I woke up to something other than sun this morning! This makes me very happy. It’s raining and I have tons to do today, I love the rain so this is good! Tomorrow I am selling at a local craft show so I have spent the week getting my products ready for display and sale. […]
I am an auntie and the house is dirty.
I just wanted to take a moment to tell everyone that Hazel Renee Norris, my niece, was born early this morning. We are all very thrilled and I can’t wait to see her this weekend! Although I was supposed to have a baby first (I was the first born so I am supposed to be […]
Another Johnny Depp Movie Comes out December 21st
Johnny Depp has appeared in several Tim Burton films over the years. One of my favorite movies is Charlie and the chocolate factory where Johnny Depp plays Willy Wonka, a mysterious chocolate who is looking for a special child to take over the chocolate factory. I like this movie because it portrays a good message […]
Wordless Wednesday- November Sunset 2007
It’s cold and we have rain/ snow in the forecast this weekend so many prescribed fires are burning outside town, this brings us some amazingly colored sunsets here in Flagstaff, AZ.
Burr…. 19 degrees? Thank goodness for free fire wood!
Well, the forecast is COLD as you can see by the screen shot above. Thank goodness for our local freecycle group and the nice lady that let us haul away a full truckload of free firewood this weekend. We are renting a home with a nice wood burning stove and we are stoked that we […]
Have you put up your holiday decorations yet?
Several of our neighbors have really gone all out with holiday decorations. I am amazed at how many people have started and completed putting up their holiday decorations, it is only November 27th! We haven’t even retrieved our holiday decorations from the storage unit yet and some of our neighbors have all their decorations up […]
Recycled sweater purse and glove instructions
I had planned to publish the instructions for the cozy sweater purse in my previous post titled Homemade Christmas gift ideas, to-go boxes and purses… Oh my but the post became rather long and for the sake of the sanity of my readers I put the instructions here in a separate post so it could […]
Blog marketing idea- blogger business cards
I just found a great deal for bloggers who wish to market their blogs outside the realm of the internet. You can get 100 FREE business cards, you just pay the shipping cost! These blogger business cards are a great way to market your blog in the “real world”! On ooprint.com you can design your […]
Homemade christmas gift ideas, to-go boxes and purses… Oh my!
Well, I have been busy! Over the thanksgiving weekend I have been brainstorming homemade gift ideas and I have been getting ready for an upcoming craft fair/ holiday sale. We did not get any snow as was predicted so we kept busy an entertained by rearranging the bedroom so it was more feng shui. Oh, […]
Top Chirstmas Gifts 2007 – for my shopping list.
My mom is insisting that I don’t buy her any more Christmas gifts than I already have but I found the perfect gift for her today while I was browsing the Top 2007 Christmas Gifts for Her site. She collects Snowbabies and every year we have bought her a new one for her holiday collection. […]
Rude people suck!! Black Friday Experiences Shared
I went out today to so some shopping, specifically because I needed to get a chainsaw for my boyfriend. No, I am not killing him.. It was one of the gifts he wanted so he could chop wood and all that good stuff. I was paying with gift cards I earned from gather. Anyway the […]
Clever Holiday Gifts I found- November 2007
I have gotten the majority of my big holiday shopping out of the way prior to thanksgiving this year. Yay for me! I try to do this every year and am not always successful, this year I pulled it off though! Oh, by the way of you still need to do holiday shopping consider doing […]
Homemade Gift Idea- Origami Treat Box
We have about 8 Victoria’s Secret catalogs that are piled up on our living room table. Each catalog has the exact same products in it just in a different order. Anyway I wanted to put them to good use somehow, I was going to use them to start the fireplace up or something. Tonight I […]
Updates on our mating finches, websites and more…
A while back I posted about how our finches were trying to hatch the eggs they laid my female finch (the hen) started laying eggs about three weeks ago and the incubation period for those eggs is up at the end of this week. Sadly I discovered that they rolled two of the three eggs […]
Bubbly, burping beer.. fermenting in my bathroom.
My boyfriend, N, brews beer as a hobby. We have had several memorable beer brewing experiences. The first batch of beer he brewed blew the bottoms out of the individual glass bottles after bottling. Beer oozed all over the kitchen. Apparently too much yeast was used. Then next experience was homemade root beer soda. This […]
Payperpost, Google, page rank, paid links and the debate.
Did you know that many bloggers who get paid to blog are suffering from dramatic page rank drops? Do you know why? It is because of Google’s rules about “passing page rank” through paid links. Payperpost is a great way for bloggers to get paid for writing but questions have been raised about whether or […]
Do you reply? Join the I reply movement!!
I was doing research earlier this week on how to effectively build my blogs readership. There truly is more to blogging that the obvious posting aspect of it. While I was learning about new ideas and trends in the blogosphere I found The iREPLY movement. The movement basically proves that appreciating and conversing with your […]
Spock- people search
Today I decided I would try something new.. I heard about a new people finding site called Spock, I headed over to their site to see what all the talk was about. Basically they are a people search company. Spock is better than the search engines because they limit their results to just people, you […]
November 15th- America Recycles Day!
Today, November 15th is America Recycles Day. Do you recycle? Do you know why recycling is important? I want to encourage everyone to take some time to learn about the recycling today. If you have kids teach them about recycling too! Did you know that “the average American discards 7.5 pounds of garbage every day”? […]
Laws of attraction and expectation how they shape your life.
How many times have you have you just known that things were going to go wrong? That someone was going to fail you or let you down? That as soon as you paid off the car it would break… These are negative thoughts. When you think them you are expecting something bad to happen, you […]