iPod giveaway from the cool chics at S.I.T.S.

Those totally cool and very generous chics over at S.I.T.S. are wrapping up their 6 weeks of summer giveaways with an iPod! Go on over and check it out. Someone named "Heather" has won the last two weeks... so it is SO TOTALLY my turn now!

Absolutely Bananas: writing prompt

My biggest travel horror story took place about 6 years ago. DH and I had been dating for several months and he invited me to spend a weekend in Pennsylvania with him and the couple who introduced us. She was celebrating her birthday (she celebrates her birthday for a week! my kind of woman) The plan was to take in all the historic sites in PA and go to Atlantic City.
Anyway, I was really nervous because I'd never flown before, was going away for the first time with (now) DH and was just antsy about the whole thing. Just getting through security was a nightmare. Each time we went through sensors, I set off the alarm (this didn't stop at the airport mind you, when we went to see the Liberty bell... set them off there too... went somewhere else in PA ... set them off there wicked weird). So after setting off all the alarms & securing my place on potentially hazardous people list, we finally boarding the airplane. DH had splurged on first class tickets and it was really nice. I sat by the window, took my dramamine and was ready. Mind you I have been to the restroom at the point a minimum of 10 times in the time it took us to make it through the airport. We begin to slowly taxie down the runway and we.... stop. I'm cook once I realize this happens on a pretty regular basis. We chit chat, I enjoy looking out the window, my dramamine starts to kick in and... for all of about 30 mintues, things are good. Okay so after then... things get... well... interesting. I MUST go to the restroom. The stewardess won't have it. I explain that I promise to be quick... no go. After another 15 minutes, I inform her that the mess she will have cleaning up my seat will be much more involved than the one she will have to clean if I'm actually IN the restroom should the plan actually take off with me in there. She snickers and says that the seatbelt sign is still on and I must remain in my seat until it either goes off or we are airborne. This continues for another 20 minutes or so. Finally, as she is passing out nuts (HELLO she's walking here), I request a Depends instead. At this point, I've come to the realization that DH will never speak to me again once the weekend is over... I'm pretty okay with that as long as I make it OFF the plane with clean pants! FINALLY the stewardess allows me to go to the restroom and the plane takes off probably 10 minutes after that. DH was actually pretty cool with it. (About a year later I was diagnosed with Crohn's Disease and it all makes a LOT more sense now but then... it was... HORRIBLE) The actual flight was great, I loved the clouds and views, it was simply the delay on the tarmac with no access to the restroom with the possability of having an accident that made this my travel horror.

SITS Giveaway

Those darlings over at SITS are having another giveaway. This week it's an adorable red digital camera and since I lost mine a few weeks ago (and haven't told DH yet) I REALLY need to win this one! Go comment and enter for your chance to win this cute little cam. away from me!
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Summer Swap!

Okay ya'll... don't be jealous... but I had one of the best swap partners! Imagine my delight when I retrieved the mail today and found this...

NOOOOOOO, not the dregs of my vanilla bean frap.... the box sillies! I have to say... I tried to wait to open it... I tried to enjoy the thrill of anticipation.... I tried.... almost... but...didn't wait!

Becki was my swap partner, I knew when I opened the box--- she's just ADORABLE! Something old, something new, something previously owned (& BLUE!) too cute!

Becki sent me a really, really cute glass door plaque with daisies on it (I LOVE daises and she said this was her something old). A WONDERFUL christian music CD, something previously owned (her nephew is the singer and the boy is TALENTED, I'm listening to it as I blog now...) and a beautiful bookmark that has a silver mediallan that says Delight and has a sand dollar charm. (It's really really pretty).

Soooooo.... take a book what I did!

I immediately put the adorable daisy plaque on my freshly painted door! Ain't that just the cutest!?!?!
And replaced my Citibank payment (which was either waiting for me to finish reading the book so it could be mailed & fulfill it's real purpose in life ((DUH to allow me to charge MORE stuff)) or loose it). I LOVE my things! Thanks so much Becki!

You can check out the Summer Swap participants at: http://thesimplewoman.blogspot.com/

MOST adorable totes!

Check out Sew Gracious. She has the most adorable totes and things!
http://sew-gracious.blogspot.com/2008/07/gracious-giveaway-win-free-bag.html

4th of July means..... watermelon!

This little darling is my neice.... she loves watermelon!
The cutie cutting the melon for her is my oldest son...Think she's offering to share? Think again!

Seek and you will find...

Today while I had a wee bit of time to "look", I decided to stop at the new local antiques store and another really great one that has been around a while. I'm always on the look out for antique canning jars, I'm also collecting antique kitchen... tools? I already had three really nice jars, a really old biscuit cutter, a rolling pin, potato masher, a dipper, and an enamel funnel so my collection is growing. Check out my finds!




For about $39 I found.... a really pretty tin (?) vegetable bowl with fruit on the outside. Two antique Ball jars with solid metal lids, a really ... odd canning jar with glass top and metal pull down tabs, a pyrex (?) glass vegetable dish, an antique hand seive, TWO beaters which I JUST LOVE, and two vegetable market baskets (okay so they were only 25 cents each and totally not antiques but I liked them). Great day for "looking."



AND those wonderful chics over at SITS are giving away an ADORABLE handbag so go enter.... or... don't (might make me have a chance to win LOL)...