Welcome Spring!

happy March!  Its almost Spring, which I adore, but I'm not a fan of summer, so I'm trying not to think about it.  All the work I'm doing to my skin and the horrid non-UV'd sun will ruin it, just driving home from work.  With tinted windows. and SPF 105.  Sigh.  For now I'm going to enjoy spring!

This blog that I've discovered reminds me of spring; Its fresh, inspiring. Written by a 13-year old girl!  Wow, that's inspiring. Aspire. by Ms. Hannah.  You have to visit this blog!

Her love for our Lord is amazing. I'm impressed and aspire to have more of that myself.  Again.  Life tends to get the best of us at times, doesn't it?  And her love of beauty.  Beautiful things are our to enjoy and tend to and adore. 

So enjoy spring!  And all the adorable little bunny things that we see everywhere! 

This is a site that I received via email.  Many beautiful spring things here.  Oh, and her HAIR!  I love it!  I can't wait for mine to grow!

New Blog Find! And She's having a Giveaway!

A day late, but better late than never...or at least that's becoming my mantra lately!  I can't wait for my Thanksgiving vacation! **Sigh***

Clicking around in the blogsphere, I've discovered a wonderful blog called Bobbypins Boardwalk.  I've even had the opportunity to chat on email with with Ms. Jan, who is a doll and lots of fun.  Take a look at her post on the elusive Hedge Apple!  They are gorgeous!  I had never heard of them and would love some to display in a lovely glass bowl on my coffee table!

Jan's post on her library shelves is when I found her blog.  I saw the post title on another blog and had to click.  I'm trying to figure out what to do about shelving in my loft, although that may have been remedied at the auction.  However, I will still be able to use her techniques to create molding and the painting. 

Visit Jan and this post and see how she completed this incredible project:

Lastly, Jan is  having a giveaway! 

Its a signed copy!

Another reason to visit, I entered yesterday!  Good luck!

New Blogs Discovered Friday!

I've recently discovered a great blog called Classy and Sophisticated.

Wow, that's what I aspire to be!

In fact, it was the name that caught my eye and I clicked on it to see who Ms. Classy was. She is Nicol and has some of the best organization techniques ever. This is one organized blogger! AND she just had a new baby girl this week! The thought of that makes me exhaused!

I’m impressed that she manages to keep her home ship-shape using techniques that we can all employ. She might be impressed that I’ve gone out and bought binders for all of my interests this week because I liked how she has corralled her magazine tear-outs into binders. I have mine all over the place, but soon, they will be in binders as well! (I'll do a whole other post on that!)

Happy Friday and I hope you enjoy Nicol’s blog!

First Blog Friends Friday Introduction!

My lack of posting this week is due to none other than the fact that I have worked closed to 60 hours and I’m exhausted! The first week of the month is always crazy this week, but this was more so because I was out of the office last week and planning to take 3-days off next week. Blogging is such a wonderful way to spend my lunch time, so relaxing!

I actually was thinking about which wonderful blog to start with when I read Ms. Handbands and Handbags post.  She gave me a great idea! Vist her post about OWLS if you haven't stopped by!  I'm fortunate enough to see owls when I run through the canyons by my home at dusk; they fly so close (do they want to play?!) I could almost reach out and touch them!  Adorable!  As a child I loved the idea of an owl with glasses sitting and reading with me. I even had a stuffed animal owl complete with glasses that I loved to play with.
If you haven't visited My Owl Barn blog and you love owls, you must visit them.  They have the cutest owl inspired products that you can purchase to wear, to decorate with and to just enjoy these cute little creatures!

I have a funny owl storey that I have to share about owls, I still laugh about it.

My fiancé is Navajo and the traditional belief is that owls are 'of the dark side' (evil). When he was in college he was an advisor to a group that was establishing what should have been a fun reading program for very traditional Navajo children living on the reservation. The program was failing miserably and one of his non-Navajo colleagues came to him perplexed as to why the children just were not responding to their materials.

After a quick look at the materials being provided to the children, he couldn’t help but just laugh…a large OWL was on the cover of the booklet! He explained to his colleague that the booklet, with the PICTURE OF THE ADORABLE OWL on the front, was super scary to the little Navajo children. It was like giving a little child a picture book with the devil on the front cover. The team quickly realized their cultural faux paux and made the corrections. Once the picture was changed to an Eagle, the children couldn’t wait to read!

Happy Friday and I hope you enjoy the Owl Barn!

Visit my home blog for an organization inspired intro!

New Feature for Fridays!

I love to read blogs, both home care/decoration and fashion. When I'm reading through my favorites I often see a link to a blog that looks interesting. I'll click on it and leave a comment; most often I'll become a follower so I can visit again.


I think a fun feature would be to have a weekly write up of a great blog that I've visited and share a bit of what impressed me. Not only will it help me to make a mental note of the blog so that I can revisit, but also share with my now-numerous lovely readers, something that they might enjoy as well.

So, Fridays will be "Blog Friends Friday" where a new (or possibly old) blog friend(s) are 'introduced' to you. This will be a blog that made a particular impression on me during this past week. The hard part is going to be to narrow it down to just one, but for the sake of time I'll keep it at one: one fashion and one home, on each of my blogs. I hope you look forward to reading about others in our blogging community!

I would just like to thank everyone who is entering the contest! If you have an email address linked to your response, I will email you to personally welcome you. I had gotten to know my previous followers very well in cases, and hope to continue with this. I think that if someone takes the time to follow, it is important to establish a relationship with her. Isn’t that the whole purpose of blogging? ;-)
 I've said so many times, I just adore the friendship and support that the blogging community provides. Ladies who blog are so special. My only regret is that I had not discovered blogging years ago!

If I haven't emailed you, please be patient, I'm not overlooking you; I'm just looking for time!

Happy Halloween to everyone!