Sleeping Beauties

Look at these lazy lazy dogs. The would spend all day like this if they could. I especially love Izzy all sprawled out on her back. I call this her "airing her crotch" pose.

Camping

Two weekends ago Miss S and I went camping overnight with her girl scout troop. We were high in the Jemez wilderness area and woke up to frost on the ground. But the New Mexico sun quickly came out and warmed us right up. It was a fun quick trip and a great intro to camping for some of the girls - including Miss S.

Weekly Decluttering

I know I've mentioned this blog before - 365 Less Things - but it is one of my all time favorites.  I absolutely love her weekly Mini-Missions. ONE item a day, each day of the week - how easy is that? If all you do is follow this plan you will have gotten rid of 365 things over a year without hardly any effort at all. I love it. This sweet blogger infuses her posts with lots of personal experiences, and a lot of humor and makes decluttering FUN. 

Here are this week's Mini-Missions -

Monday -  “What was I thinking when I purchased this?”

Tuesday - What was the person thinking when they gifted me this?

Wednesday – At what point in my live did this fit/suit me?
Thursday -This drawer is going to explode if I don’t get rid of some of what is in here.
Friday – At what point did I find this attractive? (Spouses are exempt from this mission)
Saturday – What makes me think I need so many of these?
Sunday – What is this thing even used for?

I've already completely my Monday Mini Mission - a horribly ugly duvet cover, with matching shams and full length curtains in mustard yellow. While on it's own, not so bad - but we have creamy yellow walls in our bedroom and the mustard yellow just looked gross.  So out it goes.

If you decide to participate, please share something you decluttered this week using this list as your jumping off point:)

Pinspiration

The darling gift I made for my momma for Mother's Day.

Inspired by this pin.

If you would like a copy of the Word file I created just email me at raeshadrz at yahoo dot com. Personalize it, print it, frame it and you've got a darling gift.

What!! Why?

I came in my bedroom last night and found Hubby sound asleep on the bed wearing his dirt bike helmet. I have no idea what possessed him to do that. He had been riding earlier in the day and had left his helmet on the bed. I bet he put it on to scare the dogs.

Doing Good

I took the afternoon off work on Friday and joined Hubby and Miss S for a Target service project at the Roadrunner Food Bank. It was awesome. We packed boxes of food for their senior food program. We packed almost 400 boxes. It was a great eye opener for Miss S who has never faced hunger in her entire life - to realize that these boxes of food were for fellow New Mexicans that had little to no food. I'm hoping to spend this summer doing more family service projects.

Do you have any recommendations for us?

Janis

I have been blogging so much from my phone lately that I forgot that Blogger totally changed around their posting - holy cow! I feel lost!!!

I'm participating in a Groovy 60s ATC swap and I just had to have a picture of Janis Joplin to start my ATC with - I came across this AWESOME fan art - don't you love it??? She was so beautiful and so full of life. Yep, I'm a hippie and darn proud of it too. I need a Janis tshirt, really really bad.

Art Journaling

I'm trying my hand at some art Journaling swaps. I joined a group that swaps Beatle song themed pages. Holy crap could there be a more perfect swap group for me?? This is my first page. While more scrappy than arty I really like it.

My Week

Holy crap this has been one CRAZY week!!! We had a super exciting weekend last weekend which I will be highlighting in a post soon but this week has gone a little like this:

Monday: Home sick with a messed up back

Tuesday: Work and TOM PETTY!!! Didn't get to bed until 1 am!

 Wednesday: Work, fancy lunch for Administrative Professionals Day, Middle school orientation

Thursday: Work, Cub Scout Blue and Gold Banquet

Today: Work, collapse on couch and watch TV all night (at least that's the plan)


 

Thrifty Tuesday

My latest "must have" item. Ripply crocheted goodness and only $5.99. It's all washed and ready for snuggling on the couch. It's good size and crocheted with super soft yarn. I love it!!

NieNie

I'm one of the millions of readers of NieNie Dialogues - I've been reading her blog since before her life utterly changed in a moment. I was so excited to get the paper this week and read the Parade article featuring her and her family. Such a beautiful, loving and damn courageous woman and family. I can't wait to read her new book. And if you don't read her blog yet you are missing out!!! Get on over there and check it out - www.nieniedialogues.com

Happy Easter!!

The DZ girls all dolled up for church. We had a beautiful, peaceful, relaxing Easter. It was perfect.

Lamentations on Footwear

I have finally resigned myself to the fact that I can no longer wear cute flats. Gosh I love them in all their multi color glory with cute little embellishments but I end up hobbling like a 95 year old woman the day after I wear them. I am slowly converting my shoes to Born, Clarks, Dansko and all those other nice thick heeled supportive shoes. Makes me pretty sad but my feet sure are thanking me. And luckily those brands have quite a few cute options. They are pretty pricey but definitely worth the investment if I can have happy feet. I found these shoes last night at the thrift store - brand new Clark's artisan. $12.99 and I had a 30% off coupon. So I brought them home and immediately put two pairs of flats in the goodwill bag.

Bunny Love

A darling little bunny I made for a swap - we each used the same pattern found here - Bunny Rabbit So stinking cute! My desk is getting cluttered again:(

Card Queen

I love making cards. I used to churn out tons and tons of them per month but lately I haven't been doing any. And it makes me sad to see all my card making supplies sitting unused. So I joined a couple card swaps and am getting back into it. I made these cards for a masculine birthday card swap. I love how they turned out. Simple and clean. It's fun to see how my style has changed over the years.

Moolah

I am no where near the coupon queen that my sister is but I try in my own small way. Last night I did a big trip to Target and only bought 4 things that I did not have a coupon for. I saved a total of $86!!! So exciting! And that included two bigger ticket items of The Muppet Movie and the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.

Chilly Morning

Hot tea? Why yes, thank you. And in my new Beatles mug? Even better!!!

Time Out for Women Part Two

Some fun pictures from the weekend.:

Top picture: Hilary Weeks singing. 

Middle picture: Mariama Kollon - one of the speakers and you'll also recognize her if you wanted the Beautiful Heartbreak video. Her story is absolutely amazing. She shared about her childhood in Africa, her family and friends being murdered by African rebels and how she came to the United States.

Bottom picture: Anthony Sweat - I fell in love with him when he got teary eyed talking about how much he loves his wife.

These were only three of the presenters - there were several more - Dean Hughes, Laurel Christensen, Heidi Swinton, Jenny Oaks Baker, DeAnne Flynn an Wendy Ulrich.

Hands down this was one of the best weekends I've had in a long time. 

Time Out for Women

I had the opportunity over the weekend to attend Time Out for Women - an intense LDS women's conference and all I can say is WOW!!!! In my next post I'll post the whopping two pictures I took:) Hilary Weeks was the musical guest for all day Saturday and her beautiful songs and spirit touched me so much. She is so beautiful. She's long been a favorite of mine and it was awesome to hear her perform several songs from her new album. I think this was one of my favorite songs she performed. "Beautiful Heartbreak" - I dare you to listen to it and not shed a tear.

Hello March!!!

February seemed to fly by like nobody's business. Now March is here, and almost half over at that.

I have glasses now:) I only need them for working on the computer and I absolutely love them.