Five Things Friday (late)

1) Chicken Fajita Soup at Six Feet Under

2) Rita's Italian Ice

3) Grilled hamburgers, barbecue potato chips, and toasted marshmallows

4) QT French Vanilla cappuccino (only $.95 with a QT refillable coffee mug!)

5) Brownies with caramel icing

(I'm hungry this morning...can you tell?)

Food for Thought

"Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means you've decided to look beyond the imperfections" ~Unknown

Five Things Friday

1) Raspberry Ginger Ale

2) Late night trips to the grocery store when it's quiet

3) Flip flop weather

4) Naps in the hammock

5) Finding money in my pockets!!

Memories

It's funny how something so small can trigger such a vivid memory. Today someone left a box of Beechies Chewing Gum on my desk from a salesman, the same kind my grandaddy used to get from the Farm Bureau in Thomaston. As soon as I put the first piece in my mouth, I was back in my grandparents' dining room...I could almost smell the lingering Marlboro Red smoke mixed with Virginia Slims Menthol, spearmint gum, and vanilla candles. I could feel the worn yellow linoleum and braided rug under my feet. I closed my eyes and could see the chunky wood mantel on the brick wall, the hurricane lamps, and feel the heat from the gas log fireplace.

I spent days at a time with my grandparents when I was growing up. My grandaddy was just a phone call away, no matter what was going on he would hop in the truck and come pick me up. We went to pay bills around town, to visit family that lived close by, to the fire station, police station, courthouse, archives, city hall, Red Cross, grocery store, Dairy Queen, feed store (baby chicks!), hospital, library, cemetery, Burger King, Piggie Park...you name it, we went there. He took me to every animated Disney movie that came to the Ritz. We played catch and kickball. We cut the grass, trimmed the hedge, picked snap beans, and picked up sticks. We made things in his workshop - with lots of nails. I was his Sunshine, Troublemaker, and, best of all, The Boss ;-)

It's bittersweet to go visit them now, things have changed so much since I was a child running around their house. Sometimes it helps just to take a moment to remember the good times...

Five Things Friday

Hmm...What should I choose this week...the new haircut is still pretty high on the list

1) Finishing projects

2) Making things myself!

3) Hanging out with the girls :-)

4) M&M sugar cookies (there has to be at least one food thing on the list!)

5) My sugar scrub (see #2!) It was super easy, I just mixed granulated sugar, baby oil (the recipe I got the idea from said sunflower oil, but I couldn't find any and baby oil won't go rancid and already smells pretty good), and a few drops of lemon verbena scent from Hobby Lobby in a pretty jar with a lid and rubber seal (also from HL). I have no idea how much, I'm not a measurer...I just dumped and poured until it was a consistency I liked. It's like what I used at the nail salon (when I could afford to go to there...).

I plan on trying it with the different kinds of scented baby oil, and I had also seen a recipe with half brown sugar, half white sugar, vanilla, and oil (sunflower supposedly) that I want to try. I'm really happy with how it turned out, my hands were very soft and smelled sooooo good! I wish I had thought to make this when I was doing so much painting, my hands got really dry from all the paint peeling and frequent washing.

Five Things Friday

Five things that make me happy today:

1) My new haircut! I had it all chopped off yesterday and barely recognized myself in the mirror this morning at 6:30 (of course the smudged mascara that I forgot to take off last night probably didn't help!!)

2) Dunkin Donuts French Vanilla coffee...mmmmm...

3) My newly painted pink claw foot tub :-)

4) Finding the frame kits I needed on clearance for $2.00 apiece at Michaels...4 frames for $16.00!!

5) Peanut butter and honey sandwiches and chocolate milk (and getting up in time to pack them for lunch and still be at work by 8:30!)


Remember my FB status last week about rompers? I emailed Melanie at Big Mama and she feels the same way! Check out her Fashion Friday post today for some summer cuteness NOT involving bad 80's-90's fashion...

Kitchen Floor Progress

Before:


During:

After!!


This is the last "big" project for the house, at least for now. After this it's just more painting and some bookcase construction, maybe refinishing floors in a couple rooms. We're on the downhill slide, folks :-) I'll post pictures of my super cute bathroom closet doors later too! I can't find a before picture of them, which is slightly annoying, but I have one more folder to look in before I set up the post. It's nice to have gotten to the fun, decorating part now. I like accessorizing and accenting!