A Field Trip

Recently Oldest was Star Student for the week which meant he got to bring home the class bear. When you bring the bear home you are suppose to take it on an adventure and share with the class all that the bear did while he was off visiting you. On our way to take Rock N Rollie to Bucees because we know how exciting a gas stating can be...no  really it is an AWESOME gas station like no other but more abt that later...we stopped off at the Sam Houston monument in Huntsville.

This guy is HUGE! I think something like 67 feet tall. He sits right off the side of the interstate and we have always seen him but never bothered to stop. 

Here is Rock N Rollie learning all about Sam himself. 

And here are my boys acting like boys! Yep I definitely  live in a house full of men!;) The boys had fun and it made for a nice adventure for the bear.

 We opted out of the prison museum which was next before ya get to Bucees. Yes, I said prison museum and yes it is next to a prison.   

Now back to the gas station before y'all think we are nutso taking a field trip to a truck stop! Bucees is not just a truck stop gas station! If you live in Tx and have never stopped by one you are missing out! Bucees has EVERYTHING you could possible dream of like made from scratch deli, wine shop, hunting supplies, and a huge gift shop with tons of eye candy! It is the cleanest and I mean cleanest gas station you will ever stop at!! While we were there they had several employees on the floor scrubbing the grout lines with a tooth brush. They take clean to a whole level y'all! We went so that we could get Rock N Rollie his very own Bucees tshirt. Yes we drove an hour and half to get a stuffed bear a tshirt. Oh the things we do for our children! 

Click Here so you can see some pics of what I am talking abt! Bucees has quite a following here.

Now off to try and tackle the mantel. I am having the hardest time coming up with something to display. Sigh.... 

A New Adventure.

Remember this past Christmas when I made these for my son's teachers? Well I got soo many compliments  on them and soo many people telling me I should sell um that it got me to thinking. I have been making baby items for geez over 6 years now. The boys have grown and I frankly am not as into making baby stuff anymore. Sad I know cause baby stuff is too stinkin cute but my interest have swayed more towards decorating. 

So with that being said this week I have been working on things like turning a plaining gold frame into this.

I am truly in love with how it turned out!

The birds are two dimensional so they pop off the frame.

I wanted to give the frame more of an aged antique feeling. There are three differ colors at play here along with some anitiquing glaze and Rub N Buff.

A wonderful 4x6 frame just in time for  Spring decorating!  If I get enough request I will start listing my frames in my Etsy shop. Just testing the waters right now.

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A HUGE Thank You & A Give Away!

**GIVE AWAY NOW CLOSED. Will be announcing winner Sunday Morning!**

This week has been super busy but now that I am caught up I want to extend a HUGE thank you to y'all!! I am super excited to have over 200 followers now!! I am truly honored that y'all  enjoy stopping by so much!

Do any of ya remember last April when Ms. Paula Deen came to Cocstco?? You can read more about it here if ya missed that post. While I was chatting with Ms. Paula I asked her to sign something special especially for y'all! I was not sure she would since she was just there signing her decorating book but she graciously agreed!

Here she is signing that something special! I have been holding off on giving it away for two reasons. One was for a special occasion and well 200 + followers is pretty darn special to me. The second is well um when Paula finished up signing the magazine she well um smudged it when she handed it back!:(  I have debated for almost a year now on what to do. I was super excited to have it but then I was torn on whether anybody would now want it. I finally came to the conclusion that if any of ya are die hard Paula fans ya would not care!:)

So here is that magazine in all of its glory!

The winner will also receive this Paula Deen recipe card organizer and a pack of adorable Paula Deen recipe cards!
All ya have to do to win is leave me a comment telling me how much ya want this set. For a second entry let me know you are a follower and for a third entry let me know you blogged abt my Paula give away! Please leave me a separate comment for each entry. At the end of the give away I will use the Random generator to pick a winner. This giveaway will go from 1/21/11 thru 1/28/11. Sorry but I can only ship to the US and Canada.

Again I am just so truly honored and thank each and every one of ya for making blogging soo much fun! 

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