I want to take you home

I saw this Accordion lamp a week and a half ago at the Potterybarn outlet in Dawsonville, GA for $130 and have been thinking about it ever since.

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Style

I found this site the other day while cruising around in blogland. Frugal Fashionista, style on a budget, pulls together celebrity looks and finds less expensive versions.

I could wear this...

Does anyone else wonder when the skinny jean is going to go out of style? I just can't do it. I think it will be up there with the "tight roll." If you're old enough to remember tight rolling, then you probably regret the pictures, like I do. To top it off, now it looks as though the too-short, a size too small skinny jean is in style.

Exhibit A:

You can't win 'em all. At least it's another mostly good new blog for my google reader.

**Added note: I really like skinny jeans with boots. Maybe they are growing on me. :)

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Beautiful Morning

We've been trapped in the house this weekend, even though we had planned to get outta town. We originally scheduled a trip to the north Georgia mountains.

Then life happened.

Haley's vet called us and said that some yearly blood tests she took earlier this week came back indicating the possibility of serious disease. She underwent multiple re-tests in the latter part of the week, which we spent thinking about her. And Jay has been dealing with what I think is an infected nerve in his tooth, which will probably require a root canal. We both think it is likely that he will be able to get it taken care of tomorrow. We picked up meds for Haley's less serious problem on Saturday. It turned out that the initial test results were skewed. Talk about a blessing from above! We sure do feel it!

We woke up in our house this morning with this sunrise...and we were happy to be home.

Have a blessed day, everyone.

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My Friday

First, I'm convinced that these items in my grocery cart below are the reason that our grocery bills tend to be around $200 for two people. Well, to be honest, there was lean meat, a chuck roast and the leanest pork also in the cart underneath the granola and "greenwise" chips. But the other items I collected after this picture consisted of normal stuff like detergent, milk and eggs. Hmm....I may need to research coupons more thoroughly soon.

taken from my camera phone

I walked upstairs after the trip to the grocery store and chuckled. Murphy had nestled himself into our bed, which is normally ok but this time the sheets were in the washer. He plopped himself right onto our mattress cover and uncovered pillows with his baby and snuggled in.

But then Jay, who is working from home today, let Haley inside from playing outside. I heard him say "Go find mom!!" And she came barreling upstairs. This is Murphy's look when he realized his sister was coming to play. Doesn't he look more excited then when just mom was hanging around?

I turned around and there was this big yellow dog coming at me like superwoman. Two paws straight out in front of her in the air. She was so fast that she showed up as just a blur on camera. And maybe there might have been a little extra blurring of the background from me, due to unmentionables laying around.

And we all raced downstairs to play some more...

On another note, I don't know if anyone else decorates like this, but I can take multiple (and plus some) tries to make a decision about accessories. When I was working on Wes and Katie's party, I just couldn't decide which flowers would look the best. I tried tulips, wild flowers, mixed flowers, roses, mixed rose bouquets, you name it. Our house looked like a florist once I started planning. I set up our dining room table, and 'NOPE' the arrangements didn't look right. Not what I was going for. I finally settled on roses, they were a cleaner look for a shower. I talked to my mom multiple times a day, going over all of the details of the other decorations and talking it through. I found out that she does the same thing when she plans parties (which happens to be a lot more than me.) She can try ten different arrangements or table settings before it's "just right." At least I know where I get it from. The good thing is that we have beautiful flowers all over the house, and have had, for the past week.

On a totally different subject, a friend of mine was just selected as a finalist in the Beverly Hills Film Festival for a movie script that he wrote. I don't think he'd like me bragging on him, but I can't help it! Another script he wrote won best scene in yet another film festival in California so he's really on his way to meeting his calling.

I participated as a reader for the script and I can honestly say (I don't think I'm biased even though he is a dear friend), that it was a really, really good storyline. Here's a picture of Corey on the day we met to discuss the script at Belly General Store. I blogged about Belly General Store HERE. He is leaning on his writing journal, which is also the name of the script, The Journal. Here's to hoping the Beverly Hills awards ceremony proves him well!

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This makes me happy

This morning, I got up to grab a cup of coffee and glanced outside. To my surprise, there is a winter wonderland out there! I'm still wondering, "What in the world is going on?" We never get snow in Georgia, let alone two or three times a year.

It has snowed at least an inch since I took these pictures this morning.

The snow is beautiful. Huge, white, fluffy flakes that I can't seem to get a decent picture of.

Snow makes me happy.

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