that we won't realize it's the 13th row and that someone is just playing the superstitious game with us. little do they know that in our house 13 is a lucky number. na na na na boo boo.

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yeah. my love for flying went out the window a long long time ago.

i know i know. if you've seen one sunset you've seen them all.

somehow with sunsets though that lingo doesn't work for me. just like snowflakes i believe that everyday when the sun goes down

it's in a different costume than the day before

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now granted

as much fun as it was to watch my hubby catch snowflakes on his tongue a few posts back

i'd give that up in a heartbeat

to be front and center

for this kind of onstage performance night after night

~

want the seat next to me

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in the middle of an early mardi gras.....

we were lucky enough to be back in florida this past weekend

and

even luckier to be able to sit in the sun and listen to an amazing concert

{and of course people watch}

~

there were adorable little girls with freshly painted faces

and

dogs with beads

there were costumes

and

poorly applied sunscreen

there was my hubby laughing with his lawn neighbor

and

a guy as busy as i was taking photos

there was little girl who danced right in front of us

and

this little sweetheart

who will grow up and work at disney world someday

there was this sweet grandma all dressed up

dancing the day away

and

another tiny dancer in pink who really knew how to swing it

there was this little boy who just simply made me laugh

now you know at mardi gras you have to dance

{well there are a few other things you can do}

in order to get some beads

~

so dancing i did

this lady didn't understand the rules

and

thought she could just tackle me in order to have a sparkly necklace

everyone knows it's rude to leave the dance floor once you have your beads

so i just kept moving

and

stole this man away from his wife

{not really. it just looks that way in the photo}

~

to say it was a great afternoon

in seaside

would be an understatement

~

so i'll just say

"when do we get to go back"

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