Sick with a cold and some great finds!

Well, I haven't posted here for the last several days because I have been fighting a nasty cold. It has really been a doozey and has kicked my butt! I even called in sick to work on Sunday night. Not much fun being sick, that's for sure. I just hope that my kids don't catch it, esp. my 4 year old!

I had a great shopping trip this past Friday at my local thrift stores! I found a set of two matching vintage hat stands for only $2.95 each! They will be perfect for me to put some of my vintage hats on to display on my dresser or even on my daughter's dresser! I love that they match, too! I will take a picture for you all to see when I am feeling better.

I also picked up 2 grab bags of plain white envelopes that will be perfect for when I make cards! They were only .95 for each bag and they probably have about 100 envelopes in each! I also found a grab bag of neat little drawstring muslin baggies and again, it was only .95 for the bag of 26 or so bags. I have been toying with the idea of opening up an Esty Shop and I can use the baggies to put in loose misc. altered items in for cute packaging! Then I found an adorable Lily Pulitzer outfit for my daughter that was only $3.00! It was a skort with matching top in a hot pink with green palm trees design and it looks adorable on her! I found all of that at one of my favorite thift stores.

I then decided to head over to another thrift store near me, but I hardly visit. Well, I didn't find any cool vintage treasures there, but I did find a pair of adorable dress shoes for my daughter. There were barely worn and were black velvet/suede like with an embroidered flower with some beads on the toe area. Nothing gaudy...it was very subtle and all done in black. I then found a pair of Disney Crocs for a child and they were the red Disney ones with Mickey Mouse holes and a black strap. It also had a cute metal and enamel bee charm in one of the holes. After I paid for my two items and I was walking to the door, I saw a cart with some purses sitting there behind the register near the door. So, I stopped because one of the purses caught my eye! Sure enough, it was a blue Vera Bradley backpack purse! Yeah! It wasn't priced, so I asked the clerk how much it was? She looked at it quickly without seeing the VB label and said $3.00! I replied "I'll take it!" and went back in line to buy it! So, all in all...it was a great shopping day for me! Woo Hoo!!!! I love shopping at thrift stores because you never know what treasures you will find!

D.A.R.E. Graduation

Today was a busy day. My sister was discharged from the hospital on Tuesday after having surgery on Friday. I've been busy looking after her and making sure she is settled in and has all the things she needs to recuperate. Today I took her out on some errands that she needed to get done and got it all taken care of. She is doing very well and is a real trooper, esp. since she had to carry her wound vac. with her everywhere she goes! She had surgery on her leg; they took out a 4x5 inch section of skin on her leg that is about an inch deep! They have this wound vacuum machine attached to her via a tube that collects and drains the fluid build up in the wound and it is attached to her at all time. She amazes me how strong she is handling it all and the Dr.'s said it will take at least a month to recover. Tomorrow I will pick up some groceries for her.

So, after the running around today we had my oldest son's D.A.R.E. Graduation tonight! The kids at his school (6th Grade) participated in a 14 week long program called Drug Abuse Resistance Education (aka D.A.R.E.). The kids worked hard at it and learned so much. Well, tonight was their Graduation and they had a lovely ceremony honoring them. It included all the 6th Grades in the district, the Mayor, State Representatives, the Chief of Police, the various Principles and teachers, Board of Education members, and their D.A.R.E. Patrol Officers. They even had the Color Guard bring the flags out (playing bagpipes-love that!) and a Choir sang the National Anthem...it was really lovely! They called each child to walk across the stage to accept their award and shake their hands. Three kids got to read their essays that they wrote about saying "No" to drugs and I was quite impressed by them. :-) I am very proud of my young man and thankful that their school offers such important programs like that to them.

"The Pink Artist"

I read about this wonderful project on another blog and thought this was a fabulous idea! I knew immediately that I definitely wanted to participate in this project! This cause is very near and dear to my heart. My Aunt Loretta was diagnosed with breast cancer about 12 years ago and my dear friend, Shelley, was diagnosed 6 years ago with it, as well. Here is a little information as to what it is all about:

"the pink artist"

is a community of artists joining together
to create one joint art doll to benefit Susan G. Komen for the Cure.
When doll is complete, it will be mailed in to Art Doll Quarterly™
before finally being auctioned off on eBay at a later date.

ALL PROCEEDS WILL DIRECTLY BENEFIT CHARITY.

All you have to do is create a 2x2 inch square with a cloth base using your chosen medium in any way you feel inspired to do so for this project! I already have a plan in my head as to how I am going to create my square!

If this sounds like something you would like to learn more about and take part in, please click on "the pink artist" image on the right side of my blog. That will take you to Monica's blog...she is the master mind of this project...and she will tell you all about it, what you have to do and where to mail your square to! I hope you check it out and decide to participate in this! Please note that the deadline to mail your square in is March 1!

My very first post!

Well, I have been thinking and pondering about starting up a blog. Well...I finally did it and here I am typing my first post! Ack!!!!