THANKSGIVING

Happy thanksgiving to all my blogger friends! I thought I'd post a list of things that I'm thankful for. Its good for all of us to think about the blessings in our lives and so easy for us to take them for granted. I do try to remember to be thankful fairly often as I'm reminded pretty much on a daily basis, that I do have a wonderful life !

I am thankful for:

my husband and my kids!

my home and the sweet community we live in

my pets and all the wonderful awesome animals that God created!

I'm thankful for heat and water and food!

sugar! tea! cinnamon! and bread!

music! all kinds of music.. Christmas music!

musicals!

I'm thankful for art.. and creativity and talent.. that is all around us.

I'm thankful for the 4 seasons.. I'm thankful that snow is pretty.. and that the cold makes me appreciate my cozy little house!

I'm thankful for my car! and my job!! and the people I work with.. even those I'm not so fond of.. because they make the people I am fond of that much more special!! Im thankful for my friends.. a huge blessing because I have so many wonderful and close friends!

I'm thankful that we were able to raise our children in this area...and never worried about their safety in school! I'm thankful that my kids are all healthy and well. and beautiful! and that they are close and they like to spend time with each other.

I'm thankful for america and freedom...

I'm thankful for god and his son!

I'm thankful for ice cream

I'm thankful for craft and fabric stores.

for Old things.. for odd things.. for colors.. all colors..

For sunshine and beaches!

for teddy bears and dolls!

for holidays! halloween. easter. valentines day. thanksgiving, the 4th of july and christmas.

for birthdays!

and birthday presents to give and recieve!

for computers!!!! and the internet! amazing !

for technology.. for smart people!

for medical advances and researchers...

for health insurance!!

for the moon and stars.. for scientists .

for soldiers..

for my health.. for the ability to get up and go to work everyday and to be able to do the things I want to do.

I'm thankful for this artful blogging community!

and for so much more that I'm forgetting about right now.

♪♪Praise God from whom all blessings flow♪♪

what are you thankful for?

(brenda of brendas magic garden..Congratulations!! you are this weeks winner! Please email me your address and I'll get your giftie out in the mail!)

HAPPY THANKSGIVING AND GOD BLESS YOU ALL!!!

12 days of christmas..

You've got to watch this.. the whole thing. Its soo funny! warning! go fast! scroll down and click the sound off on my play list before you start this video!



heehee.. cute huh?

isnt it friday yet???? please hurry!

oh my.. I'm soo pooped out! I'm so glad tomorrows friday. I have so many things I want to do and need to work on. I'm planning on staying home all weekend in my jammies!! (well probably not really in my jammies all weekend. but a lot of it!) I actually am planning on going out for a bit on sunday. but other then that, I shall be parked at my kitchen table working on STUFF! thats my plan and I'm sticking to it!
I need to work on all these snowmen above.. and these two miniature bears below.. and also a large red christmas bear that a girl at work ordered. I want to get all of this stuff done before next wednesday. On wednesday I want to clean my house and make my pies, stuffing and squash. So after thanks giving I can start the next big bear order. My goal is to finish that order over thanksgiving weekend!
What do you all do for thanks giving? I cook for my family and then we go to our friends house for dessert. we have two families that we are very close to and we do holidays together.

look at what I found at walmart tonight.. Baileys irish cream candy! and they are very good. The mudslides are for thanksgiving night. but the candies.. are for now! unfortunetely there is no alcohol in them. DARN!! (there is alcohol in the mudslides though! truthfully, Im really not much of a drinker.. two drinks is usually my limit, as soon as I feel the alcohol I get nervous and stop drinking! silly me.. I should just have the next drink and keep on partying!!! yeah, but I dont. I do keep on partying, just with out the alcohol!sorry, i'm a bit boring tonight. I worked all day, then went to walmart until it was time for quilt guild meeting.. came home at 8:30, put on my jammies, fed the cats and here i am on the computer! I do have to say, my couch and cat are calling me.. and Im considering a bowl of ice cream as well.. though God knows I dont need it!

sees yas later girls! night night!

"let them eat cake and read blogs" (sweet b)

My sweet friend Sweet B gave me this sweet award today. Its the "blogs to lose your head over" award. so I must pass it on.. this is a very difficult task as there are really sooo many awesome blogs out there. but let me consider a few here.. first.. I give it back to her!! Then as I try to think of some cheerful and upbeat blogs, Scrappy Jessi comes right to my mind!

scrappy jessi's blog is ALWAYS fun and upbeat. she has an extrordinary amount of energy!

Then theres Kai . Kai is truely one of the sweetest loveliest girls out here in blogland.

Debra of hophopjingleboo.. if youve never checked out the absolute yumminess of her blog.. be sure to do so..

Natalea of Kandeland. You may not know it, but she is one of the funniest and "talkingest " people in the world I'm sure! I've had the extreme pleasure of spending some time with her in person over the past few months, and she is a total riot!

Sandy of sandyscreations, is an amazing artist and her blog is full of fun things.

Terisa who you may know as sabiiwabii.. Her blog is also full of lots of wonderful artwork.

I have to say, I dont really like choosing 7 blogs. Because I could go through my bloglist and choose everyone of them. Each blog I have listed is there because I find their blogs inspiring in some form or another. Some inspire creativity, some home decorating, some family time, some cooking and some spirituality and christianity. with in these blogs Ive found women who are kind, friendly, loving and generous. They take the time to update their blogs and share their lives with each other, their ideas, their opinions, the things they love and the things they create. They share pictures from their daily lives, their cute children and grandchildren, their gardens, their dogs and cats, something they just baked and the recipe! their artwork and their homes. Sometimes they share beautiful pictures of Gods artwork.. in nature. I dont know about you, but Im always excieted to see who was the last to post and to run right over to see what they've been up too! I try to leave comments, but sometimes I just get a quick peek and I have to move on!

anyways.. Heres to all you girls!! Heres to blogland friendships and inspirations! I loose my head on a daily basis here! much love to you all!

AND THE WINNER IS...
KAI!

email me your address kai...

and the rest of you keep leaving those messages this week.. I'll have another giveaway on sunday!

I'll do a post update tonight!

have a sweet day!